Driven review...

[Railbird]

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0132245#comment


sounds like it might not be as horrible as I was afraid it was going to be....Although I doubt if the critic is a motorsport fan.


john

[indyracer56]

I know a lot of people (Cart fans) are hoping this movie is going to be the second coming.

Me, I don't even know if I want to go see it. For the price of going to a movie nowadays, I could go to qualifying at Indy or Michigan, and see the real thing.

I think I will wait for it to come out on tape.

[milwaukee_oriol]

I'll go see it just for Gina and Estella Maybe the racing part of it too



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[mac miller]

Originally posted by indyracer56:
I know a lot of people (Cart fans) are hoping this movie is going to be the second coming.

Me, I don't even know if I want to go see it. For the price of going to a movie nowadays, I could go to qualifying at Indy or Michigan, and see the real thing.

I think I will wait for it to come out on tape.

Take heart! 56, By the middle of June, you will be able to buy it off of the discount rack at your local WalMart for less than a 10 spot......

[Turn13]

I think it will undoubtedly raise open wheel racing up into the radar screen of popular culture. It's up to each series to capitalize on that.

Remember, in popular culture terms, "NASCAR is Racing..." Some people out there will see the cars and think, "wow, I remember those. Do they still race those somewhere?" I expect a kind of retro-, re-visit to lost youth for some foks.

[slinger]

I noted the reviewer that 'Bird cited and looked to see what other films this person had reviewed.There were only two,"Crow" and it's sequel."Crow" was deemed to be a "masrerpiece".A Brandon Lee movie a masterpiece?I don't think this person's taste in movies inspires much confidence.This is like relying on a WWF fanatic for an opinion on a sport.

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[Railbird]

H=ll slinger how many critics do you think I reviewed?

That was the one that was dumped on me....

We all know how bad this thing is gonna svck for racefans..This guy was looking out for whatever demographic that happens to be the flavor of this month..

"To Please A Lady" won't be threatened as the greatest racing movie of all time by this Rocky remake..

I still want to know if old Burt dons the chicken suit

burp

[slinger]

Sly ain't no Gable,that's for sure.I too think "To Please A Lady" is the best racing film ever made.With the month of May coming up,you can be sure it will be on the classic movie channels a whole bunch of times.I'll be watching.

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[mac miller]

'bird and slinger, have you guys ever seen a 1932 movie called "The Crowd Roars"????

Jimmy Cagney driving 1930s Miller dirt track cars at Ascot and a 2 man Duesenberg at Indy.

Speaking parts in movie by Billy Arnold, Fred Frame and Harry Hartz. Some scenes shot at Tom's lunch stand under the pagoda.

Very good if you like the 30s racing era!

[Railbird]

Yeah mac I've seen that one..There was also another version of that made around the same time with kind of a B grade actor line up..

Let me think about it for a while and I might come up with the name of the movie and the cast..

Pat O'Brian?

BTW.. My kid gave me a shout out to turn on MTV for the Driven preview..

Oh Man...it looks far worse than I could ever have imagined

[slinger]

The other one is called "Indianapolis Speedway" and it's almost a line for line copy of the Cagney thing.They're both dreadful.A couple of years ago,one of the cable channels ran them back to back a day or so before the 500.Hah!As if anyone would be dumb enough to watch either one of them.


I watched 'em both.

Well,they're racing movies ain't they?

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[Railbird]

Thank you slinger.

What about the part where "slappy" or "Laffy" or some name like that follows the lead guy through the fence?

Then later he gets torched while his buddies drive by..

when movies were movies...;}

john

[Mike Kellner]

I have to put in a good word for Stroker Ace. Despite looking like another Burt Reynolds car movie, it actually has a lot of racing humor. The whole chicken suit bit is an example. It's really about the stupid things drivers end up doing to please sponsors. Maybe it's a sad commentary on the quality racing movies, but Stroker Ace is one of the best. All the "serious" racing movies suck big time because they were written by people who never went to a race before they were assigned to write a movie about racing and ended up with a soap opera on a racing set. (Gran Prix does have nice pictures)

I'll wait until I can rent Driven for $2 at the grocery store.

[slinger]

Railbird,the name of the guy who gets burned up in the big wreck is "Spud".In fact,I believe they used the same actor in both movies!

My favorite part is when Cagney/O'Brien as Joe Greer is walking through the pits on race morning looking for a job as a crewmember and everyone asks what car he's driving.It makes the 500 sound like some "run what you brung" fairgrounds show.

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[TxIndyFan]

Judging from the previews, it looks like another soap opera with car crashes...which would be too bad...

I would like to see a GOOD racing movie, and I haven't seen a decent one since Steve McQueen's "LeMans"...

I don't plan on seeing it. Maybe on video if enough people I trust say it's OK...

IF it brought fans to OW that would be OK, but will it???

Sorry, Mike, but I thought Stroker Ace was really stupid, and I actually enjoy many NASCAR races...though I did get the 'trying to please the sponsor' and other racing jokes, it was too juvenile, kinda like Dukes of Hazard...makes me long for "Red Line 7000" or Elvis and Nancy Sinatra in "Speedway"...

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[indyracer56]

Hey, how about that other great Stallone "racing" movie....Death Race 2000!!!!

I remember going out on a Friday night date in High School with my girlfriend to see that gem!!!!

[irlman]

I will be going to see driven the day it is releasted because i think it looks cool. Days of Thunder is my favorite racing movie.
The only bad thing with driven is its about Cart which sucks.

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[Turn13]

I saw Driven last night and I enjoyed it. It wasn't realistic, but it was entertaining. Actually, alot of the race footage was pretty neat, though obviously fake- and the wrecks don't seem to take up a lot of time.

It was kinda cool to see some familiar places and faces on the big screen, although I thought once about "this coulda been Indy up there", which gave me a sad twinge.

I haven't enjoyed a Stallone flick since Rocky, but I thought this one was OK . I think it has some nice elements and representations of open wheel racing that will appeal to many younger fans without much other exposure. Now if they happen to see a race on TV, or hear the promotion forone neaby, I have to think they'd be more inclined to watch or attend.

It was rather strange that Mercedes Benz got all kinds of attention, however, while Ford, Honda and Toyota got none that I could recall. Ditto for Penske's cars and drivers, and the Player's cars and drivers. Plus, they mention Michael Andretti several times and show his car along with Christian's, but you never see them on camera.

[blimpo]

Critics around here rated it a "bomb", a one-star. Said the action was too much like an arcade and the soap opera plot was juvenile. I will probably see it anyway. It is a racing movie.

[Teej]

Just saw Driven and pretty much agree with Turn 13.

It has an interesting storyline, in-car shots that put you in the middle of the action, some ariel shots of actual CART racing, cameos from CART personalities that most race fans will recognize and Estella Warren outshown Gina Gershon (Sorry all, but that kind of stuff appeals to me!)

Yes, the crash sequences were a tad unrealistic. ChampCars generally don't just roll over without contact and the one scene that I wish wouldn't have been glamorized in motion pictures was a tire going into the stands. I was too close to real thing at the 1998 US 500.

For the first time ever, I had a sense that Sly's charachter wasn't the usual overbearing main charachter in this movie and I've never seen Burt Reynolds play a role; in which, he is so devious. Some of the race tatics reminded me more of F1 then CART.

I personally didn't think the movie was as bad as the doomsayers said it would be. Go see it for yourself before you make any conclusions.



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