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Gran Turismo Movie Thread
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Premier-non-premier night in LA. All the main players on stage doing Q&A
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...you can't be serious about this.
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Don't get me wrong, I'd love to watch a movie where some guy starts out in a used Demio or something, wins a pink Vitz before working their way up to an open wheeler or something by the end. I just don't think many others would though.
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Finally got the date for my country: August 23.
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Not sure if this has been asked already, but what cars feature in the movie?
Just wondering if any of these could appear in the game at some point?
If PD/sony have access to them for the film i wonder if they could also have scanned them too?
Just wondering if any of these could appear in the game at some point?
If PD/sony have access to them for the film i wonder if they could also have scanned them too?
The movie currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 60. For comparison Uncharted had a critic score of 40 and audience score of 90.
A few predictable 1/5 marks from the more high brow critics. Seems like your typical summer movie fair.
www.rottentomatoes.com
www.rottentomatoes.com
A few predictable 1/5 marks from the more high brow critics. Seems like your typical summer movie fair.
Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story | Rotten Tomatoes
Based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough, the film is the ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
Uncharted (2022) | Rotten Tomatoes
Street-smart thief Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize...
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Eurogamer says it stinks.
actual review now
I tried watching more of the movie but it just looks so bad. I feel like I would need to be paid to review it.
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actual review now
I tried watching more of the movie but it just looks so bad. I feel like I would need to be paid to review it.
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Honda NSX, Volkswagen Corrado, Nissan GTR R35 Nismo, Nissan GTR R35 GT3 2018, Lamborghini Huracan GT3, Audi R8 LMS, Porsche GT3 RS, Ligier JS PX, Corvette C8.R, Ford GT, Ferrari 488 GT3, Koenigsegg Gemera, McLaren 720S GT3, Porsche 911 GT3 R, BMW M4 GT3, Ligier JS P2, and some others I forgot.
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Aside from the butchered link, I stopped reading that when they absolutely flubbed Steve Mardenborough's actual history. Man scores the winner for Wolves at Anfield in the league - in a season Liverpool won the title (their only home defeat that year) - and that's "it never came to anything"?
He played 300 league games. The reason Jann was born in Darlington (1991) but grew up in south Wales was Steve playing for Darlington (1990-1993) and - after a couple of other clubs - spent the last eight years of his career playing for teams in south Wales (1995 on). Well, also for Haverfordwest, but that was pretty late on.
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I saw the movie and it's great. I will def watch it again. I understand how people are upset because they are expecting the movie to be about the game. You will be disappointed if that's what you're expecting. The movie is about GT Academy not gran turismo (I mean what kind of story can you get from a racing game anyways). Overall the story was great and David Harbour killed it in his role. Now from someone who is very familiar with the game and GT Academy the movie is totally different from the competition and how it works. The movie was too short and I think it would make so much sense if they turn it into a series and go in-depth with character development... I thought that the CGI and visuals would be average but man, The quality of CGI was top notch. It's like blockbusters Hollywood level of production. We don't get a lot of racing movies and this one for me is def up there with ford v ferrari.
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The Gran Turismo movie drives a true story into gamer cringe territory
Jann Mardenborough’s gamer-to-racer arc is inspiring, but the movie is fighting an old culture war
www.polygon.com
I'm seeing a bunch of reviews which aren't loving how the film changed the timeline of certain tragic events to reframe them to be motivational pieces for characters.
The way it's described here is absolutely abhorrent and the filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves.
I have an issue with those who seem to be taking the moral high ground and jumping on this to knock the movie. They could equally be accused of taking a real world tragedy and using it for their own means.The Gran Turismo movie drives a true story into gamer cringe territory
Jann Mardenborough’s gamer-to-racer arc is inspiring, but the movie is fighting an old culture war
I'm seeing a bunch of reviews which aren't loving how the film changed the timeline of certain tragic events to reframe them to be motivational pieces for characters.
The way it's described here is absolutely abhorrent and the filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves.
Jann's real world podium was in LMP2 in 2013, not in the leading LMP1 cars. From what I've seen in trailers the conclusion of the movie portrays Jann as competing in the top class (this could be wrong). His accident happened before he was set to drive for Nissan in LMP1. It was a pivotal moment in his early career, before his major break in LMP1 & GT500. In a Hollywood movie timelines and characters are regularly switched. Often in movies that portray far more important historic events. IMO, it would be disingenuous to gloss over this incident or create a new 'motivational' piece that had nothing to do with him.
Likewise, it's annoying seeing the gaming press get upset at 'gamer' jibes used against characters. Anyone who followed the real GT Academy graduates will know the drivers faced huge criticism & scepticism from within the racing world. This is important to note, as it meant the graduates where underestimated. But as results came in, and it became clear they could challenge for wins. Those very same pro drivers (it was only a minority) and press who'd been sceptical, called for them to be reclassified as professionals.
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Metacritic has a lower average critic review score for now. https://www.metacritic.com/movie/gran-turismo/critic-reviews
My guess is that overall the viewer scores will be higher on average than the critic scores but I'm not sure if delaying the full release of the movie in order for more people to gain interest will pay off.
My guess is that overall the viewer scores will be higher on average than the critic scores but I'm not sure if delaying the full release of the movie in order for more people to gain interest will pay off.
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Well they sorta didn't have much choice with the timing of the strike so they, probably at the last minute, pivoted to PD for some sort of promotion/tie while allowing these early screenings.
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Yeah, in the movie it's set as Jann competing in LMP2, not the underbaked Nismo LM-GTR effort. So they are switching the timeline of events around.
I'm not claiming it's not an important event in Jann's career, far from it. But take a moment to think of the friends and family of the spectator who lost their life. Their trauma is being dug back up to serve a plot point which doesn't fit.
There could've been so many more elegant ways to create a motivational angle for our protagonists. What they did was cheap and crass and honestly leaves a bad taste when considering to go see this movie...
I appreciate this is a forum for people who love Gran Turismo and get defensive when it's critiqued. But it doesn't excuse the decision they took here and they should be held accountable by critics.
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...so even them putting newer GT3 cars into the movie but not into the game... No Koenigsegg, Rolls Royce, Bentley, ... 720S GT3, 488 GT3 and so on. They just don't give a damn about newer cars in a game about cars... For me I won't pay any cent for PD or something made by PD. I still regret buying GT7, because I was so stupid to really think that 5 years after GT Sport they would add newer cars. But nope. So the movie, I will see it when it comes to prime video or Netflix, maybe. Or if my son really wants to see it, then we will go to the cinema.
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They just added Maserati MC20 and Aston Martin Valkyrie
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Is he wrong?
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Naw two newer cars wow that's really worth 80 bucks for that game... For real? They should already have them and hundreds of newer cars at launch, not one year after release. Still missing Bentley, Rolls Royce, Koenigsegg, Glickenhaus, SSC, and hundreds more newer relevant cars. Then the GT3 thing which they still not added a new model for six years now... Sorry but I am working for my money to feed my family, and 80 bucks for graphics update with a handful of new cars...
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It’s a summer popcorn flick, it’s not that deep. The plot of most movies could be summed up in a few paragraphs. Reviews are perfectly fine and well above something like Uncharted. Whose audience score was 90% and generated $400m at the Box Office.
While I’m not sure how Gran Turismo will perform at the Box Office. It’s exactly the sort of movie that will do well in the home market, streaming, and TV.
Many critics aren’t even aware of the basic facts of Jann’s career. While in the gaming press, most of the criticism is around product placement (well,duh!) and the gamer stereotypes. Without being aware of the challenges the drivers faced, which made their success even more well earned.
Accidents are part of motorsport. Nissan didn’t want the crash featured, but those involved in the real events felt it was important to feature. The movie is essentially condensing a 3-5 year period into a single year.
What Should We Expect From The Gran Turismo Movie?
What Should We Expect From The Gran Turismo Movie?
www.dailysportscar.com
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My faith in professional film reviewing is restored by the Guardian.
Review by the Guardian
The review doesnt say much, and it doesnt need to I would imagine, what's important is that it's a one star movie.
Review by the Guardian
The review doesnt say much, and it doesnt need to I would imagine, what's important is that it's a one star movie.
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No, that's just more navel-gazing like almost all other reviews. The one in the Telegraph has an inexcusable opening paragraph.
This review though is probably the perfect one - at least from any of the otherwise-disinterested parties:
Movie Review: ‘Gran Turismo’ movie drifts into cliches and video game aesthetics
In 2006, a Nissan marketing executive had a truly insane idea to create a competition and an “academy” to turn gamers into race car drivers.
apnews.com
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