Gran Turismo Movie Thread

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Famine
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:

apnews.com

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.
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What grabbed me in that apnews review they claimed Barbie as "..fresh, vibrant, funny and entertaining".

I might like a mainstream film that doesnt have any self importance or societal message other than humour, a comedy, perhaps in the slapstick style.

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DonRamon1981
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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I'm not sure I pay 80 bucks just for random update cars, but you do you. That's beyond the scope of this thread.
 
Nebuc72
I'm not sure I pay 80 bucks just for random update cars, but you do you. That's beyond the scope of this thread.
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Read first... I paid, like everyone else that high price for this game, what isn't even an update, more a graphics upgrade. Y'all paid that, or your parents did.

I would rather pay 20 for an car update instead of buying a whole new game with zero new relevant cars.

Don't know how you came to the conclusion I would pay 80 for just a car update. Never wrote that and never will ;-)
 
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VR-SORN
My faith in professional film reviewing is restored by the Guardian.
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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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Isn’t this just confirmation bias? With something as subjective as a movie why let one review cloud your view?

A quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes and the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has 60% Critic Score, 85% Audience Score. The recent Mario movie is 59% Critic Score, 95% Audience Score. Uncharted had 40% Critic Score, 90% Audience Score.

The upcoming Meg 2 has 27% Critic Score, 73% Audience Score. Oh, and for reference, Barbie had 88% Critic Score, 84% Audience Score.

A movies made to please the audience. If you can tick all the boxes and please critics and award shows. Great, but it’s not make or break.
 
I just think it’s funny that the movie is being blasted for product placement and for being a 2-hour long Sony and Nissan commercial, when the real-life competition the film is based on was conceived of as a marketing campaign by Nissan.

If a movie is about a certain brand, like, say Lego. You’d expect there to be a lot of Lego in it, wouldn’t you?

I only usually have an issue with product placement in movies when it’s things like random Chinese brands being shoved in your face at strange times. Here you’re going to see a film about Nissan and Gran Turismo, so you better not be too worried about there being too much Nissan and Gran Turismo in it going in.
 
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eykxas
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 M6 GT3, Ligier JS P2, and some others I forgot.
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This gave me a good laugh I guess the movie is one way to get the C8.R into anything with the name Gran Turismo.
 
Weirdly, the movie is being officially launched on 10th of August over here (and it's seems to be already began screening for few days earlier in some Cinema's across the GCC).

I'm not sure if i really want to pay $11.67 for a ticket thought. I'm not a movie person and i rarely watch that much films, let alone go to Cinema. I mainly want to watch it for the racing actions and "nostalgic" GT Academy stuff.
 
MisterWaffles
I just think it’s funny that the movie is being blasted for product placement and for being a 2-hour long Sony and Nissan commercial, when the real-life competition the film is based on was conceived of as a marketing campaign by Nissan.
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What makes this funnier is literally the shows themselves (As they aired in Europe or in the US) are littered with Nissan and Gran Turismo adverts be it trackside (and in my case in the states, a conveniently timed Nissan ad being the first advert played during the commercial break), the literal uniforms or even the suspiciously Nissan-heavy car line-up (because gee, I wondered who shelled out the money for all this).


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"We all know the story" I'm not saying the movie is the greatest thing in the world (Hard to do that when I haven't watched it) but Judging by THAT being one of the major critiques (And having watched said shows), I don't think they really do.
MisterWaffles
If a movie is about a certain brand, like, say Lego. You’d expect there to be a lot of Lego in it, wouldn’t you?
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Yep. Literally, both Lego movies featured Gasp pretty much multiple Lego products throughout (though I feel there was a missed opportunity to resurrect the old bionicle line in the midst of this Lego Cinematic universe, but that's just me).
 
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If it was a movie about Microsoft and Forza, I'm sure the American critics would have been more on-board. But its a story about two Japanese products, so it was always going to go down like a lead balloon in America. The movie was made for the gamers, or those who are aware of the franchise. You kinda of had to be there to understand the context of Jan Mardenbrough's story.
 
I still want to see this movie and will judge on my own if I liked it or not. Being a long time Gran Turismo fan, i'll consume anything media related to the franchise because i'm a bit of a shill for PlayStation.

dazdilly75
If it was a movie about Microsoft and Forza, I'm sure the American critics would have been more on-board. But its a story about two Japanese products, so it was always going to go down like a lead balloon in America. The movie was made for the gamers, or those who are aware of the franchise. You kinda of had to be there to understand the context of Jan Mardenbrough's story.
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Finding a fine balance between making a movie that targets a certain group of fans, while still being accessible to newcomers, seems like something that is really difficult to pull off.
 
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dazdilly75
If it was a movie about Microsoft and Forza, I'm sure the American critics would have been more on-board. But its a story about two Japanese products, so it was always going to go down like a lead balloon in America. The movie was made for the gamers, or those who are aware of the franchise. You kinda of had to be there to understand the context of Jan Mardenbrough's story.
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Because that's definitely what you want to insinuate, that people (rightfully) pointing out that the movie isn't good are xenophobes. I quiver in your presence.

Nathan88
A movies made to please the audience. If you can tick all the boxes and please critics and award shows. Great, but it’s not make or break.
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No it isn't lmao. It's made to break even for investors, end of story. If it doesn't, or even if it just barely breaks even, then by Hollywood's byzantine financial logic, it is a failure.

I thought that you, so plugged into the inner machinations of Sony, would be cognizant of that simple fact.
 
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I thought the trailers were fairly cringe, as a longtime fan of the series. The critical reviews seem to be on target as far as the quality of the film, I'll probably catch it when it's released on streaming.

Looks like typical summer schlock with a relatively low (for Hollywood) production budget about $100 million. Will be swept away from the zeitgeist as quickly as Real Steel or Battleship, lol.

I love GT but my hype meter was a 4 or 5/10 before the film came out.
 
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Surely using the "Overdramatic incredibly close overtake right on the finish line that never actually happens in real racing to win the race" racing movie trope like four or five times within a single film has to be a record?
 
Nathan88
Isn’t this just confirmation bias? With something as subjective as a movie why let one review cloud your view?

A quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes and the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has 60% Critic Score, 85% Audience Score. The recent Mario movie is 59% Critic Score, 95% Audience Score. Uncharted had 40% Critic Score, 90% Audience Score.

The upcoming Meg 2 has 27% Critic Score, 73% Audience Score. Oh, and for reference, Barbie had 88% Critic Score, 84% Audience Score.

A movies made to please the audience. If you can tick all the boxes and please critics and award shows. Great, but it’s not make or break.
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I don't take must stock in critic reviews, I very often disagree with ones I read. I find outside of some outliers, IMDB tends to be an ok barometer, a film hovering around 7/10 that's a topic/genre I enjoy is usually an enterntaining enough watch. It might not be for others, but it tends to be there or thereabouts for the types of films I watch.

I can't say the trailers for this have made me feel like rushing out to watch it, but it's comfortably sat at 6.9/10 (albeit with only 1.3k reviews). If the score holds around that level it may just be better than I'm expecting. It'll be interesting to see if that goes up, down or holds once the film is out everywhere.
 
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I saw the movie last night with some friends. It was a bit goofy and over the top, but still fun. They do some extremely silly “racing line” bits, you’ll know it when you see it.

I felt like the academy/competition section of the movie was a bit absurd and rushed through, though a lot of the scenes and dialogue in the camp were a bit funny (sometimes ironically :lol:). There was a lot I accepted to be oversimplified for normies that don’t follow Motorsport or GT, but I really do think way too much was glossed over and dramatized during the camp. There wasn’t really a proper transition sequence from sim to reality, nor any reasonable depiction (if any) of training a driver to drive a car on a track, they pretty much got plopped into supercars the second they got to the camp. There’s ways to depict that and still keep the drama, but oh well.

The plot got more reasonable once the camp sequence finished, but for some reason “Jann” always got thrown into faster and faster cars/series with no training or practice, and there was enough time and race sequences in the movie to also show him building up towards the faster vehicles, but again, oh well.

The villain and the love interest felt kind of like wet noodles and could’ve been fleshed out more or played more roles in the story, even though they weren’t factors in the real story. But, as it stands they were absent enough to not hold up or distract from the plot either, so I guess it balances out. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve seen some reviews saying it was egregiously filled with Sony advertising, but it didn’t really feel all that excessive to me. PlayStation, GT, and Nissan were always going to be front and center for the whole movie because that’s how it was in real life. There was some cheesy dialogue about PlayStation here and there, but the biggest product placement culprit was a Sony music player that came into play around halfway through the movie. Transformers and even some Marvel movies all the way back in the early 2010s felt more product-pushy.

The on-track cinematography was incredible, some of the best I’ve seen, but for some reason people kept lifting off throttle to shift when every car in the movie was a paddle shift :lol:. Motorsports/Sportscar nerds will probably also cringe a lot, the classes are very glossed over, GT cars overtake prototypes for position, and the cars in general the final race are a bit… incorrect :lol:. Overtakes in general happen in really goofy ways, but visually it was very very fun.

If you like race cars I think it’s worth a watch.

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Oh, also, I got two free posters:

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Techlet
Given his more recent bodies of work, I'd much rather he not go back and ruin District 9.
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Neill Blomkamp is a great example of that Elvis Costello quote "cause you have 20 years to write your first album and you have six months to write your second one."

District 9 was his first feature film and it's just been an uneven drop-off from then on.
 
My local cinema is showing it from today (UK), but if I wait till Sunday it will cost £3.
So I might get my kart suit on, walk into the cinema carrying my helmet and purchase a ticket to see the turtle film.
 
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