So if I understand you, you are saying that Stallones new movie doesn't hold
a candle to the classics, those movies being Grand Prix and Le Mans?
>From: Smokerbros@aol.com
>Reply-To: Smokerbros@aol.com
>To: Ba-autox@autox.team.net, autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Driven... to mediocrity
>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:40:07 EDT
>
>Well, here's my personal review... I don't want to get off on a rant here,
>but... The Delete key is usually on the right!
>
>I saw it tonight in SF. I'm amazed at how bad the technical stuff was.
>Fake
>wheels, Indy type cars on display in a building that suddenly grow
>self-starters and can be driven right out of the building and onto the
>streets of Chicago, where after causing multiple traffic melees at night
>the
>drivers are not even arrested, and are fined a paltry $25K each by their
>car
>owner, not the series organizers.
>
>Drivers jerked out of cars and replaced by others at the last minute, who
>by
>the way haven't qualified, everyone from the driver's brother to his
>girlfriend gets a headset so they can tell him how to drive his race...
>Oy!
>
>The characters are the worst collection of double dealing, backstabbing,
>one-dimensioned folks I've seen in a while. I thought I had heard some
>lame
>TV announcers, but these guys were dumb and dumber!
>
>The producers should have had the students at the Academy of Art College
>help
>them with the graphics. Graduating Seniors would've made them really cool,
>I
>suspect that talented Freshpersons or sophomores could've only made them 75
>-
>100% better.
>
>Oh, and here's a racing tip that obviously works, because they used it
>numerous times and it ALWAYS puts you in the lead. Road course, oval,
>superspeedway, it doesn't even matter! Read closely: You're dueling for
>the
>lead, inches from your rival, on the very edge of control, and decide to
>end
>it and take the lead. Just go from part throttle to flat on the floor and
>grab the next higher gear! Why didn't I think of this?
>
>I think the average (male) motorsports enthusiast will enjoy it
>nonetheless,
>and the non-racing oriented (male) public will enjoy it even more. It's
>possible I'm being overly nice, here. Female audiences will need some
>tolerance for tight shorts with some cheekiness, etc., if you know what I
>mean.
>
>Okay, I'm done.
>
>CHD
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