Think I'll stick to reruns of Grand Prix and The Italian Job.
Rick Brown
rbrown7@pacbell.net
(408)737-1986
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 10:40 PM
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Subject: Driven... to mediocrity
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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