Gran Turismo (2023)

Name: Gran Turismo (2023)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Released: 2023-08-09
Rating: 2.50

DickTrickle · May 7, 2023

2.50 star(s) Rating: 2.50/5 4 Votes

Title: Gran Turismo (2023)

Tagline: From gamer to racer.

Genre: Action, Drama

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Cast: David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Darren Barnet, Geri Halliwell, Djimon Hounsou, Daniel Puig, Josha Stradowski, Thomas Kretschmann, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Emelia Hartford, Pepe Barroso, Lee Sang-heon, Maximilian Mundt, Mariano González, Harki Bhambra, Lindsay Pattison, Théo Christine, Nikhil Parmar

Release: 2023-08-09

Plot: The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

DickTrickle · May 7, 2023

Huh. Haven't seen such a direct video game placement movie in some time. Watching the trailer makes you feel like you watched 75% of the film already, of course.

Ossoi · May 7, 2023

DickTrickle said:
Huh. Haven't seen such a direct video game placement movie in some time. Watching the trailer makes you feel like you watched 75% of the film already, of course.

disappointing to see Neil Blomkamp's name attached to this generic nonsense. Especially as we could have had his Alien project instead.

sliverstorm · May 7, 2023

Incredibly, it was a thing:

GT Academy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

GT Academy was conceived by Darren Cox, a former Nissan Europe executive, in 2006 to help Sony PlayStation racing gamers become professional racing drivers.[2] [3] A small event was held in 2006 in a partnership with Sony, where participants competed in the Gran Turismo game and on an actual track for a Nissan 350Z prize.[4][3] Cox saw the speed in real cars of the gamers and his idea of 'Gamer to Racer' was born.

In 2008, Darren Cox's concept materialized with the founding of Nissan GT Academy, a joint venture between Sony and Nissan, which took its name from the well-known Gran Turismo video game series.[5][3] In the same year, inaugural GT Academy competition took place, with Spain's Lucas Ordóñez claiming victory.[4][3] Following a commendable performance at the 2009 Dubai 24 Hours, Nissan enlisted Ordóñez for its works racing team.[4] Due to Cox's role in establishing and managing GT Academy, his character will be portrayed by Orlando Bloom in a film named after the game Gran Turismo, set to be released in 2023.[6][4]

Singh'sSpot · May 7, 2023

Honestly after the 10th Fast movie this seems like a breath of fresh air.

I don't expect the story to be epic or anything but hey atleast you'll have cool looking car races.

Lanx · May 8, 2023

Xarpolis · May 8, 2023

DickTrickle said:
Huh. Haven't seen such a direct video game placement movie in some time. Watching the trailer makes you feel like you watched 75% of the film already, of course.

Regardless of that truthful complaint, I'll still watch it. Not in theaters, but I'll pirate it and enjoy it that way.

Xarpolis · Aug 7, 2023

So my local theaters are doing an early release on Wednesday. I'm still not planning on seeing it in theaters, but they sent out an email and it reminded me.

Grizzlebeard · Aug 7, 2023

Unless they spend 40% of the movie repeatedly attempting and failing to earn gold licences and the remaining 60% caning the same track 100 times in a shitty Mazda 323 to build up enough credits to earn a decent car then this movie will betray our experience of GT.

Xarpolis · Aug 10, 2023

It came out today and people are saying it's a lot better than they were expecting.

Xarpolis · Aug 10, 2023

double.

Edit: And I was going to post this, but then I realized Orlando Jones and Orlando Bloom aren't the same person.

Xarpolis · Aug 30, 2023

So I ended up seeing this for cheap movie day and I was surprised at just how much I liked it. This movie rules. That said, when I got back to my car after watching it, I didn't have a desire to drive recklessly fast. But yeah, I really enjoyed this one.

Ignatius · Sep 4, 2023

Wife wanted to go see this and I begrudgingly did. Movie was pretty dang good, def worth a view, maybe not in theaters. Soundtrack was awesome.

Xarpolis · Sep 6, 2023

Ossoi · Sep 26, 2023

already out on torrents but no Atmos version yet

Armadon · Sep 29, 2023

Great feel good movie. Way better then I thought it was going to be. I remember that kid wrecking in that race.

zombiewizardhawk · Oct 24, 2023

Rented this last night since they still want 20 bucks to rent Equalizer 3 (lol), liked it a lot.

spronk · Oct 24, 2023

this movie will hit Netflix end of Dec around xmas time, its a great movie but yeah unless you pirate it probably worth waiting until then. no real replay value

sony has an overall deal to put their movies out on netflix an appropriate time after they get their shekels from VOD

zombiewizardhawk · Oct 24, 2023

I don't mind $5 rentals like this one was, I just laugh every time I see a movie trying to rent itself for $19.99, tho. That said, just waiting a month or two for netflix is probably the smart play unless you really want to see it.

Ossoi · Oct 30, 2023

Didn't realise ginger spice was in this lol. Man I busted so many nuts to her back in the day

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