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Le Mans (1971)
What racing is all about...
***HEAVY SPOILERS*** I am a racing fan for forever. I am a Steve McQueen fan for just as long. So for me, this film can do no wrong. I have read "A French Kiss With Death", written about Steve McQueen and the making of LeMans and know he could be somewhat demanding during filming. /The first director left the set/ But he wanted a racing movie, not a movie with racing in it. It bankrupted him but LeMans to racing purists has to be regarded as a masterpiece. No one in my family gets it though...so I am destined to having to watch it again and again.... alone.
From the start where McQueen pulls over along the road and reminisces about what happened the year prior at that part of the track, to Erich /his nemesis in the Ferrari/ trying to get in his head /"Be careful" he says, to which Delaney replies "Now don't be a pain in the ass, Erich"/ to his warm welcome home to LeMans by the French P.A. announcer when he first strolls out of the paddock before getting in the car to the fantastic build up of 4:00pm, to the burst of sound when the flag drops to the incredible racing scenes to the "just racing" morning in the rain accident that wipes him out while leading to his team manager's orders that he wants Porsche to win LeMans and what Michael Delaney must go out and do to make that happen...IS REAL RACING. Days of Thunder? Driven? Talladega Nights? All Hollywood B.S. that embarrasses me as a racing fan and diminishes our beloved sport.
So McQueen goes back out, after a devastating crash, and nearly kills himself again in the best racing of the movie, ONLY TO BLOCK the Ferrari from passing his Porsche teammate. Not to win the race mind you, for he is not ordered to pass the other Porsche...and he surely could have because he is faster and better than him. Instead he drafts him...That's the heartbreak but reality of racing.
Much of the race scenes were shot during the actual 1970 24 Hours of Lemans race. They are fantastic. /The camera car itself, entered by Solar Productions, finished 9th overall!!!/ What a flick during a golden age of racing. It truly captures a racing experience from spectator to driver.
Go see a race...you will not be the same afterwards.
House of Payne (2006)
This guy is so not funny..yet he made $125 million last year...
What is wrong with mainstream America? Who watches this lame material? This embarrasses me. This guy has never been funny in his LIFE. What simpletons think this is funny???? His comedy is an insult to our intelligence not to mention condescending to black folks... Why, oh why does he feel compelled to "self tag" everything he writes too???? What is that all about??? Would anyone with any sense of self confidence self esteem or A SLIVER OF HUMILITY need to do that??? By the way, I wouldn't want anyone to know I had anything to do with this stuff... And who does he have non-flattering pictures of that keep signing him to T.V. and movie contracts? The overall rating for this series is a "1"????? And all the African Americans that praise this guy, be careful..Is this the best the black community has to offer? No it isn't. No way. This guy dumbs down all who watch this stuff. I cant help he came from humble beginnings..so did I.. but that doesn't mean I can write movies??? Unorignal, Unfunny, Unflattering and did I mention Unfunny??? Mind Boggling..but then, maybe he's just so simple that he's over my head....
Days of Thunder (1990)
Embarrassing
***Spoilers*** This movie is simply annoying. I mean, it stinks and works on your nerves from start to finish. From Tom Cruise's character to the punk that plays his nemesis after Roddy goes down..it's sickening. You want to jump on screen and punch the living daylights out of these guys, because this has no plausibility whatsoever. Cruise stinks...really he does. He can't act..you know it and I know it. He is so bad. You can so see right through him when he is on screen. Any race fan will tell you this movie is a mockery of what a real driver's life is like. Talladega Nights is more believable than this Cruise vehicle. And please...Nicole Kidman as a 25 year old Australian speaking brain surgeon working in Charlotte????? P U! Totally miscast. Only Roddy reminds me anything of what it takes to drive these things, when he says "I'm gonna live forever". That is the mentality needed to race automobiles that can kill you. I am disappointed with NASCAR in recent years, since it is so commercial and had lost contact with its roots. I am an open wheel fan deep down, but I respect the drivers that run inches from each other at 200MPH....Something any racing critic could never do without soiling their undergarments and killing themselves...but this movie cheapens and disgraces all those driver's heroism. This stinks. So does the ridiculous ending and how he goes from last to second in like 20 laps, at Daytona, no less, and then, well just guess what happens on the last turn of the last b.s. lap... Total Hollywood baloney garbage.
Please...go rent "LeMans" made by the great Steve McQueen if you want to see a real racing movie about racing itself, not some cheap storyline...
The Cotton Club (1984)
An 8 had Gere not been in it.
Richard Gere may be good looking to the women, and maybe he's a nice guy and all, but he can not act. He is miscast, again. (Gere as King David has to be one of the biggest cinema blunders/jokes of all time) He sounded and looked just like a guy from 1984, not 1927! He has no concept of period. For the life of me, I don't understand how FFC could not of seen this. Everyone else is in character! Its annoying. He embarrasses me to the point that I want to turn my head or hide my eyes every time he is on screen. When he yells "I'm mob boss now" in a screen test during the movie, you want to gag. Really, its laughable. Other than that, the movie is excellent.