 Oh, room, room for my birthday. Yee, yee, yee. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for Gran Turismo, a film that I went and saw on my birthday. And despite the fact that I haven't played up Gran Turismo games since the PlayStation 1, I was interested in seeing this because of the story that it's based on and the fact that Neil Blumkamp finally gets to direct a full-length video game-based movie. A stretch at that, but still a video game-based movie. The fact that he was coming in to do this movie, I still surprises me because I swear I thought I read an article, something back after Elysium, that he would refuse to work for Sony. I don't know if something happened with Elysium because I was trying to find it, but I swear I thought it was Sony that he would never come back and work with them again. I don't know, he worked for them on this one and, yeah. The movie follows this kid who is one of the best sim racers in the world in terms of Gran Turismo and he's given this opportunity by Nissan to come into this camp and try and learn and become an actual race car driver. And for the most part, this is true. The movie does take a lot of liberties of which I have not been able to discern them all yet. I've just been told to take kind of a lot of the bits of this movie on surface level. And for one thing, especially with how the movie ends in terms of showing the credits, they do show that he is in fact a racer. He did his own stunt work in this movie for the actor who's playing him. His dad did in fact actually play for a soccer team. The one person who I do think might not be real or might be a bit of a stretch of fiction is David Harbour, which is a little bit unfortunate because he's the heart of the fucking movie. While you are somewhat invested in the kid's journey and wanting to become something, someone said this is like the Rocky for Racing movies and a little bit, yes, on that level. David Harbour is the reason why you want to watch it because he has been a person who had an opportunity but it slipped through his fingers and he's getting to get that second chance to this kid by helping him navigate those troubles, those issues and reaching those goals that he wasn't able to do when he was in his prime. His involvement in the movie is definitely the center, the heart of this film because every time he's on screen with the kid, there's just this really decent chemistry between the two of them and the banter and the kind of ying and yang between the two is very commendable. The other part I should talk about is just the video game elements between the CG of the kid coming in and out of a car the virtual, the kind of the place settings, showing the lines for someone who has played racing games, I got all of the terminology I don't know if people who haven't played video games will kind of be like what's going on but it wasn't over the top, it wasn't out of place it felt like considering what it is, it is based on a video game it is about a video game so I did think those parts were added into the film well and also the time of this film it's 2 hours and 17 minutes long and admittedly going in I thought wow that's way too long I couldn't tell what could be cut if anything there might have been more left on the cutting room floor especially with how the climax kind of comes about but every part of the movie is decently paced and I actually like the editing, there is technically speaking quick editing but there is a difference between the Taken bullshit of showing the same thing 13 times and the editing that's in this movie it's like Fast and the Furious of showing different elements the cars, turbines, the gears shift the wheels, the effects on the ground the car in motion, the atmosphere around it but it's done cohesively in part as well with the VFX that we've seen Neil Blumkamp knows how to use VFX especially when he doesn't even have any fucking money he knows how to do it are there maybe a couple shots here and there that might be a little bit there's one in particular during a Le Mans race where a car just it looked really bad in the trailer and it looks better in the movie admittedly that's kind of like my only complaint about the VFX there are moments of the film where you are generally shocked there are incidents that happened that I still have to figure out if they actually did but I don't think they would bullshit on certain things that do happen in this movie I kind of actually had a bit of Top Gun vibes like the first Top Gun movie I had a little bit of that in the lighter half of the movie Overall Gran Turismo is definitely a movie that's made for people who are fans of car racing games and the story of the kid becoming this racer and having David Arbor be his mentor give you the general audience that center that you would need for a IPA kind of story like this if there's any faults I feel that there's too much that's left out of the movie there's some acting in this movie that's a bit and there's some story elements some story beats that are like straight up copy and paste bullshit from other kind of run the mill underdog sort of sports stories but I still like it I actually left the theater with a grin on my face I thought that the race scenes were really well done for the most part respectful maybe the end climax is a bit like okay I think this was the only thing you could get in to have him be as like oh come on one last round sort of idea if anything it's definitely not for everyone like I think if my dad watched it he'd probably be like I mean he's the one who introduced me to Gran Turismo but overall I thought that the movie was commendable I think it did a decent job I'm happy to see Neil Blumkamp make a movie again and from what I've heard this movie is not doing too bad either so hopefully he can make movies again because it's been a while if any of you saw Oats and you know that none of those movies got the financing to become actual movies it's a fucking crime because some of those are the best dark dystopia sci-fi stories I've seen in a little while my rating for Gran Turismo is a 4 out of 7 I would suggest it I would recommend it I had a good time I left the theater and I had no regrets anyways guys those are my thoughts about the movie what did you think about it let me know in the comments below just a little bit of an update about myself apologies for taking so long to get things done there was this thing where Mark and I were going to review all of the SAW movies it was all anticipation for SAW X coming out in September however when we saw the trailer for SAW X and it's like SAW 1.2 in the timeline it was like okay if they are not going to put any fucking effort into this sequel why should we so it has killed my drive to want to do any videos halfway through editing our review SAW 3 when I saw the trailer and like fuck this anyways guys the camera just died but hopefully you liked the video if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe until then I'll see you guys next time