DRIVEN: Worst racing Movie EVER!!!!

[Sled Puller]

This movie was way worse than "Days of Thunder"



Bad acting, ugly women, poor script, terrible special effects, no plot,uk, phooey bad, horrible Oh man bad!!!

Stallone and Reynolds, whatever possesed you two has beens to do this?



Stallone was the best actor in the movie if that tells you anything.

Racing the stolen Indy cars downtown Toronto? at night was really cool. yea. right. Made me want to go steal one.



Gene

 

[Scott Johnson]

Driven

AMEN!!





Scott

 

[Power Wagon]

I read it was bad. Guess I'll save my $3 for something else. Subway?

 

[hdm48]

I have been in Racing since I was 10[49 now] and I have never seen such gargage in my life. I don't have the words to tell you how inacurate that movie is. I've never raced F-1 but some of my friends have and I can't write what they said here.

 

[Papa Joe]

Mrs. Papa Joe and I were giving this movie an honest 30 minutes of attention. I jumped up into my bashed boxer stance and yelled, "Adrienne... . Adrienne!!" We started laughing and lost ALL concentration.



Movie sucks. Joe

 

[Sled Puller]

What kills me, is that if they took somebodys REAL life story in any form of racing, and REAL race footage, it would be so much better.

And lok at the money they would save using real crashes!



I'm sure the Dale story is in the works, and they will prolly butcher it beyond reconigition.





HOLLYWOOD KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT RACING, SO WHY DON'T THEY JUST LEAVE IT ALONE?



Gene

 

[Briar Hopper]

Never has been a good one since LeMans

I have yet to find a racing movie that even comes close to Steve McQueen's "LeMans". Produced in 1972 by Solar Productions, McQueen's own company, many consider it to be the greatest racing movie ever made.

I've almost worn out my copy, watching it every time I need a speed fix, and SpeedVision is junked up with talk shows... .

I agree with Gene "Driven" is pretty bad. Even the computer simulations are easily discernible !!!!

Everything about it sucked, too much to list... .

I have one other favorite movie, and that's "Heart Like A Wheel" , starring Bonnie Bedelia as Shirley Muldowney. It has a miss here and there, but on the whole, is very entertaining to watch for the racing scenes, especially the vintage dragsters...

"LeMans" is usually selling for around $9. 95 at sites like Amazon.com. Go buy a copy. You won't regret it !!!

 

[dmurdock]

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree... I thought it was called "Gran Prix" though... either way, that movie is awesome!

 

[Un-Hemi]

Gran Prix was a different movie starring James Garner. I thought it was pretty authentic. I don't follow roundy-round road racing much. My leaning is toward drag racing and there have been some real stinking turkeys done about that. My apologies to all those turkeys out there that I may have insulted just before Thanksgiving!

 

[Patriot Diesel]

"Driven" may not be the best movie I've ever seen but; I'd rather spend $4 watching a bad movie about car racing than being forced to watch a "chick" movie with the wife!

 

[Champane Flight]

I agree

I have to agree that this was a two thumbs down... ... .....

Why can't someone come up with a believable story?Everything revolves around what some Hollywood producer believes to be what we would pay to see. He has never been to a race let alone in the pits. I would like to see one racing movie where the driver and hero comes out from beneath a car with grease under his fingernails!Give me a pic like "Two lane Blacktop"!!!!!!Still the king.....



I call the wifes movies "Touchy Feely movies". You are right about "anything but that!"

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

When Eric and I were drag racing at the St. Louis DDRA race , we saw a movie that was all about drag racing that was awesome. It was a documentary, not a fictional story though. I sure wish I could remember the name of it because it was great - it had many of drag racings greats in it and their storys, Garlits, Prudhome, Muldowney, etc, etc, etc. Anyone know the name of it by any chance?



-Steve

 

[Cooker]

I agree, Driven absolutely sucked, but I really have to agree with the comments of Patriot Diesel



-Ryan

 

[johnrv4]

I could tell by the preview that it was going to be a real "winner", so I never watched it. I cannot stand watching movies that insult your intelligence. Another(that I didn't watch) was "Vertical Limit ". The preview for that one looked like a little too much B. S. . Or the action movies where the hero is able to get away unscathed from a bunch of bad guys shooting machine guns at him. I have always thought that a good movie could be made realistic and accurate, but I quess I'll just have to settle for the gratuitous nudity and excess violence

 

[Briar Hopper]

Vertical Limit was good, but then, everyone has different taste in movies. No wheels in that movie though. No booty, either.

Two Lane Blacktop is a classic, love it. (James Taylor's first & last movie) Other car movies that are my favorites, but wouldn't withstand a lot of intellectual criticism not that any of y'all are intellectuals:

The Italian Job (features 3 Austin Mini Coopers used as getaway cars in a bank robbery)

Vanishing Point (Barry Newman in a Challenger)

King of the Mountain (Dennis Hopper, Harry Hamlin)

the California Kid (old Martin Sheen movie)

SixPack (Kenny Rogers as a dirt track racer)

Checkered Flag or Crash (horrible title, and plot, but it had appearances by all my favorite Baja off-road racers like Walker Evans, Parnelli Jones, Bill Stroppe, Rod Hall, Manny Esquerra, Roger Mears, etc. )

And... the incomparable, original Gone in 60 Seconds, not the remake. Remake was okay, though.

 

[Sled Puller]

Two Lane BlackTop, do you guys think he crashed and burned at the end?

Gene

 

[hdm48]

movies like this is why i like sci-fi. and i call my wifes movies 'chic-flics.





now if i could just figure out a way to put an anti-matter power plant in my truck

 

[Champane Flight]

Naw

Naw,They just ran out of film... ... ... ...

 

[Sled Puller]

Ahhhh, yes , that does make sense, everything just fades. Low budget ran out!



Did ya ever notice they did not mess with the Mopars?

 

[Bigsaint]

I haven't seen Driven, but I'd hazard a guess that there's not one overweight diesel in the entire movie .



My favorite 'racing' movie is still Stroker Ace, not for the racing content, the comedy just kills me. Guess I'm easy to entertain.



I did see Days of Thunder, blows chickens.



Scott W.