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This gosh Sam is on it trying to sneak one past me.
No we course not.
Yeah, bad planning this week.
So we had to record this one a little earlier than we usually do.
And that's why we don't post like when we're going to go live.
It is just as big of a surprise to us as it is to you guys.
He's not wrong.
Anyway, in 4k spotlight this week, we got one new movie release that we're going to
talk about.
Nothing in through the wall.
Unfortunately.
I mean, it's been slow just because strikes and whatnot.
So understandable.
Yeah, hey the man.
Come on, Hollywood.
Yeah.
So we will be getting straight into our headliner.
Where we will be breaking down Gran Turismo.
And I just came from this movie like maybe like six hours ago.
Okay, I saw this movie like two weeks ago.
So this is going to be an interesting review.
Very interesting.
So yeah, but with that, let's say we get into this.
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All right.
He's starting off with a 4k spotlight.
Rose, do you want to tell everyone what we got this week?
I would love to if it wants to work for me.
There we go.
Thank you.
All right.
So come to Blu-ray this week.
This Tuesday, we got the Little Mermaid, the live action remake, which I know both
Caleb and I thoroughly enjoyed.
If you want to see our review, be sure to check it out.
I guess not see our review.
Listen to our review because we weren't doing.
Yeah, we weren't doing live streams a couple of months ago.
Were we back in May?
I want to say no.
OK, I think our first one was across the Spider-Verse, if I'm not mistaken.
I think you're right.
We weren't.
Yeah, but we weren't like live streaming anything.
That's true.
We were doing a test back then.
Yeah.
So Little Mermaid, this is just the bare bones Blu-ray.
I mean, it's like the classic poster that came out with it.
Just kind of I feel like zoomed in because in the poster was definitely more.
What's the word?
It was more far out.
You definitely weren't this close up with Ariel, King Trident and Ursula.
So no, I don't mind the cover.
I mean, I'm not going to pick up the Blu-ray, but I know Caleb, what do you think?
I dig it.
I mean, it's definitely like has that classic.
I'd like to see a side by side comparison to these two, but I feel like it's hard to
completely mimic the the old covers.
That's fair.
But I mean, I think they did a good enough job.
I like the inclusion of like King Trident Triton and Ursula in the back.
And yeah, the only one I think that's missing from the cover is flounder.
You can kind of see it.
So he is there.
He's on the left.
He's on the left of Ariel.
On the left.
Oh, OK, Sebastian.
Sorry.
OK.
From her perspective, it's on Ariel's left.
Flounder flatters on her.
So flounders by King Triton and then Sebastian is by Ursula.
OK.
OK, I just can't I just can't see it like I mean, clearly he's small.
It's like, yeah, I know.
I haven't shrunk down and OK.
And shit already.
It's just so I have all the other stuff that we use up.
No, that's fair.
OK, I see it.
I made it a little bit bigger.
So you see it now.
So yeah, so that's the regular Blu Ray release.
So there is so before I move on to the next one, there is a regular 4K release, but Disney
is doing the same thing they did with Strange World, where the only way that you can get
the regular 4K release is through the Disney movie club.
Dumb.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm OK with that because, you know, I'm a Disney movie club member.
You know, don't mean to toot my own horn, but.
Yes, you did.
Yeah, I did.
I mean, but it's nothing.
So I wanted to get a picture of that, but all the pictures were blurry as hell.
So you can't even see it.
But basically, that version is just it's it's a close up of Ariel
putting out her hand reaching towards the surface.
So I actually I dig it.
I actually like it better than the Blu Ray cover.
Yeah, I kind of dig how that sounds, too.
Right.
So yeah, so that's like I said, that's the regular.
So regular Blu Ray release and then the regular 4K release, you can only get through Disney
movie club.
So if you want to get the regular for if you just want to get 4K at any other stores, you
have two options.
First you can get the Best Buy exclusive seal book.
Right.
I actually I really like this a lot.
That's really nice cover.
Right.
The inside's kind of boring, but.
Yeah, the only thing that I would have I wouldn't have put scuttle.
I think scuttle just has a too odd of a shape and it makes her stand out a little too much.
But I mean, if you wanted to include her, I'd probably throw her like flying or something
in the background.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't hate it.
It's flounder even there.
It looks like he's coming out of the water like near the bottom.
Oh, there he is.
OK, there he is.
Thank you.
I'm kind of sick.
Yeah, I know, like I really like the steelbook.
Like, yeah, I mean, yeah, this is this is definitely the version I'm picking up.
So that's the 4K Best Buy exclusive steelbook.
And then we have honestly, this is probably my least favorite because I feel there is just
literally this is just Photoshopped.
There is like, OK, let's let's take this background and then just slap the just characters wherever
we want to.
Yeah, I don't like this at all.
I don't like it either.
Like this is just the freaking character posters.
Yeah, straight up.
Yeah, just all mushed together.
And it it does not look good.
I mean, I will say, OK, so despite being wow.
OK, so what you get with this, you get you know, you get a different slip cover than
what you would if you got the 4K from Disney Movie Club.
But you also get an enamel and oh my God, enamel pin, which is actually the exact same
basically cover for the steelbook.
And like, that's cool.
Like, you know, if I collected pins, I would definitely get it for that.
But yeah, just this this cover sucks.
Yeah, this is not good.
Yeah.
And funny enough, that damn pin has the exact fix for that other one that I would have made.
Oh, shit.
Freaking bastards.
Oh, man.
Yeah, just this is.
Looks like something your average computer could put together.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
I feel this is like someone's like first day of Photoshop and they're just like, OK, I
want to make a movie poster.
How many characters can I fit into it?
I don't have I don't want to make it look like that realistic or make it actually look
good.
I just want to see how many freaking characters I could fit on one poster without what's the
word going overboard, which honestly, I feel this is going to be war territory.
Yeah, I see.
There we go.
And even the fact that not only Ariel is included on the top, but then you have like a little
version of her like right next to Ursula swimming up.
I was like, why?
Like she didn't get to Ariel's.
Yeah, I know.
And it's oddly placed, too, because it's like right above Scuttle and Sebastian standing
on a rock.
So it kind of looks like she's like mid jump over this rock.
It does.
Oh, this is so bad.
Yeah, fricking weird.
Nerd.
I mean, you call them us nerds.
I think he was just correcting his last statement.
At least I'm assuming so.
I mean, either way, it's accurate.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, most definitely.
Yeah, just oh my God.
Like I have a feeling that like this is one of the Walmart exclusives that is going to
warm the shelves.
I don't think anyone's going to buy this version.
If they do, it's for that damn pin.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel people are definitely going to go for the steelbook because that steelbook
is gorgeous.
Like, yeah, beautiful.
And even even the regular blu ray is good.
And like I said, the four K, I love the cover of the regular four K. But yeah, this is
awful.
Yeah.
I don't know what I dislike more about this.
Like the frickin white background that you have, the.
Frickin like smoky look that you have above everything, like just using the basic character
posters.
And it's not even like the same like stylized poster either.
The Ursula kind of has like that really like touched up Photoshop look where Prince Eric
looks like just a straight up screenshot from the movie.
Straight night.
No enhancements done.
Same thing with like with Triton and then Ariel.
Like yeah, like those are just frickin character posters.
Good mistakes were made.
Yep.
A lot of mistakes.
But yeah, that that that's it for four K spotlight.
Frickin the Little Mermaid.
Most most of them are winners, but.
There's one loser and it's definitely this Walmart one.
Yeah, we got that one stinker.
All right, well, cool.
But yeah, like we said, there is nothing else for through the wall.
So I do believe that we can get right into our breakdown.
Hell, yeah.
All right, let's.
Do this.
All right, well, getting right into this week's headliner.
So for our breakdown of Gran Turismo, we did post a question of the week that we are going
to talk about here right now.
So the question that we asked and we posted this on Instagram and TikTok.
Those are usually the two places that you can find that.
Oh, and YouTube.
You can also find it on YouTube.
Yeah.
So the question that we asked is what is a video game skill that you think you could
do in real life?
And that's just tying into how this movie did like this Gran Turismo is a driving simulator
and they were able to make this guy a real race car driver and.
All that good stuff.
So.
Yeah, we just wanted to see.
What everyone thought that they could do based off of a video game that they played.
So without further ado.
Rose and I are going to pick our top five and talk about it.
We'll cut.
We'll come up with a better way to introduce that, but I think you did great.
Yeah.
All right.
So you want to take this one first?
Sure.
Yeah.
So we're coming from Tick Tock.
I got Jack is cool with two red exclamation points and he said super speed, probably.
Super speed.
Yes.
Okay.
Sounds like the flash.
It does.
I don't like off time, not off topic, but like whenever there's like any answer was
super speed, I always choose that because like growing up and like even today, like
if someone like said, oh, what's like the number one superpower that you would want?
Yeah.
Hasn't always will be super speed.
That's fair.
The only issue that I would see with super speed is how.
How it would affect the rest of your body.
So the issue that I could see coming with like with super speed, right?
Okay.
Is like, let's just say you can run.
I don't know.
Like, let's just say like a couple hundred miles an hour.
Like I don't think that's going to affect your physiology too much, but I'm thinking
of like with someone like the flash where he's able to run faster than fricking time.
Right?
Yeah.
Like he can run backward, forward in time.
Like I know some instances where he's been able to run faster than the speed of light
and he's been able to like consume so much knowledge in a certain, in a small amount
of time because his brain works that fast.
Like how fricking trippy would that be?
Like if your brain is always on super speed mode, like everything else would just be moving
like way slower.
Yeah.
I mean, you're not wrong, right?
That would be trippy as hell.
Well, now you're making me reconsider my choice.
Some bitch.
Yeah.
So great answer.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Great answer.
All right, my first one is coming from Sammy man who said, become an elder lord.
Is that from Skyrim?
It might be from Skyrim.
Like I know that like an elder lord isn't like a Skyrim only term, but like an elder
lord is just basically like some sort of like demon or can be a demon.
Like I think every iteration has a different like definition for what defines an elder
lord, but it's usually just some like great powerful magician and or wizard or whatever.
But yeah, I think, yeah, with how much time I've fricking clocked in with Skyrim, like
I agree.
Yeah.
So that's my number one.
All right.
My number two also from TikTok from a fellow named Jackson just said jump.
Jump.
I'll just jump.
I like it.
So are we talking like Mario kind of jump like highest you could ever jump or do you
just like no power at all, just regular human jump?
I'm just curious.
It's probably like a human jump, like if just like if he's trying to be completely honest
with himself and us.
But yeah, like I think when I saw that one, I think that was just like one of those.
Oh, he's being like realistic with with us.
So I found I want to be I like it.
I like a good answer, Jackson.
I like it.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see.
That was your second pick.
Yeah.
OK.
My next or my second pick is going to be from Max, who just said drive.
Tied into the movie.
I love it.
Yeah, I mean, I think.
That driving simulators, especially ones that are as advanced as like Gran Turismo can be.
I think that driving could be a skill that someone could learn.
Through like a video game.
Yeah, I mean.
This this movie definitely proved that.
So.
Yeah.
I mean, well.
I mean, it wasn't that he learned to drive through a game like that.
That's true.
This was just he knew how to like drive a race car.
Yeah.
Which, I mean, if they would have like expanded on that, maybe.
If he did, they teach himself how to drive drive.
Through Gran Turismo, I think that'd be super impressive.
That would have been.
Yeah, that would have been sick.
Yeah.
Bush 1G.
What's up?
What's up, man?
What's up, G?
I don't know.
Trying to stay here.
Trying to and failing miserably.
Damn right.
Always.
Oh, man.
All right.
What's your next pick?
Mine would be from Doom Slayer VR says survive falling out a cargo plane in the desert.
And you know what?
I'm going to.
What's the word?
I'm going to add to this.
I feel the only true way to survive falling out of a car out of a cargo plane is having
a magic conch shell with you.
A magic conch shell.
According to SpongeBob, that is the only way that you can survive falling out of a cargo
plane.
You have to have a magic conch shell.
Oh, good.
Hell, you're you have to be a conch member.
You're so dumb.
You have to be a conch member.
Dude, I don't know about you.
I found that moot or that episode to be so irritating.
The part.
No.
OK, I get where you're coming from, but there is some funny shit in that episode where Squirre
keeps asking it, can I have something to eat?
And he finally just says, can you say anything but no?
She says, try asking again, can I have something to eat?
No.
Just the sass
that the conch shell gives him is frickin fantastic.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I frickin like.
It was what for me it like, yes, that shit was funny.
I think it just got on my nerves a little bit because of just like, I know people that
are kind of like that, where things they just choose not to do anything or they listen to
something stupid and things just kind of end up working out for them.
And it really makes the shit out of me.
But fair enough.
Fair enough.
All right.
Was this three?
Yeah, I think so.
OK.
My number three is from Noob the Swoop.
Who answered fly a plane.
OK, that's a good one.
That's a really good one.
Dude, like the frickin flight simulators that I've seen some people assemble are nuts.
Fair.
Yeah, like they're they're a little too good, honestly.
Yeah, they definitely are.
Like it's frickin wild.
Like I've seen some like insane ones like some do.
I know he under his stairs, like in his basement, he frickin built a flight simulator that is
so like accurate.
And he like only flies like little like he doesn't fly any like the big commercial planes
in his simulation.
It's always like the small like personal planes.
But like it is so frickin accurate, like he even has like he has like a full 360 monitor
around him so he can like look and see what he's doing at all times.
Like it is.
That's insane.
Yeah, right.
Like he got like the the joysticks and are the the the what do you like the flight sticks
and everything like it's frickin pimped out.
So, I mean, it gets like it.
Yeah.
I would love to get a game like that or just like the only thing I'd want to do like a
flight simulator for, as I know some people, they they basically like role play airport.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, it's frickin like, OK, a little too over the top.
Like no joke, dude.
They have one dude who will jump on the session and all he does is frickin run air control.
And so like he'll just sit in the tower and like frickin do his thing and like frickin
guide traffic and everyone like listens to him and.
Does their shit.
Lord.
Yeah, I'm like, this seems like too much.
A little bit.
Wow.
OK.
Yeah, but.
The only thing I'd want like a flight simulator for would be actually there.
There might be a couple of things I'd want to get one pimped out for.
Like classic like World War Two dog fighting.
OK, that'd be cool.
So instead of having like the two flight sticks like you'd have that one in the center to
frickin fly around and shoot like I think that'd be pretty sick.
I also want to get one pimped out for that.
Star Wars game.
The oh, oh, shit, what's it called?
Squadrons, I think.
Yeah, it sounds right.
Yeah, like that game I've played a little bit of it and it's frickin fun.
Yeah.
It's frickin hard to do with a controller.
But and so that's why I think getting like a flight stick and everything like that kind
of setup would be ideal.
But it's a frickin blast.
And it's like just like the realism behind it, too, is pretty wild.
Yeah.
Yeah, like it's cool because like I've done some maneuvers and like you can fly anything.
You can frickin fly an X wing, a frickin TIE fighter, like all of that shit, like any
like space vehicle that you can imagine you can frickin fly around in in this game.
And so what I was doing, I was flying around in space and it was just some like debris
field and I didn't realize I like where my speed controls were.
And so I was just sitting around bumping into everything.
And I was like, like, shit, like, I can't frickin figure this out.
And then once I figured it out, I was like, all right, frickin full throttle, frickin
sent it.
And like I was it was like super hard to control after that.
I was like, oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit.
And I frickin crashed into a wall.
And I was just like, what the hell?
I just like I was just bouncing into that.
And they're like, oh, it's always because your speed was too high.
If your speed's too high and you crash into something, you're going to frickin explode.
And I'm like, OK.
But it's cool.
It's super cool.
But definitely one I'd have to buy frickin flight simulator gear for.
So yeah, that's that's my answer for that one.
Fly plane are.
We're on number four.
Yes.
OK.
I'm coming from War Crimes, Inc.
Pretty sure I could.
Sorry.
Pretty sure I could accidentally clip somebody's rear before sending them into two stationary
cars while I veer off into a family of four.
Pretty sure.
It sounds like he plays a little grand theft auto a little bit.
Like holy shit, dude.
Like.
Like that is played out to the T like, damn.
Oh, that's frickin hilarious.
OK.
The frickin detail, dude, exactly.
All right.
I don't got to say.
All right.
My next one's coming from DJ over at the untrained eye who says Rob a bank, steal a car and kill
a man with a sword where a full suit of armor die and come back to life.
Probably.
I love these answers, dude.
DJ, we love you, man.
Oh, yeah.
I think this is the last one.
Yeah.
For my last one, I got to come from Terry Cruz.
They said driving a slow car fast because that's just a mind.
Oh, man, dude.
I don't know how you were with like grand theft auto because we never got around to
playing together.
Is it cross platform or no?
No.
OK.
I thought it was.
I did recently get an Xbox, so I guess if we ever did actually do want to.
No shit.
Yeah, that's yeah.
Christina gave me her old Xbox one.
So bro.
Yeah.
So we can play.
I'm so dumb.
I'm down.
That was actually the first game that I was going to buy.
So yeah.
And we can frickin finally play frickin Ghostbusters.
Even though that was hell, yeah.
We what I said, I'm pretty sure that one was like cross platform.
I was I think so.
It might it might not be.
I might be wrong, but yeah, we can play Ghostbusters now.
Hell, yes.
We can frickin play GTA five, bro.
The game has changed.
The game has frickin changed.
Oh, I'm so pumped.
I'm so pumped.
Same here.
There's some good multiplayer games that we could we could hop on.
OK, man, you got to let me know, because I don't know jack shit about Xbox PlayStation,
PlayStation and Nintendo.
That's my go to.
So I'm new to the Xbox game.
Yeah.
So you'll have to get like if you're really one of the most bang for your buck, you're
going to want to get.
OK, we'll talk about this after I can go on for hours about.
But OK.
Oh, shit.
All right.
My last one is coming from Billy, who said crank 90s.
I'm assuming crank 90s music.
And yeah.
I answer.
I like it.
Yeah.
Especially when it comes to like certain types of music is like if if a video game like
using Grand Theft Auto as an example, if it gives me the power to choose my music, I'm
very selective about what I frickin crank while I drive.
That's fair, dude, especially in GTA five.
I'm the same way.
There is like four songs or maybe it was just three that I would just loop all the time.
It was a sleep walk, sleepwalking, midnight city, I think was the other one.
And then Rhythm of the Night.
Those were like the top three that would always be blasting on my radio.
I always had a convoy play in.
Oh, that's a good choice.
That I freaking love that one.
Oh, well, yeah.
So that was my my last pick.
Very nice.
Yeah.
So thank you to everyone that answered our question of the week.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you.
We have a frickin blast answering these or we do reading off these answers.
But yeah, but before we move on, what any skill that you think you've you've picked
up in a video game that you could do in in real life?
None that I can think of.
No, no, not really.
Mm hmm.
But you.
I actually because I play Skyrim so often, like I said, that's my go to game.
Anytime I'm like in between games like I'm playing Skyrim.
OK, I actually learned lockpicking because of Skyrim.
No shit.
Yeah.
And I'm like really frickin good at it.
Dude, that's cool.
Yeah, I it was a skill that I.
I learned like forever ago or kind of like picked up forever ago.
All I can say is if anyone is, you know, from the FBI is watching, he's totally kidding.
He's not going to try anything.
Yeah, but dude, so funny story.
Well I was at work.
God no.
So I was at work and I had my kit on me like I was cleaning up some stuff.
I found it.
I was like, oh, this would be fun to have on on my person.
And so I kept it in my backpack.
Right.
OK.
Didn't have any use for it forever.
Like it was just kind of one of those things that was just in my bag.
And I.
So the guy that I was sharing a workbench with, he usually kept a key to this cabinet.
So that's where he'd keep like his his brushes for glue containers, popsicle sticks.
Really just like common stuff that I would I would frequently use.
So he had it locked away in this in this cabinet.
The guy on night shift that also uses the bench that that same bench, he had some personal
items in in the in the thing.
And it was mainly just like snacks and shoes because he he'd switch shoes whenever he'd
go to lunch or whatever.
And I'm like, whatever.
I know who's going to steal your frickin shoes.
So the guy that I was sharing the bench with, he in or he got an injury and he was out of
work for like a few months.
And he had some like surgery and stuff.
So he was out of commission for a few months.
So when he left, he left his key.
And so one day when I came to work, I couldn't find the key.
And so I shot him a message and I was like, hey, like, did you move your key?
And he's like, no.
And I'm like, what the hell?
And so I waited for the night shift guy to come in and I told him, I'm like, hey, like,
did you take the key?
And he's like, yeah, well, this is mine.
And so and so's bench.
And I'm like, I work on this bench, too.
Like I'm on weekend shift, dude.
Like I need access to this bench, too.
And like this is where he keeps all the frickin brushes and shit.
And he's like he basically told me to go screw myself.
And I'm like, what a dick.
Yeah, I know.
I'm like, good frickin luck enforcing that.
And so when he frickin took off and I was working the rest of the weekend, I frickin
pulled my lockpick kid out, broke into it.
Like got all the stuff that I needed for the weekend and then locked it up.
But I forgot to lock it back up one weekend.
And shit.
So I come in to to work the next Friday and my boss pulls me aside and he's like.
Are you breaking into that cabinet?
And I'm like.
Who's asking?
Are you asking as my manager?
Are you asking as a general curiosity?
And he's like, I'm asking as your manager.
And I'm just like, I don't know what you're talking about.
And he's like, OK, listen, someone like.
And just gave me the side.
I is breaking into this dude's cabinet and it's got to stop.
And I'm like, cool.
Like maybe it will.
Maybe it won't.
I'm like.
I'm like, maybe the reason someone's breaking into this cabinet is because he keeps all
the consumables in it that I need access to or that that he needs access to.
I'm like, just a random thought that came to my brain, but
it is like you can't.
He's like, listen, just like he's like, all right, dropping the act like.
Like now I'm talking to you as like.
As a worker of Goldstream, don't frickin break into his cabinet anymore or at least lock
it when you're done.
And I'm like, fine.
But he eventually ended up throwing a bit of bitch fit to someone else.
And so I got I got moved and I'm like, that's frickin horse shit.
The hell?
Yeah, I know.
Right.
And so, yeah.
So now my my manager will come to me every once in a while, say.
Like people who forgotten their keys to their lockers or whatever, or.
Like random like because people will put parts and stuff in their their cabinets and they're
like, well, we need access to it.
And so he's like, hey, I need you to break into this cabinet.
And I'm like, I don't know.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Like I don't break into anything.
I will like I retrieve items.
I do not break into it.
What is this breaking in you speak of?
Yeah.
And so now we're at a point where he'll just kind of walk by like, oh, I really hope this
person's locker gets unlocked sometime soon.
And I'm like, oh, I look back, give him a thumbs up and then go about my day.
He's just the way that he would look at you.
You're just like, I got you.
Yeah, I got like he'll he'll walk.
So like because I'm over I'm operating the laser.
So I'll be like working on my computer.
And then he's just like, man, if only this person didn't forget their keys today to their
locker that's over in this area number such and such.
And then I'll just I won't even look back.
I'll just like thumbs up and he'll walk off to his thing.
And yeah, did my camera freeze again?
Son of a bitch.
Yeah, why is it doing that?
Dude, that's freaking hilarious.
Oh my God.
All right, there we go.
But yeah, that's that's what my my manager relationship is like, dude, that is fantastic.
I love that so much.
Yeah, it's it's pretty funny.
But yeah, that's the skill that it's not a skill I learned from the video game because
the lockpicking in Skyrim is not even remotely similar to what the lockpicking is in real
life.
But yeah, it's a skill I learned because of a video game.
I like it.
Then Sam says I'm old school.
I shoot ducks.
Oh, Sam, I got to know.
Did you play duck hunt?
I'm assuming he did play duck hunt.
And you have to be a freaking sniper for that game, dude, straight up.
That game is so freaking hard.
It is so freaking hard.
All right.
Anyway, getting into what we actually came in here to discuss.
Getting into this breakdown.
If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories
that we individually score to come to a final all bros letter grade.
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes.
And then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and spit through our algorithm and give us
a letter grade to compare this movie of other or two others of a similar grade.
Yeah, so it gives us our final all bros letter grade.
Gosh, I feel like I'm missing something.
I screwed it up a little bit and I threw myself off.
I'm pretty sure you covered everything.
Yeah.
So anyway, if you have not seen Gran Turismo and you choose to listen past our favorite
segment or listen to our favorite segment, we are going to give the spoiler alert now.
And if you listen past this point and the movie is ruined for you, tough shit.
Yeah, like we've given you proper warning.
So now it is time for everyone's favorite segment that we like to call reading with
Rose.
So yeah, without further ado, Rose, would you like to start us off?
I mean, I wouldn't.
I don't want to, but I guess I'll do it.
Quit being a whiny bitch and do it.
I will not.
That's not the right one.
All right.
Following a pitch by marketing executive Danny Moore, the Motorsport division of Nissan establishes
the GT Academy to recruit skilled players of the racing simulator Gran Turismo and turn
them into real racing drivers.
Danny recruits former drive turned mechanic Jack Salter to train the players.
Jack is initially hesitant, but accepts after tiring of the arrogance of his team's driver,
Nicholas Capa.
Meanwhile, is a yawn yawn.
Yawn.
Okay.
I just want to make sure I was pronouncing it right.
Meanwhile, yawn Martin, bro, a teenage clothing store employee and gamer from Cardiff, Wales
is an avid player of the simulator and wants to become a racing driver.
Despite the disapproval of his former football father, Steve Martin, bro.
One day yawn learns he is eligible for a qualification race to join the GT Academy after setting a
time record for a particular track.
The night before his race, yawn is invited by his brother, Kobe, to a party and the brothers
take their father's car.
Yawn flirts with a young woman named Audrey, whom he develops a crush on.
The gathering is disbanded after police arrive and yawn initiates a pursuit after driving
away when their friends are pulled over.
The brothers escape, but are caught returning by their father.
Yawn is taken to his father's place of employment the next morning in an attempt to be taught
a life lesson, but leaves early to partake in the qualifying race, which he wins, earning
a place in GT Academy.
At the Academy camp, Jack puts the competitors through their paces in various tests through
which 10 competitors are narrowed down to five.
During one of which yawn crashes with Jack in the car and claims the brakes were glazed,
later proven correct by analysis to Jack's surprise.
The remaining five compete in a final race to determine who will represent Nissan.
Yawn narrowly wins the race against American competitor, Mattie Davis, but Danny insists
Mattie should be chosen as the representative due to his better commercial viability.
However, yawn is chosen at Jack's insistence.
Yawn is told that if he finishes at least fourth in any one of the series of qualifying
races, he will earn a professional license and contract with Nissan.
He finishes last in his first professional race in Austria after Nicholas taps him into
a spin and despite gradually improving over the next few races, he does not finish the
penultimate, I think that that's how I say it, penultimate race in Spain.
He travels to Dubai to Dubai for his last qualifying race during which Nicholas takes
a corner too fast and crashes.
Despite the debris from this car cracking the windshield, yawn achieves a fourth place
finish and earns his license.
He then travels to Tokyo with Danny and Jack to sign his contract and uses his signing
bonus to fly Audrey to Tokyo.
During this time, they initiate a relationship.
Yawn's first race after signing is at the Nurburgring, Nordschleife.
He starts the race well and maintains a high position until the front of his car lifts
into the air at the Flugplatz corner, hitting a barrier and launching into a crowded spectator
area.
Yawn is airlifted to the Nurburgring Medical Center and is informed while in hospital that
a spectator was killed in the crash, much to his horror.
Reluctant to return to racing and blaming himself for the spectator's death, Jack takes
him back to Nurburgring during which he reveals he was involved in a fatal accident at the
24 hours of Le Mans, which led to a fellow driver dying and his retirement from driving.
An inquiry clears Yawn of any wrongdoing but professional sentiment begins to turn against
Sim drivers.
In response, Danny decides a Sim driver team should compete at Le Mans and finish on the
podium to prove their viability.
Danny enlists Matty and fellow GT Academy participant Antonio Cruz to make up the three driver team
alongside Yawn.
On race day, Yawn's father apologizes for not initially being supportive of his passions
early in the race.
Early in the race, Yawn is left shaken after another competitor's car crashes and catches
fire but is encouraged through his first shift by Jack playing Songbird and a Renoco flow
through the car's communication system, which Yawn had previously used as motivational music
during training.
Matty and Antonio complete their first shifts without issue but the latter is brought in
from his last session early due to experiencing cramps.
A wheel nut breaks loose in the pit area causing Yawn to lose several positions.
He deviates from advised racing lines he learned from playing Gran Turismo to regain his positions,
breaking the competition lap record in the process.
The final lap sees Yawn racing lines he learned from playing Gran Turismo to regain his position.
The final lap sees Yawn pitted against Nicholas with Yawn once again nearly in front on the
final straight to earn third place and a podium finish for Nissan.
The epilogue, the real Yawn, Martin Burrow is shown having completed in over 200 races
and served as his own stunt double in the film.
Oh my God, that was a struggle for me.
Wow.
I really hope everyone enjoyed that segment of learning of learning with Rose reading
with Rose.
I mean, it was learning with Rose because you really learned how to not say certain
words and actually know how to say foreign words because yeah, I hated that they kept
repeating that one certain word, those F'ers, those bastards.
Anyway.
Oh, shit.
So story.
Yeah, so story.
JPJ.
Why does he call you JPJ?
So stands for jumpy pants Johnny.
Oh.
Yeah, when we would go over to his, their house when we were kids, I'd be in, I think
they shared a room at the time of Sammy and Sarah's room and he'd walk by and just go
there or something like that.
And he just remembers me jumping super, super high, scared the shit out of me.
So jumpy pants.
So that's what I got.
It's better than freaking G. It's better than, I mean, Sammy and Sarah aren't on here, but
I'm sure you remember.
Do you remember Jiggly John?
Do you remember that nickname?
Vaguely.
It was when we went to that one, it was that man type pageant for a youth conference.
And as we were coming back, there was this one kid from like another town or something
and he was calling himself fat math.
That's what everyone called him.
So me being the stupid ass I am, turn around to everybody.
I think it might've just been like you, Sammy and Sarah and I'm just like, okay, like, can
you guys not call me something like Jiggly John or some shit like that?
Oh, okay.
I think I remember that.
And yeah, that's literally stuck ever since.
Cause I freaking remember like shortly after, I think like the day that we got back from
that, Sierra texts me, can I please call you Jiggly John, please?
And I'm finally just like, all right, screw it.
Why not?
And yeah, it's, uh,
You did that to your damn self.
Oh, I know I did.
It's one of the stupidest things I've ever done.
Um, but yeah, so that's where Jumpy Pants comes in.
And I don't think Sam's ever called me Jiggly John, but, um, yeah, if, uh, Sammy and Sierra
ever, uh, are on this, uh, podcast again, and they refer to me as that, um, now you
guys know.
Oh man.
All right.
Um, I think I'm gonna go ahead and say, um, I'm gonna go ahead and say, um, I'm gonna
say yes or no.
All right.
Um.
All right.
Getting into this story breakdown.
Yes.
Is not as accurate as they would have you believe?
Have you figured that this the truth?
No, did you do any research on this?
No, so 그래서 that I pulled up an article, like, just kind of explaining the differences
And what happened in this movie?
They did a lot of reordering for this.
Oh, OK. For this movie.
Just keeping Rose humble.
Fair enough. We respect that.
Yeah. All right.
So the biggest are a couple of the biggest things.
Jack Salter, who was played by David Harbour,
not a real person.
Oh, what the fuck?
Yeah. According to
Martin, bro, he's like a mixture of like four different people.
OK. Yeah.
He says a couple of coaches
like driving coach, a physical coach, mental.
Like he's a mixture of all of them.
Orlando Bloom's character, also not a real person.
Dude, what the hell?
You get to be actors and they don't even play real people from the story.
So he is inspired by by someone.
So his name wasn't Danny Moore,
but he was inspired by this guy named Darren Cox.
He and he is credited as being the founder of the GT Academy.
OK. But yeah,
so he pitched this idea back in like 2006
and it didn't come into fruition until a couple of years later.
There was like a lot of other things that they did just for movie sake.
Like he. So he he's noted in this are like here.
Like I have the article up. So he says
the character that's in it is very much a lot more corporate
than I was and a lot more corporate jet.
The scenes where it looks like I'm a bit of a corporate dick
and he says, quote me on that.
It just didn't happen.
I was the guy that was putting my career on the line to make this happen.
And so the bits in it that great a little bit are the parts
where I question whether Jan should win or the other guy
that absolutely didn't happen.
That wouldn't have been my way of doing things.
These things add to the drama.
Yeah. OK. Makes sense.
Yeah. Let's see.
Yeah, he says these things have been done because it's Hollywood.
But my real character absolutely isn't just about trying to save the moment.
He says Danny is an approximation of him,
but certainly not as rebellious and anti-establishment as I was.
And the program was back in the day.
Jan Mardenboro was also not the first winner of GT Academy.
Oh, he was actually the third.
Do what the frickin Hollywood, man?
What the hell? Yeah, I know.
Like now they're going to frickin.
Like, yeah.
So the the.
GT Academy was founded in 2008.
There was a guy who was the first graduate of GT Academy
and his name was Lucas Ardonia.
And his name was Lucas Ardonia's.
The so they didn't do the GT Academy thing until 2000 or 2010.
And someone else won that.
And then Mardenboro entered and won in 2011.
And she said, OK, interesting.
Yeah, so very, very different.
He did come in for our third place in Le Mans.
OK, so that is correct.
OK, yeah, that is correct.
But it wasn't him and other.
So there was only one other GT Academy graduate.
So it was him.
So is Mardenboro.
The other the first winner, Lucas Ardonia's.
And then another racer, Michael Crumb,
who didn't have any connection to GT Academy.
So his big crash.
Didn't happen until after he had one third at Le Mans.
Freaky.
Yeah, right.
Come on.
Yeah, I'm trying to see what he says about this.
He says, yeah, he says, I made sure all of us that were with the production,
the producers, Jason, the scriptwriter, that that was how it went down.
Like talking about the crash because it needed to be correct
because somebody lost their life in this accident and the movie does a great job of that.
It shows as well the deep, dark moments of my life
when I was in the hospital by myself, you know, the mental aspects to such an event
and in life as well.
What can happen?
How you can get out of that?
How you can rebound and achieve something achieve greatness off the back of that.
So I had to be in there.
Yeah, he says, yes, there's our tip or so.
What's his face? The.
Creator of or the founder of GT Academy.
He said, yes, there's artistic license on the timing side of things.
And unfortunately, just like my character not being perfect for me
and being a bit of a dick, it's one of those things.
So it seems like those were like the only real inaccuracies.
OK, everything else kind of seems to be.
Spot on or as spot on as you can get, obviously.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah, but I mean, I can kind of understand where they're coming from
with these artistic choices.
Yeah, I know. No, definitely.
Because, you know, Hollywood movie got a Hollywood, even though they say,
oh, yeah, based on a true event, you know, you're never going to get the full true story
with this because, like, like you said, events were told out of order.
So I'm sure they're just like, OK, well, we know this happened first.
But considering that we want to get the full true story,
we know this happened first, but considering that we want this story to actually,
you know, feel like we have a
an act one, act two, act three,
I feel that we need to we need to tell it this way.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
So
I mean, like, like you said, Hollywood got a Hollywood.
Yep.
But that being said, with the story that we did get,
obviously, we can't judge it too harshly based off historical inaccuracy.
Yeah.
But based off the story we did get, I do feel like they told a really good story.
No, I agree.
Like, honestly, I wasn't that interested in this movie
when like the first couple trailers came out, just, you know,
just this really wasn't what wasn't feeling it.
Like, honestly, I really went to go see this movie because my sister wanted to go see it.
And yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
Like the story was super, super good.
I was honestly hooked
from the moment because the movie opens with him in his bedroom,
literally setting up his new steering wheel for his driving simulator for Gran Turismo.
It's just, yeah, honestly, after that, I was shocked how fully invested I was in these characters.
Yeah, same here.
Like, the characters were good, like the story that is told through Yann's eyes,
just all the shit that is thrown his way with everyone that doubts him,
with not only being able to actually move up to being a professional race car driver,
but literally that everyone, David Harbour, including,
that doesn't think that people that play Gran Turismo,
this driving simulator, there's no way that they could be real racers.
It's out of the question.
It's completely impossible.
So the fact that they were able to prove him wrong and the way,
especially that his character finally realizes, okay, you know what actually like
that shit is very, very legit.
Like it really does feel like you're truly racing.
Yeah.
I want to, I kind of want to understand, like not saying that I don't
like
Mardenboro's story, but I want to know why they didn't do it off of the guy who did win
the first. Is it just like, why did they choose Yann over the other guys?
Like the other two victors?
That's a good question.
Like, is he just the more prominent of the three?
Like, what was the most prominent of the three?
Like, what was what was his deal?
That's what I would assume more prominent, have more of a story to tell.
Like, I don't know, maybe like I doubt the first the first two winners stories were simplistic,
but maybe their road to get to where
GT Academy takes place maybe wasn't as hard as Yann's was.
And so.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's all I can think of.
It's just interesting.
Like, oh yeah, it definitely is.
Like out of all the the people that have won, like why would you why out of the three would you pick him?
Yeah.
Like, I mean, because they're like, there had to be
interesting stories in some aspect to them.
No,
unless it was just talking about like his raw talents or or whatever.
It's just interesting choice.
Like, just kind of brings up those kinds of questions for me.
Just.
Yeah.
Like, I really wish that I would have been part of production and in that way, at least like
when it came to like early production pitching ideas and and whatnot, like it's just
I want to get kind of get into into that.
Oh, I.
Oh, I wanted to bring this up.
Why the effort?
Laughing hell did.
And this isn't like a comment on the movie or whatnot.
So, I mean, it doesn't even warrant being brought up for this purpose.
Why would you have seating arrangements?
In an area that's known as the airfield.
That's known for making cars fly off the frickin track.
You're not wrong.
Like, I understand having seating like near the frickin jump, but having it down the runway
where they could possibly land and frickin flip out of control.
That seems dangerous to me.
That just seems like an accident waiting to happen.
Yeah, I mean, it was it absolutely.
Yeah, it wasn't an accident waiting to happen.
It was an accident that did happen.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, I mean, when they said that someone died, I was just like.
What? Yeah.
Like you're telling me people were on that corner, like, you know, where I'm not like
even if I was dumb enough to sit on the frickin sidelines of a race, I would be like,
sidelines of a race, you know, where I'm not sitting the frickin corners.
Look, I know, like some people want to come see, you know, sports games and stuff like that.
They're desperate to get seats, so they'll pick like the nosebleeds and shit like that.
But I feel this takes you to a whole other level.
Ain't no way I'm paying to sit there.
I don't care how cheap the tickets are.
Shit ain't worth my life.
Oh, I get lawn seats with extra shrapnel.
So I think up.
Yeah, like no way in hell I'm sitting at a frickin corner, dude.
Right. Oh, frickin ridiculous.
So I needed to raise those frickin heart wrenching like, God damn, dude, I.
I was not expecting anything bad to happen.
No, I wasn't either, because this is like the when he like the car, like just he goes over the hill, like starts to lift up and then all of a sudden, like I'm thinking of the same seat that that's the crash.
So, OK, the one where he's on that long or that stretch and it kind of like goes up a little hump and then it's kind of like wheelies into a crash.
I honestly was not expected, like.
Like that for I remember when that crash happened, I like my mouth kind of dropped open because I straight up thought that he was going to able like just barely just tip a little bit up and then like land flat back right now and just keep going.
But yeah, when the car like frickin tumble, I was like, what the fuck is happening?
Dude, I think what got me was like the music because the music it like slowed down.
He was driving and I like and it was right after they had discussed Yon and frickin Jack had talked about what it was like to drive.
And they're like, oh, like you just hit that moment of calm where you where you feel like the car is on rails and nothing can go wrong and all that.
And I was just like.
Like, so when that started happening and there's like the quiet music and he just kind of has like a look of calm on his face.
And I was just like, like, yeah, that's what this is.
Like they're helping us experience this.
And then he frickin goes off that one thing and I'm like, oh, he's going to get some air. And then he just kind of kept lifting up and I was like, oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
Like I was like, oh, no.
Oh, man.
Like, oh, man, dude, I like I was frickin riding that calm and then just like.
So frickin kudos for the filmmakers for.
Oh, seriously.
That reaction out of me.
Yeah, like the way they stage that scene.
Perfect.
Yeah, damn, that scene rocked my world, dude.
Because like it took me a second to realize what the hell was happening, because it's like I noticed he was off the ground for like a minute and I was just like, OK, well, it's like a frickin hump like and he's going fast.
Like you kind of expect something like that to happen.
No. And then it just like kind of went up a little high and I'm like, wow, this is getting crazy.
And they just kept going and going.
And I'm like, oh, like, I'm glad it was in slow mo because that's pretty much how I was reacting.
I was just no.
I love it.
Yeah. And then.
I do.
Obviously, like once the crash was was handled and are complete and everything, they hit you with the frickin gut punch of his mom reacting to it.
Dude, seriously.
Like that was frickin rough.
Yeah, that was really rough.
Yeah. And then I think the movie did take a little pacing hit once he was like dealing with that, which you understand why like why they they had to.
Yeah, like you absolutely understand, especially with when it was the at the cost of someone's life.
Like it really made you feel the emotional weight of that.
Yeah.
Other than that, I am kind of happy that this wasn't a movie where it's like, oh, it's his his race to at LeMans and he like he gets first place.
And like, I think that they kept the goals like really manageable.
Like it wasn't like, oh, you have to win like five of these in a row and blah, blah, blah. No, he just had to get at least fourth place in one of six races.
Yeah. And then for the final race.
Yeah. And then in the final race to kind of prove everyone wrong with the the whole Sim racers shouldn't be real racers or and stuff like I understand them pushing being like, well, we at least need a frickin
place.
And he got third. And I'm like, fantastic, because you I feel like usually in that instance, they'd be like, we got first. And it's like, no, they got third. That was their goal.
And they frickin nailed it. Yeah.
So I appreciated all those. I like I don't always like the whole.
At least when it comes to like racing movies or anything where it's just a struggle to get first like.
How about we just place? Yeah, exactly.
Like it's always get to stand on the podium. Who cares? Yeah. It was like realistic expectations. Yeah.
And I freaking love that. Sam, like I love that. It wasn't like, oh, he's frickin dominating everyone.
Like, no, he's like for fifth, like he's getting a respectable place, but he's not frickin like number one.
Yeah. Which I think is funny that they never like they always addressed.
Obviously, like he was sitting around for fifth, right?
So they were always addressing the two teams that were getting the two placements ahead of him.
So what was it like Kappa and then the other dude in the rainbow car? Yeah.
Like they were always talking about him. I'm like, OK, what about like first and second?
Like, what are they doing?
So I thought it was a refreshing take on. Yeah. Like the racing story.
So where are you sitting with the story score?
Oh, like overall, like I enjoyed the story a decent amount.
But I definitely agree with the points that you brought up.
So like.
And I'm probably saying I like a 78.
You're in the 70s. Yeah.
Oh, shit. I thought it was at least deserving of like an 82.
OK. Yeah. Moving on over to writing.
This is where I feel it was a little on the weaker side.
That is fair. I especially feel that way with John himself.
There were there were just some moments that I'm just like, OK, that totally that line just felt like a movie cliche.
Like that's not something you'd say in real life.
I know it's like there's a lot. There was a ton of lines like that, dude.
I'm like, where it was weird because it's like the story isn't a typical stereotypical racing story.
Yeah. Like it has like its own fresh take.
But all the lines like I'm like, you guys are freaking acting like he's getting first.
Like you got third place, bro, like chill. Yeah.
Like, let's bring it down.
Just a little bit. And I mean, for the situation that he's in, like, yeah, that's that's a big deal.
But I don't know. It's just they wrote it all like he was.
Like the best in the world, like that, I think that was a line that he said, like, you're one like you're one of the best in the world and blah, blah, blah.
And I'm like, well, he's like third best. Yeah, exactly.
I like frickin I mean, he proves me wrong, I guess.
But I'd like the beginning when he's telling his friend, like, oh, I don't want to race with that guy.
He always chooses this track. I've raced that track a thousand times. I know it in and out.
I could frickin race it with my eyes closed. I'm sorry.
You know what? I'd love to see you try, dude. I would love to see.
I mean, he proved me wrong, but just I don't know. I hate it when people are that cocky.
Yeah. My anytime people like are like that, I'm just like, prove it. Yeah, bitch.
He said he did. He proved it.
He only got third, though, just saying. Yeah.
So it it was interesting. The the writing, I think that didn't quite crack 80 for me.
That's fair. You know, honestly, if it's all right with you, I'd like to actually do a score change
because I think for me, the story is an 80, but the writing, I'm going to go a 78.
I'm actually going a little lower.
Really? OK. Then you I'm actually going to be sitting at like a 76.
That's fair. I think it was borderline cringy at times. Dude, it straight up was.
There I don't know about you, but like I was I'm glad that they didn't.
But I was half expecting it to pull like the whole movie cliche that, you know, like when he hooks up with this girl
with that girl and like something happens with his race and that was going to ruin the relationship
or she was going to do I straight up thought that like she was going to be like working with another racer
and she was going to try to sabotage Yon or some shit like that.
I just thought that they were going to do something more with her, you know, like classic movie cliche and be like,
oh, no, she never actually loved him, you know, shit like that.
But, you know, a kudos to them for proving me wrong. I'm glad that that didn't happen.
Dude, now that you bring that up, they didn't need that love story in there at all.
They did not. But, you know, I'm sure just to stick true to the story, they're just like, oh, yeah,
we've we forgot you told us about, you know, this girl that you met before you went to GT Academy.
You brought her out for, you know, after your first win.
I guess we got a worker and somehow because it wouldn't feel like your complete story without her.
But just know that she's barely going to feel like a part of the story at all.
And she could have literally just been ripped out of the story and would have changed the damn movie.
Dude, she's real. That's how it you look like.
Yeah, I'm looking that up right now. Oh, my God. I love it.
Just looking at them.
Uh. But the shit.
What? The. Interesting.
Wait a minute. Wait, I thought who the.
OK, hold up. I don't think I pulled up the right person.
Uh. Oops.
Good job, man. Good job. I pulled up the wrong person.
I do. I put the wrong person in the frickin cast.
List to. Oh, shit. Oh, that's fine.
I put her the right name and everything.
But the wrong headshot.
No, it's a wrong frickin actress. Oh, shit. OK.
Like I was scrolling through trying to find the actress for like the girlfriend.
I did not put her in. I put the female racer that was in the the GT Academy with Yon.
And that's funny. She is.
So the actress.
Plays a lay of Vega, someone who is competing in the GT Academy with Yon.
The actress herself is known for her YouTube channel and has built one of the fastest Corvette C8s in the world.
All right. So I did not put the right frickin.
Uh. Oopsie. Name.
That's OK. We'll forgive you this time.
OK, I'm not. Seeing anything about this chick.
In real life. So they just straight up. Very well.
Hollywood. OK. Yep. Pretty much classic.
Oh, my God.
You make fun of Rose and you do this.
Yep.
I sure do. Oh, that's great.
Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, my hell.
But yeah, that anyway, the point being the love story didn't need to be in there at all. Yeah.
Agreed. Yeah. So I'll stand by my 76 there.
That's fair. I'll stick with my 70. I'll change. I'll stick with my re ranging scores.
All right. Moving on over to acting.
We have Archie.
Maddie.
Not sure if that's how you say that.
Who played Jan Martin Burrow.
We have David Harbor, who played Jack Salter.
Orlando Bloom, who played Danny Moore.
Jerry Horner, who played Leslie Martin Burrow.
Jamon Hounsou, who plays Steve Martin Burrow.
Amelia Hartford, who played Lea Vega, who I thought was the girlfriend.
Oops. Not the girlfriend. She was the other racer.
And then I have Darren Barnett, who played Maddie Davis, who was a.
Another racer.
So, yeah.
So a little embarrassed there.
It's OK, Caleb. It's OK.
But yeah. So what's your.
What's your top three look like?
Number three, I'll give to Orlando Bloom.
I thought his performance was a really good. Definitely not his best.
I've seen him in better, but now overall, I think I think he was really good in this movie.
I honestly wish that he had more to do.
But what we did get from him, I think he did a great job.
It's like a toss up between one and two.
But number two, I'll give to Archie Mataquay.
They don't wrong. I thought he did a really good performance.
But there were just some parts that like his performance was just like a little wooden for me.
That's fair. Yeah.
But like overall, for being like the leading man of this movie, I think he did.
He did a pretty damn good job.
But number one, I'll get I definitely I did give to David Harbour.
He was once again, great. He always is.
And even though his character didn't really exist, he's a combined.
He's like a combination of like four different people from this guy's life.
What they were able to add to his character, what David Harbour brought to his back story.
Honestly, I thought was super, super good.
And yeah, he easily became my favorite character of the movie.
So, yeah. Dude, exactly the same top three.
Oh, yeah, dude. I love when that happens.
Yeah, I will say the the thing with like I'll add about Archie.
I feel like some of his reactions were like super over the top, dude.
I think I like was this his first acting role because I thought I saw that somewhere.
If it was super impressive, like not bad for your first time.
But if it wasn't like maybe just work on not going over the top with certain lines that don't need to have so much emphasis put on them.
So, no, this is not his first role. OK.
His first role was a.
Well, let's see. Yeah.
Yeah. Looking through, he's been like he was credited as like kid one in some movie from 2015.
OK. Yeah. Like one episode from something in 2014, two episodes from something in 2016,
like a bunch of stuff that I like never heard of, but he actually like had a like an actually named role in Midsommar.
OK. And he's been in like he's been in some stuff since then.
Like after Midsommar, he was in a Voyagers movie. He did an episode for Love, Death and Robots, which which was pretty popular.
He's in that show, See, which is on Apple Plus.
And then, yeah, Gran Turismo.
So it's definitely one of his first like I'd say starring roles.
I mean, for that, I feel he did a pretty decent job.
Like, honestly, he not not, you know, not trying to be like a dick.
But, you know, I feel like his biggest thing is he just needs to work on not being so over the top when it comes to lines or situations that no one would actually would act that way in that type of situation in real life.
Like, I think the biggest one was when he was finishing the like the qualifying race for GT Academy and he immediately got out who won who won like freaking hounding these people.
They're like, we don't know, dude, like freaking chill. Yeah.
And then it's like once he won, he's like screaming like top of his lungs like and everything.
I'm like, bro, have some like tact. Right.
Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I've been horrible keeping up with these little frickin banners anyway.
Yeah, I think just slightly too far. Yeah.
But I think he did do a little bit better of a job than Orlando Bloom.
And I actually really liked him in this role. I did, too.
You know, you know, the one to know the only thing I have wrong with Orlando Bloom in this movie is that he kept seeing Nissan instead of Nissan.
Yeah. Other people were pronouncing it right. Right. Yeah.
I'm pretty sure they were saying Nissan kept saying Nissan. It's like Nissan.
I know it's like he kept standing out any time he'd say it. But I'm like, I feel like other people are saying Nissan.
I've never heard people call it Nissan. It's always been Nissan. Yeah.
I told them to say it like that. I know. I wonder if someone like did that on purpose or if that's the case, like how the hell did how the hell did that?
How the hell did they not correct it when they're filming like, excuse me, Mr.
Or if that Nissan, maybe they just had too many takes where he was saying Nissan and he's just like, gosh, like those were the good ones.
It's like that's our third camera roll already today. Let's just wrap it up.
Yeah. So I that's what I kind of picture.
That kind of. Yeah. Giggle. I'll take that.
Yeah. The act was pretty solid, though.
I mean, it wasn't like the best in the world or anything, but no, but like across the board, it was pretty solid.
Yeah. It's decent.
I say I'm personally like an 83.
I'll match it.
All right. Next up, we got character development.
I feel that even though that this movie definitely stretch the truth when it comes to young Wooden Burrows real life story.
Yeah. Well, we can't really judge it off that like we can't.
No, no, no, no, I'm real like we have no I'm not like. Yeah. Like he's a fake person.
But yeah, just just doing it off that like actually, I feel that this is pretty decent character development, seeing him go from this kid that truly believes that he was meant to do racing as a career that to him, Gran Turismo is more than just a video game.
It's more than a driving simulator. It's it's what he's good at. It's what the he it's what he wants to put his skills towards and pursuing that as an actual career.
And, you know, seeing him get to GT Academy and then actually getting into like actual racing and even the hardships after that, all the shit that he has to go through and to finally finishing in a placement that he needed to finish and to be signed to Nissan and actually become a real racer was honestly really, really cool.
And yeah, I enjoyed watching it unfold.
Yeah, I did, too.
I'm going to look and see if GT Academy still thing.
It is we should go kill them.
Oh, the program ended in 2016.
Damn.
Just messed up.
That's cool, though. Like I, it is cool. Honestly, say I don't know. I don't know if I expected it to have lasted that long.
That fair.
So that that's impressive that it lasted over 10 years. Well, eight years because he pitched. So the guy pitched the idea in 2000 2006. It didn't end up happening until 2008. So two years where like from its conception, it was 10 years.
But yeah, it's only been eight where it's been active.
That's pretty good, though. That is that's honestly super cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, like I, I liked seeing the, the struggle that he was dealing with that, at least in at home in his personal life.
And I think like I really kind of related to the character, a lot like when he was talking with his dad like when he was being punished for the car, or taking the car out and everything.
And I like I really related with that like discussion that he was having where he realized that his dad was trying to use the rail yard as a, as an example like oh this is what happens when you don't.
You don't have a plan like a realistic plan or everything like that and you understand where the dad's coming from too because it's like he, he was a professional football player, football, like English soccer, or American soccer player.
But yeah, English football.
And him being like a professional football player and then it's just obviously like that didn't end up panning out like he thought and so now he, he didn't have a backup plan.
And he was working on a rail yard.
And him basically using that as a teaching tool and and y'all getting really upset about that.
And I've, I've been in that situation before where my dad's used his career as like a punishment.
And it freaking sucks.
You completely understand where he's coming from with his, like feelings on on that and so you see that and that just kind of gives him extra motivation to to win, and everything with everything else that he does.
Which is, which is cool, which is really cool.
Development wise like I think the biggest development we see is him kind of pushing through the guilt of, like from what happened after his accident.
Yeah, that's true.
He just kind of jumped straight back into racing and it's, I wouldn't say it's like ignored but it's moved on from like pretty quick and it feels like they try to like throw it in near the end when he's racing a Lamaze.
But it didn't really work, work for me.
No, that's fair. I get where you're coming from.
Yeah, it's just meh.
So I mean, all in all, this is maybe slightly above average development for me.
Yeah, same here.
Like where were you sitting.
I'm, I'm also proud just had a solid 80.
I'm actually sitting a little lower.
Like it's 7079 if I'm being real nice. Okay.
Alright, next up we got effects.
And there was a lot of good ones in this, dude, there was late literally my favorite effects were I don't know how many times it happened.
But it would be when he's, it's later in the movie. And he you know he's driving on the racetrack and all of a sudden it slows down time, and the car just starts to break apart and transitions back into him in his bedroom playing Gran Turismo.
And that shit looks so freaking cool.
Dude, it was like fantastic. Right. I loved that shit somewhere. Like that's some of the coolest shit I've seen it on the big screen in a while.
I totally agree with you, dude. It looks so good. Right. I was waiting for that scene because I knew you like we talked about this prior obviously when we were planning this, and you were saying that you really like that effect so I was waiting for it and it was freaking epic.
I loved it.
I loved the stuff where it was showing like,
kind of like a point of view from the game, like kind of given like a play playthrough like the games.
I like the shit like that like I always liked the third person view of the cars.
I liked when it would kind of go down and you'd see the like the race lines and everything. Yeah, when he was doing that so I really like that first person perspective.
And then yeah like seeing the car kind of like come around him and disappear like especially when he was like racing in.
Like when he was doing the race for to qualify for GT Academy.
Like that was awesome. So cool.
The fact they freaking race in his socks.
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah, I was just gonna say like I thought it was super cool watching like the people around him that were just like obviously they were standing by watching him race, but he's he like he stationary everyone else is stationary but it's like showing like, just like a light
overlay of like what the car would be and like how he's like passing in, in through all the cars and everything. So it's like, you kind of see that movement of the car, but you still see the people like the onlooker standing still.
But it looks like he's driving it seems like a really cool, like trippy effect. Yeah.
So I love I love that. So good. It was.
The stunt work in this obviously like they had to have real cars and, and whatnot and knowing that yawn Martin burrow was the stunt driver for this movie about him is pretty cool.
That that's just such a cool concept that you know you have a movie that's being made based on your life, and you get to be the stunt driver of the actor that's playing you.
Like, yeah, that's pretty cool. I'm not gonna lie.
Yeah, I mean, it's way cool. And I mean they did pretty decent with the casting like he looked pretty, pretty close. He did. I mean, definitely a little taller. It's it looks like.
Yeah, yeah, but other than that, yeah, like the resemblance, the resemblance was definitely there.
Dude, absolutely.
Yeah, honestly, there wasn't very many if any effects that I disliked in this. No, they were all done really well. The stunt driving was frickin awesome to watch.
Honestly, I feel like my only complaint is I wish there was more of them. Dude, right? Yeah, same.
Like I wish we would have gotten a little bit more like third person views from the car.
I do like how they did some of the angles that you get in the video game.
So when you're like when you when you finish a race, like I always thought those angles were super sick. Like I also especially liked how if Jan was mapping out like what direction he would want to go to be able to maneuver around the other cars, they would straight up like show like the arrows that you would see in the video game.
Like his opponent has red and he would have yellow and like that. I'm like, that's freaking cool.
That's an awesome little detail right there. Super cool. I love the the attention to detail that they had in this this film. Yeah, agreed.
I mean, so for effects I'm sitting pretty frickin high. Same here.
I'm.
You know, are you fricking 90s? Yeah, I do. I'm at a 95 honestly.
Oh, shit. Bless you.
I might be. I'm not quite at 95. I may be sitting like 93. Fair.
Absolutely fair. All right. Music.
I don't know if I remember like anything like standing out that much to me.
The biggest thing where it was his Kenny G and Enya. Oh, dude, I forgot about that.
That was a frickin hilarious that everyone's like giving him a hard time over it.
Do you freaking hear in sail away, sail away, sail away. I'm like, oh my God, that's what that's what you want to know what frickin year this was supposed to take place.
Yeah, that's fair. So.
We know in reality he was racing in 2011. Yes. Grand Turismo was already on the was that was the PlayStation four even released back in 2011.
No, no. Wait, did you say PS4, PS3, PS4, PS4 didn't come out till 2014.
Okay, so it was okay. It was introduced in 13. Okay.
So at the at the tail end of the PS3 got it. Yeah. So he had like all the previous Gran Turismo games, like for PlayStation three and whatever. So he would have been playing on PS3.
Yeah, but like chronologically. So are you 2013.
So yeah, he so if he they kind of had they had him playing on like the PS4 it looked like.
But I've got I have to go back and watch it again. Okay. Well, it was just like, it was inconsistent with like everything that they they had going.
Yeah, because it's like, oh, he's like he was on. Oh, have you checked Twitter on like Instagram was was around and I'm like, is it like how long has Instagram been around.
That's a great question. Like, hold on.
I'm going to be looking up some dates here for a minute.
Instagram was released to the public on April 6 2010.
Okay. Okay. And now I want to know.
Okay.
So here's where my issues come in. Okay. Spotify was around 2010 or not not Spotify. Instagram was around 2010. Spotify came out in 2008.
Okay.
Why in the hell would yawn purchase jack Salter.
A frickin knockoff iPod. Maybe I don't know maybe because he wanted to start him off simple. The technology is inconsistent here.
Because it's like, okay, you have social media, you have a smartphone, you have this, you have that.
But then it's like you're listening with like wired headphones, which I which I can I can buy. But it was weird that like, I mean, because even the on didn't he didn't have like, he had a music player, like a frickin iPod.
Yeah, that wasn't an iPod but still, I'm just like, I mean, it's happening. It's a Sony movie man they got to have everything Sony.
Yeah, fair. But still, like I'm like,
like I feel like you should have done a little bit better keeping track of what's what, because I don't think smartphones in 2011 were that big, were they.
No, they might have been to send at least like androids iPhones are still pretty small but androids might have been that big for a smartphone.
Okay, that's not.
I wanted the first touchscreen phone come out 1994. No, some
I'm going to lose my ever loving mind.
Okay, nevermind frickin.
Nevermind.
What I'm trying to get at the music was inconsistent, or the the the the technology was inconsistent, and it bothers me.
But the music itself are getting into like back into talking about the music.
I, I didn't hate the music in this, like I thought it was decent.
Yeah, I can definitely go through there.
I'm seven. That's around where I was thinking too.
I mean it was.
I eat.
Yes, but oh my gosh.
It wasn't the the best in the world. It was it wasn't the bomb.
Yeah.
All right.
Next up we got costumes.
Pretty bitch and costumes for me for this one.
Or at least that the the racing outfits were pretty sick.
Like I'm just pointing some out like this is the, it was mostly like the jumpsuits, but the jumpsuits were frickin Chris.
They were. Yeah, they look super good.
Yeah, like super impressed with with everything that they pulled out there like it felt like a nice genuine high quality touch.
Yeah, absolutely.
So yeah he his was one of the bigger costumes like looking at their is racing outfit like his racing get up was awesome.
Yeah, I freaking loved how the.
I think that was maybe one of my favorite scenes is when they're standing in the line for Lamaze.
And they have all the lines of cars and the racers standing like with their pit crews and everything and everyone it was kind of like organized by color.
Like creating a rainbow on the on the strip it was like they look fantastic. It did.
It really did look awesome. Yeah, such a cool effect.
So I mean I really dug dug that.
And then this is just a better look at their, their outfits like I thought they were very like form fitting.
Not yet they look super super good.
Yeah. And then another one I want to point out and I know he was like the bad guy but Kappa or team Kappa.
I love their, their gold aesthetic like I thought it was freaking super dope.
Fair enough.
Freaking crisp as hell.
Even though the dude was a freaking skidooch bag but dude seriously though seriously.
Yeah, I really liked him or liked his look.
So I mean, overall, I think the costumes were definitely above average.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
I might be like an eight could be talked up to a nine.
I don't think I can talk you up to a nine because I was at an eight as well.
All right, fair enough. Eight out of 10.
All right, last up we got our own personal scores.
So you want to take this one, Rose. Oh, I would love to.
Excuse me.
So, honestly, overall, when I walked out of this movie I was surprised of how much I enjoyed it.
The racing was great especially the frickin moments when they would slow that stuff down and slow stuff down slow shit down.
And literally the car would just break apart and you would transition from the racetrack back to him being in his room playing Gran Turismo frickin love that stuff.
Acting was pretty solid.
You know, not judging not judging the movie for this but like Caleb pointed out they definitely changed some things and from Yon's real real story.
They definitely changed some things to make make it fit more into the Hollywood, I guess, agenda.
But you know what, it worked out. It was fine. I was fine with it.
So yeah, honestly, I had a good time I look forward to checking this movie out again. So but personal score.
I think I'm going to go on 83.
Yeah, I'm actually in that ballpark as well.
I think it was definitely an above average racing movie for, for me at least, I know.
There's not a lot of movies that I dislike or avoid watching but racing movies are kind of in that field.
I don't really care for racing movies.
And it's like any sort of races like I know I've seen like car races, frickin horse races, anything that involves a race of some sort like I'm not into it.
This one was definitely one that subverted my expectations because I didn't have the highest of hopes going into this.
I thought the. I wanted to go see this for the, the concept like the kind of the history behind it, like figuring out oh like PlayStation put on this competition and blah blah blah but I didn't end up being quite that way.
But it was cool. It was, it was a good movie.
One I probably see myself checking out again just because it was one that I enjoyed enough to rewatch.
But it's, it's probably not one that I'm going to like actively seek out like, oh I need to watch it again it's just one that when it's like comes available on streaming or if you end up purchasing it maybe like, maybe I'll check it out again.
Or if just someone's in the mood for like a.
I think this is a shut your brain off movie for me, because I think my, my issues start lying once I start thinking about it a little bit more than what's on its surface level.
And I think like I kind of surprised myself with some of these scores.
So I'm, I'm, I'm interested to see if I stand by these, like, I assume I will.
But, yeah, so I mean, this one like I said, above average for me so I'm slapping this.
I was gonna say, I don't feel good about an 80 so I'm going to slap it at 79.
Sure enough.
Yeah.
All right.
So, with that, going through these categories, real quick let me just my screen so I can actually see this shit.
Alright, starting off with story.
We were sitting at a very solid 81 moving on over to writing we averaged out to a 77 acting made a jump up to 83 character development is sitting at a 79.5 it was decent it just wasn't the best in the world.
And I think that's just kind of par for the course when it comes to like racing films.
Fair enough.
All right, next up effects. Our highest category sitting at a 94 music did have some Kenny G and India.
And that kind of just bumped the soundtrack up a little bit so we're sitting at a seven out of 10 for that.
Next up is costumes the. It's a racing movie you have to wear the tracksuit so yeah that was a very solid eight out of 10.
And then our personal score ended up averaging out to an 81.
And not bad at all.
Next that the final Albrose letter grade for Gran Turismo has come out to a true noise.
You are the worst. I know I am. You don't gotta remind me.
All right, but it came out to a B minus.
Okay.
Yeah, I like that.
I like I was trying to think of where I'd be fine with this setting and C plus just seems a little too harsh for this film.
I agree. Yeah, B minus. Perfect.
Yeah, and it's it's a sturdier B minus or so our cutoff for B minus is an 80.
And this ended up getting an 82.56.
Not bad.
Yeah, not bad at all.
Let's check out where it ranked within the B minus.
Ooh, actually, and then scoring pretty high.
All right, so out of our B minus movies, which we have 35 of this was actually our number three.
Hell yeah.
Yeah. So like I said, it is sitting at an 82.56, which puts it below Mulan.
The remake Mulan, which is an 82.62.
It's below the greatest showman, which is at an 82.93.
All right. It is below Jumanji. Welcome to the jungle, which is at an 83.06.
So this is the first movie in the B category.
Okay. Just like because I said, it's at the top of the B minus list.
Yeah, we're in B category now.
It is also below violent night, which is at an eighty three point one eight.
Okay. And then finally, it is below Shazam, which is an eighty three point two five.
Okay. Going the opposite direction.
And I feel like we might have some thoughts on this.
It is sitting above scream six.
You know, I actually am OK with that. Are you?
I am because I recently because so I recently rewatched Scream five because I haven't watched that since it came out.
I actually think I like that more than Scream six.
I mean, I don't know where we rank Scream five.
It was above five or if it was above six.
But just the other more they don't run Scream six is good.
But I think I actually enjoyed Gran Turismo a little more.
Know what? Fair enough.
Yeah, I don't know where we put the other screen movie or Scream five.
All right. Let's see.
All right. It's sitting above the hunt, which is at an eighty two point four seven.
OK. It's above Chippendale Rescue Rangers, which is an eighty two point four three.
That doesn't make me happy.
I love that above what?
Because I love that movie.
Let's see. It's above Let's Be Cops, which is an eighty two point three seven.
All right. And then finally, it is above Ron's Gone Wrong, which said eighty two point three one.
Does that kill you? Not really.
Really? OK. I will say I do think I enjoyed Gran Turismo a bit more than I liked.
Ron's Gone Wrong. All right. But Ron's Gone Wrong.
I'm going to go back and rewatch more often than Gran Turismo.
Fair enough. Fair enough.
So, yeah, that's where it ended up breaking.
Hell, yeah. All right. Well, unless you got anything else to add.
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