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Ourfirst glimpse at the Gran Turismo movie has arrived, and it looks fine. The trailer seems like it gives away the first two acts, and it's a little on the nose with David Harbour playing a guy who hates gamers, but then he needs a gamer, but it's fine. The part where the gamer rig transforms into a real car is some cool VFX work, the racing looks realistic yet exciting, and the strong cast are going to be able to carry it. But one of the things that the marketing keeps pushing is that it's based on a true story - and I'm struggling to understand why I should care.

Maybe that's because even without knowing the true story before seeing the trailer, it told me everything that was going to happen. It's weird that I know just from the 90 second trailer that there's a guy who's great at Gran Turismo, his dad doesn't believe in him, he's in an October Sky-style village where everyone is stuck in dead end jobs, he wins a contest for racing in GT that lets him race real cars, the coach doesn't like it and he sucks at first but he's the best, he's on team Nissan and the racers hate him, then a crash involving some real racers means he has to go from gamer to racer. He also probably wins. Scratch the first two acts, that's the movie, right there. I mean, that's the whole story.

One of Stephen King's major rules for writing is that readers will make one leap with you. Just one thing in the story is extraordinary, and people will go with it if the rest is ordinary. It is a story of normal kids in a normal town doing normal things - your one leap is there's a killer clown. In Carrie, it's a regular school with regular bullies - your one leap is that the victim has telekinetic powers. In Gran Turismo, it's that there was a contest for gamers to become racers. Everything else in the movie makes sense. I'm making the one leap with you. The fact it's a leap that happened in real life means nothing to me.

I've since looked up this true story and it makes me even more surprised that the angle is being pushed so hard. I mentioned October Sky earlier, another fairly average story inflated in importance due to its basis in fact, but at least Homer Hickam's tale was based on his bestselling book. Jann Mardenborough, whose true story the film is based on, does not seem to be all that connected to this movie. His name is used, but he was not the first person to win this contest (he was third) and 19 people have won since. His racing career is respectable but unremarkable - he has ten individual wins across his career, and his highest finish in any contest is second, which he achieved twice out of 29 contests, neither of which were with Nissan, whose brand is heavily featured in the trailer.

Mardenborough was also born in Darlington, in the North East of England, as the son of a former professional footballer (which does not seem to be the case in the movie), and grew up in Cardiff. Watching interviews with him, he sounds very different to the Mardenborough of the film. I don't list Mardenborough's decent enough career stats to belittle him. What he achieved is extraordinary, to have a competent career in racing after learning it on the PlayStation. It would make for a great, small stakes movie about determination, invention, and the ability we all have to lift ourselves to wherever we want to go - you know, like October Sky.

Instead, this glitzy trailer seems to begrudge that Mardenborough did not become the youngest ever world champion with PS4 stickers all over his car. It is pushing the true story angle fiercely but little of what we've seen in the trailer suggests it is concerned with mythos over truth, and brand recognition above all. The clue is in the title - this is a movie about the video game (Hey, go buy it! Buy it now!) rather than about the man.

Wilson County Sheriff's detectives are investigating a bizarre arson case as a possible hate crime. Someone set a trailer full of bibles on fire in front of a church on Easter morning. (WTVF via CNN Newsource)

This was at the corner of Old Lebanon Dirt Road and Chandler Road in Wilson county. Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames, and detectives a short while later discovered a trailer full of Bibles has been set on fire.

How happy I was to learn that Hate Plus was no mere director's cut edition of visual novel-esque adventure game Analogue: A Hate Story , as its name suggested. Back in April, we confirmed that it's actually a full sequel filled with more hate than ever before, and we now know that it'll be here in exactly two weeks. Now, for the celebratory trailer.

There are surprisingly few energetic choreographed dance routines to be found in this pop-backed video, but you'll probably want to keep some mouthwash nearby for cleaning out the syrup-sweet stain the soundtrack will leave behind. (If you're into it, you can pre-order the Hate Plus soundtrack now too.)

really sorry to hear of your experiences. i just discovered this show on netflix in the last year or so and can honestly say i prefer the early seasons when ALL of the original cast was together (including Cory and Trevor). Apparently, like in All else, TPB is governed by the mighty dollar and apparently doesnt mind sacrificing quality acting talent in the process.

I read that he was coming back but he doesn't seem to have come back, Cory did in the end. I haven't watched the last few seasons as they got less and less funny. Also seeing them all get fat was a bit depressing.

And the drunk and on drugs fun time hour or whatever it was called was abysmal. I don't think I even finished the episode,

Hi,

I just recently got turned onto TPB, and I love it. Cory and Trevor are great and once I get passed season 6 I am sure you will be missed. Although I appreciate the time it took you to write all of this, and I am sorry that you had such a negative experience in your young life/career. I am disappointed that you come off as not being appreciative at all for the opportunity. There are kids your age that would welcome the chance to make any type of money, let alone the notoriety. Remember, every chance is an opportunity. Count your blessings love, and good luck in all you do.

all that hate and Swearing you decided to write above..... you're definitely American, I just hope that that isnt the extent of your vocabulary because their is no reason to be talking like some high school bully.....

Registered just to make a comment to this. This honestly explains all the way i felt about trailer park boys while watching it. The first three seasons were great. I remember watching it when it first aired on showcase and I was way too young, but I knew people like the people in that show. It felt real. The trailer park boys is the only show i felt became so cartoonish it became a literal cartoon. It sucks reading about the way the cast and crew was treated on the show. I never knew why Cory and Trevor left the show, I'd stopped watching it a while before then but i remember reading about it when it happened. It's really too bad what happened to the show. I remember the first few seasons being amazing. I hadn't really seen anything like it at the time and it portrayed greasy lower class Canadian life really well. But the quality died fairly quickly. At least I know why now. I always kinda wondered what the hell happened.

Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone-starrer Fighter is set against the backdrop of Indian Air Force's air strike on Pakistan after a terror attack. Fighter's trailer dropped recently, following which Hania Aamir, Adnan Siddiqui and many other Pakistani actors criticised the Siddharth Anand directorial. Now, the director has seemingly reacted to the criticism of Fighter by celebs across the border. Also read: Pakistani celebs slam Javed Akhtar's comment

He reacted with a thinking face emoji to a tweet about Hania Aamir's recent Instagram Stories. The tweet read, "Didn't she literally work in a movie which was anti-India? If indian celebs have no issue with the anti-India stuff Pakistani celebs do in movies, why do Pak celebs care so much?"

"So sad and unfortunate to know that there are artists out there in this day and age who are aware of the power that the cinema holds and still go ahead and feed the riff between the two countries. I feel sorry for the artists who try to bridge the gap by trusting their art as a medium. Distasteful; let art breathe," Hania Aamir wrote on Instagram Stories soon after Fighter trailer was release on January 15.

Without mentioning the name of the movie, Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui said that it was 'disheartening' to see Bollywood portray Pakistanis as villains. He had tweeted recently, "Once celebrated for love, Bollywood now crafts hate-filled narratives, portraying us as villains. Despite our love for your films, it's disheartening. Art transcends boundaries; let's use it to promote love and peace. Two nations, victims of politics, deserve better."

Reacting to Fighter's trailer, Pakistani actor Zara Noor Abbas said on Instagram Stories, "Aren't you guys tired of selling the same false crap?! Grow up, guys! The world is moving on and getting mature but why do you want to sell this cheap story of hatred? Could have also promoted peace. Don't we have enough hatred in the world that you had to boost more hate through this global medium of movies?"

Apart from Deepika and Hrithik, Fighter also stars Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover, Akshay Oberoi, Ashutosh Rana, and Sanjeeda Sheikh, among others. The film has been directed by Siddharth Anand of War and Pathaan fame. Fighter is all set to be released in theatres on January 25, 2024.

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