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Jumkie said:
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Just finished watching this movie. What a ....... joke! Basically, if you were too take the most rabid Rossi fan, and have him make a movie, they would produce this movie. This is nothing more than a 2 hour homage to Rossi. NOTHING MORE. 95% of every vid clip, sound bike, interview, is about Rossi. The entire story told, is 100% about him. I wouldn't mind watching a biography if I knew going in it was a biography of a rider I, but this .... is marketed as if its a movie about MotoGP, WHICH IT IS NOT.



I actually had a chance to meet the director this last Sunday, but I hadn't seen the movie yet, just the trailer. But even then I wanted to ask him when he planned to be honest about the title and marketing of his Rossi biography movies. He's lucky I hadn't seen the entire movie, or I would have called him out in public. Two hours wasted. Again, if I want to pic up a book made into a movie about Rossi, let me decide if its worth it, instead of sucking me and surely many more into thinking this was a movie about the sport. ....... liars!



Every significant moment of Valentino's life and racing career is revisited, but told in a slant and gorss bias that makes everybody else the villain and Rossi the hero.



If you want to watch a movie made by a bopper for boppers, this movie is for you!



I sat through the whole thing, but after about 20 minutes, I realized this movie would maintain its extreme Rossi-centric theme. I sat through it until the end because it is such a significant production from the sport. When will somebody make a movie about the sport of MotoGP? Probably never.



Fastest, the movie should be renamed, simply another biography of Valentino Rossi. I can't help but think that this ideology is what has bankrupted the sport today. The sport was too blinded and star struck to realize it had run into an iceberg.



EDIT: im not saying its unwatchable, just be prepared to watch a nicely done 2 hour Rossi homage.
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This post is absolute vintage Jumkie! Sweet man! What would we do without you?
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Jumkie said:
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Just finished watching this movie. What a ....... joke! Basically, if you were too take the most rabid Rossi fan, and have him make a movie, they would produce this movie. This is nothing more than a 2 hour homage to Rossi. NOTHING MORE. 95% of every vid clip, sound bike, interview, is about Rossi. The entire story told, is 100% about him. I wouldn't mind watching a biography if I knew going in it was a biography of a rider I, but this .... is marketed as if its a movie about MotoGP, WHICH IT IS NOT.



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Every significant moment of Valentino's life and racing career is revisited, but told in a slant and gross bias that makes everybody else the villain and Rossi the hero.



If you want to watch a movie made by a bopper for boppers, this movie is for you!
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Jumkie is not exaggerating. (Hard to believe, I know!
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85+% of the movie is nothing less than Hard Core, XXX rated, Bopper ..... Nicky, Casey, Dani, and others make (conspicuously) short guest appearances, but it's clear that the show's subject is and was always meant to be #46.



That said, there were a few interesting segments. There's a whopping 4 minutes devoted to Lorenzo's serial crashes in 2009. He admits he was afraid of being permanently spooked. Further discussion was begging to be pursued, but then the segment abruptly ended...
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Then, around the middle of the show, there are eerily prophetic interviews about the dangers of a crashing rider being hit by another machine. They spend all of 10 seconds on Tomizowa...
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Discussing the Gibbers/Capirossi Moon shot and subsequent mass wreck, Edwards (who was immediately behind the carnage) says he was thought he just watched Melandri die. (That's not something you want to go through twice....)

Pedrosa talks about the danger and possibility of death, "You know it's there, it's there - but you don't dare look."



5 seconds later the scene cuts and we hear, "Mugello belongs to Valentino.... Blah, blah, blah."



Unfortunately, that's the pattern that persists throughout the movie: Short snippets of just-getting-interesting interviews that are hurriedly pushed out of the way to make room for more GLOAT footage. As Jum says, the whole show feels disjointed and scrambled. There is no theme, no plot (not that a documentary really needs one) and, worst of all, very little continuity. It seems as if Neale spliced together all the unused film from his previous efforts to conjure this Frankenstein. If I didn't know better, I'd guess that this was the FIRST MotoGP video, not his most recent.





Save your $20 folks. This one's a stinker.
 
levigarrett said:
This post is absolute vintage Jumkie! Sweet man! What would we do without you?
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Sorry to poo the movie bro. When i tuned in, i was giddy with anticipation. I sat down and thought, man, perfect, this will relieve the withdraws. I looked at the run time, almost 2 hours, sweet. They start off with Catalunya JL vs VR dual, this is one of my favorite races ever. In fact, it was this race i had playing on the big screen two years ago at Camp Laguna. I thought, cool, Rossi gets his props, and we get to revist one of the best races of the era. After 20 minutes in, i realized The homage continued. But i kept watching & watching, the homage continued. I started to feel disappointed, then dupped. Thats when the cardboard cut outs of Rossi came out. Then i went from feeling dupped to just laughing. The guy had poured it on pretty heavy in the first hour and change, but then i started watching to see just how out of control the homage would become. Itsthere for u too watch. My review is hardly a dig at Rossi, i said i would have been happy if the guy would have titled the movie "a homage to the Goat". I would have watched it. I read the mans bio without any problem. But again, this movie wasnt presented as such. Sorry to sound like an ........ But thats my movie review.



Btw, i was an ....... to Nicky this last weekend. Hahaha. I have a pic i'll post later where hes looking at me with an expression like, damn this fan is a ........; you can see me in mid lecture to the poor guy. Haha.



Anyway, go see Fastest the movie people. Its worth it. Just keep in mind its NOT about the sport. It is however, a nicely done homage to a great rider of our sport who deserves his own movie.
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Jumkie said:
Btw, i was an ....... to Nicky this last weekend. Hahaha. I have a pic i'll post later where hes looking at me with an expression like, damn this fan is a ........; you can see me in mid lecture to the poor guy. Haha.
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I don't recall Faster being overly Rossi centric. I forgot a lot about it, but I do remember seeing a fair amount on Hopper and the WCM team.
 
I seem to remember Faster posing the question "What if Barros had a factory Honda all season?" and that Biaggi was a bad ........ And looking toward Hopper for the future.
 
This movie had so much potential. After I was done watching I couldn't help but wonder how much really cool stuff didn't make it into the movie. This should have been about the rise of the young guns.



Talking to the old lady about Lorenzo ??!?! Are you ....... kidding me? Waste of time.



Quite disappointed.



It was a bopper fest and I'm a Rossi fan....
 
And another few things!



I didn't like the way Stoner was portrayed. They made him look whiney and mentally weak. The guy is a straight shooter and mentally very tough. I wasn't around in the lactose days but I have chrones disease (also a gastro problem) and I can tell you that if I have a really bad month I barely have the energy to walk up a set of stairs. I couldn't imagine wrestling one of these beasts for 45 minutes. And I don't think most others could either.



Nicky wasn't handed a WC. I was cringing during this "recap".
 

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