Bad Movie Beatdown: Driven (2001) (REVIEW)

[@FilmBrain]

This review was originally posted in July 2010, and this is a re-edited version that runs 3m 15s shorter than the original, and has been upscaled to HD and had noise reduction to remove camera noise. In addition to the usual edits for film clips, there's quite a few snipped lines here that did not age well at all, which is a shame because this is probably the best of the Stallone Month reviews (I am slightly annoyed I kept pronouncing Memo's name incorrectly too). This is the final episode of that month, proceeded by Nighthawks, Cobra, The Specialist, and Get Carter. Overall, you can still tell this is early days for me - subsequent months on Seagal and Snipes improved on this by being more in-depth and funnier, and less reliant on cheap jabs from having to make so many episodes in such a quick timeframe. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

[@clearspira]

No offence, but you could have done with dropping a few of the ''women are being objectified'' bits. Its a valid point, but after the third time you were just repeating yourself.

[@skylx0812]

Tbh, since this was from the director responsible for the lyrics "My hat is like a shark fin" I think it does deserve a sound bitch slap which you pulled off very well.

[@thema1998]

@@skylx0812 I just learned that Remmy Harlin was the guy that directed Deep Blue Sea. That movie was dumb as hell but it was enjoyable. This movie was dumb as hell and nowhere near as enjoyable. You know a movie is bad when the best parts of the movie are the hilariously over-the-top crashes.

[@scottylewis8124]

The only notable role Kip Pardue did was in 2003s Devil's pond. Though for that movie, all he did was yell at Tara Reid a whole bunch.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

@@scottylewis8124 He was also 'Victor' in Rules of attraction [an adaption of Bret 'American Psycho' Ellis novel]. The character is the lead in another book, Glamorama which was going to get a film but never happened [though the author had to be compensated as he successfully argued that the plot was very similar to Zoolander! Look it up!]

[@jamesatkinsonja]

When the script was likely written in 1997 [as Stallone attended the Italian GP that year] William's driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen had previously dated Corinna, the wife of rival Michael Schumacher, which is what the love triangle in this film was based on.

[@mrm.acampbell2722]

Where is the safety car? With all these crashes they would bring out the safety car so damn quickly it isn’t funny

[@neilprice513]

Racing is pretty safe compared to other dangerous sports, the drivers and crews train to limit crashes and the dangers of motor racing. So crashes during a race are rare. According to this movie multiple horrific races happen with each race, which if true in real life, would mean that international consensus between governments would end ALL motor racing due to it being too dangerous. (This almost happened after a disaster during the 1955 Le Mans 24 hour race) Is this movie set in the same universe as Death Race? I can see why F1 decided to not allow Stallone to use them in this movie, probably laughing him out of the room, It's disrespectful to every driver and their families who ever died during a race.

[@veronicasilk8429]

For a racing drama, the amount of crashes (as well as the Chicago chase) is so ridiculous that it's impossible to take seriously. At least with something like the Fast & Furious movies, it was justified because they played out like action/crime films and roll with its nonsense, not to mention that the racing is illegal, so any potential crashes make sense since they're not as organized as professional circuits.

[@RappinPicard]

Also like, only a few years before this movie was made, a crash at the US 500 in Michigan caused a wheel to fly into the stands and killed 3 people. So way too soon.

[@michaelskoomamacher5652]

not to mention Firestone Firehawk 600 that was cancelled due to the danger of vertigo of being too fast.

[@mesousagaby740]

Wait a minute...the last race is supposed to be in Detroit, yet they also are seen racing at Montreal, and...what looks to be 2 other tracks...one of them being on an oval. Even Talladega Nights, A COMEDY, had more track consistency than this!

[@HeavyMetalNerd]

12:23 Ironically, Alessandro Zanardi, former Williams driver, had a real accident the same year at the Lausitzring, were this scene was supposed to happen. He lost both legs and had at some time only 1 litre of blood in his body.

[@scottylewis8124]

Yikes! That's awful

[@nitromagilou597]

I used to own a GameCube game with the exact same title, along with The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Need For Speed: Underground, and The Italian Job. I was a big racing game fan when I was little, that and I loved cars.

[@derekonodera8891]

Same here. The NFS games were my childhood.

[@HaLoFreQ2000]

Played a ton of NFS and burnout back in the day.

[@mesousagaby740]

Breaking news: Brad Pitt's gonna redo this kind of movie with F1. Sylvester Stallone was rejected for being too old being in the early 50's. Brad Pitt was reaching 60 when he made the F1 movie.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

It's interesting that Stallone's film was rejected by F1 while the Pitt film was made with F1's full cooperation.

[@adro3828]

Fun fact: The actor in the film "Driven", Kip Pardue did a voice of Alan Douglas in the video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

[@RoyStantz]

That is correct.

[@andysee6996]

1:40-1:42 Funny thing about that. The weekend Driven came out was the weekend CART was supposed to have a race at Texas Motor Speedway. Unfortunately, the cars were too fast and the drivers were regularly graying out and even blacking out when they went into the turns. The G-forces were just that high. This gave CART the image as a racing series run by a bunch of bufoons and its races were booted from broadcast TV to cable. By 2003, all the top teams had defected to the IRL and CART shut its doors completely early in 2008.

[@slambangaction]

It's kinda hard to believe that Renny Harlin at one point directed Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, two of the best action films of the early 90's. After the Cutthroat Island debacle, he's directed one critical and/or commercial disaster after another. Well, apart from Deep Blue Sea, which I thought was pretty entertaining and at least made a decent profit at the box office.

[@veronicasilk8429]

I liked DH2, Cliffhanger, and The Long Kiss Goodnight. And then he went downhill with the likes of Deep Blue Sea and 12 Rounds...

[@DemonBoy3223]

Yea, wth happened? _Deep Blue Sea_ and _Cliffhanger_ are my all-time favorites from him, I even have a soft spot for _Die Hard 2_ cause it was my very first DH film and for its big-ass explosions. _12 Rounds_ was the only Harlin film I'd seen in cinema, and even when seeing it then I had felt depressed by how much it had reminded me of _Die Hard 3,_ it felt like an "MTV-style remake" w/o the nuance. And now it seems like he's directing films in China currently.

[@davidjames579]

Yeah, Long Kiss Goodnight is really good. Plus it's a Shane Black screenplay. Harlin's then wife Geena Davis really commits to the role (and enjoys it), Samuel L Jackson is Samuel L Jackson, and Brian Cox has a memorable cameo with some great sour lines. Driven was his first film after Deep Blue Sea and seems to have been the beginning of the end. He's just become a DTV style schlockmeister since then, even been brought in as a studio hack to re-film Paul Schrader's Exorcist 4.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Oh... how the mighty have fallen... after two decent flicks...

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

slambangaction 12 rounds isn’t that bad

[@dvass7253]

8:48 - Said reason is that Estella Warren used to be a synchronized swimmer. 11:18 - Ugh, jeez, just show Neo's fist flying towards Smith's face in slo-mo, we all know it's coming. 17:08 - And now we're in Speed Racer. Damn it, Driven, stop reminding me of movies I'd much rather be watching right now! In conclusion, every cast member in this movie deserved better, especially Gina Gershon and Burt Reynolds (may he rest in peace).

[@RoyStantz]

Yes, Speed Racer is a far superior film. Also, Gina Gershon did pick things up again when she voiced Catwoman in the 2004 Batman cartoon.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

_You'd prefer to watch SPEED RACER?!?_ No... Just... no. SPEED RACER is much worse than this. DRIVEN was just.. okay. SPEED RACER was painful, especially the bad guy. More especially the dreaded bad guy exposition scene.

[@mychaeljones7279]

Gina Gershon got punched in the face and was forced to phalatio a chicken and Burt Reynolds became irrelevant.

[@RoyStantz]

@Mychael Jones That's not a cool thing to say about Gina Gershon, because I bet she's a swell gal to hang around with.

[@mychaeljones7279]

@@RoyStantz kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnbIapqbic-rd5I

[@tessalyyvuo1667]

Fun fact (or embarrassing), because Renny Harlin is one of the most internationally regonized Finns, he was some time ago given his own reality TV show.

[@veronicasilk8429]

I love car movies, but even I couldn't find enjoyment out of this.

[@devinharbert6071]

Me too Because Driven has some of the Worst Special Effects in a Big Budget Film Ron Howard did Better Job Filming Crashes In Rush

[@sethmorris6803]

This is my favorite KZbin channel. I appreciate your hard work and content.

[@FilmBrain]

Glad you enjoy my work!

[@briansergeant]

Champ Car/CART didn't exactly die. It "re-merged" with Indycar in 2008, 14 years after splitting with them BDO/PDC style.

[@RoyStantz]

Kip Pardue looks a bit like ex-WWE interviewer and current IMPACT commentator Josh Matthews.

[@Headbanger142]

I love myself some car crashes but damn did they look awful in this movie.

[@nitromagilou597]

I agree, they're so underwhelming and dull. And I love the Fast & Furious movies.

[@andysee6996]

8:40-9:14 It specifically says on Driven's wikipedia page that this movie takes place during the 2000 CART season. That season, the Toronto Grand Prix took place before the Firestone Firehawk 500 at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan. 10:30 Okay, here's the proof that this was originally a Formula One movie. CART didn't go to Germany in 2000. They did go to Germany's EuroSpeedway Lausitz in 2001 and 2003, but they used the Superspeedway. The reason NASCAR never races in the rain is because the banked turns of the ovals cause the water to pool in the infield. I doubt CART or IndyCar could race at a wet superspeedway, only wet road courses and street circuits. 11:29 I asked my dad about this crash, and he said that while Indy cars can sometimes be used as accidental ramps, the cars never go that high. Also, the announcer mentioned Max Papis who was a real driver. 12:00-12:14 Oh my god! That crash was so over the top that it was hilarious!

[@TheRealNormanBates]

"Oh my god! That crash was so over the top that it was hilarious!" heh heh... did it go over the top of 2 dudes arm wrestling?

[@culwin]

Wow, the CGI in this is terrible

[@scottylewis8124]

Well duh this was 2001.

[@supermariofan03]

@@scottylewis8124 And Terminator 2 came out in what year? 1991? In other words, what's your point?

[@scottylewis8124]

@@supermariofan03 most CG effects are good for their time. Others don't age well.

[@supermariofan03]

@@scottylewis8124 So what's with the smartass "Duh" reply?

[@scottylewis8124]

@@supermariofan03 i was trying to teach someone.

[@jliller]

Here Robert Sean Leonard is playing the jerk while in House he was playing opposite the jerk.

[@KremBotop]

I’d love to see a Judge Dredd review...

[@CrashBanz3]

Man your Awesome, getting out of your way to make these reviews!!! Awesome stuff Thanks!

[@DemonBoy3223]

Oh man, how this film opened really doesn't help, yes it does feel like they had cut out the entire first-act. In a way, this movie almost feels like a sequel to a film that wasn't made.

[@ChibiFighter]

I'm sorry but that flying Manhole cover LOOKS LIKE AN OREO COOKIE!.

[@DemonBoy3223]

I have still yet to have seen this movie, thanks to having already seen your review before, but seriously, they start the movie with the protagonist already a champion, when it should really have shown him starting off as a newbie underdog a la _Rocky_ ? And 10:16, I remember Harlin using that similar joke, in _12 Rounds_ but with a freefalling elevator.

[@davidjames579]

Even for a 2001 movie that CGI is atrocious. The flying coin appears to be the same graphic as the flying manhole cover! Love that the Cop actually has recorded evidence of the F1 cars going at 195 mph, but neither driver gets prosecuted! They're only fined by the racing authority. Why did he steal the car in the first place? Because he was in a huff? Great attitude to have when driving a car like that. Little bits of trivia: Robert Rodriguez was originally going to direct the film. He later directed Sly in Spy Kids 3, so not much improvement. In the late 90's, Ridley Scott was to have directed an actual Ayrton Senna biopic starring Antonio Banderas.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

"n the late 90's, Ridley Scott was to have directed an actual Ayrton Senna biopic starring Antonio Banderas" That's a shame.. that is before Ridley ruined his style with the over processed grey and blue filters and was still a competent film maker.

[@davidjames579]

@@TheRealNormanBates Well we've got Ford V Ferrari next year, directed by James Mangold and starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, which had previously been linked to David Cronenberg and Michael Mann.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@davidjames579 Shame Cronenberg didn't follow through with it, as it would have been interesting to see him go back to doing a movie about racing (FAST COMPANY (1979)

[@davidjames579]

@@TheRealNormanBates That's an interesting sounding film that I'd never heard of before! I know Cronenberg is a massive car enthusiast and sometime racer, so it all fits. Mann's also a car nut. When he was a commercials director, he was commissioned to do an ad for an Ice Cream brand. Stuck for ideas, he just decided to what he was interested in, and that was racing a Ford GTO round a race track. He then made the Ice Cream ad fit into that!

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@davidjames579 I'm surprised Mann never made any movie regarding racing (or for that matter, any that had a major car chase). BTW, here is the full FAST COMPANY movie for those who want to watch it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e33Pgat9r9-AZ6c

[@virginiadare1587]

I am mortified that the one and only Robert Sean Leonard from Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids, Much Ado About Nothing and House, MD is in this pile. Must have really needed the paycheck.

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

Till Schweiger is such a Bad Actor. Even in my Country Germany most People don't like him 🇩🇪

[@bobwalsh3751]

As a native Chicagoan, I feel the need to point out that ain't no way in Hell or high water are you gonna drive a Champ Car on the streets of Chicago at race pace (eh close enough) without giving yourself a concussion and other injuries so nasty you'll be in the hospital for ages. EDIT: Oh also, Matthew, the Chicago Motor Speedway is in nearby Joliet, not Chicago.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

13:51 This is based on the fact Frank Williams had replaced Mansell, Prost and Damon Hill after these drivers won titles for him in the 90's, but yeah, it makes no sense in the film.

[@clearspira]

Heh. Frank Williams can only DREAM of such talent driving his cars today. Perhaps only Mcclaren have fallen from grace as badly as his team.

[@GeriatricFan1963]

I dunno, Robert Kubica (2008 Canadian GP winner and extremely highly rated before an accident damaged his hand/wrist, now he has managed to get back into F1 after 8 years on the sidelines) and George Russell (This year's Formula 2 champion) seem like a pretty decent lineup for the next season. Far bigger issue for Williams is that their cars are slow and they didn't seem to understand why/how to fix it, which is worrying.

[@UlfrikTB]

Prost was replaced because he didn't want Senna as a team mate.

[@mrsystemvirus]

Stallone just shames himself every time he decides to write..

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Harsh given he wrote 'Rocky' after all.

[@matthewpollock9685]

Good day Mr. Buck. This is my first time viewing any of your videos and you can certainly count me among your subscribers now. Please keep up the good work, always happy to find new content to listen to at work.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Great to see these Stallone reviews back up. Great job

[@devinharbert6071]

I’m a 100 Percent Positive That Driven is Stallone’s Worst Film Shitty Script, Terrible Acting, Atrocious Special Effects

[@RoyStantz]

And it still can't top Samurai Cop 2 as the worst film of all time.

[@scottylewis8124]

This was 2001! The same year that saw the releases of Spy Kids, Hannibal, Digimon Tamers, Jeepers Creepers, Jason X, and Jurassic Park 3...

[@nitromagilou597]

I know, quite the odyssey isn't it?

[@scottylewis8124]

@@nitromagilou597 hehehehehe.

[@RoyStantz]

@@scottylewis8124 Don't forget Shrek.

[@horsepowerenthusiast6933]

And Gran Turismo 3.

[@thema1998]

For the first time ever, I binged several of your videos in a single day. I watched every one of your Stallone Month reviews! 😁 🎉

[@ryantanner48]

Ugh, there is so much wrong with this movie. It's worse than Redline (the 2007 movie), and yes I went there.

[@jakublulek3261]

It is like bad version of McQueen's Le Man's. I mean, no wonder it is bad, McQueen had Toshiro Mifune in his movie.

[@martianmanhunter37]

@@jakublulek3261 Mifune was in Grand Prix with James Garner, not in Le Man.

[@jakublulek3261]

@@martianmanhunter37 Yeah, you are right, I misremembered. Mifune was in Red Sun in 1971 (which I enjoy more than Le Mans).

[@martianmanhunter37]

@@jakublulek3261 IIRC, McQueen was briefly attached to Grand Prix before trying to make Le Mans for years.

[@1997residente]

Renny Harlin is the sonic the hedgehog of filmmakers: When it comes to the transition from 2D to 3D (here practical to CGI)They just lost whatever they had. Cutthroat Island was the one that bought the coffin of his career, Deep Blue Sea opened it and Driven put the nail on it

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Deep Blue sea was a huge hit, so that makes no sense

[@TotoDG]

The F1 owners saying no to this movie is probably the best decision they ever made.

[@theleaderturtle]

Mathew, have you ever seen The Boondock Saints, one of my all-time favorite movies and the only good Franchise Pictures movie in my opinion.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

I wasn't a fan of it but 'The Whole 9 Yards' has it's fans and I didn't mind the J Lo film 'Angel Eyes' but agree that the 'Saint's' is easily the best Franchise Pictures movie.

[@THECRAZY320]

The coin trick would have been possible in 50s formula one cars but in the 2000 cart, it wouldn’t have been possible without losing speed

[@markelijio6012]

"Driven" was the 2001 cult racing sports movie with Sylvester Stallone, who also wrote the screenplay under Renny Harlin' s deft direction. Both of them who've previously worked together on the 1993 current action-packed thriller, "Cliffhanger" which was an major box-office success. Nominated for three Oscars, including visual effects in 1994.🤠❤👍💖

[@RoyStantz]

Driven also destroyed Stallone and Harlin's friendship.

[@okagron]

Why does Robert Sean Leonard's voice sounds so weird in this movie? He sounds nothing like he did in House.

[@basquat76]

Renny Harlin really do get off on watching people die in car crashes.

[@scottylewis8124]

JR: there's people in those cars! What the hell is so great about that?!

[@TheStapleGunKid]

In this movie, the laws of physics are more like suggestions.

[@coopermarvelironman8135]

16:54 Hum if you believe!!!

[@jeffreyrainey1015]

One of the movie's merits is Paul Page's exhilarating commentary. Plus, the music during memo's rescue scene and Jimmy's commanding barking out instructions is dramatic.

[@bomcabedal]

This is pretty stupid, considering also that the 94 San Marino GP which caused the death of two drivers (Ratzenberger and Senna) and injured a third (Barichello) damn near killed F1 entirely - and some will claim it did.

[@CrashBanz3]

I watch most of your reviews & they're F*ckng Hilarious bros! These are all movies I watched growing up & I really enjoy your perspective on them!!!! Well done Mate!

[@laterferaligatr2947]

Carolina's dad on Runaways is on here

[@RoyStantz]

You mean Kip Pardue, right?

[@MrsBishopsDoggyDeliNottingham]

Just like to answer your question: "Since when does a car go a hundred foot in the air using another as a ramp?" Well, not quite a hundred foot vertical but a possible contender would be the 1955 Le Mans Grand Prix, killing driver Pierre Levegh and 83 spectators. I'd really criticise that in the movie, the car that acted as a ramp didn't seem to move at all considering the impact speed.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Stallone Month: it was full of movies that put Stallone with notable stars like Billy Dee, Sharon Stone, Burt Reynolds, James Woods, Bridget Neilsen... and they were all stinkers... But I'll be honest, I'd watch Driven, The Specialist and Cobra for a laugh anytime!

[@keianhallmark9251]

Driven's not even laughable bad. Maybe because I'm a fan of IndyCar (which basically took in what was CART) and felt insulted by the movie's idiocy. But, it's just unwatchable.

[@jakublulek3261]

Silvester Stallone remaking Le Mans, pretty much. But he isn't Steve McQueen and there is no Toshiro Mifune in surprising cameo.

[@MarvelMTs]

11:25 So called “Max Papis” can see the spinning car from a freaking mile away and has nothing but time and opportunity to avoid him and he drives right into him!? What is this, auto racing merged with pro wrestling where most competitors are only there to make the superstars look good!?

[@Oonagh72]

This is the movie Cars. You also forgot that those cars aren’t street legal, they are lucky they didn’t get arrested. Also formula one tires would have torn up on the street.

[@thema1998]

5:39-5:44: "...It seems be an urban legend." Why didn't you include the word "to"? 🤔

[@andrewbyrne7321]

Not Stallone's finest hour it's not even good in the so bad it's good vein

[@matthewellis6516]

Its no days of thunder but i enjoyed it except that jimmy blie actor

[@kevinthomas2036]

I saw the last half of this film in Spanish last year. I guess this goes to show that bad movies suck in any language.

[@alexcameron8724]

Brandenburg pulled out of the race in Germany (a race that shouldn't be taking place anyway because it's rain on an oval track) because his team told him that Memo had crashed, and told him to go and help... *and Brandenburg obliged!!* Why Beau!? You have a championship to worry about, and even from Jimmy's prospective, if your teammate crashes, it's their's and your team's problem, not yours. No wonder Beau lost the championship... or did he? Brandenburg went in to the final race with a 4 point lead. I confess I only started watching motorsports in 2005, 4 years after this film was released but I read up that in 2001, leading the most laps in a CART race meant an extra point. Jimmy Bly won (which would give him 20 points) with Brandenburg 2nd (resulting in 16 points). Beau led more laps, as least as far as we can tell anyway, which means HE would be CART champion (the title world champion is only reserved for F1) by just 1 point. The rule for 1 point for most laps led was active until 2004.

[@KeirArmstrong]

They made no mention of that being a thing in the film, which is weird, maybe that's one of the F1 parts they kept.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@RoyStantz well they failed miserably!

[@Coophack6584]

i miss this show

Fabricating how ethanol works just for an obligatory tense action scene? I mean, seriously? Also, say, what does that mean, "get stuffed"?

[@scottylewis8124]

Get stuffed=Go fuck yourself.

[@CortinasAndClassics]

I have never seen this movie. I've never played the travesty of the game either.

[@nitromagilou597]

I have, and it's worse than you'd think.

[@AutoRockinRacing94]

You're not missing much with the game

[@devinharbert6071]

This film is so stupendous, it’s gotta be worst then daylight.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Joe Tonto? _Tonto?_ As in Joe "Stupid"? Is David Spade going to make a cameo to help get Joe out of a hole? 7:48 is that the main character from DEAD POETS SOCIETY? Also, I do not remember the editing being so horribly _Michael Bay_ in this. It's like a pseudo montage/ edit/ cut/ something or other every 2 to 3 seconds. It's like that damn beach scene in PEARL HARBOR where Kate and Ben are talking to each other and the camera. Is. Boun. Cing. Back. And. Forth. _Lock the goddam camera down!_ 16:03 I know the race is going pretty rocky, but what is the movie it's supposed to remind me of?!

[@FilmBrain]

His last name is Tanto.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@FilmBrain Ahh.. like the knife. ... but we can _pretend_ that's it's Tonto, right? Because I'm going to go with his name being "Stupid".

[@brandocolossus5965]

You are the man! Keep it up. Stay positive stay focused.

[@NoahGooder]

15:48 I swear the movie looks like it became final destination 4

[@NoahGooder]

I mean tbh at this point final destination probably could have lifted footage from this movie because this one came out in 2001 and final destination 4 came out in 2009

[@scottylewis8124]

@@NoahGooder strange.

[@bobbyhall7472]

There was a dirt track in crandall Texas and one night a guy's spindle and tire broke off and flew into the stands well all the people with brains got the fuk out of the way! Lol but the one drunk guy who decided to be cool and attempted to catch said spindle and wheel “ I GOT IT “ lol hell yeah he got it alright 😂😂 now this was a story told by racers for year is it true? Maybe but regardless the lesson is don't be a dip💩. One love

[@devinharbert6071]

Review Rambo 3.

[@Nestalgba92023]

Rambo: First Blood Part II has many thing that gone wrong.

[@devinharbert6071]

Its honesty Sad that Stallone Wrote Driven Because it’s by far his Worst Film

[@michaelcasey1648]

@@devinharbert6071 Rambo last blood

[@silkychan6099]

How did stallone ever managed to get into the cockpit. I dont know about racing much but i always thought the cockpit were small n narrow. Plus i never saw a F1 racing driver as buff as stallone.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

You can find footage of Stallone in David Coulthard's Williams in 1994 where they took the parts around the cockpit out so he could fit in!

[@davebooshty299]

9:58 Maybe implausable but makes a semi fun scene.

[@patrickanderson9023]

As a fan of motorsports if felt insulted by this crappy movie.

[@DiegoRooks]

Dude you make me laugh so much 🤣

[@Rescoase]

You should rename your channel to "The Angry Film Critic" or " The Edgey, Angry Film Critic"

[@FilmBrain]

Well, I'm not always angry, especially these days.

[@FilmBrain]

@@RoyStantz I at least tried to keep it to things I legit thought were bad.

[@devinharbert6071]

Review tango and cash and rocky 4.

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

Only thing good about this film was the soundtrack

[@scottylewis8124]

Name a few good songs.

[@jamesparker8134]

The Gay Blade... Gufawww!!!!

[@scottylewis8124]

The early 2000s were a hard time for action films.

[@mattc2306]

I've considered it to be a mixed bag for the most part.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@mattc2306 you know those movies are early 2000s when rock music starts playing.

[@mattc2306]

Yeah... Pretty awkward since most of those songs happen to be part of my childhood, as I was an edgy kid who was into anything involving guns, cars, and loud music.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@mattc2306 damn.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@mattc2306 I'm in a bit of an edge lord myself. Reliving my 2003 days.

[@juliana.lymond2622]

Driven Wasn't The Worst Movie In My Opinion I Liked It Because It Featured The INDYCARS From CART (Currently The Now Defunct Champ Car World Series) And Was Also My Favorite Film Of 2001. (Alongside Osmosis Jones, Spirited Away, PoKéMoN 3 The Movie: Spell Of The Unown, And DIGIMON Adventure 02: Revenge Of Diaboromon.)

[@kylelee1191]

/ This was great . 👍

[@darknessviking]

yesssssssss!! symbolisssssm

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

I can't be the only person who CONSTANTLY confuses this with the Fast & Furious knock-off "Torque."

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

You are cause that’s a motorcycle movie

[@nameless5413]

considering that both benetton titles were schumacher cheating and i would venture a guess some if not all ferrari ones it is better to not have his name soil cinema aswell as reputation of F1

[@Shiirow]

he is called the gay blade not because he smokes a lot of pole but because he is happy and jubilant. the word Gay has more meanings that simply homosexual. the joke is as forced as this movies plot.

[@Shiirow]

@HerrNilssonTheMonkey where did I mention autism?

[@DemonBoy3223]

Yes, "gay" does have another meaning, even _The Flintstones_ show's opening song has the line "We'll have a gay old time", meaning a "happy old time". Sorry I'm saying this, but I'm glad to not be the only one who knows that "gay" has another meaning.

[@skylx0812]

I'm guessing you're unaware of the 1981 comedy _Zorro, The Gay Blade_ with George Hamilton's cheesy performance as Zorro's gay twin brother which Buck was probably referencing, which is what they're usually doing when they refer to that movie in movie review channels.

[@alienboy1322]

@HerrNilssonTheMonkey Please don't do that.

[@alienboy1322]

@HerrNilssonTheMonkey But seriously, fuck you and other people who do this.

[@iKadaj]

i didn't think gay stuff bothered you this much. in your other episodes you would call out homophobia or say you would ignore the gay stuff in the Tooth Fairy because it was bad taste. i love the BMB over projector so was excited to see so many all at once even if they're old, but every one of these has an anti-gay comment somewhere like no movie should ever have anything remotely gay in it at all, or "i like the naked woman but ew who wants to see the naked guy! i never wanna see naked guys! gross!" like ur afraid people will think ur gay if u don't make it very very clear that you don't like guys/think the gay references are annoying. maybe you've changed over the years and younger-you isn't the same as you are now? as a gay person who really liked ur channel, i feel pretty uncomfortable right now :/

[@FilmBrain]

I completely understand that, it was something I personally found a bit cringeworthy going back through these reviews myself. I think at the time these reviews were made, those jokes didn't stand out as much, but that doesn't defend them because they were cheap and lazy. That's one of the reasons that I am not as proud of these Stallone reviews as I am later ones (like Tooth Fairy), and I do think I have grown and matured considerably since these were made (and I think people's understanding of LGBT issues has also moved on considerably), and in later episodes have called out these same attitudes (in this movie's case, the jokes about Memo were slightly more contextualized, because there does appear to be some subtext there). I try and continue to be better and can only apologize; these reviews are very much of their time, for better and worse, and are largely here for archive purposes.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@FilmBrain who could forget Kip Pardue's most famous tv role of Ben Parker?

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

You’re such a pansy i swear