LeMans vs Touring Cars

FYI,

Turner Classic Movies has scheduled a broadcast of Lemans on 01/09/10 at 12:00PM(est). SpeedTV has DTM and BTCC running at the same time.

Choose your weapon and act accordingly!

DVR the movie, and watch the racing. Movies have too many commercials.

Besides, I already own LeMans.

Watch the race and buy the movie. I got my copy at half-priced books for only five bucks.

Watch BTCC and forget the other two for lack of excitement?

lol I still watch VHS tapes of BTCC 1998 season

I love BTCC. Man, I have GOT to pay more attention to SPEED's schedule now that they aren't ALL NASCAR ALL THE TIME!

And I already own LeMans, along with Grand Prix, The Great Escape and all the Mad Max flicks.

Thanks for the heads-up

Jensenman wrote: I love BTCC. Man, I have GOT to pay more attention to SPEED's schedule now that they aren't ALL NASCAR ALL THE TIME!

Jman, when/if you have spare time, YouTube has great highlight clips of virtually every race of every year of BTCC. You can find full races, even if they are filed in those damn 10min segments.

But, if you find a keeper, use KeepVid to download the segments and then join the files into a cohesive unit by using HJSplit.

BTCC rocks!

maroon92 wrote: DVR the movie, and watch the racing. Movies have too many commercials.

Not on TCM, they don't! (my corporate overlords won't let me tell you how I know that)

maroon92 wrote: Besides, I already own LeMans.

Well, ya got me there..I've got it too, but I somehow feel vindicated when it shows up on TV. Kind of like hearing your favorite band on the radio, even though you know they shouldn't be on the playlist..

In reply to friedgreencorrado:

Which of your evil, corporate overlords has a grudge against SpeedTV? Scheduling the movie in direct competition with the racing couldn't just be coincidence, could it?

I got excited and confused when I first read this post. I read Le Mans as Lemons. I was wonder why TCM had the 24 hours of Lemons on.

oldsaw wrote: FYI, Turner Classic Movies has scheduled a broadcast of Lemans on 01/09/10 at 12:00PM(est). SpeedTV has DTM and BTCC running at the same time. Choose your weapon and act accordingly!

Thanks! I have my folks DVR set to record both....now, back to my house and the garage.

friedgreencorrado wrote:

maroon92 wrote: DVR the movie, and watch the racing. Movies have too many commercials.

Not on TCM, they don't! (my corporate overlords won't let me tell you how I know that)

Yup. TCM shows movies uncut, without commercials. That's how I recorded Grand Prix and Lawrence of Arabia last year.

Just got thru watching LeMans. I haven't sat and watched it all the way thru since I saw it in '71. I remember why now, it's the sound.

I had to keep changing the sound from 25 when the cars were running to 35 when people were talking. Using the loudspeaker in the background to give you the dialogue was a cool idea but it made it very hard to follow.

I just need to remake the movie.

1) give it a Speed TV type of look and feel with the sound as the foreground.

2) Make it HD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3) Make it a fictional set of teams and set it at Sebring instead of LeMans to keep the budget down.

oldsaw wrote: In reply to friedgreencorrado: Which of your evil, corporate overlords has a grudge against SpeedTV? Scheduling the movie in direct competition with the racing couldn't just be coincidence, could it?

ROFL! They probably didn't even know what was on Speed. Years ago (like the early 1980s) when TBS was a cool channel, they used to show LeMans every year in the "second week of June".

Of course, that was about 20yrs before the corporate overlords showed up.

there's a lemans movie?

We need to get an official car movies list.

In reply to xci_ed6:

Here's the most commonly referred to racing movies here. Can someone else do the street car/great stunt driving movies?

"Le Mans", 1971 (70s "stream of conciousness" film). Steve McQueen, Sigfried Rauch, Elga Anderson. Directed by Lee H. Katzin. An American Sportscar racer returns to the event in which he was involved in a fatal accident the previous year. McQueen's love letter to the sport.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067334/

"Grand Prix", 1966 (epic melodrama). James Garner, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint. Directed by John Frankenheimer. The lives & loves of the men who are attempting to win the World Driving Championship. 90min of great racing footage spliced together with an awful 90min soap opera.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060472/

"The Speed Merchants", 1972 (documentary). Mario Andretti, Vic Elford. Directed by Michael Keyser. A look at the 1972 World Endurance Championship by a young man who drove in the Production classes during that era. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278729/

"Winning", 1969 (melodrama). Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner. Directed by James Goldstone. An accomplished racing driver tries to win the Indy 500 while his personal life falls apart. Only notable in our community for two reasons: Newman discovered his love of our sport after recieving driving instruction so that his in-car shots would be more realistic, and his instructor, Skip Barbour thought that teaching mere mortals how to drive race cars might be a nice way to make a living.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065215/

"One by One" (documentary: AKA: "The Quick and The Dead", 1977 with added footage), 1975. Mike Hailwood, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Francois Cevert. Directed by Claude du Boc. A very odd film that strangely combines respect and appreciation of the world's best drivers with graphic footage of some of their accidents (especially in the 77 renamed re-release of the film).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071942/

"The Crowd Roars", 1932 (melodrama). Jimmy Cagney, Joan Blondell, Eric Linden. Directed by Howard Hawks. A nationally competitive racing driver returns to his hometown for a local event, and loses his nerve after being involved in a fatal accident...while his younger brother attempts to surpass his success. Obviously written by someone who has no understanding of our sport, and only worth watching for the historical footage of the old cars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022792/

"To Please a Lady", 1950 (melodrama). Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck. Directed by Clarence Brown. After being involved in a fatal motor racing accident, a female reporter hounds him about the accident until she falls in love with him, and comes to understand what motor racing is really about. My comment about "The Crowd Roars" is equally valid here...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043052/

I've ignored stuff like "Stroker Ace", "Days of Thunder" and "Driven" on purpose..I haven't seen them, and have heard enough bad stuff about them to avoid them. Linda Sharp was an acquaintance of mine back when DoT came out. Back then, she was driving in the IMSA Kelly Girl series, and a few NASCAR 2nd tier races ("Busch", back when the big cars were the "Winston Cup"). I asked her about the film, and she said, "..even NASCAR wouldn't let people hit each other that much.."

Oh, BTW: If you haven't heard of Linda, here's a link..
http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/LindaSharp.htm

Days of Thunder is a good popcorn film, like the Transporter. I like it, but it's not realistic at all and I do pick out parts to laugh at (why does everyone always find an extra gear when they decide they want to pass someone?) Driven was just absolutely horrible. Just horrible. Why someone would write such a film and subject people to that, I don't... it was horrible. When I see it on the cable guide, it's enough to scare me out of the house.

In reply to friedgreencorrado:

It's late and it's damn cold in Atlanta. Don't you have a deserving younger woman who should get more attention?

Good info, thank you. those will be added to 'the list' as well.

no one mentioned "Talladega Nights"..

hopefully Patrick Dempsey's version of " The Art Of Driving In The Rain" will actually be worth watching

I just watched BTCC on my DVR, it's so much better than DTM. DTM is like WRC where you only have two manufacturers. The side-by-side racing in BTCC is so cool..

Nobody mentioned The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow! Okay, maybe there was a good reason.

I have the DVD of Le Mans, can't say I've noticed the sound problem. Guess I'll have to watch it again.

The BTCC race was pretty cool.

I will have to watch Le Mans again soon. I prefer Grand Prix

(There are no fish in this lake!) I love Nino Barlini as a character.

I had DTM and BTCC running in the garage while I was freezing my ass off twirling wrenches on the Trooper (I now pronounce it fully healed from the early December smash a thon.) Nice background.