Trailer Posted for "The Sim Racer" Movie

dario993 said:

even better cast Sasha Baron Cohen as his rival, make him sim racing superstar who braggs about how good driver he is and famous youtuber, make scene as hes invited to drive real car and crash it xD

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CGI in famous Utoobers like Lando & the guy in the shed. Don't forget the two piece band from the 24hr Virtual event, they could even show one of the two or three notes the guitar player added. Of course have a Mom upstairs calling him up for dinner right in the middle of a Stint.

Punt for red october?

Ready Player Two: Wheel of Thunder

Rd guys, what's going on with the old an good sim news, stuff that really matters? Rfactor, ams2, iracing roadmaps, etc?

Copef1 said:

I think it could be good, but they cast it wrong, and are coming at it from the wrong angle. It needs to be a comedy. Imagine how much funnier it would be with Will Ferrell as the main character, complete with stupid expression on his face, saying to his wife, "I found out I owe $9600 on the house, so I entered a sim race." For the rival they should have cast Clint Eastwood. Imagine Clint all squinty eyed, and mean mugged, saying "I'll see you on race day, punk!!!!" Or "I'm a hell of a lot faster than you'll ever live to be". That sounds more like something I would watch on Netflix.

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I think it should be a satirical comedy, should put Jonah Hill instead of Ferrell as the main 'guy', I think he looks geeky enough to play a game-nerd. Then you can add a high-school jock 'nerd-killer' bully, who likes to street race and gets lots of money from the streets and nerd's pockets, played by Matt Schulze. And the "wife" should be replaced by "mom", played by either Jennifer Coolidge or maybe Carmen Electra. So in the middle of the sim-race event the guy's house was raided by the "bully" and his friends, turned into a jock party with the bully and co thrashing Jonah's sim-racing rig earned from selling things to enter a sim-race for the debts. The bully then gave 'the guy' a big wedgie while the bully's friends streamed the "raiding party" online. Mom then shows up and she gets plied by one of the bully's friend with a beer or wine, then 'bully' and co "gang-bang"-ed the guy's mom with the guy being tied up and forced to watch the whole action while being streamed. Then the next morning 'the guy' realized he had lost everything, even his dignity, as he became a schoolwide laughingstock the moment he stepped on the school, bullied by even the honor-roll students. The film ends when he was crying on his own man-cave, with Aerosmith's "Cryin'" plays in the credits.

It also gave a subliminal message, "don't be a geek and don't be too obsessed with games and alternate realities!"

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PS: I think the rival player can be played by Will Ferrell or Seann William Scott. Just my idea btw

MeltFire said:

Ready Player Two: Wheel of Thunder

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Fanatec/Stay Night: DD's Feel

RCHeliguy said:

That's the rub.

How can you create drama around sim racing or about any video game so that an audience watching a movie actually cares if the guy wins.

I agree the debt concept as a driving force is COMPLETELY lame. It falls apart on many levels as we've seen in the comments so far. The guy ends up appearing stupid for not approaching his debt management in a better way than winning a sim race which is a stupid risk.

Ready Player One had stakes. Because the Oasis was an environment where people escaped from a dystopian reality, people around the world would have their quality of life impacted if "good guys" didn't win the contest. There was at least an evil corporation who wanted to spam the Oasis with advertising and make it more expensive for people to use.

It's very rare to find anything engaging about playing video games unless there is a personal story involved that is interesting. This movie has failure written all over it.


Can any of you think of a believable reason why an audience would give a flying crap if the character of a movie wins an online sim race?

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I think on RP1's case, plot wise, it was more acceptable, since "Parzival" and co weren't the only ones who were enjoying "Oasis", and Sorrento's twisted IOI company were trying to take over OASIS for their own benefit and "screw other users, they had to pay for us", so they had to stop Sorrento from doing that.

Revolving around sim/virtual racing, I think it was a realm build upon passion on motorsports, not just material and consumerism stuff. One comment I found in this thread was suggesting that the plot should have been about a former junior driver on karting forced out due to financial-related reason, then gets a chance to race in rl through sim-racing.

theguy69 said:

I think movie could be better if it was the story of a person getting into real life racing through simracing. So something like, kid who was really good at karts and stuff is forced to quit real life racing due to something happening (financial related) and then gets back into it via simracing and ends up winning races or something.

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I think this was a good idea, given in real life there used to be contests/competitions in virtual motorsports/sim racing/motorsports gaming category that puts a chance to be a real-life pro race driver as the ultimate prize ( 2 Notable examples are GT Academy and World's Fastest Gamer contests). I think anyone can use this/these kind of sim-racing/virtual motorsports contest as a plot for a movie revolving around sim-racing (they can put an in-movie sim racing contest based on these 2 example, using a different name or based on any of these two, in the plot). Based on this plot, the Hero dogfights their way against another contestants, win the contest then gets the chance to race in real life as a prize.

Or, maybe the hero can go to track days/karting tracks and try to adapt their skills and experiences from karting and sim-racing to a real-life track and car, build their confidence tackling the track and laptimes, and then when the hero got enough funding or other stuffs they could enter grass roots level races (the same way Jimmy Broadbent or "Super GT" might have done). I think these two plot options were a rather good way to build a "sim racing"- related film. The "sim-to-real racing contest" plot, or "Sim racer's guerilla to real racing" plot. Both were the best plot idea for it. More relatable than "sim-racing to pay debt" plot.

I think skills in sim racing is not overnight, but overtime. It takes time and experience to master the game and the 'realm', but not in days.

What shown in the trailer apparently more like the hero was desperate to pay debt and goes sim racing to pay debts, so I thought it was an example of consumerism. Since debts are to be paid, mostly, in matter of days, I don't think it was plausible as well, to master the game just by watching the footages, especially in days. It was a very 'anime' thing to master things overnight.

So yeah. This movie has a very unacceptable and unplausible plot.

I suppose it's a joke because it's too bad to be true.

mmm big nope from me

The Fanate Kid

Half Raked
Golden Tire: The Sim Who Loved me
Ragequit in 60 Seconds
Inglorious Punters
28 Laps Later
The Devil Wears Sparco
500 Days of Simmer
The 40-Laps-Old Virgin
How to Lose your iRating in 10 Days
Lost in Transmission
Spin Kids
P For Punterino
Racers of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Flag
Spin City
Days of Simmer
4 Races, 3 Laps and 2 Corners
Trail Break Mountian
Shift of the Dead
Punt's Labyrinth

Story idea sounds boring to me.

A film about a race driver who has a lethal accident on track during a race, and after looking death into the eye and getting blacked out learns one day later that he lives again and drives again, and wonders and starts to ask questions and finds out that he just was resetted and that he is not real but just a virtual figure in a game and the life he believed to have lived is not real and his driving being decided by a psychopathic cruel sado-maso-teen loving to slam and crash things and abusing iRacing for driving like in Wreckfest - some Dickian twist in it, some existential despair, some psychohorrorbbablething going on - now that would be a movie !

Sim Acting

The Flying Hun said:

Story idea sounds boring to me.

A film about a race driver who has a lethal accident on track during a race, and after looking death into the eye and getting blacked out learns one day later that he lives again and drives again, and wonders and starts to ask questions and finds out that he just was resetted and that he is not real but just a virtual figure in a game and the life he believed to have lived is not real and his driving being decided by a psychopathic cruel sado-maso-teen loving to slam and crash things and abusing iRacing for driving like in Wreckfest - some Dickian twist in it, some existential despair, some psychohorrorbbablething going on - now that would be a movie !

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Or he could be MY virtual driver and keep wondering why everyone else's cars are faster than his....

I better hear some gd eurobeat at some point...

I don't want to be too rude or anything but......come on guys.....we're just playing videogames here. First people start watching us play (like on Twitch or whatever) rather than just playing and enjoying racing themselves...then our races start even getting televised as if we're really race car drivers, now they're even making movies about us? Come on guys. this is getting a little too much. It's actually pretty embarrassing and cringy, I ain't gonna lie.

Seems like a title for Red Letter Media: Best of the Worst

I have seen Jimmy Broadbent go from doing blogs on a sim in a shed where he lived. Go into a actual house. And go on to do track events in go carts and even Brit GP in a prototype car. So it can be done. Yes you need money for a rig. (I have a PC with rFactor 2 and Race o7 and Joystick) So i am kicking it old school. As i did growing up in the 80's with a Amega 500 and Geof Cramoonds Microprose Grandprix

Prediction: Unintentionally Hilarious.

It looks like a love letter to all the delusional middle-aged "I coulda been" try-hards out there.

It's "TRON 3.0" !