Customer Reviews

The Making of "Grand Prix"

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4 star:		(1)
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2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I bought this DVD expecting a program similar to the the one shown on Speed channel. Instead you get an 80 minute DVD of which, only about 15 minutes is devoted to Grand Prix. The remainding "filler" material contains incomplete film biogrophies of James Garner + Eva Marie Saint among other useless features. Also contained is extremely graphic footage of a burned driver being literally pulled from a car. For this reason alone (and there are many others) I'll be throwing this DVD in the garbage.

Basically what you have here is a short and not all that informative film on the making of "Grand Prix" followed by two biographies which consisted mainly of a bunch of theactrical trailers and narration. The racing documentaries at the end were old newsreel clips.

I can't believe that anyone thought this was a worthy product.

This is absolutely worthless! I can only echo the comments of others. I fast forwarded through it once and threw it in the trash.

Can I rate it as a ZERO?

What a farce. The film was incredible, and if you're reading this, you know it. The first feature on this is about 15 minutes of a grainy trailer that was produced at the same time as the movie. The rest is useless or worse. Inaccurate commentary by a lame announcer, and footage of mostly wrecks.

I was hoping that this was some of the footage from the SpeedVision show a few years back. Nope.

Keep badgering MGM to release the movie on DVD, and forget this.

I was scared as soon as the disk started with a goof ball in a bad tux, sitting in a dimly lit room, introduced the making of Grand Prix. The quality of the introductory shots must have been done on a 1980's vintage VHS hand held. The film, as said in earlier reviews, is maybe 15 minutes long, and must have been done as a theater promotion, or as something shone on the old CBS Friday Night Movies used to show as filler in the 1960's. I can give you the accurate time, because I have not looked at the disk again due to embarrassment. What makes it worse is that I have been waiting for three months (as of late December 03') for the widescreen VHS version; sense there is no DVD available. Save your time and money!

There is nothing contained in this release that is even remotely qualified as a "making of"--anything. This DVD is a total rip-off...a poorly lashed together compendium of public-domain trailers and a featurette produced forty years ago. The film transfers are even bad. If you break the DVD in half, it makes a decent ice scraper. I should have read the reviews before purchasing this drek.

Only about 15 minutes of footage about 'The Making of Grand Prix' the rest is filler. The 15 minutes were interesting enough, but not particularly informative. Wasn't an expensive purchase, but not really worth the cost.

I MADE THE MISTAKE OF BUYING THIS FILM BEFORE BUYING
THE "GRAND PRIX" FILM ITSELF.
YOU GET MORE INFORMATION WHEN YOU BUY THE 2 DISC DVD
GRAND PRIX FILM AND GO TO BONUS .
IT IS THE SAME THING AND MORE.
THEY JUST MADE THIS TO GET YOUR MONEY.
TAKE MY ADVICE!

It now happens that the only apparent "meat" in this package, the film "Challenge of Champions", is included in the new DVD release of the movie "Grand Prix" itself. It has some value, as it shows a bit more of the elaborate car-mounted camera rigs than any other of the documentaries in the new program. And it emphasizes the relationship of the "movie" race to the real race. But if that's the only substantive part of THIS program, avoid it and buy the movie DVD instead!

This is nothing but a bad rehash of the actors' bios in Grand Prix. There is far more interesting stuff about the actual filming on the two dvd Grand Prix set. Don't waste your money on this.