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Anyone else occasionally think "less is more" when they go nuts on the specialist cinematography? Sometimes I just want to look at the drat car, not a bunch of ball bearings and inkblots
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Absolutely. And it's hard to keep coming up with new ways to show cars so I feel like they've gone to the long exposure light blur thing a lot the last few years.
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Jul 9, 2013 10:48
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Has Tom Chilton always been in there? I only recognize the name now because of his brother being so terrible at F1.
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Jul 9, 2013 13:03
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Ecstatic posted:Has Tom Chilton always been in there? I only recognize the name now because of his brother being so terrible at F1. Yeah he's been in every single one of the "touring car guys come and smash poo poo up" races I think.
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Jul 9, 2013 13:09
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Another ok episode. I agree with the criticism about Hammond and May's segments. They have been done before and is starting to feel the same. Clarkson's review of the F12 more than made up for those two segments. The F12 is probably the first Ferrari for a long time where I like the look of it (and the LaFerrari)
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Jul 9, 2013 13:25
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Galler posted:Hate to break this to you but the show has been nearly completely scripted for 20 seasons now. But the older episodes at least hid it pretty well. Suspension of disbelief and the like.
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Jul 9, 2013 14:07
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Hammond's coy "ooh I hope nothing happens to the office container that's right by the track" line didn't do the segment any favours. I mean even apart from all the trailers showing him drive through it. His older crash race segments had better editing and/or scripting too, with this one it was extremely obvious that they came up with three "big moment" stunts (is Graham Linehan doing the scripting now or what), and they edited them into the race footage more or less haphazardly. Older segments were "there's a race in which outrageous poo poo starts to happen", this one's "there's a race in which an unrelated clip is spliced of Hammond driving through a container" and it's impossible not to notice.
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Jul 9, 2013 14:28
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I think alot of the issues with Top Gear is that it's gotten old. Nothing interesting happens if you know exactly where things are going in a typical episode.
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Jul 9, 2013 14:49
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My understanding is that they film a load of these dumb race type events for each series (because they are super cheap), and then use them when planned segments aren't ready on time, or when a segment just turns out to be too poo poo (even for them) to air. I think in a series 14 episode they used a race segment that they had filmed 2 years before because the planned segment was awful and they didn't have anything else that would fit.
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Jul 9, 2013 15:06
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God im sick of Hammond and am beginning to get a little bored of May. Hammond just really winds me up lately, cant help but think he should go.
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Jul 9, 2013 16:27
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I'm sad to say that Top Gear US got it right. They should just do road trips in cars every episode. They can review the car they pick while doing the challenges.
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Jul 9, 2013 21:09
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KozmoNaut posted:Which is another show Hammond isn't particularly funny on. Non Top-Gear-Hammond is pretty awful about 99% of the time.
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Jul 9, 2013 22:46
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On his own, he's such a generic presenter, totally by-the-numbers. He really needs someone eccentric like May or over the top like Clarkson to make him look good.
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Jul 10, 2013 06:02
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All May all the time is pretty good, though. He's also a terribly nice fellow in real life.
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Jul 10, 2013 06:29
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Although he does smell a bit. I find May's shows outside of TG to be the most entertaining. Clarkson's occasional war shows always seem a bit too masturbatory/Boy's Own, and Hammond is just... bland. I think he's fine on subjects he's actually passionate about but he's a trained generic face so any real character rarely comes through. May's shows are bordering on twee a little bit but he's a really engaging presenter. I bet he never in a million years expected to end up as the face of Top Gear / popular science for TV / drive Veyrons / go into space / etc, when he was a magazine editor. You can't plan that kind of career trajectory.
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Jul 10, 2013 07:42
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He had the music degree as well before any of that, so becoming a car magazine editor may not have been his original career plan in the first place.
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Jul 10, 2013 07:50
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I think Top Gear is at its best when they're doing road trips in other countries. Their goofy obliviousness and affable friendship/rivalry bits work best then. What I'm saying is Top Gear UK should spend a year taping segments in the United States. THERE ARE MORE ROADS THERE. Alaska to Florida road trip please.
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Jul 10, 2013 10:03
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soggybagel posted:What I'm saying is Top Gear UK should spend a year taping segments in the United States. THERE ARE MORE ROADS THERE. Alaska to Florida road trip please. We have a phrase here that refers to a the $500 budget-car challenge: daily driver. That's not why I watch top-gear.
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Jul 10, 2013 10:48
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It's not a Top Gear road trip if the cars don't look like something out of Mad Max by the end of it. I'm down with that happening to million pound supercars if you are.
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Jul 10, 2013 12:31
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's not a Top Gear road trip if the cars don't look like something out of Mad Max by the end of it. I'm down with that happening to million pound supercars if you are. Due to the unique way the BBC is funded, that could potentially cause problems.
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Jul 10, 2013 12:58
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The best episode possible is them driving the McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari, and the Porsche 918 across the whole Pan American highway. So what if it takes a month to shoot?
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Jul 10, 2013 14:10
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marsisol posted:The best episode possible is them driving the McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari, and the Porsche 918 across the whole Pan American highway. So what if it takes a month to shoot? The Darien Gap will be awesome.
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Jul 10, 2013 14:32
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marsisol posted:The best episode possible is them driving the McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari, and the Porsche 918 across the whole Pan American highway. So what if it takes a month to shoot? e: Maybe just the Central Asian stretch of the Silk Road? Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Jul 10, 2013 14:38
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We're behind here in the US, but I just wanted to say that Warwick Davis making a short joke at Hammond's expense was pretty funny. And that Warwick Davis is awesome.
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Jul 10, 2013 20:58
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Top Gear The Long Way Round. Featuring a reprise of the bikes from the Vietnam Special. Also crossing from Russia to America with the Toyboata.
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Jul 10, 2013 21:02
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Something in Russia would be cool, maybe a race between Moscow and Vladivostok with Richard and Jeremy driving while James take the trans Siberian railway.
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Jul 10, 2013 22:29
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gently caress driving in America, they have already done that three times. Time to drive across Australia, east to west, through the middle. That will sort out the boys from the men.
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Jul 10, 2013 23:38
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You Am I posted:gently caress driving in America, they have already done that three times. Yes, They've been to the US three times, but the US is pretty much 50 different countries and most of them have something unique to offer.
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Jul 10, 2013 23:49
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I liked the taxi race, it was like watching me play Gran Turismo, only for real! That Mono and Ferrari are incredible, and it finally looks like Ferrari has remembered how to make a pretty car.
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Jul 10, 2013 23:54
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Cojawfee posted:Yes, They've been to the US three times, but the US is pretty much 50 different countries and most of them have something unique to offer. It's really only about 6 distinct regions. Southwest, Pacific northwest, absolutely nothing, Midwest, the south, and the northeast.they've done the south, southwest, and northeast. "Absolutely nothing" holds no excitement beyond mt Rushmore (would be funny as an American to see that), the Midwest has nothing to offer.that just leaves the Pacific northwest and while it's nice, there are plenty of more exciting places to go where the windy country roads don't have a 35mph speed limit.
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GutBomb posted:It's really only about 6 distinct regions. Southwest, Pacific northwest, absolutely nothing, Midwest, the south, and the northeast.they've done the south, southwest, and northeast. Feh. They could do an entire show about trying to navigate around Pittsburgh. James might commit suicide. quote:"Absolutely nothing" holds no excitement beyond mt Rushmore (would be funny as an American to see that)
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Jul 11, 2013 00:57
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webmeister posted:The old guy, Ben Collins, outed himself in an autobiography. If you go back and watch older episodes, "touring car driver Ben Collins" features in quite a few of them, so it's quite possible that one of those guys is the new Stig. Other speculation is that it's Sabine Schmitz (daily mail, but this is speculation anyway) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1349967/Is-BBC-Top-Gears-new-Stig-German-racing-driver-Sabine-Schmitz.html You may remember her from the Transit-goes-round-the-Nurburgring-in-just-over-10-minutes film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc
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GutBomb posted:It's really only about 6 distinct regions. Southwest, Pacific northwest, absolutely nothing, Midwest, the south, and the northeast.they've done the south, southwest, and northeast. "Absolutely nothing" holds no excitement beyond mt Rushmore (would be funny as an American to see that), the Midwest has nothing to offer.that just leaves the Pacific northwest and while it's nice, there are plenty of more exciting places to go where the windy country roads don't have a 35mph speed limit. Yes. There is absolutely nothing interesting in the Rockies, and Arizona/New Mexico/etc. are identical to Southern California. drat yuropoor elitists. Wait, what am I complaining about, I watch a show starring Jeremy Clarkson. Lord Tywin posted:Something in Russia would be cool, maybe a race between Moscow and Vladivostok with Richard and Jeremy driving while James take the trans Siberian railway. Proper Russia challenge: try to drive around Moscow during rush hour and see who abandons their car and starts walking first.
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Qwijib0 posted:Other speculation is that it's Sabine Schmitz (daily mail, but this is speculation anyway) I think Jeremy is onto something with replacing Hammond with Sabine.
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Jul 11, 2013 01:10
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Not UK or US TG, but Don't Drive Here is an interesting series so far. I've only seen the Manila one, but my god! Andrew Younghusband, the host, also does Canada's Worst Drivers, another one of my favourite shows.
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Jul 11, 2013 01:32
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SpannerX posted:Not UK or US TG, but Don't Drive Here is an interesting series so far. I've only seen the Manila one, but my god! Andrew Younghusband, the host, also does Canada's Worst Drivers, another one of my favourite shows. I watched the Mexico City one - it was something else. He had to be part of a security convoy and drive like a total rear end in a top hat to do it. It's sort of weird watching a Canadian try to consider the idea that in other parts of the world, the government (and traffic laws) are less important than whoever you are working for.
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Jul 11, 2013 01:53
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SpannerX posted:Not UK or US TG, but Don't Drive Here is an interesting series so far. I've only seen the Manila one, but my god! Andrew Younghusband, the host, also does Canada's Worst Drivers, another one of my favourite shows. It's not on amazon, it's not on netflix, they don't have episodes or even clips on their website and it doesn't have a wikipedia page. It's almost like they don't want you to watch their show.
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Jul 11, 2013 02:01
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G-Mach posted:I think Jeremy is onto something with replacing Hammond with Sabine. I like Hammond but I would certainly not be upset with him getting replaced with Sabine.
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fivre posted:
Look, I know we have our problems with the hosts but that doesn't mean we want at least 2/3 of them dead.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Look, I know we have our problems with the hosts but that doesn't mean we want at least 2/3 of them dead. Oh there's no harm. None of the other cars will be moving either. I may be getting ahead of myself though: @MrJamesMay 22m posted:Just been mistaken for Clarkson in Moscow. My work has been in vain.
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