NASCAR: The IMAX Experience (2004)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I got a box of 20 IMAX movies at a Christmas gift exchange and this was the one with the least amount of appeal to me. I've never been interested in sports or cars. In watching cars race, there's no thought required, no deep meaning. You're just supposed to be impressed by shiny fast things. This is a movie about racing cars so it will be of little interest to me.A lot of it is talk, or the movie focuses on the mechanics of making the cars. All of this might appeal to people interested in mechanics, but not me. Some of it talks about the fan base. I heard these people say NASCAR is great, but I still don't see why. There are only a couple interesting facts of science sprinkled into the film, only a couple of attention-grabbing crashes. Nothing to get too excited about.

I really liked what was in the movie, but what ruined it for me was how short it was. Although at least 5 minutes of the movie is spent looking at fans (most particularly American women) i believe it was very informative and interesting. If you need time to kill before a date then this is a must see. If you enjoy big crash scenes, constant action, and hot shot rookies you will not enjoy this. As strained in the summary this movie was intelligently produced but needed more time to be further gone into, in other words perhaps a further explanation of a few things would make this movie better. I know its a imax movie and was made to be short but i still stand by opinion. Worth the trip to the video rental place, but not the video store.

What a great film! Being from Australia, I was not a huge fan of NASCAR racing but I'm certainly aware of how big it is in the States. If I come across a NASCAR race on cable I will usually stop and watch it 'till the end. It's always great racing but TV just does not do it justice. I was not prepared for how exciting this film would be. From the first explosive sound of the engines starting to the closing credits, there was not one second of wasted film. I was fascinated by the celebrity of the drivers, the skill of the pit crew and the technical brilliance of the engineers, not to mention the passion of the spectators. If I ever get to the States I will visit one of the big circuits and revel in the spirit of the sport. NASCAR 3D on IMAX....Worth every cent.

Who has been to the IMAX lately? well I certainly haven't, but I decided to go because I'm a really big fan of Nascar and with it being on a larger 3-D screen for all the effects and what not, I think they out did themselves by putting this film into an IMAX version. I ended up taking my son, he's really into the racing like, so he really enjoyed the different atmosphere for the 3-D experience. Atfirst I couldn't recognize the voice of the narrator but then it dawned on my that it was Keifer Sutherland that was the voice. I'm surprised to see him in so many movies now-a-days. If I'm right, I think I saw a tv preview that he's on Taking lives? He's getting out to adventure in a wide range of movies it seems. I'd see this movie if my son wanted to see it again.