J
Java Man
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Just got back from a sneak preview of the new Omnimax feature "Wired to
Win: Surviving the Tour de France". It's a ~ 50 minute big-screen
feature combining brain science with stories of two riders in the 2003
tour. There was too much brain science for my taste, but the large
wrap-around screen action shots from the tour were spectacular.
The film features Francaise Des Jeux riders Baden Cook and Jimmy Casper.
There's a rumour that it had originally been shot to feature Tyler
Hamilton but that he was mostly cut from the film after his positive
drug tests, but there's no way I could tell whether this was true or
not. There was one shot of Hamilton labouring away, jersey open, with
the bandage for his fractured collarbone showing, but his name was never
mentioned. Lance haters will be delighted that Armstrong gets scant
mention in the film.
I saw it at Vancouver's Science World, and I'm sure it will be showing
in other large-screen Imax and Omnimax theaters around the world. It
opens in Vancouver on December 17. I thought it was worth seeing for
the panoramic tour shots alone.
Rick
Win: Surviving the Tour de France". It's a ~ 50 minute big-screen
feature combining brain science with stories of two riders in the 2003
tour. There was too much brain science for my taste, but the large
wrap-around screen action shots from the tour were spectacular.
The film features Francaise Des Jeux riders Baden Cook and Jimmy Casper.
There's a rumour that it had originally been shot to feature Tyler
Hamilton but that he was mostly cut from the film after his positive
drug tests, but there's no way I could tell whether this was true or
not. There was one shot of Hamilton labouring away, jersey open, with
the bandage for his fractured collarbone showing, but his name was never
mentioned. Lance haters will be delighted that Armstrong gets scant
mention in the film.
I saw it at Vancouver's Science World, and I'm sure it will be showing
in other large-screen Imax and Omnimax theaters around the world. It
opens in Vancouver on December 17. I thought it was worth seeing for
the panoramic tour shots alone.
Rick