Oh, it was brilliant. Really, really good. It spoke DIRECTLY to the car guy in me. To the race fan. To the driver, and the gearhead, and the enthusiast. It nailed it. It felt very authentic, especially considering it's a hollywood movie about motorsports (something that's never really been done right). Sure, there are more obscure movies that capture our love of these things. But to see it succeed on this kind of budget, with this kind of scale was simply fantastic.
Such a great era for F1 visually. The Lotuses of that era are pure sex, the Tyrrels happily wacky, the Ferraris' aero from another world... It was fun to see all that on the big screen in modern HD clarity.
One of the little details that really carried the picture for me where the "cameos" by street cars that popped up everywhere. The Mini that Hunt drove, the Volvo caught outside a garage scene with Lauda, the '70 Celica in the parking lot outside the track at Fuji, the awful Ferrari 308 GT4, and the big American boats outside the track at.
I also thought the driving looked very convincing...not just out of the car but inside as well. The body language, shots of hands on the wheel and gear lever, all of it felt right. And the scenes with Hunt pushing his car HARD in the wet and getting very close to the knife-edge were spot-on.
Another good "small" detail: the car-guy talk...mechanics proudly rattling off chassis and engine specifications to people who won't possibly understand. Talk of behavior and structural design and tuning and refining the car. Sounded like real shop-talk.
The one thing I found a little underwhelming were the CG crash effects. Some of them were okay, but in all of them the cars just didn't seem to...bounce right. It looked like what I've grown accustomed to seeing with CG over the last couple of decades: the damage looks right, but the inertia feels wrong.
I do think it's too bad I won't be able to take my (much) younger brother to see it, because it's got plenty of sex. He's at least as big an F1 fan as I am.
I think the most positive thing I can say for the movie:
There were moments when I forgot I was in a movie theater and went straight into spectator mode, nearly cheering aloud, clapping, and shouting. Caught myself every time, but how often do you want to cheer at a movie? Maybe this is what those mystifyingly boring baseball movies are like for everyone else???? Except baseball doesn't include 6-wheeled V12 masterpieces.
Rush!
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I'm not a movie guy, but I loved it.
The casting? PERFECT. The guy who played Lauda deserves an award (looks JUST like him, btw). The guy who plays Hunt had an easier job, since he's not very complex.
Great movie... Loved seeing my favorite #5 Andretti car (I had a collection of models of it when I was young).
The casting? PERFECT. The guy who played Lauda deserves an award (looks JUST like him, btw). The guy who plays Hunt had an easier job, since he's not very complex.
Great movie... Loved seeing my favorite #5 Andretti car (I had a collection of models of it when I was young).
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AZhitman wrote:I'm not a movie guy, but I loved it.
The casting? PERFECT. The guy who played Lauda deserves an award (looks JUST like him, btw). The guy who plays Hunt had an easier job, since he's not very complex.
Great movie... Loved seeing my favorite #5 Andretti car (I had a collection of models of it when I was young).
Ok, my wife and I just saw it in an almost empty theater. I liked it a lot, but my wife did not enjoy it so much. But then, I'm a car guy and F1 fan, she's neither. The volume was waaaay up, literally shaking the seats, which combined with the intense motion shots made her a bit dizzy. IMHO it's the best auto racing movie ever made. Better than the classic "Grand Prix". It made Tom Cruise's NASCAR movie seem like Days of Flatulance.
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Way better than the Senna "documentary". While there was a significant amount that was fictional in this movie, it's Hollywood, you have to expect that. The Senna dreck was slanted, biased garbage passed off as non-fiction.
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I thought it was fantastic. My favorite was the attention paid to the sound, showing old footage in clever ways, the Hans Zimmer score and the way they ended it. The latest issue of Racer magazine has a good article about the making of the film with storyboard art , tidbits/photos from actual events and interviews with the writer, Ron Howard, etc. There's also articles about the making of LeMans and Grand Prix.
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Waiting for the DVD. I would have fallen asleep in the theater because that's what I do in the cinema at the age of 31.