It also had a lot of great cinematography and a pretty solid modern take on Grand Prix (1966). The best racing movie of all time (maybe tied with Le Mans, but that came out 5 years later).
I don’t usually look for racing movies, but I certainly enjoy them when I watch them (I only recently got around to Days of Thunder). I’ll have to check both of those out, thanks.
It’s a pretty solid movie if you don’t give an actual fuck about F1. It’s a wildly unrealistic fantasy film with bland, one dimensional characters and I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it was set in a fantasy series. Grounding it in an hyperrealistic setting with real teams, real cars, real people on real tracks is too much of a cognitive dissonance for me.
The actual racing footage slaps tho. But the movie itself is miles away from Rush or Ford v Ferrari/Le Mans '66, which are actual good racing movies based on (heavily dramatized) real events.
I listen to a tech podcast hosted by two people who also happen to be F1 enthusiasts, and race talk/driver drama bleeds into the show more times than I care for.
So of course they discussed F1 the movie during one of the episodes and their personal opinion is that, apart from a real F1 announcer not giving nearly that much exposition to the home viewers, it was very authentic.
Maybe the movie made a mistake that you personally can’t forgive, but other people who care very deeply for F1 said it was very accurate to actual F1 racing so I defer to their wisdom.
Basically the whole shenanigans around cheating at every single turn to get a car in the points. Every single member of the team would get a disqualification/ban faster than you could spell “crashgate”. I think they could have written an entertaining story without breaking every single racing rule in the book several times per race.
Just to let you know, while the whole movie revolves around his character by design, it is a pretty solid movie.
To the movie’s credit, it does shine a light on how old Pitt is compared to everyone else.
It also had a lot of great cinematography and a pretty solid modern take on Grand Prix (1966). The best racing movie of all time (maybe tied with Le Mans, but that came out 5 years later).
I don’t usually look for racing movies, but I certainly enjoy them when I watch them (I only recently got around to Days of Thunder). I’ll have to check both of those out, thanks.
It’s a pretty solid movie if you don’t give an actual fuck about F1. It’s a wildly unrealistic fantasy film with bland, one dimensional characters and I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it was set in a fantasy series. Grounding it in an hyperrealistic setting with real teams, real cars, real people on real tracks is too much of a cognitive dissonance for me.
The actual racing footage slaps tho. But the movie itself is miles away from Rush or Ford v Ferrari/Le Mans '66, which are actual good racing movies based on (heavily dramatized) real events.
I listen to a tech podcast hosted by two people who also happen to be F1 enthusiasts, and race talk/driver drama bleeds into the show more times than I care for.
So of course they discussed F1 the movie during one of the episodes and their personal opinion is that, apart from a real F1 announcer not giving nearly that much exposition to the home viewers, it was very authentic.
Maybe the movie made a mistake that you personally can’t forgive, but other people who care very deeply for F1 said it was very accurate to actual F1 racing so I defer to their wisdom.
Basically the whole shenanigans around cheating at every single turn to get a car in the points. Every single member of the team would get a disqualification/ban faster than you could spell “crashgate”. I think they could have written an entertaining story without breaking every single racing rule in the book several times per race.