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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month agoJust 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’s a pretty solid movie if you don’t give an actual fuck about F1. It’s a wildly unrealistic fantasy film 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 race footage slaps tho.
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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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).
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.