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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2013 7:27:25 GMT -8
Watching a recording of the "making of" show from NBCSP and can't wait! Here in the midwest I have to wait a bit longer. An out of town trip means even longer (next Sunday). An aqauintance from the usenet wars (and longtime Indycar spotter) saw it and of course loved it.
So far the only confusing bit from the previews is Hunt asking who Lauda (just signed with Ferrari) was, since he had driven 2 1/2 seasons (with March and Stanley) before Ferrari and Hunt would have known.
No doubt a lot of extra stuff will be expected on the DVD!
Tom
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Post by Patrick on Sept 23, 2013 6:52:51 GMT -8
;)I'm just waiting 'till Friday!
Patrick
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Post by 4wheels on Sept 23, 2013 11:00:34 GMT -8
Just don't tell us how it ends  ! Brian |
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Post by neckcheese on Sept 25, 2013 12:17:54 GMT -8
I saw it tonight - super movie - best racing film ever in my opinion. Excellent !!! :-)
Niels
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Post by dustymojave on Sept 25, 2013 19:39:20 GMT -8
I expect it will become a favorite of mine. Ron Howard does quite good work. Like Vintage Thunder, I had issues immediately when watching the trailer and I saw the scene where James Hunt asks who Niki Lauda is. It isn't as if F1 drivers just decide driving a race car would be cool and show up at a track with a team out of the blue. Not now and not then. It opens around here next Friday on a day when I will be at a car race. So I won't see it for a little while.
I saw Grand Prix at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on an evening when there was a great deal of fuss around there and there were a bunch of racing people around. Could have been the Grand Opening, but I'm not sure. That was excellent. I should upgrade to a Blueray or something as my VHS of it is rather long in the tooth. Not that I've watched it a great many times, I'm not one to watch movies over and over, but it's like 25 years old. My 1st viewing of Le Mans was similar and that I have on DVD.
One thing that has always bothered me about car racing movies since I was a little kid...
Having grown up around car racing, to me, driving a race car in (or even out of) competition is an awesome experience with HUGE drama. All of the social interaction around such an event and between the individuals involved is just so much mundane every-day BS! That doesn't vary whether a race car is involved or not. I long ago developed the opinion that the seeming need to add romance and other interpersonal drama to a movie about car racing clearly demonstrates a total lack of understanding of car racing on the part of those making the movie. Don't get me wrong. I know that there is romance and driver rivalries and other interpersonal interaction around racing, just as there is anywhere else there are people. Hell, my parents met at a road race. But their meeting, while ever so important to me, did not affect which drivers or which cars won any of the races that weekend. An old friend of mine who is very much into boxing told me my comments about car racing movies are similar to his thoughts about boxing movies. He said that no boxing match was ever won at the weigh-in or in the locker room.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2013 17:41:07 GMT -8
There are a few articles (I think Autoweek had one) out there on liberties they took, shifting events to different years and races. A few examples- the year Lauda started F1, the Koeningish beheading accident, etc. I guess I can live with it. I'm expecting mega extras in the DVD!
Tom
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Post by Patrick on Sept 27, 2013 19:41:04 GMT -8
Simply excellent story telling. It is a great example of telling a good story with F1 in it.
Patrick
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Post by vintagerpm on Sept 28, 2013 12:36:21 GMT -8
Just got back from seeing Rush. Absolutely brilliant movie! Those who remember the events and those who were not even born yet will both like the movie. I saw no blatantly "wrong" things in it, although I do know some liberties were taken. And don't worry about the scene where Hunt asks who Lauda is, it occurs back in their F3 days.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2013 17:38:10 GMT -8
Yeah, the commercials combined a line from the F3 days with one from when he joined Ferrari, making it sound like Hunt didn't know Lauda when he joined F1. I noticed he jumps right in a 312T at Ferrari when it should have been the 1974 car...
My memory was they had more respect for each other before the crash, as there are lots of pics of them chatting amicably, if not as friends. Of course I would have liked a little more of the other cars they assembled for the project but was very happy with it!
Tom
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