Rush!!
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BennyD
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Or should that be, Oh d-ear?
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There was a dreadful accident at that circuit if my memory servs me right a few years earlier. A teenage marshal got struck by a car and he was carrying a fire extinguisher which he put through the helmet of the driver. Both were killed and there is some very graphic imagery on YouTube, worst incident I have seen in F1.
Not for the faint hearted.
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The problem was that the incident was broadcast live so everyone saw it.
I accept what you say though Rob, YouTube do have a duty to censor but they don't.
Reminds me of that BBC documentry called F1 The Killing Years. Just goes to show how safe F1 is now.
I was quite surprised that the Beeb would allow something so graphic but it was very insightful just how terrible the sport had become.
I think there was a line from the Rush trailer that went along the lines of "you feel your most alive when your close to death"....pure adrenalin!
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Saw it last night.
I must be in a minority of one but I was left feeling ambivalent. I should have known when the mainstream media are shouting how good something is that it wouldn't live up to my expectations.
First up it must be my age but Odeon's "8000 Digital" or whatever they call it, isn't a patch on good old-fashioned film. I could see the pixels clearer than I can on my computer screen. It wasn't quite like a bad powerpoint projection but it wasn't what I expect from a cinema. Progress, eh?
The lead actors do a great job of creating the personae of Hunt and Lauda, so much so when the film cuts to historical newsreels you struggle to tell which is the actor and which is the real driver. Top marks there. But good as Chris Hemsworth looks he just doesn't get Hunt's lugubrious mellifluous Home Counties' accent, which is a great shame.
Given that the film is a homage to both drivers I think it really missed out on how cool Hunt really was. The film shows him begging for the McLaren drive where in truth he rang them in a completely cool way and said "It looks like I'm driving for you next year".
It was a touching story of a growing friendship but missed out on how deep their friendship was - they actually shared a flat together and that isn't mentioned.
I enjoyed seeing the lingering camera-work on the McLaren and Ferrari but the biggest disappointment for me were the driving sequences. You really would have thought they'd get this right but their idea of on-track action is jerky camera-work, lots of jump cuts, lots of close-ups of eyes in helmets, and lots of noise. It didn't conjure up racing for me. Even the starts, when you try to put the soundtrack out of your mind for the moment, you could see the cars were driving down the straight at 30 mph. Some YouTube clips of the actual races would have been better.
It's worth going to see, and if you are a petrolhead you sort of have to go and see it, but I was hoping for more.
I must be in a minority of one but I was left feeling ambivalent. I should have known when the mainstream media are shouting how good something is that it wouldn't live up to my expectations.
First up it must be my age but Odeon's "8000 Digital" or whatever they call it, isn't a patch on good old-fashioned film. I could see the pixels clearer than I can on my computer screen. It wasn't quite like a bad powerpoint projection but it wasn't what I expect from a cinema. Progress, eh?
The lead actors do a great job of creating the personae of Hunt and Lauda, so much so when the film cuts to historical newsreels you struggle to tell which is the actor and which is the real driver. Top marks there. But good as Chris Hemsworth looks he just doesn't get Hunt's lugubrious mellifluous Home Counties' accent, which is a great shame.
Given that the film is a homage to both drivers I think it really missed out on how cool Hunt really was. The film shows him begging for the McLaren drive where in truth he rang them in a completely cool way and said "It looks like I'm driving for you next year".
It was a touching story of a growing friendship but missed out on how deep their friendship was - they actually shared a flat together and that isn't mentioned.
I enjoyed seeing the lingering camera-work on the McLaren and Ferrari but the biggest disappointment for me were the driving sequences. You really would have thought they'd get this right but their idea of on-track action is jerky camera-work, lots of jump cuts, lots of close-ups of eyes in helmets, and lots of noise. It didn't conjure up racing for me. Even the starts, when you try to put the soundtrack out of your mind for the moment, you could see the cars were driving down the straight at 30 mph. Some YouTube clips of the actual races would have been better.
It's worth going to see, and if you are a petrolhead you sort of have to go and see it, but I was hoping for more.
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I agree that Hunt was not as depicted as well as he could have been - for me the difference in the depictions between the two is probably because one of the drivers is alive and the other is not. Hence, there was more artistic licence with depicting Hunt for the scriptwriter.
Did Hunt and Lauda actually share a flat? Or, did Lauda merely stay at Hunt's on a couple of occasions following nights out in London?
I'm not denying that they were not possibly better friends then the movie makes out, but the movie is effectively of one year in F1, not their life stories.
I agree about the jerky camera, but music is what makes theatre. Mute a horror scene in any famous movie and it would look almost comical. The noises of the engine made the hair on the back of my neck stand, with modern day cinemas the sound is truly extraordinary. I'm sure that all Maserati lovers can appreciate the sound of an engine roaring in their ears. I also liked the different engine sounds from the Formula 3 to the Formula 1 depicted in the film.
The jerky camera is unfortunately past of modern day filmography, I look forward to when it ends. Bring back the 90's slow-motion replays!