I saw Rush with my wife and two of my daughters today. We all loved it. Ron Howard needs to do a Rush I, II and III series to cover other F1 rivalries over the years.
I'd gladly pay to see a movie that delves into F1's dark period of the 70's and 80's. "Rush" touched on it a bit, but it would be very interesting to get a sense of how unsafe things were back then, but also how they changed things to make this the safest era in racing.
Went with the wife last night in a VIP theater in Chihuahua, Mexico. Big screen and big sound. Really enjoyed the movie although the first few minutes seemed slow. I like the way the movie was filmed with a film contrast style that allowed the new scenes to perfectly blend in with the original footage. Most of all, loved the end, with the real photos of the two main characters. Lauda's comment about James being the only person he ever envied was incredible. The Mrs. loved it also, but she has already become a race fan with either Mexico City or New Jersey for 2014. Don't know if this story was ever told in this thread, but Lauda agreed to the film as long as the script writer did not make him look gay, and he got to take his wife to the Oscars.
That's racing. Hunt was world champ. Period. But for one corner, Massa is a world Champ. But for one DNF, Hakkinen was 3 time champ. But for a broken leg, Shuey would have one another one and Hakk would not have won one of his. That's racing.
Flawless casting for the main characters, however I would think it would be a little confusing to a viewer with no reference to the period. Overall, rather lacking in execution of a quite formulaic and in some parts, boring story line, and.......no need to drown out the visuals in the beginning with incredibly loud music! Or, is my age showing? The actor playing Hunt should be the perfect future James Bond......
Very nice observation. I completely agree. However, I think I liked the movie more than you. I thought it was the best racing movie I have seen.
Since the movie skipped over Watkins Glen 1976, I figured I'd "fill in the gap" with a few of the photos I took at the race. I did get photos of Lauda (walking to the pits with Regazzoni) and Hunt (sitting on his car's sidepod in the garage after the race). You'll also recognize Roger Penske, Arturo Merzario and Ronnie Peterson, and I threw in a couple of shots of the spare 312T2 sitting at the end of the pit structure. Sorry the photos aren't better, but they've faded with time. I need to pull out the negatives and get some new prints made. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Check out the 365 gtb with muddy tires next to the Malibu-and Mickey sitting in the car. This was all so much more accessible back then-love these pics
Rainy afternoon here, so time to go to the cinema. I didn´t like how the racing scenes were filmed: typical videoclip/videogame style of modern Hollywood flims. And again, the CGI was obvious sometimes. And I´d like more engine noise and less noisy Hans Zimmer music. And maybe James Hunt was a bit too much pollitically correct, almost like an agreeable rascal. But overall it was very entertaining and most of the plentiful dramatical licenses were not embarrassing for gearheads. Actually, I felt that this fictional movie had more "fairness" to the real characters than the Senna movie, that was supposed to be a documentary. So a very nice film, although IMO the definitive racing movie is yet to be made.
Thank you Gator, wonderful photos. Neat to see Arturo with the Wolf logo, times have changed. He qualified some 15 seconds behind the pole sitter and wasn't the last car on the grid..
There was mud everywhere, so that was unavoidable. I wasn't there on Friday, but I understand that it rained in the morning, so Friday afternoon's qualifying, which was dry, turned out to be very important. On Saturday, when I was there, it was a total washout. It rained all day, and I spent the day going back and forth from the garage to my car, which fortunately wasn't parked too far away. (I had to keep turning on the car's engine, and the heater, just to dry off my cold, wet feet. Cold October rain is just about the worst.) No cars went out during morning practice; only one car - Ronnie Peterson, not surprisingly - went out in the afternoon. He spun out on his first lap, they towed him back in, and that was it for the day! The garage, which was the largest indoor building on the premises open to the fans, was understandably jammed all day, but the mechanics went about their work anyway.
Thank you; it was good to have been a race-goer during that era. "Rush" may not be perfect, but it does quite well capture the essence of F1 racing during that period. And not only were qualifying times much more spread out than is typical today, but if you look at race results, reliability was horrible by modern standards. I'd say that at an average race, the DNF percentage was probably 30 to 40%; today, it's unusual if more than a handful of cars fail to finish due to issues with the car.
Just got home after seeing Rush in D-Box seating and I am surprised that I did not end up with a speeding ticket driving home
That is fantastic, and these pics really capture it. I've got my fingers crossed re the F1 race in Jersey. If/when it happens I'll be lucky if I can hear the cars because we'll probably be so far away!
I've posted these before; so apologies in advance. But for those who haven't seen them; the glen was my first race at 8 years old.... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hunt winning. I need to dig out more.... That day started my love of f1 Kevin Image Unavailable, Please Login
