Comment on me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That damn movie is marketed so heavily around brad pitt though.
When i saw its listing om amazon prime I thought it was called “Brad Pitt: The Movie” and I was baffled.
cobysev@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Interestingly enough, the reason Brad Pitt is advertised so heavily is the reason I still haven’t watched it.
Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s an excellent actor and I enjoy seeing him on screen. I just don’t understand why an F1 movie needed Brad Pitt. I’m here to watch race cars, not some famous actor behind the wheel!
If they cast an unknown in the lead, I’d be more intrigued because I’m interested in Formula 1 racing. But putting a famous guy in the lead makes me feel like this is gonna be some dramatic feel-good fantasy story, not something more grounded in reality.
And yes, I know this movie is just a giant advertisement for Formula 1. But that’s a real motorsport race, so I’d be more invested if the movie felt like watching a real person’s story, not an actor telling a fictional story in the setting of F1 racing.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 17 hours 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 17 hours 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.
Wfh@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Completely the same thoughts that I have. I’m very curioous as to what the story could be that gives them credence to call it “THE F1 movie”
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Working title that they forgot to change until too late in the production.
0ops@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
Seriously? I wouldn’t even doubt it if it were true