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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 14 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 14 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.