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Sounds like it's pretty mid. 67 meta.

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Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem)...
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81% recommended at RT

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That's wildly disappointing. Also has RT gotten rid of aggregate scores?

The tomato score is beyond flawed. If I give a movie a 65, I'm certainly not "recommending it."
 
I was against this movie since day1. If this was a flick about a fictional series looking and sounding like F1 (or maybe riding on the wish of bringing back V10-V12 engines), I'd be more willing to see it. But as a movie with real F1 drivers and fake dramas, clearly shot to promote the sport? Nah. I have enough of that shit after watching Drive to Survive for several seasons (and eventually dropping out).
 
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Probably still going to watch it. Although the idea of 61 year old Brad Pitt as an F1 driver is rather odd. But I guess he's the A list star they could get to sign on.
 
M.W. said:
Sounds like it's pretty mid. 67 meta.

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F1: The Movie Reviews

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem)...
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81% recommended at RT

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Rush was 74 on meta and its an awesome car racing movie.
 
I prefer the Sony backed one
Gran Turismo Gt GIF by Sony Pictures
 
Hari Seldon said:
Well when this movie flops they can't blame marketing, this has been everywhere.
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I don't think it'll flop, but most of the money made will be international. Looks like opening weekend in the US is tracking around $41M. However, with a budget of around $300M, the movie is going to want to break $900M WW to make a profit.
 
Dr.Morris79 said:
I doubt any car movie will be able to beat Ford Vs Ferrari for me.

Or Bullitt..
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Rush

M.W. said:
I don't think it'll flop, but most of the money made will be international. Looks like opening weekend in the US is tracking around $41M. However, with a budget of around $300M, the movie is going to want to break $900M WW to make a profit.
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The question is, has F1 grown enough in the US to guarantee a good domestic box office?
I'm in just for the entire F1 Maverick premise with F1 cars. If we get at least a Days of Thunder F1 2025 i'm good.
 
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I'll just wait until it's on streaming and watch it eventually. I rather just watch my F1 races.
 
This is probably the only film I am interested in at the moment, but will wait till streaming.

I never listen to critics any more. They all seems to be agenda driven, so I will see for myself.
 
This is dumpster fire.

At least I didn't like it. I get that its Bruckheimer and that its illogical and out to just be easy to watch and fun for the masses. But about everything about this movie is ridiculous. Pitt ofcourse is 60, and gets a seat in a bottom row team. Then the movie just makes the F1 look stupid with the rules they bend to get into the points. Its all just too stupid. I tried to suspend my disbelief but it just didn't work out well. Maybe i am too old for stuff like this.

I'd say Gran Turismo is better, its racing scenes at least make more sense. And Ford vs Ferrari is better too. Hell, Michael Mann's Ferrari as well.
 
Rush is great!

My girlfriend loves F1 and wants to see this and get the racing helmet full of popcorn.

I'm sure it will be a fine summer flick. Vroom vroom. But that's it
 
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This is dumpster fire.

At least I didn't like it. I get that its Bruckheimer and that its illogical and out to just be easy to watch and fun for the masses. But about everything about this movie is ridiculous. Pitt ofcourse is 60, and gets a seat in a bottom row team. Then the movie just makes the F1 look stupid with the rules they bend to get into the points. Its all just too stupid. I tried to suspend my disbelief but it just didn't work out well. Maybe i am too old for stuff like this.

I'd say Gran Turismo is better, its racing scenes at least make more sense. And Ford vs Ferrari is better too. Hell, Michael Mann's Ferrari as well.
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I get the idea this is one of those movies where knowing more about the subject matter will hurt your experience watching it. Kind of like if you are a baseball fan, Moneyball ignoring the A's trio of ace starting pitchers can negatively impact the story for you. It's one to see more for the experience on the big screen is the vibe I get.
 
Metacritic has it at 68. RT has it at 84%. Both sites have high user score too. I'll watch it one day.

When I saw Mission Impossible the other day, one of the trailers was F1. Seemed like a movie with both Pitt and Idris doing too much smuggy attitude. I dont know if I can watch an entire movie if it's going to be like this.

I'll check out Rush too as some of you mentioned above.
 
freernnur5 said:
I get the idea this is one of those movies where knowing more about the subject matter will hurt your experience watching it. Kind of like if you are a baseball fan, Moneyball ignoring the A's trio of ace starting pitchers can negatively impact the story for you. It's one to see more for the experience on the big screen is the vibe I get.
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Good points.

I dont know anything about F1. So whatever dopey changes they do to the sport or rules I'd never notice.

But Moneyball ignoring pitching was stupid. A's actually had 4 solid starters that year. And midway through the year, their 5th guy was replaced by a better pitcher. So midway through the season they had 5 very similar stat pitchers all with an ERA about 3.50 each by seasons end. And in that era of baseball (late 90s-2000s) was ultimate juiced ball and runs scored. So having an ERA of 3.50 was pretty good. Having a starting rotation of that is top tier. Checking stats, they were tied for the second best ERA in the league.

For any of you who never watched Moneyball, it's an awesome movie. Even if you dont care about baseball and stats, its more about the relationship of people and sports thinking. And Bobby Kotick makes an appearance as owner which was cool too. But the entire movie which focused on the team succeeding based on solely finding bargain priced bats was misleading because in real life it was only part of the success. Zito was probably the best pitcher in the league the final few months. I dont remember if they ever even brought him up in the movie at all.
 
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This is absolutely true. I watch F1 for many years, and since Verstappen emerged its obviously been covered even more with lots of technical discussions.

I know about safety cars, track limits, penalties and DQs. Well, F1 movie without spoiler heavily abuses some of these to ridiculous levels. And I suspect they took a good look at the already historical Abu Dhabi season finale from 2021. The track schedule also isn't correct, but its easy to ignore.

But that aside, its just kind of naff. The story is just very, very weak and I never really resonated with the cast. Its hard to cheer for them. But to give some credit, a lot of the scenes actually take place 'in' the F1. Its the real starting grid and paddocks, actually shot during the live season. They are live walking around the starting lineup of those races, and you'll see Verstappen, Sainz, Horner etc in the background doing their things. This is kind of unique I think. It feels like this team really participated.

Pitt and Idris are smuggy throughout by the way, I can say this. Chances are you'll hate both. But Pitt is solid acting with what he has though.
 
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I get the idea this is one of those movies where knowing more about the subject matter will hurt your experience watching it.
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Not sure if that's universally true, I enjoy F1, but the friend I went with is a HUGE F1 fan, just massive really. He could even tell me what positions were kinda correct in the last race, and several inspirations for the crashes throughout the movie, noticing the mclaren tech centre immediately for use of the fictional team etc.

He liked the movie too, because obviously it's not a documentary, just drama and a fun time.
 
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Mirroring what R Reizo Ryuu just stated, this feel like an early MCU moment where there are two different types of fans:

1) The ones just happy to see this hit the big screen and look good
2) The comic-accurate types are who are dissecting every wrong detail
 
I've been following Formula 1 on and off since the 90s and loved this. It really is an epic experience in IMAX. It feels *huge*.
The real stuff is so fun to see.
Hamilton being the seething final boss made my audience laugh
 
Thumbs up. The character drama stuff isn't the strongest but there's a ton of racing, fun experience on the big screen with a lot of energy.
 
It was alright for a race movie. They were using some camera shots a bit too often and it dragged near the end. Fucking Hamilton lol.
 
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Great movie. It hovers between an A- and B+ for me.

My only small gripe with it was that I was hoping for more uninterrupted first person camera angles mid-race. Those were the most exhilarating moments in the movie and whenever they cut away from them to show a 'secondary character reaction shot' I felt that it took away from the moment'.

Instead I would have had them do the 24-style multi-window, and keep the driver view as the larger screen while popping up the other character reactions on the side in smaller frames, sort of like a comic panel. I understand why some here wouldn't like that, but at least that way they could have satisfied the ones who are looking for those reaction shots.

Otherwise, this was great to me and Hans Zimmer only enhanced it even further, making it feel like the Dark Knight bike chase but for a whole movie.
 
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