Friday: Loved F1 The Movie.
Saturday: Great time watching my niece in 13 Jr.
Sunday: Really enjoyed binge-watching The Bear Season 4.
Good weekend.
Except for the arthritis flare up when I was trying to open my water bottle.
F1 The Movie
I gotta say I enjoyed this movie more than I expected to.
It’s actually bumped Days of Thunder down one on my list of favorite racing films. Of course that could also be due to my waning interest in NASCAR in general.
I’ve become more of an F1 fan lately, mainly because I’m more familiar with the drivers and teams than in NASCAR, which I stopped watching after Jeff Gordon retired in 2015, and didn’t really pay too much attention after they made changes like the playoffs, the green-white-checkers finish, and the race ‘segments’.
F1 in general still holds a mystique that NASCAR used to have, prior to 2000, there was a line in the film about Brad Pitt’s character that gave me chills:
“If he raced with Ruben, then he raced with Schumacher, with Senna.”
But I digress.
This is basically a ‘listen to the old [white] guy because he knows all’ plot, but it’s done well, and is entertaining enough to carry through the movie.
Heck, I didn’t know one of the stars was the voice of Friday in the MCU films.
The race scenes were fun, as was seeing so many real F1 drivers and personalities. I silently clapped when I saw some of my favorites, like Alonso and LeClerc, and just seeing the Ferrari logo bigger than life during one race made my heart soar. #forzaferrari #tifosi
Some of the casting surprised me, as in I didn’t know this actor was going to be playing this character and have a significant part of the story. Y’all will know who I mean when you see it.
And by all means, see this film, in the theatre, because it deserves to be seen in the biggest, loudest theatre you can see it in, even though I didn’t see it in IMAX.
F1 fans, Brad Pitt fans, other cast (Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem) fans, will enjoy this one.
Thumbs up! Go see it!
Finale
Welp.
Yeah, we had a regeneration.
Yeah, Billie Piper is (possibly?) the 16th Doctor.
The bigger surprise to me, and one of my favorite moments of the Doctor Who finale, was the return of Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor.
The biggest problem I’ve had with this series as a whole is the writing.
Every actor who’s played the Doctor in nuWho have been brilliant IMHO, as have most of the companions.
Eccleston, Tennant and most of Smith’s runs had, for the most part, overall better written stories than Capaldi, Whittaker and Gatwa’s runs.
- The Impossible Girl storyline just went on too long, and the whole Danny Pink plot felt too forced for us as fans to care.
- The Flux storyline and the Timeless Child idea seemed not fleshed out enough, as did the Fugitive Doctor.
- Space Babies. ’nuff said.
Bringing back Jodie actually made me smile and tear up, she was wonderful in this short appearance. That one exchange:
Thirteen: I should say that to Yaz.
Fifteen: You never do. But she knows.
Wow.
As for the Billie Piper thing, the credits simply said:
Not ‘as The Doctor’ as they usually do. Is this a fake out? Will she go by another name, like… Bad Wolf?
Of course the other question is how long until the next series, or if we’re even getting another series?
In any case, this finale, to me, was the perfect end to Gatwa’s short run as the Doctor.