Tag: 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!