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Seeing as a lot of us seem to have watched it by now it might be fun to talk about our thoughts. I'll give a spoiler free review here and might go into more detail in the comments.

For me, the movie was almost exactly what I expected given the premise (Hollywood sports movie starring an aging Brad Pitt). But if you're an F1 fan you don't watch this for the story. Even then, there are some fanservice nods for us thrown in that I did smile at now and then, and even though the story takes a lot of liberties I was actually impressed at the amount of detail the movie goes into.

All that being said, you watch this for one reason alone: the shots of the racing. And they are spectacular. I wish they would linger a second or two longer instead of often jumping quickly between angles, but that's my only criticism. They look fucking amazing and it is worth the price of admission. And do yourself a favour and watch it in IMAX. Some of those shots are just breathtaking.

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[โ€“] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

Good stuff

  • From a technical perspective (cinematography, CGI) it looks pretty neat
  • Racing sequences are cool, and since they used a lot of real footage cars don't look like they're just CG models on rails
  • I liked the sound design overall
  • A couple references for F1 fans, but it's not overwhelming

Not good stuff

  • Brad Pitt plays Brad Pitt
  • Story is duller than a hard tyre after 50 laps
  • Character development was abandoned as APXGP decided to shift focus to next year
  • Why is everything so shiny and glossy? Feels like I'm at Apple's HQ, maybe that's intentional?
  • Sonny Hayes needs to be tried in Hague. Sure, he isn't meant to be some paragon of virtue, but his bs should have been called out more.

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