"FKA-RacecaR" (FKA-RacecaR)
05/18/2015 at 10:01 • Filed to: None
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"FKA-RacecaR" (FKA-RacecaR)
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Yes, I am that guy that is always watching things way after everyone else has seen them and the social discussion has moved on.
Well now I want to discuss it!!
Not really, but wow, what a great movie. On movies like this (historical fiction type things), I generally spend my time watching the movie and researching things on the internet while watching. I was looking things up to see what was true, what was close to true, and what was Hollywood.
And it is amazing how the story truly played out. If I did not know some of the history all ready, I would have thought a lot of that was written, like Lauda’s crash. When it happened, my wife turned to me and said “did it really happen like that?”
Anyway, great movie. One that I would not mind watching again at some point. If you haven’t seen it (which I’m sure most of you on here have), watch it. Or watch it again if you have seen it.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 10:04 |
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I bought a copy of Rush nearly a year ago. I still haven’t watched it. I am dumb.
GTI Sprinks
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 10:10 |
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Caught it not too long ago. Absolutely loved it. Neither g/f nor i closely follow racing, but the story telling was great and definitely made me want to find a biography about Lauda. Two thumbs up.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 10:33 |
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So good.
Alfalfa Romeo
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 10:45 |
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Haha I do the exact same thing while watching movies based off historical events.
Rush was a great movie. It actually got my wife slightly more interested in racing. We need more car movies like this and less car movies like Fast and Furious.
R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 11:16 |
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Have not seen it yet either. #henpecked #ruled by the esposa
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FKA-RacecaR
> Alfalfa Romeo
05/18/2015 at 11:25 |
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I think there is a place for both actually.
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FKA-RacecaR
> R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/18/2015 at 11:26 |
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Luckily my wife wanted to watch it.
AntiSpeed
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 11:37 |
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I still haven’t watched it (it’s one of those things where you can only see it the first time once, and I’m trying to preserve that until the right moment). But if you want more you should read Hunt’s biography , it’s really fascinating.
Also worth a read is Jackie Stewart’s memoirs.
Destructive Tester
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 12:04 |
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Give a watch to 1976: Hunt vs. Lauda and F1.
I know they Hollywood-ed it up a bit, but I think Ron Howard actually did a good job of translating F1 of the era into layman's terms and making it entertaining to non-F1 fans in Rush.
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Alfalfa Romeo
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 12:28 |
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I disagree. One of my main issues with the F&F franchise is that it seems to make Hollywood decide not to make any good car movies, because the dumb ones are making plenty of money. The last 15 years have been a barren wasteland as far as car movies with any amount of substance.
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FKA-RacecaR
> Alfalfa Romeo
05/18/2015 at 14:32 |
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That is pretty much for any kind of movie though.
And really, only the first few F&F movies were about cars. After that, they just got ridiculous.
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Alfalfa Romeo
> FKA-RacecaR
05/18/2015 at 14:39 |
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Not really. We’ve had plenty of good and bad super hero movies, action movies, comedies, etc. But there has been a ridiculous dearth of good car movies.
BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> FKA-RacecaR
07/01/2015 at 10:03 |
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I’m a bit of Racing History nut, so watched it as soon as it came out here in Brazil. Fantastic movie, watched it a couple more times on TV since.