"RUSH" the movie

[DavidChampagne]

Just returned from seeing the movie "RUSH".

It was great.

Thank You Ron Howard.

[Skydime]

Glad you enjoyed it. The misses doesn't like going to the movies unless she's taking our daughter to a cartoon so, I'll probably end up catching it on Blueray.

[Rob Hall]

Saw it last weekend...really enjoyed it...

[DavidChampagne]

Certainly not a movie for the young ones.

Language gets rough and there is some nudity.

But it is really good.

Don't miss it.

[Harry P.]

Certainly not a movie for the young ones.

Language gets rough and there is some nudity.

What would Aunt Bee say?

[Skydime]

What would Aunt Bee say?

Oh snap! That's funny!

[Matt Bacon]

Certainly not a movie for the young ones.

Language gets rough and there is some nudity

What... really? In a movie about Formula One in the Seventies?

...sorry, that's not meant as a poke at you, David.

If there's one thing that sticks from the many books about motor racing 1950-2000 that I have read, it's the steady evolution from a world in which the technology killed people (usually drivers for whom WW2 fighter ace values still held true) to a world in which it was extraordinarily bad luck to die for your sport. For me, Hunt and Lauda are smack in the middle of the "seismic shift" in motor racing from "jolly good show chaps... pity Archie didn't make it" school of the 50s-60s to the multimillion dollar circus of the 1980s-2010s.

Of course, I don't think it's a bad thing that people don't die in F1 for our "entertainment" any more than I wonder why more Olympic Marathon runners don't keel over at the end.

"Rush" is History, kinda. At least as much as the first 20 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" is History. The best thing that it can do is transport you back to a different age, where the world was different, and make you think (a bit) like they did back then. Once, there were heroes...

bestest,

m.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Matt Bacon

[Lunajammer]

Get this... my girlfriend, with no interest in cars or racing LOVED it. She was riveted and recommended it to her son who scoffed and said, "Right, who cares about Formula One." For those who haven't seen it, this is not your father's Ron Howard movie.

Superbly well crafted story.

Autoweek reports Ron Howard went to a Nurburgring heritage race to get cover video to send to the CG dept. The drivers were so willing to take direction and race their cars beyond what he expected that he decided to minimize the CG. A great call and adds to the authenticity.

[DavidChampagne]

I was surprised and pleased with the storyline. Not exactly what I expected. As much as I like Formula 1, I am glad it was not overloaded with racing scenes.

I wonder if those of you that saw it laughed as much as I did during one scene.

I was surprised at the nudity (not much) in a Ron Howard movie.

I did hear my wife when she saw Thor's butt though, LOL.

Edited October 4, 2013 by DavidChampagne

[Harry P.]

I was surprised at the nudity (not much) in a Ron Howard movie.

Opie's all grown up. And Aunt Bee is spinning in her grave...

[LDO]

Is it Olivia Wilde??? :-)

Edited October 5, 2013 by LDO

[zenrat]

I heard a radio interview with the guy who plays Lauda. He said he got a little jealous reading the daily shooting schedules.

Nikki talks to mechanics about car set up.

James makes love to beautiful woman.

Nikki discusses tyres with engineers

James makes love to another beautiful woman...

[935k3]

I saw it last night with my son. It was a great movie and an interesting look at two very different men. Hasegawa does a really nice 1/20 scale model of Lauda's 312T2 as raced in the movie. I have it and the movie got me motivated to build it.

[Bill Eh?]

I too saw the movie last night, with some friends who are F1 enthusiasts. I thought the movie was very well done. As Dale said, Hasegawa has a great version of the 312T2. If you combined that with Tamiya's M23 (which is being rereleased), you could create an interesting diorama.

[Nova-ss]

I'll see it when it hits DVDs or Blueray.I hate listening to bad language or scences like your discribing but I can can mute it all. I don't know about others but bad language a nudity scenes bothed me it makes it not enjoyable to me and I get angry instead of enjoying it,but thats me.I'm sure I'll take beatings from the way I think but its me.Thanks,Chris

[DavidChampagne]

Chris,

The movie is not loaded with nudity (maybe three brief scenes), and they used the F word three or four times.

Wasn't trying to be misleading.

It really is a fasinateing story and I hope you enjoy it.

[Pete J.]

Saw it yesterday with my wife and son(25 years old) and we all enjoyed it thoroughly. Yes there is some language and nudity, but I really think it is not used gratuitously. I was a young Air Force pilot in that era and the language was in my experience common if not a little toned down. That and the very brief nudity set the tone of the movie to the era perfectly. Ron Howard has a talent for setting the mood. The cinematography was superb. It was really great to see those old cars on the track again. He did a great job of weaving real footage into the new. I believe the only CG was for setting the background. Well there was some "inside the engine" stuff but that was about it. Great story line. I see a couple of Oscars in this one.

Edited October 6, 2013 by Pete J.

[kitbash1]

Went to see it last night with the wife, we both just loved it. I grew up in the 70's and was following F1 so I got to see races at Mosport and the Glen, and got to see the US GP East in-person. Story was pretty much as I remember it, and the old cars, just loved seeing the high air-box cars once more.

[Harry P.]

I haven't seen it, but I do know that Ron Howard is a very talented filmmaker. In my book he's right up there with the best American directors currently working (Coppola, Scorsese, Eastwood, etc.). I have no doubt, even not having seen it, that it's a good movie. Chris, I can sympathize with your viewpoint. For me, it's on-screen violence that I hate. I don't see how anyone can see graphic bloody killings and mutilations and whatnot as being "entertaining," but hey, that's me.

[Pete J.]

I haven't seen it, but I do know that Ron Howard is a very talented filmmaker. In my book he's right up there with the best American directors currently working (Coppola, Scorsese, Eastwood, etc.). I have no doubt, even not having seen it, that it's a good movie. Chris, I can sympathize with your viewpoint. For me, it's on-screen violence that I hate. I don't see how anyone can see graphic bloody killings and mutilations and whatnot as being "entertaining," but hey, that's me.

Harry,

This one has it's share of gory scenes but again, they move the story line along and are within the scope and reality of the film. Lauda's time in the hospital will make you cringe but then it is a part of the real story and without it the story would suffer.

[ZTony8]

I saw the movie on September 27th.The story line is very good,unlike 99% of other racing movies.There's not as much racing action as I would have liked but what's there is not done as artsy as "Grand Prix".The story line,as well done as it is,is a bit concocted for drama.Hunt and Lauda were friendlier off the track than the movie suggests,having lived together for a while in England and Lauda has said that Hunt was one of the few drivers with whom he'd share a beer.

[Lunajammer]

In my book he's right up there with the best American directors currently working (Coppola, Scorsese, Eastwood, etc.)

Which is why in my previous post I note it's not like other Ron Howard movies. For film aficionados you'd swear it's the stylings of Scorsese. It's the first independent film since his very first (Grand Theft Auto). Shot outside the studio system, Grazer/Howard sought their own funding, production and distribution and therefore had complete, creative autonomy without studio interference. It shows.

Nikki Lauda praises it for being completely accurate. He grants that the story needs to be kept interesting and accessible to movie going audiences but nothing is compromised and the facts are right. Lauda credits writer Peter Morgan for crafting the story without betraying anything.

[JordanFordF1]

I knew I'd like the movie but I took a buddy who is not into racing. As we walked out he kept saying, "BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH that was good, I need to buy that when it comes out on DVD, that really was a good movie." The theater was pretty empty for the showing we attended and you could tell the people there were car enthusiasts. Wish more non-auto/racing fans would take a chance. I'd like to see this movie have a decent box office take.

[JM485]

I'll have to check this out once it is rentable. For whatever reason I am not a big fan of theaters, I think the last movie I saw was Nitro Circus 3d, and that was awesome!

[Matt Bacon]

i thought it was great movie. The two leads were brilliant, and a whole bunch of people doing cameos as famous motor racing figures were spot on. The recreations of the races that they showed were brilliant (and very nicely judged in terms of how much time they devoted to the races within the whole movie). The period atmosphere was utterly convincing (and never better than in the scene where a couple of tifosi find Lauda and his passenger stranded by the roadside with a steaming radiator, and lend him their car...). The only thing that grated slightly was the portrayal of the battle between the two of them as a "grudge match" between enemies. Rivals, for sure, but Lauda and Hunt actually liked each other. You can understand that in some "slice of life" drama about farmers in Oklahoma in the 30s, then you need to create emotional conflict between the lead characters to make the movie exciting. But in the world of "Rush," where the two guys are polar opposites in their ATTITUDE to the sport (as outlined beautifully in the final scene), and "conflict" is played out front and centre in their literally death-defying wheel to wheel racing on the track, then why misrepresent reality to make them hate each other as well?

Fantastic film, though, which in the end made me realise that in the end what I "knew" about the race for the championship was entirely a result of real life coverage in the 70s, and that actually Lauda was at least as much of a hero as James Hunt, both for the way he got back into the car after the accident, and for the way he stepped out of it again, whatever the risk...

bestest,

M.