Rush

[emcon5]

Well, there was the decapitated guy.

A headless torso strapped in to a F1 car can be a little disturbing.....

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by emcon5

Well, there was the decapitated guy.

A headless torso strapped in to a F1 car can be a little disturbing.....

I had heard about that and was looking for it but it seemed like that scene went by very quickly. I didn't even register it as being a decapitated guy. It was a kind of further away shot.

I think you should see it without your son first so you can judge for yourself in case I understated it. Different people will have different perceptions of what is acceptible, and kids are different in what they can be exposed to. It's not extremely graphic but I wouldn't want to see it with my mother...

[Lapkritis]

Was I the only one who saw the blue car pulling into the pits during the ring scene... the overhead view and it had two sets of front wheels?

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by Lapkritis

Was I the only one who saw the blue car pulling into the pits during the ring scene... the overhead view and it had two sets of front wheels?

Well there were six wheel Tyrrells throughout the film. I don't remember that specific part, but they did get real P34's for the movie. They had to backdate the bodywork to 1976 spec. Don't tell me you haven't heard of the Tyrrell P34?

[Lapkritis]

Ah, that explains it. I thought it might be an error... and no, I have not seen one before.

[Chocaholic]

Saw it yesterday with my wife. We both loved it. The Lauda character was stunning. Glad we didn't bring the kids though. The sex scenes (Hunt) were unnecessary in my mind. His playboy character could have more artfully been implied without the need to see him bang a flight attendant in the bathroom. A PG rating would have certainly had more seats filled in the theater.

Overall, loved the race footage, sound and insight into who Hunt and Lauda were off the track. Great film. Leave the kids home.

[onlycafe]

saw it last night and was quite impressed.

call me lucky, on the way home from the theater i got lit up by a deputy who told me i was doing 72 in a 55.
he then asked me the usual:
"where are you going, where are you coming from?", i said that it was ironic, the movie was "rush".
the good news is that he handed me back my license and wished me a good night. whew!

[bell]

Opie did good.....
The actor that played lauda made the movie IMO, wether he accurately portrayed lauda correctly I have no idea lol

[rcooled]

I saw it over the weekend and thought it was just OK. Hats off to the actor who played Lauda...he had the look down pat! I felt that the racing scenes were too chopped up with rapid-fire cuts, and the scenes of Lauda being treated for his burns were unnecessarily graphic and went on too long. I'll have to say that I did enjoy the action in the film's last 15 or 20 minutes though.
I have a hard time believing that anyone not having at least a passing interest in motor sports will like this movie. After all, how many people here in the US even know who Lauda and Hunt are/were...or care?

One last comment: I thought the racing scenes in both Grand Prix and LeMans were at least an order of magnitude better than in this film.

[intakexhaust]

Originally Posted by rcooled

After all, how many people here in the US even know who Lauda and Hunt are/were...or care?

One last comment: I thought the racing scenes in both Grand Prix and LeMans were at least an order of magnitude better than in this film.

LOL. My guess the majority of US race fans can relate to Tom Cruise in whatever that NASCAR flick was called or The Gumball Rally movie.

[pitargue]

Saw it and to me, it was a movie about sporting rivalry w/ racing as a back drop. The main theme was how different these men were, but were on the top of their form. Basically, old school (Hunt) and new school (Lauda) overlapping as the sport was changing. F1 changing from a romantic sport (Hunt), to a cold, calculating, strategic, and business like sport (Lauda). The guy that played Lauda was excellent.

[Sunroof]

The actor who played Lauda was that Nazi sharpshooting nutcase in Inglorious Bastards. This was a perfect role for him (in Rush that is).

[Don Ro]

I thought it was juvenile.
Sound was way too loud - but folks like things loud these days.
My g/f took me - she liked it.

[URY914]

Did Ron Howard put his brother in this one? I didn't see him.

[5String43]

Went to see "Rush," the Ron Howard film about the duel between World Driving Champions Niki Lauda and James Hunt during the 1976 racing season Sunday. Oh, man, we both really liked it, especially since it was showing at the local iPic, the most wonderful theater on the planet (Oh, waiter, please bring us each a bloody bloody Mary, chop-chop!). When it ended, I wiped my eyes dry, turned to Laura and said, "Wow!" And she said, "do you think they'd let us sit through it again?" Atta girl! My sweetie is such a killer.

Loved seeing the cars, the real items, in action, and hearing them. They got most of the details spot-on, from what I could tell, and I was pleased that they covered the first F1 year with the Hesketh team, and even showed the car, as well as got Harvey Postlethwaite's name, and those of Lord Hesketh and Bubbles Horseley, team owner and team manager, into the story. Fabulous characters from one of the most entertaining teams ever to grace F1. Yes, and I thought the racing scenes were done beautifully.

Oh, the crash scene at the Glen. The scene flashed by very quickly - the decapitated remains still in the car. That was poor Francois Cevert after going under the don't-call-it-Armco, the crash that pushed the great John Young Stewart (if he couldn't score seat 1A, British Air, he didn't fly) to retire. Awful times.

But worse than that, the Lauda crash scene at the Nurburgring took my breath away - it was one of the most awful, frightening things I've ever seen.

This was the era when I was at Autoweek, covering F1 myself when the circus came to Long Beach, so I was really a super fan as well as an observer. I remember reading somewhere that the damage to Lauda's lungs came not so much from burns, but from inhaling the fumes of the burning plastic from the car's seat; and also that the reason he pulled off in Japan was not so much because the risk was too great, as the movie indicates, but because the fire had damaged his eyelids to the point where he was unable to blink away the water that was leaking into his helmet, so couldn't see. Apocryphal or true? I don't suppose we'll ever know. More important, I didn't really realize that Lauda was such a complete dick. "Just a German," is what Laura said. Though that does come through, I think, when you read and listen to his interviews, now that he's a honcho with Mercedes, crabby, elderly and paunchy like so many of us, wearing his plaid shirt and red cap. A three-time World Champion, bless his surly heart, so he's excused.

My pal Paul Aragon, who doesn't miss bloody much, noticed that the starts showed the five-light system, which wasn't in use then, and that at Monte Carlo, they raced around the piscine, or swimming pool, which hadn't been built in that era.

But I don't care. You use what you have and/or can find. I liked "Rush" a lot. So did Laura, who thought that the women in the film were beautiful. Uh, er, so did I. I also thought the footage of the real guys at the end of the film, and especially Lauda's comments, was incredibly poignant. Poor Hunt, of course, dead at 45 after livin' and dyin' the life, is not available for comment. Poor talented bastard. As Aragon noted, "Too bad James Hunt isn't alive today to impart one of his usually caustic statements on the movie."

Indeed.

All in all, I thought "Rush" was brilliant. I'll need to see it again. And then acquire the DVD. Oh, excuse me - you youthful lot call it the Blu-ray these days, right? Hey, I'm mired in the good old days. And I don't care one little bit. For that's when heroes drove real racing cars.

-JFT

[Laneco]

Steve and I saw this on Saturday. He liked it and I LOVED it! I wanted to sit through it again RIGHT THEN!

The Lauda character was fantastic. Intelligent, incredibly motivated and very talented - particularly with car setup (had no idea he did that).

In my opinion, one of the best scenes of the movie is when the Lauda chracter is driving the tires off a borrowed car in Italy, much to the cheering delight of the car owner, who was in the backseat!

angela

[jyl]

Saw w/ daughter who has no interest in F1 or motorsport or cars. She loved it. I liked it a lot. Now I'm going to make her see Senna.

[drcoastline]

Saw it with the wife last week. I turned her on to auto racing a few years ago. We live near NJMSP and frequent the track. We also attend vintage week at Watkins Glen every year. We both thought it was good but not great. It failed to build excitement. After the scene where Lauda drives the tires off the sedan after meeting Marlene with the car owner in the back and the scene where he has the Ferrari torn down rebuilt and beats Regazonnis car by 2 seconds. I thought the move was going to be better than it was. The rest of the movie moved real slow and was anti-climactic for me. I also didn't care for the pool scene with Lauda and Marlene. I thought it was unnecessary. Hunt provided plenty of that action and it fit his character.

Any way I enjoyed it but didn't love it.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Lapkritis

Ah, that explains it. I thought it might be an error... and no, I have not seen one before.

Wow... the Tyrell P34 is semi-famous...

Even the announcer in the movie talks about the "6-wheel Tyrrell P34"'


Sheltered life you have.

[Lapkritis]

I tend to think of it as busy with other stuff.