F1 (2025)

Saw this in a packed theater tonight August 9th. We actually had to drive a bit from the house to find a theater that had decent seats left. This movie released June 27th. I’d say it’s doing alright…

Anyway, definitely worth the price of admission. Best theater movie released since Maverick.

Pitt mostly puts in great performances in excellent movies that don't pander to lowest common denominator audiences. Its surprising and unsurprising.

Sanrith Descartes said:

On advice from the bros here we saw this over the weekend. 1st movie in a theater since Top Gun Maverick. I went in planning to ignore the female engineer, the black partner, etc and not have high hopes for some epic level story. Enjoyed the movie for what it was. Looked and sounded great on the big screen. Brad Pitt was Brad Pitt. The ending went a little different direction from the way I thought it would go which was refreshing. Its a different film than Rush (which I really like) but just as enjoyable. 8/10

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I was expecting Brad to sacrifice the win to give the kid the glory and was surprised when it went the opposite way. The kid telling him afterwards that he had plenty of time to get his wins and this one was Pitts showed the kid head learned something and matured.

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Just watched this. Enjoyed it well enough on the home screen. I was never bored, and after the first 10 minutes the diversity stuff didn't bother me.

The biggest surprise, also pretty early on, was when I noticed that they got all the actual F1 people in the movie. But then, I saw Lewis Hamilton as a producer or something in the opening credits, and I figure they probably just did it using the same resources as the Drive to Survive stuff.

I was a bit confused by Pitt's character though. He talks like he was the next upcoming Schumacher, but never even made a podium? Seems kind of strange. They made a quip about being a "never was" and that sounds exactly like what he was. There are plenty of drivers who come into F1 and never amount to anything despite looking like they have talent. If Pitt's character had been a Verstappen type character who flamed out the same way as the movie after a single season it would've made more sense. Otherwise, yeah, I was a bit surprised by the ending. Oddly, there were two other scenes (the wet race, and the poker game) that felt either super telegraphed or I just called them out really easily, but the ending swerve was surprising.

Anyway, I bet Pitt had a fucking blast filming this. And it really makes me want to pick Drive to Survive back up. I think I quit during the '20 or '21 season.

This is something like the original Avatar. It’s fine. But god damn it was a super great theater experience on a giant imax screen. I posted in another thread it was one of my fav movies of the year but I doubt it would have made it only watching it at home

the racing bits made it worth it so if that doesn’t translate to the small screen idk how much there is to get out of it