RUSH movie review

[Aricracer]

http://www.sportscardigest.com/rush-201 ... fjofhes.C0

[StephanAlfa]

I am looking forward to see this this week-end.
One observation is that all critics talk about James Hunt being a playboy and Niki Lauda being calculated, cool and shy .. that's a bit of baloney ... Niki was not a saint and has been dating some very good looking Brazilian girls on his heydays even while married...
If you Google hi bio there you have it:
Lauda has two sons with his first wife, Marlene (who he divorced in 1991): Mathias, a racing driver himself, and Lukas, his brother Mathias's manager. He also has an extra-marital son, Christoph. In 2008 he married Birgit, who is 30 years his junior and was formerly a flight attendant for his airline. She had also donated a kidney to Lauda when the kidney he received in a transplant from his brother years earlier failed. In September 2009 Birgit gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
btw, he is not the only one in those days to have done that ... ahhh, must be those Brazilian girls!

[austaz]

Where are the early screenings in Boston this weekend, I thought it didn't open until later this month in the US?

Also while your waiting lego created a new version of the trailer.

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[n1gzd]

starts tonight! I am definitely going.
Rebecca

[StephanAlfa]

Well, I saw the movie ... it was nice but I was not impressed ... I can't point my finger at anything that had a "WOW!" factor.
It was good... not sure if it was "great" like the classic Grand Prix, Le Mans, Senna the movie for example.

[Aricracer]

We saw RUSH Wednesday...all three people in our group thought it was excellent. Have heard feed-back from others who follow F1, and those who don't that they give the movie 2 thumbs up !

Excellent acting, both with the Niki Lauda character, and the James Hunt character 4.5/5

[horizenjob]

I really enjoyed the movie. It sucks you in as it goes along, by half way into the movie I felt pretty involved. My wife enjoyed the movie too, becuase "it wasn't just about the cars, but you had a sense what the women were going thru too."

The downside is the soundtrack doesn't really put you there. Perhaps depsite all the effort put into sound systems in theaters they just fall short when faced with a Cosworth DFV. I'm a little sad about that. Sigh, I just have to say Cosworth DFV again...

Years ago we actually had an F1 car show up at a COM time trial. No, it wasn't the driking the night before or the general 70's haze - it was an actual F1 car. At that time they became "affordable" a few years after they ran the series. Maybe this will describe what they actually sounded like...

The car was serounded by a small cast of characters, it was a cool day and they were trying to fire it up for the first time of the day. It was clearly a *very* serious piece of equipment. There was a guy, who may or may not have had an italien accent, just drapped over the rear of the car - lying over the rear tire and various hardware. If this car was a Brazilian girl what was going would have been at the same time embaressing and yet still transfixing. These cars just don't have chokes. So he was using an old fashioned pump squirt oil can full of gasoline and running it back and forth over the trumpets and also covering some with his palm. (I wonder if this works with Brazi - oh never mind )

This goes on for a few moments and I tell my girlfriend, let's go over there and watch. She's like "OK, gee that looks different than your car...". It hits just once while we walk over and the guys talk a bit and get ready and try again. "BAM", (they don't actually have a word for this). It hits and goes hard. The guy is still drapped over the car and squirting gas like a wild man now. A few seconds and he springs back from the car and it the driver is running it thru the revs just to keep it goins. This is a very wild animal and everyone in the near presence of this thing is having a private conversation with their spinal cord.

Afer a few moments I turned to my girlfirend and said we have to get back to my car and get ready for practice. She nods and I start walking. Oddly I am alone though. I go back and talk to her again, we need to get my car ready now too. She nods - but it becomes apparent over the next minute that she can't actually move either of her legs - never mind how often she has agreed with me to actually leave.

It's true the movie doesn't get that part right. It's too bad. I did really enjoy it though.

This was about '82 and the car was an Ocela or something like that.

[Aricracer]

I totally understand what you are saying...I have been in the right place at the right time, to see some crazy cars at the Glen during historic/vintage weekends...like the Bentley coupe GTP...ran 10 laps on a Friday morning....saw it in the garage...then they were gone....poof! rare Ferrari's....the Martini Porsche 917....it's wonderful when you catch these rare cars on track.

[n1gzd]

I saw some of the cars that were used to make the movie at the Watkin's Glen Vintage Grand Prix last year. My full pics:
http://www.pangalacticconsortium.com/ca ... I_Vintage/

some shortcuts into the set where some F1 cars start:
http://www.pangalacticconsortium.com/ca ... ex041.html
http://www.pangalacticconsortium.com/ca ... ex018.html
(including Niki Lauda's car).
http://www.pangalacticconsortium.com/ca ... ex037.html

Here I am posing with Mario Andretti's car:
http://www.pangalacticconsortium.com/ca ... ge914.html

Rebecca



I saw these cars race last year.

Rebecca

[chaos4NH]

Amalfi Racing was owned by Mike Amalfitano for whom I worked for 12 years. He was a Porsche fanatic. He was also a multi millionaire who owned a home (compound?) on Governor's Island. When I first met him he had one of the few 1970s Plymouths with a hemi engine. He also raced FAST snowmobiles. Unfortunately Mike passed away a few years back. He left a very rich young lady his entire legacy. I am not sure if she sold the Amalfi Racing business or has carried on the legacy. He ran with COM a few times, probably in the '80's. John Spain may have seen his Amalfi Racing cars at Sebring.

[n1gzd]

Saw it 4 times so far.
Rebecca

[cuda6666]

I suppose you've heard that Sean Edwards - who played his father Guy Edwards in the movie - was killed this weekend while instructing a student in Australia. Car went off the end of a straighaway into a barrier. Hard to believe the Porsche had a brake failure. Probably a student screw up.

[John F]

The downside is the soundtrack doesn't really put you there. Perhaps depsite all the effort put into sound systems in theaters they just fall short when faced with a Cosworth DFV. I'm a little sad about that. Sigh, I just have to say Cosworth DFV again...

Here's a Cosworth DFX.

[brucesallen]

The downside is the soundtrack doesn't really put you there. Perhaps depsite all the effort put into sound systems in theaters they just fall short when faced with a Cosworth DFV. I'm a little sad about that. Sigh, I just have to say Cosworth DFV again...

Here's a Cosworth DFX.

Stiff (or NO) springs!

[horizenjob]

I don't think anything with real aero can use much for springs.

The DFX sound nice, but the turbo takes a bunch away. A DFV sounds nicer, I think.

I wasn't making fun of my girlfriend in the comments above. It's just that crewing for a couple of years on my Formula Ford and parking next to Larry Doe's track Corvette every event just does not prepare you at all for the sound of a DFV. Mind you all the real race motors of that era sounded good.