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Throwing in my two cents spoilers

posted 5 years ago by MichaelPacino (179)
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*Drives out of the movie theater*
NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!
*stops*
Whew 2019, now THAT'S a movie I can enjoy. From director James Mangold, comes a racing movie with a lot of heart, and passion with a lot of good to talk about.

PRO:
Acting- Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Cartiona Balfe, and the whole cast are pitch perfect in this. While Damon, and Bale are an absolute joy to watch, the movie is a very solid ensemble film, and I expect the SAG awards may give them a nod for best ensemble.

Editing- Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, and Dirk Westervelt all did amazing work on this movie. (Honestly, I can see why this movie needed three editors). Every cut feels like music, hitting each downpoint crisp and clean, while not being afraid to be staccato at the right moments, especially in the racing sequences. It reminded me a lot of "A New Hope" with how it was cut, it all felt so neatly in place.

Sound design- Jay Wilkinson and his sound design team are at peak beauty in this film. The sound is brilliant throughout. The cars racing by each have a specific sound to each car, much like an instrument in an orchestra, and it all blends together seamlessly. Great work is done here.

Cons:
None I can state at this time.

This is a strong movie, with great acting, amazing editing, and gorgeous sound design, and I highly recommend it.

*Looks back at "The Goldfinch*

If movies were a beauty contest, you just lost.

[–] Ranb (9595) 5 years ago

Cons; too many scenes that were figments of the screen writers imagination. It made it seem like Shelby and Miles nearly made the GT-40 by themselves.

That said, I enjoyed the movie

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Very true... completely ignores the fact that Ford had already created the GT40 as a fully functional race car with Shelby and Miles simply working out the problems that it had. It also completely rewrites some of the problems and the causes, the GT40's that all failed at le Mans in the race prior to their 1,2,3 finish weren't caused by anything the drivers were doing it was caused by the Ford executives that replaced the original Shelby modified motors with motors from the Ford factory that hadn't been properly prepared for use in a race car. According to Shelby they failed to take in account the fact that the head bolts were new and didn't run them in as they should. Which is funny sense most any motor head would know a head bolt has to be re-tightened after you run the engine for a while because the bolts will stretch as they get heated up... failing to do so will almost guarantee the head gasket gets blown if you're pushing the engine very hard, which would be the case in a racing car.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

More evidence that FoMoCo had no business trying to be in, or to buy into, exotic prototype sports car racing.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Awww.. did your little toy brand lose? Get over it, dude. It was 50 years ago.

[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 5 years ago

Well...that's kind of true though, huh? They had a whole different business model...aligned comfort with transport and put these giant, unwieldy machines on the road that weren't exactly testaments to engineering. Doesn't seem like they were on the forefront of anything but mass production and marketing.

Their innovation wasn't for the love of innovating or for the love of cars, but for the love of selling more units, with maybe a little revenge thrown in there. There was no real love of anything much more than money, while Ferrari...engineering and the love of cars was in his blood. He literally gave everything he had for it.

Its not like they shouldn't have tried, I guess...but they're probably not who we should have been rooting for.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

Editing is everything, in every medium. Ford made a Ford GT, ‘cause Hank Ford the Deuce was man limp ‘cause Enzo Ferrari would not sell his empire to a Detroit pissant. Shelby whipped the bitch into shape, like he did with the British AC Ace, into which he dropped a Ford 260 cubic inch pushrod V-8 and named it the Shelby Cobra (then designed a 4-wheel, independent chassis vehicle with a 427 cubic-inch Ford NASCAR motor that became the LEGENDARY 427 Cobra, the world’s first Supercar, doing 0 to 100
MPS to back to 0 in under 30 seconds, when driven by Ken Miles).

[–] Forky (1739) 5 years ago

No cons? Really? The entire first half of the film was kind of a dud.