Films

Hah! If only they raced cars like that today, I would enjoy F1 a lot more!

I dunno, it was just too much of a Prost v Senna thing. No mention of any of his other great rivals, no Mansell, no Berger, nothing on his influence on Schumacher. I know they need to keep the film relatively short, but they could've put so much more in. Or maybe it's just more suited to a short TV documentry series as opposed to a film.

Though i've gotta admit, the continuous onboard footage on the laps leading up to the crash, very well done. Hard to watch, but well done.

totally agree. while we're on it i thought a lot of the sub-godspeed generic moody post-rock soundtrack irritatingly lame.

it's a shame that so little footage from that era was shot on film. sad that that all that exists of this amazing time is grainy, low res and badly coloured video. some of it looking like it was taped on well used vhs off someone's half-tuned telly then left in the attic for 10 years. if you think of the beautiful b&w archive footage of the likes of jim clarke and graham hill era, it just doesn't compare.

also a lot's been made of the fact that it's a film that's accessible to non F1 fans... id' go further and say that it's almost exclusively aimed at non F1 fans. I got the feeling that anyone who was even slightly interested or knew anything of that period would find themselves unsatisfied with the lack of detail. i wanted to know more about the cars, the tracks, the other drivers, the nitty gritty of it. as mccarthy says, it wasn't all about the relationship between prost and senna.

one of the most moving scenes for me was where he was on the podium in sao paulo in '91 almost totally immobilised with muscle spasms in his shoulders trying... almost failing... and eventually just managing to hoist the trophy above his head.

the scene from the bonkers brazilian christmas tv show was my favourite though. it's like that simpsons episode where bart's watching a spanish language kids show featuring tastle-twirling strippers, dancing elephants, glitter expolosions and inexplicably and man dressed as a giant dancing bug. oy oy oy. no me gusta!