July 8, 2025 • 13 mins
🏎️🔥 In this episode of The Rank Podcast, John shifts into high gear with a review of the adrenaline-pumping 2025 action film F1: The Movie, starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, and Kerry Condon!
Set against the high-stakes, high-speed world of Formula 1 racing, the film follows a veteran driver (Pitt) who returns to the track to mentor a rising star (Idris), while navigating intense rivalries, personal demons, and a cutthroat racing circuit. With sleek cinematography, roaring engines, and emotionally charged performances, F1: The Movie brings the thrill of the sport to the big screen like never before.
John breaks down the film’s action sequences, character arcs, and how well it balances sports drama with blockbuster spectacle. Does F1: The Movie take the checkered flag in John's Action Movie Rankings, or spin out in the final lap?
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(00:00):
OK, I imagine the pitch for thismovie going something like, hey,
I want to drive really fast cars.
OK, that's neat, Brad, but what's that got to do with us?
Well, I'm going to have the guy who just directed Top Gun
Maverick. Direct me driving really fast
cars. OK, I'm in.
I'm doing an impression. Well, you suck at impressions.
(00:36):
Hello and welcome back to The Rank.
I'm John, and today we're going to be ranking F1, the movie
starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Carrie Condon, and Javier
Bardem, with a story from JosephKaczynski, who also directed it,
and Aaron Krueger, who also wrote the screenplay.
I picked this movie originally because it was receiving Oscar
buzz before it came out, so I wanted to be prepared for the
(00:56):
eventual best picture nominees. It was also listed as an action
movie, so I figured I'd rank it as an action movie, right?
And I'd have the best picture ranking ready as well.
Now that I've seen it, it's not going to be for best Picture,
which is not a knock on it, it'sfine.
It's just not that type of movie.
Also, it doesn't really fit the action movie genre.
It's more of a sports movie. So as you'll hear slash see when
(01:16):
we get to the rank segment, I'm ranking this as a sports movie
with specific categories for that.
I think that will fit better andaligns with my goal to rank
movies based on their genres as opposed to just ranking them
against all other movies. So if you're enjoying these
rankings or you just like the idea of getting a review of a
sports movie based on it being asports movie, please consider
subscribing and or following, liking and reviewing.
(01:37):
Please put any of your comments,questions, suggestions into the
comment section or e-mail the show.
And if you're, you know, you super duper like it, you're
like, yeah, I'm really into thisguy for some unknown reason.
Consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/the Rank podcast.
All right, let's see how this one turned out, starting with
the Potent Notables. So as always, the potent
(02:00):
notables start with the movies financials.
It came out this past weekend, 2weekends ago, last weekend for
me, two weekends ago for you. So for its first weekend, it
garnered $57 million domestically and $89.3 million
internationally for a worldwide total of $146.3 million.
This is against a budget of $200million, which is just crazy.
(02:21):
So even though the budget is huge, it does appear that this
movie has a good chance to make money.
I mean it already has 146.3. I think.
I think it'll probably make it to 400 million.
Now, part of that $200 million budget, Brad Pitt got his
largest salary of his career, $30 million.
Oh, that's a lot of money, but they covered his salary plus
some in sponsorships. Forbes estimated that the film
(02:42):
made $40 million from sponsorships and brand deals.
Now, of course, part of the issue that caused the budget to
balloon was delays, one of whichbeing the actors and writers
strikes. Although Brad got some heat
because even though the production was supposedly shut
down, was actually still filmingat the Hungaro ring.
I don't know what he's saying, but he's funny.
(03:04):
Whatever. The race is in Hungary for F1 in
June 2023. So they said it was shut down,
but it wasn't actually shut down.
And then they shut it down in July.
Filming took place during various Grand Prix weekends
during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
During the weekend of the British Grand Prix in July 2024
at Silverstone, UK. Now, thanks to the strike,
(03:25):
Joseph Kaczynski said they had over 5000 hours of footage and
they had almost two years to edit because of the strikes
which allowed them to get it right. 5000 hours of footage.
That's too much footage, way toomuch now.
Brad Pitt has long been an avid fan of auto racing.
Pitt was originally set to * alongside Tom Cruise and go Like
Hell with Joseph Kaczynski directing, but the project fell
(03:48):
apart due to budget reasons and later became Ford versus
Ferrari. Pitt has since produced and
narrated the Moto GP documentary, Hitting the Apex in
2015. And in 2016, Pitt had the honor
of taking a lap around the circuit before starting the 24
Hours of Le Mans in France. Quote.
Tom and I for a while there wereon Ford versus Ferrari with Joe,
as in Joe Kaczynski. This was about 10 years before
(04:10):
the guys who actually made it and made it a great movie.
What it came down to is that we both wanted to drive and he
wanted to play Shelby and I wanted to play Ken Miles.
And when Tom realized that Carroll Shelby would not be
driving much in that movie, it didn't come through.
End Quote. So yeah, basically, Tom, drive
fast or Tom, no work. That's kind of the deal,
although it does appear as though both Brad and and Tom
really wanted to drive. So this next boat note will
(04:32):
maybe a small spoiler, but it happens at the very beginning of
the movie so if you really feel like this is a spoiler then I've
spoiled the 1st 10 minutes for you.
Sorry. Anyway, at the beginning of the
movie they decided the best way to show that Sonny, Brad Pitt's
character still has it is to have him win the Rolex 24 called
the Daytona 24. In the movie, the producers
requested that they be able to win the race, the actual race.
(04:54):
The IMSA or the International Motorsports Association said
sure, as long as they entered asa competitor straight up with no
favoritism and if they had enough funding, they could field
multiple competitive cars and and have a real shot at winning.
So of course the producers were like, how about instead of that,
we have a dedicated car with thesole purpose of filming race
action. They were going to have the car
(05:14):
intermittently return to the garage to change out different
filming components, then rejoin the race.
And then the IMSA was like, no. So what they ended up doing was
partnering with a team with thatteam carrying multiple cameras
to capture the race footage. And that team was Motorsports.
That's Wright. And don't get your hopes up,
though. Brad's laps in the car weren't
(05:35):
in the race itself, and the teamthey were following didn't win.
They came in 26th out of 59. All right, so last PO notable to
this end, Apple created custom cameras to mount on the race
cars, and they were operated by a special remote control
designed by Panavision. Each car had 15 camera mounts
and could hold up to four cameras at a time.
To keep the cars unencumbered byextra weight, the cameras were
(05:57):
only 10cm by 10 centimeters in size, size 1/4 of the size of
the cameras used for Top Gun Maverick.
So there you go. Those are the Pope notables.
Let's go on to the movie overview.
OK, I imagine the pitch for thismovie going something like, hey,
I want to drive really fast cars.
OK, that's neat, Brad, but what's that got to do with us?
Well. I'm going to have the guy who
just directed Top Gun Maverick direct me driving.
(06:19):
Really fast cars. OK, I'm in.
I'm. Doing an impression?
You suck at impressions. That's that's the how I envision
the pitch anyway. So that's what this movie is,
and it certainly doesn't hide. Brad plays Sonny, a guy who
still wants to race but is well past his prime, though we as the
audience already know he's stillgot it in him.
I mean, naturally, right? This isn't Rocky 5, but
(06:40):
actually, you know, kind of is. Well, maybe it's more Rocky.
Three if Rocky was Apollo and also Rocky.
Anyway, enough of that. Sonny's old friend Reuben,
played by Javier Bardem, who hasa lot more money than Sonny, has
started an F1 team and he wants Sonny to help him out because
his board has the right to get rid of the team if he doesn't
win a race in the first three years.
(07:01):
And guess what? They're in the third season and
they still haven't won a race. Reuben just knows Sonny can get
them across the finish line. But not only does he believe
that he can get them across the finish line, but help Reuben's
rookie driver Joshua, played by Damson Idris, become the star
he's meant to be. Will the grizzled vet be a team
player or will he be out for himself?
Will the rookie get his hat out of his ass?
(07:23):
Will Reuben have? Will Reuben have to sell the
team? And if those aren't enough
stakes for you, don't worry. There's going to be a couple
more relating to getting the girl and a medical issue.
And I have not spoiled it. I went into this one thinking it
would be good. I went into it thinking it would
be something it wasn't. I have these lists that I pay
attention to for for Oscar buzz Movies Now.
Of course they can't know beforethey actually come out, but it
(07:45):
helps me to know if I should watch them so that I'm not
scrambling come Oscars time. What I watched was not an Oscar
bait movie. I think that colored it a little
bit for me at first, but throughout the movie I let go of
that expectation and just sat back and enjoyed the ride, so to
speak. So if you're looking for brain
food, expect candy and you'll beall right.
Everybody loves candy. Brad Pitt continues to be a
(08:06):
charming movie star, still looking good at 61 years old,
like Tom Cruise. I wonder how much more he's got
in him. I enjoy his movies.
Maybe not so much the news he makes with regards to domestic
status, but I don't know the details on that, so I don't.
I don't want to opine necessarily, though I will say
it sure doesn't seem good anyway.
From his personal story not seeming good to his movie
actually being pretty darn good.Let's go to the rank.
(08:31):
A wank. So the rank is where I rank the
movie based on 10 categories, which some are new because this
is never ranked a sports movie before.
But these categories are going to be story, acting,
originality, sports sequences. That's a new one.
Film coherence, character relatability, underdog energy,
new one production value, the final play, another new one.
(08:52):
And my rank now I rank on a scale of one to five, one being
the worst five being the best and the first category story,
which I gave a three. Now three may in equal parts
seem too high and too low. It's sort of a classic story and
so therefore it should be higherbecause we've always
historically enjoyed it, right? But it's also kind of lazy to
just be like here's every sportsmovie ever in a new sport.
(09:14):
This is why I'm a little ambivalent because it's not like
I I didn't like it, but it was definitely not the best story
I've ever seen. Next category is acting, which I
gave a four. Now I don't know if it was the
the acting or the writing but attimes it definitely felt very
cheesy like in a paint by numbers type of way.
I don't know how to explain it just it felt like they were
saying and now we say this in this type of movie, it wasn't
all the time but it was enough to to dock at some points.
(09:36):
Otherwise the acting was was great.
Next category is originality, which I gave a two.
I mean let's face it, the only original thing about this movie
is that they decided to do F1 and that's where the originality
stops and starts. Next category is sports
sequences which I gave A5. OK, new category here.
The idea idea is were the sequences fitting for the sport?
Were they exciting questions like that.
(09:58):
And the answer is hell yes. The racing sequences here are
incredible and worth the price of admission in my opinion.
So let's go to film coherence, which I gave a four.
It was good. It was so by the book that it
almost felt like it wasn't good coherence because you just knew
where it was headed. Although I will say that I
wasn't 100% sure how they were going to handle the end of the
final race, so they kept me guessing a little bit.
(10:20):
Let's go to character relatability, which I gave a
3.75. Now, every character has
meaningful enough motivations except Joshua.
We see him with his mom and his cousin who's also his manager,
and he says he worked like hell to get there and whatnot, but we
never really get a sense of who he is.
He's just sort of a generic rookie who needs mentor.
It just sort of hurts his relatability because I don't
know where his motivations come from.
(10:43):
Later on, he gets more relatablebecause something happens and
the audience can understand why he's feeling the way he's
feeling. So he gets a little bit of a
boost towards the end there. Everybody else is good, pretty
good. So let's go to the next
category, another new category, Underdog energy.
So what's the crux of any good sports movie?
We're watching someone that nobody expects to win, and here
(11:04):
we are again. This movie has excellent
underdog energy. I was absolutely rooting for the
underdog the whole time. I gave it a four and a half.
So production value is the next one, which I gave a 4.25.
I mean, they spent $200 million.And you can definitely feel that
money when you're watching the movie.
I think the areas where production value is hurt is in
the same area where character relatability is hurt.
(11:25):
Joshua, he and his mom live in the most nondescript apartment
ever. I'm not sure who lives there.
And this is part of the problem,right?
Because it's just like, so does his mom have money and they have
like a really nice apartment, oris she living in his apartment
or is she visiting his apartment?
It's never really spelled out. And it's just like this really,
it's like a milquetoast apartment.
It just, it has no personality whatsoever.
(11:46):
I, I just think there could havebeen a little bit more personal
touch in their living space to give us a sense of who they are.
Besides fastidiously clean, apparently.
You know, everything else is, is, is really good.
I mean, it's just they spent $200 million.
So let's go to the final play, another new category.
I gave that a 4 1/2. So it's a little bit of A twist
on the final showdown and the action movie series.
(12:09):
But in every sports movie, there's always the final match,
or the final game, or the final,whatever word works for your
sport of choice, and in this case, the final race.
And this one does not disappoint.
If we could experience auto racing the way we can in this
movie, I bet it would be an evenbigger sport than it already is.
That's besides the point though.This movie's finale is
fantastic, even though it feels a little generic.
(12:31):
But it feels that way because that's the way it works best.
And this movie, as I've said, itis nothing if not by the
numbers, still really good, though.
Anyway, last category, my rank and I gave it a four.
So the fact that it's by the numbers, see Bull Durham,
Hoosiers, etcetera, decreases the score a little bit for me.
But it doesn't change the fact that it was a lot of fun and it
was exhilarating. If you enjoy sports movies,
(12:53):
you'll enjoy this one. If you enjoy auto racing movies,
you'll love this one. So that puts the total or F1 the
movie at 39, which puts it in the tier supreme cinema.
So thanks for listening everybody and or watching.
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(13:14):
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Hope to see you Thursday when I rank the 9th episode of the
studio. That's better, right, Antonio?
(13:47):
Yeah, that's better. No, no, just keep the clothes
on, OK, buddy.
OK, I imagine the pitch for thismovie going something like, hey,
I want to drive really fast cars.
OK, that's neat, Brad, but what's that got to do with us?
Well, I'm going to have the guy who just directed Top Gun
Maverick. Direct me driving really fast
cars. OK, I'm in.
I'm doing an impression. Well, you suck at impressions.
(00:36):
Hello and welcome back to The Rank.
I'm John, and today we're going to be ranking F1, the movie
starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Carrie Condon, and Javier
Bardem, with a story from JosephKaczynski, who also directed it,
and Aaron Krueger, who also wrote the screenplay.
I picked this movie originally because it was receiving Oscar
buzz before it came out, so I wanted to be prepared for the
(00:56):
eventual best picture nominees. It was also listed as an action
movie, so I figured I'd rank it as an action movie, right?
And I'd have the best picture ranking ready as well.
Now that I've seen it, it's not going to be for best Picture,
which is not a knock on it, it'sfine.
It's just not that type of movie.
Also, it doesn't really fit the action movie genre.
It's more of a sports movie. So as you'll hear slash see when
(01:16):
we get to the rank segment, I'm ranking this as a sports movie
with specific categories for that.
I think that will fit better andaligns with my goal to rank
movies based on their genres as opposed to just ranking them
against all other movies. So if you're enjoying these
rankings or you just like the idea of getting a review of a
sports movie based on it being asports movie, please consider
subscribing and or following, liking and reviewing.
(01:37):
Please put any of your comments,questions, suggestions into the
comment section or e-mail the show.
And if you're, you know, you super duper like it, you're
like, yeah, I'm really into thisguy for some unknown reason.
Consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/the Rank podcast.
All right, let's see how this one turned out, starting with
the Potent Notables. So as always, the potent
(02:00):
notables start with the movies financials.
It came out this past weekend, 2weekends ago, last weekend for
me, two weekends ago for you. So for its first weekend, it
garnered $57 million domestically and $89.3 million
internationally for a worldwide total of $146.3 million.
This is against a budget of $200million, which is just crazy.
(02:21):
So even though the budget is huge, it does appear that this
movie has a good chance to make money.
I mean it already has 146.3. I think.
I think it'll probably make it to 400 million.
Now, part of that $200 million budget, Brad Pitt got his
largest salary of his career, $30 million.
Oh, that's a lot of money, but they covered his salary plus
some in sponsorships. Forbes estimated that the film
(02:42):
made $40 million from sponsorships and brand deals.
Now, of course, part of the issue that caused the budget to
balloon was delays, one of whichbeing the actors and writers
strikes. Although Brad got some heat
because even though the production was supposedly shut
down, was actually still filmingat the Hungaro ring.
I don't know what he's saying, but he's funny.
(03:04):
Whatever. The race is in Hungary for F1 in
June 2023. So they said it was shut down,
but it wasn't actually shut down.
And then they shut it down in July.
Filming took place during various Grand Prix weekends
during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
During the weekend of the British Grand Prix in July 2024
at Silverstone, UK. Now, thanks to the strike,
(03:25):
Joseph Kaczynski said they had over 5000 hours of footage and
they had almost two years to edit because of the strikes
which allowed them to get it right. 5000 hours of footage.
That's too much footage, way toomuch now.
Brad Pitt has long been an avid fan of auto racing.
Pitt was originally set to * alongside Tom Cruise and go Like
Hell with Joseph Kaczynski directing, but the project fell
(03:48):
apart due to budget reasons and later became Ford versus
Ferrari. Pitt has since produced and
narrated the Moto GP documentary, Hitting the Apex in
2015. And in 2016, Pitt had the honor
of taking a lap around the circuit before starting the 24
Hours of Le Mans in France. Quote.
Tom and I for a while there wereon Ford versus Ferrari with Joe,
as in Joe Kaczynski. This was about 10 years before
(04:10):
the guys who actually made it and made it a great movie.
What it came down to is that we both wanted to drive and he
wanted to play Shelby and I wanted to play Ken Miles.
And when Tom realized that Carroll Shelby would not be
driving much in that movie, it didn't come through.
End Quote. So yeah, basically, Tom, drive
fast or Tom, no work. That's kind of the deal,
although it does appear as though both Brad and and Tom
really wanted to drive. So this next boat note will
(04:32):
maybe a small spoiler, but it happens at the very beginning of
the movie so if you really feel like this is a spoiler then I've
spoiled the 1st 10 minutes for you.
Sorry. Anyway, at the beginning of the
movie they decided the best way to show that Sonny, Brad Pitt's
character still has it is to have him win the Rolex 24 called
the Daytona 24. In the movie, the producers
requested that they be able to win the race, the actual race.
(04:54):
The IMSA or the International Motorsports Association said
sure, as long as they entered asa competitor straight up with no
favoritism and if they had enough funding, they could field
multiple competitive cars and and have a real shot at winning.
So of course the producers were like, how about instead of that,
we have a dedicated car with thesole purpose of filming race
action. They were going to have the car
(05:14):
intermittently return to the garage to change out different
filming components, then rejoin the race.
And then the IMSA was like, no. So what they ended up doing was
partnering with a team with thatteam carrying multiple cameras
to capture the race footage. And that team was Motorsports.
That's Wright. And don't get your hopes up,
though. Brad's laps in the car weren't
(05:35):
in the race itself, and the teamthey were following didn't win.
They came in 26th out of 59. All right, so last PO notable to
this end, Apple created custom cameras to mount on the race
cars, and they were operated by a special remote control
designed by Panavision. Each car had 15 camera mounts
and could hold up to four cameras at a time.
To keep the cars unencumbered byextra weight, the cameras were
(05:57):
only 10cm by 10 centimeters in size, size 1/4 of the size of
the cameras used for Top Gun Maverick.
So there you go. Those are the Pope notables.
Let's go on to the movie overview.
OK, I imagine the pitch for thismovie going something like, hey,
I want to drive really fast cars.
OK, that's neat, Brad, but what's that got to do with us?
Well. I'm going to have the guy who
just directed Top Gun Maverick direct me driving.
(06:19):
Really fast cars. OK, I'm in.
I'm. Doing an impression?
You suck at impressions. That's that's the how I envision
the pitch anyway. So that's what this movie is,
and it certainly doesn't hide. Brad plays Sonny, a guy who
still wants to race but is well past his prime, though we as the
audience already know he's stillgot it in him.
I mean, naturally, right? This isn't Rocky 5, but
(06:40):
actually, you know, kind of is. Well, maybe it's more Rocky.
Three if Rocky was Apollo and also Rocky.
Anyway, enough of that. Sonny's old friend Reuben,
played by Javier Bardem, who hasa lot more money than Sonny, has
started an F1 team and he wants Sonny to help him out because
his board has the right to get rid of the team if he doesn't
win a race in the first three years.
(07:01):
And guess what? They're in the third season and
they still haven't won a race. Reuben just knows Sonny can get
them across the finish line. But not only does he believe
that he can get them across the finish line, but help Reuben's
rookie driver Joshua, played by Damson Idris, become the star
he's meant to be. Will the grizzled vet be a team
player or will he be out for himself?
Will the rookie get his hat out of his ass?
(07:23):
Will Reuben have? Will Reuben have to sell the
team? And if those aren't enough
stakes for you, don't worry. There's going to be a couple
more relating to getting the girl and a medical issue.
And I have not spoiled it. I went into this one thinking it
would be good. I went into it thinking it would
be something it wasn't. I have these lists that I pay
attention to for for Oscar buzz Movies Now.
Of course they can't know beforethey actually come out, but it
(07:45):
helps me to know if I should watch them so that I'm not
scrambling come Oscars time. What I watched was not an Oscar
bait movie. I think that colored it a little
bit for me at first, but throughout the movie I let go of
that expectation and just sat back and enjoyed the ride, so to
speak. So if you're looking for brain
food, expect candy and you'll beall right.
Everybody loves candy. Brad Pitt continues to be a
(08:06):
charming movie star, still looking good at 61 years old,
like Tom Cruise. I wonder how much more he's got
in him. I enjoy his movies.
Maybe not so much the news he makes with regards to domestic
status, but I don't know the details on that, so I don't.
I don't want to opine necessarily, though I will say
it sure doesn't seem good anyway.
From his personal story not seeming good to his movie
actually being pretty darn good.Let's go to the rank.
(08:31):
A wank. So the rank is where I rank the
movie based on 10 categories, which some are new because this
is never ranked a sports movie before.
But these categories are going to be story, acting,
originality, sports sequences. That's a new one.
Film coherence, character relatability, underdog energy,
new one production value, the final play, another new one.
(08:52):
And my rank now I rank on a scale of one to five, one being
the worst five being the best and the first category story,
which I gave a three. Now three may in equal parts
seem too high and too low. It's sort of a classic story and
so therefore it should be higherbecause we've always
historically enjoyed it, right? But it's also kind of lazy to
just be like here's every sportsmovie ever in a new sport.
(09:14):
This is why I'm a little ambivalent because it's not like
I I didn't like it, but it was definitely not the best story
I've ever seen. Next category is acting, which I
gave a four. Now I don't know if it was the
the acting or the writing but attimes it definitely felt very
cheesy like in a paint by numbers type of way.
I don't know how to explain it just it felt like they were
saying and now we say this in this type of movie, it wasn't
all the time but it was enough to to dock at some points.
(09:36):
Otherwise the acting was was great.
Next category is originality, which I gave a two.
I mean let's face it, the only original thing about this movie
is that they decided to do F1 and that's where the originality
stops and starts. Next category is sports
sequences which I gave A5. OK, new category here.
The idea idea is were the sequences fitting for the sport?
Were they exciting questions like that.
(09:58):
And the answer is hell yes. The racing sequences here are
incredible and worth the price of admission in my opinion.
So let's go to film coherence, which I gave a four.
It was good. It was so by the book that it
almost felt like it wasn't good coherence because you just knew
where it was headed. Although I will say that I
wasn't 100% sure how they were going to handle the end of the
final race, so they kept me guessing a little bit.
(10:20):
Let's go to character relatability, which I gave a
3.75. Now, every character has
meaningful enough motivations except Joshua.
We see him with his mom and his cousin who's also his manager,
and he says he worked like hell to get there and whatnot, but we
never really get a sense of who he is.
He's just sort of a generic rookie who needs mentor.
It just sort of hurts his relatability because I don't
know where his motivations come from.
(10:43):
Later on, he gets more relatablebecause something happens and
the audience can understand why he's feeling the way he's
feeling. So he gets a little bit of a
boost towards the end there. Everybody else is good, pretty
good. So let's go to the next
category, another new category, Underdog energy.
So what's the crux of any good sports movie?
We're watching someone that nobody expects to win, and here
(11:04):
we are again. This movie has excellent
underdog energy. I was absolutely rooting for the
underdog the whole time. I gave it a four and a half.
So production value is the next one, which I gave a 4.25.
I mean, they spent $200 million.And you can definitely feel that
money when you're watching the movie.
I think the areas where production value is hurt is in
the same area where character relatability is hurt.
(11:25):
Joshua, he and his mom live in the most nondescript apartment
ever. I'm not sure who lives there.
And this is part of the problem,right?
Because it's just like, so does his mom have money and they have
like a really nice apartment, oris she living in his apartment
or is she visiting his apartment?
It's never really spelled out. And it's just like this really,
it's like a milquetoast apartment.
It just, it has no personality whatsoever.
(11:46):
I, I just think there could havebeen a little bit more personal
touch in their living space to give us a sense of who they are.
Besides fastidiously clean, apparently.
You know, everything else is, is, is really good.
I mean, it's just they spent $200 million.
So let's go to the final play, another new category.
I gave that a 4 1/2. So it's a little bit of A twist
on the final showdown and the action movie series.
(12:09):
But in every sports movie, there's always the final match,
or the final game, or the final,whatever word works for your
sport of choice, and in this case, the final race.
And this one does not disappoint.
If we could experience auto racing the way we can in this
movie, I bet it would be an evenbigger sport than it already is.
That's besides the point though.This movie's finale is
fantastic, even though it feels a little generic.
(12:31):
But it feels that way because that's the way it works best.
And this movie, as I've said, itis nothing if not by the
numbers, still really good, though.
Anyway, last category, my rank and I gave it a four.
So the fact that it's by the numbers, see Bull Durham,
Hoosiers, etcetera, decreases the score a little bit for me.
But it doesn't change the fact that it was a lot of fun and it
was exhilarating. If you enjoy sports movies,
(12:53):
you'll enjoy this one. If you enjoy auto racing movies,
you'll love this one. So that puts the total or F1 the
movie at 39, which puts it in the tier supreme cinema.
So thanks for listening everybody and or watching.
If you'd like to see a list of our episode series rankings, you
do that on our website at the rankpodcast.com.
Remember to subscribe, review and comment and please consider
(13:14):
supporting us on our Patreon site at patreon.com/the Rank
Podcast and you you'll get access to all of our archived
episodes. OK, that's the checkered flag.
Hope to see you Thursday when I rank the 9th episode of the
studio. That's better, right, Antonio?
(13:47):
Yeah, that's better. No, no, just keep the clothes
on, OK, buddy.
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