F1 The Movie (2025) starring Brad Pitt: The Reviews Are In…

This is one movie I won't be seeing.

R1 = Pax.

I'm bored just thinking about what this film would be like.

Never got or liked racing anything that isn't your own body, so I'll skip this.

I doesn't help that I had to watch hours and hours of F1 as a kid with my dad because everyone and their grandma had a hardon for Michael Schumacher. The only thing I enjoyed were those delightful ASMR sounds the tires produced.

I loved Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill and Mika Häkkinen when I was a kid. And, less auspiciously, Jacques Villeneuve 🥴 He is such a pain in the ass on the French feed

Though him saying the quiet bit out loud about Daniel Riccardo on live TV in front of all Riccardo’s friends was ballsy.

[quote] The oldest participant of an F1 grand prix is Louis Chiron, who was 55 years and 292 days old when he came sixth in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix.

I mean...Pitt is a tad TOO old for this. I guess Glen Powell turned it down?

ANYWAY

I am happy to see Damson Idris getting more work.

Didn't race car driver movies peak with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen? And they were in their early '40s at the time!

Wow Brad looks like he's been cinched at the waist like Scarlett O'Hara.

The trailer for this was boring and cliché as hell.

Watch the trailer on the Apple TV app on your IPhone.

Why R11?

Premiere done and dusted.

Menswear Guy pointed out how the clothes didn’t work on their weird massive necked, hulking shouldered, chopstick legged skinny frames.

Fortunately he wasn’t too mean to Yuki Tsunoda.

Hugger Tom Cruise NOT hugging Brad Pitt on the red carpet.

The Brad Pitt movie is expected to make close to $150m globally on this opening weekend.. This would make this his biggest box office movie to date. Critic reviews and audience reviews have been very good….Brad is da man!

Damson Idris is gorgeous

He looks very good in this film. A little beat up, but then that is the character he is playing.

Plus they show many of the hottie, real F1 drivers.

It was pretty spectacular, the loud cars and the fans and the glamour. It was sort of behind the scenes. Stuff they don’t and can’t show during a race and afterward.

It was a good time. I might see it again.

There’s a picture somewhere that shows how Brad is NOT happy that Cruise is there. What the fuck was he doing there anyway? Crashing Brads premier? Like he did with Batman a few years ago. 🤔

Brad Pitt doesn’t really make too many bad movies. He’s very good at choosing which films to star in. I figured it would be decent, worth a watch at the very least. There was no reason to assume it would be awful.

Brad can't open a movie. Joseph Kosinski directed the smash Top Gun: Maverick, and yet F1 opened with $55 million. Variety says it cost $300 million to make and had a big marketing budget.

Tom Cruise is a much bigger movie star than Brad.

f1 is very popular world wide. But I find it a little boring...they are just going round and round the fucking track.

No, R21, that would be trashy NASCAR, just going round and round in circles.

These cars have irregular shaped circuits. Some turns are downright dangerous. Like the one they show in Vegas.

I loved the movie, the racing and Javier Bardem. Kerry Condon too. Brad continues his one note acting but I didn't have high expectations for him.

Damon Idris is hot.

I went to see it yesterday with a friend. It's a fun popcorn movie. It's not going to win any awards for the dialogue, acting, or directing (maybe for sound mixing) but, I enjoyed it for what it was - a movie made to be a summer blockbuster.

Fags…all of them!

Oh, wait, I slept with…

Never mind.

It helps that Lewis Hamilton produced it, as he is arguably the greatest driver of all time. He was able to keep it relatively honest to reality.

I saw it last Thursday, was really up for it but my expectations slowly deflated as it wemt on. And on (it’s long). It plunges into that world without exposition or explanation, which I guess is somewhat ballsy.

It is spectacularly directed, shot and edited, a real achievment technically and visually, everything has a creamy look.

Brad makes many entrances walking toward us from afar and looks fantastic in all of them, iconically a star. But his acting is flat and amateurish in what is meant to be his big scene, spoken on a balcony, the key to his character. Badly written, completely cliche. But so is the whole plot and the love story. This could have been written in 1938 for Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. And “Test Pilot” was better! Where Brad does excel is in the moments when the camera studies him silently.

Kerry Condon is plucky, tart, competent and fun before she hooks up with Brad, but once she does, her character is reduced to leaning her head on his shoulder and gazing at him adoringly, at which point you’re embarrassed for her and hope that she at least got a big pay day.

I’m surprised to see Damson Idris so highly praised here, he struck me as nothing special despite having a plum part as the cocky upstart. He never looks as sexy as Brad, and I don’t see this movie doing much for him.

At nearly three hours the movie is too long, and really it’s a slog because the story is so very thin. But I guess everyone’s grooving on the imagery, speed and noise of the racing scenes, which are never dull, though they seem like they should be. It’s a much bigger hit than expected.

[quote] There’s a picture somewhere that shows how Brad is NOT happy that Cruise is there. What the fuck was he doing there anyway? Crashing Brads premier?

He didn’t turn up invited. The films share a director. Tom Cruise was invited to invite comparisons to Top Gun Maverick and put more butts in seats.

See r15 for them meeting awkwardly on the red carpet. Dead Beat Cultist Dad was not wanting to touch Dead Beat Aeroplane Assault Dad.

Domestically the film grossed $56 million its first weekend; that doesn't sound like a blockbuster to me

Amateur

It was fun.

I saw it yesterday and thought it was a fun summer popcorn movie. Plotwise it's Top Gun: Maverick. Has-been veteran trying to prove himself one last time. Cocky young dude that learns to respect the veteran. But the visuals and sound were awesome (I saw it in IMAX). The racing scequences were so immersive, it actually took me a minute on the drive home to lose the sensation that I was behind the wheel of a race car.

I also saw it in IMAX in London over the weekend. I thought it did its job which was to entertain. Brad Pitt will never not be Brad Pitt. He can't really lose himself in a role (see also: Cruise, Tom and Clooney, George). Pitt has these good ol' boy mouth mannerisms that have been present since Thelma and Louise. It used to make him cute and cocky but it doesn't work for him anymore.

Still and all, I'm turned up and left as a fan of Pitt and the film. I also enjoyed seeing the McLaren facility used in the filming as it is close to where I live and I have friends who work there.

A much better car chase movie with a sexier lead!

Per Deadline, “F1” bettered expectations and grossed $57 million domestic with an overall A rating from viewers. So it’s a hit and. Brad gets to bask in his movie star status for a bit longer . . .

Looks fun! I’m in!

Do we see Lewis’ dog Roscoe in the movie? 🐶

R38 At the beginning! No sighting of Leo (Charles LeClerc's doggo) though.

Was it the bulldog?

I saw him!

Yes Roscoe is an English bulldog!

His sister Coco Hamilton died a few years ago.

Does anyone know who makes Brad’s shoes in this photo?

I typically don't like sport movies - particularly racing (go around and around the track!), but this looks like the kind of harmless escapism I could really use right now

R42 They are OMP racing boots.

A lot of the F1 drivers wear Puma Speedcat Pros.

This was his biggest opening ever and the box-office was just meh? I thought all this time that he was a huge star, but the numbers don't show that. Angie is a bigger box-office star.

It's fine, but corny as all hell. I was entertained enough (even though it is at least 45 minutes too long.)

Also, I know advertising is part and parcel of racing, but I did wind up wondering during the more boring parts just how much GEICO chipped in for this movie.

"GEICO" is in more scenes than Pitt. I half expected Flo to be waving the checkered flag in the big finale.

[quote] GEICO" is in more scenes than Pitt. I half expected Flo to be waving the checkered flag in the big finale.

Gecko!

I'll wait for it to be on Prime.

I can’t even remember what she has been in lately.

Bigger box office star? Not now.

I saw it in theater. Thought it was "fine'. Not bad, not great. Kinda like watching a full season of Drive to Survive in one sitting. I dob't think I've ever been wow'd by a Brad Pitt performance but this was the first time I thought.. .huh, he's not very good at it.

It's been reported that the producers sold $40 million in "sponsorships" for the fake F1 team in the movie.

R51, That is a great example of how to do a dye job on an older man. His hair looks amazing.

But he doesn't look hot to me anymore. His face is just too haggard.

How many millions did they spend on Brad’s hairpieces?