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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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On paper Formula 1 is incredibly exciting. Exotic courses, huge crowds and cars that represent the pinnacle of modern mechanical engineering. Yet I find watching it on TV a bit boring. The helicopter tracking shots provide little sense of speed, the screen is crammed with data and there's advertising everywhere. The cars seem to politely process along a line, playing everything as safe as they can - it's difficult to suppress a groan when you realise there's 50 more laps of this tedium. Rush is different. Rush is a battle of personalities, a simple struggle between two sportsmen elevated to the status of mythological epic. Rush, much like the cars it depicts, is streamlined: everything unnecessary has been stripped away, leaving a taut, dynamic and really, really exciting movie.
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