What are you watching?

[BigBrother]

Watched F1, really enjoyed it. Audiovisually fantastic and the soundtrack is solid too. Plot is fairly straightforward but it fits the movie. Was a bit surprised that we didn't see more of the likes of Hamilton or other drivers that were more involved in the making of it, quite impressed that they weren't shoehorned into speaking roles as I took that happening as a given.

I need to see it but I have no enthusiasm for it (I can't do Drive To Survive because it's just...contrived?).

There are a few things (one section in particular) you'd need to be lenient with if familiar with the sport in terms of realism, certainly utilises a few tropes too. But I enjoyed it. I haven't watched Drive to Survive but it seems like that is an over-dramatising of the reality of some real-life events, while this is a fictitious storyline within the real setting of F1. I have an interest in DtS but it does seem like it is a bit heavy on that typical Netflix documentary style of being a bit over the top and stretching the realms of truth where they can, but that's probably unfair of me given I'm making a guess. At least this is simply its own storyline.

Yeah. The initial season of DtS is really, really good (our lord & saviour Romain Grosjean especially). I watched one of the more recent series where they tried to portray Nikita Mazepin as likable and didn't really touch at all on why everyone wanted him out the sport. They also faked a call from Horner to Perez where he offered him the RBR drive after he was released by Racing Point.

I think I'll get a kick out of the technical aspects, but plot....well....it's not going to be Rush!