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Apple Original Film 'F1' Wins Oscar for Best Sound

I liked the film, dig Joseph Kosinski's style. It's similar to Top Gun Maverick, though doesn’t come close to it. Has its moments, including the sound, and some depth here and there.
DEF not best picture worthy, though:

* story is quite unrealistic for a sports film, especially for an official F1 film, odd how the FIA was fine with that xD

* Hans Zimmer ripping off himself

Yeah, good enjoyable, rewatchable popcorn sports flick, well done in the tech department, though not all that much more.
 
lusty said:
They just want Americans to believe America is part of Formula 1 because they own the rights now. The film was fine but the plot was ridiculous to anyone outside of the US.
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Even to a very casual American F1 fan (a few races a year when I flip to it on a weekend morning), the plot was dumb. It's like the writes created a short generative AI prompt: Give me a script for an F1 racing movie. Ignore all of the nuance of F1's rules on and off the track. Make it like Days of Thunder, but instead of the female love interest being a doctor make her a race engineer. Make the tension between the drivers reflect the generational stereotypes of Gen Z and Gen X.

It took me two tries to get through the movie and I was just not impressed. It was predictable and lacked any real depth to the characters or story.
 
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meson said:
Even to a very casual American F1 fan (a few races a year when I flip to it on a weekend morning), the plot was dumb. It's like the writes created a short generative AI prompt: Give me a script for an F1 racing movie. Ignore all of the nuance of F1's rules on and off the track. Make it like Days of Thunder, but instead of the female love interest being a doctor make her a race engineer. Make the tension between the drivers reflect the generational stereotypes of Gen Z and Gen X.

It took me two tries to get through the movie and I was just not impressed. It was predictable and lacked any real depth to the characters or story.
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That sums it up nicely, yes. The prompt also seems to have asked for an American to win and to tie in with nascar. You’re 100% right that the writer was ChatGPT!

Apparently great audio though, probably recorded on Airpods Pro 😉
 
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meson said:
Even to a very casual American F1 fan (a few races a year when I flip to it on a weekend morning), the plot was dumb. It's like the writes created a short generative AI prompt: Give me a script for an F1 racing movie. Ignore all of the nuance of F1's rules on and off the track. Make it like Days of Thunder, but instead of the female love interest being a doctor make her a race engineer. Make the tension between the drivers reflect the generational stereotypes of Gen Z and Gen X.

It took me two tries to get through the movie and I was just not impressed. It was predictable and lacked any real depth to the characters or story.
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lusty said:
That sums it up nicely, yes. The prompt also seems to have asked for an American to win and to tie in with nascar. You’re 100% right that the writer was ChatGPT!

Apparently great audio though, probably recorded on Airpods Pro 😉
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Anytime a movie or tv show sucks these days, people say AI wrote it. As if there's never anything badly written by humans.
 
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A quality movie with a formulaic storyline. Enjoyable to watch, sound was great, but long term it won't be on my "let's watch again" list. The tech behind mixing sounds to visuals is really an art and I'm glad the team won.
 
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Minato1990 said:
Nice?
A new Apple TV to celebrate maybe???!!!!
CMON WHERE IS IT!
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Ok, I'll ask the off-topic question. Why, exactly, do we need new Apple TV hardware?

I frankly can't think of any compelling feature that the current device lacks. Other than perhaps making the unit smaller, or refining the remote control, how could the hardware be improved?

Sure, the software could use some refinement. There has never been a perfect piece of software in the entire history of computing. But the Apple TV hardware seems pretty darned solid.
 
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Tim Jobs the 2nd said:
Anytime a movie or tv show sucks these days, people say AI wrote it. As if there's never anything badly written by humans.
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The plot of this is unbelievably formulaic and clichéd. If it was written by humans they should be fired, but yes it could easily have been bad humans following the prompt from management.

I guess that demonstrates that at least some people might as well be replaced by AI after all 🙂
 
TexStones said:
Why, exactly, do we need new Apple TV hardware?
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I often wonder this when people expect new hardware. The remote is still trash, but there's nothing to really improve with the ATV other than maybe adding a separate mode for MacOS now we know the hardware supports it and maybe a full sized disk to support that.
I think people imagine they'd add 8k (which nobody could watch and nobody supplies content for) or some ever more tenuous audio codec.

Being real, the one feature I want to see is a fix for audio so I don't have to keep turning movies up to hear dialog and then down when exciting things happen. It's like audio pros are mixing with a graph and paying no attention to what it's like to watch a movie!
 
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It was a solid popcorn flick. Not realistic to those of us who know F1, but that wasn't the point... it wasn't meant to be a documentary like Barbie 😏. It was meant to entertain and introduce F1 to a new audience, and it did.

It took me awhile, but I finally talked my friend into watching it with me (I'd already seen it). She had no knowledge or interest in F1, but finally said yes, because of the "Brad Pitt factor" (apparently he's attractive to some people... 😏), and she thoroughly enjoyed it. And I enjoyed it even more the second time through. That's a successful movie by any measure.
 
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I'm surprised we don't have an F1 iPhone or F1 iPad at this point.

Popcorn movie, fantastic watch on IMAX.
Far from being "Best Movie nomination" worth it.
 
oldwatery said:
I am…or used to be before Liberty took over, a huge F1 fan. This movie was so stupid. Surely a movie line this should have its roots in reality…this clearly did not. Meanwhile you couldn’t pay me to watch the Oscars. Bunch of entitled people stroking each others egos. Used to be a great evening of wonderful and in the main deserving awards. Now it’s just a big circle jerk.
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You means movies and TV aren’t real life?! 🙄
 
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Morod said:
A fookin' GREAT movie that deserved all its awards!
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Green Book was good to, there were some good movies, but they were not mainstream for most people. I typically watched all the years oscar movies and half of them I don't even recall in theaters.
 
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Well deserved. It had great sound. I could understand why it did so well at the Box Office. This is a movie meant to be seen on the big screen.
 
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neuropsychguy said:
While I often don't watch many of the Best Picture winners, your comment was a little funny in the context of another random internet commenter who was complaining that the Best Picture winners have been irrelevant since about 1980.

If the choice were up to me to vote for Best Picture from the 1991 nominees, I would have chosen Beauty and the Beast over Silence of the Lambs. For 1995 I would choose Apollo 13, Babe, or Sense and Sensibility over Braveheart. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would have been my choice over Gladiator. I would have chosen all three Lord of the Rings movies over the ones that won (A Beautiful Mind [which is a great movie] and Chicago [which is not a very good movie]).

My point is that all this is subjective. If you don't like the movies that are nominated or win, ignore the awards and watch the movies you want to watch. Your subjective experience with movies matters more than what others might think about them.
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I agree, it's subjective, my point was the shift to what feels like deep cut indy movies that only the industry enjoys from movies the masses enjoy. I love movies including the oscar bait type movies and I appreciate them, but I'm also burnt out.
 
fenderbass146 said:
Oscars and Hollywood have become such a joke, I used to watch them yearly, but haven't watched them in years. Just a bunch of artsy, not remotely mainstream movies and some of the most privileged people on earth preaching to us.

90's and early 2000's

Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings as some of the winners


Since then, of ones I'd say there were mainstream movies, maybe Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Argo and Oppenheimer and among those, I'd really say Oppenheimer was the only true blockbuster. Obviously, some big movies got nominated, but none few that one.

Now it's Kings Speech, The Artist, Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Shape of Water, Nomadland, Coda, Anora...none of these movies will be classics 20 years from now.

I'm still waiting for an award for best practical effects or stunts.
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I disagree about the King's Speech, Moonlight and Shindler's List, but film is art and individual tastes vary. That said, I'm shocked that Michael B Jordan received best actor. I do agree about the Oscars being a joke and driven by politics.
 
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