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Stunning film lives up to the hype, but go with someone as so much to talk about afterwards. hope you all enjoy it as much as I have. |
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You don't get to see Ayrton's sister, Viviane, but she makes frequent comments that are very insightful. Lovely lady.
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I shall be very interested to hear what you think. I've decided I have to see it again and am going somewhere much closer on Tuesday.
One of the things I felt was that it could have been longer - it lasts 1 hour 46 minutes and was edited down from an original 4 hours - but apparently the proper DVD/Blu-Ray version is likely to have plenty of extras so that will be worth getting. |
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I've never cried in a cinema before. Beautiful film.
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I enjoyed it a lot. It's almost a Hollywood-esque film in terms of its application of music and structure.
The drivers' briefings were rather riveting. It is a bit pro/Senna/anti-Prost though, I felt. |
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i came out of it not thinking of him as a devil or a saint, but as a human being and having a much better understanding of why he said and did things. i felt a bit sorry for prost, but i understand it'd be almost impossible to paint him in any way at all in a documentary that was about senna, not prost or f1.
"enjoy" is the wrong word, but totally absorbed and well worth the trip? absolutely. i thought the way they built the suspense and dread towards the end was brilliantly done, especially since there was no real commentary and no real ability to use a storyline or dialogue to do so. as a result of both those things i didn't really think it could be much longer without losing the thread of the story for a cinema audience. but as something to watch at home and to dip in and out of, the full length version would be excellent to have a copy of. well worth going to see. |
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Bloody typical, been house bound this weekend with flu!!! So haven't seen it yet...
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Personally, it didn't live up to the hype in my eyes.
As a geek, there were some things i just couldn't get past. 1. The portrayal of Senna & Prost. Prost was treated rather unfairly i thought, and not enough emphasis was put on the fact that Senna was a bit of a d!!k from time to time. Knowing what i know, i was able to fill in the blanks, but to a 'noob' who was learning about the period for the first time, i thought it was unesessarily biased. 2. If you spend 5 years in the edit, you could at least get the audio/video synced for the onboards. I know Senna was special, but not even he could go quick by downshifting on the exit of corners.... 3. Some editorial conveinience. The time he was complaining about which side Pole should be on at Suzuka. It showed quite a lengthy bit of footage of him talking to an official in a course car. That footage was at Hockenhiem. So, it was a common complaint. The way they cut it, it made it seem like it was Balestre's doing because he wanted to give Prost an advantage. yawn. Anyway, on the plus side. I found it compelling, and a wonderful experience to be in a packed cinema watching a motorsport doco. Being in Oxford, i suppose there is more of a geographical interest. Indeed, i entered the cinema just behind Anthony Reid and some of his freinds. Red carpet or what?! The bit that dragged the tears out of me though, was the snippet of Roland Ratzenberger chatting to his engineer shortly before his death. I often feel that Roland gets forgotten about in the shadow of Senna. That made me particually sad. Definatley go and see it. Just don't believe all the hype. |
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'Film Of The Week' in todays' Observer which has to be unusual ( in fact, totally unique ) for a motor sport documentary. Anyhow, looking forward to the Motor Sport bash tomorrow night.....
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Peat, you summarised most my thoughts on the film.
I thought it looked like Hockenheim! |
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Can't wait till The Senna movie hits NY. Sadly my copy of "Aryton Senna: The Hard Edge of Genius" was lost when we moved a while back -- in the mood to re-read that book. |
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Really looking forward to it, but no word of a release in NZ?
I enjoyed the official tribute 2disk dvd set which came out years ago, this film on the bigscreen will be good. |
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Does this movie contain much we haven't already seen?
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Some of it has even been edited correctly!
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maybe it's also related to how important that battle was to senna himself - it might be important historically in f1, but how much did it shape the man and change him as a person? if it was a bad time for him personally, then it's not something to give up much time to. if you're celebrating a persons life you don't over-dwell on the things that brought them sadness and difficult times. |
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I heard the Radio 5 piece on Senna last week to get my Juices flowing, we're going straight after work to Canary Wharf. I'd better take plenty of tissues
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Saw it last night. Can't wait for extended uncut Blu-Rays now!
I thought the Senna/Prost angle was handled quite well. As a 'Senna' story it let you build up an image of Prost as the vile aggressor, just to throw that into doubt at the end of the film. It clearly showed that the two of them were driven to win and win alone I thought. I would have liked to see more of the issues between him and Ron Dennis alluded to. Maybe in that extended blu-ray! i could have sat for days watching it and not got bored! |
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as a bit of a companion to the film there's a couple of interesting articles up on the autosport site at the moment. the making of the senna movie is worth a read, and there's an interview with ron dennis too.
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Not worthy of its own thread & prob fits here better than anywhere else (Senna in the arts)...
English National Opera to produce "Senna - the Opera". No this is not a joke: http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php...m_k2&view=item |
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