I saw it in IMAX.
Despite the movie's title, I found it interesting that Ferrari was not the antagonist, but rather a rival, and Ford's
Marketing Department was the antagonist. Ford was both partner and foe, depending on which Ford employee.
I think Matt Damon did a good Shelby accent, but I'm not from Texas so I might be wrong. :cowboy:
I was glad there was no cheezy love story, no Michael Bay-ish scenes, no stupid catch phrases, no politically correct messages, and the soundtrack was seamless.
I appreciated the several WW2 references, 20-year old history at the time.
Fun inaccuracies: I saw a lot of Cobras with 18" wheels. I don't think those existed in the mid 60's. I saw the wrong Budweiser beer bottles on the wall in a few scenes. Some of the footage at Willow Springs switched from the big track to the smaller track and back. In one shot, the cars were going one direction, and the in the very next shot they were going the other direction!
Little details such as smoking cigarettes in the pits
right next to the gas cans were wild fun.
I wish there was a brief mention of the importance of the Daytona Coupe, it's class victory at Le Mans in 1964, and it's contribution to the understanding of aerodynamics. Might have been neat if they said, "...well this worked with the Daytona."
My biggest complaint was sometimes I thought it should have been called "
The Ken Miles Story" because I think his wild, strong character sometimes overtook the rest of the story.
As far as the Shelby Factory shown in the beginning, not the larger facility at LAX, They did a great job finding a shooting location that looks like the Princeton Drive factory. (Photos below, you can't see the side and rear windows, but they look a lot like shown in the movie.)
https://www.ffcars.com/forums/17-fa...-american-1042-princeton-drive-venice-ca.html
I don't know much about the recurring 7,000 rpm theme.
I don't know if at one point Ford tried to buy Ferrari, I doubt Shelby cheated like shown in the film. Time for some reading!