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"Some film critics pen thoughtful essays, some debate on TV. At Road &amp;amp;amp; Track, Executive Editor Sam Smith argues with Senior Editor John Krewson over instant messenger while sitting 30 feet apart.  Okay. Rush. You like? \u2014 Sam Smith I enjoyed it. It&amp;#039;s not the Umbrellas of Cherbourg of racing films, but it&amp;#039;s a good sports movie. \u2014 John Krewson I liked it enough when I watched it. The further I get from it, the worse it gets. Like bad Mexican food. \u2014 SS Ignoring that you often overthink enjoyment after the fact, what did you dislike? \u2014 JK People had feelings, then they yelled them at each other. There was racing that sort of looked like racing. Then more feeling-yelling. \u2014 SS It put a guy who masked his feelings with outrageous behavior up against a stoic and had them talk it out. You know, movie stuff. \u2014 JK What about Apollo 13, also directed by Howard? Also based on real events, concerned with Life/Death/The Eternal Human Struggle. Wasn&amp;#039;t always accurate but managed to feel correct and conveyed genuine emotion without going over the top. \u2014 SS That happened in two boxes over three days, had no love interest, and was important to America. Rush is about sports, and sports are four-color versions of life. \u2014 JK A movie about F1 in the 1970s shouldn&amp;#039;t have to exaggerate its personalities. Why can&amp;#039;t this be The Natural? \u2014 SS Because that was allegory based on archetypes, not events. \u2014 JK So allegorize! Hunt and Lauda embodied the archetypical racing personalities: emotional vs. clinical. And they represented the sport&amp;#039;s transition from the former to the latter. \u2014 SS You&amp;#039;re criticizing the movie for what it wasn&amp;#039;t. It was never going to be the Great Testament to the Glory of Racing, what Apollo 13 was to astronauts. People don&amp;#039;t revere racers that way. Your real problem is that it&amp;#039;s not aimed enough at you, a guy raised on this stuff. \u2014 JK THERE IS A LANCIA BERLINA IN THIS FILM. HOW COULD IT NOT BE AIMED AT ME? \u2014 SS The story revolves around things you love but is aimed at taking those things and offering them up to people who haven&amp;#039;t read Meine Story or Against All Odds. \u2014 JK Okay, that&amp;#039;s a better point. Here&amp;#039;s my biggest issue: This is a sport most people in America don&amp;#039;t understand. No one gets how fast/simple/brutal the cars were, and no one quite remembers how deadly that era was. This was a chance to show how sexy/appealing/complex the whole thing was. And it came off as trivial. \u2014 SS A movie&amp;#039;s not going to change that. \u2014 JK I just wanted it to be great. \u2014 SS But its good moments are really good! Br\u00FChl as Lauda. Car porn. That little epilogue. \u2014 JK Br\u00FChl as Lauda I loved. Walks and talks exactly like him. \u2014 SS Rush will get people interested in the sport, and maybe other people interested in making the be-all, end-all racing movie we want. \u2014 JK Meaning, it&amp;#039;s possible to get Normals to like this stuff. Once, I didn&amp;#039;t think it was. Fine. I&amp;#039;m out of words, and now I&amp;#039;m just being cranky. \u2014 SS Oh, just now? \u2014 JK Let&amp;#039;s get lunch. \u2014 SS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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