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Originally Posted by unruhjonny
I'm interested to hear your take, having worked with the man.
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Saw the movie this past weekend with my wife and two kids. We all thought it was just a fantastic show. Great story, great acting, and I really appreciated the film makers' efforts to get some of the details historically correct, i.e. the pits/stands at LeMans looking the way they did in the mid-Sixties (burned into my brain from seeing the real pits a hundred times watching Steve McQueen's movie LeMans when I was kid...).
For sure there was a bit of license taken with facts - but it was a "historically-based fiction" -- not a documentary.
Relative to Matt Damon as Shelby -- from the start of the movie my brain seemed to switch into a "just sit back and enjoy it mode", and I never tried to draw comparisons. He just seemed like Matt Damon playing a "character" -- perhaps I've seen too many Matt Damon films. But it was well done, with great characters.