YMMV / Rush (2013)

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 actually raced in 1976 and 1977, and even won a race.
• Award Snub:
  • Quite a few people were furious that Daniel Brühl didn't even get a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars, especially considering that, up to that point, he had seemed almost guaranteed to receive one after being cited by the Golden Globes, SAG, BAFTA, and the BFCA. Richard Roeper was one of them.
  • On the other side of things, many were actually annoyed that Brühl was nominated at those events in the supporting actor category at all, given his place in the story as one of the two main characters, finding it a case of Award Category Fraud. This was largely done by the studio to avoid splitting votes between him and Chris Hemsworth in Best Actor, with Brühl taking Supporting because of his relatively lower name recognition.
  • The film also was expected to be a nominee for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing, but ended up getting no nominations by the Academy at all.
  • The film was praised for the realistic portrayal of Lauda's burns, but the film wasn't nominated in the best makeup and hairstyling category. There were only three nominees.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: While due to being a biopic, James' canon romance is with Suzy (even if it doesn't work out) and Niki is Happily Married to Marlene, most fans walked away from this film shipping James and Niki together due to the film being centered around their rivalry and the chemistry between Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl. On Archive of Our Own, for example, James/Niki easily outranks their canon pairings.
• Genius Bonus: At the end of the film, Lauda is working on a corporate jet on an airfield in Bologna when Hunt runs into him; the latter mentions how his rival is spending a lot of time around planes recently. Lauda started his own airline, Lauda Air, in 1979 (it was acquired by Austrian Airlines in 2000 and went defunct in 2013), and a second one, Niki, in 2003.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film earned more than double its domestic gross overseas, probably due to Formula One being more popular in Europe and parts of Asia than in America.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • After seeing the movie and watching Niki and Marlene's happy marriage, it's a little sobering and depressing to read Niki's Wikipedia page and find out they eventually divorced. Then again, they were married for 15 years, which is an eternity by today's standards.
  • Sean Edwards played (via stunt doubling) his father Guy, who was one of the ones to pull Niki out of his wreck. On October 15th 2013 he was killed in an equally fiery crash at Queensland during a test drive with one of his proteges.
  • A few months later, Mauro Pane, Daniel Brühl's stunt double, also died from a car crash.
  • Niki Lauda's exchange with Clay Regazzoni when they first join (and re-join in the latter's case) Ferrari. Regazzoni' states that Niki is friend and family as long as he keeps winning to which Niki responds with a rather standoffish, overconfident response despite having not actually won a Grand Prix yet. Though the two were a lot more cordial in real life, by the end of their respective careers Lauda had won 25 Grand Prix and took 3 championship titles while Regazzoni won only 5 times and had no titles to his name. To rub salt in the wound, Regazzoni was dropped by Ferrari after 1976 after which he only won one more Grand Prix in 1979 with Williams before being involved in a serious racing crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down and ended his career in Formula 1.
  • All the times James drank, smoked, and did drugs, considering his hard partying likely contributed to his death via heart attack at 45.
  • Hunt's sponsor, Lord Hesketh, was shown lavishing money on his team (complete with a butler serving oysters and caviar in the pits). Later on in life, he was involved in several failed business ventures and eventually had to sell his family estate (including the historic 300-plus year old country house of Easton Neston).
  • Watching this movie as a whole is now bittersweet now that Lauda himself has passed.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Natalie Dormer played a secretary in Captain America: The First Avenger that kissed Captain America for a few seconds. Guess who she makes out with in this movie as a nurse.
  • The rivalry between Chris Hemsworth's and Daniel Brühl's characters in the film became funnier when the latter was cast as the central antagonist in Captain America: Civil War. Making things more or less amusing, depending on how one looks at it, Civil War happened to be one of the few Marvel team-up films not to feature Hemsworth's Thor. This continues in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier where Bruhl reprises the role and Hemsworth is, once again, nowhere to be found.
  • The famous scene where Lauda calls the Ferrari car a "shitbox" came to light again in 2020 with Ferrari's worst season in decades. Some argue Lauda was actually predicting the future and talking about the 2020 car.
• Hollywood Homely: Even with prosthetic teeth, it's pretty hard to make Daniel Brühl◊ look like an "ugly rat."
• Ho Yay:
  • According to Brühl, he and Chris Hemsworth invented a romantic comedy between James and Niki in between takes so the Yay might be a tad deliberate.
  • If we get a little meta with the Ho Yay, Lauda once said Hemsworth's ass made the movie.
  • The moment where James was so thrilled about Hesketh entering Formula One that he planted a big kiss on Lord Hesketh. Poor guy looked bewildered.
• Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: While the pairing of James/Niki does have the Portmanteau Couple Name of 'Launt', Tumblr fangirls tend to use the term 'Rathunt' more. Likewise the Niki/Marlene pairing is colloquially known as "Because I'm Asking You To" after a memorable line from Marlene.
• It Was His Sled: Formula One fans will know about the major event which is hiding behind all of that spoiler markup.
• Memetic Mutation: It's a Ferrari! It's a shitbox!^Explanation During Lauda's first test as a Ferrari driver, it became quickly apparent that the Ferrari was an underwhelming car to drive. He told his displeasure towards the mechanic when he stopped in his pit box, leading to the conversation above. This often finds use whenever the actual Scuderia Ferrari developed an underwhelming car for the current Formula One season.
• Nightmare Fuel: There's very little discretion in the shots of Niki getting his face burned.
  • Also Marlene driving in her car and hearing the news of a serious crash at Nürburgring, the driver then identified as Lauda. Her devastation is palpable.
• Squick: A fair bit.
  • The decapitated body of Francois Cevert ^note Cevert wasn't actually decapitated, but Helmuth Koinigg was, at the same track one year later. who hit the fence.
  • Another racer's leg so severely damaged that the tibia and fibula are exposed.
  • Blood clots and fluid being vacuumed from Niki's lungs with a metal tube after his horrifying crash at Nürburgring. And as pointed out in one review, this was seventies technology so this was not a very fast process.
• Stoic Woobie / Jerkass Woobie: Lauda after his accident.

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