7. The Commentators - Rush
Most sports movies tend to spend as little time on the actual sport as possible; if an ideas reached the point of being turned into a movie its the human relationships, rather than the physical spectacle, thats interesting. No matter how far you remove it though, the danger still remains that those who aren't fans wont know whats going on. Most films tend to litter exposition throughout, using a wide time frame so we can learn with the characters, which to some degree Ron Howard did with Rush. For the most part the film didn't seem too concerned with explaining itself and was happy to just bring non-racing fans on for the ride; the exposition was hidden within the character interactions. But in the final act that assured tact was lost and a bunch of expositional commentators were thrown in. Explaining exactly what was going on, they did enhance some moments (the worlds shock at Lauda quitting on the final race in particular) but for the most part the writing was too flat; it was overly simplistic showing none of the knowledge a real racing commentator would have. Rush was an excellent biopic and came as a great antidote to a summer of emotionally distant films, but the commentators continued explanation of what we were seeing (we get it - Hunt needs to come third to win the season) betrayed the rest of the films confidence.