# F1 the Movie

5 Hacker News commenters recommended F1 the Movie and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Praised for its in-cockpit race footage and good audio, but critics find the dialogue and off-track scenes dull and dislike the Apple Wallet ads promoting it.

## What people warn about

- Constant ads in Apple Wallet (3 comments): "Apple customers aren’t thrilled they’re getting an ad from the Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant’s original film “F1 the Movie.”" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471277)) "ads for their F1 movie in Apple Wallet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180134)) "the nonstop onslaught of advertisements for F1" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682516))

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- [The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/odyssey.md): 50 recommend
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- [The Rocky Horror Picture Show](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rocky-horror-picture-show.md): 15 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "F1 the Movie", https://hackerapproved.com/p/f1/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).