Movie: Love the Beast is on Netflix

If you ever watch Top Gear you might remember an episode where Eric Bana talked about a documentary he made about his Falcon XB race car. I found it is Netflix instant and watched it the other night...and it's great! Totally a movie for car guys and even if you're just a fan of cars (like me).

Check it out:
http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Love-the-Beast/70117051

It's pretty short and not very flashy, really just telling a story of a man and the love for his car. I have no particular tie to the XB outside of "Mad Max" but if there's one thing that tugged at the old heart in this movie, it's thinking about the passion you can have for your car...or anything for that matter. How personal something can be and how we can take those things for granted, and that those things are really a blessing. It made me think about the things I really enjoy doing and appreciate them a little bit more.

If you're a car guy that has a real car or have ever worked on a real car, then you'll probably get more out of this movie. Eric Bana is a movie star but you really get to see passed that in this film and it's a neat thing to see. He had the XB since he was a kid and over time turned it into a bitchin race car with his friends. Makes me wish I had real car skills...heck, makes me wish I had a car that I cared about. I'm too young to have driven any worth while car in my youth and my dad wasn't a car guy either, so I didn't inherit anything in the way of a cool car.

And if nothing else, I think I'm going to customize one of the XB's in my diecast collection to match the one in the movie.