You know how the Matrix films were all shades of gray and black?
This isn’t like that.
The previews look like a Hot-Wheel Racetrack on acid laid throught he middle of Vegas.
Yahoo shows the first 7 minutes of the movie.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/speedracer.html?showVideo=1
Are they seriously just going to call the kid Speed during the whole entire movie? I thought it was just a nickname, but even his schoolteacher called him that.
So the whole thing is the kid’s imagination? Plot_Device_Stupid == TRUE.
Dude, if this turns out to be true, and you just spoiled the movie for me (and indeed, anyone who hasn’t seen it THE DAY BEFORE IT OPENS, well, you and me are gonna have words.
From the trailer. It’s not a spoiler, since the bits come from the first few minutes of the movie.
I’m the OP and I stated open spoilers in the thread title.
I’m going to the earliest showing tomorrow and will report back with wide open spoilers.
I’m remaining optimistic about the movie.
OK, I said I wasn’t going to spoiler anything, but I will refute that . No, the whole movie is not one big dream sequence.
And yes, his name is Speed.
Oh, for the love Christ, YES!!!
Hey, it worked pretty well for the Princess Bride.
The Princess Bride wasn’t a dream- it was a storybook story. But it’s as real as the feelings you feel.
That RT number has not improved, and Metacritic is at 35–the same range as 10,000 B.C. and Jumper, and not quite as high as Alvin and the Chimpmunks. :eek:
I thought the trailer was dreadful, and I’m afraid this seals the deal. One reviewer: “Speed Racer is chaotic as a six-ring circus, gaudy as a transvestites convention and soullessly cute as a robot puppy.”
I’ll pass.
just back from a screening fueld by a few large espresso’s and 400g of jelly beans.
Its Brilliant, but I can see why people wont like it. An earlier post said that there would be no middle ground, and i agree; you’ll either love this or hate the shit out of it. A few (non-spoilery) things;
: there’s a bit of exposition eary on from the bad guy to Speed that kinda stops the movie dead in its tracks. try as you might, you’ll barely understand what the hell he’s rattling on about. How kids will cope, beats the hell outa me.
: Aussie accents! Everywhere! I’m guessing this was shot in Fox’s studio in Sydney, so like the matrix and the star wars prequels, there’s aussie actors everywhere. Not a fault, but its jarring for the all-american racer family to be surrounded by antipodeans. Its possible that they were going for a united-world kinda thing, like In Serenity where half of everything is in chinese.
: I would so bang Susan Sarandon like a drum.
: The main crux of the plot is racecar-driving and how it affects the global stock exchange. Yeah, me too.
: ifitannoysyoutoreadthissentencewhichasyoucanseehasnofullstopsorgrammaticalpunctuationmarksthenitshighlyporobabthatyouwillhatethedrivingsequencesinspeedracerwhicharepresentedinaseamlessbreathlessexplosionofcolourandmotionwithpreciouslittlescreentimedevotedtoallowingtheaudiencetobreatheletalonethin.
I can guaruntee one thing though; when you walk of of the cinema, the real world will seem so… Dull.
wonder if that was a subtle jab at L. Wachowski? 
That’s where they missed the boat. Speed was the animated character that every girl I knew had a mad crush on. He was adorable - and seriously, in that cute kinda girly way.
COMPLETELY MISCAST - the kid they’ve got is not nearly eye candy enough.
This is the best movie the Wachawski’s ever made, hands down. It blows the Matrix away.
The Matrix was incredibly stuffy. Interesting to watch, but claustrophobic almost with how pretenious it was. The Matrix is the quasi-Goth girl with daddy’s credit card desperately trying to look and act cooler than it is humanly possible to be.
For all that, The Matrix remains a good movie.
Speed Racer has no such pretensions. It isn’t there to shock or suprise you. You know what’s going to happen - it’s telling you the story you already knew. But it tells it in a frighteningly fantastic way. It’s like a young girl who really doesn’t know “what’s cool”, but is enthusiastic and happy and willing to give it her all anyway. She doesn’t hold anything back.
I think this movie is the absolute wrong movie for movie reviewers. This movie is earnest, takes itself lightly but its themes and principles seriously. This is not a movie that winks at itself. Sure, it knows how silly it is but it’s not at all ashamed of it. If you make fun of it, it will be smily openly all the same. There are bits to laugh at. There are things to cry at. This movie succeeds in hitting real deep notes as well as light ones.
The Matrix was the ultimate Post-Modern movie. Cheap philosophy combined with big ass-kicking, with an ultimately silly core premise but presumptions far above its due. (Sounds about right for the reviewers). Speed Racer is the Anti-Modern movie. It doesn’t pretend to be anything except what it is, and you can take that or leave it. Instead, it gets down and works on doing everything right.
Finally, no one comes off as a bad or misplaced actor in this. Even the kid and the monkee. John Goodman is in a freakishly perfect role. And I swear Roger Allam was knocked over the head and replaced by Tim Curry. He totally channels the man!
Who was it that said “Sincerity is the new irony?”
(And when did they say it?)
-FrL-
Salon and Wall Street Journal both give it a zero :eek:
One thing that I find disturbing in reading about this movie, is that Racer X and Rex Racer are played by differenct actors, and aren’t supposed to be the same person. That seems almost like sacrelige. Oh well, as long as Spritle and Chim-Chim stow away in the trunk of the Mach 5 at least once I guess it’s okay.
Well, you’re in for a surprise on point one (though it doesn’t take long to work it out), and happiness multiple times on point two.
I liked it, and I didn’t expect to as much as I did. From the cartoon callbacks (when Speed finishes the rally, especially) to the drop-ins of the theme…got me going! John Goodman’s pretty cool, too, especially the ninja scene.
The floating head trick got old, I will say that, but damn, that was a fine, fine movie.