[Byrntrigan]

This movie was awesome. Just got back from a showing and all I can say is wow.

This movie is the first nostaligia movie from my childhood that I feel didn't rape 10 year old DXB.

This is the movie all the little kids who loved Speed Racer wanted to see, all the little details, all the sound effects.

See this movie, and if you have kids, take them too. I can't rave enough about this movie.

[Byrntrigan]

I want to say it's the best movie of the year so far but I haven't seen Iron Man yet. This movie is what I imagine acid must be list in terms of color.

This will definetly be a Blu-ray demo disc when it comes out. If you are hesitating to see this movie, don't. It's a really fun movie that works even if you never saw the original cartoon (you obviously won't get a lot of references but it's fun none the less).

[Batman]

Racer X was my childhood hero. I want to see this ASAP. Preferably with my 6yo son.

[Byrntrigan]

Serg - expect to have your mouth open the first 30 minutes of the movie as well as your sons.

If you can see this movie in DLP (digital projection) do it - it's even better then the IMAX showings.

[Stu]

I saw the first seven minutes of this online. It didn't look like my thing.

[Byrntrigan]

I'd dare say a computer screen belies the hugeness of this movie on a movie screen

Go altered and I bet it'd be your movie Stu :

[Batman]

May 11, 2008 13:52:46 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

I'd dare say a computer screen belies the hugeness of this movie on a movie screen

While I expect to dig this film personally, it doesn't strike me as a movie for everybody. Not that any movie is really.

Go altered and I bet it'd be your movie Stu :

I don't get this POV, whether it be this movie, or the Wall, or whatever. If a movie is a head-trip, it shouldn't need pharmaceutical assistance to be a head-trip.

[Byrntrigan]

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Go altered and I bet it'd be your movie Stu :

I don't get this POV, whether it be this movie, or the Wall, or whatever. If a movie is a head-trip, it shouldn't need pharmaceutical assistance to be a head-trip.[/quote]

I was really speaking about the hyper color of the movie

Really, I've never seen the Wall high or drunk, the movie is easy enough to undrstand without making it more difficult for yourself, plus, the movie is disturbing so I'm not sure seeing it messed up would be such a good idea anyways...

[Lucky]

Wait a second... is his name ACTUALLY "Speed Racer"? Seriously? Like he was born into the Racer family and his parents named him "Speed"? That's just... wow.

It ain't my thing. If I went to see it at an iMax after a few drinks I imagine vomiting. From those 7 minutes and the trailers and the little I remember of the cartoon. Its just so... Japanese anime. Yuck. But hey, I wasn't into giant robots last summer either. More power to you guys who are.

EDIT: You know what the first sign this movie isn't for me is? That I have no fucking clue what the title of this thread means and I would have never known it was a Speed Racer thread if I didn't come in here to investigate.

[Byrntrigan]

Mach A Go Go was the name of Speed Racer in Japan.

And yep, Speed was his name.

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Just like Racer X's real name is Rex Racer.

At least the name is better then in Japan where Speed's name is Go Mach.

That's enough of me showing my nerdly-ness for the day....

[Lucky]

Did you just spoil the movie?

[Byrntrigan]

May 11, 2008 15:25:23 GMT -5 Lucky said:

Did you just spoil the movie?

Not really, but just for the sake of niceness...

[Lucky]

I didn't know. I just thought I'd point it out because it sounded like one to me. Especially based on what they seemed to hint at in that first 7 minutes I just watched.

[Stu]

The racing scene I saw in that preview was obviously pretty well made and had a lot of effort put into it, but on the other hand, it's a bit nauseatingly busy. The visuals in the non-racing bit are distractingly simulated. There's too much detail, and everyone just seems to be standing IN FRONT OF the world, as opposed to inside it. Sin City was similar, but the starkness of the world and the black and white thing helped the actors blend in more.
Also, what's with the multiple australians in that preview clip? If you're gonna film in australia, but set the movie in the USA, you shouldn't really have 2 non-related australian characters appear in the film so close together. It's like whenever they have welsh characters in Doctor Who. Or generally how they seem to meet primarily british people when they encounter humans in the future.
Also, about that spoiler:

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how come Rex doesn't look like Matthew Fox there?

[Lucky]

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Younger version/older version?

[Byrntrigan]

May 11, 2008 15:54:26 GMT -5 Lucky said:

I didn't know. I just thought I'd point it out because it sounded like one to me. Especially based on what they seemed to hint at in that first 7 minutes I just watched.

No problem. I figured better to be safe then sorry.

Thanks

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Bcause he works for Inspector Detector and when he disapeared he got plastic surgery to protect his family. That's different from the cartoon...

[Stu]

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Okay, a family named Racer that happens to work in the Racing Car industry and who name one of their children Speed is one thing, but also, we get an Inspector called Detector? Is it at least a codename or something?

[Byrntrigan]

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Nope. If you can believe that a car can have air jacks that make it flip and fight with other cars, and can have buzz saws under the car to cut shit down, then a cop with the last name of Detector is not as big of a strecth

[Stu]

Though actually, JLCM did give it 9/10

[Lucky]

That last frame rings true as it didn't come close to Iron Man this weekend as IM more than doubled Speed Racer's total earned. It was estimated to do a poor $30M and only made $20M. And it just BARELY beat What Happens in Vegas. And I mean BARELY. About $200K. Rotten Tomatoes has it at a pretty shitty 35% on the tomatometer.

Its flopping HARD so if you want to see it you better hurry. Its not going to be around much longer.

Some are saying that its flopping because of shitty marketting. That this should have been sold as a kid's film but wasn't really. As the first big kid's film of the "summer" it shouldn't have laid an egg like this. That's presuming it IS a kid's film and not some trippy anime bit of nostalgia as seems to be the way it is being received by anyone who does like it.

EDIT: Ouch. Just read that it cost $120M to make. This is pretty much a guaranteed bust.

[ALL CAPS]

May 11, 2008 15:23:19 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Mach A Go Go was the name of Speed Racer in Japan.

And yep, Speed was his name.

SPOILER: Click to show

Just like Racer X's real name is Rex Racer.

At least the name is better then in Japan where Speed's name is Go Mach.

That's enough of me showing my nerdly-ness for the day....

Obviously not nerdy enough. The name of the show in Japan was "Mach GoGoGo" and the character's name was Gō Mifune. The car was called the Mach Go.

[Lucky]

HA HA! Nerd Slapped!

[Byrntrigan]

May 12, 2008 11:38:52 GMT -5 Lucky said:

HA HA! Nerd Slapped!

Brad, I'm sorry, I bow to your more Speed Racer nerdliness...

[Jack Quinn]

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I already hate this movie

[Lucky]

You're not alone.

If you want to see Speed Racer and you have yet to, RUN to the theaters. It did worse than estimated. Instead of making $20.2 M and finishing 2nd it made $18.6 M and finished 3rd BEHIND What Happens in Vegas. Since it was a major flop pretty much guaranteed to hemorrhage money and leave the theaters quickly at $20M making $2M less probably doesn't make that much of a difference. But getting pretty handily beat by Ashton Kutcher and opening at #3 is bad.

Chronicles of Narnia Friday (effectively killing off any "kid" draw I imagine) and Indiana Jones next week (effectively destroying any last hopes of "family" pull, I suspect). So really, I wouldn't be surprised if Speed Racer fails to make it to June. Although the studio has to be desperate to make as much money back as they can and has to be praying for a huge and rare 2nd week bump. Which isn't likely given how poorly reviewed its been, how good word of mouth and reviews have been for Iron Man, and Narnia.