OK, I’m done.

It’s Tron meets Slot Car Racing meets Drifting!

I want my PPV money back!!!! Wah…

Go speed race, go speed racer, go away speed racer!

There’s a big following for Narnia, books and movies. I think Iron Man will need his Hulkbuster armor if he’s going to defeat Prince Caspian. Of course, Indy will reign supreme the week after. What a month! )

If I had to watch a movie again, it would be Speed Racer. I don’t know, I’m in a mood for joyful colors and happy go lucky blurs of fun. I want to preserve my memory of Iron Man so it’s a flick I can watch once in a while and enjoy it without knowing every line.

Speed Racer though–I’ve gotta see it on the big screen, or IMAX now that I’ve found one in my area.

Well Pops Racer did have a spare tire going on. However John Goodman I thought looked like he lost some weight for the role. He was perfect for the part. (Imo)
All I can say about the nonja action is that in the Matrix films it was intense fight or die action.
Speed Racers fight scenes were done more for comical laughs. In the cartoon Pops used to allways spin the baddies around (like everytime). If you re-watch Trixi’s fight scenes there just halariously bad. That fight scene at the ice ridge reminded me of the Power Rangers. But that was the look they were going for.
It was supposed to look comical. Spridle was just halarious The enitre film is a live action anime fest.

(Weekend armchairing) about Speed with some of my friends this weekend I really feel the film was mis-understood by most critics and years ahead of its time.
(Imo) This film will go on to be profitable, however its just going to take a bit longer to catch on.

I’m really happy that Iron Man is still kicking ars. If Speed had to be beat I’m glad it was Iron Man that beat it.
I sure hope Iron Man can kick Prince Narnia’s behind up til Indiana Jones time.

Iron man 50.5 mill
Speedracer 20.2 mill

That means in Ironman’s SECOND weekend, it still earned 2.5 times as much money as this overhyped awfulness. Speedracer only earned 0.2 more than What happens in Vegas which had NO marketing and no media attention. That’s sad, but I’m happy I was right a month ago.

You compared the Matrix movies to this one; IMO, the Matrix movies were far superior (especially the first). I had a few problems with the sequels but overall, I like them all. If they did the same choreography in SR that they did in the Matrix, maybe it would have been better.

Nonetheless, I have to agree with Vic’s 3 out of 5, mainly for the racing.

It was just a very odd film. I was really 2 – 2.5 through most of it but like I said I thought it pulled itself together a bit towards the end and that tilted my rating up some.

Vic

It seemed to want to gear towards kids but then had people flipping people off and random cuss words such that it wasn’t as kid friendly as it should have been.

It had no audience. I wrote a longer review on my blog (and one of Iron Man that I failed to comment on here).

Iron Man is definitely the cat’s pajamas. Just keep watching it every weekend until Indiana Jones comes out I say. Support Marvel Studios!

Hey Jimmy is that the best
review you have? I thought you were a fan?

I’m glad Iron Man is almost at 200.mil. That’s fricken awesome. And I bet Nolan is feeling the pressure, as is WB.
I hope Speed Racer,Iron Man, Batman and Indy all kick ass this year. I cant pick any favorites from this bunch, there all good!

Anyway……..
One performance that I think was lost on Non-fans of the cartoon was Royaltons.
His delivery was dead on perfect for a Speed Racer villian.
If you remember the villians all spoke in long paragraphs with hardly any breaks and allways had a nice first impression to go with there wicked smile.
(Its was part of what made that show unique).

They did screw with Racer X’s uniform a little but I think it looked better overall in black.
He was later reffered to as “Agent 9″ in the cartoon series and was Speed shadow on all his missions. Allmost like a reverse Batman & Robin deal.
The original cartoon was far ahead of is time in terms of themes and stories. Some stories were very much like James Bond and Doctor Who.
Not too mention that Speed kills enemies in a lot of episodes. (I’m talking with machine guns). So it had an impact on me when I was young.
Seriously the show only got away with its voilence because I don’t think the parents were paying attention to the stories.
Some of Speeds villians looked as original as some of the Marvel or DC cast of characters.
The nomadic fur collector drivers really cracked me up in the film.

Anyway………» o^o-

Seeing this in IMAX is too much, even for me.
(And see it Sober people).

Personally I friggen hate IMAX. No movie should be THAT BIG IN YOUR FACE unless your 500 ft away. My gawd if a tv monitor was that big the radiation would kill you before the movie ended.
(IMAX fans (not ALL mind you) but some have reminded me of people that like Monster Cars). Like real life is 100 x 200 ft wide.
Its funny the same people I notice that like IMAX also like dvd’s in (full screen) go figure?

Vic I’m kinda surprised that you would distract yourself with live-action vs the CGI factor in this film.
(This film just begs you to get lost and enjoy the ride).

If I had gone into Iron Man dwelling on where the live action started and stopped I wouldn’t have liked the film as much. (The scenes where Iron Man landed with a blurry thud were clearly where some of the live action and CGI met) not to mention the final battle with Iron Monger but I overlooked those.

Also (IMO) pure CGI characters would have defeated the purpose of even trying something NEW like this.
the Wachowskis did something grand and succeeded (IMO).

I will agree that the racing action is seriously frantic in some scenes and there are some (Transformer moments).
However I think that was done for the re-watchablity factor.
Say what you will this film was everything I expected and more!! 10 out of 5 Stars!!

(I’m really confused on the negative feedback some have for this?) Its allmost like there’s a hate for the Wachowskis.
Since a lot of people couldn’t or didn’t want to understand the last 2 Matrix films and again dwelled on the CGI and the Zion rave. Too bad…..

Remember Speed Racer Fans, the Matrix didn’t do big numbers its first weekend ether…

(IMO)
This film will only gain more fans once people stop reading negative reviews and check it out on there own on a regular size screen. (I would also recomend sitting way in the last row)…

Aside from the corniness and cheasy…Everything, and the bad acting at many parts, even the little things were annoying. The cars spinning around everwhere was one. I dunno I just couldn’t enjoy this much at all.