speed racer was a pretty awesome movie

Status
Not open for further replies.
Zoramon089 said:
For the people who hated it, do you at least think that the races were awesome? Sure the in between parts were stupid/corny but if you had to rewatch it and only had to see the races...
Click to expand...

They were confusing and overblown, but visually impressive. The way the cars constantly did 360's just looked dumb, trying to drive home the point "this isn't reality". The whole movie is built around some tragic event where a racer died and yet every race we see is jam packed with apocalyptic crashes. It would seem dying in these races is pretty par for the course.

As for the plot, it was pretty much abysmal, but I guess you have to give some concessions to the fact that it was intentionally hammy. The kid with the monkey was ridiculously annoying though, if there were a way to remove every scene hes in i'd probably enjoy it a lot more.
 
Sapiens said:
:lol
Click to expand...


Laugh all you want. I'm convinced that there hasn't been a major studio release as visually inventive and unconvential as Speed Racer since the Wizard of Oz. It's like some one else said, if this movie were in the hands of any other director, it would have looked like The Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift.
 
karasu said:
Laugh all you want. I'm convinced that there hasn't been a major studio release as visually inventive and unconvential as Speed Racer since the Wizard of Oz. It's like some one else said, if this movie were in the hands of any other director, it would have looked like The Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift.
Click to expand...

This is true. Visually the movie does things that are 100% original. And it's actually for storytelling purposes.
 
HAHAHAHAHA :lol I can't fucking believe it... I just can't believe it man.. this movie was.. was... AWESOME!

Ok the movie was definitely a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be, it was just sheer fun. Pure unadulterated FUNgasm. The last race was god damned epic! Without a doubt one of the best races I've seen on film, period. Speed yelling
"Get that weak shit off my track!!1"
was just god damned hilarious and awesome :lol And did speed come at the end of that last race?! The dude was going so fast and kicking so much ass that he came at the sheer brilliance of his own awesomeness! :lol

Man that movie was just pure fun. That being said some of you guys need to calm down. Not calm down as in not enjoy the shit out of this movie, because you should, but I've seen Speed get a lot more praise than it honestly deserves from a lot of gaffers... seriously chill out with that shit. It was a fun ass movie but some people are taking it way, way, way too far. I've seen far too many people list it as one of the top best movies of the last decade and shit... I mean come on, fellas. Bring it down a notch.

Go Speed go!
 
karasu said:
Laugh all you want. I'm convinced that there hasn't been a major studio release as visually inventive and unconvential as Speed Racer since the Wizard of Oz. It's like some one else said, if this movie were in the hands of any other director, it would have looked like The Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift.
Click to expand...

so pretty graphics is what constitutes creativity now?

no wonder games like ico and katamari are so talked about.
 
Got about half-way through. The fat kid and the monkey was too much. I actually liked some of the other stuff, but that was just too awful.
 
Speed racer is like searching for a sunken treasure, you gotta dig through the shit to claim your prize. Stick with it because it pays off in the end.
 
Interesting looking movie visually but pretty meh from an actual entertaining movie aspect unless your a raving speed racer fanatic. Pretty much nothing I ever need to see again.
 
Damnit, I'm sick of reading the love for this movie. If people liked this then Nintendo should look into bringing F-Zero to the silver screen, because the film was pretty much that.

And that would be better.
 
Sapiens said:
I have a suspicion that the pathetic megafans wouldn't like the movie as much if it weren't for it completely bombing.
Click to expand...

I agree. Although it is an enjoyable film it is not the second coming as several megafans are circle jerking off to.
 
Best movie of 2008. Yeah, I saw The Dark Knight.

Sapiens: no, I went into the movie expecting total garbage, I thought the previews looked terrible and it just simply ended up being my favorite movie of the year. has nothing to do with how much money it made, it would be insulting to like or for that matter dislike something because of how much money it made or didn't make.
 
Truant said:
...in 2009?
Click to expand...

Sorry I didn't love TDK as much as everyone else. I loved it, but that's just how much everyone else loved it. Thought it was a great movie but I wouldn't put it alongside sliced bread or anything.

Now Speed Racer, I can see myself putting that alongside sliced bread.
 
shintoki said:
Because it was the most fucking awesome movie of the year! It saved 2008 for many of us.
Click to expand...
brandonh83 said:
Best movie of 2008. Yeah, I saw The Dark Knight.
Click to expand...
You see this is the shit I was talking about. Give me a break man. It was a fun movie but come on. *rollseyes*

It was a cheap fun popcorn flick and nothing else. Anyone who sees it for any more is either A. Fooling them selves or B. Trying to be comically sarcastic or C. Want to be the hip "outcasts" to garner attention. (most likely a combo of C and B)

I mean seriously, best of 08? Saved the year? This has got to be one of the most well disciplined joke memes carried out in the past decade. It's actually quite impressive.
 
Forceatowulf said:
You see this is the shit I was talking about. Give me a break man. It was a fun movie but come on. *rollseyes*
Click to expand...
exactly. I was incredibly surprised not only that I didn't find the movie stupid, but that I genuinely enjoyed it... but yeah.. it was an enjoyable movie, but hardly the best of last year. maybe if you count best as the top 20 or 30 then sure....
 
And another one bites the dust! Welcome to the club. I still think that the first 20 minutes of the movie is the best directed/edited sequence from last year. The way they intercut several timelines seamlessly is really quite brilliant (the effects they used to show Speed "racing" against Rex from the past is really amazing), and it also sets up the entire backstory.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Spridle and Chim Chim are awesome.

People who can't handle non-ironic earnestness cannot stand this movie (or Juno, apparently).
Click to expand...

I think you hit it right here. Speed Racer isn't trying to be campy, it does the crazy things that it does because it believes that they are genuinely awesome things to do.

Wachowski 1: "Wouldn't it be awesome if Speed was attacked by ninjas?"
Wachowski 2: "Fuck yeah! And let Pops spin him around all crazy like!"

But some people gotta protect their cred. Can't have things like a kid and a monkey fooling around when we're trying to be cool.

More like non-ja
 
Forceatowulf said:
You see this is the shit I was talking about. Give me a break man. It was a fun movie but come on. *rollseyes*

It was a cheap fun popcorn flick and nothing else.
Click to expand...


Oh stfu, man. Who made you the grand inquisitor of cinephilia? WTF is a popcorn flick anyway? What kind of movie precludes the opportunity to eat popcorn?

I see nothing wrong with appreciating a film for its visuals alone(that's why I love most of Kubrick's work), but Speed Racer has a metric ton of heart and cinematic ingenuity for a film of its type. Just like The Dark Knight. I can understand it if the picture didn't connect with you on that level, but claiming that our appreciation is insincere or that we're overreacting to a 'fun movie' is just beyond pretentious. That shit was the bees knees. Especially if you get off on the technical aspects of a picture. There's more than one way to appreciate a fucking film, afterall.


also, it didn't even look that good in the first place, it's just like, a bunch of fucking colors.
Click to expand...

Please kick yourself in the fucking throat for turning your brain off at the sight of primary colors. It's partially about color usage yes, but it's also about the editing, the ,motion, the usage of space, the transitions, etc.
 
karasu said:
Please kick yourself in the fucking throat for turning your brain off at the sight of primary colors. It's partially about color usage yes, but it's also about the editing, the ,motion, the usage of space, the transitions, etc.
Click to expand...

well, i turn my brain off every time i watch a wachowski bros movie so MY BAD
 
I'ma tell you guys what I told my friend "I think I liked that movie" which was pretty much my impression after watching it. I really liked the visual style and their seemed to be a deep plot, but I saw the thing on one of those on-demand hotel services and as a result I probobly was more tired than one should really be to follow all the twists in that movie.
 
Forceatowulf said:
You see this is the shit I was talking about. Give me a break man. It was a fun movie but come on. *rollseyes*

It was a cheap fun popcorn flick and nothing else. Anyone who sees it for any more is either A. Fooling them selves or B. Trying to be comically sarcastic or C. Want to be the hip "outcasts" to garner attention. (most likely a combo of C and B)

I mean seriously, best of 08? Saved the year? This has got to be one of the most well disciplined joke memes carried out in the past decade. It's actually quite impressive.
Click to expand...

It's honestly one of my favorite movies of 2008. It's either SR or TDK at the top spot.
 
milkyjay20 said:
well, i turn my brain off every time i watch a wachowski bros movie so MY BAD
Click to expand...

What about Bound? By the way, fun factoid, I rented Bound the first Tuesday it came out because I heard how awesome it was and watched it with my mother (I think I was 13). Yep, that was something else.
 
I enjoyed this movie way more than I had any right to. This movie was, indeed, one of the most creative and fun releases from last year. I'd put it above Slumdog Millionaire for how much I enjoyed it (no, I'm not saying it's a better film, just that I enjoyed it quite a bit more) (well, actually, I might be saying it's a better film, since I didn't really get that in to Slumdog).
 
karasu said:
I see nothing wrong with appreciating a film for its visuals alone(that's why I love most of Kubrick's work), but Speed Racer has a metric ton of heart and cinematic ingenuity for a film of its type. Just like The Dark Knight. I can understand it if the picture didn't connect with you on that level, but claiming that our appreciation is insincere or that we're overreacting to a 'fun movie' is just beyond pretentious. That shit was the bees knees. Especially if you get off on the technical aspects of a picture. There's more than one way to appreciate a fucking film, afterall.
Click to expand...

Basically I was able to completely get into the story of the family and how racing was jacked up. I liked it a lot. It transcended Speed from being just another great racer to a racer that went the extra mile to set the world of competitive racing right again, something brilliantly set up and developed by his brother which led to a tragic yet bittersweet conclusion.

Yeah it had amazing visual style and exciting races but I was genuinely invested in the world and the characters. The acting was really good, Michael Giacchino's score cannot be explained by human expression, and the final moments of the last race and the ending, if you're into the story, was so incredibly uplifting that I was in a great mood for like two weeks after I walked out of the theater. The script flawlessly and impeccably made us like and care about Rex in under 5 minutes and told his story parallel to Speed's story. It did a great job with that and the editing was marvelous.

I'm the type of filmgoer that can appreciate anything if done right. I can say that I loved Speed Racer and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and someone will not only foolishly call out my opinions as if I have nothing to back up my like or dislike of a film but also immediately assume that I don't like more mature films/storytelling when I can look over on my Blu-ray shelf and in addition to having Speed Racer and Indiana Jones up there, I also see No Country for Old Men, The Fountain, The Dark Knight, and The Departed just to name a few. The next blind argumentative statement would be "well then you have no taste, you just like everything." Bzzt. In fact I have friends that don't like to talk to me about movies because they're afraid I'll rip something they like apart. I don't blame them, but I think it proves that I, in fact, do have taste. There are plenty of movies I dislike and even hate. I just happen to think that Speed Racer was an amazing film on every conceivable level.
 
I'd also like to point out. The score is exceptional. Giacchino is a genius. The scene where this song is playing...It was just perfect mix of everything.

i can't wait till we get more people who see it after it came out, and then say they wish they saw it in theaters...and when they look, I'll whisper "I saw it in Imax" :lol
 
One of the most visually stunning films ever.

And completely satisfied the Speed Racer fan in me. This is one of the rare cases that the haters actually fuel my love for a film.
 
*Thought I'd post here instead of making another LTTP thread*

I recently saw this for the first time, and I've gotta say...I haven't been more pleasantly surprised by a movie in years.

EVERYTHING grew on me....Emile Hirsch, Mathew Fox as Racer X (At first I thought that he was lol-worthy, but by the end, I really dug him), the CGI, the art style, the editing (Was REAL hard to swallow at first, ended up loving it), and most of all, the overall "feel" of the movie. At first, I just couldn't grasps what this was trying to be, to be honest, the last race (and the intercut scenes from earlier in the film) really helped put things into perspective.

Some of the "family stuff" was more over the top then I would like (The kid and the monkey shit was typical hollywood shit that I hate), but it wasn't enough to distract from the overall experience.

I actually "get it" that supporters of this film were so adamant about it being revolutionary and ahead of the curve. At the very least, I'd like to see another racing movie this stylish. The fight scenes were an awesome throwback to the Matrix films.
 
Liara T'Soni said:
At the very least, I'd like to see another racing movie this stylish.
Click to expand...

Well, had more people gone and saw it, the Wachowski Bros would be in pre-production on SR2 right now


:_(
 
Solo said:
Well, had more people gone and saw it, the Wachowski Bros would be in pre-production on SR2 right now


:_(
Click to expand...

Looks at the Matrix sequels, steps away a couple of steps, opens a door, walks out the door, closes the door, and goes into another room where my computer is at and writes on the internet about how crappy the Matrix sequels were.
 
Solo said:
Well, had more people gone and saw it, the Wachowski Bros would be in pre-production on SR2 right now


:_(
Click to expand...
How would they even do a sequel? They packed so god damned much into one movie.:lol Seriously, I'm totally satisfied with one film. And sequels by the Wachowski's? I'll pass. :P
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
How would they even do a sequel?
Click to expand...

They had planned to. I dont know where they would have gone, but they intended to do more than one movie.

Surely they would have outed Racer X in the sequel.
 
Solo said:
They had planned to. I dont know where they would have gone, but they intended to do more than one movie.

Surely they would have outed Racer X in the sequel.
Click to expand...
Jeez. They destroyed the major corporations running the whole thing, he's at the top of his game, no one can beat him. I guess the Racer X thing is something, but the only sequels I could concoct with months in a lab would be comparatively barebones to the original. :lol I guess that's why I don't get paid the big bucks, I suppose.
 
I dont know Jack shit about the Speed Racer anime, but Im sure theres lot of stuff they could have pulled from that for a sequel.
 
I'm watching it on Cinemax right now. It's only been on for about 30 minutes and already it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
 
Forceatowulf said:
Speed racer is like searching for a sunken treasure, you gotta dig through the shit to claim your prize. Stick with it because it pays off in the end.
Click to expand...
I would say it pays off 2-3 minutes before the credits role. Then Shimsham and Chimpo pop up randomly and just shatter the pacing, apparently to appeal to small children. I think the movie would have been far better received if those two had their parts reduced by half; some of the eagerness was fine but "there's a fine line between clever and stupid".
 
B.K. said:
I'm watching it on Cinemax right now. It's only been on for about 30 minutes and already it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Click to expand...

If you consider this to be one of the worst movies you've seen, then you must have awful taste.
 
I just want to say that I was sold on this film from the first 15 minutes or so, in contrast to the many people saying that it took a while to "get it" or to let it grow on them...

I didn't know much at all about the film beforehand, other than it was directed by the Wachowski's and that it was very special effects heavy. I grabbed the DVD from my gym's library (no renting fee involved), popped it in one night and about 15 minutes later I was almost in tears from the sheer awesomeness. Then right then and there I decided to stop the DVD and I ordered the blu-ray right away. I waited a couple of weeks to get my copy of the blu-ray (international shipping) and THEN watched the whole thing.

Loved it.
 
I haven't watched my Blu Ray copy though I've owned it for awhile... actually I haven't seen the movie since I saw it in IMAX when it launched.

The other day I saw it was on and flipped to the HD version of the channel...

I'd forgotten how beautifully the colors jump out in that movie... awesome.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

So apparently, upcoming ''The Monkey'' movie is pretty good
16
1K
DeafTourette replied
Litrpgs are pretty amazing
5
23
SScorpio replied
And the number one movie in the country was called Ass
8
178
CGNoire replied
Married sex life ......can be awesome?
38
191
TheInfamousKira replied
free TV is awesome
33
2K
TronNerd82 replied
Top Bottom