no transformers was obviously bad if only for the fact that michael bay can't keep the god damn army out of a single one of his movies. that and the hilarious amount of stretching they did to keep the movie together. the whole thing was a mess, and even i had hopes in the beginningSouldriver said:This is gonna ba Transformers all over again? It's visualy so overwhelming that nobody notices that everything else about the movie is utter scheiss?
If it stays true to the source material, than it wasn't even worthy a movie to begin with.Mr. Spinnington said:no transformers was obviously bad if only for the fact that michael bay can't keep the god damn army out of a single one of his movies. that and the hilarious amount of stretching they did to keep the movie together. the whole thing was a mess, and even i had hopes in the beginning
speed racer has something called style. that comes from great art direction and slick editing. it also stays truer to its source material which wasn't american beauty by any stretch, but it's likable at the least, and well-executed on the silver screen
then what exactly were you looking for? a reinvention of the series?Souldriver said:If it stays true to the source material, than it wasn't even worthy a movie to begin with.
Souldriver said:If it stays true to the source material, than it wasn't even worthy a movie to begin with.
Mr. Spinnington said:then what exactly were you looking for? a reinvention of the series?
this is 100% fanservice
brandonh83 said:It's one of the best scores ever written for a movie. I've been listening to it for the past few days, even before seeing the movie tonight and its fucking wonderful. Just like the movie. Holy fucking shit I thought it was incredible and the last race is one of my favorite sequences ever put on film because not only is it fast with incredible camera angles and visuals, but part of the race was extremely moving and added a whole other element to just the action.
no one in their right mind expects speed racer to do well this weekend. Word is amongst studios is that Speed Racer is a big ol' bomb.The Bookerman said:My bet is that iron man will still be king this week-end. Another failure for the Wachowski brothers...ehhh Sibblings..
Cheebs said:no one in their right mind expects speed racer to do well this weekend. Word is amongst studios is that Speed Racer is a big ol' bomb.
EDIT: Friday box office numbers are in. Speed Racer did HORRIBLE.
1. Iron Man (Paramount) $14.75M - $3,588 PTA - $141.38M cume
2. NEW Speed Racer (Warner Bros) - $6.5M - $1,803 PTA - $6.5M cume
Cheebs said:no one in their right mind expects speed racer to do well this weekend. Word is amongst studios is that Speed Racer is a big ol' bomb.
EDIT: Friday box office numbers are in. Speed Racer did HORRIBLE.
1. Iron Man (Paramount) $14.75M - $3,588 PTA - $141.38M cume
2. NEW Speed Racer (Warner Bros) - $6.5M - $1,803 PTA - $6.5M cume
duckroll said:And all was right in the world.![]()
Maybe people just dont have any interest in seeing it in the first place?EktorPR said:Meh. Don't tell me this is the reviewers' doing.
EDIT: Btw, I plan to support this film with a second viewing and by buying it on blu-ray. Can't believe people are turning their backs on this great movie because of them critics and the "Iron Man word of mouth". Bleh.
Cheebs said:Maybe people just dont have any interest in seeing it in the first place?
I'm seeing it tonight. I'll see just about anything in imaxEktorPR said:Yeah, I know I was skeptical as fuck going only by the trailers. Are you planning on seeing it, Cheebs?
No, Speed Racer. No.
Full Review | Comment
05/09/08 07:03 PM
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Anasui Kishibe said:holy shit, it really tanked. I was sure Americans woulda killed to watch it, oh well
the Wachowski going to be gunned down by Silver's henchmen and thrown in the East River at midnight
too bad they didn't do it after the retarded V for Vendetta...or before it
It's difficult to imagine Iron Man having done as well as it did last week without the support of the critical community. This week the film hopes to maintain its spot atop the box office, which should have belonged to poor Speed Racer, the Wachowski Brothers' first non-Matrix film since their delicious Bound. The film should have been a contender, but critics have pissed on its grotesque, rapid-fire aesthetic, and when you're trying to foist the big-movie debut of a character like Speed Racer, every bit the B-lister that Iron Man is, you need all the help you can get. With a good chunk of its target audience still wanting to catch up with Iron Man for the first time (maybe even a second) this weekend, Speed Racer will be lucky to rake up $33 million. That means Fox's What Happens in Vegas won't be too far behind. Opening in approximately 3,200 locations, this surprisingly unhateable rom-com starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher is garnering the better reviews, but it still has to complete with the likes of Made of Honor, Baby Mama, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. $18 million seems likely for the weekend. Even lower down on the charts, David Mamet's new film, Redbelt, hopes to crack the Top 10, and given its performance last week on only six screens, it may just do that. Expanding into 1,000 locations on a small wave of critical acclaim, $2 million is in the film's cards. In select cities or limited release: The Fall, Frontier(s), Battle for Haditha, Poultrygeist, Turn the River, The Babysitters, The Tracey Fragments, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, Before the Rain, Noise, A Previous Engagement, Unsettled, Bloodline, The Memory Thief, Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher, Refusenik, Surfwise, and Vice.
Box Office Forecast (5/9/08 - 5/11/08):
1. Iron Man: $49.2 million
2. Speed Racer: $33.3 million
3. What Happens in Vegas: $18.1 million
4. Made of Honor: $8.5 million
5. Baby Mama: $6.3 million
6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall: $3.5 million
7. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: $3.3 million
8. Redbelt: $2.1 million
9. The Forbidden Kingdom: $1.9 million
10. Nim's Island: $1.7 million
Fuck, I wanted my G-Force movie. Wasn't someone famous doing the script? Like David Hayter or something.duckroll said:This tanking at the box office just means one thing - the market for shroom-inspired revisits of 70s cartoon nostalgia is very small.
V was a weird movie, I liked it but it was such an awful adaptation and yet most of the scenes were directly lifted from the comic.Anasui Kishibe said:holy shit, it really tanked. I was sure Americans woulda killed to watch it, oh well
the Wachowski going to be gunned down by Silver's henchmen and thrown in the East River at midnight
too bad they didn't do it after the retarded V for Vendetta...or before it
You don't buy that as a Lost reference? Seriously?omg rite said:Yeahhhh..
Don't think so. Heh.
Lakitu said:Fucking hell, will you shut up?
Prime crotch said:V was a weird movie, I liked it but it was such an awful adaptation and yet most of the scenes were directly lifted from the comic.
suaveric said:I don't know what they were thinking when they green-lit this movie. A kids movie about a cartoon from 30 years ago? Why would today's children have any interest in watching an adaptation of a show they've never seen?
Thats the forecast prior to friday numbers. It wont make anything near 33 million. More like 22-23 million based on friday numbers.crustikid said:
Thats the dumbest thing ever. It isnt some pro-america slant. Hell I bet most americans think speed racer is an american cartoon. It's simply that Iron Man is a very, very, very good movie. And Speed Racer is very quirky.EktorPR said:Speed Racer is just another case of the american masses being afraid of change and originality, not to mention anime references. They will eat up anything and everything they know as long as its their own (like their american hero, Iron Man).
duckroll said:Speed Racer has more in common with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory than anime. Please. It's one thing to defend the movie, it's another thing to make really dumb outlandish excuses for why it's going to be a total failure.
EktorPR said:Aside from the color palette and some 'sugary' characters, I see it as being very anime-esque. Very.
Mr. Spinnington said:this is 100% fanservice
Milhouse31 said:Outside of some US geek the franchise has no appeal. It's unknown to most part of the world.
EktorPR said:Edit: Btw, I'm not mad or anything. I'm just overreacting to the poor reception this film has gotten, critically and commercially, because I loved the film, so just...don't mind me.
duckroll said:Speed Racer has more in common with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory than anime. Please. It's one thing to defend the movie, it's another thing to make really dumb outlandish excuses for why it's going to be a total failure.
duckroll said:Speed Racer has more in common with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory than anime. Please. It's one thing to defend the movie, it's another thing to make really dumb outlandish excuses for why it's going to be a total failure.
[All] of it is in-focus, the front and the back, because theyre layering the film, Sarandon explained of the technique, which hopes to make the live-action resemble real-life anime. You know, in a cartoon, everything is in focus, right? Well, we dont act like cartoons - we act like real people. But its very saturated, the look of it - its not an animated process over us, there are real people in this very bright world. Every color that was not in The Matrix is in this movie.
bud said:uh, the movie's supposed to look like a real-life anime.
Cheebs said:no one in their right mind expects speed racer to do well this weekend. Word is amongst studios is that Speed Racer is a big ol' bomb.
EDIT: Friday box office numbers are in. Speed Racer did HORRIBLE.
1. Iron Man (Paramount) $14.75M - $3,588 PTA - $141.38M cume
2. NEW Speed Racer (Warner Bros) - $6.5M - $1,803 PTA - $6.5M cume
duckroll said:I dunno about that, I think most people above the age of 20 know Speed Racer. But knowing what it is and actually thinking it's still cool or good is a different thing altogether.
EktorPR said:Aside from the color palette and some 'sugary' characters, I see it as being very anime-esque. Very.