How about "Meet Dave" or "Wall-E"? On May 12, 2008, at 8:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> great review, as always, but I doubt this movie would have fared > any better against "Hancock". I'm tired of him in roles--Lord knows > i am!--but I can't deny Will Smith has the summer/Christmas > blockbuster thing down... > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Daryle Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I saw it. > > It was a really great movie. If you have not watched this series > before, you will be thoroughly confused. The world of Speed racer > is completely surreal. there is a Chimpanzee that travels with a > family that tunes race cars. The family's name is Racer. The > company races cars with no sponsors and has no visible means of > support yet they travel the world. This show has always been bizarre. > Wachowski brothers did this universe justice on screen. the casting > was bizarre, the story was bizarre. the set design is bizarre. the > whole things is off the chain. And I personally loved how off the > chain it was. > > The Wachowski Brothers would like us all to know that our > individuality is more important than religion and big corporate > sponsorship. They want us to remember that the most important thing > is freedom of thought. That you have a choice. They also want us all > to get up off our hang-ups and embrace a world that isn't 98% white. > And this is an awesome thing. It means that The Wachowskis could > take "Mary Had a Little Lamb", tell the story from the perspective of > the lamb, and you'd cry at the end. I'm saying that THESE are the > guys to whom you do NOT GIVE a kids movie franchise. They will not > sell breakfast cereal and Whoppers. they will sell $500 sunglasses > and leather coats. The bad news is that the Wachowskis hit gold with > their first big project - so they are gold at Warner brothers. > there will be more movies like this, and the same message will be > in it. > > That being said....any of you who have kids and are somewha > suburban have been in a Target or similar big box store with toys > in it -- have noticed that SOMEbody is buying all these Speed > Racer toys. This ain't exactly TMNT. > > Putting an adaptation of "Speed racer" against one of the best made > pictures of the genre -- with Paramount, who has everything to lose > right now as its distributor and marketing engine -- was simply > insane. It was like putting a documentary about Italian football on > TV the same time as of the Super Bowl and expecting good ratings. > This movie should have gone against "Hancock" on July 2. Warners > didn't pay attention, that's all. Nobody was expecting a series of > "Speed Racer" movies. This one is done, and it will make all of its > money when the DVD drops. > > Great movie. I will own it on DVD. But it was a bad idea to put > it out this summer. > > On May 12, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Martin wrote: > >> I haven't seen either, but "Speed Racer"'s CGI left me cold almost >> off the bat. A friend f mine in Canada has seen "Iron Man" twice, >> and plans to see it a couple more times. All the prodding I need... >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Speed Racer" is a cartoon I loved >> as a kid, but the movie's look has been leaving me cold. The Mach 5 >> is awesome, but all the eyeball-searing colors and quick angles >> make me dizzy just in the trailer. I didn't hear much positive >> about it, other than it was some fun racing scenes that are spoiled >> by the visuals, and that the dialogue is wooden even for a movie >> based on a goofy cartoon. It's not on my must-see list, though i >> may check it out sometime. I'm more excited to see "Iron Man" again. >> >> -------------- Original message -------------- >> From: "ravenadal" >> Iron Man had a second weekend that Speed Racer could only envy. >> >> By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY >> >> The comic book adaptation took in $50.5 million in its second >> weekend, >> plenty to capture the top spot at the box office for the weekend, >> according to studio estimates from box office trackers Nielsen EDI. >> >> The movie dropped 51% � respectable for a film that opened to $98.5 >> million � and was still more than twice the debut of Speed Racer, >> which came in at $20.2 million. >> >> Speed's haul was $15 million below projections and a huge letdown for >> distributor Warner Bros., which had launched the largest movie- >> related >> toy launch in Mattel's history with more than 1,500 cars, action >> figures and race tracks to promote the movie. >> >> The romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas did $3 million better than >> expected, taking $20 million and third place, while the Patrick >> Dempsey comedy Made of Honor was fourth with $7.6 million. >> >> The Tina Fey comedy Baby Mama was fifth with $5.8 million. >> >> Despite the middling performance of newcomers, ticket sales for the >> weekend were 23% ahead of the same weekend last year. >> >> Final figures are due Monday. >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! 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