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#26

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 4/18/08 at 9:54pm

It looks good. Mostly of Emile Hirsch.

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#27

36% Rotten on RT. My favorite quote so far:

"Imagine someone pouring hot, melted Starburst candies into your corneas, and you just begin to approximate the experience of Speed Racer, an ice-cream headache of a movie ... "
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#28

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 8:50pm

I know Into the Wild provided some of the best on-screen moments for Emile, but I may just have to see this for the sake of him.

#29

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 8:52pm

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#30

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 9:31pm

That "melted Starburst" quote is priceless.

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#31

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 9:57pm

you can just hear reed's nasal, dry, bitchy voice. LOL. Always makes me laugh.

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#32

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 10:13pm

How can it be bad? Emile Hirsch is in it. I adore him.

#33

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/8/08 at 10:15pm

Especially on "fuchsia vomit."

You know he dragged those words out and milked them for all they're worth!

"Go, SSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssspeed Racer, Go!"

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#34

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 8:38am

I have yet to read a good review of this. Stephanie Zacharek in Salon.com:

"Speed Racer" is so arrogant about its so-called stylishness and energy that it feels like punishment, the equivalent of being trapped at a dinner party between two guys who feel compelled to inform you, in long-winded detail, how great they are. This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness."

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#35

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 9:54am

Emile is an amazing actor. It seems like an odd choice for him, he struck me as more serious. Oh well. I think he's wonderful.

However, yesterday they were airing these very odd "Mother's Day" versions of Speed Racer commercials on Lifetime, E!, Bravo, and ABC that I saw. The commercials basically had all Susan Sarandon and Christina Ricci clips and had voiceovers like "Make her Mother's Day a speeding success!" "Race your mom to the movies this Mother's Day." I was like, are you kidding me? If I was a mom and my family took me to Speed Racer, there would be a Regal Cinema massacre.

Plus, Sarandon is probably in 10 minutes. It's not like it is a chick flick. UGH!

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#36

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 12:18pm

The Dallas Morning News gives it an "A." I have not yet read the review.

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#37

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 12:26pm

I saw a screening of SR last Saturday night. The first 30 minutes were fine because the graphics were very impressive and unlike any I'd ever seen in a movie but then it just goes on and on and on and on and I was ready to walk out after about an hour. I was with a friend so couldn't but my god, what a waste of two hours of my life. To think I could have seen a B'way show instead. Ughh!

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#38

Posted: 5/9/08 at 2:14pm

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 02:14 PM

#39

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 2:28pm

The first 30 minutes were fine because the graphics were very impressive and unlike any I'd ever seen in a movie but then it just goes on and on and on and on and I was ready to walk out after about an hour.

Yeah, one complaint a lot of reviewers had about SR was the length - many said that it was entirely too long.

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#40

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:42pm

I can't even watch the 30-second previews of this. It looks like a movie that could actually make audiences go blind and/or have strokes.

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#41

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:43pm

It's painfully bad. In almost every way. I agree that it's visually impressive for about 20 minutes but then things just get repetitive and migraine-inducing. And it's a shame because this cast is so good...

I really did not like it at all.

#42

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/9/08 at 5:45pm

I'll go see it because of Emile and Matthew Fox. If they weren't in it, there would be no chance in hell I would sit through what looks like one of the worst movies of the summer.

Thanks for the headsup, wickedrocks. I'll bring the Tylenol.

#43

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/10/08 at 5:28pm

Spoiler alert for dummies:

Does the idiot Racer family ever figure out that "Racer X" is really Rex Racer? Boy - that's some tough code to crack!

#44

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/10/08 at 7:42pm

Saw it today and LOVED it. However, I loved it in such a way that I could totally see why people could hate it. I just had a ton of fun watching.

For Jon...

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS! (Dude, it's only Speed Racer.)

Speed thinks he figures it out. However, Rex had plastic surgery after faking his death, so when Speed confronts him about it and Rex takes off the mask, he doesn't recognize him.

#45

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:07am

according to reports its going to be the 1st bomb of the summer, making around $20 million in its 1st weekend with the fall off already apparent, experts are predicting it will barely scrape to $50 in the US

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#46

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:35am

Hopefully that will save us from "Speed Racer 2".

Updated On: 5/12/08 at 09:35 AM

#47

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:49am

Well, back to the drawing board, Brothers W. Please give us another BOUND next time? Pretty please?

#48

speed racer, total wreck?

Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:20am

i agree with roquat (shocking, no?).

and bb (not so shocking).

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