L.O.D.

Jul 8 2008, 12:15 PM

Once again- I saw the movie, and didn't like it.

Not because of the critics.

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Like Rob said, we saw it. I didn't enjoy it as much as he did. Some of the scenes were good (and some just hilarious) but for the better part of the time, Phoebe and I would look at each other and whisper, "This movie is so damn long."

And whenever I say that, that means that the movie hasn't really kept me interested. Yeah, the effects were cool (I actually didn't mind the cartoonish landscape and what not. I thought I wouldn't like it, but it matched well with the tone of the movie) and some of the characters were good (love X). But it seemed like some of the scenes were forced, and some were just random.

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Throughout the movie, I was waiting for Speed and Sparky to hold a conversation with one another (and it didn't happen) and then at the end, the two of them embraced one another and got all emotional. If I were someone who had never watched the anime, I wouldn't have understood wtf that was about.

It may have been a good adaptation, but as a movie, there were a few things that I can point out that didn't make it so great. Character development could have been better for some of the characters, of course the campiness (I know it was like that in the anime, but critics are critics, and I didn't like that about the anime anyway), you couldn't take it seriously (laughed at dramatic moments), and at some points, the special effects disorientated me to where I didn't know what I was looking at.

2.5/5 for me.

Mssj.Vegeta

Jul 14 2008, 01:26 AM

But when i saw the movie, it wasnt really about the anime. They didnt make a movie for the fans they made another Matrix movie. THe matrix is rooted to Plato's Cave, V for Vendetta- Art, Speed Racer- Matrix+Vendetta. I dont expect u to understand what i mean, u probally watched the movie for entertainment like everyone else did. But because i'm heading for filmmaking this stuff is important to me (its my religion), its the kind of knowledge u have to learn on ur own. No professor or text will teach it to you.

L.O.D.

Jul 14 2008, 12:19 PM

Mssj.Vegeta

Jul 14 2008, 01:26 AM

But when i saw the movie, it wasnt really about the anime. They didnt make a movie for the fans they made another Matrix movie. THe matrix is rooted to Plato's Cave, V for Vendetta- Art, Speed Racer- Matrix+Vendetta. I dont expect u to understand what i mean, u probally watched the movie for entertainment like everyone else did. But because i'm heading for filmmaking this stuff is important to me (its my religion), its the kind of knowledge u have to learn on ur own. No professor or text will teach it to you.

Allegory of the cave? Yes, I know all about it- I learned from a widely praised Philosophy professor, and I knew about it for a while. And while I understand how it relates to The Matrix, I don't think it has anything to do with Speed Racer. There wasn't anything truly philosophical about this movie. Corporate greed- that's all I got.

L.O.D.

Jul 14 2008, 08:29 PM

While I appreciate how much you considered in this movie, I still don't agree that this movie is special because of it. In almost every movie, there is the small guy against the big bad guy.

And guess what- what you say about religion being the reason why we have no superheroes... I don't agree. We don't have superheroes because no one can fly, no one has super human strength, and because the real world isn't like the movies. In the movies, wealthy men sometimes have huge hearts as well as the brains to match, and they can build super suits so they can stop insane villains.

In the real world, we have the police, firefighters, national guard, and so on and so forth. People without superhuman abilities that risk their lives to save/help their fellow man. I appreciate them a little more