ENGLAND PREVAILS.... wait, wrong villain
May. 13th, 2008 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
croikGO SEE SPEED RACER.
Okay, so it didn't do so well its opening weekend. And on Tomatoes it got a 35%. But fuck that, I went to see a live action anime and by golly that's what I got!
Saw the movie on Saturday with TK, Anders, and some friends, and TK and I are already planning on going again this weekend. The critics aren't wrong about it: it's super fast, super showy, has CG out the wazoo, has a cheesy 70s anime plot and cheesy 70s anime characters. But everything they hated about the movie is what I loved.
Honestly, I never watched the old cartoon. But the movie itself is done in the anime style so well that it still manages to hit all my nostalgia buttons, from the speed lines to the "power of friendship" moral to the giant close up of a face with a flashback going on in the background--all of which kept me glued to Sailor Moon every morning in 7th grade.
And for as fast and as crazy as it was, it's not as impossible to keep up as the critics make it out to be. At least, not if you've ever played Zone of the Enders 2. On acid. But then, anyone who's seen the commercials can see that.
The week before seeing Speed Racer, I saw Iron Man. And Iron Man was a fantastic film - better than Speed Racer in every objective way, to be sure. But if I'm being totally honest...I still enjoyed Speed better. Iron Man was awesome but I don't know anything about the comic, and as great as Stark was I didn't feel particularly attached. But Speed felt like it was targeted directly to people like me: people who loved anime as a kid, in all its sappy glory, and want to relive that a little. And that's just what it let me do. Thanks you hot hot Emile and hot smoking hot Rain.
So I guess what I'm really saying is if you ever cried at Sailor Moon, and aren't opposed to putting your eyeballs into a shake-and-bake bag full of glitter, you'll probably like the movie :D But if anime cheese-drama rubs you wrong or you get motion sickness easily, RUN AWAY! (and go see Iron Man instead).
Okay, so it didn't do so well its opening weekend. And on Tomatoes it got a 35%. But fuck that, I went to see a live action anime and by golly that's what I got!
Saw the movie on Saturday with TK, Anders, and some friends, and TK and I are already planning on going again this weekend. The critics aren't wrong about it: it's super fast, super showy, has CG out the wazoo, has a cheesy 70s anime plot and cheesy 70s anime characters. But everything they hated about the movie is what I loved.
Honestly, I never watched the old cartoon. But the movie itself is done in the anime style so well that it still manages to hit all my nostalgia buttons, from the speed lines to the "power of friendship" moral to the giant close up of a face with a flashback going on in the background--all of which kept me glued to Sailor Moon every morning in 7th grade.
And for as fast and as crazy as it was, it's not as impossible to keep up as the critics make it out to be. At least, not if you've ever played Zone of the Enders 2. On acid. But then, anyone who's seen the commercials can see that.
The week before seeing Speed Racer, I saw Iron Man. And Iron Man was a fantastic film - better than Speed Racer in every objective way, to be sure. But if I'm being totally honest...I still enjoyed Speed better. Iron Man was awesome but I don't know anything about the comic, and as great as Stark was I didn't feel particularly attached. But Speed felt like it was targeted directly to people like me: people who loved anime as a kid, in all its sappy glory, and want to relive that a little. And that's just what it let me do. Thanks you hot hot Emile and hot smoking hot Rain.
So I guess what I'm really saying is if you ever cried at Sailor Moon, and aren't opposed to putting your eyeballs into a shake-and-bake bag full of glitter, you'll probably like the movie :D But if anime cheese-drama rubs you wrong or you get motion sickness easily, RUN AWAY! (and go see Iron Man instead).
