This is my debut feature, so no rating or proper review. Just logging it for posterity (and I’ll likely be logging it every time I watch it in full for completion’s sake), because today was finally the viewing where I deemed it festival-ready! There’s definitely still the most minute details to polish that I’ll likely be tweaking until the moment the hard drive is ripped away from me, but watching it today marked the transition from feeling like a work-in-progress…
With every ing year it becomes more and more insane that SPEED RACER got made. It’s especially jarring to watch in the middle of the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, a move by the studio that put this out that could not be more Royalton Industries if it tried.
But SPEED RACER is a view into a better world, one where family s each other unconditionally, where corporate cronyism is punished, where artists can self-actualize in the most glorious displays, where silliness can…
The kills were as clever and fantastic as ever, and tattoo man hit the exact cartoony tone of FINAL DESTINATION at its best (i.e. FD2). If they had cut about 20 mins of exposition out of the movie to make it as short as the rest of the series, then it woulda been perfect.
Asks the question: what if everything you were irrationally worried about was completely justified? A grand, delirious shaggy-dog odyssey of shame. The evil sibling of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, which means it’s way more relatable and everyone will hate it. A+ experience, no notes.
Ok, but why does this movie about catboys on a train going through space have an extended section where a guy who died on the Titanic regales them with a story about how he gave up on trying to save the two kids he was on the ship with and instead made the decision for them all to drown together because God was their true salvation, followed by the train stopping at heaven so they could disembark? Odd choice.
