the wachowskis are lightyear ahead in talent than the guy whose ironman is about to come out, but apparently chim chim and rainbow color world is below you, but a robot flying and shooting beams in sooo cooool.

if that pseudo robot movie makes more money than speedracer, i'd take a shit on the entire geek community!

Node I thought exactly the same thing. Except my inner voice was Cartman saying it.

this has to be a new record in superhero summer teaser releases...wtf? it's what they aren't showing us that must suck..or else they are reaaaally threatened by TDK.

i have pretty much noticed, some uber-praising TDK review comes out, and Iron man releases like another 30 mins of footage.

I'll be there with my six and seven-year-old nephews opening day.

testing

for pete's sake, have you seen bound??? did you remember your reaction coming out of the 1st matrix movie???

honestly, i'd take a new wachowski's movie anyday over any new spielberg's film.

now... the wachowskis have more talents, imagination, more coolness in one fingertip than bay has in his entire being, and you guys are gonna give this movie a pass????

are you a self respecting movie buff, or arent you?

in other news, the guys who did elf and the transporter have a new movie out soon.

Even if it's not, and this guy and the other guy really like the film, it still looks crap.

It's gonna be talked about and adverstised about and be the surprise bomb of the summer.

Look at the timing: Iron Man is out May 2nd, big money. First "summer" film, lots of good buzz, people are gonna see it. Prediction: 95- 105 mil

Some who don't will catch it on the 2nd weekend, and some will go as repeat business.

This leaves the kiddies and grown geeks as the primary audience for Speed Racer on the May 9th weekend. I'm still going with 45 mil, maybe 55 mil tops.

Then the very next weekend is Narnia: Prince Caspian. That's a kids film, a family (christian) film, fantasy/adventure that is a sequel to a movie that made over 200 mil. It will own that weekend. Prediction: 70-85 mil.

Followed directly after by Indy IV, which everybody and their mother will go see. Prediction: 120-130 mil (possible record breaker)

So you have the 3rd week after it's release that people may get around to Speed Racer if they didn't go that first weekend. And with repeat/delayed viewings for Iron Man, Narnia, and Indy IV also going on, Speed will only get like 25% of that weekend.

My guess is that it'll just clear 100 mil domestic. Overseas however may be a different story....

Just fuck off back to your soulless masters you heartless fucking Marketing whores.

It's driving me mad- and actually putting me off seeing this.

you're making it sound like there's nothing original at all in the whole matrix movie. starwars borrowed wholesale from kurosawa's hidden fortress, and tarantino's reservoir dogs ripped off ringo lam's city of fire. so what's your point?

That said, the Wachowskis can make good, old-fashioned popcorn entertainment easier than most people take a piss. I mean, let's not forget they wrote and directed 'Bound' - a masterclass in Hitchcockian filmmaking - totally off-the-cuff, merely as an "in" to direct their 'Matrix' script that they'd sold to Warner Brothers.

Because of that, and their obvious love for the source material, I have no doubt in my mind that 'Speed Racer' will likely be the best big budget blockbuster this Summer.

Now, how it holds its ground against titans like Indy 4 and Narnia remains to be seen. But with the level of marketing and merchandising being invested in 'Speed Racer', it's possible that this could be one of the biggest hits of the Summer.

My god, and as for qualifying it with "above most people's heads": are you joking? If they were half as clever as they thought they were then they'd still be pretty basic.

You've got to hand it to philibrick though, his multitasking skills are sensational.

Pogs - What the fuck was that all about?

you’re saying the wachowskis have no imagination because the matrix steals from everything. so in your world, there’s no killer robots movie before the terminator came along then, no quatermain before Indiana jones, no zorro before batman, etc etc… oh, you DO know? good, do stay home then when indy 4, dark knight, avatar come out because the creators & filmmakers behind those films apparently have no imagination.

great directors take existing ideas and make it their own, hack directors just copy and paste. the difference is in their IMAGINATION.

but i agree totally about bound, and by the look of it most of the self-professed movie geeks here havent even seen it, otherwise the animosity for the wachowkis here would have calmed a bit.

the only point i was making is that you cant call it imagination when its just plain stealing. i really do love matrix 1. but i dont give full credit to the wachowskis for creating that world, or some of its better sequences.

i dont even have to tell you that some of the biggest pieces of trash ever put on celluloid are big money makers.

but does the parts create a new whole? is the end result a one fine film, aesthetically and artistically? when you can answer yes to both is when i believe the 'stealing' is justified. i'm pretty sure spielberg, jackson, fincher, tarantino would agree with that assesment. ;)

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Such as...?

Fuck you.

But I have seen 900rpm posting more, maybe they have taken our advice about maintaining ID's

No?

Didn't think so.