oh my god, was that a ninja?

[tyger01]

Ok, I'm going to opine about Speed Racer.

There's a quality that I like in a movie, such that if the movie has a few shortcomings (awkward dialogue, a weak plot, etc.), I'll happily overlook them. That quality is enthusiasm, or a sense that the director is making a movie he's wanted to make since he was a teenager. There's an attention to detail,

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[sylverling]

DUDE, it was a ninja, and that was AWESOME. It was just missing the pirates. *grin* Yeah, it was way better than RT is giving it. Not a masterpiece, but fun and not trying to be better than it is.

It's sad what passes for a ninja these days

[nanimo]

The way they translated japamation topoi into live action made me gleeful!

One of the major critiques I've read of the movie was that the familial and romantic relationships were boring and superficial. Which kind of bugs me... I liked the happy relationships. Especially I enjoyed that he had this comfortable established relationship with a chick who was all supportive without being annoyingly passive.(And did the movie lack for overdramatic tension? Really?) Personally, I vote for happy, healthy, and mutually-fulfilling relationships becoming our normative model even if it makes the modern memoir-tastic narrative obsession less interesting.

Also: colors! Going fast! Cars flipping over! On a really big screen! Yay!

[tyger01]

OMG it didn't even occur to me, but you're right. How totally rare is it to see a stable, happy relationship in a movie?

Maybe part of the reason they seem so uncommon is because people never see examples of them.