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time.com - 5/9/2008

Speed Racer: The Future of Movies

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O poor dear superheroes, we sympathize with your plight. Young Peter Parker, you got bitten by a radioactive spider, which somehow enables you to bound gooily from one tall building to the next. Dr. Bruce Banner, the gamma bomb you were working on exploded, turning you gigantic and green and incredibly hulkish when you get angry. And you four fantastic ones, exposed to cosmic rays on an ...

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Go Or No Go Speed Racer!
movies filter — ... The Good: Time's Richard Corliss: "'Speed Racer' announces the arrival of the virtual movie. If you watch the film overwhelmed by the assault of seductive visual information and wonder what you're seeing, here's the happy answer: the future of movies." [Actually that sounds kind of scary] ...

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Thompson On Hollywood — ... a half quadrant movie targeted at women and gay men. Here's Peter Bart on the subject of chick flicks.) The LAT analyzes Speed Racer's presumed boxoffice weakness: why does this movie have to be number one and be a blockbuster? Why can't it just open? Family movies tend to last longer in the marketplace. Just asking. It didn't land good reviews: 36% on the Tomatometer (Rotten). Looks like I like Speed Racer better than most, along with Richard Corliss, who says it's the future of movies. Fantasy Moguls has its own ...