I've Been avoiding the sound and vision of the new Speed Racer flick for sometime now because I want to like the movie when it comes out. Then I made the mistake of seeing the 2 cut of the trailer. This film looks like if you squint while watching it, you'll have a good time with the Wachowski Brothers ability to do what they do. But this movie is going to die on the lead who play Speed. Whoever this is, and I don't care to find out, is so incredibly distracting, that everytime he shows up I wanted to stop it and move on.
And as much as I love John Goodman, seeing him play Pop just made me think of the Flintstones. Not right for this part, not even a little bit. The casting was so spot on for the Matrix, even the one off characters fit the bill perfectly. The Matrix even made you think Keanu Reeves could act...For a minute. Casting for V for Vendetta was spot on, every single actor was believable and watchable. How did they go so wrong with this?
This guy playing Speed is so distracting to look at with the big Superman hair twirl that it makes me wish they had cast Nicholas Cage to play a 18 year-old kid. Anybody but this kid.
All I could think was, "Speed, we don't roll on Shabbas."
Besides, wasn't Dick Butkus supposed to play Pops?
Posted by: Ted | March 13, 2008 at 08:21 PM
Hilarious! I hadn't heard that but Dick Butkus would have been waaaay better!
Posted by: Mpaper | March 14, 2008 at 01:38 AM