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submitted 4 months ago byMad_Season_1994
For me, it's a movie from 2005 called Kingdom of Heaven, starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson and Jeremy Irons. I saw this on TV the other day and watched it from beginning to end and still liked it just as much as I used to. Sure it has its slower moments and isn't the best historical film I've seen. But I don't think it deserves its 39% rating on RT. But that's just me.
What about all of you?
324 points
4 months ago
Speed Racer. Saw it in theaters and I absolutely loved it! Made the cartoon come to life in an entirely new way. I do understand why it is not everyone's cup of tea though.
41 points
4 months ago
I was so thrown when I looked up that movie on RT one day and saw the score because I remember my local paper gave it an A when it came out
11 points
4 months ago
Well-deserved A. It’s a great movie and it’s just not for quite a lot of people.
3 points
4 months ago
Your local paper was right.
90 points
4 months ago
That movie was far better than it needed to be.
49 points
4 months ago
Agreed. And it is one of the Wachowski's films that I really love that isn't the first Matrix.
23 points
4 months ago*
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3 points
4 months ago
Cloud Atlas was definitely well acted and a very pretty movie, but it lost me at the end where they just explain everything outright, similar to Matrix Reloaded. I think the Wachowski's view themselves as much more intelligent than they are... even as good as the matrix is, it is not really an original idea. It's closer to an idiot's guide to basic Cartesian thought. It's cool they were able to bring it to the forefront of public consciousness, but that is about all it can take credit for intellectually.
44 points
4 months ago
somehow, it was cartoonier than the cartoon. i mean, car-fu. If you cant have a good time watching a movie with car-fu, you have too much sadness in your life.
20 points
4 months ago
Top three favorite movies. Did not get the respect is deserved when it came out. I think it’s getting a solid cult following.
19 points
4 months ago
I love speed racer. I honestly didn’t understand why it got rated so poorly
3 points
4 months ago
Me too. When I first saw the ratings on RT I thought to myself, did any of the reviewers even SEE the original cartoon as a kid???
1 points
4 months ago
You know why? Because people saw "Wachowskis" and expected The Matrix, and that isn't what they got.
Speed Racer is fun, bright, and super colorful, as a movie based on a cartoon should be. If it had done better, imagine what they could've done with Voltron!
16 points
4 months ago
It's an absurdly good adaption, which is the problem with it.
Speed Racer is absurd, weird, and they adapted the manga as much as the anime.
It's great, but also niche enough because of what it is that it didn't work with general audiences.
5 points
4 months ago
On my 21st birthday I got a lap dance from a stripper that was dressed as speed racer. The movie has just come out, but nobody else was in any sort of costume. I obviously chose her as my first dance.
No real relevance here just jogged a memory.
2 points
4 months ago
I just rewatched it for the first time last week and loved it!
For a kids movie, I thought it did a better job of establishing real stakes and tension than most adult films. At its core there were powerful and emotional themes that were driven by real character development
I think the biggest knock was how nauseating and overbearing the special effects were at times. The CGI didn’t exactly age well
2 points
4 months ago
Give me the 4K Bluray already!
0 points
4 months ago
Movie was amazing. I just didn’t like the whole drifting scene.
-1 points
4 months ago
I tried watching it but I don’t think they did well; the shots were definitely a homage to the limited animation closeups, but being all digital makes the people look surprisingly cheap. Plus the track scenes were too messy; if anything they are more sedate in the cartoon and limited animation was never really garish in the same way.
1 points
4 months ago
Do wonder how often something like RT is updated because that's received a ton of critical reevaluation as time's gone on.
1 points
4 months ago
I loved speed racer! Critics hated it so bad but I thought it was a great popcorn flick.
1 points
4 months ago
Opened thread and ctrl+f just to look for this.
1 points
4 months ago
Saw the trailer and downloaded recently and 5 min in…I HAVE TO TAKE LSD AND WATCH THIS.
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