speed-racer

Finally, Speed Racer is coming today. Which sounds like a Trixie joke, but I just mean that the movie finally opens.

I’m about as excited to see Speed as I was to see Iron Man, but I was a huge Speed Racer watching kid way back when (before the internets, if you can imagine. Yes, we had electricity, and television, but not cable). Anyway, I grew up watching the show, and want to see what the Matrix Brothers do with it - although from all the previews they’ve released, I have a pretty good idea.

Little different than the original? A few reviews have said it’s too much - too much color, noise, action. I’m thinking - I sat throught Cloverfield and didn’t throw up, and Sharkboy and Lavagirl, I can do this one.

Besides, Ricci as Trixie? How cool is that?

PS: funny enough, my car is in the shop, if it were outside I might think about playing hooky and going to see this w/o the kids, since all they’ll do is sit there and go “boooring, c’mon, my playstation has better graphics. When do the bad guys start killing everyone? Are there gonna be zombies?” etc.

I mentioned Hancock (cuz it has Will Fucking Smith in it), but just found a site attached to the movie. Yeah, it’s marketing designed to look like a blog, but there’s some cute stuff.

Also? Feel the need?

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Me, too. Gotta wait damn near a month for this one. I can’t watch the trailer enough.

Finally, I screwed up big time. I promised the boys that if they got ready for school each morning this week, I’d take them to see Iron Man this weekend. But you may know (as I do now) that it doesn’t come until.. May 2.

Yeah. I said that.

So, since I can’t pull Iron Man out of my ass, I’m probably going to take Cathy’s suggestion and give the kids tin foil, cardboard, and perhaps high explosives and we’ll film our own Iron Man Movie.

1. I ran five miles this morning, and have lost my weight gained during “Birthday Sweeps week”
2. Christina Ricci has been chosen to play Trixie in the upcoming Speed Racer movie.

See?