I did a few things today. First was church, which was good. Then came some sporting events. I watched some of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals, and then switched to the dodgers-cubs game. After that finished, I put on the second of my netflix discs: "Speed Racer". I have fewer things to say about this film than I thought I would. I wasn't crazy about it. There were lots of exciting things to look at, but there wasn't really anything in the story that grabbed me. It was the sort of plot that was apt to show up in the original series, but that doesn't make it appropriate for an expensive film version.
Perhaps what the situation called for was the sort of re-imagining that Battlestar Galactica got. I'd say that such an effort on the part of the Wachowski brothers was surprising, but after all these years, the only good thing they've had was the first Matrix movie.
I still have the second disc of "The Tudors" season 1 to watch, and I may offer impressions of that when I get to it.
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I enjoyed Speed Racer, exactly because it was precisely what the movie should have been - a direct live-action recreation of the classic anime series.
It's certainly more faithful to the source material than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in any case.
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