{"id":2024,"date":"2008-12-09T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2018-11-18T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T03:27:33","slug":"speed-racer-makes-time-magazines-10-best-films-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/09\/speed-racer-makes-time-magazines-10-best-films-list\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEED RACER Makes Time Magazine’s 10 Best Films List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If I were Nikki Finke, I would have written \u201cToldja!\u201d in the headline.<\/p>\n

In Time<\/em> Magazine\u2019s list of the Top 10 films of 2008, critic Richard Corliss has included the much maligned Speed Racer<\/strong> in the number 9 position, right after Iron Man<\/strong> and before Werner Herzog\u2019s documentary Encounters At The End Of The World<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When it was first released, Speed Racer<\/strong> was savaged by many critics (37% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>) who had trouble connecting with the incredible alternate reality that the Wachowski Brothers had created for the film. Released in the immediate wake of Iron Man<\/strong>, Speed Racer<\/strong> didn\u2019t really get a chance to find an audience and quickly flamed out at the box office. I think I was one of the few critics who wrote positively<\/a> about the film.<\/p>\n

Normally I don\u2019t place much stock in year end \u201cBest of\u201d lists, which is why we generally don\u2019t do them here. And it would be easy to say that I\u2019m only writing about this because Corliss happens to agree with me when he states that Speed Racer<\/strong> is \u201cavant-garde FX masterpiece.\u201d Well, OK, maybe there is a little of that here.<\/p>\n

I had a chance to watch it again this past weekend. It was a viewing that only reaffirmed my feeling that the film will eventually undergo a critical reevaluation at some point. But I also have to wonder if Corliss\u2019s act of naming the film to his Top 10 list will be the kickstart of that reevaluation. Corliss states that much of what the Wachowski Brothers do visually in the film will invariably be ripped off by other filmmakers. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, than I can\u2019t wait to see Speed Racer<\/strong> to start receiving the adulation it truly deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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