How Did Speed Racer Bomb?

How did Speed Racer Bomb?
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[@silveirona]

Speed Racer had to run so that Spiderverse could fly

[@dergenmusic2081]

Thais Leal This is so true.

[@tomjackson532]

I think a new speed racer reboot in the style of into the spider verse would be incredible

[@almightyloaf5434]

Yoooo, that should happen, I would be obsessed wit it

[@TheNate9797]

I was a kid and I LOVED this movie when it came out. I even went back and watched the old cartoons and played the franchised game that came out on Wii (super fun). Now that I'm 22, I'm gonna drop a tab and rewatch this once I get the chance!

[@imnotcreative27]

This film was basically an animated movie featuring real people and I’m here for it

[@austinck7681]

2008 was a good summer of movies

[@jimgisriel]

fuck yeah it was

[@MarfYT]

How did it bomb? It was too good. Yup. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Speed Racer is my all-time favorite movie. I think it seriously could have changed the future of cinema if it succeeded financially. It's a shame that it didn't too very well at the box office, but I will never forget the film that basically defined who I am. Loved the video! :D

[@brandondavilai3728]

Here’s a fun little anecdote; when I was ten and this movie came out, I got the DS game for it because how could I not. Well, when I got the game, it came with a movie ticket to see the movie which just blew my mind. Well, I saw the movie and never got to use my ticket which I pretty much forgot about until like 2 or 3 years ago when I found the game sitting in a drawer of stuff. The thing still blows my mind on the basis that this is an opportunity that I will probably never get back.

[@terriermonisgod]

i saw speed racer just a few weeks ago and it changed my life. its a masterpiece in movie cinematography and storytelling

[@SamC_182]

This was a movie I always defended, I'm so glad to see more people's are recognizing it for the awesome movie it is

[@BugsyFoga]

When something like What Happened in Las Vegas makes more money than Speed Racer it makes me kind of lose faith in humanity.

[@user-hc9qv9yb9m]

Both movies suck

[@Caniballe]

*lose

[@BugsyFoga]

@@user-hc9qv9yb9m Nah

[@Fireheart318]

I’m still hoping for a sequel. Emile Hirsch (the actor who played Speed) said he wants a sequel a year or two ago, and the script is already written

[@AnomalySource]

It was so good. It saddens me how much it bombed. It was genuinely beautiful. I just wish more people got to see it and more people appreciated it. It would be great for them to rerelease it in theaters. It would definitely make more money if they released it in theaters today

[@broncharis]

To quote from a reddit comment: The film released at the right place but at the wrong time.

[@Thunda1986]

Anime is more acceptable now than it was back then

[@mrbanks456]

I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 8. That beginning scene with Speed doodling and day dreaming about the Mach 5 always stuck with me, and is what I became after I exited the theater.

[@ninjetti9898]

We don't deserve movies this awesome

[@treetheoak8313]

God I wish I saw this movie in imax. Also for as cartoon and silly as the movie comes across as. That ending always brings a tear in my eye. It's like the equivilant of the ending of gurran Lagan. It's just so simple and Ernest you can't help but get hyped. 😊

[@Masterge77]

This movie is severely underrated, and it bombed because moviegoers were too damn cynical, and it was around the time Hollywood wanted more "gritty" and "realistic" stuff because audiences only wanted big-ass explosions and such, a phase the American film industry ultimately never got out of.

[@sleepytime4katproductions302]

I know someone who walked out of the film because he felt it had too much swearing for what was marketed as a family film (it did have a PG rating as I recall).

[@morganbensel3771]

This has been my favorite movie and I'm so glad I got to see it in theaters when i was 6

[@ItsMichaelReid]

Curse you Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz and your fight to stay relevant!!!

[@flash-uj6ly]

People don't want unrealistic films. People want realistic films.

[@ima2020presidentcandidate]

I loved the movie and I still do

[@blockyoxwinkle5829]

This was a great video, but why'd I have to be reminded of What Happens in Vegas?

[@jimgisriel]

I like that so many comments are about What Happens in Vegas

[@blockyoxwinkle5829]

@@jimgisriel you've awoken a time we've all tried to repress. My adoptive mother loved that movie and schlock like it. She also liked Jack and Jill, so.... Yeah

[@flash-uj6ly]

People don't want unrealistic films like speedracer . People want realistic films like iron man.

[@SuperMoshady]

This movie is a masterpiece

[@theNerdifacation]

You and that fucking Saturday morning cartoons album. I have the vhs tape with all the videos hosted by drew berrymore

[@Bi11ieTheDo11]

I could not agree more with you!

[@CartoonTriper]

also, car-fu

[@PenciltipWorkshop]

one of the coolest looking box office bombs ever

[@fredrm6023]

I think it’s one of those cases that the film was ahead of its time. I myself who grew up to speed racer wanted an adult version that gave a more violent tone. Clearly a different vision but I know see it was meant for more of a calling to anime fans.

[@RobertoCCantu]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time and I’m still searching for a Blu-Ray so I can legitimately own it

[@madgang201]

You can find it at ANY $5 bin. I found mine however at a Five Below.

[@RobertoCCantu]

Meteorite Entertainment I haven’t really been looking thanks to the quarantine, but thanks for the idea

[@rose-mg1md]

I wholeheartedly believe that if it came out 10 years later I think Speed Racer would have blown everything else out of the water. It's much more closely related to movies like Into the Spiderverse and Thor Ragnarok with its saturation and over the top, but the Wachowski's were just a decade too early. A re-release at any time in the next 2 years would absolutely kill

[@jimgisriel]

Oh good call and I would love a re release

[@alexforce9]

Well..its a movie based on a anime made in the 60s lol. Its not like kids in the 2000s knew what it was.

[@LuisPJ]

I wonder after this whole virus is over, when they start releasing movies in theaters, maybe they should release the movie in theater maybe to jump start the culture for this decade and helping look ahead again

[@bluelionsage99]

I suspect that if the Speed Racer movie had come out a few years after Teen Titans and the other frantic animation shows it would have done better with kids. Only adults with a deep love and understanding of anime and even the original show could really appreciate it. Otherwise it is just a somewhat weird visual experimental.

[@axbrax5697]

I honestly believe that if it came out today, in the time of over the top giardians of the galaxy and raganrok style movies, it would not bomb in the slightest

[@tomjackson532]

It’s funny looking back when I was a kid I was obsessed with speed racer and I collected every matchbox and hot wheels car I could get, then out of nowhere it just stopped, now A decade and some change later, I am absolutely obsessed with cars and racing. I guess a little part of it stuck.

[@joeharney135]

The Movie is FUN to watch. I don't anything wrong with it. Plus the ending soundtrack at the end is EPIC !! Most people don't even know this was based on the cartoon. This is a Nitch Movie. I had tons of fun with it 5 STARS

[@StephenRansom47]

Thank you. This film and Nightmare before Christmas are what FILM can really do. Far more interested in animation for most of my life, This Film gave me hope that we were finally entering an age of Live Action like nothing before it. Sadly, I’m still waiting. Waiting for the color and excitement. Waiting for the fun. Dredd tries to and Waking Life seems to, but still I’m waiting. PS... The Wizard of Oz bombed and the original Star Trek was canceled ... and yet.

[@Takenski]

I think the title should be not “How” but “Why”. I think it flopped because it was just over lapped by bigger more anticipated movies.

[@CineRam]

The Dark Knight may not have been in theaters yet, but everybody was waiting for it (including me). The final trailer was released around the time Indiana Jones 4 premiered later in May. Given that and the popularity of semi-realistic Iron Man, I'm not surprised this didn't do well. It seems to me that indies like Pulp Fiction and The Blair Witch Project have a better chance at success while doing something less-usual is because the costs are MUCH lower. Pulp cost less than ten million. Speed Racer needed to be a Batman-level success with all the marketing and merch. The expectations were simply too high. For myself, I didn't love it. Yes it was spectacular, but like you said it was way too long...and then there's the end, where Speed is going SO fast that he actually KILLS his competitors during that final race! Not very endearing, even if they were not nice people. "Speed Racer" reminds me of "Blade Runner" more than anything: Too different, too aggressive for general audiences at the time...but who knows, maybe it will be influential in ways we don't yet realize.

[@Vesohag]

You should watch it again. Speed never killed anyone in the whole movie. Those two last racers get out inside those protective balls the cars have when they recieve too much damage. But agree in the rest of things you said!

[@FracmentalMusic]

All my friends went to see Iron Man. I dragged my wife to see Speed Racer. She hated it. I said to her "Time will tell".

[@xune2316]

Great movie as a fan watching the original cartoon when it aired on tv many many moons ago.

[@thegneech]

Given they way everyone I knew who actually saw it either enjoyed or loved it, but all the reviews slammed it, I've always found the way it bombed had a surreal-to-suspicious quality. Maybe I'm influenced by the big-money-pulling-the-strings story of the movie itself, but I always felt like there was something else going on that had nothing to do with the actual movie itself.

[@finnsullivan]

Wait you had a bootleg copy of it? Is that why it was mentioned in the nockFORCE bootleg video?

[@jimgisriel]

hey you made the connection and figured it out

[@finnsullivan]

@@jimgisriel so did you have a bootleg copy of that Cameron Diaz Las Vegas thing too??

[@shilohgrayson]

I only remember that I saw the movie and nothing else. The only thing that I really remember from the movie was getting a toy mirror which was the female character's. Maybe I'll watch the anime one day?

[@ya9thelatinogringo]

I remember me and my family went to NYC I think just to this in IMAX (i'm from over an hour north so there's plenty of closer theaters, maybe it was an early release my dad got tickets to through work or something) and we had mixed responses. we then went to an italian restaurant and they had a framed picture of spongebob that tom kenny signed and wrote some nice words about the place. Haven't seen it since though. damn I miss being a kid.

[@michaeldavis1879]

Can you please do How Did Treasure Planet Bomb?

[@BOOTLEGDVDwannabe1997]

Out of all the directors previously attached, I wonder if George Miller was one of them

[@jimgisriel]

I never saw his name attached but I'm sure they brought it up to him since he has a relationship with warners

[@SynthCool]

the world would have been better if iron man flopped instead of speed racer

[@erathymc.8765]

Something Ironic about getting an ad for a streaming version of Men In Black International after watching a video about a movie that bombed hard (obviously Speed Racer didn't deserve it's fate though,)

[@LondonLock]

plebeians thats how

[@Juice-chan]

Ufff I feel you. I really liked this movie. Just watched a month ago for the first time. I had the same emotion with Tron Legacy. Beautiful movie. It gives you an amazing immersion and it was pretty earnest. I really adored the style and sitting in the cinema it took me completely into this world. In 2019 I had watched Alita: Battle Angel and also a fantastic movie, a great adaptation that completely takes sucks you in and with a very strong protagonist. And it dared to do things for artistic value. So many complained about her look especially about her eyes. But I personally loves them. They make her emote soo well. And it easy to feel every emotion of her. The eyes are the windows to the soul. And her windows are big. Alita didn't bomb but it was far from being a financial success and with her and Tron and Speed Racer it shows that people are not ready for this kind of imaginitive movies. They are too far astray from what people are used to.

[@AvasFangs]

Sometimes to make art you gotta lose money, I'm sure The Holy Mountain didn't make back twice it's budget when it came out

[@dennisbriscoe9332]

Those who did not bother to watch/experience Speed Racer 🏎💨🏁 didn't deserve to. Every single shot in that film perfectly captured the exhilaration of the TV 📺 show. The film's visuals delivered as much of story as the dialog. I was enamored by the original anime series when it aired in the early 1970s. There was no Speed Racer merchandise in stores back then so my dad bought me a white toy car and painted it to resemble the Mach 5! My childhood was full of wonder & amazement partially BECAUSE of shows like Speed Racer (and Star Blazers)! 😁♥️🌹

[@scarikarri7452]

Great video Jim!

[@jonathancurran6851]

Cool video dude. (Nes Manga)

[@robinsonnox9980]

Showing Speed Racer and then cutting to Lion King and Aladdin just shows how bland the colour grading in those films are. There is no comparison. Also What Happens in Vegas made me realize how much I dislike Cameron Diaz's performances, at least when she is doing her typical rom-com acting. That movie sucks all around.

[@BugsyFoga]

Well one of the reasons is iron man came out.

[@user-hc9qv9yb9m]

How? It sucked. That's how

[@gregdennert4441]

It's a great movie