{"id":31076,"date":"2012-10-25T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/go-speed-racer-go.html"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:35:19","slug":"go-speed-racer-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/go-speed-racer-go.html","title":{"rendered":"Go, Speed Racer, Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#39;m convinced: this is on the play list for the next time Margie&#39;s out of town on business.<\/p>\n<p>(My first-watch review, which was also pretty positive:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/movie_review_speed_racer.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/movie_review_speed_racer.html<\/a> &#8230; and another review that said mostly good things about it:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/speed-racer-misunderstood-art-film\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/speed-racer-misunderstood-art-film<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I actually like the movie more than I expected to. It&#39;s not Citizen Kane, but I enjoyed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/post\/8\/2012\/10\/speedracertop_640x360.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/5954595\/10-reasons-why-speed-racer-is-an-unsung-masterpiece'>10 Reasons Why Speed Racer Is an Unsung Masterpiece<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis Friday we&#8217;ll get to see the Wachowskis&#8217; latest crazy, gorgeous, and mind-blowing epic, Cloud Atlas. Most people know the Wachowskis for the Matrix trilogy, but we think their version of Speed Racer \u2014 a dud at the box office \u2014 is actually an unappreciated masterpiece. Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p> 1. The trippiest mindscapes you&#8217;ve ever zoomed through at full speed<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s start with style. Even the people who hated this movie agreed that it looked absolutely &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XJDNFi2BvzP' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#39;m convinced: this is on the play list for the next time Margie&#39;s out of town on business. (My first-watch review, which was also pretty positive:\u00a0https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/movie_review_speed_racer.html &#8230; and another review that said mostly good things about it:\u00a0http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/speed-racer-misunderstood-art-film ) Reshared post from +Les Jenkins I actually like the movie more than I expected to. It&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/go-speed-racer-go.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go, Speed Racer, Go!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48677,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-speed-racer-2008.html","url_meta":{"origin":31076,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Speed Racer&quot; (2008)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Dec-14 2:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As modern adaptations of cartoons I loved as a kid, this one's hard to beat. 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