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...TIME's top 10 films of 2008: Iron Man, Speed Racer and the rest
...expand beyond the true believers. It probably won't make even alternative movie history. It certainly contains its share of popcorn breaks: hit the concession stand whenever Dan and Laurie start their mooning. But it bravely pursues its agenda with a monomaniacal grandeur, on the order of Speed Racer and Synecdoche, New York. (Loyal readers will understand that I mean this as a compliment.) Both admirable for and cramped by its fidelity to the Moore vision, this ambitious picture is a thing of bits and pieces. Yes, the bits are glorious, the pieces magnificent. Still, this Watchmen is more like...
...Grand Theft Auto IV wasn't even the most commercial entertainment option on the bill. As Dan Houser, one of the prime movers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, points out, the game opened opposite Speed Racer and Iron Man. "I thought that was an interesting moment," says Houser, an affable, shaved-headed Londoner who talks so quickly that he's almost untranscribable. "You have a video game about an immigrant discovering himself and losing himself in America - and that's the video game - and then the movies are about a superhero in a metal suit and a car based...
...ruts at the base of each gate on the course for the alpine events. Also, a white-out of intense snow and booming thunder welcomed the Crimson contingent when it first arrived up north. “The snow acted like styrofoam, crumbling away a little more with every racer that sliced into it,” said men’s junior alpine captain Chris Kinner. “The further back one started, the rougher the course became.” The women’s nordic team led the way for Harvard, accounting for 97 of Harvard?...
...Thank You. I am a movie snob and very critical of everything I see, but I thought Speed Racer was simply brilliant entertainment from top to bottom. It's been at least a decade since I've seen a movie more than once in the theater, but I saw Speed Racer three times. It was sad to see it flop and be critically savaged, but I appreciate your adding it to the "Top 10 Movies" of 2008. Denny Zartman, Atlanta...