Big Corporation notices Scrappy Boy and offers him lots of money. The film actually follows a classic formula: Scrappy Boy has talent for Great Thing. I’ve never done acid, but after seeing this movie, I’m confident I’ll never have to. “Even the target audience of 10-year-olds might get jimmy legs sitting for a punishing 135 minutes as the Wachowski brothers projectile-vomit their cotton-candy dreams all over the big screen,” wrote Peter Travers for Rolling Stone, clearly misunderstanding that colorful dream vomit is the entire point of the Wachowski oeuvre. The movie got atrocious reviews when it came out a decade ago. ![]() Instead, the movies exist on an axis of “some Wachowski” to “extremely Wachowski.” Speed Racer, which was added on Netflix this month, is one of the most Wachowski movies there is, combining the Wachowskis’ anti-capitalist politics with complete visual insanity, and also John Goodman dressed like Mario. There is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” Wachowski movie. ![]() Friends and I have developed a unified theory of the Wachowski Sisters.
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