Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Go, Speed Racer, Go...Or Not

Oh poor, poor Speed Racer.

So sorry to see the kids just aren't taking to you anymore. Iron Man is kicking your tail still and even It Happened in Vegas is beating up on you. All good things must come to an end, even though you never really had much of a beginning.

As I gaze at the movie listings in the newspaper I see that in just the week since you made your debut the theaters have dramatically decreased your showings.

Let's see - at the theater down the street from me I count Iron Man with 24 different showings per day; It Happened in Vegas with 20, and The Chronicles of Narnia (The new flavor of the week) with 34. But you Speed Racer? You are getting a lowly 12 showings today. So sad. Soon you will be gone altogether and not even Christina Ricci's tattooed bird boobs can save you. I assume next week Indian Jones will probably lay you down in the time capsule you just awoke from.

You may have gone nowhere with audiences Speed, but at least you went fast.

R.I.P.

-jordan