That Was Surprising

Watched Speed Racer last night over at Badgerhaus with Badger, Merrie, Luna and the late-arriving Melinda. And...it was good. Really good.

Get past the fact that it's Speed Racer , and the trailer was awful, and it's the Wachowski brothers, and there's a chimp whose poo-flinging actually turns into a pertinent plot point. In terms of interwoven flashbacks and a non-linear narrative, it's got one of the most complicated narrative structures I've seen in ages, and it pulls it off seamlessly. (Ser...