#ARE THEY MAKING A NEED FOR SPEED 2 MOVIE MOVIE#
He wins! Gods preserve me from ever having to write a movie about cars. Suddenly his car is faster than his rival's. His final Trick is pressing the accelerator really hard while glancing out the side window at his opponent. Another is dramatically spinning the steering wheel. One of his Tricks is having the skinny white boy help him out. Aaron Paul's car is not as fast as his rivals. A race! I'm glad this movie isn't 100% about mortgages and ex-girlfriends.(This only gets more convoluted, but spoilers.) The skinny white boy is psychic, for some reason. Aaron Paul has a rivalry with a man named Dino, who stole his girl, who is also sister to the skinny white boy in the crew. Aaron Paul and his crew of ethnically diverse staff are in danger of losing their business. The reveal is pretty much "Look! It's the guy from Breaking Bad!" This will be his career, forever. His character's backstory does not justify this. Aaron Paul gets a deeply dramatic reveal with a slow pan and sudden face turn accompanied by musical sting.Yes, you can tell a video game was involved in the writing process at some point. Aaron Paul's character and backstory is discussed at length by a rich eccentric who runs a secret, illegal race and hosts a live radio show that everyone listens to and yet somehow he remains beyond the reach of the law.Pretty sure I told someone last week that it was 240 minutes.) (Looking at my notes I was surprised by this figure. The man also informs us the film is 130 minutes long.but not put it on my website? Is this a movies thing? A man comes forward to tell us we can tweet and Facebook our impressions but reviews are embargoed until March 12.Disappointed not to be able to exercise the "except popcorn" clause of our Doritosgate hospitality policy. Then again: there are no drinks or snacks provided. It's not like game journalists to stay away from something free. This is not the first film I have been to see because of some vague connection to games, but it is the first one I've ever been to that was attended by less than six people.I approach its guardians and loftily announce my credentials, producing a card. There's a huge queue of really well-dressed people. Here's what happened, as best as I can reconstruct it. I have forgotten pretty much everything about the movie, but thankfully I had been emailing notes to myself throughout the experience. Instead of spending the whole month laboriously constructing a careful critique, I took one look at my 30 day deadline and shoved the assignment right down to the bottom of my priorities queue, where it lurked until this morning when I checked today's editorial schedule and remembered I was supposed to have been laboriously constructing a careful critique for the past month. I am remarkably under-qualified to discuss film, let alone review it. In video games, it's more like "play this for 15 minutes now produce 2,000 words in 90 minutes". I don't know if this is standard practice for movies, but to be shown something and then given a whole month to write about it is unprecedented in video games. The publisher invited me to come and see Need for Speed at a preview screening a whole month ago, but embargoed reviews for UK launch day. So I was pretty hopeful it wouldn't be entirely dire. Moreover, the project progressed at a spanking pace, unlike most video game adaptations, which just sit around getting worse and worse until somebody sensibly cancels them. Driving fast is a well-established (?) genre thanks to the likes of The Fast and the Furious and The Fast and the Furious knock-offs, and signing Aaron Paul was a bit of a coup. Opens in the UK on March 12, and elsewhere on March 13.ĮA saw an opportunity to increase its transmedia synergy, brand reach and other buzzwords by turning Need for Speed, a game about driving fast, into a movie. Oh holy shit, Michael Keaton plays the mad old rich guy? How did I not realise that. Villain played by Dominic Cooper, who plays Tony Stark's dad in the new Captain America and is in the upcoming Warcraft film. Starring: Aaron Paul (the guy from Breaking Bad) and Imogen Poots ( yeah no I had no idea either but what a name). Need for Speed opens in cinemas worldwide this week, but Brenna's already seen it, forgotten about it, remembered it again, written down her impressions and knocked off for the day.
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