Last night we caught Initial D the movie. Although it's been running for a couple of weeks and it is now free listing (meaning, it's about to end it's run in the cinemas), the hall was packed almost full! We managed to get seats 4 rows from the front at the side. The strange thing is the movie was only shown in TGV cinemas and not GSC. No idea how that happened and since this is obviously a popular show, a lot of revenue must have been lost.
Anyways, back to the movie, the acting of the main character was a bit too wooden but I was told that this is how the cartoon portrayed him anyway. His expression was mainly blank throughout the show but the people surrounding him were excellent. His father, actor Anthony Wong, is my favourite. What a cool dad. And his good friend who insisted he was the "racing god of Mt Akina" and after crashing his car, took his dad's 4 wheel drive to race but was shoved off the tracks. And at the end of it all, the budding love story didn't turn out , which is quite a pleasant surprise. So there was no soppy romantic scenes to spoil the adrenalin packed show.
I loved the racing scenes, since I'm penchant towards speed anyway. The skills of those drivers... wow! The ah-bengism in me emerged and I immediately felt I needed to modify a car and do a bit of drifting. Haha... thank goodness KS drove home. But this morning we still talked about the movie, which is a good indication the movie was not something we immediately forgot after watching like Fantastic 4. Even Batman Begins didn't get such reviews the morning after.
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