It will be known as yet another video game movie that turned out bad. Judging by the lukewarm reception the movie has received and the minimal amount of money that has been received in North America, I doubt Need for Speed will have a sequel. You could say The Expendables is like a superhero-type movie anyway. Only The Expendables films have been successful to them because it’s an ensemble cast. Even new films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and/or Sylvester Stallone have flopped at the box office recently. Any other genre of movie has started to lose interest with the American movie audience. I also think Americans are still fascinated by super-hero movies. Yet all this fades in comparison to his driving reason. His purpose redemption, recognition from the world of racing and to solve his problems. Nobody wants to see a movie about cars for the story. Fresh out of prison he reacquires the fastest car his workshop ever built and sold, and seeks to enter a secretive and extremely high-stakes race known as The DeLeon. Just because a movie is serious, doesn’t immediately mean it’s good. You would think a movie about fast cars would be humorous and not take itself too seriously. Not to mention they added someone famous as The Rock in the later films too.Īnother negative aspect about the Need for Speed movie is that it’s too serious. The reason the Fast and Furious movies do so well is because they have an ensemble cast full of lots of charismatic actors. I recognized some of the other cast member myself, but they re not actors I would pay top dollar to see on the big screen. Apart from Micheal Keaton (who isn’t advertised) nobody else in the film is known to a wide audience. The Need for Speed cast as a whole is full of relatively unknowns. Unlike Bryan Cranston who was Argo and known to many as “Malcom’s Dad” in Malcom in the Middle, Aaron Paul never had a second iconic role in his resume. The man is ONLY famous for his role in Breaking Bad and that’s about it. I’ve noted before in an earlier article that Need for Speed’s main star Aaron Paul is not a household name. Americans usually love to watch recognizable names on the big screen, and this movie had no star that can be called a household name. One of the factors I would like to put out is the fact the movie lacks any huge Hollywood stars. Judging by the response from fans and critics, it looks like the movie failed to capture a wide audience in America. It was supposed to revive an old genre of movies that existed back in the ’60s and ’70s. Need for Speed sounded like a good idea on paper since the Fast and Furious franchise is no longer about cars. Even gamers themselves shudder about the many useless movies that have been made about their beloved games over the years. A normal discussion about video game movies in general usually end up in a negative way. Historically, video game movies are a big turn-off to the average movie goer. With the case for Need for Speed, the genre it falls in made it an uphill battle from the get-go. There are a lot of factors that come into play whether a movie is success or not. Why did Americans choose not to watch the movie? Need for Speed came out over the weekend and only grossed $17.8 million.
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