http://movies.aol.com/movie/speed-racer-2008/28066/main Dunno about this one. Might be way too much CG for me, but I'll probably still check it out.
That looks cheesier than the batman & robin movie where arnold was mr. freeze, holy christ! I have always been a huge speed racer fan but that is ridiculous.
Oh, it looks like fun!!! I grew up on Speed Racer... I think the casting looks good (the kid looks like Speed), and I don't think you could handle this any other way than to lay it on thick. I'm looking forward to it...
I thought Speed was Japanese? The cast looks too goofy and Hollywood. Pass.. I think I'll go buy the whole DVD collection instead.
I just think they could have made a better picture if they'd decided to go full CG (ala pixar). They would have been able to better capture the energy and campiness of the original series. In my opinion it just doesn't translate well into live action.
I grew up on Speed Racer too and Kimba and Godzilla etc. but I don't know. Somehow such things don't seem to translate very well via Hollywood. Without knowing more about the film, this might be unfair prejudgment, but the CG in this looks BAD. Really bad. I've long been an advocate of an "in between reality and manga" sort of CG, which is what it looks like they're trying to achieve here, but ... for example the desert dunes in the trailer. What's up with that virtually TRON-era cheesiness? Jeez the least expensive of my "entry level" 3D apps can do better sand dunes, whether you want them to look cartoony or realistic. Maybe I"m being too serious, but on the basis of this trailer, Do Not Want.
LOL... well, to be fair, film is MUCH more forgiving to CG/Live merging than TV/computer screens. You never know... going in with lowered expectations might be the best way to approach it and perhaps you might be pleasantly surprised.
Yeah...I think that's the way to go. Lower your expectations and it might work out right. My co-worker was saying "I think they used more CG on John Goodman's face than anything else." I'm still on the fence about gonig to see it.
Well said Loco, I defer to a more positive attitude. I recently watched "Superbad" with extremely low expectations, and even though it is intentionally a lowbrow film in lots of ways, right from the opening titles I knew it had something going for it. By the end I thought it was actually one of the best mainstream films of 2007. If I had seen it expecting "art," it might have been disappointing. On the other hand, just last night I watched "Poseidon" with very low expectations, and they were more than met LOL. Damned earworms. Now I have the themes from "Ultraman" and "Speed Racer" blending in my head over and over and over. They mix well but they're annoying as hell.
chim chim in the trunk with spritle. looks legit to me. pops played by jon goodman! awesome. i watch a lot of cartoons (when i get the chance), so i'll put up with whatever graphics/design from 1999 they wanna throw at me in this film. you know what? i liked the "lost in space" remake too. i mean it wasn't exactly "cinema"....
Sorry guys I agree with loco. This looks like great fun ! I like how it has those anime like fast like moving backrounds. Good stuff !
Casting Gary Oldman as a re-interpreted Doctor Smith was brilliant, as was the use of the original Bob May for the robot's voice (even if they sort of ruined the robot way too early in the film) but for me what really blew that movie was the whole "absent father" theme with Will. That is SUCH a tired cliché in Hollywood movies. Also I thought it was weird but great how William Hurt took his role as John Robinson soooooo seriously. It will be very interesting to see how the new Star Trek movie turns out. I'd long since given up on Star Trek movies but this one should either re-invigorate the venerable franchise, or kill kill kill it forever.
Locomoco is a movie producer in an alternate life. A very, very wealthy movie producer. Or maybe just a Trekkie.
Hahaha. Oh yeah, and it's not "sci-fi," ohmygod, it's "SF." There's a reason I stopped going to science fiction conventions circa 1978. When I went to the SF comic convention (whatever it's called) here last year to pick up the S7 mini-Damnedron, I was reminded all over again when I heard people speaking Klingon. On the other hand, hearing Peter Mayhew mumble a bunch of obscenities about geeky Star Wars fans was soooo wonderful.
Starting some time in the mid-to-late 1970s, many Star Trek fans claimed that "Trekkie" was a condescending and insulting term, preferring "Trekker" as the "official" term. You know, it really really matters. Similarly, the same sort of thing was going around regarding the term "sci-fi" for Science Fiction. It was regarded as cheapening, whereas the preferred "SF" was promulgated as the "right" way to abbreviate the genre. At this point, nobody really seems to care. Hallelujah. Some people took themselves way too seriously in the 1970s, but the cool thing is that such geeks invented the personal computer.
I can't wait for this! Go Speedracer go...straight to DVD in record time. No it looks interesting, john goodman rules!!!
hahaha...Trekker...Trekkie...I am reminded of this scene with Bill on SNL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5wed_b6yShc
oh...and since we're on the subject of SF and what not... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYczbBlatA&e when Star Wars goes bad...I think this is a winner for the "WTF was that!!" award.
