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See the Powerful MACH 5!!! Wachowski's SPEED RACER ain't no CG Monkey Flick!
Hey folks, Harry here... I'm a big SPEED RACER fan. And I have to say, USA TODAY's Story on SPEED RACER hit the right buttons. I love that the Wachowski's are doing the free-thinking theme with the character, because that's SPEED RACER, he wasn't no sell-out corporate bastard. He was a rubber-burning rebel with a monkey! What else do ya fucking need? It was pretty much a no-brainer that the Brothers would nail the Mach 5... the key is to see it in motion and see how they capture or adapt that crazy anime light speed looking motion. Here's the Pic, click on the above link to read the whole story!!!
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Is it for sale?
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Uno.
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...first ? I like the pic...looks promising. First bitches !
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shit.
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I don't mind that they want to make a movie for their nieces and nephews (as has been stated), but what about the rest of us? Speed Racer had people flying off of cliffs and had cars exploding into oblivion. I want THAT!!
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No WAY you can complain about that.
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I'm actually pretty excited about this movie. The Wachowskis have already burned all our asses before and I never watched the original Speed Racer cartoon, so it's a bit strange that I want to see this so badly. But hey, Matthew Fox as Racer X and that sweet-looking vehicle up there? Works for me.
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But the car looks rad. Kudos
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somewhere deep in the hills of old bonney Scotland...
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how they're going to capture that bizarro anime vibe, but i like the design of the Mach 5
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Shazbot?
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Now, if it makes the CHOK CHOK CHOK sound as it jumps... glee.
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Iron Man, Speed, and Indy... anyone wanna bet on who takes may?
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Is it his uncle? I can't remember.
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the cartoon sucked and this will bomb. Why do they bother putting this kiddy crap on here?
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that was finally officially announced today? http://tinyurl.com/ytpvjp
http://tinyurl.com/ypqll4
http://tinyurl.com/25sy3r
I'd say that's bigger news than anything that has been reported on here today (save for the TF review), but that's just me.
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Go Speed Ra.. ah forget it. I just don't have the energy.
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You're right! Anything, especially HP related is better than this garbage.
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That one was a real winner.
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I love her.
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I just thought i'd try and get a reaction. Actualy I like the films,all good so far and incouraging children to read, well I think thats moraly wrong but we can look past that.Children reading, ha what a dumb concept. Me no read ,no read at all.
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Apparently you need to go to the Zoolander School For Kids Who Don't Read Good.
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Heck I am right over 30 and I barely remember this stupid cartoon
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since the W Bros created "bullet time", what new special effect will they create for this? Wait I know..."monkey time"..
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Harland Williams as Sparky...and Flavor Flav as Chim-Chim !!! perfection.
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You know what's interesting about him? Absolutely nothing.
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I LOVED Speed Racer when I was a kid and... I'm not a kid anymore. Hollywood is running out of ideas so they are going for easy hits. They know you losers watched this show as children and are willing to bet you grew up to be adult losers with disposable income and free friday nights who want to buy back your childhood. What next, a Transformers movie?
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I can't stand Flaor Flav but him as Chim-Chim is a little racist don't you think?
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Hugo Weaving will play all the parts.
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I'm actually interested in this movie, despite the spotty track record of the Brothers W. And to be fair, I guess the Teen Titans thing is a big deal, if only to go ahead and launch the raising of the red flags with Goldsman involved... But still. A new Universal park (or island, as it were) is huge news. The fact that it's themed after a hugely successful fantasy series makes it moreso. Add an oscar winning production designer to the mix... Yeah, I'd say it is relevant. The black-box-boys have to have gotten dozens of emails on it already.
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In, you know, a G-rated manner?
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Seriously, is this going to be G Rated? The cartoon had people dying in horrific ways with assasins and shooting people ion the face...
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they should get Don Knotts to play Speed
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I would've preferred a bit more "sharpness" to the front end, but otherwise no complaints here.
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It's got a 5 on it! Unless Speed Racer runs over elderly people or hot lesbians make out in the car, my interest is low.
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I think it will be like a cinematic haiku. If they really are going for that I think thats pretty cool. I think the right limitations on artists create the best results sometimes. It will force them to be creative and figure out ways to get all ages to enjoy this. G doesn't mean boring kids stuff, and its about race cars. There is no need for unnecessary violence and sex. Not like Transformers which was always a pretty violent cartoon. What would they do if they ever did a GI-Joe film. How could that not be R.
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He really needs to STFU and let other people promote his films. He plugs the living shit out of every project he's attached to no matter how incredibly shitty it is. I remember meeting him when he was with Hilary Swank promoting The Reaping, and he want on and on about how it was going to change the face of horror.. If anyone out there actually saw The Reaping, they fully understand how false his statements were. Quit trying to "sell" us Silver, we're not buying it anymore.
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"retro future!" Oh man, this is gonna be awesome!
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racist??!! They're just both short and hyper-active. Why would you think that was raci..oh wait, because you thought I was comparing flav to a...oh,oh sir, you sicken me indeed. A pox on you, foul sir, a pox on you indeed for such disdainful thinking!!
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Does that mean you don't like Spiderman, Pirates, or Lord of the Rings because the source material is over 40 years old? Pull your head out! I trust the W Bros to handle this one - and the car looks great! Also, I wouldn't assume it's G rated - it could be PG and considered family-friendly. Besides, Speed Racer isn't about exploding body parts, it's about taking on The Man!
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yeah dude, you may be right. Maybe a g rated flick will do to the wachowskis and speed racer what a limited budget did for The Matrix. The lack of money forced them to make a good movie. Maybe a lack of a higher rating will force them to make an okay, fun flick.
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...Wachowskis and Silver have publicly stated that they're shooting for a G on this one.
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Very bad. I'm 33 and can't even remember what the hell this show was about. I remember Speed and the monkey and that's about it. Is this really a story that needs to be told (again)?
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I'd like to strip John Woo, Spielberg of their budgets and force Tarantino to make a PG just to see what would happen.
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Really? So I guess the scene where the pilot of the 747 puts on his earphones and then gets his brain impaled with spikes in the earpieces won't be in this?
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Also, cat fucking.
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Word. But I'll bet if you did that and the stripped budget movies did well they'd make sequels....with HUGE budgets. Besides, the world is ruled by trilogies these days.
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I remember that! That was god awful, kept me up at night.... Also, i fucking love you login name.
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I guess the end lesson is that we're screwed either way. But are they even trilogies? After Spidey, X3, Shreck3, Pirates3 they all are so lack luster almost as if they feel we just don't care anymore, so why should they? But with X-Men and Spidey they had several movies left in them... Whatever.. I'm sick of Studio thinking. Fuck em all.
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The only way the chimp thing could work is if Spritle climbs into the driver's seat as it is being towed off by a bad guy -- in an effort to at least rescue his pet monkey who is already sitting in that seat. Then the baddies notice them in their rear view mirror and lock them in the truck... so when Speed rescues the car, little does he know that Spritle and Chim Chim are in the trunk. That should be the extent of the monkey's involvement. Give the kid and the chimp some late second act/third act plot fun, but that is it. I dunno.
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I think they ought to use the old TV theme song EXACTLY as it is/was. Instead of redoing or updating it with some ridiculous Velvet Revolver'ish sort of rock band version (or rap version or something of the sort), or inserting the old theme playfully (like Spiderman films do with the old Spidey TV theme), they ought to just keep it as it is. That would be real cool.
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That is a car, a real fucking ride.
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See also: Elvis, country music, and The Who.
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But you folks are definitely on point by suggesting that certain limitations (like $$$ or rating) could actually rein in some of the Hollywood BS and force a thoughtful, creative flick.
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Speed and trixie will be decked out in white latex and have reallz dark sunglasses. Plus since of lot of SR was done with a single frame of animation and a fast moving backround, it should feel like all the acting in the Matrix triogy.
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Toxic Avenger with a huge budget and Tom Cruise as Toxy.....maybe not?
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Chim Chim with Trixie = Funkey Monkey style and we ain't talking no ice cream here.
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you can see the blueprints in the windshield....and that Speedy DID SELL OUT and endorses Yokohama tires.
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Really it does. it's the only way to stay true to the source material.
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it's -the wachowskis- not -the wachowski brothers-.
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I want to see Trixie going all lezzie with uh... you know, Speeds mom. What the hell was her name?
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who gives a shit
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SRINO!! SRINO!! SRINO!! SRINO!!
No but seriously, this movie should be James Bond in a race car, not G rated for the Disney crowd.
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I wasnt even sure if they were Japanese in the cartoon..... Oh wait... that doctor douche from lost is Racer seX so I guess they are whities....
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looks ok. Where are the gadgets?
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holy crap these guys are just 14 year old boys, only bald, fat and they lots of hollywood big wig jews behind them throwing them money. pathetic. if this is ANYTHING like the matrix, it will be shitty. if there's any bullet time stuff in it, im walking out, so help me god. that shit is so 1999.
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WHOA! I'm smelling PG-13...
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that in SoCal, Speed Racer was on UHF and that it was on around the same time as the Little Rascals in the afternoons. We glorify the past when the future dries up. An irishman said that, but he was quoting someone else. Technically, we're objectifying and exploiting the past AS the future dries up BECAUSE of the objectification and exploitation. Very snake eats its own tail situation we have here culturally.
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and that car is cg, no doubt. I can do that with my 3d max software. Come on!!!!!!!
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Artists need to be free to make whatever films they way they need to. Forcing people who don't want to make kid films will result in shitty kid films. It just so happens that the bros. want to make a kiddie flick. But it's ok not to as well (kids have enough films anyway). Oh and modlight, John Woo has already made 2 pg-13 movies and produced one (bulletproof monk) and they were total shit. How is going PG going to improve his skills. He needs to go back to what made him great in the first place instead of running from it even more.
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Artists need to be free to make whatever films they way they need to. Forcing people who don't want to make kid films will result in shitty kid films. It just so happens that the bros. want to make a kiddie flick. But it's ok not to as well (kids have enough films anyway). Oh and modlight, John Woo has already made 2 pg-13 movies and produced one (bulletproof monk) and they were total shit. How is going PG going to improve his skills. He needs to go back to what made him great in the first place instead of running from it even more.
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Who the hell cares, am I right? But I was talking about the early 70's. UHF. How many of you ass monkeys even know what that means? You with your fancy cable boxes, not having to stand next to the TV holding on to the tuner in order to receive said broadcast. Not getting static shocked every time you approach that huge freaking Zenith with it's faux wood look. I was the damn remote control and that TV had it in for me. The b/w TV in my room sucked worse - rolling, rolling, rolling. Like the Outer Limits intro, man - someone was controlling the horizontal and the vertical, but it sure as hell weren't me. Also, double post.
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geek, geek, geek, geek,.....................geek. Trixie i love you!!!!!!!!
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I totally agree with you. I fear a future where a remake of the remake of The Longest Yard is produced. Or how about a remake of the new Transformers movie in about thirty years? And then again in another thirty years?
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Am I missing something or didn't they direct V for Vendetta?
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V was directed by James McTeigue.
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I got mixed up and forgot that V was just written by the Wachowskis.
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in the end, it will employ a bunch of people, it'll make money, it'll kill an hour & a half (which is less time than has been spent referring back to this blog to b/s about it) and the world will keep on spinning.
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that's a classic!!!!!!!!!!
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I didn't know what else to say.
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this will be a psychedelic masterpiece.
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Yes, I broke out the Ebonics to express my glee at the opportunity for an cinematic manifestation of one of the true cartoon masterpieces of my watching-great-Japanese-imports-on-UHF youth.
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I remember reading an article about that in an old Wizard magazine.
But anyways, do you think they'll save a lot of money on their car insurance?
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yeah it worked for m. night...
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I hope the Wachowski Siblings will direct a big budget trilogy based on the anime UROTSUKIDOJI after this.
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I wanted Woo to have a budget, not different ratings. And total freedom may be great for artists, but not for the public. CG allows filmmakers to be completely free but how often does that actually work, just ask anyone who's seen Episodes 1-3. How many great bands made it big then had the creative freedom and budget to do whatever they like, its why Chinese Democracy is so much better than Appetite, wait... I agree that there is a fine line between stifling artists with rules and regulations and making artists solve problems and work around limitations. How often did we see the shark in Jaws? Not often because it was a technological nightmare that they ended up having work around and hide for most of the movie. Now which was scarier, Jaws, or War of the Worlds which did nothing but show the monsters in all their glory (they looked amazing by the way). So if you want Art films, fine they should have no limitations, but regular films and movies need to be a compromise between the artist and the audience, that is what this site is all about. When they are free to do whatever they want we end up with Lady in the Water.
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May 31, 2007 3:27:36 PM CDT
Not feeling hyped at all; guess it was before my time
by magical jew eyes
Wake me up when someone films a live action version of Ronin Warriors.
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Obviously my dire threats of a CGI-Monkey Boycott knocked some sense into the Bros. Wachowski. Even Hollywood moguls tremble in fear at the name, Kid Z! (Of course the Wachowski's are fellow polacks (I can use that word 'cause I AM one... kinda like how rappers can use the "N" Word), so I knew they'd make the right decision.
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That would be badass. Great Mazinga and Raydeen. You know it would rule.
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Doesn't mean they are all under 10 years old. They could be pre-teens. This movie could still be PG13. So all hope isn't lost yet.
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When I see things like this, I'm reminded that no, the X-Men don't need to wear black leather jumpsuits, Galactus doesn't need to be a cloud, the Green Goblin doesn't need to be frozen-masked suit of stiff armor, Superman doesn't need the colors on his suit to be muted, Batman doesn't need some military-industrial dune buggy as the Batmobile, etc. We can have fun with these imaginative stories and not be so self-conscious about it to the point where things end up blah. I think that, all else being equal, the "playing it safe" films will seem much more boring in retrospect as the years go by. Caveat--I don't have some brilliant idea about how to do everything better (I wouldn't have wanted to see Hugh Jackman in bright yellow and blue tights), but somehow it always seems to diminish things when a cliched safe-way-out is taken, and I think we instinctively know what that looks like. And bright and lively needs to be done very well in order to work--see the horrible FF2 trailers for what happens when that's not the case.
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Okay, it's a car. Very nice. Now hows about a STORY you jerks or are we going to have to sit through three hours of another CGI wank fest? Hey, remember that cartoon about the kid with the car? Great idea... let's spent a shit load of money making a film out of it. HELL YEH. YOU'RE A 24 GOLD CARAT GENIUS to come up with such a good idea. Here, have a promotion, numb nuts. Jesus. This sort of shit makes me weep. Those guys aren't film makers. They walk around taking hard shits that some dumb fuck in LA LA land throws money at. JUST. GIVE. IT. UP. ALREADY. YOU. HACKS. You made your money. Now retire you creatively bankrupt pricks. The proof? Matrix 2 & 3. Case closed. I demand a refund of my time and money right now or in exchange you two weirdoes to retire forever from going anywhere near a motion picture camera. Deal?
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The real Mach 5 looks bad-ass. And I'm sure the Bros. Wachowski're gonna have the push-button-studded steering wheel that activates all my favorite Mach 5 features: The robot bird, front-mounted buzzsaws (for getting rid of annoying trees that fall in your path), the submarine mode (great for fording pesky streams and rivers), and the hydraulic stilt legs (to launch your car right across bothersome canyons... or other cars). So c'mon haters... lighten up... this shitz s'posed to be FUN!
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Kind of seems unbalanced in back, like those old Country Squires when they took the air deflectors off the roof rack. I can live it, though. I'm dreading a Seaview redesign, however.
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Nice. But kind of seems unbalanced in back, like those old Country Squires when they took the air deflectors off the roof rack. I can live with it, though. I'm dreading a Seaview redesign, however.
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Shogun Warriors would be awesome. Imagine the production values of Transformers but with those great, less-busy giant-robot designs and enormous swords/axes/etc. Heck yeah. :)
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You have a point. I certainly would like Woo to go back and make a movie like The Killer which probably cost a fraction of the budget of that piece of shit movie Paycheck. Lowering the budget allows for studios to take a chance with R rated movies. Not sure how Tarantino making a PG rated movie would be a good idea though. I'd like to see him return to his crime fiction roots. If it was like twelve years ago and R-rated action/thriller stuff was still being made, I'd be cool with guys like the Wachowskis or Tarantino branching out. Now with family stuff dominating the theatres we need those guys to do what they do best more than ever.
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Shia La Bouf?
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I'm so glad they're not going to radically change it.
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That car looks fantastic. Everyone is going to want one. Both miniature and the real drivable thing. I want a wallpaper now. ..
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It's Speedracer/Mach GoGo. It's a franchise that people have tried to bring back decade after decade and it always fails. The cancelled cartoons, the cancelled comic books. Even the japanese sold the rights to a US fan because even they know it's dead. Now these twats are making a movie about it. God, what a joke.
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GO SPEED RACER! GO SPEED RACER GO!!!!!!
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Really, who gives a flying brown shit about this movie? Oh sure, you'll have your "bullet time" Mach 5 racing down the street with cars flipping in the air, wrecking. But do you really need to see that again?
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Sorry folks but I have an unabashed enthusiasm for this movie. Plus the Mach 5 is one of my two dream cars (the other is the Coyote from "Hardcastle and McCormick).
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But this is another one of those cartoons that just wasn't very good and shouldn't be remembered as something it isn't. My favorite moment in the series is actually in the title sequence when a car goes off the track and explodes with the intensity of a nuclear warhead. How much fuel was in that car? And you gotta love a kid's show that has a death in the title credits. But other than that - come on. Not that good.
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Yellow spandex? No, but gold'ish leather with a dark blue design pattern such as it appears on the comic version wouldn't have been too terribly hard to accomplish in making it look good. Heck, he could have had a leather jacket that looked like the comic and a motorcycle helmet that was reminiscent of his mask. Not too hard, but idiot movie costumers wanted to "do their own thing" and so they aped the Matrix look.
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They even had Tom Cruise cued to star. Somewhere along the line, the whole thing must have fallen apart. Or maybe they just figured out that nobody cared about this turkey.
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May 31, 2007 5:35:09 PM CDT
"most effects will be computer generated"...UGH!!!
by the_shogun_gunslinger
goddammit guys...you have a MACH FUCKING 5 and you're going to waste it with CG races...fuck.what happened to actually taking your time making a FILM!!!
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Burning rubber, grinding metal, body bags...what a fuel-injected rush! Speed Racer, oh yeah.
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wooo hooo wo hoo hoo wooo hooo me want rave scene like matrix reloaded
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and I'm also hoping it'll be known in Japan yet again as MACH GO GO GO.
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Count me in.
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No real monkeys would agree to appear in the film. However, they did agree that they would attend the screening to throw their feces.
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I must hate him because of Emo. Also they hired that guy from Girl Next Door. Whatever, not my childhood cartoon so no nostalgia for me.
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Drop it like it's hotttttt. Wachowski engineering in the house! ;)
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this movie is going to exist.
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So what if it's based on an old cartoon? Lot's of shit is being remade these days... so what if no one remembers it? Don't you think they can market it like it was new? They got teh car right, and for all teh bitching about Transformers, hardly anyone can give them due for staying true to the source material? We hardly know much about teh film except that it's family friendly... Don't like that? Then go watch John Rambo! DOn't like CGI? You expect them to do all that crazy ass anime bullet time shit with real cars and people? Would it be practical? If CG can do anything these days realistically it's cars! Practically all car commercials you see on TV have 100% CGI cars in them. What's up with you guys? I'm all excited to see some effects driven car racing with new groundbreaking CGI and a decent family story. Can't wait to see a trailer!
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It looks like a huge cock! I'm sure the tranny Wachowski Brother designed that. Although Christina Ricci is in it. Have her writhing around on the hood in the music video for the film and we have a deal.
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I'm just hoping they keep things simple, stick to what they're good at (anime and comic book inspired action, violence, and mayhem) and don't try to "flesh" out the character. He's a kid that races cars and has a cool car that would probably get him immediately disqualified in any real race.
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Bring on Batman and Transformers!
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They should go with "Speed Racer X"'s (The most recent anime) look...
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With overalls and everything. Fucking signed. I'm there!
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Spridel and Chim Chim rock; bottom line. The brother’s Wachowski are so on the money here it’s uncanny. I can’t wait.
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here comes Speed Racer. I wonder if speed will wear a helmet but NOT wear a seat belt.
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...she can drop about a 200 lbs. to fit in that trunk.
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And to be totally black.
And an SUV. (preferably an American one)
And Chim-Chim should now be a gorilla.
And Racer X should be gay.
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Because the Mach 5 looks too much like it did in the cartoon.
It wont be believable.
we need Michael Bay to put some more "stuff" on it to make it look like a real car.
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SPEED RACER IN NAME ONLY!!!
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authentic!!
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Hard R Stallone or G rated Wachowskis....you decide.
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I was expecting some sort of white humvee transformer-looking thing... but this looks EXACTLY like the cartoon! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!? Is someone actually doing a REAL adaptation of an old show?!? Beautiful. How about ROBOTECH next!
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Anyone who takes the time to spell "Wachowski" right should take the same damn time to not say "Wachowski's" unless it's the fucking possessive. That includes that asshat Harry.
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Seriously...they are using CHIM-CHIM! I am overjoyed right now. By a fucking Chimp in a movie. It's so much fun being a geek sometimes.
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How nice to see a pic of an iconic part of our childhood that is amazingly dead-on ACCURATE! "Underdog" looks like a rejected Disney flick, and I'd just as soon forget "Transformers" even existed (I was OK with the Shogun Warriors). And let's not forget that image of The HeathJoker that's been popping up everywhere: no, that is NOT the Joker, so sorry, Nicholoson's look was better; hell, CESAR ROMERO's was better in terms of staying true to the comic! Here, we have proof that the Wachowskis care enough about the source material not to fuck with it. Speed Racer wasn't Shakespeare; it was poorly animated, hilariously voice-acted, pure mindless and violent FUN; and that's exactly what I hope the film turns out to be. Good start: they got the car right.
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Ford, if you're listening. Get the license, use the GT engine and start mass production NOW!
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But the Wachowski's will do...
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for the durration of the shoot! i mean SERIOUSLY! W T F
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If they want to make this as realistic as possible to the series when it first aired in America they need to get another soundtrack on the movie where all the actors are redubbed.
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What's with all these movies that didn't cast Shia Labeouf?
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Still my favorite album title ever. Right next to "Smell the Glove".
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They're going to make about 10 of these and then crash them, what do you bet?
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screw up the characters. As we are about to discover here. It might not hurt Speed Racer too much, but I don't think I want to see their Superman.
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anime. Now that would be sweet. James Bond and Batman crossed with giant robots on a post-apocalyptic Earth? I guess if you don't like making money, you should avoid this, Hollywood. Also, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs would make more money than Jurassic Park 1, just sayin'.
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but where are the flames?
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After that whole Matrix business, I really thought they'd do a George Lucas and retreat to some big ranch and do a bunch of executive producer jobs. So, if nothing, I'm glad to hear they're getting back into directing. For all the flaws in Matrix 2 and 3, they're still good directors. It'll be nice to see them taking on a simple, action-based story without a bunch of references to religion and philosophy and whatnot. That is, unless they decide to use this material to make an analogy about Muhammad or Buddha or somesuch. I don;t remember either of them having a really fast car, though, so maybe we're safe.I don't know too much about this Speed Racer, but according to the Wikipedia, it has a monkey of some sort in it. That's another point in its favour, I think.
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I think they should get the one that plays Jack in the Pirates movie. He was one of my favorite things in Pirates 3. I hope they give that monkey an Oscar.
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Somehow I don't like it. Maybe it's too retro for my tastes...
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What?!
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Lick shots at Joseph....................Yes I'm still on topic
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fuck a cat in this movie? SHAZAM!
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Hey Harry. I'm trying to send you an email about a scoop on Christophe Gans new movie, Onimusha. But I can't. The "friendly safe system" don't find my email when I confirm it's not a spam. I've sent the mail to Moriarty and Quint, but no answers. The scoop is real, I give you the exclusiv. Contact me back please. (I'm the one who sent you the first trailer of Pan's Labyrinth & the first review of Seven Swords).
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Say peace to cats who rock mack knowledge knowledgists, street astrologists, light up the mic, God knowledge this....
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Suprised that with every other super-hero concept being picked up for movies nowadays that Plastic Man has had zero movement. I remember reading years and years ago that the Wachowski's were involved. Guess we're stuck watching Reed Richard's boring ass as far as stretchy super-heroes go on the big screen.
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Having watched both of these in the late 70's Speed Racer was just a time filler until Star Blazer's started. Why can't they make that film? Com'n Harry, you have to agree! A freaking WWII battleship in space with a DeathStar type gun (the cartoon originally came out like 6 years before SW so it was not a rip-off). Best... Cartoon... Ever.....
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I could have sworn that Disney had the rights for a live-action Star Blazers but I haven't heard anything about it in years. I suppose if Speed Racer does well you'll start to see other anime/manga live-action properties take off much like the comic book movie craze has.
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Disney though? this better be the R-Rated Disney and not Baby Einstein Disney. The original cartoon was pretty uncensored for a cartton especially with the alchy Doctor and his perverted lust!
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There must be a place somewhere to invent a character, perhaps a mechanic or manager, for Don Cheadle or Larry Fishburne. I know all of you can envision Lawrence telling Speed: "Stop trying to drive, and DRIVE."
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....of Lady Penelope's pink car from Frakes' version of Thunderbirds? The picture of the vehicle rocked....and then the film came out....
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Beautiful. When I first heard the Ws were doing this I rolled my eyes, but the Mach 5 looks perfect, and the direction they are taking by making it an *unironic*, family-friendly adventure film is very encouraging.
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Im not joking...look.
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I'm pretty fired up for this movie. I never watched the original "Speed Racer" cartoon with all its bombastic effects and cheesy music, but I have faith in the Wachowskis. The fact they're filming crazy futuristic car races makes me smile. Plus, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox are pretty cool choices for supporting roles. For a children's drama about "remaining independent and thinking for yourself," this could kick some serious ass.
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Interesting pics, indeed, drworm2002!
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Just as well it's technically a Japanese car, if it was American it wouldn't be able to go round any corners.
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Is that Joel Silver doesn't want them to get caught up saying something stupid about the Matrix movies when Sophia Stewart is suing them for copyright infringement. If they say something to help her case Warner Brothers could lose billions to Sophia probably opening up a lawsuit from Grant Morrison as well. Another reason is Larry Wachowski is indeed a he-she now and it wont really work to make Behind The Scenes when your Brothers are one guy and a man dressed up as a woman. It will distract from the film itself. Still Speed Racer should be an interesting departure from the Matrix.
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How much you wanna bet that fucker will have a door ding on it by the end of the week. LOL
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I'll be happy. Car looks good. The action should be great. Hope it is crazy over the top.
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Is that one directing it?
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Freddy Rodríguez!!!! This guy is fuckin perfect! CAST HIM NOW!!!
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Wasn't she the same one who is also suing Cameron for infringing on her story for Terminator? I don't know... But let's cut the shit...
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Now THAT was some good TV. Why is that UHF from back in the day kicks modern-day cables ASS when it comes to good-old fashioned entertainment??? I even like when the bad guys turned to green mush. Man, UHF was the shit!
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What the hell is a "Speed Racer?" is it some sort of matchbox toy?
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Car Acrobatic Team!
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Who cares about a speed racer movie. What's next Thundar the Barbarian, Hurculoids or Biiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrdddd Man !!!!
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Aside from big time Speed Racer geeks, anyone over 30 wouldn't go near this movie, unless they were taking their kids! This is a premise totally built for 7 year olds, and as such a G rating is just right.Next thing you assholes will be pining for will be a hard R remake of the fucking SNORKS!
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Oh the irony of the main poster title with the posting of a damned obvious CGI car render. Ignoring the plastic winshield and lack of a proper boxlighting rig, even novices should have noticed that the tire shadows are a mess.
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I'm fucking 40 years old (though not a virgin), and I heartily admit to not only liking the Speed Racer cartoons to this day; but also to awaiting the release of this film, which I'm hoping will be just as mindless, violent, and hilarious as the poorly-animated series itself. Which I guess makes me a geek...but obviously, if kids who saw Speed Racer didn't like the cartoon, OF COURSE they wouldn't like the movie! Oh, and what are the Snorks? Any relation to the Lidsville clan?
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What i was saying was, that unless they liked the cartoon as a kid, older folks probably won't be into a movie about a teenager with a gadget-filled race car that runs around with his little brother and a monkey in his trunk. They might, however, take thier kids to see it. Someone above said that only people over thirty would care about it. I think the people that will care the most are the parents of the 5, 6 and 7 year olds who may have never heard of the show, but might love the movie. And somehow I dont think they'll need to see Speed killing anyone or a shot of Trixie's tits to enjoy it.Oh, and the Snorks were an 80s cartoon. Think Smurfs underwater.
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...around here. Kids these days... so goddamn jaded, I'll tell ya. Back in my day, all'd they'd give us is a midget in a duck suit (and this from George effin' Lucas, mind you!) and we hadda like it or lump it! Now, you've got the friggin' Matrix creators handing live-action anime joy on a platter... WITH a real, live chimpanzee(!) and alls I hear is bitchin'! Goddamn spoiled-ass Generation Y (And what kinda name is "Y" for a generation anyway? No style, no "cache" like my own beloved Generation X. It sounds like a whiney question you get repeatedly from some snot-nosed, iPod-listenin' little shit in the back seat of your car on a long trip to grandma's house for Thanksgiving dinner!) Rotten li'l no-account bastiches!
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Enjoy! :)
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I've been waiting for this property for years. Last I heard toy maker Art Asylum had rights to it.
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"Mach go go go, brother."
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there is a difference. Now you can love SR, hate it... whatever. and you all have your reasons. you loved it as a kid, you like retro toons (you don't need to be over 40 to have seen the original - reruns, y'know?), you think it's silly kiddy fare (and if you actually had WATCHED a couple you'd know you were off the mark), or you don't like the Wachowskis movie-making skills, that's fine. but come on! some of these comments are downright bug-fuck ignorant. lemme hit some points that no one else addressed. 1.)Flaggg - apparently you need to learn the definition of sarcasm. 2.)Rat Fink - my god you're a dolt. i'm guessing you're 11, maybe 12. Maybe when your balls drop, it'll shake out some common sense. 3.)Lot's of people seem inordinatly concerned with Larry Wachowskis gender identity... I'm not going to waste my breath on this one. This is America, land of the bleating, idiot sheep. In a country where 48% of the population think Evolution is a theory and think the bible is literal and Bush is a great leader, you can't make any point based on reason, compassion or rational thought.
A final thought, if it's a PG version, I assume they won't be using DJ Kioki's Speed Racer Porn Remix in the soundtrack (ooohhhhh... Speeeeeeeed!) ; ) Thanks for listning.
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forget the 59 cadillac, the delorean, or even the tumbler this is my new favorite movie car!!!
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is Susan sarandon playing Speed Racer's mom?
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You can see it at the Peterson car museun on Wilshire in LA, or buy one
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Peter Jackson for JUSTICE LEAGUE!
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...so he was a sell-out corporate bastard? Not going to not watch this now.
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The DJ Keoki SR porn mix! I'd forgotten all about that gem.
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