And yeah, I know it's an adaptation of an anime. But it still looks fresh nonetheless.

Yeah, I suppose making a movie about a property that's a few decades old would be considered 'fresh'. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Bring on the Spirit! WOOT!

The trailer is one giant slab of cheddar, albiet one laced with hallucinogens of various sorts. I also don't know how well the anime sensibility will translate into live action, other than 'not very well'. But i trust the Wachowski siblings vision-quest-thing enough to pay to see this in cinemas.

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or nothing at all.

i don't think i'm the only 1 getting this. doesn't apple have some sort of patch 2 fix this? or are windows users left 2 their own devices?

Dont' be ignorant. Do some research.

Horrible source material = Horrible idea for a film

Uh, hardly. Node's opinion is his own and since I haven't addressed him, you statement is meaningless.

As for the "catchphrase", I just happen to be in the know because I was there. Yeah, it ain't much to brag about; I'll give you that. But it sure beats being an overamped asshole. How is that working out for you, Jeff?

Ain't it funny how we always seem to meet like this - you trolling and me spotting your bullshit from miles away?

And now I find you going by the name of "Jeff"?!

JEFF?!?!

Are you fucking kidding me?!

How...quaint.

I'm going to let you think about that for awhile. When you figure it out, maybe then you can get back to me.

By the way, TROY was pretty great.

Face!

Anybody out there feeling "pwned"? I sure don't.

You gotta love Jeff though. He keeps trying...and trying...and trying. But in the end, his posts end up being nothing more than...I don't know...oh yes, "farts in the wind".

HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!!! What a fucking woeful comeback. Ah, smell of dismissive desperation. It would be hilarious if it weren't...so...tiresome... ZZZZZzzzzz....

By the way, TROY was pretty great.

Fuckin' indignities.

My header SHOULD have read: "This looks like Driven if they kept that script but coated the film in that ghost juice from GB 2!"

Plus I'll just remember the cars are Giant Robots(in Disguise-hey that's a TRADEMARK!!!) and leave it at that.

Seriously this looks like it'll be Big Dumb F*U*N*--and there's NADA wrong w/ that.

Plus you get the kid, and the monkey.

Prob. had a coronary when the first wave of _Bay's 'AWESOME!' ads hit the air here lately.

And forgive me Goodman, you were the man in Lebowski and various episodes of SNL.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's him. Although, I find it interesting that he would feign ignorance of the name(s). Considering how JJ4P got trounced on a routine basis and received at least half a dozen bans, I guess I'm not too surprised that he would try to lay low and/or play dumb.

The funny thing about AICN's trolls, they're usually rookie n00bs who think they can start shit or they're old bitter handles who come back with a new name and try to reclaim their former non-glory. Either way, I've seen far better than this Jeffrey clown. There is nothing more pathetic than a second-rate troll with delusions of grandeur.

Personally, I can't wait to see this. It DOES look fresh (yes, even as an adaptation of a sixties cartoon) just because of it's fresh design look and color scheme and energy and most of all because it's not an upteenth sequel to something we've already seen over and over.

I will absolutely, positively drive anywhere out of my way to see this in IMAX for sure. I love Matthew Fox's spot on Racer X voice since it makes me break out into a grin every time, and all I can say is MAMMOTH CAR!!!

MrGeyser-Well you never know, the worst of the trolls were guys like Mercier and Fettastic, they haven't shown up since whenever. Ah the days.

Now, when I say that I think SKY CAPTAIN looked like "shit" I am referring to its final execution. I thought SKY CAPTAIN'S design work was fantastic and I didn't even mind the story (as a throwback to pulp era adventures it was basically okay). The problem with SKY CAPTAIN was that the final CGI execution was half-assed at best. A lot of that was due to the palette they used which had this truly awful "washed out" pastel look while SPEED (at least based on the trailers) clearly goes in the totally opposite direction. SPEED looks as colorful as anything could be, which helps give it a living cartoon hyper-reality feel.

And that was the big mistake with SKY CAPTAIN in my opinion. I don't know why it looked so shitty -- maybe because they just realized they only had so much time to do so much rendering to meet a release date. To be honest, SKY CAPTAIN would have been infinitely better if they had just done it in straight black and white. For crying out loud, have any of you ever actually WATCHED old Republic serials or any cliffhangers from any of the other companies of that time? Serials were shot on the fast and quick, but they often had AMAZINGLY CRISP black & white photography behind them and NOT a washed out look at all. Just because something's "old" or was in black & white doesn't mean it wasn't photographed in focus.

The reason I mentioned GODZILLA as well is because in the end they did the same fucked up thing that SKY CAPTAIN did. They decided that they would need a lot of CGI, but then someone came up with the brilliant idea that if it was RAINING all the time that would be an overlay SFX element that could help hide the fact that the final CGI rendering was not quite there, that they had to cut a few corners. And in the end (again in my opinion) much like SKY CAPTAIN that decision hurt GODZILLA as well. It also resulted in a film that literally looked like shit because every fucking scene was dark, wet, damp and it just brought down the whole feel of the film. And why did it look that way? Because the story demanded it? No. It looked that way for the fucked up reason of having to hide half-assed CGI work.

I agree with others about the "small things" we've already seen in the SPEED RACER trailers -- things like Matthew Fox nailing the totally stilted Racer X voice from the cartoon or the inclusion of things like the Mammoth Car or that sound effect whenever the Mach 5 leaps over something (again kept from the cartoon). Everything I've seen so far makes me think the W.Brothers really treated this as a labor of love AND had a blast making it, so I'm there opening day and I have a good feeling they won't let us down. They said they were out to make an all-ages fun family flick and I'm betting already they'll deliver on that promise.

As far as Speed Racer goes, I hope everyone's right. I'll definitely see this thing in the theaters (this is the best preview we've seen yet). Still, I don't want to get my hopes up for fear of being disappointed.

Then I saw the first teaser trailer.

Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ, what an abomination! Too weird, too bright, too day-glo-neon and the CG looked good for 1984, not 2008. I still don't like it that much.

But the damnest thing is, with each of these new trailers that comes out, I'm liking the look and feel more and more. I'm starting to get what others have said about the trippy live-action-anime look of the thing. Still don't know if I'm gonna be there opening day, but shit, if it doesn't look as good as Iron Man, it looks better than 90% of everything else out there! I think I'm back on board!

John McCain sounds like Mr. Herbert for Family Guy, which is why he won't win.