Speed Racer, total wreck?
Speed Racer, total wreck?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 8:00pm
The previews give me a headache. And people seem excited that it is by the Wachowski brothers, completely forgetting how DREADFUL the second and third Matrix films turned out.
I smell a flop, at least artistically.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 8:09pm
The trailer was going so fast I couldn't tell WHAT was going on. If people were getting sick from 'Cloverfield', then 'Speed Racer' is gonna make you barf.
I'm saving it to watch it on DVD.
#3re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 8:24pmEmile Hirsch reminds me of a poor man's Leo.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 8:26pm
the posters in the subway just look like a big MCDONALDS ad.
yuk.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 11:38pmThe trailer was awful.
#7re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 12:36amI have no idea why, but I am SO excited about this movie.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#8re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 12:38am
It would be better had they cast the other "Speed".
I want to see it though.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
#9re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 12:49amI don't even want to begin describing how much I hate this film, and that's just from the previews.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#11re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 2:34amI feel really old when I see the trailer, like I'm way past the target audience.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#12re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 9:13amJust about every movie that is coming out this year looks like crap. Except of course for BABY MAMA. :)
#13re: Speed Racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 9:18amI watched Speed Racer as a kid, but I have absolutely no desire to see this movie.
#14speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 9:44am
please. speed was a classic. i still know the damn theme song by heart. half the fun was shocked gasps that came from each character about every 15 seconds over everything from lunch being late to the realization that the mach v somehow had no brakes. i used to wake up early for this show. i still remember the shock of finding out the truth about racer x, the anxiety over the grx and my lust for trixie. i have no desire to see a modern live-action take on this.
here he comes, here comes speed racer, he's a demon on wheels...
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 10:08am
"He's a demon and he's gonna be racing after someone."
Such deathless lyrics.
#16speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 10:16amhe's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#17speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 11:01am
I never really cared for the show (it was my brother's favorite, however), but I have to admit, I really like the previews for the movie. Probably because it doesn't look so much like the show.
I never saw Matrix 2 or 3 simply because I didn't like the first one, but I loved V for Vendetta.
#18speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 11:12amCount me in the "CAN'T WAIT" camp!
#19speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 11:14am
I loved the cartoon when I was a kid. I have one of the "best of" DVDs too. Great show.
And I can't wait to skip this movie entirely. It looks like the inner workings of a pinball machine. Horrendous art direction, IMO. Makes me nauseous.
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#20speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 11:17amIf you haven't watched the original series in Japanese, you don't know nuffin'.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#21speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 11:24am
Ha, mateo. The reason dubs are so bad is that they'll hire almost anyone to do them. Heck, a friend of mine with no experience whatsoever in anything got to do one. But at least she has an imdb page now. 
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#22speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 11:30am
Well the dubbed voices aren't horrible. I take issue with the censorship, storyline cuts and alterations.
The dub did bring us the revamped 'Mahha GO GO GO' theme song, 'Go Speed Racer Go', which rivals the orginal Japanese theme. I like it better actually, and the english lyrics are fun.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#23speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 12:19pm
"the posters in the subway just look like a big MCDONALDS ad.
yuk."
I just read that, Norn. LOL!
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#24speed racer, total wreck?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 12:22pmI hear there's a scene where Matthew Fox rescues one of Emile Hirsch's earrings from out of the sink. A tattoo-fondling, finger-banging love scene follows.
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