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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
Edit:

The trailers have been pulled.

[ March 10, 2008, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]
 

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Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
 
When I saw the trailer for this I was so excited because they kept the ridiculous profile shots with swooshing backdrop while driving in the movie, because it's so ridiculous. It brings to mind the robot chicken episode Gold dust gasoline with its parody of Speed Racer: "It's important that I do not move because if I were to move that would add to the cost, so if I stay perfectly still that will be preferable to moving because animation costs money. Awhhhhh."
 

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Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
 
Thanks Puffy. The trailers are giving me a tremendous nostalgia for the days when I had paper "buttons" labeled A-G taped to the steering wheel of my Big Wheel...

everyone else may think it sucks, but I suspect I'm going to enjoy the heck out of this movie
 

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Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
 
They don't work for me. I think I might have broken the internet.
 

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Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
 

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Originally posted by The White Whale:
They don't work for me. I think I might have broken the internet.

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...It's a series of tubes.

I'll wait for the reviews, but I'm sorry to say- despite having several people in it that I like- that the whole thing looks like a huge mess that would give me a screaming headache.

But then, it's not a cartoon that twangs my particlar nostalgia buttons.
 

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Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
 
Darn... good thing I downloaded them first. They're like 15MB each, so I think e-mailing them is out. I wonder why they pulled them?

Anyhow, in the trailers, there are (were) several Mach 5-like cars, numbered 5, 6, and at the end of the trailer, 4. anyone know the story on that?
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I'm not really sure how I want to feel about this movie. It looks kind of over-the-top, cartoon-like, sloppy, and crowded. But there's a chance that I might like it for those very reasons.
 

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Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
 
It looks like a movie that's destined to have a drinking game based upon it.
 

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Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
 
Here's another link to the trailers:

Two International Speed Racer Trailers
 

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Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
 
I don't know if I'll love or hate this movie. It seems like a difficult cartoon to translate into a movie.

My favorite episode is " The Fastest Car on Earth." The bizarre scene of those guys grave-robbing an engine has stuck with me forever. Plus the whole "going insane because of super-human speeds" deal.
 

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Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
 
That's the thing, it's a very difficult cartoon to translate into a movie, yet it seems like that's exactly what they've managed to do... at least the trailers look as frenetic and more colorful than the cartoon was. I'd be very surprised if there wans't already a speed racer drinking game based soley on use of the word "speed".

"C'mon, Speed, go, Speed, we need more speed, Speed" isn't much of an exaggeration of the typical dialog.
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
The cartoon was color-saturated, melodramatic, silly, hyper-kinetic, fun escapist fare.

The trailers certainly seem to invoke at least some of those things.
 

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Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
 
*shrug* The trailers look cool. . . but they usually do. We'll see how the film stands up.
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 

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Originally posted by Morbo:
*shrug* The trailers look cool. . . but they usually do.

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