# Some New Speed Racre Trailers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851 "2008-03-10T17:32:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/1 "2008-03-10T17:32:15Z")
> **[Dual International Speed Racer Trailers Launch! | FirstShowing.net](https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/dual-international-speed-racer-trailers-launch/)** > > Apparently there is a brand new Speed Racer trailer playing in front of 10,000 B.C., but unfortunately I haven't seen it yet because I'm in Austin, TX for SXSW. While that trailer is still awaiting its online debut, Warner Brothers has launched two... I dunno, the style reminds of Tron, live actions and animation combined. I think it will appeal tremendously to kids, but I am not sure about adults. But part of me also think it could be really cool and fun. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/2 "2008-03-10T17:49:26Z")
I’m thinking it’s something I want to see in a theatre because it’ll be awesome there… but once will be enough. Plus the nostalgia factor. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/3 "2008-03-10T17:50:05Z")
That…looks…AWESOME! I refuse to grow up, if it means not enjoying that. ETA: John Goodman looks _eerily_ like my dad with that moustache. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/4 "2008-03-10T17:51:49Z")
I find the lok of the racing scenes somewhat unappealling, at least in the trailers. It’s all too close up. The stylized track could be interesting but the shots (at least in the trailers) never pull back enough to give a sense of the race as a whole. The shots are framed so tightly that it’s just a car against a background. There’s no real sense of relative motion. It’s a car standing still against a monotonous, rolling backdrop. It ends up looking just as static and wooden as the cartoon. Maybe that’s what they were going for, but if so, I think it’s a bad idea. If they can’t pull back those shots and make the races look like races, this is going to be a very tedious movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/5 "2008-03-10T17:59:42Z")
From what I remember of Speed Racer, the focus was never on the actual racing so much as it was the fighting between racers using gadgets on their cars. Close-ups make sense for that. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/6 "2008-03-10T18:16:38Z")
I gotta go change my pants. And then get in line for tickets. _grin_ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/7 "2008-03-10T18:56:12Z")
I am \*so there! \* (Mostly for Matthew Fox in a black leather jumpsuit. Yes, I am really that shallow. But the special effects look, you know, slightly cool. Just a little bit. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/8 "2008-03-11T05:03:24Z")
“Oooh!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/9 "2008-03-11T05:11:26Z")
This is digusting. Is Hollywood really this creatively bankrupt? I don’t even understand these remakes from a financial standpoint anymore - they all seem to bomb. WTF? That being said . . . this is visually stunning and I loved Speed Racer as a kid. I might be there, but I’ll be in disguise goddamnit. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/10 "2008-03-11T05:28:21Z")
Holy bondage, the visuals on that are magnificent. What an inventive style, it almost makes up for all the rubbish derivatives that will follow. I don’t care one iota about the story, I’m simply stunned at how seamless they’ve made live action and cartoonish CGI, something people have been failing at for years. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/11 "2008-03-11T07:12:23Z")
Huh. Jack Black seems to have lost some weight. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/12 "2008-03-11T14:01:14Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] This is digusting. Is Hollywood really this creatively bankrupt? I don’t even understand these remakes from a financial standpoint anymore - they all seem to bomb. WTF? [/QUOTE] Non-cynical WAG: Many of these properties could only be done in animation in past years, and in cases like Speed Racer, particularly crappy animation. Now that CGI technology is really hitting its stride, they’re taking all these good-concept-poor-execution properties out of the closet and doing them justice. Also, there’s been a fairly constant wave of nostalgia driving the market for a very long time, and now that folks born in the 70s and 80s are coming into positions of power, the stuff they watched as kids will be getting the spotlight. That said, they (as in the faceless generality of Hollywood) are learning a _lot_ with these remakes. They did start out absolutely horrible, like the superhero movies, but lately they’ve been getting better and better, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-speed-racre-trailers/440851/13 "2008-03-13T16:06:09Z")
Another trailer is up for this [right here](http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808406004/video/6941080) I am so there…