# What are people's hopes/fears concerning this here "Speed Racer" movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403 "2008-04-15T04:49:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/1 "2008-04-15T04:49:03Z")
[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO2jcwgIi8o)’s a trailer. Having never seen even the slightest bit of an episode of the old animated series, I’ll register my opinion. It’s an opinion I fear I will suffer for. It’s an opinion I am terrified will be confirmed as foolish once the movie actually comes out. But to be perfectly frank, I think the movie looks awesome. I should probably elaborate. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/2 "2008-04-15T05:01:33Z")
I think it will, without question, suck dog dick. But that’s just my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/3 "2008-04-15T05:01:50Z")
My fear is that multi-million dollar movie will be made of a crappy cartoon series that I made fun of when I was 12 years old. Oh, wait, that already happened. ☹ Anybody want to talk about _In Bruges_ or _Chop Shop_? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/4 "2008-04-15T05:07:35Z")
I fear (and hope) that I will continue not to care one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/5 "2008-04-15T05:21:16Z")
I think it’ll be awesome. How can they screw it up? Make it campy? It was originally. Make it silly? It was originally. Make it cheesy? Wasn’t it originally? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/6 "2008-04-15T05:28:34Z")
I’m afraid that they’re going to mess with the theme song. Can’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/7 "2008-04-15T05:54:05Z")
The series had some weird cold war overtones, IIRC. The movie? I have no fears, hopes or illusions for it. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/8 "2008-04-15T08:27:46Z")
It’s not going to be about car racing. The FX shots we’ve seen show no car racing at all, just random FX and X-TREME drifting. Physical objects don’t move like that. There is a language to racing cars. Cars got it right. I don’t think the Ws will, based on what passed for a car chase in their previous movie, that was nothing more than an FX sequence on a highway. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/9 "2008-04-15T08:32:51Z")
The movie looks like it’s not about cars, or racing, so I’m pretty excited. Go speed racer, go! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/10 "2008-04-15T08:58:31Z")
Didn’t the cartoon feature a monkey or a lemur or some kind of primate? ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/11 "2008-04-15T09:08:56Z")
Chim-Chim? He’s in the trailer - in the scene with the brother in the trunk of the car (“It was HIS idea”). I fear this will suck. It’ll be interesting if they do the [Mammoth Car](http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/ObeesHotRod/thspeedracer2.jpg) sequence. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/12 "2008-04-15T10:21:29Z")
If they don’t have the GRX in there somewhere, it’s a fake. Though I must admit, a scantily clad Trixie could make it all worthwhile… ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/13 "2008-04-15T10:27:15Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] I think it’ll be awesome. How can they screw it up? Make it campy? It was originally. Make it silly? It was originally. Make it cheesy? Wasn’t it originally? [/QUOTE] The only way they can screw it up is IF Johnny Depp plays any role into this movie. That, or they have little flashbacks to Speed’s (or, Racer X’s) wicked childhood. I hate when Hollywood tries to psychoanalyze, like the Grinch or Depp’s Chocolate Factory! :mad: When’s it being released? I haven’'t heard anything about it since last Xmas! Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer… 🆒 - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/14 "2008-04-15T10:44:26Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] If they don’t have the GRX in there somewhere, it’s a fake. Though I must admit, a scantily clad Trixie could make it all worthwhile… [/QUOTE] Skip the ADD inspired editing and barely covered Trixie and check out nekkid Ricci in _Black Snake Moan._ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/15 "2008-04-15T11:19:27Z")
My fears are that everyone will be talking about it, my friends convince me to go see it, and against my better judgement I’ll concede and see it and, even though everyone of my peers think it’s the greatest movie of the year, inevitably hate it (I have so far never been wrong about pre-judging a movie I expect to dislike). That’s what happened with _Sin City_. This is unlikely to happen again, though, as I have learned my lesson. More likely I’ll just ignore the hype and forego seeing it entirely. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/16 "2008-04-15T12:24:14Z")
I never watched the show as a kid – it looked silly and stupid. The upcoming movie looks glossy and slick and way the hell too clean (there’s no dirt in the world of Speed Racer! None!). I’ll pay about as much attention to this as I did to the Mario Brothers movie. ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/17 "2008-04-15T12:32:54Z")
I just hate that trailer. All trailers these days! Exactly alike! Slow montage of characters with dialogue over the top, setup, brief hint of story, then someone says a long sentence edited into a few bites, everything goes quiet, they finish the sentence, then BAM, fast montage of ACTION SCENES! Makes me hate the movie before I see it. Eh, I’m just ranting. It sure was colourful, though, which I like. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/18 "2008-04-15T13:16:38Z")
I watched Speed Racer diligently as a kid, to be sure - but I don’t have a fanboy connection to it whatsoever. It isn’t Spiderman or LOTR or something where the canon is sacred or the switch to organic web-shooters is worthy of big debate, IMHO… I think the trailer looks big and splashy - I love the sensory overload - BUT only if there is decent storytelling going on. A coherent plot, and coherent directing which carves a narrative path through the bright colors and CGI Oooo-shiny!-ness of the visuals… If that’s the case, cool beans - I’ll take the kids and have some popcorn myself… ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/19 "2008-04-15T13:28:56Z")
I’m also a little concerned that the actor’s lip movements won’t be in sync with the words. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403/20 "2008-04-15T13:36:27Z")
Wake me up when they make a \*Star Blazers \* movie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-peoples-hopes-fears-concerning-this-here-speed-racer-movie/445403.md?page=2)