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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.
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Yes, because the original speed racer was so ultra-realistic, and it would be a shame if they didn’t capture that.
It’s a movie where cars have boosters that let them fly through the air. It’ll be as realistic about auto-racing as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was about sword fighting.
It looks dumb, but in a spectacular over the top way. Say what you will about the Wachowskis, they know how to film big-budget special effects based action scenes like no one else. I’d rather it got released a little later, 'cause it looks like the perfect movie to escape from a 90+ DC summer day into.
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
(I have so far never been wrong about pre-judging a movie I expect to dislike).
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This reads as if you make up your mind before seeing the movie (based on what, you don’t say), and you will allow nothing to change it. I read it as “I may have liked Sin City, but I convinced myself before watching that I wouldn’t like it, so no matter what, I’m not going to like it.” This may or may not be true, but it is how your post reads.
[QUOTE=D_Odds]
This reads as if you make up your mind before seeing the movie (based on what, you don’t say), and you will allow nothing to change it. I read it as “I may have liked Sin City, but I convinced myself before watching that I wouldn’t like it, so no matter what, I’m not going to like it.” This may or may not be true, but it is how your post reads.
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Sometimes it’s sort of like that, but it goes like this:
Some movies I look forward to and hope I will really enjoy. The results are mixed, though the majority of the time it’s been worth the look, and sometimes a joy.
Some movies I have no opinion of, not sure if I’ll like it or not. Also mixed results, but likewise more often than not I am pleasantly surprised by it.
But there are some movies I get a gut feeling from the outset that they won’t appeal to me. On some occasions, usually at the urging of friends’ recommendations, I’ve looked past that doubt and seen such a movie anyway, honestly giving it a fair chance. But every time my doubts were vindicated and I’ve disliked the movie after all. It’s rare that I will have such strong negative feelings for any given movie, however Speed Racer is one of them, based on the ugly trailer; my dislike of the Wachowski’s work; that I’ve never seen the original Speed Racer; and that I don’t like Anime.
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
But there are some movies I get a gut feeling from the outset that they won’t appeal to me. On some occasions, usually at the urging of friends’ recommendations, I’ve looked past that doubt and seen such a movie anyway, honestly giving it a fair chance. But every time my doubts were vindicated and I’ve disliked the movie after all.
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Yeah, that’s how it works for me, too. If my friends talk me into seeing a movie I don’t want to see, it always ends up being terrible. The Medallion and Lost in Space stand out in that shameful field.
[QUOTE=postcards]
And that’s an unfortunate mustache on John Goodman.
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He looks like a heavier version of my dad with it on. It is unfortunate.
The trailer makes me feel old. Loud, fast, loud, colorful, loud, cutcutcutcut editing, and LOUD!
Plus, it’s loud!
I would be pleasantly surprised if there were an actual story to be found within. Some actual, human relationships between people who care for one another and look out for one another and worry about stuff. Not just this moviemaking for nine to 15 year old boys we keep getting.
I felt the same way about the Bratz movie – I didn’t see it, but the trailer looked as if there were a chance it was more like Mean Girls than like a music-and-shopping fantasy movie for pre-teen girls.
It’ll be like Transformers. Fun enough for six-year-olds who have never seen the original, but disappointing to adults who hyped it in their minds it’d be funner than their memories recall the original, which really wasn’t all that.
[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?
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Easy. They can screw it up by trying to play it serious.
