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Posted on 12-23-07 10:39 PM Link | Quote
Apparently so.

I actually clicked on that link looking for a good laugh. Then the trailer actually looked pretty good.

I like Emile Hirsch, despite the terribly awful movies he's done in the past. We'll see...
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Posted on 12-23-07 11:11 PM Link | Quote
Dude that looks sweet!

The people who made the Matrix sure make good lookin movies!
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Posted on 12-24-07 03:24 AM Link | Quote
I'm with you guys. At first I thought the idea was pretty dumb, but just wow ... it looks so over the top and hilariously awesome.


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Posted on 12-24-07 03:35 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by XeoLVII
I'm with you guys. At first I thought the idea was pretty dumb, but just wow ... it looks so over the top and hilariously awesome.


They even put that corny super fast-paced-three-tone trademark thingie that was in all the speedracers. Thats what got me hooked.

Plus it looks pretty damn great.
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Posted on 04-29-08 01:41 PM Link | Quote
BUMP.

Well, this is coming out in a little less that 2 weeks.

First of all, I am a tad interested in seeing it, but I'm concerned.

Is it just me or are the Wachowskis just making variants on comics and anime (Matrix is HEAVILY anime-influenced afterall)? I mean, V for Vendetta was decent, but Alan Moore was pissed with the spin they put on it and detracted his name from the movie.

Well, how bad can they screw up Speed Racer? It looks pretty good to be honest.

They had the Mach 5 on display in Long Beach a couple weekends ago and I seriously tingled looking at it.

The only piece that weirds me out, though, is Christina Ricci as Trixie. It just doesn't click for me.

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Posted on 04-29-08 09:08 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rogue
Alan Moore was pissed with the spin they put on it and detracted his name from the movie.


Actually, he's retracted his name from all the movies from his work, because he feels that they are just comics, and shouldn't be in another medium.

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In an interview with Variety's Danny Graydon during Warner Bros.'s first possession of feature film rights for Watchmen, the graphic novel's writer Alan Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, "You get people saying, 'Oh, yes, Watchmen is very cinematic,' when actually it's not. It's almost the exact opposite of cinematic." Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. Moore told Graydon about his response, "I had to tell him that, frankly, I didn't think it was filmable. I didn't design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn't."[23]

Moore also told Entertainment Weekly in December 2001, "With a comic, you can take as much time as you want in absorbing that background detail, noticing little things that we might have planted there. You can also flip back a few pages relatively easily to see where a certain image connects with a line of dialogue from a few pages ago. But in a film, by the nature of the medium, you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second."[66] Moore had opposed the adaptation of Watchmen from the beginning, intending to give any resulting film royalties to Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons.[25] According to Moore, David Hayter's script "was as close as [he] could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen." However, Moore added, "I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way: in an armchair, nice and cozy next to a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee."


And I'm getting concerned because one of the trailers out there feels like it's hinting that the entire movie will be a fantasy/dream sequence of some sort...

EDIT: Turns out I was wrong-ish


In November 2006, director Zack Snyder said that he hoped to speak to Moore before filming, though the writer had sworn off involvement with film or television productions after his disagreement with the V for Vendetta film adaptation.[57] In a July 2007 interview, Moore said of Snyder's project, "If they go for some other novelty option like they did with V For Vendetta then I'm in for another year of excoriating them in every interview I do until they remove my name from it."[67] Before shooting, Snyder said " totally respect his wishes to not be involved in the movie."[21] Dave Gibbons enjoyed the script by Alex Tse,[1] and the illustrator also was impressed by Snyder's enthusiasm. Gibbons said, "I do think Zack has got the ability to make a really good movie, and I think Watchmen has the ability to be a really good movie, and hopefully the two things will come together... I'm basically supporting it."[68] Gibbons gave Snyder some script advice which the director accepted.[21]

In January 2008, Alan Moore revealed that he had negotiated to have his name removed from Zack Snyder's film and to have all royalties go to Dave Gibbons. He said that Gibbons had asked him if he was interested in being updated about the film, but the writer declined. Moore said, "I won’t be watching it, obviously. I can at least remain neutral to it as long as they’re taking my name off of it and not playing these silly, ultimately futile games like they were doing last time, which worked out so well for them."



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Posted on 04-30-08 12:02 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, Alan Moore's never really been a fan of movies based on his work. A trait which has rubbed off on Neil Gaiman who adamantly refuses to have a Sandman movie made for fear of a bad one turning out.

Alan really did get screwed with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Definitely. I read the first of the two volumes in the graphic novel series (it's the only one the my library had). It's barely the same story. The characters' personalities were drastically different with characters added here and there (Dorian Gray wasn't in the first volume, which the movie was based on. No sign of Tom Sawyer AT ALL).

Supposedly that was the one that made him want to drop his name from any movies made based on his work. I don't recall what he thought of From Hell.

With V for Vendetta, the Wachowskis turned it more into a political statement about the current goings-on in the U.S., which Moore has said he believes they've done and to him it ruined a statement he was making about England.

But back to Speed Racer, something that wasn't written by our beloved Alan Moore (it's too colorful to be by him ), I can't believe they kept Chim-Chim in.
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Posted on 04-30-08 05:46 PM Link | Quote
I'm kinda divided about this. I liked the cartoon but I really don't know how I will like this version, especially given the tendencies of the Wachowski brothers.
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Posted on 04-30-08 07:57 PM Link | Quote
I really don't think this movie can be "bad". It's based of a terrible anime that everyone fell in love with. As long as they go for the "this dialogue doesn't fit with my mouth" feel, they'll be fine.
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Posted on 05-09-08 12:21 PM Link | Quote
According to the actor playing Speed Racer, they actually put a bit of a plot into the movie... so who knows, it could be good. Anyone see it yet?
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Posted on 05-10-08 10:07 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Elara
According to the actor playing Speed Racer, they actually put a bit of a plot into the movie...
Actors always say that about their movies, though.

If I hadn't heard the theme music or seen the costume, I would've sworn they were making Hot Wheels: The Movie.
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Posted on 05-11-08 06:02 AM Link | Quote
This move lost at ton of money at the box office. It's been getting panned left and right. Nobody is seeing it. I was slightly interested in seeing it before, and now I'm intrigued to see how bad it actually is.

Has anyone seen it yet? Thoughts?
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Posted on 05-12-08 03:14 AM Link | Quote
I ducked into some of this movie tonight, and boy, was it terrible.

First of all, what's the point of doing a live action Speed Racer movie, when practically none of it is live action?

Second, the acting was terrible. Not good, terrible. Just... terrible. Same with the plot. And half the cinematography. And the choreography (you'd think the creators of the Matrix would have decent fight scenes, instead of - basically - two guys standing there hitting each other repeatedly).

The racing was cool... for about a minute. You know how bullet time was cool for a while, then everyone started abusing it, and it just got annoying? Yeah, the stuff they do in the races are like that, except they get annoying in the course of one race.

And they kept doing these annoying transitions where someone or something would pass in front of the camera and the scene behind them would change. They'd do these five or six times within a minute. Also, since all of the live action parts are green screened, they'd do these shots where the people are sitting, talking, and the background is slowly drifting to the side... like it was supposed to be dramatic, instead of weird.
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