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Sage Freehaven said on December 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am

I couldn’t give too much of a damn about the original Speed Racer, myself, but damn if that trailer doesn’t make me want to watch the movie. Here’s hoping it doesn’t end up sucking.

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If the same costume, set, and prop designs were used in a parody, this would be a kickass movie. The fact that they’re totally sincere makes my brain hurt.

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mightybaldking said on December 10th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Never even heard of Speed Racer.
But they should be penalized for gratuitous use of a monkey.

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The original Speed Racer and a knockoff or two had a monkey. I think the show was made during that whole “gorillas = $$$” era.

The parallels are obvious and disheartening. When 300 and Sin City came out, every comic book forum I went to regarded them as triumphs for comic book adaptation because of how closely they stuck to the source material. Film can do some things that comics can’t and vice versa. Batman Begins is a great example. It got the heart of the material, even if it wasn’t, strictly speaking, a direct translation from the inked page.

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…that’s possibly the worst movie trailer I’ve ever seen. God. Somebody’s got a bad case of Serious Business.

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Batman Begins, not Returns. Because the two should never be confused.

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This year I learned the inexorable joy of waiting until a movie hits the cheap theaters to see a movie for the first time. This is how I saw Transformers and Ratatouille and how I intend to see Saw 4 and most likely, the Blair Witch wannabe, Cloverfield.

The cheap theaters are made for movies like Speed Racer when its obvious the producers don’t give a shit.

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