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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6149

It's in the cinemas from today and it's the story of a young lad, Speed Racer, who's a natural born racing car driver. He dreams of winning The Crucible, a cross-country car race that claimed the life of his older brother, Rex. Emile Hirsch plays Speed as an adult, Nicholas Elia is Speed as a child and Susan Sarandon plays Speed's mother

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/first_seven_min.php

It's looks visually stunning but I don't think I'd actually go and see it!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

I'm not so sure about the scenes when he was on the normal road when the brother collects him from school....I thought that looked a bit studio looking but the rest of it particularly the races look amazing

Its the guys behind the matrix that have made this isn't it??
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6149

I don't know about the Matrix connection cause I haven't bothered reading too much about the film but you're probably right!

Would you see it Luc?

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

Not in the cinema but I will get it I think....the races do look fantastic...almost game like in a way
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6149

Warner Bros have said the film's bombed. It's only taken £15 million worldwide when it cost £50 million to make

Dan Fellman, a WB chief, said "It's just one of those moments in our business where the results don't seem to justify our hopes and we'll move on."

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

Funny this because I thought things might be bad when I seen the Matrix Revolutions being premiered on ITV and what was supposedly mean't to be an introduction to the piece by a producer or something ended up being a massive trailer for Speed Racer.....I figured things must be bad
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Jipdog · Projectionist Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 223

To be honest Speed Racer was too quirky a cartoon to blow £50million on and the fact that the Wachowskis seem to have done it quite faithfully seems to have gone against them as it looks too Japanese. I was a fan when I was a kid but when I saw the trailer at the cinema, it gave me a splitting headache, so I don't think I will go to see it.
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

From the clip there that Cat supplied I actually did enjoy alot of the racing it looked very nice but the sequences earlier when he was in the car after being collected from school I thought looked scrappy and looked very like you knew it was all green backgrounds and cgi...actually very like an old film when they would feature a conversation in a car..you just knew
the car was really not moving and was sitting in a studio. There is alot to be said for outside shooting and only using cgi to build around the sequence.
I do agree aswell Jipdog it was a crazy amount of money to throw at a project when the original piece didn't seem that popular in the first place....then again maybe it will be huge in Japan????
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