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by **Shigamado** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:35 am

WizardWorld just showed an awesome exclusive trailer for it in an otherwise VERY boring movie panel. It showed a bunch of the racing scenes with the different cars attacking each other and tons of crazy jumps!! The directors called it "Car-Fu".It includes one of the best movie moments I've seen in a while...

One car is attacking the Mach 5. Speed manages to dodge it, and it flips high into the air below Racer X's car. In slow mo, Racer X jumps his car till he's right below the flipping driver who's now upside down, lowers his winshield and gives him and upside down punch in the face!!

This new trailer has finally got me really exited for the movie.

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by **neo godzilla jr** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:33 pm

saw the trailer yesterday...i would have cried if my tearducts weren't nonexistent.

felt like i was watching cloverfield again, but beneath the queasiness there was no joy.

at least it didn't ruin horton hears a who

by **bigknif** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:12 pm

If anyone is curious about the new Speed Racer movie or wants to know more about the original series and the other versions over the years, we're running a series of articles leading up to the release of the movie...

Basically the new movie gives us a good excuse to look back at the classic series!

Check out the first part of James Long's look at the original SPEED
RACER cartoon and all its incarnations.

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2008 ... -speed-go/

More to come.

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by **Gwangi** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:27 pm

Well, it only received a 35% mark on RottenTomatoes, and in reading some of the reviews, it's apparent that some of the critics never even seen the original cartoon series, and have sort of mischaracterized it and called it "A Saturday Morning Cartoon series" :?:

I was and still am a huge fan of the original series. And inevitably, it will be curiosity that will lure me to see the movie (and plus, there is an IMAX nearby where I live, so it will be interesting).

by **kpa** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:34 pm

Interview with Rain, who plays racer Taejo Togokahn in the movie and is starring in the upcoming NINJA ASSASSIN:

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2008 ... with-rain/

by **Temjin** » Sat May 10, 2008 2:08 am

I just came back form the midnight screening...and daaaaaang, was it PACKED.

Now, just a little background on me n' Speed: I grew up watching its' spanish-dubbed counterpart "Meteoro" and managed to, over the years, watch all of its itinerations, including the underappreciated "X/Millenium".

Now, I went in there expecting a live action anime. No lie, I did. I had my expectations set on that much. I mean, if Frank Millir's black n' white graphic novels can be brought to life, why can't an anime? What's stopping Hollywood from showing the japanese how a translation's REALLY done(yes, I'm lookin' at you, "Tetsujin 28").

To my surprise......This movie kicked ass. Not just normal ass, I mean super-heavy-fat-thug ass! :wink:

The movie's a visual tour-de-force I'm, sure any true anime lover will enjoy, and the style brought forth on screen is DEEP. The movie looks like Wachowskis actually thought everything out and just drew it up on a blank canvas as they went, only stopping to double-check their details to the source material.

There're nods to each series left and right - like the aforementioned Mach 6 design from Speed Racer X, and the visuals straight out of the original series; the movie places you in a world where that sort of stuff is real, and that's what counts.

I smiled. Last time I smiled like that was in TMNT during the fanale nod to the past movies. I had a blast. It felt great, and the last time I felt this great at the movies was last week with Iron Man.

I'm not gonna go and say, "Go see it, it's awesome!" 'cause I know it doesn't work that way 'round here. I'll put it bluntly - if you don't feel like going to see it, you're just not gonna. period. This movie's fun and all, but if it's not your thing, it just isn't.

....it is the hot nu $#!t, though.

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