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Do you plan to see Speed Racer? - VIDEO
I enjoyed Speed Racer when I was a kid. I haven't seen it in 25 years or so and I'd probably be horrified now by what my youthful tastes were back then, but I remember liking the race scenes and what the car could do. I remember wanting my first car to be one that would have buzzsaws come out of the front and a big lever that would come down underneath the car that would make it jump over other cars. That last feature doesn't seem like it would work to me, now that I think about it as an adult.
Anyway, the live-action version with Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, and Matthew Fox opens this Friday. And the early buzz is that it's not going to do as well as they were hoping it would.
Industry analysts say it might do OK, but that Iron Man just might be the #1 film for the second week in a row (oh, wouldn't it be great to go back to a time when the public didn't know or care about the box office winners and losers?). Personally, I think the film looks hideous and headache-inducing, so overdone and relentless. What is it about animation done with computers that makes me hate it so much? Give me a cartoon or real-life action. This is between stuff just annoys me.
I'm also a little antsy about big-screen adaptations of TV shows. And that antsy-ness (?) increases by 50% when it's a live-action adaptation of a cartoon.
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