Comments on: Reader Poll – Do you care about the Speed Racer movie?

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:16:08 +0000

Very fair point. A fair and balanced point.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:24:45 +0000

Given that the primary source for the rumour-quashing is Fox News, maybe “Siblings” is a good hedge?

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:07:41 +0000

Oh, Greg, that was all rumor and hearsay.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:05:36 +0000

Shouldn’t that be, “Wachowski Siblings”?

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:06:57 +0000

Nathan, c’mon. Speed Racer is no Star Wars.

AntiBarbie, there is–of course–a ThunderCats movie in production. You’d be challenged at this point to find an 80s cartoon that’s *not* getting the Hollywood treatment.

Karen, I personally find that actor delightful, but I’m probably (very) biased by his appearance in The Girl Next Door. Some of my goodwill for Elisha Cuthbert must have rubbed off on him.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:45:37 +0000

What is with the ugly Speed Racer kid anyway? The only thing I really remember about the cartoon was that he was cute in a nauseating mama’s boy way. You’d think with all the languishing talentless eye-candy wandering around LA they could’ve found a Speed Racer who was cute. Many a crappy movie made it’s money back because one of the leads was cute.

By: AntiBarbie

AntiBarbie — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:27:05 +0000

I hated the cartoon so no, I don’t want to see the movie. With all the cartoons that have come to the big screen I have to ask, Why hasn’t Hollywood done the ThunderCats yet? That was a kick arse cartoon full of action and would translate well onto the big screen.

Stupid screenwriters make my movie already, dang nabit!

By: lizard

lizard — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:57:26 +0000

shiny things! monkeys! yay!

right, what were we talking about?

By: Shithead

Shithead — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:07:50 +0000

Watching this made me throw up in my mouth a little and I had to swallow it because I’m at work.

Thanks for introducing this to me GWS!

By: Nathan D

Nathan D — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:32:25 +0000

Yes, but there is always that hope for redemption — I mean, why do you think we kept going for all three of the star wars prequels — it was that small but potent hope that this time, this time, this time it would be like we wanted it to be. But, effects fetishism combined with a media property that, let’s face it, wasn’t exactly rich with deep character narratives to begin with could spell yet another eye candy moment — a cheap but shiny eye candy moment that titillates without satisfying.