Speed Racer

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon May 05, 2008 12:05 am

Tsukiyumi wrote:I think the Mach 5 looks bad ass, personally. It doesn't look like an electric shaver (to paraphrase Marv from Sin City), like most of the crap coming out of Japan, Europe, and more recently, the US. I miss cars with style like this: Chevy Bel Air

And this: GT40

Cars from the eighties onward have little in the way of style or class, with a few exceptions.

Awww...the classics. I wish cars still had style. Some still have a decent looks, but nothing like the stylish stuff back in the day.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon May 05, 2008 12:09 am

Rochey wrote:
And does the Thunderbirds TV series have anything to do with the demonstrator squadron?
No, it's an old TV show with puppets that go around saving the world. They had a pink Mercedes with machine guns and stuff in it, and a bunch of space ships and airplanes.

So, Sesame Street with guns? Please tell me that's a British show.

kostmayer · Post by **kostmayer** » Mon May 05, 2008 12:42 am

ChakatBlackstar wrote:
Rochey wrote:
And does the Thunderbirds TV series have anything to do with the demonstrator squadron?
No, it's an old TV show with puppets that go around saving the world. They had a pink Mercedes with machine guns and stuff in it, and a bunch of space ships and airplanes.
So, Sesame Street with guns? Please tell me that's a British show.

And todays show was bought to you by the letters S, I and G.

Can't believe you haven't heard of Thunderbirds. To be honest, it wasn't that violent.

Captain Scarlett however, now that was violent

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon May 05, 2008 8:27 am

Rochey wrote:They had a pink Mercedes with machine guns and stuff in it, and a bunch of space ships and airplanes.

A Mercedes? A Mercedes?

It was a Rolls Royce!

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:20 am

Captain Seafort wrote:A Mercedes? A Mercedes? It was a Rolls Royce!

Is that Seafort Sarcasm? I can't tell.

Rolls Royce hasn't made anything but super-pretentious bullsh*t since the Merlin. Their engineering is top-knotch, but it's another example of "brand-name syndrome"; it's overpriced, status-symbol crap like Gucci and Prada.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:26 am

I prefer Mercs or Audis's over Rollers...Rolls Royce are just to over-ostentatious. Bentley's are okay too. Even if it is a footballers car, i like the Continental GT

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:32 am

Reliant121 wrote:I prefer Mercs or Audis's over Rollers...Rolls Royce are just to over-ostentatious. Bentley's are okay too. Even if it is a footballers car, i like the Continental GT

I'm just saying that if my car cost $500,000 dollars, it'd better be able to transform into a jet, or at least a submarine. For f*ck's sake there's already this: Gibbs Aquada, and it costs less than $100,000.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:32 am

thats only the base model too. I know My geography teacher was telling us about how much some posh toff in saudi arabia spent on his...Â£10 million apparently.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon May 05, 2008 12:12 pm

A Mercedes? A Mercedes? Shocked It was a Rolls Royce!

Ah, my apologies.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon May 12, 2008 1:22 am

I just saw this movie and it was the most fraking awesome thing I've ever seen. I was worried it was going to be a mockery of the series like the Hulk was, but it was totally true to the series' theme and I don't know how to describe the way the racing and background was done as anything other then awesome.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:25 am

Did you here, they are redoing the Hulk. Not sequel, redoing.
Obviously they agree that the first movie was... um, poorly done.
BTW, haven't seen Speed Racer yet, just how good is it (ie, worth the money).

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon May 12, 2008 1:39 am

stitch626 wrote:Did you here, they are redoing the Hulk. Not sequel, redoing.
Obviously they agree that the first movie was... um, poorly done.
BTW, haven't seen Speed Racer yet, just how good is it (ie, worth the money).

You know your movie sucked if they redo in the same decade.

And I'd say it's worth the money.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:47 pm

Apparently, it didn't do too well.

Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci, has officially bombed at the box office! The film took in only $6.6 million on Friday.

It's expected to only make around $23 million this weekend. In comparison, last week's Iron Man made around $100 million on its opening weekend.

Warner Bros. spent almost $200 million making Speed Racer ouch! Hopefully they make enough from merchandising and overseas sales in order to break even!

Source

Can't say I'm too surprised. I saw an ad for it there the other day, and I was not impressed.

Blackstar the Chakat · Wed May 14, 2008 2:46 pm

Rochey wrote:Apparently, it didn't do too well.

Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci, has officially bombed at the box office! The film took in only $6.6 million on Friday.

It's expected to only make around $23 million this weekend. In comparison, last week's Iron Man made around $100 million on its opening weekend.

Warner Bros. spent almost $200 million making Speed Racer ouch! Hopefully they make enough from merchandising and overseas sales in order to break even!
Source

Can't say I'm too surprised. I saw an ad for it there the other day, and I was not impressed.

What the hell?

What was there not to like? I admit the story wasn't original (big coporation trying to buy out the family buiseness) and some of the hidden weapons the bad guys used were a bit out there(a beehive and a snake tossing weapon? That's silly even by my standards) but the rest of it was great. Kept to the original theme of the show, which can be rare with remakes. Not to mention the graphics were top of the line.

I'm betting a large part of the loss is the timing. They went up against Iron Man a week after it came out. Most people aren't going to go see two movies at theaters two weeks in a row. Not unless they got a lot of cash or something. If it came out mid-summer it probably would've kicked ass in the box office.