Title: So, old anime re-make fun by americans?
Description: Speed Racer!?
DartStriker - December 9, 2007 06:57 AM (GMT)
Yep, you heard me, speed race movie. The kid from The Girl Next Door is Speed, and his dad is John goodman, a couple other actors in there that are somewhat big names too, looks kinda cheezy XD
KrazyKelli - December 9, 2007 07:02 AM (GMT)
XD I bugged you about this over aim, but I'll put it here:
Matthew Fox is playing Racer X =D
They're making loads of oldschool kid show movie remakes this year and in 2008. This year there was 'Transformers' and 'Alvin & the chipmunks', one of which bombed and the other blew. Aside from Speed racer, they're also making a movie for ThunderCats, Conan the Barbarian, Smurfs, and I'm sure others. XD Any ideas of how it's going to work?
DartStriker - December 9, 2007 07:07 AM (GMT)
O.o;
Bugged me?
>.>
Personally, I'm looking farward to the new Indiana Jones.
KrazyKelli - December 9, 2007 07:09 AM (GMT)
I don't even know what the new Indiana Jones is about. XP But it'll probably rule.. either that or be like the Starwars remake.. boring with a hint of new effects.
I'm more interested in this Rambo movie coming out =P
DartStriker - December 9, 2007 07:24 AM (GMT)
The Indiana jones had a new title, something about a crystal, who knows?
Can Sylvester Stelone(sp?) even walk anymore to do another movie? XD
Rancor - December 9, 2007 07:52 AM (GMT)
......Hollywood trying to cash in by raping what's left of our subconsciously repressed inner child.
Personally, the only sequel I'm looking forward to is Dolemite Explosion.
If you do not know what Dolemite is...then I cannot save you.
lilgumba - December 9, 2007 03:13 PM (GMT)
I actually liked the Transformers movie a lot. It had just the right amount of action and comedy for me. I don't have any interest in the other movies though. Speed Racer I was never a big fan of so I really don't care about that one.
There has already been Conan movies before the cartoon so they might do that one right. The rest...:/
DartStriker - December 14, 2007 06:49 AM (GMT)
I just was doing some research on movies for 2008, and a USA, live action Dragon Ball movie is being made, personally, I cant wait, not a big fan of the DB series, but I think it's very comical that they will try this one.
Oh, and the Indiana Jones movie is called: Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Crystal Skull, or something, and I saw some production images that looked very promising, even if Harrison Ford is getting old.
Akisu - December 14, 2007 10:03 AM (GMT)
Conan was a book before it was anything else. >_> This goes for a HUGE number of other movies. About half of John Grisham's books are movies, same with Tom Clancy.
PHD - December 16, 2007 07:54 PM (GMT)
My opinion is that because of the writer's strike, they decided on the quickest things to make scripts on that don't take much thought process. I'm sure they'll all be crap.
DB has already been made into live action twice. Of course, it was done by the Japanese.. so, America has the chance to be insanely lazy and just dub over it, to make it an even worse version of an already crappy movie.
On the Indiana Jones film.. I haven't seen anything for it yet, but hopefully it'll be good. Although, truthfully, his movies were best when there were Nazis on his derrière. They had asked Sean Connery to return as the father in the movie, and he actually thought about coming out of retirement for it... but then he found out that the movie was going to be heavy on the FX.. so he said "no". I have to agree a bit with Connery.. movies seem to be going too heavy on the FX. Sure, they're needed, and cool to an extent, but it does take away a bit from the acting.
To the 80's shows being turned into films.. STOP IT! Leave our childhood shows alone. It's depressing enough when watching them on as repeats late at night, or renting them, and realizing how bad the acting was back then. The movie industry is only going to destroy our childhood memories further by making the young generations think we were all mentally retarded for liking the shows when the remake movies are dumb and dishonorable to what the shows were back in the day. The proof is already there. Transformers (even though some liked it, it could've been better), Alvin & the Chipmunks, Garfield the Movie 1 & 2.
The movie industry is crashing, and in their panic to make better movies to get people to watch, they're making worse films, and destroying themselves only faster.