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Speed Racer's Visual FX Uncovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-shannon-this-better-not-suck dept.

Marco Trezzini writes "View exclusive interactive samples of the digital building blocks behind the Speed Racer movie in VRMag's in-depth interviews with award-winning Matrix visual FX guru John Gaeta, Dennis Martin, Lubo Hristov, and Jake Morrison. Including Virtual Reality panoramas of the movie locations, turn tables of the mach 5 and 6, and many making of videos unveiling the secrets of the visual effects. Link to 'Speed Racer uncovered' and to John Gaeta's interview." The first time I saw the trailer for this movie, my jaw hit the floor. Nobody makes live action "Cartoons" that look like this. I guess that makes me believe there is no way the movie can be good.

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  1. Hollywood is dead to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All they do anymore is remake crappy tv shows i never wanted to watch in the first place into crappy movies i still dont want to watch.

    Writers strike be damned, im on a viewers strike!

  2. Re:Why the Instant Dismissal? by explosivejared · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am behind you all the way on Bladerunner and 2001, but The Matrix had a sound core science fiction theme along with a lot of great drama and situations...

    The science of the Matrix was pretty laughable, I mean the machines are smart enough to build human farms, but too dumb to use satellites to capture solar power. A lot of stuff didn't add up. The films only saving grace, which more than made up for the plot holes, was it's deep philosophical questions, specifically about the nature of experience and what it truly means to be human. These are common threads alongside the other two films mentioned.

    I think it is sort of obvious that Speed Racer isn't going to be tackling any sort of grandiose, fundamental question of philosophy. The whole cartoon was pretty campy, which the movie seems to have moved away from. This doesn't give make me hopeful about anything other than the visuals being worthwhile.

    Sure, it will probably be an enjoyable film, but I would be very reluctant to mention 2001 or Bladerunner in the same breath.

    --
    I got a catholic block.
  3. speedracer vs ninjas? by yakumo.unr · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The CGI made me cringe.

    But what made me laugh was the trailer clearly showed he did _NOTHING_ his whole life but think about racing, or practice racing.

    So htf did he build the muscles and learn the skills to take out the ninjas they show later? lol

    He's not even a pirate ;)