What the hell..., Here he comes! Options

[Crushinator]

http://movies.aol.com/movie/speed-racer-2008/28066/main

Speed racer... the movie? Where the hell did this come from? It looks TERRIBLE! And whats up with the cast and crew?

Directed by the Wachowski's? Starring John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci, and several other reputable actors?

What kind of bizarro shit is this?

[Scan_Man]

It made my eye twitch. Not in a good way. More like an epileptic seizure way. But I admit when things are moving it looks pretty damn good. If you doing "live action anime," some things are hard to make look right. Some of it does like the asian dudes hair, and flashing backgrounds (even though they are epilepsy enducing). Everything else looks like either F-Zero, or for character scenes has that exaggerated for live action look that The Flintstones movie had. John Goodman is not helping it lol. Its the too much emphasis of translating the actual cartoony qualities of the charater to real life when it should be toned down. To see what I am talking about take a look at Trixie and Spritle in the trailer. Now compare that to the translation of Wolverines hair in the X films. That is what I mean. Basically it is like the Wachowski Brothers are trying to make "X-men running around in yellow spandex" work for live action. Again when the thing is moving, and when it is too dark to see that it looks like a video game, it works for me.