AKA: There's a
new Speed Racer trailer out. And it's long.
I've hated on this puppy
in the past and I haven't changed my opinion. Funny thing - watching the trailer: at about two minutes in, I found myself thinking "unnecessary, CGI-infested cartoon but could be fun". But by the time the trailer hit the three minutes-thirty seconds mark, the additional minute of computer-generated car crashes, flips, rolls and jumps across stretches of twisty highways had chilled me out and left me uninterested once more.
I like driving fast. I can't do it often, so I like watching things about driving fast -
Top Gear,
Days of Thunder,
The Fast and the Furious. Part of that appeal is the danger. Driving fast - motor racing - isn't safe. It's about taking a piece of machinery and testing it and your operational limits.
Speed Racer with its cartoonish acrobatics - at least in the trailer - is such an obviously fictional environment I lose any appreciation of risk. No risk, no danger, no danger, no thrill, no thrill, no point.
It will be interesting to see what kind of ride the final film turns out to be.
eta: I like having Boing-Boing brought to my flist every morning but now I can't find anything else! *sigh*
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