on a quick glance at the side shot i almost wanted to yell 'TETSUO!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Looks like a healthy commenting environment over there!
(sheesh)

That car is crazy looking!
You know, I might be able to put my disbelief and cynicism aside for an hour or two and just enjoy this movie.

i think i'll save a serving of two of my special 'mushroom & sausage' lasagna for that theatre experience... should be a good time.

lasagna??

It's so...plastic.

Picture 168784 looks like there's a t-shirt on top of the engine...

@ENCEPHELANETREPAIRHELPERGUY

yeah... lasagna... always found that that was a very tasty/convenient way to disguise the taste... and (if i wanted to be evil) introduce people to the joy of shrooms... so many flavours they don't even notice the taste... works quite well...
and it can be frozen very easily!

Shexy....

I thought Speed WAS Japanese.

It reminds me of the cool yet strange and Moebius-interiored ship Ragnarok from Final Fantasy VIII.

car looks Fishery Price

@chrystlubitshi: i'm a big lasagna fan--shrooms, sausage, onions, peppers, et al ;)

@chrystlubitshi: Agreed...!

Not since Heavy Metal was released (1981) when I was in High School have I felt so strongly that a motion picture demanded me to get stoned to view it. And I haven't toked in over twenty years...!

so if kenadas bike had got it on with the mazada furai one drunken night thats what it would look like eh? (o.0)

I like Mushrooms
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Are all those angles and textures really aerodynamic?

(And the Mach 5 was perfect.)

It doesn't really look like there's any place for a person to sit.

@braak: There is...it's right there beneath what looks like the intact for all those jets on the back...

@papercup mixmaster: nerf. that would be "intake for all those..."

I don't care what anyone says, this movie is going to rock faces. You're crazy if you really want a realistic take on Speed racer.

I have stock footage of streaming backgrounds if you guys need it for the SR movie--

An arm and a leg for that car...

I was hoping for the Mammoth car made of solid gold!

This movie will be worth seeing for Christina Ricci alone.

Speed racer is going to suck, its an over done hog of a movie, they rapped the original comic. Unfortunately it will be another cookie cutter film. It should have been done with a retro backdrop, focusing on classic racing, cars and themes, not ultra futuristic with stupid corkscrew loopdloop tracks. This movie is going to blow goats.

@sneggleblech: No. Nothing is worth seeing for Christina Ricci alone.

Compared to Speed's own car, this one kicks some major ass. Unless Speed's got a rail gun hidden under the hood I'm gonna be cheering for the badguys in this one for sure.

@livinglogic: Well, he did have those buttons on the wheel... And they may have changed a few things in the script. Forget the buzzsaw, who needs to cut down trees while driving anyways? Heat-targeting rail-gun please. (Ever try driving while targeting a rail-gun? Me neither, but I really, really want to.)

@YChrome: With the Japanese racers being played by South Koreans (Jung Ji Hoon/Bi/Rain and Park Joon Hyung) it seems safe to say that casting accurately is the least of their worries.

@braak: Neither does a Mercury space capsule, but hey, they can shoehorn someone into anything.

Its a great looking penis...

I mean car.

@emilia: Well, let's be honest. It's a terrible looking penis.

@NefariousNewt: I want to see the scene where they reveal that every one of these cars is a new one, because they have to crack them open to pry out the driver.

@YChrome:

Yeah. That's what I thought, but hey, let's throught history out the window.

@emilia: And thank goodness for the drool-proof paint job... ;)

@braak: Either that or it's only driven by jockeys... or monkeys... As I remember, the old Speed Racer seemed a little non-PC.

this car really takes me back when i was on the racing circuit with my big-wheel competing against the rich neighbor's kid and their damn power wheels.

Whoa, Speed Racer.. Amazing what cheesy videos you can imprint innocent little kids with before they are old enough to defend themselves. I have a permanent bias toward Buck Rodgers, space ships with cigarette smoke coming out the back, cardboard robots, and lots of silver paint.

I'm just glad they won't be making a hundred million dollar "Clutch Cargo" movie.

The cars are cool and all, but I also want to see that "Mammoth Car" thing with all the wheels from that one episode!

Reminds me of the Akira motorcycle.