True confession: I hated The Matrix and its sequels. Absolutely despised them as dreck, a colossal waste of time, talent, and money. I really hate those movies so much that I can't find the words to describe it. Really, really, really hate them. A lot.
I didn't hate Speed Racer, but I didn't love it as much as my friends did either. When it showed up in 1967, it was the first major Japanimation to hit these shores, nothing like the early Warner Brothers cartoons that I loved, and still do. I eventually got into it for what it was, which was pretty cool.
(See below for the opening theme of the original Speed Racer. It's the only clip I can find...which tells me that it'll probably be gone soon. Don't blame me if the link is dead when you try to get there.)
Here's the cool part: the movie version of Speed Racer by the Wachowski brothers is coming this summer, and I'm ridiculously psyched for it. Check out the HD trailer, available in both 720 and 1080. Awesome.
(It continues to utterly mystify me that the MacBook series are the only 15-inch laptops on the market that don't support 1080. My wife had a VAIO that supported full-raster 1920x1080 before the turn of the century.)
The Ain't it Cool blog is the place for all things, well, cool. They have the links to the 2 international trailers that followed the US version below.
BTW, if you're even vaguely a fan of anything sci-fi, fantasy, Lost, Kevin Smith, comics, etc. you really should swing by Ain't it Cool every now and again. The guy who runs it, Harry Knowles, and his pals are true nut cases, but Harry's blog has such enormous influence that he has gained some of the most intimate access to this news on the planet.
Anyway, I'll see you at Speed Racer in May.
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