Is it sad that I'm very excited about this movie?

i remember watching speed racer reruns when i was really little, loved the show... movie... I'm gonna see it ... I'm not gonna have my hopes up, but i wont be prepared for disappointment ... well just have to see

Emily,

   I'm with you... then again, I liked the mario brothers movie.

I liked it too. O.O


The preview looks promising but I dunno how it will translate on the screen yet..

Em, I agree, I have a friend that is actually working on some of the CG Animation for it and he secretly sent me a  little a long time ago to make me jealous and it worked...And to all the Nah Sayers of course it is going to be cheesy it is a live action movie based on a Japanese cartoon from the 60's...the only nothing that could have more cheese would be that cartoon that spawned Voltron...I can't remember the title but it had five Japanese teenagers in this awesome X-men style ship...if anyone remembers the name of this cartoon out of my early youth I would be grateful

I'm with you... then again, I liked the mario brothers movie.

The Mario Bros movie...I am still laughing at this statement! But while I have not seen Hitman yet has there ever been a good movie based on a video game? But thanks to Chris Gage I am still waiting for this one

youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0

Resident Evil was good

Hitman was exactly what one expected it to be, and she is so fucking hot

The Tomb Raider movies and Resident Evil are probably the most successful movies based on a video game franchise.

the only nothing that could have more cheese would be that cartoon that spawned Voltron...I can't remember the title but it had five Japanese teenagers in this awesome X-men style ship...if anyone remembers the name of this cartoon out of my early youth I would be grateful

Let's see... the Voltron made up of the 5 lions was called "Go Lion" in Japan (translation: Go=5 and Lion=Lion... so the show was 5 Lions).  I'm not sure if Voltron was in the same robot family as Raideen, Grandizer, Mazinger, etc... it's been a while and I'm not as brushed up on my anime trivia knowledge as I used to be.

If any old anime series is going to get turned into a movie, it should have been Robotech (aka Macross).  Look at what happened to Transformers.  The level of SFX (aka CGI) has gotten to the point that it's now possible and feasible to make that series comes to the big screen.

As for video games... there has been some Final Fantasy CGI movies made.