{"id":11967,"date":"2007-06-19T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/speed-racer-first-look-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:59:00","slug":"speed-racer-first-look-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/speed-racer-first-look-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Speed Racer&#8221; First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2007-05-30-speed-racer_N.htm?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/speedracer_mach5.jpg\" alt=\"Mach 5\" \/><\/a><br \/>When I first heard that they were going to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0811080\/\" target=\"_blank\">movie<\/a> out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedracer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Speed Racer<\/i><\/a>, I was instantly disappointed that yet another childhood favorite would be ruined.  When I heard that the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0905152\/\" title=\"Andy\" target=\"_blank\">Wachowski<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0905154\/\" title=\"Larry\" target=\"_blank\">Brothers<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Find?for=matrix\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Matrix<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0434409\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>V For Vendetta<\/i><\/a> fame) were directing, I began to feel a little better.  When I saw that they got the Mach 5 right (above), I was actually thinking that the movie might not suck.  Let&rsquo;s hope that&rsquo;s a good sign&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/forevergeek.com\/movies\/mach_5_revealed.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forever Geek<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/auto\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">auto<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-697064923628007656?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard that they were going to make a movie out of Speed Racer, I was instantly disappointed that yet another childhood favorite would be ruined. When I heard that the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix and V For Vendetta fame) were directing, I began to feel a little better. When I saw that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/speed-racer-first-look-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Speed Racer&#8221; First Look&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}