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Is Speed Racer Just Too Gay? [Rant]
io9.com - 5/15/2008
Is Speed Racer Just Too Gay? [Rant]
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Why are audiences swooning over Iron Man's shiny suit but not over Speed Racer's sleek car? I mean, what the hell is going on when people have already spent nearly $200 million on watching lameass Iron Man get revenge in Afghanistan, but only about $20 million watching the awesome Speed zoom with sparkly CGI pizzazz across all those finish lines? Analysts have speculated that Speed Racer 's ...

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Film Experience Blog — ... i09 asks if it's too "gay". Er... Speed & Trixie: their outfits match their rides, it's true Keith Uhlich thinks it bears noting that it opened the same day as The Fall. ...

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