#this is about Speed Racer

[lieutenant-crybaby]

WHY CANT I LIKE ANYTHING A NORMAL AMOUNT ITS ALWAYS GOTTA BE HYPERFIXATION

[teethburied]

Speed Racer 2008, dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

[secondbeatsongs]

Hello, you said in some tags in a poll that Speed Racer (2008) is your favorite film. If you’re okay with it, I’d really like to hear more about why you love it. I love the Wachowskis’ work (they’re among my favorite directors), but I kinda ended up bouncing off Speed Racer (2008). So, hearing that it had a real impact on someone makes me very curious why. I’m not interested in criticizing your opinion or arguing with you, I’d just really like to know why you love it in the hopes I might be able to enjoy that movie more in the future.

oh god this is from seven months ago, I'm so sorry - but I do love almost everything about Speed Racer (2008) and I still think about it nearly every day.

I love that it's so bright and colorful and absurd. I love that it's an anime in live action form. and I love that at its heart, it is a story about love.

it's about the mistakes people make out of love, and the consequences of that. it's about the way children grow to understand why the adults around them make the choices they do, and maybe choose to do the same things. it's about taking risks for the people you love, and the pain of failing to change the world, because everything is capitalism and everything hurts.

(and it's also about being transgender btw. like, that's one of the main things about it - it is very much a movie about being transgender)

what if your father's choices hurt your older brother, and your older brother's choices hurt you, and now it's you and your younger brother staring down a future where you're going to end up hurting him by making the same choice?

and then...what if you can escape that? what if the broken parts put themselves back together, and the hope doesn't run out, and you're not alone with the things that haunt you? what then?

and now you're at the end and mistakes were still made, people were still hurt, but everyone's grown and changed and they're different now. and they've figured out that maybe, just maybe, you can change the world by doing something you love, by creating art and beauty and making people feel things.

maybe you really can defeat capitalism by driving a car really fast. and even if everyone thinks you can't...don't you have to try anyway? shouldn't you fight with the skills you have, the only way you know how?

what if it works?

and I'm not even gonna get into most of the Racer X stuff (because I want people to go watch this movie, and most folks probably won't be spoiled for it), but his whole deal is just...everything. I love him.

(if there's a guy from Speed Racer that I want to put in a jar and shake every so often, or maybe wrap in a blanket so he can have a nice nap, it's Racer X. he's a great character. prime blorbo material)

anyway I've been rotating this movie in my head ever since I saw it for the first time, and I think I've seen it...seven? times now? and I still cry at the final race, and I still get blown away by the intro sequence.

(the beginning of the movie is genuinely one of the best things I've ever seen - it does an amazing job of introducing you to the world and the story of the characters, and gets you emotionally invested in it right from the start. it's fantastic filmmaking)

also like. story stuff aside, from a technical standpoint, the movie is a masterpiece. it's the type of thing that people hated when it first came out, but when you look at it now and see how it was made, how it intentionally looks bizarre and cartoonish, plastic and surreal, you can see the exact vision the Wachowskis were going for, and it's brilliant.

the way they did the visual effects, the way they made the outdoor scenes feel so detailed, the way the driving and the tracks work - they put so much thought into that, and the behind-the-scenes vids show how cool their process was.

also uhhh cars go vroom, crash into each other, flip upside down, explode, maybe have bees and hammers in them sometimes?

(the above is me complimenting the unhinged vibe of the races themselves, which I love very much)

anyway I could make other full posts about the script of the film and how much I love it, or the cool side characters, or the fanfic potential of the amazing world of the film, or how I can prove that it's set in 1991...but I guess if anyone wants those rants, they'll just have to watch the film and then come talk to me. :)

(please. please come talk to me about Speed Racer.)

so, yeah! I kinda lost my mind there and made this post way longer than I intended, but I do feel strongly affected by this movie, and I hope this has helped explain why.

[tricksterlatte]

I love Persona 5 because it’s one of my favorite types of media, which is, “We tried so hard to make this ooze coolness that it still wound up cool, but also accidentally campy.”

Your demonic true self wears knife heels and a corset and transforms into a snatched waist satanic entity with a gun. Your band of merry men dress like they’re repping leather pride at the gay pride parade. Black Mask’s bodysuit is literally the leather pride flag. Yusuke Kitagawa is there.

[loopyarts]

Go Speed Racer Niji! Go Speed Racer Niji Go!!!

[parachutingkitten]

Residents who originated from prime empire do have a physical form, but because they're made from code, their bodies don't function the same. For example, they can't get biological viruses, but can catch digital viruses if they interact with technology that has them. These viruses can get them "sick", effecting things like their coloration, movement rate, and can give them that rgb halo type effect. Their body will also go all glitchy when they sneeze/cough. Their code is advanced enough that their bodies will naturally heal over time, just like biological bodies, and be more resistant to similar viruses in the future. However, if they get sick enough, medicine for them is essentially pilled anti-virus of different varieties.

[timblrdrake]

watching a movie with duke and damian :)

duke and i have been pointing at the coolest characters and saying “that’s me”, then pointing at the most annoying characters and saying “that’s you” at dami and he’s losing his mind

[kinniepryde]

made an edit for my all time favorite movie ever made

[honkula]

[christinariccidaily]

What up fam it's me ya girl Hope and I'm high off my tits watching Speed Racer (2008) projected at about 80" on a bedsheet

And it's OUR GIRL

[alaraxia]

trying to work on executing smaller scale art quicker, need to be less precious with concepts and kill the idea that everything needs to be “perfect”

[princema-k]

please tell me i'm not the only one who watched pandora to akubi and became slightly obsessed with the sheriff gou au. anyways here's wonderwall skull duggery in that same au

[secondbeatsongs]

it's so funny trying to talk to people about Speed Racer (2008), because it's like...what if there was a guy who drove a car so well that he defeated capitalism

[caseuoiseau]

omg

Oh, you sweet summer child.

[thelasagnaaquatic]

who’s UP putting a UB in they funky. I miss the 2000s. Rebel taxi why haven’t you made a video about these gay ass things yet.

Idk how to link tumblrs here’s l just omg this is embarrassing I’m sor sorry pan pizza

Ub acting funky bro you’ve had too much weed tonight I’m watching the boogeyman

[a-killer-obsession]

Scrolling one of the local tv channel on demand apps and I've never physically recoiled harder than I did just now seeing a highlighted category called "is someone gonna match my geek?" Featuring such hits as Knuckles, Tomb Raider, Speed Racer and The Hobbit