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"DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke) 07/23/2017 at 21:24 • Filed to: None

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Speed Racer is a fucking fantastic film, and it should be an Oppo must watch up there with Baby Driver, Rush, etc.

You may say I’m crazy, and maybe I am, but I stand by this because within the ten years that this movie has been out, every single time I watch it, I’m left with chills. No, it’s not a hyper-realistic take on professional racing like Rush, but it’s a movie that shows us why we dig it so much, and why we root for the underdogs compared to the established (corrupt, as this movie states) drivers out there.

It’s slowly gaining a cult following, and I’m proud. Now go watch it.

TheHondaBro > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 21:29

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It’s a good movie. The people who complain about it want it to be a realistic racing movie, which it never tried to be.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > TheHondaBro 07/23/2017 at 21:31

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All of the colors and the craziness adds to the fact that it is one of the finest anime-adaptions of all time. If it would have been hyper-realistic, it would have taken away from the charm.

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 21:33

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Other than the otherwise childish dialogue in certain places, I thought it was pretty good

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 21:46

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Your right. This is a fact

random001 > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 21:52

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Get that weak shit off my track!

TheHondaBro > random001 07/23/2017 at 22:03

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Me when I’m playing Forza online.

random001 > TheHondaBro 07/23/2017 at 22:05

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Me when I’m commuting to work....

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 22:09

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Like the 2008 one?

I loved it.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 07/23/2017 at 22:22

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Yes indeed.

TheRealBicycleBuck > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 22:23

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Having grown up as a fan of the original Speed Racer, I feel confident saying that movie was a piece of garbage. I went in with high hopes and left sorely disappointed.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 22:27

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Fair the CGI wasn’t great at times. Better than the Star Wars prequels (which I love by the way. Fight me.) but still not great. I’ve totally seen worse though.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/23/2017 at 22:31

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I was the exact opposite, I watched the original all the time and went in to this movie and left thoroughly satisfied.

I do wonder, what were your issues?

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 07/23/2017 at 22:32

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It’s okay, I love the Prequels too. ROTS is my third favorite film in the saga.

I think the CGI in Speed Racer works for it considering the source material. It was never supposed to be real-looking.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 22:43

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On the same subject, Chelsea Denofa has a Speed Racer themed helmet

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Seriously the most style in FD.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 23:28

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At least it wasn’t about 55 minutes of a 120+ minute movie of a still image with whooshing air contours around it while the protagonist grimaced and had a lengthy internal monologue.

Spoon II > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/23/2017 at 23:38

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Agreed! I love that movie and all of it’s over the top goofiness, and the emotional moments are genuinely fantastic

Frenchlicker > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/24/2017 at 00:34

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Like all of the greatest car movies of all time: It was a solid B or C film that I can watch over and over again.

for Michigan > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/24/2017 at 09:08

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One of my favorite movies from high school.

TheRealBicycleBuck > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 07/24/2017 at 09:18

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They weren’t my issues per say, they were issues with the movie. :)

What made Speed Racer so special for me as a child was how I could imagine myself being part of the race. The cars were somewhat fantastic and unrealistic, but they weren’t so far out there that it seemed impossible . Even though the cars were fantastic, the environments were mostly realistic and familiar. Yeah, I know, they did unrealistic things in those environments, but at least the places they were racing were places I could see outside the window of my mom’s car.

What the Wachowski brothers produced stepped so far over the line into fantasy that they might as well have started over. Racetracks that float in the air? Cars that drive sideways and spin on command? What the hell? Why corrupt a beloved childhood memory so thoroughly when you could start over with a whole new property?

Visually, the movie was a seizure-inducing mashup of color and flash. It felt like someone cranked their HDR settings up to eleven and their contrast settings up to twelve. I found it impossible to watch on the big screen and almost unbearable on our living-room screen. My son gets migraines when he plays certain video games. This is the only movie he has seen that triggered one.

Hollywood started messing around with our childhood memories and for the most part, it hasn’t been for the better.