Upstream - S2E18.5: Speed Racer

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

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Music Hello, welcome back to the Kill James Bond Podcast. This is a podcast about Kill James Bond. It's a podcast that's Kill James Bond. It's Kill James Bond, the podcast. My name is Abigail Ford. For an Abigail, that's my name. I'm here with Devon and with Alice Fordwell Kelly. Alice Cobra Kelly, she's the host of the show.

So it's Devon Dero, host of the show and Abigail Ford. She's the host of the show. It's a podcast called Kill James Bond. This week we're talking about a film called Speed Racer. That's right, Speed Racer. It's a film. It's called Speed Racer. Racer, Cobra, film. It's called Speed Racer. Racer, Comet Speed.

No Speed Racer! You've done my introduction for me. I don't even know what I'm what I'm here for anymore. Mako, go and welcome to Kill James Bond. Yo, my name is Castapod. I'm here to do a podcast. And I teach his hate, but I'm obsessed with casting pod, but they shouldn't have named me this quite frankly. You're in school. You're doing a test and you're just filling it out in the shape of like a blue yes. I'm like writing out one of the Swedish guys Italian like in my essay notes. They're like bringing your mom in for a conference and they can't

stop doing bits. To be fair, I think they did say something quite similar to that to my parents. There is a sort of a medical name for not being able to stop doing bits in class and it's ADHD, which is also relevant to both this podcast and the movie that we're talking about, just speed racer, first name speed, last name racer. Which is sort of the forgotten workhouse key sisters film. Yeah, this is what the workhouse key sisters made. I think immediately after the Matrix, when one of them, I get them mixed up, is it Laina had transitioned in private,

but came up publicly after the release of this film. And I think that actually explains a great deal about what the film is like. I don't think Lili was out yet. I am not 100% sure of the timeline on this. It's in a weird sort of transitional phase. Or the credited as brothers, which always jolts me on S.E.

Yeah, yeah, very weird. No wrong incorrect. I think I have that. There we go. Fuck you, you perfectly tone matched the thing you just like do. Beautiful, incredible. I'm playing that before to like get it right like I'm doing like vocal warm-ups So after the matrix they did a children's movie which is an adaptation of an anime series Which is like who go go in English speed racer about boy. He likes to drive very fast Yes English speed racer about boy he likes to drive very fast. Yes. And this was like sort of a box of his bomb. It's had like mixed reviews and do very well. They went on to other things. And this sort of like got left in the dustbin of history. And now speed racer has had this sort of like critical reappraisal where you you know, increasingly people were saying,

you should go back and revisit this. You should go back and look at this because it's actually, it's, it's aged quite well and critics didn't know what they were talking about. That's right. Um, to which, uh, I, I simply answer, I'll be the judge of that. Thank you. Um, so I will be, and I am, and of course, it's now in session. So we begin with a young boy who was at school, and in sort of what I thought was an interesting decision, he's like daydreaming at school, he can't focus. I thought, oh, they're doing like an ADHD thing.

He's like, he cannot think about anything other than car racing. It's like in his brain. He's like daydreaming doing it. Speed racing has ADHD. I once went on a date and got a credible dick from Speed racing and then he just like didn't text me back. And I was really upset and then I realized, oh, it's speed has ADHD.

It's not that he's in sex be back because he's just literally fucking forgotten. No, it's just. Yeah, thinking about doing bets exactly. And I mean, yeah, no one who has ever texted me could possibly relate to that. But so his teacher is very frustrated with him because he feels that every test in the form of racing car

regardless of what the answers are. And we see his teacher talk to his mom, Susan Sarandon, the way looking fantastic, which will, that's a theme that we're gonna develop later. And she's just like, oh yeah, it's probably because of both his dad who was a race car driver, his big brother, who was a race car driver, Rex, whom he either lies is.

And additionally, it might be the fault of the fact when he named him Speed Racer. That's on his birth certificate. My surname is Racer. We are calling our child Speed. Yeah. Incidentally, by the way, both Speed Racer brackets extremely young and the teacher and

everyone else have Australian accents and then they forget they're doing that another 10 minutes into this movie. Something that's really baffling to me is that the teacher at some point says I've probably started their like porky pig for a moment. The teacher says to Speed Race's mother about his father being like a race car driver slash creator. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree then in sort of like quite a rude tone of voice, which is a strange thing. Yeah, they were talking about something to say. Like a successful and well-playing job.

Yeah. Just be like, uh. successful and well-flanged job. Just be like, uh. Yeah. Yeah. So, and she's like speed racer slow down. He does not. He runs out of the school.

Enteres a sort of like special effects, green screen world where we all spend a lot of time. Very spike. It's 3D. The color is extremely. It's extremely. I have an interesting hypothesis about why this is that we can talk about in analysis soon at the end, but it's it's looks very

much like spiky 3d. I don't age fantastically. And in a sort of like improbable scenario, everything about the sort of like transit and urban planning and like life of the civilization in which Speed Race Alive is based around cars around private automobiles. In ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. And all of the cars are sort of like very futuristic, very, you know, fast looking sort of like conceptual thing.

And his big brother Rex picks him up and then speed really wants to go to the racetrack and Rex is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go,

on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go, on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go, on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go go Okay, you got to do the like Marinetteie future is thing you got to become one with the machine Yeah, you got a little to the car speed to a small child and then the small child goes okay How do I do that and he gives him the best possible piece of driving advice which is you got to close your eyes Yeah, it's actually easier to drive if you close your eyes But he is the driving force I cannot stress enough that every race track in this universe looks like rainbow road

Like there's just no handrails. There's nothing. It's not flat. There are loop de loops and shit I was going for like track mania was what I would have Like it's properly Like jumps and stuff and like cars We see like over the course of the film that cars wreck. They blow up, they have gadgets. It's very wacky races, but it's also very safe because when a car wrecks and explodes, the drivers are like teleported out in like a safe bubble.

So they always spy. So nobody dies. So it's a kid race. Yeah, they started just really early. They make sure to establish so clearly that you don't die. And then they spend the entire rest of the fun just blowing cars up like it's no one's business. Yeah, so they will show you like cars getting right, like it's fucking Mad Max Fury Road.

Then the driver will be in the nice scene like, ah, don't it! You defeated me this time, speed racer! And we see one of those sort of like, nemesis drives at this point because we flash forward and we spend like a lot of the movies like intercut at different times in ways that make it quite hard to summarize. But we go forward to a sort of like young man speed racer, ready for his big first competitive race. He's got a picture of Rex and his locker and he is racing against a guy called snake oiler.

Yeah, sick. I love snake oiler. Yeah, sick. I love snake oil. It steals the scene. He shows up. He's wearing a snake-themed helmet. You'll drive some of these. Not exactly shaped like a snake. Yeah. Yeah. He like snows at the camera like a snake doesn't. And then immediately loses badly. He just gets his entire dick kicked in by speed racer. It's all I want. It's fantastic. And I mean, we keep cutting back to the past

to speed's childhood as he's like racing snake oiler. We learn about him and we establish a few things. So like speed has his older brother Rex and his dad pops John Goodman. He also has his mom. John Goodman, it took 10 men to put that fake moustache on. He reminds me of, yeah, like a bear. He reminds me of, and he looks exactly like he looks exactly like some Donald Trump's poor bearer, Mike Lindell, the my pillow. She really looks like him.

And once you notice that, it's really jarring. But so speed has a girlfriend too, Trixie. Trixie, you're so richy. Hello. Trixie. Giving a fucking incredible forward to this film, by the way, not an easy role, but she's like game for it. And in the present, Speed has a little brother called Spritele, strange name.

And Jim might also say, and there's a chimp. Yeah, at this point, I write down an all caps, chimp, chimp, chimp, detect. A chimp has found us at last. You see, I didn't make any note of the chimp because neither does the movie. Yeah. There's just a bunch of people. This is fine. That's fine. He's had a patch of chimp chin. As he's racing Snake Oil, we see his family and it is Mike Lindell, the my pillow guy, 10 out of 10 smoke show seasons around them. 10 out of 10 smoke show Christina Ricci.

Like another small boy and a, a, and a, and a chimp. That's not their entire family. I'll have you know, because they have no, they have no, they have no family member, which is the living,

queer platonic Australian man. It's just, Yeah, this is, this is Sparky. Sparky. This is the dance, sort of like, living 24, seven mechanic bottom. I don't really.

It's just an Australian guy. It's just an Australian man. It works. He's in the club. He's in the club. The closest way I can, the best way I can explain Sparky is if you've seen Glass onion, it's very close to that's Darryl, he's not part of the experience. It's so fucking funny because Sparky is present for the entire movie, but at no point is

his life relationship really explained. There's a good point. There's a good point. There's a good point. There's a good point. There's a good point. There's a good point. There's a good point. There's a multiple shots when you do anything during like a really dramatic scene or something. There'll be a reaction cut of Sparky and I lose my shit every single fucking time. You could literally edit him out of this film but the story

is exactly like Sparky too. Oh, also a featurey Sparky. And anyway, when he was a child, Rex did something. It's not entirely clear, but he was forced to leave racing in disgrace and leave his card to be. We're going to go back a bit because we're blasting through this like speed race. So a lot of shit happened in the first 10 minutes and then not a lot for the next bit. It's an unevenly paced movie, which is ironic. So speed is like racing against you know, I can racing games, you have like a ghost car of your own best time. That's right. They've just done that. So he's racing against the like literally the ghost

of his brother and one of the commentators says he's race, he's chasing the ghost of Rex Racer because you know, it's a children's track cat-ass thing. Yeah, yeah. Rex set a track record. Yeah. And speed pulls back at the last seconds, so he doesn't beat his brother's record, like stays on the board. We also go back and we see Trixie like meet him for the first time. Yeah, this one's weird. And like sort of, yeah, well, first of all, it teaches you a valuable lesson, which is

when a mean Australian child says the R word, or indeed when anyone says the arse-la, you punch him in the mouth. Yeah, no. And that's the child says the arse-la on stream and then Trixie just like a young child who is built in the credits, by the way, as blonde pack leader, which I thought was very funny, is talking a tricksy and call speed the arse lur and I wrote careful. It's not the same as anything.

We can't go two for two on just sniping Twitch streamers. We've been annoyed by lately. The last time we were like, like careful whitey, you know. I feel this is if I'm being gaslit. I would never gaslight you. I've been then boss. But so she like knocks this kid up this kid, clean in the mouth, speed sees this, lose his control of the car and you get a perfect, a perfect version of when the smoke clears, I'm lying completely dead on the ground.

Yeah, fully. He is faced out. But Trixi comes to rescue him, and there's a little, you know how IMDB has like a trivia section that you can get on these. So this is one that I like here, which is that it's under the references section when speed looks up at Trixie she appears upside down and this is in reference to her character being Australian fuck shit cinema baby that's fucking filmmaking. It's cinema cinema. It's wheels are then wheels.

That's right. Eww. So he takes a home to meet the family. She meets Rex. She meets John Goodman. And then someone, Smok is also crazy. Really the fulcrum of everything. And someone tries to fucking you know,

bomb John Bips. This is never referenced again. It doesn't even really affect them at all. But someone attempts to fucking kill pop racer. I guess as we learn later on racing to do business but I somebody tries to blow them up with a with a male bomb and Rex like saves the day. He's so cool and yeah that's it basically. Yeah that's it. So at this point at this point Rex now becomes like disgraced and he he sits speed down and he's like they're going to tell you about about a bunch of shit that I did, but I didn't do it. I'm going to have to like disappear from it. All made up because people are jealous of how hot I am on Twitter. Uh-huh.

It's not real, but just exaggerating it. No, I couldn't afraid the tweet any other way. Just go three for three on this shit. I swear to God. We are the most beef starting podcast. I try to talk about speed racing. All of us are just grinding. I just like. You see this shit on Twitter. The other day.

Various frustration. It's just coming out of like two weeks with people who we like respect. Do we have no respect to anyone? So so so Rex Rex goes to leave home and pops immediately on the way out sees him and goes you're selling out. And it's just kind of like yeah bitch made get the fuck out of my house. Yeah, this is a pivotal. This is yeah, we should Rex goes to leave and John Goodman is like you fucking suck I hate you get out. Yeah, get out if you leave for that though you can't ever come back and he does Yeah, it's important and we see then that Rex is embroiled in in scandal. He's like accused of cheating. He's driving dirty.

That's right. Yeah, he's like the dirtiest racer in the game. There are like accusations of links between him and like organized crime to which, you know, imagine, imagine any link between most of sport and organized crime at any point in history. It's never happened. It never will. The FIA has never done anything suspicious or wrong. At this point, you know, there's a lot of this happening in quick succession. Neither spark, you know, the chimper on screen, so I kind of lose interest. Like what's the point? There it is. But Rex crashes in a rally race and it's presumed dead. And we see that it tore the family apart and speed vowed to live up to his brother's

great-efficiency and become a great race car driver. That's the whole thing. Which he does. Yeah. And this is what he does. He gets this close second to the record, which is hugely impressive, and makes his name as a young race car driver. After this, we now see that the race of family runs as an independent racing team is in high demand by major sponsors. And John Goodman says the first of frankly an alarming number of things in this movie

that when you try and make a drop out of them, make his character sound very racist. So he just. That's because the sponsors control the media sparking. Just drops that one of the middle. Yeah, yeah, very well. But we also see that when speed let his brother's record stand, there's a mysterious man watching in the stands. And it's the actor Matthew Fox, the star of the last,

an actor I like to see. It is also worth noting that we've done a phenomenal job, quite frankly, of putting all of these scenes in order. But when you watch this movie, every single scene transition is marked by a slide, sort of a wipe of a guy sliding across the screen. One of the various... There are other wipes than Star Wars. What are the other wipes that are...

Why have Hamburg or you could have steak? Yeah, this movie loves to wipe a character's face across the screen, but it's so fucking much. why have hamburger when you could have steak. Yeah, this movie loves to wipe a character's face across the street, but it's so fucking much. It is excessive. It's edited like a cartoon. And the visuals are like a cartoon too. Because it's the same.

I think the idea is, before Scott Pilgrim, mind you, the attempt here is to try and do a live action anime. And the result is, for me, I found it quite like difficult on a sensory basis, which is kind of ironic, I think. Yeah, it's also quite difficult to pull drops, because all the dialogue has this kind of like frenetic music, under it, all the time. It's like one sort of like two hour long montage.

I think the comparison to Scott Pilgrim is very good. I think Scott Pilgrim did it slightly, which we'll have to watch at some point, and did it slightly more successfully because they didn't go quite so hard. It's still got like a core of realism, whereas this is almost like a little bit two out there. Yes, I think the other thing is that the Scope program puts up a big warning sign that it's about to do some anime-flavored shit. Yeah. You have some build-up into the fight scene where a guy gets punched across the entire room. Whereas with Speedracer, it's the whole movie.

And even the sort of like, quieter, slower, philocenes are still filmed that way. Which is more commitment to the bit. Yeah, exactly. I wrote a note, nobody makes movies like this anymore, and then about five seconds later I wrote Robert Rodriguez makes movies like this, because that's sort, like, the comparison to Spike is 3D is perfectly apt, or's also a lot more I would say like shocked with lava girl. In that this is an entirely CG world we're just some guys wandering around in it and it's yeah it's early 2000 CG. They filmed this in two months, 60 days, almost entirely on green screen. But at this point, so they're having breakfast and pop's is explaining his theories about who controls the media. That's right. And everything begins to rumble because guy certified guy we love to see Roger Allen

Lands a veto on their lawn and He his name is Royalton and he is sort of like this Oliadgeness somewhat sinister Business man, right and he has come to make them an offer. But first he has this sort of weird thing. He goes, is that pancake space smell? Because they're our pancakes. And we got and seniors, you, uncomfortably high definition pancake close up. I'd, I'd really like to make the episode out of like close in shot on Roger Allen's face, having eaten a pancake.

I really enjoy this performance and this character. And I think the way that Royaltyn is deployed in the film, I think like makes it a lot cleverer than it might appear, but we'll get into that. So Royalton says they're like, I know that like race emerges, you're like a small family business. And he's like, look, I totally understand. Like, I started out as a really small business. I wasn't always like Jeff Bezos made a rich like, I've got my companies like my family, I still care about it, the way you care about your own thing. So like, I want to sponsor speed, but let me show you what I can give you there is there is one interesting thing here That I wanted to draw out which is he he tries to sell them how like impressed he is with his driving Which he does with this line young man you gave me goosebumps to which we then cut to Sparky who goes, and like pulls a face, and like, that's a little

bit homophobic. It's just, yeah, the way the world is and like wears that purple alarm and is a bit like, it comes with a territory of a living Australian like sometimes they just like this it's a shame but yeah you do your best to like train your Australian but it's really hard to house break an Australian by the way at this point no one else is is talking Australian. Which is sort of like we. We just everyone else we see Trixie at some point. No one has an Australian accent, but they did as children. And I'm like, does this mean that in the speed race at

universe, everyone starts as Australian. That stops at puberty. Yeah. And like everyone we perceive as Australian. But everyone who is like still Australian is like an age play fetishist. Like Sparky is on fucking. I would actually say it's for everyone starts out as Australian. It's sort of like the level stage of human. Whereas Sparky is just Whereas Sparky is just exhibiting Neoteny, like an actual awful dose. I can tell you the real answer to this, which is that this film was made in Australia

and that when big studios come to a country, for example Australia or Britain, the crew and the extras and the small roles will be played by people from that country, but the stars and the lead roles will be flown in from America. So if a big movie studio ever promises to come to your country listeners and promises it's going to bring you jobs, they will bring you only the shit jobs. There you go. So as you say Abby, he like sells them quite successfully on. Let me, let me introduce you to my corporate family. Yeah. He takes them to CGI city. Yep. Uh, gives them the tour of Royalton Industries, which is very spike.

It's very impressive. I was going to say it's sort of now retro futuristic because I wrote it. Yeah. You remember when Segway's we're going to be the future. And then the owner of Segway when Segway's we're gonna be the future and then the owner of Segway Segway'd offer Cliff on his segue. Did that incredible bit about Segway Frankenstein? The final Segway. Yeah. I don't know how to say it well. But they have a like vaulted industries have this like there's

amazing facilities they build their own like race cars they've got a famous race car driver called cannonball tailor who's that part of their stable and like he meets speed speeds very impressed it's all very like showy but maybe a little bit to be true they go through the whole factory and everything looks a bit like a like a win-amp skin and And that's not a reference that everyone's gonna get, but some of you will be too young for it, but that's the kind of like, sort of globular, weird vibe it has. Also, just a small thing,

but actually not a small thing. This is a theme that I wanted to draw out, but I may as well do it now. We meet a woman called Jeannie, who's like sort of like talent management, right? And there's a lot of other sort of like various of women standing around. And we get a problem that I've noticed with every Wukowski movie. And also the reason why we shouldn't let trans women make movies. trans women make movies. Sorry, Abby.

Well, got some good news for you, because we are not allowed to. So every woman, and I mean every woman in this movie, and there are a decent number, is an 11 out of 10 smoke show, Badi. And I think the problem here is that the two sisters making this right cannot imagine an unattractive woman, right? And that to me, it smacks up the sort of like early transition thing where you can't look at basically any woman without getting the yarn and think, oh shit, would she, like, she's got to be incredibly happy with how she looks.

I would do anything to look like that. Therefore, all women are goddesses and we must cast appropriately. And the result is kind of curiously, I think accidentally misogynistic. Yeah, it's a two-nosed range. Think strange thing is though if you start making movies before 22 you won't pass Come on, we're going through this So anyway, Royalton's like what do you you think of all this? And John can be like, well, you know, do you be told that I'm really like that?

He says, he says to me things that sound racist out of context. He, I think this is the right draft. People like you have way too much money. It was a straight process from a really, a days from a different time. Um, but it's been so many things. When I'm around cis women, this kind of company scares me. So, speed says he was to take some time to think about it.

Well, it's like, yeah, cool. It takes much time. Yeah, and we get this sort of like edge of nastiness about it, but nothing we can sort of prove. Great, great performance that we've really done it. Getting sort of like a bit nastiness about it, but nothing we can sort of prove. Great performance that we've really started getting sort of like a bit gaslit here. Yeah, because speed looks like he's about to say no, but world and steps in very quickly. And he's like, why don't you take some time to think about it? We'll get back together in a week maybe. Yeah, because pops this thing is like, obviously, you do control the media,

but if it makes my son happy, then fine, whatever he decides. So at this point, we cut to a new location where there is a sort of a... Where we do. ...with dyed hair, getting his shirt ripped open and getting the absolute fuck slapped out of him. And finally, I can relate to someone in this movie. Finally, I'll start paying attention to the movie. It's like, oh, here we go. Yeah, so he's about to get a little cut

on the inside of his wrist by accident. So. This is Tyger Togokan, who is a racing driver, who is being tortured and threatened by your sort of like East End Cockney gangster. Yeah, John Bernfield, very plain, cruncher block. Incredible game. Spot up. This is one thing I love about anime and anime adaptations is you keep the names and the

names are great. So CrunchyBlock's deal is that he's like a race fixer. He is the organized crime in the link between organized crime and racing. And he like threatens Tyger's sister because he had been fixing Tyger's races and now Tyger wants to go his own way. And obviously you don't quit organized crime when you're useful to them. And so he like threatens some of the big tank of piranhas. At which point?

And then we get two reveals and very swift succession, which both of which are fucking beautiful. First of all, we meet race car Batman. Yep, that's what I also wrote. Which a phone goes off. I get perfectly taken out, snifed by my own bullshit. I'm like, that says, Fulkspiltsai on the fucking card in the middle of the phone. That's an East German phone. And then I go and read about East German telephones for a couple of hours.

I remember this, which is why it takes you three hours to watch a half hour movie these days. I estimate for like two to three times the running length. Yeah, I have a list of questions. I estimate for like, you know, two to three times the running length. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Car Bat man shows race car bad man bearing down upon these guys. And we get the perfect reveal that this entire sequence thus far has taken place in a lorry.

Yeah. Very great. It's great. Fucking loved that so much. The various boys like open to like concealed firing ports on the walls and start shooting out at car batman With you have a car batman given that you know sometimes regular batman is car batman, but it's very very specifically car batman It's a it's razor axe played by Matthew Fox. That's right. Yeah, he's got a big X on his on his race. Yeah, fuck yeah, baby. This is his guns on his car like he's 14. This is your

car. Yeah, it's very cool. And and and Razer X successfully like carfights them into kicking Tyger out of the truck and rescues him. And then they have a fight on the road because Tyger is like, I'm doing this for revenge because they're trying to destroy my family's independent racing company. And car Batman is like, no, you got to do this for justice or not at all. And he just leaves his ass there. Yeah, sick. do this for justice or not at all. And he just leaves his ass there. Yeah, sick. Speed talks to Trixie, who is now like grown and is now Christina Richie about whether or not he should take this offer. And she's like down atrocious. She's like, I don't care. Shut up. Why aren't you fucking me right now?

Yeah. Well, she also says like, I do like racing more than me. She wants to be his like official official girlfriend. And he's like says, like, I do like racing more than me. She wants to be his like official, official girlfriend. And he's like, but like, you know, there might be fans at the red carpet event. And like, if we have our photo taken together, we might figure out who you are. And like, you've got to help people like maintain a parosocial relationship.

Yeah, exactly. And also, like, he's setting up her character arc for later, which is, she's like, you know, great. If I could be with you when you win the trophy, I want to be there and I kiss you in the winner's circle and he's like, yeah, that could be cool. Let's fucking this car. Oh wait, there's a chimp. Then there was a chimp. There's a chimp locked in the trunk.

Oh my god. Oh my god. I want to do that. It's like a start of no-pe immediately. There's all of a sudden. You're all chimp. I want you to know that child's dead. That chimp is chimp.

I want to know. He's anymore. Yeah. I want you to know that child's dead I want I want you to know that this movie has an Unacceptable racing from the American humane association the people who do the no animals were harmed in the makeup of this production Animals were harmed in the makeup of this production and one of the reasons one of the ways in which animals were harmed in the making of this production is that one of the stunt chimps Bit sprytle and the trainer beat the chip That's not that is true. That's not right. It is like a star. No fuck Imagine a train for the movie speed racer by the wachowski

You get a fucking or these home situation Abused a chip in order to make the movie speed racer And that's really funny because the chimps doesn't need to be there. What like, there's no impact on the story whatsoever. Yeah. It could have been played by like a CGI dog in a movie. You could have had like, oh, as Frightle has like a toy chimp that he carries around with him. It's just like a long time. It's an point. By the way, it's a real

chimp. You're a, you're a crush of blocks, piranhas that I mentioned in passing. I thought those piranhas were CGI, right? The other, the other American humane association, unacceptable incident is they just killed five piranhas, like real ones, and they don't know how to like to this day. Oh my god. They found like, like they got done pulling the trainer off of the ship.

And then they went back in the big time. Sure, Connery was training that ship. And he could have went in with the ship. Just five fun dead piranhas. She says, that's unacceptable. But that's unacceptable. But that is true. Oh fuck me, fuck me sideways.

That is unbelievable. Well, gentlemen, it's not funny when an animal gets harmed. However, it's kind of funny. It's it's conceptually, it's kind of funny. It's it's conceptually it's conceptually funny and practically horrifying the reality of the situation is horrendous. Yes, yeah, but when you say the chimp bit a child actor and then the train of beat the chimp that's just the novelty of it being able to say that sounds. But it's a shimp or something. So speed. God.

Speed goes to meet Royalton. I think about my offer. And he's like, I just and and speed is this sort of like corn fed. I want to use this like a desk. I really want to talk about there's a scene that is a meeting between Royalton and Mr. Mousho is the CEO of a different company. He's played by Hiroyuki Senada, who is the exact guy you cast when you want this exact character.

Wasn't he in Cyberpunk 2077? He's in a lot. He gets fucking work and he deserves it. But the shot, the scene, is a conversation between these two men where they plot doing, I don't know, like monopoly, right? They plot doing core-priced shit. It is shot so bafflingly.

These two people are stood next to each other and the way that the conversation happens is that their faces are sliding by the screen in different directions like up, down, sideways. It's just wild. It really sells, it really sells the concept to a scene, right? How would you put this together? Shot reverse shot, full, moron, imbecile. The Wachowskis, they know what they're fucking doing. Everyone is sliding in different ways,

in different angles and it gets across the sense a little better than shot reverse shot would. Not much, but a little better. I don't know what the fuck that plan is anyway. Speed goes to me. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so and he says, thank you for the offer. It's very generous, but I'm gonna have to respectfully decline at this time. And Rolton activates total valve mode. Speak talks about how racing is his art. It's his almost religion and this big corporate sponsors,

this sort of get in the way of the art, he feels. So you know, respect everybody wants to say independent and the world didn't go as art. At this know, respect everybody wants to say independent and yes, the world and go as well. At this point, an enormous Mercedes logo descends from the ceiling and Rosen goes, listen here, you little shit. I'll kill you. First of all, second of all. Hey, I will fucking destroy you. I you are meddling with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Biel. And so he explains to him, racing is fixed. It has always been fixed. It has been fixed in order to control corporate interests. It is like in order to like arrange stock

buyouts and takeovers and things like this and the result of the Grand Prix No thing that you were really invested in the thing that you like all of your heroes come from Like all of your narratives of like battle and stuff that we did that was that wasn't like an accounting transaction all of that was like done in order to like, you know, raise raise graph lower graph You're a moron do us your told otherwise. I'll kill you and you're entire family. Yeah, and it goes so hard It's like it's like Bishemi in spy kids. It's like you drop this out of this movie into something else It belongs in fucking network But he is.

He is, right. He's the villain of the film. But he does make the point. And I think it's almost the exact line. It's just like industry built racing. Like there would not be a racing. All this talk like art and religion. Like this whole thing that you do would not exist

were it not for these like, capitalists. And it was at this point that I've realized this film was a lot cleverer than I thought because this film is about making films. This is the film that the Witchhouse users made after the Matrix, which was their like big successful make-do, anything one. And they released this thing, this like statement, which is about trying to make art in a very corporate environment, and like the compromises we have to make and the difficult decisions that have to be made in the light of that. And I, this is the scene where I realised that.

I was like, oh, fuck, that's actually quite good. Yes. Race a pill, baby, I fucking knew this. I was psyched stick with it. Trust me. Most interesting bits of this film are the bits where nobody's racing. The racing, I was bored honestly. It looks weird, I don't like it. The scenes where the characters just talk to each other about the themes of the film. Great, love it, fantastic.

Mm-hmm, it's beautiful. It reminds me a lot of the first third of the Matrix 4, and then the latest one, where they're talking about the legacy of the Matrix, and Nio is being forced to remake the Matrix again and again by Warner Brothers, and I'm like, oh, oh fuck, they've been dealing with these themes throughout the last 20 years of their careers. This is really good shit. Why on how trans women interested in authenticity and things of this nature?

Very strange. The idea of having to perform certain things. Anyway, so yeah, it gives the big evil speech, which is great. And he keeps the wreckage of a car from a guy who got killed in order to like advance one of these stock maneuvers in his office as a reminder. And he's like, don't touch his side of it. He's like, that's my religion. It's really good. Really so. And we sort of tipped off touch his side of it. He's like, that's my religion. It's really good. Really so.

And we sort of tipped off to a seriousness of this before the scene even starts to play out because Speed Racer arrives on the private jet that's been sent to pick him up. And he's met on the on the helipad by Jeannie. And the shot is from behind Jeannie at about floor level, so you only see her shoes and like the bottom half of her legs, but it still communicates emotion because she's tensing and untensing them the entire time. So you're like, all right, what's like, what's on her mind? I think it's, I think it's good. That's my next speech. So speed goes to the next race where now of course everything has been sort of bought against him and so you know people are looking at him in the locker room the second he gets into

the race everyone tries to sabotage him. And ultimately they. He is like forced out of the race as like I did not finish. One of the other races uses an illegal gadget called a spear hook and like totally fucks him up. And then the race are family are given like frivolous lawsuits which don't go anywhere but it like damages their reputation. Yeah, absolutely. In the locker room afterwards he meets one of his heroes, Ben Burns, one of the, like, Grand Prix drivers. Yeah, I wish. And he's like, I talked specifically about that race because that's speed's entire motivation is that one night after his brother had run away and was in the process of being killed

by the mob, him and his father, pop just watched this like, all the scrum-prey, and it was watching that together that like really reignited both of their love of the whole game and itself. And part of Royalton's thing is, none of that, grumpy specifically, was bought and I can tell you every detail of it. So when he meets this guy who was the winner in this locker room and he goes, is it true? He gives a sort of non-answer but one that we're supposed to take to mean yes. And it shatters it. Like, yeah.

Also, racer acts is there in this race and tries to help out speed unsuccessfully. Yeah. So at this point, he goes home and Susan Sarandon tries to give him like a pep talk Susan Sarandon gives us one of those scenes was like just in case you missed the theme of the film She calls speed You're an artist about art and when I see you making your art I take my breath away and you know I'm just so proud of you and you've got to find the motivation to keep going. Yes. You have to continue to create art even under sort of like a corporate governor.

Even though this even though this film bombed speed you make good art and you will make good art again Lily and Lennon. Which is the movie sucking itself off a bit. But I will say it's coherent. It's a coherent theme. It's a little bit baby's first theme, isn't it? Really, I mean, I don't see many films doing this, but then Ray Sir X arrives. Watch the entire filmography of Justin Benson and Aaron Moherd.

I think you're genuinely like this. It's a type of similar thing. Yeah, the next plot point knocks on the door. And this is Car Batman, face or ex, along with, he's brought inspectors and a gasser with him. That's right. He's called Inspector Custer, which, first of all, hell yes. Yes he is.

You got to, yeah, Inspector Ditex. Not sure why he dresses like French pedophile, but okay. Just dressed like some moaned above. Why would he talk about that? And they're like, no, racing, racing. You've been talking shit on Twitter. Sick of your shit Simone. That's right. So, inspecting the sentence is like, no, it's crazy how all of this, all of this, like, most of us is linked to organized crime.

We need you to infiltrate this shit, because Tijoto, the guy who we saw getting kicked out of the truck earlier, he is racing in, like, not the sort of formula one, not the regular racing, you know, but sort of like cross country rally. And we need you and racer X to go and like keep him out of trouble because they're going to try and kill him. And pops finds out about this and fucking goes in on rallying as a sport. Really racing is a back alley sport filled with jackals, headhunners and thugs. And a lot of Finnish people who incidentally control the media. My fan for part of this scene is that racer X just has a gun, just to straight up like

actual gun on his hip. And I'm like, oh shit. Yeah, in this world of like cartoon junk soars and shit. It's just carrying like a block like a car driver, man It's like a fucking like I've forgotten the name of every single Tumaca whatever that guy maybe what if he just rolled around the place of a fucking gun the entire time somebody jacks Racer X's car that's his whole career, isn't it? Like he's gonna on the entire time. That's somebody jacks racer X's car. That's his whole career, isn't it, Maggie? He's got a bad temper.

So, so he goes to talk to Trixie again and Trixie is because Pop's forbids him to go because he's not going to lose like two sons to the same race. So speed race that goes and he talks to Trixie about him. Trixie's like, why don't you just light your family? He's like, yeah, okay, that's a good idea. We pretend that we're going on vacation and then we enter the race. They like outfit the car with a bunch of gadgets. Q in this is again, 11 out of 10, smoke show, baddie because women, it's called minks by

the way. It's great. We also see that the race is launched by the queen of the country that it's in who is also an 11-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o'-o-o-o'o-o-o-o'o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- team and the teams here are sort of like if you've seen the movie the worries right yeah they're all themed there's like a Viking one yeah the teams are so good every shot of the gangs what cruncher is bribing has the most like me and the boys energy of all time like the Viking one is so good because it's just again these guys are race car drivers that's their job. I like all in a fucking mead haul, eating like elk or some shit. They're very committed to the bit. And everyone else gets bribed with cash and they get bribed with fur pelts,

which I really like. But yeah, stay looking good warriors, real good. All of these teams are like bought out against them and like attack them one by one. Speed and racer X work together really really well in order to defeat them. Despite how well they work together, so this rally has three races and they don't win the first one. But two things I noticed here. First of all, the racing of this sort of like Lego playset at this point. Yeah, very visually.

I didn't know where I'm from Lego play sets even. Second of all, honestly, how come they never cast Matthew Fox's Batman is my question, because it went through a kind of a follow period when he was like up and like, Yes, bad timing. I guess Christian Bayer ended up, yeah. He's doing lost, I guess. Yes, about time. I guess Christian Bayer landed up. Yeah, he's doing lost, I guess. But so at this point, we get some domestic comedy, the upshot of which is Pop's finds out that against his wishes, speed is like in this race. That's right. The ship's watching TV or some shit.

Doesn't it? Whatever. Yes. Yeah. And so they go and confront them. We get a hint of the most obvious twist in the world about racer X when speeds like, hey, wait a second. Well, speed just says it. Speed's like racer X. Yeah, he's like, yeah, you're quite clearly my brother, aren't you? And he's like, no. No, no.

At least it didn't drag it out. Because immediately as soon as Matthew Fox was here, I was like, oh, that's obviously, that's obviously right. So it's kind of cool that like 40 minutes into the film, the speed's just like, I know you might rather than we do. So, so we get the thing where pops is mad, but like he ultimately like gets over it. We get a long, weird John Goodman grunt. Also, when they're arguing Susan Sarandon love calls her own husband,

pops, which is fucking. Yeah, that's weird. Shit. That's weird, actually. And then they all got a bed right after pops is agreed to work on the fucking car. And they steal a bit from you only left twice. Yeah, because an ninja.

Yeah, yeah, an ninja breaks into Tycho's room and like drips poison down a wire into his mouth, which is from you only left twice. They break into try and attack speed. And we get some surprisingly good fight choreo. Yeah, this this probably remember that these women made the matrix because Matthew Fox does some like pretty good fucking kung fu against this car to genuinely like remarkably good for a children's movie. The chimp is either slacking or just loves human on human violence because he watches this ninja fight like three people he could tear it apart and Sprite on the chimp to fight that one in there. It's my nose say it's not funny

That's my note regarding everything that Sprite will have a chimp do I know we haven't mentioned them at all during the that the really pivotal emotional scene earlier with the the villain's speech It's just cutting back and forth to Sprite and the fucking chip earlier with the villain's speech, it's just cutting back and forth to sprout in the fucking ship. And it's like fuck them. They're doing some spryngana. Yeah. So John, John Goodman suplexes and ninja. But, by the way, when, when Trixi runs into this scene, Trixi and Susan Sarandon run into the scene from the same room, Susan Sarandon, who calls her husband Pops, is sleeping in the same room as Trixie and not the same room as her husband although they have separate rooms

Yeah, I'm just I'm just curious. I just want to know what sparking sleeping. That's what I want Yeah, he moves around yeah The romance in the film is like very very chased I don't think I don't think anyone really has sex in the speed race You know the closest we get to it is when Trixie sees speed in a suit and he runs, goes hubba hubba and that's the only hint we get of sex. He says cool beans the most hornedly anyone has ever said it, which is weird. I didn't pull the clip but you know it's that. Yeah so a John government suplexes an engine and kicks him out the window. Focci goes, oh my god was that an engine?

Which, you know, next to come in, Trixie, follow up, Lion. Terrible what passes for a ninja these days. Which again, sounds racist when you clip it. I swear to God, he's a good character in the movie. He just sounds really, really. The outcome of this is that T-Jote is alive, but he can't race because he's drugged. Yeah, he's drugged.

So Tricksie takes his place. And we get us sort of like, surprisingly insightful thing, which is everyone's a feminist until it's a woman doing his job. Speed racer is like, oh yeah, no, it's, I totally, when I said it was fine for you to race with me, I definitely meant that I wasn't just saying this, like, obviously fuming the whole time. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm like, I got, we'll snake oil. I'll try us to take out, Trixie and speed like kicks his ass. Yeah. Would you give it? Just give it this line. Now the clubs are often there pounding one another. So, yeah, they can get like stalled in like a dead spot of the cameras where the speed once again goes, hey, you my brother and racer X racks goes no, they get held up by cruncher again. I know it's safe fighting. I'm bored.

Yeah, my notes is one 1619 first direct acknowledgement of the chimp. Yeah, someone's like that's a chimp and I'm like, Oh my god, they could see it too. Oh my god, they could see it too. Thank god. CruncherBot gets a chimp, shit thrown in his face, and it remains there for the rest of the scene. The race continues into the same turns where Rex was killed. Speed goes over the cliff, but then he drives up the other side. I might as say a bad guy just uses a fucking gun.

Yes, take all the decides to abandon the use of gadgets and just like stop. Oh, just buy it. Yeah, as well as like the final car gadget gun. All of the bikes have been pressing. I fuck it. I got a blog. Yeah. So, uh, Tejo switches back into the car now. He's well enough to drive. They win Tajo immediately betrays them. Yes. Because like he and his dad in it to just drive up the price at which they get bought out, but they're still going to let themselves be bought out. And it's only his sister who is like.

Ten out 10 special Haruka who is yeah, ten out 10 small show, his sister who is like. Ten out, ten. Spatial Haruka. Yeah, ten out, ten. Spatial Haruka, who is not into this and we see her being like, I'm going to like fix this. Speed is really upset. racer x jacers him down and then because you've got to keep making art. For God's sake, are you my brother and he takes off the helmet to reveal a different guy and they're like, I guess he's like, no, I'm genuinely not your brother was just killed. I have a different face. I'm not him.

But he says, you know, you could have kept making art even though corporations will try and fuck you over. Because that's the theme of the film, Speed Racer. And then we get some fucking character growth from John Goodman, Speed Racer. Yes, I love this scene. I love this scene. I love this scene. It's on poetry, rhymes, right? John Goodman's like, I'm not gonna make the same mistake

I did with your brother. Like, I love you, I'm proud of you, whatever happens. You can always come home and speed stuff. It's good, yes. Because John Goodman's character has realized that like he's had all this time. and he's essentially come to a conclusion that kids are gonna want to leave home no matter what the only thing that he can change about this is his own attitude towards it So he just he just like reassures speed that he will always love him and that if he leaves without door he can come back

Anytime and it will be essentially what happens is John Goodman has been sitting up watching everything everywhere all at once finishes watching that movie and it's like right time to do some fucking parenting boys. Life's precious. Okay, I love you dearly. You can't cling onto your family forever. It does a great job in this yet. It's fucking great. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, it's really good. I wrote it's good in full caps twice, actually. Yeah. Again, the good bits of this film are where the characters just sit down and do some good acting with each other.

Yeah, the cars are so. So, Heruco shows up and just like, I have in a sort of contrived way, I have tied her invitation to the thing if you take this because you won and the thing you can get into the grompry. Yeah, he was gonna turn it down anyway. So it's not like, it's not, there's no stake story. And you're like, I cool things. So John Govman's like, all right, fine.

You, me, the American family, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are gonna out compete, you know, woke gay. These motherfuckers had no idea. The BMW, the Mercedes family and Australia. Yeah. So that's fucking, that's coming. Yeah.

Yeah. They built a new car. They built a new, they built a new car and like, yes. And like he enters, to be the enters the race. We get on the starting grade as he forces his way in. We get an emotional sparky moment. Sparky completes his character. We get a sparky as like.

I couldn't have done it without you. Well, just think of me when you, by the way, because this is a children's movie, they don't have champagne when they win. They have a glass of ice-cold milk. Yes, they do, which is a really fucking fun. It's like an exam in the milk. Just got to let that one go.

Not everything happens to me. That's a nice thing. Just remember me when you're drinking the ice cold milk. Just remember me when you're drinking that milk baby and I'm like, yes, holding hands with Christina Ricci. Who would be dressed quite modestly for some of the women in the in the winter circle? Yeah, we get maximum wipes at this point. Yeah, we do. Because what we're trying to convey is, all eyes are on speed racer. Fucking, Roy Wilson doesn't expect him to be there.

And so on, he is. Everyone is shocked. And so we get a wipe of fucking every fucker in this movie across the screen. And it's really pretty. Pretty sure the chip is in there. of fucking every fucker in this movie across the screen. And it's really pretty, pretty sure the chip is in there. The way the movie wants to tell you that everyone's looking at speed racer is to get like 10 different

commentators to all go, everyone's looking at speed racer. And just like slide them across the screen. Very true to the cartoon, which was very, it's obvious. Like it's an effective anime adaptation, certainly. I'm not saying that. Like I said, I didn't like it's an effective anime adaptation certainly. I'm not saying that. Like I'm saying I didn't like it. Whirton's built a new car, which is like a super car, and Cannonball Taylor's gonna be driving it,

which is gonna be it, it should have been better. And he's put, yeah, and he's put a speed, a spear hook in it. So, Taylor's like a final thing, be like, cheap, you know? And Taylor's like, if you can't, I don't need a fucking spear hook to beat this kid. And Twitch Walters like, hey,'t, why don't you need a fucking spear hook to beat this kid and Twitch Reuters like, hey, okay, then don't use it. Still put on the fucking guard. Yeah, shut the fuck up. He also, he offers like a million dollar bounty to like the race who takes speed racer off the board

They race, you know, you know how it is This is it's structured a lot like a video game. Yeah speed has to use all of the sort of like previous knowledge He's accumulated did Use every car he faces he faces off against cannonball Taylor who he outraces to the point that Taylor is forced to use. This is the only time anyone in the film swears. Speed says, get that weak shit off my track. And I'm like, oh, oh, yeah, it's sick. Actually, one for the 12 year olds in the audience. We shit. The learned a new word watching this movie.

And so the Mark Six is disabled. And it breaks down. Sparky doesn't know. No, sorry, the thought that happens. So Taylor uses the spear hook. So he's latched a speed sky. I trust the cheat. And speed uses his gadgets to flip his car over in front of the CCTV cameras. So everyone sees on the underside that the spear hook's used and it also causes Taylor to rack out. So everyone like sees that Royalton is cheating and like shuns Royalton. But his car is totally knackered and won't start until he uses the car force like Rex. Yeah, and he pictures his brother guy. Remember, you've got to, you've got to listen to the car and it'll tell you what it needs. Yeah. And he does.

By the way, Sparky during this is doing some fucking like Star Trek engineering warp core shit trying to fix it. He's like thumbing through manuals and he's really doing a thing. So, you know, I don't know. He has nothing to this fucking move. It's a good thing. He's asking to be quiet so that he can listen to the car. This feels like shush.

Fuck up, man. I'm trying to listen to the car. At this point, we get something that I do like do like, which is speed sort of, he, he, this is, I would say a pretty fucking inventive, at least, attempts to convey the concept of being in the fucking zone, like being in the mindset, when you're in the mindset, like how I am when I'm podcasting. That's right. like being in the mindset, when you're in the mindset, like how I am when I'm podcasting. That's right.

Where you're like, you're seeing through time. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, well actually it is, it is kind of like that. And if we're like, because a futurist would explain this as an orgasm, right? He like transcends the barrier between man and machine. He like becomes sort of like a, a, both, and he understands why he races and everything else around him melts away, and it's just him and the car.

And so obviously, he's sick of wins the fucking race. That's underselling the way that they do this. It's like, I don't know. I didn't love it exactly, but I think it was sort of the triumph of this era of CGI. Yeah, I was excited. I loved it. Yeah, great time for it.

But he went, I don't know. They get to the winner's circle. There's a woman who's like standing in the back of the winner's circle. There's a woman who's like standing in the back of the winner's circle, who's just like a 12 out of 10 smoker body. She's just like a supporting artist. This film just has a lot of beautiful women just like standing around watching it, which, you know, great. I also like that. The, the, the Toa accounts become nice again. Yeah. They cheer for speed that I know. Well, we got what we wanted by his art, you know? Um, yeah.

Even the cynical guys who only create art to make money will actually see the value and the art that you create. Yeah, they go, this is a good film, actually. And I went, yeah. So racer acts leaves an inspector's coach on his way. It was like, did you tell him that you're really his brother and you had facial special math and fox vacations, so you're going to hide and leave the night and time. Fuck, I wrote down facial fox vacations, so it's really true.

I also stand with my face. Oh, we've got to stop hanging on. Oh, God. Yeah, this is Trixie in the winner's circle. It's the racer X thing is a sort of like curious, curious sort of morrow. It was interesting because first of all, they double bluffed the viewer, but second of all, because it's like, do you want to go back and get closure and meet with your family and review yourself? It's like, no.

No, it's maybe it was a mistake, but I don't live with it. I have my Matthew Fox now. Maybe the choice is wrong, but I made it. So that's about way fewer Christmas presents now. It's really good. Yeah, we get a kiss with Drexie with some curiously heart-shaped bouquet, which is nice. And then we get what I like to call the Chinese Fight Club ending. Are you familiar with the way that they end the movie Fight Club for distribution in

China? No. So it was censored in order to, like, because the original Andy a Fight Club is, you know, that they complete project mayhem spoilers, they blow up a bunch of, like, credit card company office buildings and like the revolution starts. This is unacceptable to the cens who has given fight club. And so they cut it off 10 minutes early and go, uh, yeah, he handed himself into the police who arrested everyone and it was fine. Um, remember to always report things to the police. That's

legitimately, it's, it's fully, that's the ending is there's a title card that's like, yeah, Tyler Dden like handed himself into the police and then they put him in a mental institution and he got out because they fixed him. Everything is fine. Basically the same thing, which is, yeah, this guy went to jail. Rowan goes to jail for like, what inspected asexited by the way calls about an hour earlier, capital corporate crimes which suggests to me that they're going to fucking exit capital offense. No, I think because there used to be a thing called the corporate death penalty which which

let's fucking return with a V to that which is if your corporation or your business does some things you should be bad the government just like says you can't be a corporation able and dissolves it Which we should bring back. Yeah, we should also bring back putting CEOs in jail. Mm. And just the regular death power isn't it? We should just bring back these motherfuckers with like a gun or something. Just Matthew Fox, just with the gun.

Just the final gadget gun. Yeah, last line of justice, Matthew Fox, the gun. And that's speed racing. I'll be honest, I've enjoyed talking about the movie speed racing a lot more than I enjoyed watching it. It has grown on me in that sense, but I'm not sure whether that's because I liked the movie more in hindsight or because I just love my friends.

I don't. It's two hours and 50 years, it feels it. It could have longer than you would. It could have been a child and chimpsies. Really. It wasn't like, it wasn't weird in any of the ways that interest me. It did some interesting things. I appreciate it sort of like, you know, art is necessary, anti-capitalist art is possible thing. I think

the fact that it was a commercial failure makes that more pointed. But I also don't think that if I think if we're doing a fair, critical rear-priced love, I don't think it's a good movie. I don't think it was that much fun to watch and I think maybe people missed the point, but you know, that's part of the point of it is that people were going to miss the point. I think you sort of like, you build that in, you know. I do. I think like the fact that it's so colorful and like childish and hyper. I think he's explained perhaps in part because one of the directors had recently come out, at least in her private life. And then you sell me this shit to the other side. This is loud. I was about to say this is the pink heels of

a vachon. I think it is okay. I think it's full of joy and sugar and excitement and like, yeah, let's go back and we're going to meet and we'll have a hyper time I think I think it is because it belongs to that like special phase of our trans almost life when she's you know quite recently come out and it's like playing catch up essentially on all the excitement and joy that we miss. As far as that kind of like as far as that kind of like bubble gum femininity stuff goes what I would say is fucking John Goodman is right you can always go back. You literally always can. And that's a, I don't know, I just wanted to throw that in there've been talking about speed racer essentially non-stop for what an advance for a year now.

And one person very specifically was like, I'm not going to be able to continue to get the bonus episode when the winter of content ends, but I will pay the moment they do speed racer. And I calculated that this is the last bonus episode before the winter of content ends, and I just wanted to give that a person for like years of support, a little something back to the Hawks in Generals. All right. And additionally, I do have a dispatch here from a friend of a show and all three hosts, Mattie Lepchanski, to just sort of break this tie here about what, whether Speed Race was a good movie or not, which is...

I agree with Devon, which is a beautiful little. So, it's, I think, because I'm the only one against that is now five votes of hosts of KJ. Well, I mean, you say that you're against it, but I happen to have a clip here as well that says, I agree with Davon. So I don't know about that. I think, Oh, no. You agree, you agree with me. And additionally, I think you agree with me because I have a very damaging clip of you speaking here that I will play if you don't come over to my,

my side of thinking speed racing rules that's what you have to pay for the bonus episode again now because we have to make art in the context of capitalism that's right and this is the first a large part of the sort of torture program at Guantanamo Bay was like based my bae was like based. Yeah, zero dark 30. Uh, this is bonus episode. Is it next? I think it's you, Alice. It's mine.

Yeah. All right, no more procrastination we are doing. No, we are. Pedro, our mode of our movie all about my mother or fucking else. That's the next one. You will have to pay for it. You want colourful, you will continue to get colourful. But in the meantime, we will be back with the next man from Uncle.

I mean, we'll see you next time. Thank you for listening to yet another episode of Kill James Bond. Next week on the free feed, it's the final of the uncles from the 60s. I don't remember the name of it. I would look it up, but I've realized right now while recording that that would be slightly annoying to do, so I'm just not gonna do that. But yeah, that's what you've got to look for too. So...

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