WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.500 Welcome to Sink Alike, a movie review and discussion podcast where opinions differ, but we all love to sink into our favorite movies and fandoms. 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:13.620 I'm your host, Adam Estock, and I'm joined by the harbinger of boom himself, William Gill. 00:00:14.040 --> 00:00:15.220 William, how are you doing today? 00:00:15.220 --> 00:00:16.220 Wait, I thought that was your title. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:18.340 No, no. Oh, you want it to be my title? 00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:20.580 I can be the harbinger of boom. 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:22.400 You will be Inspector Detector. 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:24.240 Inspector Detector, William Charles Gill. 00:00:24.360 --> 00:00:26.200 That's me. Welcome. I mean, hello everyone. 00:00:26.220 --> 00:00:26.940 It's good to be here. 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:28.120 And how are you doing today, William? 00:00:28.340 --> 00:00:29.360 I'm actually doing really good. 00:00:29.500 --> 00:00:35.960 I woke up at a solid 9.30, which is a lot better than usual because I have the morning shift now and I felt on top of clouds. 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:37.340 Well, I'm glad. Yeah. 00:00:38.100 --> 00:00:39.980 Well, how about you ask me how I'm doing today? 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:40.980 Okay, I can do that. 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:42.060 Adam, how are you doing today? 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:47.960 I'm doing great. I definitely woke up in the morning and I didn't know what time it was in the day. 00:00:48.120 --> 00:00:49.920 I was a little bit disoriented at first. 00:00:50.020 --> 00:00:58.640 I don't know why it's a Saturday when we're recording this, but I feel great now and I'm excited to record our first episode of the podcast. 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:00.260 Yeah, no, but like the third time as well. 00:01:00.700 --> 00:01:01.460 Oh yes, of course. 00:01:01.620 --> 00:01:02.400 Still the first episode though. 00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:06.120 Yes, we're not very good at recording podcasts yet. 00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:09.580 So this is actually the third take, the third try. 00:01:09.820 --> 00:01:13.460 We've tried to set this up with some other people and they couldn't make it today. 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:20.880 And we've tried to record a couple of different times, but it didn't feel completely natural and we went too long the second time. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:30.980 So we're going to try to keep it to a brief 30 to 40 minute episode this time anyone who's watching or listening you can of course see the time code as you click on the 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:32.440 episode we have to disclaim that 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:40.040 um i guess you'll you'll see how accurate we are to our um promise of uh 30 to 40 minute episode well we 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.100 should be pretty close because we're gonna get kicked out in about 40 minutes of the most so 00:01:43.100 --> 00:01:47.860 well today we're going to talk about speed racer from 2008 so 00:01:47.860 --> 00:01:54.120 excited i love this movie and this is this whole thing is completely my idea because I don't think you'd ever heard of Speed Racer. 00:01:54.260 --> 00:01:54.800 Had you before I mentioned it? 00:01:55.180 --> 00:02:00.860 I think I'd heard of Speed Racer a couple of times, but I didn't know what it was about. 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.180 I thought, I think I was confusing it with a different racing movie. 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:13.580 I didn't remember who it was, but like, I think there was a different racing movie that I was like, I thought that was Speed Racer, but I don't remember what it was. 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:15.540 To be fair, it is kind of a generic name, Speed Racer. 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:17.540 It could be interpreted to a lot of different movies. 00:02:17.980 --> 00:02:19.480 But no, this movie is very iconic. 00:02:19.720 --> 00:02:21.160 I hold it very close to my heart. 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:29.800 um but before we get into that i guess because this is the first episode we also wanted to do a little bit of a kind of introduction to who we are so that you can get to know us 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.440 better and the context of a movie because that's what we're going to be discussing yeah yeah 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:46.000 so i will do a brief introduction of ourselves and then we thought we could do two cold takes and a hot take which is uh the cold takes which is a highly movie rated a highly rated movie there 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.360 you go that you like, a lowly rated movie that you dislike. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:56.320 And then the hot take is a movie that you see a highly rated or lowly rated that you disagree with a public sentiment on. 00:02:56.480 --> 00:02:57.760 I like that. So I can start. 00:02:57.920 --> 00:02:59.020 I am Adam Estock. 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:00.660 I grew up in Washington. 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:08.560 And William and I, we both were raised and served to the same mission together in Japan. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.800 But then we came back and now we're college students. 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.520 And we both love movies. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:14.400 We both love TV. 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:19.420 and we thought this would be a fun thing just get our opinions out there you know yeah no 00:03:19.420 --> 00:03:27.420 I mean so we both met in Japan in the same apartment and we just had a lot of fun talking about the most random crap poop shack the poop shack as we call it or the Shibuya shack is 00:03:27.420 --> 00:03:30.960 it's officially known also unofficially by us we've 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.460 been torn down since no 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:42.000 it's still there is what's on oh really apparently they still own actually the mission still owns it they just don't do anything with it sadly but um yeah no we decided hey this is pretty fun people always liked 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.100 you know we always liked discussing these things and so we're going to get started with well 00:03:46.100 --> 00:03:59.520 my my hot my two cold takes yeah go for it a highly rated movie that i like i'll put in another racing movie i really like ford versus ferrari i know you haven't seen it but i a lot 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:12.600 of maybe listeners have seen it it is a racing movie with i believe it's matt damon and christian bale and it's based on a true story of like a i think it's a grand prix race or india 500 00:04:12.600 --> 00:04:25.460 or something it's like the ford versus ferrari story and it's this crazy underdog story and it's it's really good i love it a movie that i dislike i guess we might talk about it in a future episode but 00:04:25.460 --> 00:04:37.420 one of my least favorite movies and i know this might be a hot take maybe it's not the box trolls the box trolls uh we have talked about this earlier this is a like animation movie and i don't 00:04:37.420 --> 00:04:53.780 want to poo poo on like animation because there are a lot of there are a lot of bad movies made cheaply by big companies that feel very inauthentic the buckstrolls feels like an authentic vision but it's not the 00:04:53.780 --> 00:05:05.980 authentic it's it was just a bad vision it just is completely not for me and okay it's it's hard to be like oh you people you stop motion animators who took so much effort and time into your movie 00:05:05.980 --> 00:05:14.720 i don't like it just it's just gross to me i just shouldn't like the plot and the characters and the animation creeped me out when i was a kid and so it wasn't for me 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:23.460 that's usually that's like a that's unacceptable to me is when the animation or whatever about it turns it off like as a kid those things those movies always creep me out until you grow up and then you realize 00:05:23.460 --> 00:05:25.360 a good movie is like monster house is one of them oh 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:38.280 yeah i love monster house i'm gonna be starting on that a movie that i disagree with the public take my hot take i really enjoy cars three okay i think a lot most people love Cars and I think 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:50.500 it's pretty divided but a lot of people enjoy Cars 2 even if they don't think it's the best movie ever I genuinely enjoy Cars 3 I think it's a really good sequel to Cars 1 I think that 00:05:51.700 --> 00:06:05.400 I think it's a really good arc for Lightning McQueen character and I love what they did with Doc Hudson and they moved the characters forward and maybe it's not the best sequel that we could have gotten but I 00:06:05.400 --> 00:06:07.360 think it's genuinely a good movie. 00:06:07.940 --> 00:06:12.240 Interesting. Okay, well, I don't have any strong opinions on it, so I'll let you... 00:06:12.820 --> 00:06:15.020 I'll let you like Cars 3. 00:06:15.080 --> 00:06:15.920 I won't shoot you down there. 00:06:16.180 --> 00:06:18.120 Okay. Well, I'm going to introduce myself. 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:19.840 I'm William Gill. I'm from the UK. 00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:23.120 I was raised in North Wales in this little loony town. 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:25.360 And now I'm living here in the States. 00:06:27.080 --> 00:06:28.440 We've already explained how we met each other. 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:32.880 I guess just to jump into it, my cold takes are not super interesting. 00:06:33.320 --> 00:06:43.420 Frozen 2. that was a movie that I was not looking forward to I didn't anticipate it very much and when it came out I watched it and I kind of forgot about it the next day it was just 00:06:43.420 --> 00:06:52.520 kind of a nothing movie to me and I'm not super excited that Frozen 3 is coming out but also they could turn into something good so we'll see what happens there Toy Story 1, 00:06:52.660 --> 00:06:57.260 fantastic movie I love Toy Story 1 and I feel like most people would agree with that 00:06:58.280 --> 00:07:10.380 I think it has that 100% on Rotten Tomatoes which just means doesn't mean it's everyone thinks it's 100 but 100 of people think it's above a 50 percent yeah is that what rotten tomatoes means yeah it's it's 00:07:10.380 --> 00:07:19.840 how it's not the it's not what people think it's percentage wise it's how what percentage of people think this is a good movie or a bad movie i did not fun fact yeah wow 00:07:19.840 --> 00:07:29.020 okay well well i don't i don't trust rotten tomatoes because of its score for speed racer but in any case my hot take my hot take and this is like the the one i always go to was just 00:07:29.020 --> 00:07:31.920 that interstellar for me was a very forgettable movie 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:46.360 hot tickler okay it was yes william and i disagree on this uh if anyone just heard his opinion and was like how dare you i feel the same way i love interstellar i i will defend christopher nolan until 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.980 he makes a bad movie and i don't anticipate that happening in the next 50 years 00:07:50.980 --> 00:07:55.520 uh okay i we're gonna have to move on because I will rant about it. 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:56.300 Of course, of course. 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:57.420 But that's my all take. 00:07:57.980 --> 00:08:03.880 So I guess if you think the Interstellar is a good movie, then stick around for my opinions. 00:08:04.180 --> 00:08:06.920 And if you think it's a bad movie, then stick around for William's opinions. 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:07.480 Thumbs up this episode. 00:08:07.860 --> 00:08:09.900 You know, like and share. Subscribe. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.500 Okay, well, let's get into... 00:08:12.500 --> 00:08:13.580 Speed Racer. Speed Racer. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.760 We're going to start with a little bit of spoiler-free reviews. 00:08:17.420 --> 00:08:20.560 Spoiler-free, yeah. Of course, it's a movie from 2008. 00:08:20.980 --> 00:08:23.420 So if you haven't seen it, it's kind of on you. 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:34.980 like it's it's been a while but we'll spoiler free we'll just talk about the plot very surface level and we'll kind of let you figure out your own opinions if after that we're going to talk about spoilers a 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:41.260 little bit if you want to stick around for that part of the episode you're like it came on in 2008 i had my chance i don't disclaimers i've seen 00:08:41.260 --> 00:08:49.100 it i don't think this is a sort of movie where if you understand the plot it will in any case decrease the value of watching the movie like even if you already knew the entire movie going into it 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:49.860 i feel like you'd you'd 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:59.760 really and that's essentially what you gave me um for for context speed racer is william gill's favorite movie would you say that it's at least one of your 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:04.740 favorites yeah i don't have a one favorite movie it's on my list of like five seven favorite movies yeah 00:09:04.740 --> 00:09:16.260 yeah and so he was like you need to see speed racer i'd never heard of it and so he described to me the plot of speed racer um and i was like okay that sounds interesting enough and i 00:09:16.260 --> 00:09:29.220 watched it when uh i watched it like a month or two ago and i thought it was all right i thought it was pretty good but not amazing and then i thought about it some more and i talked 00:09:29.220 --> 00:09:43.900 to william some more and then i watched it with william about a week ago we watched it together in preparation for this podcast we can have some fresh and original fresh and like new perspectives new perspectives and it 00:09:43.900 --> 00:09:56.820 was a lot better than i gave it credit for i think the the visuals and the effects were very jarring for me as a start they're very over the top i would say they're very like so speed racers 00:09:56.820 --> 00:09:58.080 based on an anime and 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:10.520 the the effects reflect that if i can say that if you've seen like i don't know the live action one piece like it's kind of a little bit goofy a little bit corny but in that universe when you're 00:10:10.520 --> 00:10:11.680 ready for it fits 00:10:11.680 --> 00:10:20.280 yeah i was gonna say like the wachowski brothers did a fantastic job of catch capturing just the magic of anime, the whimsical nature of it in a live action movie, 00:10:20.380 --> 00:10:22.280 which I feel like is a very difficult thing to do, period. 00:10:22.460 --> 00:10:23.680 But they did it in 2008. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.200 This movie is directed by the Wachowskis. 00:10:26.420 --> 00:10:31.880 And they also made The Matrix, The Matrix 2, a couple other movies. 00:10:32.380 --> 00:10:34.220 I've only seen Speed Racer. 00:10:34.400 --> 00:10:37.220 And I think it's a pretty good entry in their lineup. 00:10:37.860 --> 00:10:39.140 I'm very glad for that. 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:42.900 But what do you think about Speed Racer? 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:43.800 Top level thoughts. 00:10:44.420 --> 00:10:55.660 top level thoughts i love it because of the visuals i love it because of the over-the-top story and the execution on it and its creativity the plot itself isn't anything that i'm like i would you know 00:10:55.660 --> 00:11:03.840 i wouldn't rave for this whole podcast about the plot the majority of it will probably be talking about other aspects of the movie that i like but what also turns it from a like a good movie to a 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:13.620 great movie is the fact that i think it does still have a very good plot like i enjoy the moral that it teaches and i think it does have a moral but it's just like coated in so many 00:11:13.620 --> 00:11:19.500 layers of just delicious enjoyment oh it's so fun this movie is just really fun to watch yes 00:11:19.500 --> 00:11:23.300 of course um top level plot why don't you give that okay so the plot 00:11:23.300 --> 00:11:27.620 so basically it's based off to pitch it like actually I wrote this down Netflix's 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:29.920 speed racer did Netflix make no they should 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:35.380 not they're not involved we had to rent it it's not on any streaming service it's not 00:11:35.380 --> 00:11:46.140 not anything I watched it the first time I watched it was for free it showed up on youtube for free for just a tiny bit and i watched it and it was great but then we watched it on 00:11:46.140 --> 00:11:50.440 not youtube and i discovered that youtube does make the visuals look worse yeah 00:11:50.440 --> 00:12:04.400 youtube's compression is actually terrible in any case so this is my 10 second kind of plot line so the famous racer family's middle son speed yes his name is speed racer first name speed last name racer and the 00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:17.060 racer family are also in the racing business of course he wants to be the greatest racer of all time and he's supported by his family but big corporate baddies and corruption get in the way of his innocent talent yeah 00:12:17.060 --> 00:12:28.000 that oh that's very good did you did you get that off of google no i wrote that oh wow that was all stretched off my head corporate baddies yeah i didn't interesting mr oylton i didn't i didn't know 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.900 i didn't know that's how you felt about him he's 00:12:29.900 --> 00:12:33.640 a baddie he's a baddie for sure sorry that's a british term you wouldn't get it 00:12:33.640 --> 00:12:40.420 oh really in america it means something a little bit you know what it means in america okay great that's amazing uh 00:12:40.420 --> 00:12:42.660 but it's still in my mind batty just means bad guy 00:12:42.660 --> 00:12:44.080 okay that's awesome 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:50.920 okay so that's that's like the 10 second full line but basically so speed racer his older brother rex racer and 00:12:50.920 --> 00:13:05.060 if you're thinking these names sound a little bit corny the harbinger of boom inspector detector those are also names from a speed racer his father what's his name pops his name is his mom Mom Racer. 00:13:05.280 --> 00:13:06.800 Other characters call her Mom Racer. 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:08.560 So that I can only assume it's her first name. 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.700 His younger brother is Spritell? 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.280 Spritell Racer. And then Chimp Chimp. 00:13:13.740 --> 00:13:14.760 Chimp Chimp is a monkey. 00:13:14.980 --> 00:13:16.500 So the racer family goes like this. 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:17.360 You have Pops and Mom. 00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:19.300 Then you have Rex Racer, the oldest brother. 00:13:19.760 --> 00:13:20.680 Speed Racer the middle. 00:13:21.180 --> 00:13:23.140 Spritell. It's completely random. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.480 Then you have Chimp Chimp who is Spritell's kind of like brother but he's actually a monkey. 00:13:26.700 --> 00:13:27.500 A chimpanzee or something. 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.480 Because this was based off of an animation. 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:30.340 Because it's based off an anime. 00:13:30.520 --> 00:13:35.300 And they also have two other characters that are just completely always present with the family. 00:13:35.540 --> 00:13:36.680 Do you want to introduce those two? 00:13:37.420 --> 00:13:40.040 Yes, those two are, is it Sparky? 00:13:40.280 --> 00:13:42.180 Yeah, Sparky is the mechanic. 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:44.400 Yes, and oh, Trix. 00:13:44.580 --> 00:13:51.640 Trixie, of course. Trixie is Speed Racer's girlfriend, and she, I guess she became his girlfriend as a kid. 00:13:52.200 --> 00:14:00.580 Speed Racer, it shows a lot of his flashbacks throughout the movie, and he's just like some doofus kid who's always thinking about racing, nothing but racing, 100% of the time. 00:14:00.820 --> 00:14:08.880 He's in class, and the teacher's like, oh what's two plus two he's like racing something like that 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:14.180 he's like using his all the paper the pages in his notebook to draw out like a race oh yeah animation 00:14:14.180 --> 00:14:23.740 but trixie is infatuated with him and they become like they start dating and so trixie is his girlfriend and she later becomes part of his pit crew but 00:14:23.740 --> 00:14:33.440 yeah she has the most egregious haircut as well it's actually ridiculous and i was watching it the girl was watching this she was like what is that is i never realized because I just, 00:14:33.460 --> 00:14:34.440 I thought she was hot 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:34.680 when I was little. 00:14:34.680 --> 00:14:35.580 As a kid, you're like, oh yeah. 00:14:35.860 --> 00:14:36.760 I was like, oh, she's beautiful. 00:14:37.020 --> 00:14:40.700 But I'm like, actually, if my girlfriend had hair like that, I would not allow that. 00:14:40.780 --> 00:14:42.200 Well, thank goodness you don't have a girlfriend. 00:14:42.620 --> 00:14:43.460 Thank you for that, Adam. 00:14:44.520 --> 00:14:46.080 You've been blessed by being single. 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:46.920 I know, I've been freed. 00:14:47.160 --> 00:14:50.300 You now have more time to do some racing on your own. 00:14:52.260 --> 00:14:55.980 What? Well, you can race now. 00:14:56.300 --> 00:14:57.060 I don't have a car. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:58.560 Oh, you don't have a car. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:14:59.940 Well, you can race in your little, 00:15:00.860 --> 00:15:02.380 so context for listeners. 00:15:02.380 --> 00:15:06.880 i'm crippled william gill is crippled not well i mean not permanently you broke your leg i 00:15:06.880 --> 00:15:08.320 yeah i broke my leg the first day and so 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.900 you have this little boot scooter sort of thing i have three 00:15:12.680 --> 00:15:16.780 modes of mobility i have a scooter a peg leg and crutches 00:15:16.780 --> 00:15:19.200 and if he's going down a hill that scooter goes crazy it's 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:25.680 actually really fast it's also terrifying because the whole thing does rattle and shake oh and randomly veers to the left or the right there is no control 00:15:25.680 --> 00:15:27.320 over it yeah it's uh it's pretty intense 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:34.220 sorry okay let's get back on on the actual on track here of course So his older brother, so Speed is the main character. 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.820 His older brother, when Speed was young, was one of the best racers. 00:15:38.300 --> 00:15:46.540 And he unfortunately strays from his family's advice and joins a rally, which are in this world really dangerous. 00:15:47.100 --> 00:15:49.380 And so his dad kind of disowns him. 00:15:49.580 --> 00:15:52.540 The clean-cut cross-country race. 00:15:52.640 --> 00:15:56.340 No, the clean-cut road races, the Grand Prix. 00:15:56.340 --> 00:16:08.220 the grand prix all those races are kind of the i guess the kosher races they're the everyone participates in them and it's like it's it's rough but it's fine and then there's like the cross-country races and the 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:10.960 rally races which are cheap yeah literally 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:19.520 like they'll throw beehives at each other they're well okay also more context for this racing this is not like normal racing whatsoever it's actually like fever dream yeah 00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:31.060 imagine it's it's very it's more similar to mario cart than oh that's good any other rate like everyone's slamming into each other and they have all these gadgets and gizmos on their car that cars can jump they can 00:16:31.060 --> 00:16:46.340 oh yeah they have springs on the bottom of the cars so they can launch themselves upwards into the air they have uh catapults with beehives in them beehives bricks spikes and whatever whatever anything you can imagine oil that 00:16:46.340 --> 00:16:47.380 can throw fish at people 00:16:47.380 --> 00:16:56.140 yes anything you can imagine that could be attached onto a go-kart that wouldn't make sense but would be really cool to like a seven-year-old that's in this movie 00:16:56.140 --> 00:17:04.340 and they'll actually like drive up walls that have spikes like coming out of the wall oh yes and again so these rallies are freaking insane and so rex he's like i wants to go on the rally race and 00:17:04.340 --> 00:17:12.720 his family disowns him and he ends up unfortunately crashing and his car is in an absolute inferno and his body can't be found yes 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:25.040 and it is very tragic he must be dead everyone's like oh no rex racer has died and so speed racer he has to grow up and he wants to race because he loves his brother and he loves racing 00:17:25.040 --> 00:17:32.580 ever since he's little and so he has to grow up and he wants to race but he also doesn't want to put rex racer in his shadow 00:17:32.580 --> 00:17:34.620 he doesn't want to diminish his brother's legacy and 00:17:34.620 --> 00:17:39.180 at the same time his brother um he got into a lot of trouble because 00:17:40.020 --> 00:17:54.240 one thing about how he got into rally racing is he started signing on with these bigger companies these people that were forcing him to be more more aggressive with his racing and more um wild and so his family 00:17:54.240 --> 00:18:02.220 is like speed racer says later in the movie like uh racing is like a religion and big companies are like the devil 00:18:02.220 --> 00:18:12.000 he does say that's one of my favorite bars especially who he says it too we'll introduce mr rollton in a minute but yeah rex racer dies speed racer grows up and his legacy is to like become the greatest 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.740 racer but then i love the intro scene to the movie um 00:18:17.100 --> 00:18:27.160 because it it shows how speed like he wants to race so bad and he's kind of doing the same racetrack that his brother was famous for and he had the world record for and he's about to beat the 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:34.900 record you see all the commentators and everyone watching and this is a huge event every country is tuned in online and they're like oh crazy he's gonna he's gonna win he's gonna be his brother's record and he can 00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:42.840 see rex's ghost it's kind of like mario kart when you're racing you see the yeah racing with him and he's like just in front of him he's going to beat the record and then last second he pulls off 00:18:42.840 --> 00:18:46.000 the accelerator and lets his brother zoom past so that he doesn't 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:49.060 beat his record and everyone just forgets about right yeah 00:18:49.060 --> 00:19:00.980 and that's that's the part that we disagree on the movie personally i think you should have just no i i it's i mean it's respectful to let rex keep the record but it's also respectful to be like yeah 00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:03.660 i'm your younger brother like i'm gonna beat the record if you're good if you can 00:19:03.660 --> 00:19:04.780 be alive you're not 00:19:04.780 --> 00:19:15.620 it worked better in the cars with lightning mcqueen stopped before the finish line like that was really good this one was like okay like you can you didn't you're not going to take away from your brother's legacy by 00:19:15.620 --> 00:19:21.180 beating him in a race because then your fame will start putting more eyes on his fame i just 00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:27.080 in my opinion i don't think that's true okay let's talk about mr royalson so the the main villain in this movie i guess twist 00:19:27.080 --> 00:19:31.700 villain not really a twist villain let's move into the spoiler let's move into the spoilers for now. 00:19:32.060 --> 00:19:33.360 Yeah. Okay. Let's just do it. 00:19:33.460 --> 00:19:35.700 From now on, we're going to talk spoilers in the movie. 00:19:35.860 --> 00:19:37.380 It came out in 2008. 00:19:37.780 --> 00:19:43.520 Also, if you're watching this episode, you clicked on an episode called Speed Racer, you've probably seen the movie. 00:19:43.660 --> 00:19:44.620 But if you haven't, 00:19:45.760 --> 00:19:48.600 then hopefully we can convince you to see the movie through these spoilers. 00:19:48.860 --> 00:19:53.180 And all of the spoilers we talk about as well are extremely foreshadowed and obvious. 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:54.000 I'm not going to lie. 00:19:54.100 --> 00:19:55.380 Oh, yes. This plot is... 00:19:55.380 --> 00:19:56.680 You figure it out immediately. 00:19:57.260 --> 00:19:58.460 It's a kid's movie. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:02.980 So everything is very foreshadowed you'll know so 00:20:02.980 --> 00:20:14.120 speed racer and his family um after this this race the introduction they get a knock on the door one day actually that's not even it they're having dinner breakfast they're having pancakes and then all of a sudden all 00:20:14.120 --> 00:20:17.680 of a sudden that's very important an earthquake occurs but 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:34.280 it's not an earthquake it is a jet landing in their yard and mr royleton a basically he's this very british villain sort of stereotype big business racer guy who's like i want to put you on my team and 00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:48.100 i want you to race for me speed racer and then he eats the family's pancakes and raves about how good they are and he gave speed racer and the family a tour of um a tour of royalton streets 00:20:48.100 --> 00:20:50.760 royalton motors royalton industries whatever it's called 00:20:50.760 --> 00:20:59.000 yeah and he says okay speed i'm going to fund you because i love you i love what you do and your family like you guys are just doing this on your own so i'm going to give you all 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:00.600 the money you want no strings attached 00:21:00.600 --> 00:21:11.280 yeah and he's like do you take the deal we were just like uh can i think about it and he's like maybe maybe wait till tomorrow to think about it well no it's funny 00:21:11.280 --> 00:21:21.840 because mr roland's like speed this isn't the sort of deal we i just give left right you know nilly um this is the sort of deal you either say yes now walk away and speed goes well in that 00:21:21.840 --> 00:21:28.820 case mr roilton i'm afraid i'm gonna have to say wait let's sleep on it it's like all right mr roilton he just he 00:21:28.820 --> 00:21:31.640 trying to do any method he can get to get speed racer to sign 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:33.280 this deal no strings attached but 00:21:33.280 --> 00:21:47.220 eventually speed racer goes back and says sorry like my family has our own little racing little race your motors sort of thing and then mr roilton is like you idiot like i'm the villain 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:55.880 uh biggest plot twist ever this is my favorite one of my favorite scenes in the movie um i think you could probably explain it better than i can but this whole time it's like in his big big office 00:21:56.340 --> 00:22:05.500 and the camera starts spinning around mr roilton when he just flips he's like okay you blithering idiots you're going to listen to me and at the end of this if you have any like inkling of sense in you're 00:22:05.500 --> 00:22:08.560 going to sign this paper and you're going to admit that everything I say is true. 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:09.680 And he starts talking. 00:22:09.800 --> 00:22:13.680 He's like, I'm going to give you another history lesson because he talked before then about how the Grand Prix is all rigged. 00:22:13.860 --> 00:22:16.140 But this history lesson is going to happen. 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:19.340 And he starts like describing what's going to happen to Speed Racer after this point. 00:22:19.500 --> 00:22:23.640 And as he starts describing this, we actually see it happen. 00:22:23.780 --> 00:22:25.860 This is something that's very interestingly done. 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:28.160 Speed Racer plays a lot with time. 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:31.200 In the beginning scene, we see the flashbacks as he's racing. 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:33.940 in this scene it's as Mr. 00:22:34.060 --> 00:22:47.060 Royalton's saying the things they start happening in reality which is a little bit disorienting if you're watching it for the first time but later it's like oh I'm glad we didn't have him say all the things and then 00:22:47.060 --> 00:22:59.340 have all the things happen that would have made the it would have ruined the pacing of this movie so he's like you're gonna lose terribly in Fuji yeah he's in Fuji you're gonna lose terribly in Fuji you're 00:22:59.340 --> 00:23:00.540 not even gonna finish the race 00:23:00.540 --> 00:23:14.000 everyone's gonna everyone's gonna bump you around and you get thrashed around by the other racers because they'll play dirty and he does and then your family's gonna get hit with a lawsuit and even if it's not true your 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:27.580 family's gonna name is gonna be tainted you're like oh now racer and just now racer motors whatever their yeah name is they're gonna be uh publicly shamed and defamed and it's gonna be horrible 00:23:27.580 --> 00:23:37.820 yeah and we're watching we're watching all of this happen and then he's still ranting and then the camera's like spinning around him as um as it fades into these flash forwards and then it flashes back and speed is 00:23:37.820 --> 00:23:42.280 looking at him and he picks up his his bag and everything and he leaves yeah he doesn't accept the deal and 00:23:42.280 --> 00:23:57.200 so all of this happens and it's very tragic now there's a shift after that because speed racer feels very disheartened after he's like oh turns out that the big businesses can just do whatever they want and And the 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:59.700 Grand Prix is fixed, and it's all terrible. 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.880 And I guess before we should transition, we should talk about his talk with his mom. 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:06.220 I love this scene. 00:24:06.780 --> 00:24:12.720 Okay, so his mom gives him a peck talk, and she says, like, speed, this isn't all about winning. 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.960 Like, I'm worried, but she compares him to an artist. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:19.700 She says, like, I go to the races to watch you make art. 00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:28.960 It's sort of like you love to watch, like, a painter paint, or you love to watch an actor act on screen. 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:39.020 And Speed Racer, his racing, he's so passionate about it and he's so intricate and wonderful with it that it's like art watching him race. 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:42.160 And that was a very, oh, it's just such a good monologue. 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:42.980 It's such a good speech. 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:44.580 It's such a good mother talk as well. 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:46.400 It hits home so hard. 00:24:46.560 --> 00:24:51.840 And that's sort of like, that's hinting on the themes of the movie where it's not all about racing. 00:24:51.840 --> 00:25:04.620 sometimes it's about the friends we made along the way you know like yeah it's very much like the the spirit of racing and just pushing yourself to be the best you you can be is more important than winning 00:25:04.620 --> 00:25:05.600 the race itself 00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:16.500 and it's also really cool because that's one of the themes that i love about this movie is it's not just about racing but it's about family like speed his most important thing is his family actually then it's racing 00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:23.560 yeah but the thing that you it's like easy to see someone's drive to be a good racer, it's not as easy to show how much you love your family. 00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:25.880 So it comes out in these different scenes throughout the movie. 00:25:26.040 --> 00:25:26.760 I love it. 00:25:26.840 --> 00:25:29.680 And speaking of family, he's about to betray his family. 00:25:30.120 --> 00:25:36.140 Because if you thought this movie was pretty cookie cutter, pretty straightforward, you have no idea what's about to happen. 00:25:36.320 --> 00:25:42.660 Because there's a subplot with the harbinger of boom, Racer X, and also what, Taijo 00:25:43.640 --> 00:25:45.760 Shogokan. You said, wait, Racer X? 00:25:45.860 --> 00:25:47.380 Racer X? No, no, it's X. 00:25:47.840 --> 00:26:02.060 Racer X, not not race racer racer no it's it's racer oh is it yeah oh crap so there's his remember i think you're getting confused because there's a different character named rex racer rex racer that's his older brother 00:26:02.060 --> 00:26:14.760 who died and his body wasn't found this is not that this is a completely different guy named racer x racer x um and they they uh they're not racer x he has a he has a mask on so 00:26:14.760 --> 00:26:16.500 you can't see his face but we 00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:17.860 don't know like batman we don't know who 00:26:17.860 --> 00:26:20.620 he is we're like we have no idea he could be anyone 00:26:20.620 --> 00:26:23.760 so this person racer x appears 00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:32.900 it's like a racer mixed with like this um i guess he's like a action hero because he there was an earlier scene he's 00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:34.740 kind of like batman he's like a vigilante he's 00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:39.340 a vigilante he he's trying to fight all the big racers yeah 00:26:39.340 --> 00:26:47.180 like oh yeah for example the way he's introduced so like early in the movie it just randomly cuts to a scene where is a bunch of mob guys interrogating this Asian-looking guy. 00:26:47.320 --> 00:26:49.840 And this is one of my favorite parts about the movie is their portrayal of Asians. 00:26:50.080 --> 00:26:52.120 Oh, no, that's not a good part of the movie. 00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:55.240 They're very bad. Their poor way of portraying Asians. 00:26:55.360 --> 00:26:57.740 They're like, this guy is a little... 00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:00.960 He's going to be our Asian guy. Is he... 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.200 Is he Japanese? Yeah. 00:27:02.420 --> 00:27:02.880 Is he Korean? 00:27:03.100 --> 00:27:07.560 So he's played by a Korean actor, but his sister, canonically in the movie, is played by a Chinese actor. 00:27:07.820 --> 00:27:09.060 And then his... 00:27:09.060 --> 00:27:10.000 His dad is Japanese. 00:27:10.280 --> 00:27:10.700 His dad is... 00:27:10.700 --> 00:27:11.400 Is a Japanese actor. 00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:12.340 I think he's played by a Japanese actor. 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:18.460 and the movie is very vague about like which Asian he is and they're like, well, he's going to be one of them. 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:20.060 Because their name just sounds like it could be any of them. 00:27:20.520 --> 00:27:21.020 The name of the family. 00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:24.780 But anyway, so this Asian guy is being interrogated by a bunch of mob guys and it's in like this really fancy room. 00:27:25.100 --> 00:27:30.600 And they're like, well, if you're not going to like win, oh, like lose the race for us, we're going to have to take some payment. 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.380 We're going to put your hand in this piranha tank. 00:27:33.520 --> 00:27:34.860 Yeah, we're going to put your hand in this fish tank. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.560 But it's not fish, it's piranhas. 00:27:37.320 --> 00:27:43.440 And they show like a bone being like, or a big old chunk of meat being devoured by piranhas in seconds. 00:27:43.560 --> 00:27:44.080 I'm like, oh no. 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:44.980 So they're about to put his hands in. 00:27:45.080 --> 00:27:47.420 And all of a sudden there's like, alarms start playing. 00:27:47.580 --> 00:27:52.180 And then it cuts to this lady who's driving a van or a semi-truck, as you guys call it. 00:27:52.580 --> 00:27:53.220 And it's like, what? 00:27:53.340 --> 00:27:53.780 And then it cuts. 00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:56.140 And it turns out they're actually in the back of a semi-truck. 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.700 It's just decorated to look super fancy. 00:27:57.940 --> 00:27:59.140 And there's a race car behind them. 00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:00.440 Who is it? Who could it possibly be? 00:28:00.580 --> 00:28:01.340 Adam, who do you think it is? 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:03.900 It's Racer X. Racer X. 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:05.700 The Harbinger of Boom. 00:28:06.040 --> 00:28:06.680 As he is well known. 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:09.900 Which is, I think, the best nickname you can have. 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:17.660 It's pretty creative. There's a lot of great nicknames throughout fiction, but the Harbinger of Boom could definitely stand among the other greats. 00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:18.760 It's one of the top ones. 00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:19.920 Maybe it's not your favorite. 00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:23.740 I guess your favorite is the guy he's working for in the CIA. 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:25.540 Not the CIA, but the CIB. 00:28:26.340 --> 00:28:28.600 And that is Inspector Detector. 00:28:28.760 --> 00:28:31.000 My favorite character. Which is his real name, I believe. 00:28:31.220 --> 00:28:32.620 Yeah, his real name is Inspector Detector. 00:28:32.740 --> 00:28:35.360 So Inspector Detector, let's flash forward in time. 00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:41.320 So after mom has this conversation, mom racer, with Speed Racer, they get a knock on the doll, and it's the harbinger of boom. 00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:46.160 So Sprysle freaks out and inspect the detect, and they come in, and they have a request to make of the racer family. 00:28:46.300 --> 00:28:52.700 Yes. Taijo Tokokan, who is the vaguely Asian racer, is like being threatened. 00:28:52.980 --> 00:28:58.540 He has evidence on this racer fixer, this mob boss named Cruncher Block. 00:28:59.060 --> 00:29:01.420 Great names. This movie is just so good with names. 00:29:01.420 --> 00:29:03.760 I'll just say. It is pretty memorable. 00:29:03.760 --> 00:29:14.620 And Taijo Togakhan is like, I will give the information to the CIB if you join me in this rally race, this cross-country race. 00:29:14.780 --> 00:29:18.500 Super dangerous. But it's a three-player. 00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:19.740 It's a team race. 00:29:19.800 --> 00:29:20.780 So you have to race with a team. 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:26.380 And Taijo is like, I want Racer X and I want Speed Racer. 00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:28.820 The greatest racer is basically in his mind. 00:29:28.820 --> 00:29:35.120 The problem is that, what is special about this race course? 00:29:35.320 --> 00:29:36.900 This is not just any race course. 00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:42.820 It happens to be the exact same rally race where Racer Rex was tragically died. 00:29:43.760 --> 00:29:46.140 Died. He was tragically died. 00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:47.400 He was tragically died years ago. 00:29:47.540 --> 00:29:49.040 He tragically died of exploding. 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:50.520 Of explosion and fire. 00:29:50.760 --> 00:29:55.320 And so his dad, Pops Racer, is like, how dare you come here and ask this of us? 00:29:55.320 --> 00:30:03.080 and inspector's like i'm sorry i understand the toll i must like be putting on your family i'm sorry and then he gets up and he's ready to leave and the family's like don't you ever like request something like 00:30:03.080 --> 00:30:06.580 this of us again and they leave and speed is silent the whole time he doesn't 00:30:06.580 --> 00:30:20.500 say anything and then speed racer talks to his girlfriend tricks afterward and he's like i i have to race this race like i have to prove to the world that big companies big businesses don't own everything i have 00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:27.280 to prove that the little guy can win and we can show everything And so Speed Racer joins without his family's permission. 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:32.140 And he and Trix pretend that they're going skiing and they leave to go on this tour. 00:30:32.140 --> 00:30:34.920 And that's when Trix becomes his pit crew. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:39.220 And yeah. Yeah, so she's now the spots from the helicopter because it's a rally race. 00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:46.020 And they're racing. And then Spreitle finds out that he, through a series of kind of funny interactions. Yeah. 00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:51.560 He's watching TV and he's like, I want to secretly watch the race, this race. 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.700 But then he sees Speed Racer on the television. 00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:54.700 He's like, oh no. 00:30:54.900 --> 00:31:07.540 and then pop sees speed race on the television and it's like oh no like this is terrible so they show up to his race and like how dare you race without our permission but in the end he he 00:31:07.540 --> 00:31:09.540 keeps racing it's like no i'm an adult i'm gonna race 00:31:09.540 --> 00:31:16.140 yeah so we got some pretty epic scenes um one of my favorite scenes in the movie actually is the ninja scene the ninja 00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:19.880 scene that ninja more like a ninja yeah exactly i 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.180 caught this movie's just full iconic quotes 00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:29.520 crazy line live forever like why watching that tv it's in german well not the monkey parts because there's a monkey in the tv 00:31:30.600 --> 00:31:37.520 great so in any case so the family all like meet up with speed and they confront him but then they decide actually they're all going to stick with him because speed's like i'm not backing down they're like well 00:31:37.520 --> 00:31:46.720 we can't let you do this alone so they all stay in like this fancy hotel room but of course and they're with um racer x and what's your time taijo and then some ninjas come in and try and 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:50.240 attack them and the whole family is like this epic scene where the like spritle 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:54.080 the mechanic and then of course Pops who is like a pro 00:31:54.080 --> 00:32:07.380 wrestler Pops is played by John Goodman and it plays up the fact that John Goodman is like this big huge mechanic beefy guy that like just tears through the ninja and he's like you beat that ninja so easily 00:32:07.380 --> 00:32:11.040 ninja more like a non-jump terrible what passes for a ninja these days 00:32:12.100 --> 00:32:18.660 so true so true the ninjas actually do affect the race because that's after the first leg is that night 00:32:19.780 --> 00:32:23.960 and that night Taijo, he gets paralyzed by the ninja. 00:32:24.300 --> 00:32:30.900 He gets paralyzed for just long enough for them to secretly switch out Taijo with Trix. 00:32:31.600 --> 00:32:33.540 Wait, oh you're right yeah, sorry. 00:32:33.740 --> 00:32:44.840 So Trix races on behalf of Taijo and that's actually a really cool scene and there's a lot of action in that scene and they do the switch back and there's a little bit of gunfight and they take out 00:32:44.840 --> 00:32:46.680