The interesting thing about Speed Racer 2008 being an adaptation is that the fact that the Wachowski sisters are huge weebs probably posed more of a barrier for them than if someone else got hired to make a movie from that license Like, weebs specifically hate Speed Racer
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"Maybe they were cranking out a hand drawn cartoon at, like, 5 frames per second And maybe we're the legendary creators of the Matrix working with millions of dollars and the finest computer rendering algorithms known to humankind But we're all doing the same damn thing"
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That's the amazing thing about the movie In terms of filmmaking it was genuinely as avant-garde and cutting-edge as you can get But they embraced the cornball childish stuff so completely people seriously just didn't notice
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That they really wanted to shed their reputation for pretension and grim and gritty themes after V for Vendetta But that just meant that when people said "I don't get it" they assumed "I don't get it because you're stupid" not "I don't get it because I'm stupid" Damn shame
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