608: A Centaur, Only for Cars

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Fire up your Bernoulli Conversionator and check your trunk for stowaways, because we’re entering the Wachowski sisters’ candy-colored 2008 road rally through the Uncanny Valley, “Speed Racer.” It’s an eye-searing acid trip of a movie, with groundbreaking storytelling, an earnest heart, and a curious void at its center. (There is also a chimp.) We’ll discuss how this film fits into the Wachowskis’ canon, the supporting character whose story is way more interesting than the leadâ€š and the only other big-budget film since that has dared to get this stylistically weird....

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0:51.9	The incomparable. Number 6008, April 2022.
0:59.3	Hello and welcome to The Incomparable, a back alley podcast full of jackals, headhunters, and thugs.
1:06.4	Today we will be talking about the Wakowski's amazing 2008 adaptation of Speed Racer.
1:13.4	I am Nathan Alderman.
1:15.4	I'll be taking the wheel for this podcast, but I can't do it alone.
1:20.0	So I'd like to introduce first my intrepid mechanic, Shelley,
1:23.8	Shelly Brisbane. How you doing, Shelly?
1:25.7	Pancake and St. Leipchen.
1:28.0	Hello.
1:30.7	And high overhead in the copter.
1:33.1	It's Lisa Schmeiser.
1:34.3	How's it looking, Lisa?
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