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Lets go baby death race 2000 hype train #monsterdon
that was a rough first 5 minutes to miss, the intro in this movie rules #monsterdon
normalize "welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome" as a chant for real #monsterdon
the thing about this movie is that you don't really need any plot or exposition because the plot is "death race" and the movie happens to be named "death race" #monsterdon
"do you ever take off that mask that still shows the most identifying features of your face" #monsterdon
this is an era before streamers and Content Creation and all that so this guy is just bullfighting the death race for the pure hell of it #monsterdon
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i think we're supposed to be on the side of the whole resistance but really i'm just on the side of that Susan B Anthony broad #monsterdon
david carradine's face walked so that owen wilson's face could run #monsterdon
i would go all battle bots with my death race car, retractable circular saws on the sides, and one huge hammer up top #monsterdon
frankenstein: "winning is the only thing i care about because it's the only standard of excellent remaining"
also frankenstein: "it doesn't matter whether you win or lose it's how you play the game"
it's time to play.... depth of character or screenwriter was drunk!
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so of course in the political reality that surrounds the action of the movie, one must imagine that the death race started as a way for local paramilitaries and militias to round up undesirables and sacrifice them in the name of sport, and the only reason the race is relatively peaceful and kills are opportunistic is because the continual purge has "cleared the field" so to speak. so vigilante violence and the death race largely supplanted police as the primary mechanism of social order, which is why running the death race is the primary political achievement and promise of the ruling authoritarian regime
so then the capitulation just there, of allowing race officials to be scored upon, is the sign of a waning regime, where they must promise something like the rule of law to keep the public in line #monsterdon
progress along the map perfectly lined up with progress through the movie. that's how you do pacing baby. nice and literal. #monsterdon
does the start and end location of the race vary year by year? if not, then you would imagine a heavy population shift to the deep south and pacific northwest, which are really far out of the way.
and then at some point in the race's history cars that could go fast enough to make the corner run would become a suddenly productive strategy mowing down the last population centers
another background reality of this movie has to be that most of the public lands have been sold off and tresspassing laws are violently enforces, so that the roads are really the last public place to be #monsterdon
interrupting a man in the middle of his bare hotdog #monsterdon
ok but how come the president has a canadian accent are we sure he isn't french #monsterdon
how to choreograph a fight where the good guy has to win but the good guy is also wearing a cape and it is getting caught on literally everything in the scene #monsterdon
that eyeshadow is positively bananas #monsterdon
when i fuck, i am always fucking crumbled up in a ball in the middle of a warehouse with a single spotlight #monsterdon
did david carradine know that "my taste buds got wiped out" was a joke #monsterdon
dog i would love to make one giant contraption in my life just so i could have an excuse to make one of those freaking plunger stick things or whatever they are called for detonating the TNT #monsterdon
what is the music even DOING #monsterdon
did david carradine deradicalize her by just driving fast and doing exactly the thing that she has dedicated her life to opposing or what #monsterdon
but wait if everyone is in play for points now then isn't the president fair game and people would just be stoked about it without challenging the political order in any way #monsterdon
i don't know how it has flown under the radar this whole time that david carradines car is a) so goofy, b) not even frankenstein and c) has no goddamn weapons at all #monsterdon