>unironically setting Salò as your favorite film
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The RMR-tuned Evo 9. The Veilside Fortune RX-7. The RB-swapped '67 Mustang. Some of my favorite cars in cinema come from Tokyo Drift, so I hate how this movie was barely watchable on average.
It's still mind boggling to me how the studio thought that in a film set in Japan, about Japanese car culture, needed an American protagonist. It could have worked with the right actor, but that's not what happened - Lucas Black's acting does no favors for…
The animated series that End of Evangelion concludes already pushed the expectations of what the mecha genre, and by extension the medium of anime, could do. EoE does this as well, and more elegantly at that. At first it's an epic climax detailing the final moments of reality, and then turns into surrealist introspection that the protagonist undergoes, musing about life and existence. It's tragic that EoE ends up getting reduced to memes nowadays, but if you get the opportunity to watch this masterpiece, seize it.