VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 36 (ft. Freddie Wong) 

So happy to finally see some appreciation for the beauty of Speed Racer.

I think Speed Racer was made to be like it’s anime origins, hence why the actors are so extra at times. Still is one of the best movies in my opinion. The fact that the cgi still holds up to this day is just amazing

I'm so happy to see people who appreciate the jaw dropping VFX in speed racer. I love this movie and it blows my mind that it gets so little attention. That final race is visually brain melting amazing.

Speed Racer is still the 1st movie I watch on every new TV I buy. It was a whole new experience with the subwoofer upgrade to the sound system.

In case you guys actually read this: Thank you very very much for this mention. I remember the early FXhome days vividly and it was absolutely influentual to me growing up in that place. The inspiration was mutual and you‘ve obviously surpassed me in everything a long time ago. I still have a lot of the old fxhome videos on my harddrive and you were, even back then when you started, a huge inspiration. All the best wishes for you guys, your friends and families from switzerland (not austria). 😛 (Oh, and: It was composited frame by frame on photoshops „filmstrip“ format, which was basically a huuuuuuge file containing all frames from the top down. Times were veeeeery different.) 😀

I have been trying desperately for years to tell people how incredible Speed Racer is. After I saw it in the cinemas, I went to the box office and bought another ticket for the next session and saw it twice in a row. It's one of my favorite movies and no one in my immediate circles has any love for it for reasons that I have never been able to understand. I started to think I was crazy. I can't express how much it means to me, after over 10 years of holding onto this, to hear people gush over it in the way I have ALWAYS thought it deserves to be. You have made my flipping year. Love Mark

Reviewers at the time: Speed racer sucks. VFX Artists: This movie is a visual orgasm.

Speed racer is a good movie and looking at it while like 90% of it is effects looking at it just makes you feel like "yeah I can so drive a t180."

Finally someone who gets how speed racer movie WAS AWESOMEE!!

Now one man we all follow ASTARTES

I still can’t watch the last race of Speed Racer without crying. This is a perfect encapsulation of everything I feel whenever I watch it, and why it is my favorite movie of all time.

Speed racer was one of the movies that I grew up watching and watched it more than 30 times. I’m glad it got the appreciation it deserves

I love how extremely overwhelming Freddie is compared to other guests, you can see that these guys have been friends for years

Speed Racer is a hidden gem and i still love it to this day

"If you want to get a RU-vid career, live in a shack" - Sam Yuuuup 😂

Speed Racer is great, and yes a masterpiece. I watch it at least once a year. Everything y'all said about it is spot on.

I would love to see Adam Savage on the show. Dood has an incredible amount of experience with practical effects, and he's funny as hell!

You guys should have Sollthar on! Freddie should keep growing the beard. I think a episode on The Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal could be a lot of fun.

Bruh I grew up watching Freddie

Speed Racer is one of my all-time favorite movies and it never gets the credit it deserves for not taking itself seriously and literally putting the pedal to the metal the entire time. Just a fun movie and incredibly visually stimulating.

So Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Probably not a whole lot to talk about but that shit still looks GOOD.

Seeing Freddie with the corridor crew brings bag waves of nostalgia. Y'all (including Brandon and the rest of the crew) made me fall in love with making videos. I never looked at movies the same way or took the vfx process for granted again. Thank y'all so much.

I’ve never heard people gush over Speed Racer like that before

That shot in speed racer gives me the goosebumps, no lie.

Beard or no beard? There's only one right answer: the longest beard possible.

I’m SO glad Speed Racer has been getting a resurgence. Its hands down one of my favorite movies of all time, and it has one of(if not THE) best final sequences ever made. Even after watching it like, 50 times it still gets me pumped and emotional. That movie is a fine piece of art that got criminally hated upon release, all because its visuals were unconventional or "too goofy".

Nobody: Freddie when SpeedRacer comes on: inhales*

that starscream jet shot is to this day the coolest shot i've ever seen in any film. Also when he flips himself backwards ontop of the Hoover bridge

Damn I haven't seen Freddie in years

Freddie: tells everyone to take control also Freddie: asks the comments to tell him what to do with his life

Ngl Speed Racer’s final race really hit hard back then and still does.

Speed racers is one of the msot underrated movies, the final race is a cinematic masterpiece.

People look at me like I'm an idiot whenever I tell them how great Speed Racer was. I'm glad some pros appreciate it too! Some scenes give me chills. Dang, Freddie is the most relaxed guest they've had on the couch 😂

Speed Racer! My actual favorite movie. Not even close.

I can’t believe they got legendary bard and Christmas rock musician, Glenn Close, for an episode

That last race makes me cry every time

ONE METER LONG BEARD, AS THIN AS POSSIBLE!!! be mysterious, Freddie!!

Damn, Speed Racer was like a surrealistic painting set into motion. I watched it when I was a kid and I remember watching it like I was in a dream.

I wanted speed racer like 100 times growing up THAT MOVIE IS UNDER RATED

Make Venom R-rated!!!! That would be so cool...!!

What if, you all remake “The Test” together. To show how far you all have come.

I want Freddie to grow his beard longer, and wait for his hair to turn white. The CGI Sage.

I could sense a lot of love in the room between Sam and Freddie. That body language screamed, please get a wider couch.

Definitely beard, connect the top and bottom with a goatee.

"You're telling me on my home PC I can make an action movie THIS COOL?!?!" That was literally my exact reaction when I was 12 years old watching "Modern Warfare: The Frozen Crossing", "Greenside", "Chrono Trigger" and all the other classic FreddieW and Corridor pieces, and first got me into filmmaking. I wonder if these guys will ever fully understand the effect their work has had on myself and probably countless others.

Watching them praise the visual effects of Speed Racer was so wholesome and put a smile on my face. One of my favorite movies of all time.

So happy you got Freddie, really been looking forward to seeing him on this. A real youtube legend.

I've loved the live action speed racer movie for years, and to see these guys so excited about it makes me happy

gotta love freddie's iconic outfit. glasses, shirt, shorts and flipflops

I love Freddie

Speed Racer BluRay was a must when it came out. Haven't watched it in years ... might have to chuck it on again now after watching this

I think Freddie is the most eloquent and philosophical of the whole Corridor Crew bunch. His explanations about Speed Racer as an exploration for new visual languages are spot on.

I feel like Wong is going slightly more insanse every time we see him

It's soo good to see Freddie again. He's still got that energy going, loved his little inserts.

Freddie: Very happy, enthousiastic and loud. Niko: Funny, laughing and explaining. Sam: thinking to himself. I forgot my kid at school again didn’t I?

It's amazing to hear so much praise for speed racer. Ever since it came out all I ever heard or saw was people giving it grief with no reasoning. I do wish that a second one came out, there doesn't even have to be a villain, just like the goal to try and win a championship or something

Freddie got hella real this episode. It's nice to see someone be so themselves. I mean we all in on Speed Racer. That movie gets a lot of mixed feelings, he went fully positivity.

For Freddie I would say no beard, but for the amazing VFX artists at Corridor Digital please react to the car chase scene from The Sorcerers Apprentice.

Glad you guys liked the visuals in Speed Racer so much. My uncle (George Hull) was a Concept Artist/Designer on it and it always makes me proud to hear that people love how gorgeous of a movie it is.

The absolute best live action version of an Anime ever. Period

finally, Freddie is here! So cool to see you guys together on that couch. Would love to see you go through more of his videos, like "Pimp my horse" or "Aimbot". what an awesome video. Also, full beard for Freddie!

Longer beard, shave off the eyebrows.

Every time this video appears on my recommended list I click just to see Freddie's excitement talking about Speed Racer

I love Speed Racer. I watch this movie religiously. Seen it at least 300 times because since I was young my parents would play this movie for me instead of baby shows like micky mouse ect. I know every line from the movie and tear up at the end of the movie like every other time I watch it. Speed Racer is a master piece

Freddie really did just take control of VFX Artist reacts and made it his own

speed racer was such an underrated film like honestly. it was one of the most stylistic films of the time and still holds up today. it achieved the look that everyone wishes the anime live-action remakes had.

the thing freddie mentioned about the emotional energy being expressed through imagery is exactly why anime is so great sometimes, the japanese anime film, A Silent Voice, gives a really good example. near the end, the main character, who had basically shut himself off from the world begins to open himself up to the world again. in the film his connection being cut-off is built around the fact that to him, people's faces are blocked off with giant x marks on their heads, which also symbolises his tendency to even avoid looking at people directly in the face/eye which is also shown in the film. anyways, at the end, he covers his ears, because he's also "cut off" the sound of the outside world, and he slowly lifts his face, and drops his hands, at the same time the x marks on everyone's face around him falls off like a piece of paper, floating on the wind, and the moment is accentuated by the music lifting up to a crescendo of "victory" or joy, and the sound of the actual crowd around him also comes into focus, creating a cacophony of sound showcasing him reconnecting with the world around him in sooooo many different ways, showcasing his metaphorical mental and emotional changes, its honestly an incredibly brilliant piece of art.

I want Freddie to write a book called "The Art of VFX" with a full fledged beard

Something that was just released here on RU-vid: SCP Overlord. The effects are pretty minimal but they’re honestly stellar.

Speed racer is an underrated movie. So glad that time is making it justice.

Speed racer is a underrated masterpiece, this movie is what made me fall in love with movies it was my childhood. It was ahead of it's time

Words cant express how gratifying it is to see somebody who loves Speed Racer just as much as I do! Hit the nail on the head w/ that review. Couldn't have said it better myself!

I saw featuring Freddie Wong and I dropped everything I was doing just to watch

Talk about the stunts and visual effects of Christian Bale's Equilibrium!

I fucking love Speed Racer, so, so so much. This movie was my childhood, and I remember it as a fever dream of pure joy. It’s like actually watching a live action anime, and it fully realizes that.

Sam looked like he was dying inside at the intro. Haha.

I miss Freddie

Huge beard. If you aren’t hagrid by yesterday, I will be disappoint

"If this scene doesn't move you then movies aren't for you" - gold

The Speed Racer movie is just pure nostalgia

VFX react to the original Jumanji movie: Falling through the quicksand floor, stampede animals crushing cars, getting sucked into the game

Please... Please hire Freddie full time

“Live in a shack.” so that’s why Jimmy Broadbent bought a car instead of a house..

I'm an unabashed fan of Speed Racer. It is a true homage.

Shark Attack 4: Megladon. Best shark related VFX you’ll ever see. Seriously.

Honestly "The One" was sick, especially the head replacement for Jet Li.

I love watching this episode and seeing Freddie just freak out over his love for Speed Racer. It’s so goddamn wholesome

"ft. Freddie Wong" *Has me missing 2012-2013 RU-vid*

Watching people react to and love Speed Racer the way I do makes me emotional and feel like I’m not alone in my love and justification for that film. A truly, criminally underrated film, visually, story wise, and emotionally.

SCP: Overlord is a 30min fan Movie which just came out EDIT: from Evan Royalty

I am so grateful that you guys appreciated Speed Racer to the level you did. I felt the same way about it, but I am the only person I know that enjoyed it in that way.

Freddie: Tell me what to do with my life? Me: Go back to making short vfx videos... There now he's got to do it. If this comment gets enough likes for him to notice it.

VFX Reacts: Ready Player One Not sure if thats been done before or not.

It made me so happy to know others got absolute chills watching speed racer. An absolutely beautiful movie, yall rock and so does everyone in the comments showing love for it.

Speed Racer finally getting love just makes me smile

Sam looks like he needs a hug. I would hug him.

Freddie: "If somebody watches this sequence and comes out of it being like, 'Eh, it was okay or whatever,' - it's like - I don't wanna know that person." Meanwhile, Sam: - _ -

I love Freddie. His energy is so pure and he’s so happy to talk about movies and vfx. Can clearly see his appreciation for it all.

Day: ?? of asking for Shin Godzilla and Cloverfield. And yes, beard.

The Original TOTAL RECALL! So many miniatures, squibs and muzzle flashes to behold!