Deathrace 3000

welsh

welsh

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Not sure how many of you have seen Deathrace 2000, but back in the long forgotten past when I was an adolescent, Deathrace 2000 was a cult favorite.
from- http://www.badmovies.org/movies/deathrace/

In 2000 America has been rebuilt by one man, the President has become an emperor. With this power he created the Race. Every year violent role-playing psychopaths are placed behind the wheels of high performance killing machines and sent across the country. Their goal? Finish alive with the most points from running down as many pedestrians as possible and it's all perfectly legal. See a line of doctors and nurses on the sidewalk? Thump, thump, thump: 110 points.
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A race across america where you not only raced for a finished line, but you scored points by running over people.

from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/
Ostensibly, the film is about a race involving five participants - Frankenstein (Carradine), Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Stallone), Calamity Jane, Mathilda the Hunn, and Nero the Hero - of comic book stature. They are joined by navigators who double as concubines, which, I suppose, illustrates the trust and intimacy a driver must have with any partner involved in a high speed transcontinental race where the goal is to kill as many pedestrians as possible along the way. About a quarter of the way through the film, it becomes clear that the real story is about the connection between the US government, religion, mass-produced violence and a resistance movement, all focused on either promoting or ending the race once and for all. As despicable as the empowered elite may be in this film, the critique of the media is even more scathing.

Carradine is race hero Frankenstein. Sly Stallone plays his arch-rival Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, and a strong ensemble cast of fellow racers, media mavens, politicos, and willing and unwilling victims of "the great race" lend strong support....
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Looks like they are making a remake.

From pamedia.com
http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8870

Anderson Developing Deathrace 3000
Source: Variety March 22, 2005

Paul W.S. Anderson will write and direct Paramount's Deathrace 3000, a remake of the cult Roger Corman film Deathrace 2000, says Variety. The trade adds that the deal has sparked Viacom into talks for a companion videogame.

Anderson, who last directed Alien vs. Predator and Resident Evil, will join Corman and C/W partners Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner as producers, as will Anderson's Impact Pictures partner Jeremy Bolt.

The Paul Bartel-directed original is considered a B-movie classic, a campy and polemical black comedy that pitted David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in a race where drivers accumulated points for running over pedestrians. Anderson's got a different vision, planning a mix of Road Warrior and road kill.

"The original was so much about decimating pedestrians that the actual race was almost irrelevant, and I want to restore that," Anderson said. "Set in 2020, ours is an ultraviolent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston Martins."

Anderson, who wrote and produced the sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse, is producing with Bolt and Constantin an adaptation of the videogame DOA: Dead or Alive, which starts production in six weeks. Anderson also is writing a third "Resident Evil" film.
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Death Race 2000 was a crappy movie and Anderson is a crappy director, so I guess it will work out well.
 
Deathrace 2000 rules. It was on American Movie Classics the other day, at 4 AM.

Awesome movie.
 
Indeed, Deathrace 2000 is classic.

Montez, I am shocked!

It's old but it's vintage B movie and probably Corman's best flick of the time. Of course all Corman does is B movies, but still- a cult classic.
 
Don't get me wrong, I like it, but it is a pretty awful movie. That's part of it's charm. It's a "Plan 9 From Outer Space" type of film.
 
I don't understand the religious reference they mentioned: America seemed to have been taken over by the Communists, or that was what it felt like when I watched it. I DID like the grenade glove though...that and the hospital scene, heh heh.
 
Malkavian said:
Deathrace 2000 rules. It was on American Movie Classics the other day, at 4 AM.

Awesome movie.
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You need to get a job dude. Seriously.
 
The Human Blob can not be bothered with such trivial matters as work and productive activity! There are Wendys Cheeseburgers to eat and B movies to watch at 4 AM!
 
I believe that was the movie that inspired Carmageddon.

That being said, any movie with a gratuitous amount of nudity can't be all bad. :D
 
Commissar Lauren said:
The Human Blob can not be bothered with such trivial matters as work and productive activity! There are Wendys Cheeseburgers to eat and B movies to watch at 4 AM!
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Human Blob?! I'm skinny!!!

Besides, Wendy's isn't open at 4AM

McDonald's is, however.
 
This is probably going to suck, and not in the "so bad it's good" way the first one sucked.

Apparently they're going to blow more money on the cars than the script.
 
Honestly Marcus, in hinsight I agree. THis is a cult favorite that stood out in its time- Carradine v. Stallone? Plus there was so much social criticism in the package. I don't know how they can redo it, and throwing money at the movie isn't going to make it better.
 
What the fuck is up with all the remakes of classic movies and TV shows?

All of my favorite classic horror movies have been ruined: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, Amytiville Horror, House of Wax...

Is there no original idea left in the world or what?

I'd much rather have a re-release of old movies in the theatres that crappy remakes. Star Wars and E.T. did very well by doing that, why aren't other movies doing the same thing?
 
Ok, I have to admit I liked the remake of Dawn of the Dead.

THe others I can't speak for. House of Wax?

But I agree, movies are getting boring and uninventive.

Remakes of TV shows
Remakes of old movies
Sequels
Cartoon super-heroes

ANd in the US they will make a remake of a foreign film if it was successful abroad- the Ring, le Femme Nikita.

It seems only the independent producers are making interesting movies.

The reason is cost- movies are an investment and the industry wants to be sure of a return of investment. SO it mass produces crap to an adolescent audience that often doesn't know better.
 
I loved death race 2000. My favorite part is when the hospitals pull the old people out and put them in the street. Thats fucking hilarious.

It's true they'll probably ruin the remake, but lets hope theres plenty of gratuitous nudity like in the original.
 
welsh said:
Ok, I have to admit I liked the remake of Dawn of the Dead.

THe others I can't speak for.
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I loved Dawn of the Dead, as well as the Chainsaw remake. They both went in their own directions, but still kept a bit of the feel of the originals.

Haven't seen the new Amityville yet, but it doesn't look half-bad. The original is lame, anyway.

House of Wax?
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Yup. Paris Hilton's in it, to boot!
 
Oi! I can't believe what I'm hearing. the Dawn remake sucked horribly and not even a hot Russian model who used to hang out in Rostov could salvage it from the depths of stupidness.

Although in the DVD specials didn't it have the Doctor from Babylon 5 play an anouncement from the president who was voiced by Bruce Boxleitner?
That was kind of cool.
 
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