Death Race: trailer
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 - 6:37pm
the Deathrace 2000 remake. I'm guessing this isn't as much of a social commentary as it is a cash in, but i'm a fan Statham. Should be good matinee material.
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Statham was an excellent choice - that trailer alone makes me want to see it.
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I like the references back to the old one, I'm excited for it
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The film clearly knows what it's supposed to be.
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Yea this film makes no qualms about being anything else than it's supposed to be.
Death, Guns, Revenge, Explosions, Fast cars and good looking women.
Physics and Reality need not apply.
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That looks ridiculously bad.
1.) Lets completely remove the core concept of the story (A race in which points are awarded for running down civilians)
2.) Turn the hero into some milquetoast wrongly accused race care driver. Slightly different then a legendary government puppet on a mission to assassinate the president.
3.) Have Paul "Wet Sh*t" Anderson direct it.
No f*cking thank you.
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what an utter piece of crap!!!!!!!!
look forward to seeing it and getting greeted by my GF's rolling eyes upon my triumphant return from the theater!!!!!
Can't wait for Statham to become this generation's Eric Roberts with his golden line of self-produced B movies!
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I'm with Sinitar. The original was ridiculous schlock, but at least it had balls. It was imaginative and subversive. This just looks like watered down, paint-by-numbers action. I mean, really guys, Death Race 2000 is not a hard film to live up to.
They might as well call it Paul W. S. Anderson Completely Misses The Point Part 6
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I'm in. I haven't seen a movie like this in the theater for a long while. I'm about due for an afternoon of dumber than a rock stupid turn your brain completely off style fun.
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It looks like an enjoyable action popcorn flick. Count me in. Now, how do I go about getting one of those navigators?
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It does look fun, but honestly none of the major studios are going to put out a movie that has someone killing the president. Not this day in age. As is though it should be fun to watch action flick.
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I've sat through 2 Transporter movies, why not this one too?
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What makes me laugh in glee is Joan freaking Allen as the bad guy. What are you doing in this movie, Joan? I hope she had fun making it.
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Deathrace 2000 is the greatest B movie of all time.
I know Deathrace 2000.
This.......is no Deathrace 2000
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Eh, I'll probably watch it, maybe a rental. I loved the original, but you're just not going to see something like that out of Hollywood these days.
On a side note, Statham just hasn't been in enough movies. He, Ben Stiller and Samuel Jackson need to band together and do a series of 50 movies on random subjects. I swear those guys are in every movie. Hey, they could even all feature cameos by Steve Buscemi.
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Are you sure this is supposed to be a remake of Death Race 2000? What I saw in that trailer was nothing like DR2K.
I'd be a little bit upset if the producers of the new movie were billing it as a remake, but if they're just making a new movie, then who cares what they call it?
Either way, this one looks like a decent "turn off the brain" rental...
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It is a remake. They were originally going to call it Death Race 3000.
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Well that's just stupid then. The only similarity between the movies is cars and people dying... And the cars aren't the same. The ones in this trailer look like armor-plated Mad Max machines, which the original cars were just totally off the wall stylistic racers.
Plus, I got $20 that says no pedestrians are killed at all in this version.
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And no president. You're right it's not a faithful remake and more like loosely based on the original. Hollywood system today will not allow a movie like DR2k to be made. Ones that are like that are all independent films and some times they have troubles getting seen.
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This isn't Deathrace, this is The Running Man with armed cars.
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Was just going to say the same thing.
You know a movie's going to be bad when you can see plot holes from the trailer...mainly, that most people would consider it bad form to keep things like functioning 30mm Gatlin guns in a prison.
I will see this. Huge tub of popcorn in hand, and sense of reality checked at the door. I just wish they would have named it something else. Death Race this is not. I do wonder though, if Jason Statham thought that he would ever be typecast as the "tough guy who drives awesome".
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I was going "What are you doing, Pamela? Save your dignity, go chase Jason Bourne some more or somthing!" throughout the trailer.
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So to sum up, this film shares the following plot points with the original:
1. Some guys drive some cars.
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Yes there seems to be death, and racing. But what of the far off year 2000?
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Maybe its the 2000th race. Or possibly it just sounded cool.
Death Race 2000. Its slightly better than Death Race 1999. TO THE MAX!!!
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They should have just called it "DALE EARNHARDT RACE"..
too soon?