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Plot: Hit-and-run driving is a national sport in this futuristic sci-fi action comedy.
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MCT:September 17, 2008Camp classic. You've got to see it in all of its black humor glory. Much more fun than Rollerball, which inspired it.
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MCT:August 14, 2008
Harold: As the cars roar into Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, it seems apparent that our citizens are staying off the streets, which may make scoring particularly difficult, even with this year's rule changes. To recap those revisions: women are still worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, but teenagers now rack up 40 points, and toddlers under 12 now rate a big 70 points. The big score: anyone, any sex, over 75 years old has been upped to 100 points.
From Roger Corman comes a greatly entertaining movie that features a futuristic America that has an annual cross-country death race.
The race consists of 5 racers, each with their own navigator (doubling as lovers) driving at super fast speeds from New York to LA in a few days time. The added twist is that pedestrians caught on the side of the road can be run over for additional points.
Needless to say this is a cheesy, violent, and darkly hilarious film to watch.
David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone star as rival racers trying to beat each other to the finish.
The whole movie is literally the race, we start at the starting line and end at the finish in a brisk 78 minutes.
Its a lot of fun to watch, with plenty of great cheesy moments, great low budget production design, and hilarious plot twists hinting at some ridiculous deeper social meaning.
Cleopatra: It isn't my fault everyone scored before us. You should have gone after that boy scout camp like I told you!
Nero the Hero: I tried the goddamn boy scout camp. You know how fast those boy scouts move?
Cleopatra: Now here's something more your speed.
Nero the Hero: That'll be at least 200 points!
Cleopatra: If they scatter, go for the baby and the mother. -
MCT:August 9, 2008
You know Myra, some people might think you're cute. But me, I think you're one very large baked potato.
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MCT:April 2, 2008Unlike the best Roger Corman-sponsored productions -- Jonathan Demme's "Caged Heat", for instance -- "Death Race 2000" never really rises above its transparently exploitative violence and female nudity. As others have said, it's just like watching "Wacky Races", the only differences being that a) some of the booby traps work in "Death Race 2000" and b) I can't recall Penelope Pitstop ever getting her funbags out (though that's an episode I'd very much like to see!) The movie is technically shoddy and not as entertaining as it should be, not because the humour is too tasteless to laugh at -- if anything, it could have been a bit sicker, for me -- it just isn't very funny. Stallone tries hard to wring a few laughs out of an underwritten rôle in a poor script, but David Carradine is very dull indeed. Disappointing. I did chuckle at the Euthanasia Day bit though.
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MCT:December 5, 2007
Cannonball Run meets Grand Theft Auto. It was probably the inspiration for both Grand Theft Auto and Spy Hunter, and for that it gets mad props.
They drive around and kill people for points. And there's a lot of boobs and sex. But they're all obscured by a disgusting cheese-like discharge.
There was so much potential: some cool death scenes, cool concept, political satire, etc. But it just didn't pan out. -
MCT:January 6, 2009One of the all time classic films. This is Roger Corman at his best. A must see movie for anyone who likes comedy, sci-fi and car chases.
