Hockey update soon- lots has happened. Only I really care about it, but I'm the only one who reads this, so here's a placeholder from the awesome awesome 1980s L.A. band Flesheaters. Someone else on-line described them as holding down the horror side of the X/Blasters scene- this video shows that pretty clearly!
Speaking of this, Mary Woronov of Death Race 2000 makes an appearance too!
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Showing posts with label death race 2000. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Death Race!
First off- Death Race 2000 is my favorite movie ever. Period.
So I rented the "remake" of it, last year's Death Race, not expecting much. Credits showed that Roger Corman, who directed the original, was involved peripherally, so that was a good sign. The remake, though much more limited in scope than the original, is good- crap, considering how bad it could've been, it's a frickin' masterpiece- and its car effects were super.
What pissed me off though was the smacked-ass director, in some dvd extra, claiming that his version was a broader statement about society than the original. Huh. Sounds like he's never seen the original. That's a broad dystopian vision of a corporate/religious dictatorship pandering to the masses. His is a limited, focused dystopian vision of a corporate dictatorship pandering to the masses.
Little creep. Other than that, Death Race is pretty darn good, but isn't going to knock the original off its pedestal.
So I rented the "remake" of it, last year's Death Race, not expecting much. Credits showed that Roger Corman, who directed the original, was involved peripherally, so that was a good sign. The remake, though much more limited in scope than the original, is good- crap, considering how bad it could've been, it's a frickin' masterpiece- and its car effects were super.
What pissed me off though was the smacked-ass director, in some dvd extra, claiming that his version was a broader statement about society than the original. Huh. Sounds like he's never seen the original. That's a broad dystopian vision of a corporate/religious dictatorship pandering to the masses. His is a limited, focused dystopian vision of a corporate dictatorship pandering to the masses.
Little creep. Other than that, Death Race is pretty darn good, but isn't going to knock the original off its pedestal.
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