Note to the makers of Death Race:

[janradder]

I have now seen the trailer for your re-do of Death Race 2000 twice and all I can ask is "Why?"  Why remake this film?  Why turn it into some crappy cross-breed of The Fast and the Furious and The Running Man?  Did you watch the original and think, "Gee, this would be a great movie if we just got rid of all the campiness and black humor"?

People who are so hard up for new ideas that they have to cannibalize other movies simply to turn a dollar should be strapped into movie seats and forced to watch and re-watch  a Tron marathon until their souls sink into the depths of the sticky gummi bear/coke/popcorn mixture that resides at their feet and they swear to never even look at camera again for fear of being forced to sit through a Pauly Shore retrospective.

Comments

[fengi.livejournal.com]

What also puzzles me is we are in the era of Hostel, yet DeathRace 2000 has to be sanitized by making it a prison movie?

What's next, a Battle Royale movie which replaces the high school kids with Navy Seals?

I personally am not 100% against cannibalizing movies, but if one must do so, go all out insane like Doomsday.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

My main problem with remaking old movies is that quite often, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the original and making another just like it (or bastardizing it by taking out all that made it good in the first place) is either redundant or creates yet more dreck. I have no problem if a filmmaker remakes a film that had potential it didn't live up to and he/she sees a way to pull that potential out (though I must confess I really7 can't think of any examples off the top of my head). The sanitizing of DR 2000 is a case in point. Without the sick black humor all it is is a muscle cars with guns movie, and a bad one at that.