What's the name of that car movie....

[Nefarious]

What's that name of that 70s car movie, about some bizarre race where the

drivers get points for running over pedestrians? I think it even starred Sylvester Stallone,

when he was an unknown. It was many years since I've seen it, all I remember

was that it was a very bazaar film.

[Crash]

In Reply to: What's the name of that car movie.... posted by Nefarious on March 07, 2000 at 19:10:19:


: What's that name of that 70s car movie, about some bizarre race where the

: drivers get points for running over pedestrians? I think it even starred Sylvester Stallone,

: when he was an unknown. It was many years since I've seen it, all I remember

: was that it was a very bazaar film.

[rippin-rob]

In Reply to: Deathrace 2000 posted by Crash on March 07, 2000 at 19:16:28:


: : What's that name of that 70s car movie, about some bizarre race where the

: : drivers get points for running over pedestrians? I think it even starred Sylvester Stallone,

: : when he was an unknown. It was many years since I've seen it, all I remember

: : was that it was a very bazaar film.

.....ROB says,DEATHRACE 2000,AND ONE OF THE STARS WAS DAVID CARRADINE,ALSO THE STAR OF KUNG-FU FAME...YES,IT WAS A WACKED OUT MOVIE...DON`T REMEMBER S.STALLONE..have not seen in about ten years though..i remember that this was a movie that the people(back then) thought was very violent,and did not approve of....im not sure,but it might have been banned.....ie. blacklisted

[Freeway Warrior]

In Reply to: What's the name of that car movie.... posted by Nefarious on March 07, 2000 at 19:10:19:


Road Rage steps up a beat in Death Race 3000

http://www.computercrowsnest.com/sfnews/newse0899.htm

Science Fiction Crowsnest

http://www.computercrowsnest.com/index.html

Making a come-back from his appearance in Stanley Kubrick's truly appalling last film, Eyes Wide Shut, perhaps so-named for the number of

members of the audience who go to sleep during the movie -- Tom Cruise is rumoured to be headlining in the Death Race 3000 movie now

being produced by Paramount.

This is of course a remake of Roger Corman's classic Death Race 2000, the film from whose loins the deeply criticised pedestrian slaying

games like Carnage and Carmageddon sprung from.

The film caused massive outrage in 1975 when David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone replayed Wacky Races as crossed with Mad Max,

playing futuristic drivers in a Grand Prix where prizes are awarded for killing pedestrians -- the sicker the kill, the higher the score.

You know the kind of thing: dead nun 50 points, dead pregnant nun 90 points, etc.

The director, Paul Anderson (Event Horizon), has remained tight-lipped about the plot, but has suggested that there will be few concessions

to political correctness or the U.S. road safety lobby.

Given the trouble we had getting JG Ballard's movie Crash released in the U.K., you can expect the normal cries of outrage from the Mary

Whitehouse crowd when this baby goes live.

The URL has already been registered (we presume by the studio), but there's nothing there yet -- just an

"under construction" sign.



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Car Wars Internet Newsletter Editor

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[Mad Maxwell]

In Reply to: What's the name of that car movie.... posted by Nefarious on March 07, 2000 at 19:10:19:


: What's that name of that 70s car movie, about some bizarre race where the

: drivers get points for running over pedestrians? I think it even starred Sylvester Stallone,

: when he was an unknown. It was many years since I've seen it, all I remember

: was that it was a very bazaar film.

David Carradine as Frankenstein - a man with a mechanical hand that allowed him to shift 10ths of a second faster than his competetors.

Sly Stallone as Machine Gun Joe Vitibo - driving a thompson machine gun equipped dune buggy. Meyers I think but its been a looong time.

-Evan