Captain Obvious Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 http://www.deathracemovie.net/ The movie looks okay. The game is passable. But the Death Race Your Ride thingy could be useful for a post-apoc game. Maybe use it to make some minis for those highway death matches or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Re: Death Race Hmm. Running Man & Death Race 2000. Looks like it could be a good very bad film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maelstrom Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Re: Death Race Hmm. Running Man & Death Race 2000. Looks like it could be a good very bad film. That's the very best kind! A vastly underrated and under-represented cinema experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Re: Death Race Someone's been playing Car Wars (the title that defined Steve Jackson games before GURPS came out, and one of filkjer Leslie Fish's favorite games). I don't know whether this is a remake or riff on Roger Corman's cult classic Death Race 2000, although I thought I recognzied Frankenstien's mask in the promos. In the original, the cars weren't armed, though, and most of the deaths were of sectators rather than participants. In fact, killing spectators was the whole point. Frankenstien was good at it to his own disgust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadmaster Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Re: Death Race Someone's been playing Car Wars (the title that defined Steve Jackson games before GURPS came out, and one of filkjer Leslie Fish's favorite games). I don't know whether this is a remake or riff on Roger Corman's cult classic Death Race 2000, although I thought I recognzied Frankenstien's mask in the promos. In the original, the cars weren't armed, though, and most of the deaths were of sectators rather than participants. In fact, killing spectators was the whole point. Frankenstien was good at it to his own disgust. It looks to me at best inspired by Death Race 2000 rather than a remake. Does look promising though as long as expectations are held in check. The Transporter movies were fun as long as your sense of belief was under heavily sedation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maelstrom Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Re: Death Race Someone's been playing Car Wars (the title that defined Steve Jackson games before GURPS came out, and one of filkjer Leslie Fish's favorite games). I don't know whether this is a remake or riff on Roger Corman's cult classic Death Race 2000, although I thought I recognzied Frankenstien's mask in the promos. In the original, the cars weren't armed, though, and most of the deaths were of sectators rather than participants. In fact, killing spectators was the whole point. Frankenstien was good at it to his own disgust. It's a riff-on, not a remake, although Corman is one of the executive producers. There are almost no spectators, except on pay-per-view. Just saw the movie. I thought of Car Wars the entire time -- smoke, oil, napalm as defense, ablative armor, miniguns, the works. Noisy, silly fun, with some very winceable deaths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 Re: Death Race The second I saw the trailers for this movie earlier this summer I had two thoughts simultaneously: 1) This movie will be horrible. 2) I am SO there. I'm seeing it tomorrow, if plans work out with The Bunnehs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Re: Death Race the exploding baby scene in DR2K still cracks me up .... pity no spectators in this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Re: Death Race My expectations of this movie were fulfilled in the first 90 seconds. Definitely got everything out of it I wanted, and a bit more. Some of the scenes were just brutal. Absolutely no punches were pulled here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackBrass Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Re: Death Race They played the trailer for this when I went to see Hellboy II. I may be mistaken, but it appeared to last for twenty long, long minutes... Well, I might be exaggerating, then. I turned to my girlfriend, who was staring in horrified disbelief at the screen, and said, "I think we've just watched the entire movie." Can't imagine how much else is left, considering that the plot is not exactly deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Re: Death Race from the trailers, it looks like a truly awful movie... therefore I will have to se e it twice... Death Race 2000 was just plain fun... how they ever got stallone and carradine to agree to star in it is beyond me. the exploding baby carriage was such an inspired idea.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Re: Death Race They played the trailer for this when I went to see Hellboy II. I may be mistaken, but it appeared to last for twenty long, long minutes... Well, I might be exaggerating, then. I turned to my girlfriend, who was staring in horrified disbelief at the screen, and said, "I think we've just watched the entire movie." Can't imagine how much else is left, considering that the plot is not exactly deep. There are a few surprises in the movie they didn't drop into the trailer. No, it's not a "good" movie. But it is exactly what you expect out of it, which is all I ask of my movies. It's a 90 minute movie, with a total of about 20-30 minutes of talking and a solid hour of cars, explosions, guns, explosions, hawt chicks, explosions and just to be sure they didn't miss anything - explosions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackBrass Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Re: Death Race It's a 90 minute movie' date=' with a total of about 20-30 minutes of talking and a solid hour of cars, explosions, guns, explosions, hawt chicks, explosions and just to be sure they didn't miss anything - explosions.[/quote'] If they'd just had Ian McShane walk on and say exactly that to the audience I'd have been instantly sold on the film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapsedgamer Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Re: Death Race I saw it, and I had great time throughout. This movie is good, loud, stupid and fun. If you want art rent Brokeback Mountain or There Will Be Blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Re: Death Race So has anyone used the Death Race Your Ride tool to outfit their cars? The whole reason I put this thing here instead of NGD was to see people's war machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Re: Death Race I was messing with it, but it isn't exactly the most user friendly interface I've encountered. It basically takes more time than I really want to dedicate to it at the moment. Maybe if I take some decent pics of my Saturn I'll come back to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maelstrom Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Death Race I've tried. Can't get it to work to my satisfaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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