For all the wheelmen out there...

[gaghiel42]

...the new Death Race trailer is up on the IMDB.com website.  I didn't have sound, so I have no idea how cheesy it will be, but it looked pretty awesome when I watched it from work.  I dunno about the rest of you, but I know I'm gonna go see it looking for new ideas.

         

[MilitiaJim]

It just might have less plot than Death Race 2000.  But I think it will be a fun action flick.  The sort where I would leave the girl at home and go with my brother, where upon we would drink and cheer like it's a hockey game.  (Maybe not quite like a hockey game, that almost got me kicked out of The Return of the King, but you get the idea.)

[gaghiel42]

Yeah, I'm kinda glad they didn't go for the preachy political sub-story in this remake.  The less they blab about the state of affairs, the more they get to blow up things with mini-guns. 

Maybe we can come up with some new upgrades for vehicles after this, I'm already thinking of something like Security Package 3 with an obvious notice DC and is basically armor plating on the outside that soups up its damage save like crazy.   Perhaps some kind of superior chasis that lets you ignore damage from ramming another vehicle head on, or some such...

[NezMaster]

It just might have less plot than Death Race 2000. 

Maybe, but without the Civillians are worth points subplot..it's really not Deathrace is it?

[Krensky]

Or Frankenstein's hand grenade.

[VisualStatic]

After watching the Trailer, I'd say the only thing is the name that is the same.    Which isn't a surprise, Hollywood has been lacking the talent for originality lately.

[gaghiel42]

Well, it is Paul S. Anderson, of AVP and Resident Evil fame.  You can't expect him to appreciate the content or history of what he is maiming to make his movies.  The title aside, I just wanna see pretty car battles and jason statham given another excuse to beat people up again.  Also, its a good build up to Transporter 3 which is coming out within a few weeks of death race, if IMDB is to be believed.

[Toccata]

I saw the trailer at the beginning of Wanted last night, and the observation I made at the time was that it will either be incredibly good or incredibly bad.

They've got the right cast to pull it off, and the visual effects look pretty damn slick, really the determining factor is whether the writers and director recognize that it can't be anything but a gritty, cheesy car-chase-and-violence fest and try to make it a good one, rather than try to make it fit the standard concept of a "good movie" and not only fail spectacularly but hurt it's ability to do the one thing it's going to be good at.

The way I see it, the obviously very sparse plot could work very well or very badly. If they recognize that it's going to be "Car Wars: The Motion Picture" and treat it as the gory campy spectacle of bad taste that it will inevitably become, it will at least do it well.

I've never actually watched the original, but from what I can see, it looks to be developed from the same style of cinema as the original Rollerball. It was even released in the same year. This basically means I intend to see it soon

And incidentally, if there's any movie that's better inspiration for Shadowforce Archer than Wanted, I haven't seen it. The finale was the only part of it that couldn't be replicated with SFA with only minimal tweaking (and stripping out the technobabble) is bit at the end of the standoff.