So the new knight rider movie - how'd ya rate it?

[Deja Q]

10 being best

[helderheid]

1. i tivO'd it - no telling yet

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. embarassing

simply embarassing.

[Deja Q]

4. I was shocked... (spoliers follow)

Susan Gibney (Dr Brahams from Star Trek TNG) was in it... wow. A job's a job, but wow... She needed work real bad.

The Hoff appeals in a maudlin little speech at the end to convince junior to sign up. How convenient...

Christopher Tyng, a really good composer, could have been replaced with Chuckles the Chicken and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. The usual maudlin, soppy, uber-emotive drivel that's supposed to get people to cry... I cried at how trite it was, but that wasn't the effect intended!

It felt like a bunch of 20-somethings trying to come across serious and macho.

Plot by numbers.

TV is on its way out; they should just release everything on DVD, with the original music scores (the cost of the music rights alone, for all 4 original seasons combined, would have been under 1/10th the cost of this tv movie, no doubt!)

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Christopher Tyng, of Futurama fame?

[billyoc]

3. I saw your Hasselhoff crotch post in GD:P,

You'll pay for that...



:rofl:

[Deja Q]

5. Sorry, GDP is so full of disrepute, I had to try to improve it - even if by a small margin...

:hide:

[billyoc]

6. The mods there must sit around shaking like junkies, with hair triggers...

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

7. They just love the short hairs... Hell, I even think I have a squad especially for my antics...

:tinfoilhat:


:rofl:

[Deep13]

9. Didn't even consider watching it.

It was either Fox cartoons on one hand vs. Pride and Prejudice on PBS. Sweetie was knitting and wanted something she would not have to pay attention to, so we went with cartoons.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. I think that it's currently showing, West Coast time.

Yet here I am.

[krispos42]

11. Nice Mustang

The dent-resistant door panels were a nice touch...

[Kutjara]

13. I was just amazed to see a Mustang...

...with doors that don't fall off. And a dashboard that looks as if it costs more than $29.95.

[Kutjara]

12. The only good thing about it...

...is that the bad guys all belong to a evil "security corporation" with links to dark forces within the government, called...wait for it...Blackriver.

The worst part is that the whole show is just an ad for Ford: Lots of loving shots of KITT taken from all angles; a "paint morphing" effect that's purely intended to let viewers see the entire range of colors the Mustang comes in; The bad guys' SUV had no badges or identifying marks of any kind on it (because Ford obviously doesn't want people to think that bad people drive its vehicles); KITT and his human appear in a Ford commercial during every break, so that half the time you can't tell what's the show and what's the ad.

And it's got the Hoff in it at the end. Blech.

[The Animator]

14. Well as a kid, I was a big fan of the show. I watch for purely nostalgic reasons.

To be honest, I really enjoyed it. Instead of trying to completely re-invent the story and tell it, again from the very beginning they instead, decided to make it a continuation of the original series' storyline. A sequel to the original series, much like Star Trek: Next Gen was the continuation of that universe, 75 years after Kirk and Spock. As opposed to the new Battle Star Galactica series, where you spend the first four episodes wondering why the hell Starbuck is a girl.

There is enough new stuff to keep it interesting, the incorporation of new technologies that would make sense to include into a K.I.T.T. vehicle made today, active camouflage, nanotech self healing armor, access to the internet and other research tools. But they don't try to deny the existence of the original K.I.T.T. that I know and love. He was the Knight 2000. This new one, the Knight 3000, is the result of continued research based on the success of it's predecessor.

Sometimes a complete overhaul is a good thing though, for example: Batman Begins.. so much better to just wipe the slate clean, pretend the previous movie series didn't exist, and re-envision the whole thing, only with 98% less suck 2% coolness reserved for Jack Nicholson's Joker.

However sometimes this approach can be really bad.

Catwoman... case closed.

Need more convincing... Godzilla..

That kind of approach is often not fair to the original show's fans... like the show they watch years ago wasn't good enough, so here's a new improved version of the show that your kids will love because they've never heard of it before, and it's new to them.. but it's nothing like the original series, those who loved it before, in all it's retro splendor, feel down.

Sometimes the original doesn't need to be improved... sometimes you just want to see what happens next. Sometimes we don't want a remake, sometimes we want a sequel.