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Death Race
Action / English / 2008
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Originally Posted by MovieMeditation
Death Race remake next! 
Something that will perpetually baffle me until the end of time is why people cling to the originator by sheer virtue of it being the originator.
Sure, there are plenty of examples you can point to that muddy up their source material by trying to go in a different direction or losing sight of what made the originals enjoyable.
Which is better?:
The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy or The Original Trilogy?
The Original Trilogy
Jurassic Park or Jurassic World?
Jurassic Park.
Metropolis (1927) or Metropolis (2001)?
Metropolis (1927).Am I choosing those because I saw the originals first? No. I saw the 2001 Metropolis years before the original.
I prefer The Thing (2011) to The Thing (1982).
I prefer Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) to Planet of the Apes (1968).
And I prefer Death Race to Death Race 2000.
WHY? Because despite their respective faults, Death Race was better at being Death Race than Death Race 2000 was at being Death Race 2000.
They're
DIFFERENT actors playing
DIFFERENT characters in a
DIFFERENT setting in a
DIFFERENT game with
DIFFERENT rules with a
DIFFERENT tone and
DIFFERENT goal.
So it doesn't have any of satirical commentary like Death Race 2000 had.
I prefer The Thing (2011) to The Thing (1982).
I prefer Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) to Planet of the Apes (1968).
And I prefer Death Race to Death Race 2000.
WHY? Because despite their respective faults, Death Race was better at being Death Race than Death Race 2000 was at being Death Race 2000.
They're
DIFFERENT actors playing
DIFFERENT characters in a
DIFFERENT setting in a
DIFFERENT game with
DIFFERENT rules with a
DIFFERENT tone and
DIFFERENT goal.
So it doesn't have any of satirical commentary like Death Race 2000 had.
Like Death Race 2000 was even intentionally funny or making any actual points to begin with?
That movie's just friggen' weird. It was a cartoon. That hangs a lampshade on violent entertainment.
This movie indulges directly in that.
You could say Death Race is missing the point, but I can say that Death Race 2000 was a terrible action movie by comparison. And action is all I'm getting out of DR2K. I'm not laughing, there's no interesting story, and it doesn't have anything meaningful to say like Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes, Metropolis or SEVERAL OTHER movies I could list off the top of my head.
So when it comes to action, Death Race is simply better. In far more ways than I could do it justice by listing here.
With Death Race 2000 my mouth was hanging open because I couldn't process the idea of a couple guys expecting to stop a serial-killing murder car with WOOD.
In Death Race my mouth was open because they disemboweled Mad Max's War Rig with whiplash.
That movie's just friggen' weird. It was a cartoon. That hangs a lampshade on violent entertainment.
This movie indulges directly in that.
You could say Death Race is missing the point, but I can say that Death Race 2000 was a terrible action movie by comparison. And action is all I'm getting out of DR2K. I'm not laughing, there's no interesting story, and it doesn't have anything meaningful to say like Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes, Metropolis or SEVERAL OTHER movies I could list off the top of my head.
So when it comes to action, Death Race is simply better. In far more ways than I could do it justice by listing here.
With Death Race 2000 my mouth was hanging open because I couldn't process the idea of a couple guys expecting to stop a serial-killing murder car with WOOD.
In Death Race my mouth was open because they disemboweled Mad Max's War Rig with whiplash.
Final Verdict: [Pretty Good]
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Last edited by Omnizoa; 05-28-16 at 07:22 PM.
