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Banal Bloodletting, Random Explosions Sold In Red-Band Clip For You-Know-Who's DEATH RACE!

Beaks here...

Used to be geography mattered in the shooting and editing of a car chase. Now, we get garbage like this (hosted by the fetching lads at IGN):

I hope this is a truncated version of what Anderson slapped together for the release cut, but, even then, there seems to be little attempt to place the audience in the action. Throughout the entire clip, you have no idea where Jason Statham's car is in relation to the other vehicles or the "Dreadnought". Harp on Michael Bay all you want, but he at least gives you a sense of where shit is from time to time (check out the freeway smash-up in THE ISLAND if you think I'm wrong); he just doesn't hold on a particular shot for more than a few seconds. That sequence above is incomprehensible in the extreme.

It's also rather tame for a red-band clip. But, by all means, please go see DEATH RACE on August 22nd to confirm what you've known about Paul W.S. Anderson since SOLDIER.

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First!
by Nickn328
Aug 12th, 2008
09:05:05 PM
Also...
by Nickn328
Aug 12th, 2008
09:05:31 PM
Soldier was butchered by the studio, to be fair
by SpencerTrilby
Aug 12th, 2008
09:07:21 PM
First
by Tyler_Turden
Aug 12th, 2008
09:09:11 PM
There Will Be Blod!
by Loosejerk
Aug 12th, 2008
09:12:36 PM
To be COMPLETELY fair, I stopped watching mid-stream
by SpencerTrilby
Aug 12th, 2008
09:14:06 PM
Anderson strikes again
by superunknown85
Aug 12th, 2008
09:15:51 PM
Wow, that was supremely horrible...
by S0cks
Aug 12th, 2008
09:17:30 PM
wow choppy shittty wow wow
by zom-bot.com
Aug 12th, 2008
09:20:49 PM
Release the Dreadnought! Activate weapons!
by SpencerTrilby
Aug 12th, 2008
09:21:08 PM
Want to see this just to see....
by Smerdyakov
Aug 12th, 2008
09:21:27 PM
Ain't working with Jason Statham a fate horrible enough?
by SpencerTrilby
Aug 12th, 2008
09:26:35 PM
Michael Bay Should Have Directed This
by Alice Cooper Stalker
Aug 12th, 2008
09:26:37 PM
Michael Bay Should Have Directed This
by Alice Cooper Stalker
Aug 12th, 2008
09:26:39 PM
What happened to children and old people are the highest points?
by rectalscan
Aug 12th, 2008
09:31:03 PM
It's a Death Race
by malificus
Aug 12th, 2008
09:34:49 PM
Stratham I can understand but...
by aversiontherapy2
Aug 12th, 2008
09:35:40 PM
Joan Allen in this movie is deeply sad to me
by MarsFalls
Aug 12th, 2008
09:39:26 PM
i might watch it while drunk on tbs, tnt, usa, or fx
by reckni
Aug 12th, 2008
09:42:51 PM
Maybe the least convincing
by bb6634
Aug 12th, 2008
09:47:09 PM
Since SOLDIER? What took you so long?
by Media Fiend
Aug 12th, 2008
09:48:56 PM
malificus
by Eats_sandwich_gets_laid.
Aug 12th, 2008
09:52:55 PM
Paul WS is great at...
by Big Bad Clone
Aug 12th, 2008
09:56:08 PM
Really bad, actually.
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 12th, 2008
10:04:56 PM
He Was In Back Of The Truck, Then Pulled Out Front
by LaserPants
Aug 12th, 2008
10:05:40 PM
Pussy-ass Whiners, Shut Up and Go Play Dungeons & Dragons
by El Mono
Aug 12th, 2008
10:06:16 PM
And no, I don't want "Shakespeare."
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 12th, 2008
10:07:54 PM
DAMN BEAKS YOU SUCK!
by Darth_Kaos
Aug 12th, 2008
10:10:10 PM
Fuck yeah!
by nascentia
Aug 12th, 2008
10:12:11 PM
El Mono, your attitude...
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 12th, 2008
10:20:13 PM
Yeah, definitely hard to follow...
by iamnicksaicnsn
Aug 12th, 2008
10:20:36 PM
Hey man, Soldier wasn't that bad...
by The cunning linguist
Aug 12th, 2008
10:29:53 PM
Paul W.S. Anderson...
by Banzai Rootskibango
Aug 12th, 2008
10:30:00 PM
Obviously...
by mrbeaks
Aug 12th, 2008
10:32:26 PM
This didn't look bad actually..
by The cunning linguist
Aug 12th, 2008
10:32:59 PM
WOW
by BurgerTime
Aug 12th, 2008
10:39:36 PM
Big Bad Clone Nails It
by mrbeaks
Aug 12th, 2008
10:41:02 PM
Quality Genre Films...
by El Mono
Aug 12th, 2008
10:42:57 PM
That was beyond terrible
by FranklinStreet
Aug 12th, 2008
10:45:29 PM
Um, "A Thousand SMOKEY AND THE BANDITS"...
by mrbeaks
Aug 12th, 2008
10:51:27 PM
That woman who delivers...
by Banzai Rootskibango
Aug 12th, 2008
10:51:31 PM
Should be cool but...
by slicer
Aug 12th, 2008
10:52:46 PM
Looks pretty great to me
by Eliguy
Aug 12th, 2008
10:54:37 PM
They should have Morgan Freeman
by The cunning linguist
Aug 12th, 2008
10:55:44 PM
The Trailer makes it look like a direct steal from
by Smerdyakov
Aug 12th, 2008
10:59:13 PM
Needham: the genius who brought us Megaforce and Stroker Ace
by El Mono
Aug 12th, 2008
11:03:01 PM
No, He Wouldn't
by mrbeaks
Aug 12th, 2008
11:07:26 PM
Needs more whip!
by SpencerTrilby
Aug 12th, 2008
11:08:43 PM
Event Horizon..
by Harold-Sherbort
Aug 12th, 2008
11:14:04 PM
COMMANDO is great though.
by NoPIX
Aug 12th, 2008
11:14:52 PM
And that's about all he knew how to shoot...
by El Mono
Aug 12th, 2008
11:25:14 PM
Ok, Beaks.
by Irina Spanko
Aug 12th, 2008
11:42:01 PM
PAUL "WORSE THAN SHIT" ANDERSON
by polyh3dron
Aug 12th, 2008
11:45:48 PM
I would give Anderson 10 more movies...
by Galactic
Aug 12th, 2008
11:47:30 PM
Never mind, Beaks.
by Irina Spanko
Aug 12th, 2008
11:47:52 PM
this isn't death race.
by dingus khan
Aug 12th, 2008
11:48:08 PM
Dingus Khan...
by Banzai Rootskibango
Aug 12th, 2008
11:59:58 PM
Seemed fine to me
by Flipao
Aug 13th, 2008
12:01:13 AM
He made Event Horizon?
by malificus
Aug 13th, 2008
12:04:11 AM
Actually, El Mono, you're attitude has everything to do with it.
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 13th, 2008
12:15:36 AM
Oh, and when you inevitably respond...
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 13th, 2008
12:18:55 AM
It's not terrible
by Larry of Arabia
Aug 13th, 2008
12:35:20 AM
Laughed at the subtitles
by ironic_name
Aug 13th, 2008
12:40:40 AM
It made far more sense than the action of the Bourne movies.
by Mr. Moe
Aug 13th, 2008
12:52:12 AM
"[Shakespeare] never directed an action scene..."
by Lord John Whorfin
Aug 13th, 2008
12:58:03 AM
Wah wah wah.
by salamimansam
Aug 13th, 2008
01:01:37 AM
Early reviews sucked....
by WhinyNegativeBitch
Aug 13th, 2008
01:21:55 AM
Death Race 2000 is a classic.
by Lord John Whorfin
Aug 13th, 2008
01:22:34 AM
hmmm, the transporter has a tank after him
by deanbarry
Aug 13th, 2008
02:02:43 AM
Lord Jhon Whorfin...
by Galva
Aug 13th, 2008
02:06:53 AM
Sigh...
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 13th, 2008
02:08:20 AM
You're being a bit harsh, Beaks
by palimpsest
Aug 13th, 2008
02:12:16 AM
Ahh Shakespeare
by palimpsest
Aug 13th, 2008
02:18:35 AM
I obviously have too much time on my hands
by palimpsest
Aug 13th, 2008
02:19:16 AM
Obviously.
by Lord John Whorfin
Aug 13th, 2008
02:20:59 AM
Beats working though
by palimpsest
Aug 13th, 2008
02:25:18 AM
Statham
by PrincessLeias_Poohole
Aug 13th, 2008
02:34:30 AM
"Two days ago I saw a rig that could haul that tanker."
by Det. John Kimble
Aug 13th, 2008
02:38:22 AM
Beaks...
by Conrad Straker
Aug 13th, 2008
02:38:35 AM
where he has borrowed this stuff from.
by Juggernaut125
Aug 13th, 2008
02:50:13 AM
even if its bad....
by Uridium
Aug 13th, 2008
03:00:50 AM
Soldier
by bigj1124
Aug 13th, 2008
03:12:28 AM
Wow! That must've been the lamest, slowest and most boring
by Motoko Kusanagi
Aug 13th, 2008
03:15:55 AM
So according to the score board in the clip...
by Billy The Fish
Aug 13th, 2008
03:18:08 AM
Stunning...ly inept!
by Charlie & Tex
Aug 13th, 2008
03:54:44 AM
And those laughable camera movements around that
by Motoko Kusanagi
Aug 13th, 2008
04:22:26 AM
Now look...
by Ghostball
Aug 13th, 2008
04:33:37 AM
why couldnt they just leave it alone?
by Obscura
Aug 13th, 2008
04:36:12 AM
actually I got The Running Man vibes off the trailer
by the power of GREYSKULL
Aug 13th, 2008
05:15:31 AM
actually I got The Running Man vibes off the trailer
by the power of GREYSKULL
Aug 13th, 2008
05:16:45 AM
sorry for the double
by the power of GREYSKULL
Aug 13th, 2008
05:21:00 AM
Brakes
by KillDozer
Aug 13th, 2008
06:29:41 AM
was that deputy joe from eureka in the car?
by ian216a
Aug 13th, 2008
06:32:34 AM
doh
by ian216a
Aug 13th, 2008
06:35:55 AM
Me too...
by Ghostball
Aug 13th, 2008
06:41:40 AM
But but but JOAN ALLEN
by ciroslive
Aug 13th, 2008
08:23:44 AM
To give props to Hal Needham
by palimpsest
Aug 13th, 2008
08:43:05 AM
I saw this at the end of may or begining of june here in London.
by TMiC
Aug 13th, 2008
02:18:06 PM
Wacky Races!
by Larry Sellers
Aug 13th, 2008
02:56:03 PM
Larry Sellers
by TMiC
Aug 13th, 2008
02:59:44 PM
uh, this looks fucking great
by WolfmanNards
Aug 13th, 2008
03:52:13 PM
Memories of Murder
by El Mono
Aug 14th, 2008
12:27:06 AM
Condemned On Wheels!
by warchild74
Aug 14th, 2008
02:00:41 AM
Fuck you El Mono.
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 14th, 2008
02:43:24 AM
rectalscan
by fireclown
Aug 14th, 2008
08:38:52 AM
M-O-M...
by Finding Forrestal
Aug 14th, 2008
09:24:55 AM
This film will make a shitload.
by bioforge
Aug 14th, 2008
05:17:41 PM

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