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

Published at:  Aug 12, 2008 9:21:44 PM CDT

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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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:05:05 PM CDT

    First!

    by nickn328

  • Aug 12, 2008 9:05:31 PM CDT

    Also...

    by nickn328

    This looks like complete crap.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:07:21 PM CDT

    Soldier was butchered by the studio, to be fair

    by spencertrilby

    what's left of it is far from a disgrace. Resident Evil was the true beginning of the end.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:09:11 PM CDT

    First

    by tyler_turden

    honestly he has the same style for everything. what is Jason doing? I thought after the bank Job he could get work

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:12:36 PM CDT

    There Will Be Blod!

    by loosejerk

  • Aug 12, 2008 9:14:06 PM CDT

    To be COMPLETELY fair, I stopped watching mid-stream

    by spencertrilby

    that looks like shit, INDEED.

    I mean, I defended Soldier, I even defended the trailer for this because some hypocritical folks who bitch to no end about CGI refused to admit that at least the trailer looked like good ol' practical FX... but that clip pulled me down to earth for good. Not that I intended to see a mongoloid retread of Paul Bartel's classic.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:15:51 PM CDT

    Anderson strikes again

    by superunknown85

    He'd actually be a good director if he let someone else write the dialogue.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:17:30 PM CDT

    Wow, that was supremely horrible...

    by s0cks

    ...and not in a good way, either.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:20:49 PM CDT

    wow choppy shittty wow wow

    by zom-bot.com

    where the asians on like another set with no environmental sound so they would sound dubbed or something too?
    i had no idea who was who, and your right, no indication of where statham's car was.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:21:08 PM CDT

    Release the Dreadnought! Activate weapons!

    by spencertrilby

    Can someone remix that with Queen's "Flash Gordon" title track? Sounds like a good fit with "dispatch war rocket Ajax", no? Poor, poor Joan Allen...

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:21:27 PM CDT

    Want to see this just to see....

    by smerdyakov

    What kind of a horrible fate they have in store for Joan Allen. I would have paid years ago to see her get blown away.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:26:35 PM CDT

    Ain't working with Jason Statham a fate horrible enough?

    by spencertrilby

    I mean, except for The Bank Job I don't remember anything good he made. Those Transporter movies are on par with Paul Anderson, and yet he keeps churning them out between two Uwe Boll movies. He's a poor man's Charles Bronson, without the artistic integrity of Chuck's early days.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:26:37 PM CDT

    Michael Bay Should Have Directed This

    by alice cooper stalker

  • Aug 12, 2008 9:26:39 PM CDT

    Michael Bay Should Have Directed This

    by alice cooper stalker

  • They don't even kill ANY pedestrian's in this movie?! WTF happened to the point system?!! Crapfest!!! Just get the original Corman version on DVD. FAR SUPERIOR!! NOT politically sissified.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:34:49 PM CDT

    It's a Death Race

    by malificus

    people get death'd, what's the problem? You want Shakespeare or something? I had no problem keeping track of Statham, he took a sharp left, ran parallel for a bit then ended up in front, though i could be wrong. Too many quickee edits I'll grant you, and I did have the sound turned off, but that Dreadnought is BAD ASS I loved the panels that opened up on the side and the big gun that protruded out and man when those chains grabbed that dude's car and the cannon fucked him up woopee! Of course, I'm running on about 4 hours of sleep between 12 hour shifts and am really in the mood to fuck shit up, but I'd rent it, pay at the movies? probably not.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:35:40 PM CDT

    Stratham I can understand but...

    by aversiontherapy2

    Joan Allen?! Come on.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:39:26 PM CDT

    Joan Allen in this movie is deeply sad to me

    by marsfalls

    Statham, god bless him, is right where he should be.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:42:51 PM CDT

    i might watch it while drunk on tbs, tnt, usa, or fx

    by reckni

    It'll be on there by Christmas. And I'll probably pass out after 10 minutes.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:47:09 PM CDT

    Maybe the least convincing

    by bb6634

    facial expressions by actors attempting to show "terror" or "fear" I've seen in... well, I cannot remember.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:48:56 PM CDT

    Since SOLDIER? What took you so long?

    by media fiend

    I recognized he was a hack with EVENT HORIZON. The 1st of his I ever saw.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:52:55 PM CDT

    malificus

    by eats_sandwich_gets_laid.

    "though I could be wrong..."


    you could've, and probably should've, stopped there.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 9:56:08 PM CDT

    Paul WS is great at...

    by big bad clone

    taking a story and making it as small as he possibly can. I understand he's trying to make things under budget but his movies are like eating condensed soup without adding water. Mortal Kombat: all on one island. Resident Evil: all in a basement. RE2: One (cheap looking) city. AVP: All in a ice hotel. Death Race: hell, let's film it near a few warehouses and call it a day.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:04:56 PM CDT

    Really bad, actually.

    by finding forrestal

    We've lost a lot of ground since "Road Warrior."

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:05:40 PM CDT

    He Was In Back Of The Truck, Then Pulled Out Front

    by laserpants

    Was it that hard to follow? Made sense to me. The movie is probably going to be a steaming pile of shit, but then again, so was the original, so what fucking difference does it make?

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:06:16 PM CDT

    Pussy-ass Whiners, Shut Up and Go Play Dungeons & Dragons

    by el mono

    That clip doesn't look nearly as bad as you're all making it out to be! PWSA may be a hack, but consider the source material... A cult classic, to be sure, but it's also a schlocky mess of a film. Paul Bartel? Talk about a hack. This looks exactly like what it was designed to be: forgettable escapist fun. All of you who are looking for Lawrence of Arabia in a movie like this have your heads WAY up your cornholes. Consider it an exception to the rule when guys like Nolan and Favs get behind the camera to bring your favorite wank-fantasy to life and leave it at that. You want to see good films? Support independent and foreign cinema and accept Hollywood for what it is: commerce for commerce's sake. You're all pigs at the trough, so shut up and eat the slop. If you had any self-respect as film-goers you wouldn't even take the time to watch a trailer for PWSA flick, much less comment on how terrible it was. Fucking losers. Shut up. And Beaks? You're just a fuggin idiot. How much do you get paid for being a douche-bag all day?

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:07:54 PM CDT

    And no, I don't want "Shakespeare."

    by finding forrestal

    As far as I know, he never directed an action scene. What I want is a coherent car chase directed by someone who understands the mechanics of action filmmaking.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:10:10 PM CDT

    DAMN BEAKS YOU SUCK!

    by darth_kaos

    I totally knew where Jason's car was in relation to what I saw in the scene. It really wasn't about Jason's CAR! DICKHEAD, it was about the people who got iced. I get so tired of people who think that are aficionados of the movie making world.
    What's a failed movie maker called? A movie reviewer.
    The way this site abuses Anderson (not to mention, Ratner and Bay)IS STUPID and WITHOUT MERIT. These guys won't win any oscars, but goddamit, they make some pretty entertaining movies.
    Geeks only agree because they think it's cool to shit on them. Of course, you can have your opinion, like I have mind, but sometimes it can get ridiculous.
    Oh, BTW - I thought the TDK was good, but not great. You want to talk about a movie with flaws! Start a 'THE DARK KNIGHT' thread.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:12:11 PM CDT

    Fuck yeah!

    by nascentia

    This looks better than The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and even Godzilla! THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST FUCKING MOVIE SINCE MEAN GIRLS!!!!!

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:20:13 PM CDT

    El Mono, your attitude...

    by finding forrestal

    ...is the reason why Hollywood films have degenerated into "pig slop." Why would the studios strive to make quality genre films if people like you continually justify and support the existence of tripe like this? And if Paul W.S. Anderson's "Death Race" is your idea "escapist fun" then you truly are a cinematic moron.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:20:36 PM CDT

    Yeah, definitely hard to follow...

    by iamnicksaicnsn

    definitely... yeah, definitely...

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:29:53 PM CDT

    Hey man, Soldier wasn't that bad...

    by the cunning linguist

    Kurt Russell was better in that than Stargate....you know it's true

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:30:00 PM CDT

    Paul W.S. Anderson...

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...I have such DISDAIN for this guy. He takes "high concept" material which would be decent output for anybody else and turns it into gushing piles of poopydoop.
    Not only that, but his movies completely TANK or under perform at the very least...and yet, people still give him money to continue his career! It's unfathomable!

    I truly feel sorry for Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson for having a similar sounding name as this bag of giraffe testicles.

    I wouldn't pay money to see anything that this guy puts out there. Maybe...MAYBE...I would watch about 10 - 15 minutes of this crap if it was on TV for free - deem it to be stupid and then go do something more worthy of my time, like write up a mock obituary for Paul W.S. Anderson.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:32:26 PM CDT

    Obviously...

    by mrbeaks

    ... we know where Statham is when he gets there, but that cut from his car veering left to the other car (which looks a helluva lot like Statham's) drawing fire in front of the Dreadnought throws everything off. It's just a lot of free-floating mayhem from that point on (with the quick bird's-eye giving us a too-brief shot of Statham going parallel to the truck). Even the action in bad 80s movies (I'm thinking COMMANDO bad) didn't encourage the viewer to be this passive.And don't get me started on the second shot of the panels opening (same angle, different take, makes zero sense). So much to hate about this sequence.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:32:59 PM CDT

    This didn't look bad actually..

    by the cunning linguist

    It's not Stallone and Carradine, but in this day and age you couldn't really remake Deathrace 2000. Sad actually...

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:39:36 PM CDT

    WOW

    by burgertime

    That looks just like my nightly commute home after work. Except there's fewer explosions.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:41:02 PM CDT

    Big Bad Clone Nails It

    by mrbeaks

    Well put.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:42:57 PM CDT

    Quality Genre Films...

    by el mono

    ...are and always have been an exception to the rule in Hollywood. For every road warrior, there are a thousand Smokey and the Bandits. Mainstream films haven't degenerated into pig slop, they've always been that way. It's pathetic little babies like you who don't understand that Hollywood is a business - like Coca Cola. You're the kind of guy who complains that regular Coke is rotting your teeth, which is why you switched to Diet. My attitude has nothing to do with it. If you really want quality genre flicks DO something about it, you insipid pillow-biter. Write one, shoot one and get it out there to prove me wrong. Hollywood doesn't give a fuck about your menstruation-induced complaints, they just want your greenbacks. Besides, it's really hard to take someone like you seriously when your handle references a ham-fisted, wanna-be Dead Poets Society starring Sean Fucking Connery. You're not exactly putting yourself out there as a cineaste.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:45:29 PM CDT

    That was beyond terrible

    by franklinstreet

    So when he's not butchering the Resident Evil franchise and making turd-bombs out of it, Anderson is serving up shit sandwiches like this. Pass.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:51:27 PM CDT

    Um, "A Thousand SMOKEY AND THE BANDITS"...

    by mrbeaks

    ... would be a blessing. Sir Hal Needham knew how to shoot a fucking car chase.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:51:31 PM CDT

    That woman who delivers...

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...the "Jesus Christ" line should recieve an Oscar for her performance. It's a bloody chase scene. It's self-explanatory! How do you have bad acting in a chase scene?

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:52:46 PM CDT

    Should be cool but...

    by slicer

    the editing SUCKED!! They need to go back into it from frame one, fire the asshole that put that piece of crap together, and hire somebody who knows how to actually edit a cool car chase scene! I'm sure they have enough cool footage captured that somebody with some talent could put something together better than that!

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:55:44 PM CDT

    They should have Morgan Freeman

    by the cunning linguist

    Drivin Ms. Daisy in there. She'd be in the back, rattling around like a bean in a can, while Morgan is blasting away with ole style gattling guns in that antique ass car. I'd watch that for sure.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 10:59:13 PM CDT

    The Trailer makes it look like a direct steal from

    by smerdyakov

    The Longest Yard. With Death Cars instead of football.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:03:01 PM CDT

    Needham: the genius who brought us Megaforce and Stroker Ace

    by el mono

    Beaks, if AICN was around in the early 80s, Needham would've been the PWSA of the day! Come on, Beaks! Canonball Run and Smokey were cool if you were under 10 years old.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:07:26 PM CDT

    No, He Wouldn't

    by mrbeaks

    Needham knew how to stage and shoot car chases.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:08:43 PM CDT

    Needs more whip!

    by spencertrilby

    Oops, wrong TB.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:14:04 PM CDT

    Event Horizon..

    by harold-sherbort

    ..wasn't bad as a b science fiction movie. "Mama Bear. I'm scared".

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:14:52 PM CDT

    COMMANDO is great though.

    by nopix

    I've seen it and laughed way too many times.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:25:14 PM CDT

    And that's about all he knew how to shoot...

    by el mono

    ...that,and Reynolds and DeLuise dying of laughter in the end crawl for no apparent reason. Does that elevate him above hack status? Hell no. The guy was a stunt man who got to direct a few vanity projects for Burt, who he let push him around. And let it be said that well-constructed car chase scenes do not make a good movie. And based solely on this one sequence, how are we to accurately judge the driving scenes of the Deathrace remake? I know PWSA's previous work inspires little confidence, but we're jumping the gun a little bit.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:42:01 PM CDT

    Ok, Beaks.

    by irina spanko

    I didn't hate Soldier. Does that mean I should go to this and confirm he can make a decent movie once in a while, but never a great one?

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:45:48 PM CDT

    PAUL "WORSE THAN SHIT" ANDERSON

    by polyh3dron

    I'll never put another dollar into this asshole's pocket after seeing what he did to Resident Evil, Alien and Predator.

    NEVAR AGAIN

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:47:30 PM CDT

    I would give Anderson 10 more movies...

    by galactic

    if it meant the fucking idiots who keep making those "30 Random Pop Culture References Pretending To Be A Parody Movie" would drop down dead. Like RIGHT NOW. "Disaster Movie?" Really? FUCK YOU GUYS. "2 of the 6" writers of Scary Movie? I KNEW 30% of that movie sucked hairy Harry goat balls!

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:47:52 PM CDT

    Never mind, Beaks.

    by irina spanko

    When I posted the above comment I hadn't read that you think Commando is bad. Now I know you don't "get" certain movies. Pity, as you are the best writer on this site.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:48:08 PM CDT

    this isn't death race.

    by dingus khan

    death race has cross-country carnage.

    death race has a point system for people getting mowed down.

    death race has ridiculous amounts of glorious murder.

    this has joan allen.

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  • Aug 12, 2008 11:59:58 PM CDT

    Dingus Khan...

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...Joan Allen...in "zoomovision."

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:01:13 AM CDT

    Seemed fine to me

    by flipao

    Not saying it's going to win an Oscar but for fuck's sake Beaks, we know WS Anderson is no Michael Bay, he's no Uwe Boll either, he's a mediocre director whose films make money, deal with it.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:04:11 AM CDT

    He made Event Horizon?

    by malificus

    That movie creeped me out. It wasn't great, but I thought it was decent, it had atmosphere anyway. Mortal Combat as well? For a movie made from a video game it had decent fights and the title song moved right along. I'm not defending the guy per se, but holding up the Road Warrior as superior is dicey in my book, especially when you haven't seen the whole flick. Mad Max was always the best of that series and Thunderdome was pure shit. They should return to the rubber-burnin' roots of those movies, have civilization bouncing back, have them re-establishing a police force, bring back that crazy-assed bike rider all burn-scarred and out of his mind, pump some crazy speed back into that dead horse.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:15:36 AM CDT

    Actually, El Mono, you're attitude has everything to do with it.

    by finding forrestal

    You cynical fuck. Excuse me for expecting a modicum of quality out of my genre fare.Keep supporting the slop, you bottom feeding prick.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:18:55 AM CDT

    Oh, and when you inevitably respond...

    by finding forrestal

    ...make sure you spew some more bigoted vitriol in my direction. You classless little shit...

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:35:20 AM CDT

    It's not terrible

    by larry of arabia

    It's dull because of constant frantic action. The camera sweep on Joan Allen undercuts everything she's doing in the scene. Her strong stance, supreme confidence, and total control are lost in the swoop and pointless "wooosh" sound. As it stands she's a part of the action and not apart and "above" it. A lack of kinetic motion there would have also made the action out of the track seem more urgent. She would be in control and they would be racing for their lives due to her mechanisms and not with her. I hope I explained that well. I don't have much to say about the race editing. I'm sure we'd know the cars better when we see the movie's setup scenes. That would help a great deal because they all are the same color with only minor changes. There is a reason NASCARs have such different colors - it helps us keep track during the race.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:40:40 AM CDT

    Laughed at the subtitles

    by ironic_name

  • Aug 13, 2008 12:52:12 AM CDT

    It made far more sense than the action of the Bourne movies.

    by mr. moe

    Now those movies have some of the most incomprehensible action scenes ever.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 12:58:03 AM CDT

    "[Shakespeare] never directed an action scene..."

    by lord john whorfin

    You, sir, have no knowledge of Shakespeare.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 1:01:37 AM CDT

    Wah wah wah.

    by salamimansam

    We all know that this is going to be dumb, but from what I have heard from people who have actually seen the film and have never been PWSA fans by the way, was that they were all really surprised by how much they enjoyed the flick....these are guys who review films for a living and of course haven't published their reviews yet, but come next week, you will see some fairly positive reviews.
    There is no pleasing everyone and Mr. Beaks is ruthless but he can break it down blow-by-blow and explain why he hates it, rather than hating just because of the director.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 1:21:55 AM CDT

    Early reviews sucked....

    by whinynegativebitch

    ...Which is a shame. The first trailer almost promised an Anderson film I could almost enjoy.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 1:22:34 AM CDT

    Death Race 2000 is a classic.

    by lord john whorfin

    And classics are supposed to be rare. It's like how everyone is a genius, nowadays. Besides, who really wants a true remake of Death Race 2000? Isn't it better to have the same basic concept (a race where the object is to kill one another) with a new setting? People are always surprised and outraged by the changes that remakes make to the original, which is ridiculous. It's one thing to be critical and to make comparisons, but this is ridiculous. True, when said changes are meant to be improvements, but fail in their execution, it can be irritating. But, c'mon, get a grip. Inform your opinion by seeing the film, then maybe your rage is justified.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:02:43 AM CDT

    hmmm, the transporter has a tank after him

    by deanbarry

    going to go and have a bath in the sink at burger king now.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:06:53 AM CDT

    Lord Jhon Whorfin...

    by galva

    There are two films where I decided to watch the film before bashing it, in spite of the fact that everyone and their mother was bash-happy without seeing anything more than a trailer or a poster: White Chicks, and Catwoman. I made it all the way through Catwoman, but it cost me my sunny disposition. White Chicks took about 8 minutes to completely break me in half. I have decided from now on that if something looks like shit, and smells like shit, then it's shit. No need to take a bite out of it to be sure. As for taking the same basic concept and remaking classics: Can't we do that to shitty movies instead? Stuff that had potential but didn't quite make it? Like Krull. I'd see that.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:08:20 AM CDT

    Sigh...

    by finding forrestal

    A car chase. Shakespeare never directed a car chase. Though I'm sure if we gave William a camera and a copy of Lumet's "Making Movies" he'd be immediately capable of staging a superior chase sequence.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:12:16 AM CDT

    You're being a bit harsh, Beaks

    by palimpsest

    The promo clip's acceptable (if a little obviously cut down from something larger). Wait for the movie before judging it in advance. Oh, hang on, this is AICN. Bitch and moan all you like...

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:18:35 AM CDT

    Ahh Shakespeare

    by palimpsest

    Shall I compare thee to a Michael Bay? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May /
    Late Summer's release hath all too short a date /Sometime too hot the eye of Harry shines / And oft' is his red complexion dimm'd /
    And every fair from fair sometime declines / By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd /But thy eternal Death Race shall not fade
    Nor lose possession of that Avid thou ownest / Nor shall Death brag thou cans't not action cut /
    When in eternal lines to time thou growest / So long as geeks can breathe, or eyes can see /So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:19:16 AM CDT

    I obviously have too much time on my hands

    by palimpsest

  • Aug 13, 2008 2:20:59 AM CDT

    Obviously.

    by lord john whorfin

    No doubt.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:25:18 AM CDT

    Beats working though

    by palimpsest

  • Aug 13, 2008 2:34:30 AM CDT

    Statham

    by princessleias_poohole

    After seeing the Bank Job i was actually quite impressed with Statham , thought he might be making a change of direction for himself. I was wrong.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:38:22 AM CDT

    "Two days ago I saw a rig that could haul that tanker."

    by det. john kimble

    "You want to get outta here? Talk to me."

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:38:35 AM CDT

    Beaks...

    by conrad straker

    Yeah, this clip is a cobbled together mess thanks to Universal publicity. The intro to the Dreadnought runs longer.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:50:13 AM CDT

    where he has borrowed this stuff from.

    by juggernaut125

    I've seen Death Race 2000. And this, Mr. Anderson is NOT Death Race 2000. It's like a bastard child of 'The Longest Yard' and 'The Condemned' with cars. Surprisingly enough I actually LIKED 'The Condemned'. I've watched most of your movies Paul. Soldier. (Liked it. Thought Kurt was excellent in what I saw.) Watched Mortal Kombat. I enjoyed it as well, because at the time, a martial arts movie with cool specially powered super-ninjas were just what I needed. I've even watched Resident Evil because.. well, Milla... Yummy. But after the fuck job you did with Alien vs. Predator, I will NEVER pay money to see any of your movies in the theatre again.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:00:50 AM CDT

    even if its bad....

    by uridium

    ...i will still watch it.
    But i agree, that does need to be re-edited.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:12:28 AM CDT

    Soldier

    by bigj1124

    I know Kurt Russell only uttered about 16 syllables in the whole of Soldier, but i genuinely liked the movie a couple of ropey effects aside!!Yes its hardly Citizen Kane, but its enjoyable fun,I guess I am one of only 6 on the planet that like it!!but hey we are all different!!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:15:55 AM CDT

    Wow! That must've been the lamest, slowest and most boring

    by motoko kusanagi

    race sequence I've ever seen.They shot that with 20mph and then added Mr. Shaky Cam and quick cuts to make it look like a "race" at 90mph. Hilarious!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:18:08 AM CDT

    So according to the score board in the clip...

    by billy the fish

    Only Jason and his bint are left at the end of this trailer?Hmm...let me guess, they then destroy the big truck and win the race, offing that smug blonde tart in the process.There, I've saved you all the need to see it - aren't I a star?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:54:44 AM CDT

    Stunning...ly inept!

    by charlie & tex

    OK, so there are large explosions and some interesting practical effects, but this really looks like something for a bunch of ADHD teenagers whacked-out on too much sugar.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 4:22:26 AM CDT

    And those laughable camera movements around that

    by motoko kusanagi

    ugly bitch...what's her name, y'know, of that fuckface that played Pamela Landy in the Shaky Cam trilogy...looked crappy, too.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 4:33:37 AM CDT

    Now look...

    by ghostball

    I'm no fan of PoS Anderson - his films are literally the worst in the world, and anybody who's not certifiable and willingly gives him their money, needs to be taken out back and shot.

    We're all on the same page there - we could forge world peace on that pretext.

    But - I got a theory. No, no, just hear me out. I've noticed that Anderson is, from appearances, about 12 years old, a fine reason for him being not only an insult to even hacks like Boll, but for him being completely incapable of holding a cogent conversation, from what I've seen in his interviews...

    So while his movies suck the shit out of a dead slug's asshole, lick the residue off their lips ecstatically and ask for more, we at least must pay respect to the likelihood that Anderson is clearly part of some charitable after school programme. He's living in some sort of cocooned, cossetted hyper reality where where his movies are 'enjoyable popcorn fun' and not, in actual reality, festering troughs of eel smegma.

    And let's face it, what of you or I, or any other Joe Shlub who masturubates compulsively over whether or not a sonar phone is technically feasible? What if WE tried getting behind a movie camera, could we really come up with better? (We'll never know, because we don't have the won ton to get out there and face freighter-loads of rejection before, when we're 58, some gullible asshat at Sci-Channel or The Asylum takes a punt on our pathetic slushpile-dwelling spec script about some time travelling cyborg driving instructor or something.

    So while it's true Anderson's movies make 'The Hottie and the Nottie' look like a smoothie blended from Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back and Citizen Kane, he's still out there, doing his thing, and getting paid for it, while we, the talkbacking masses, are all... still, frankly... here.

    *PoS Anderson, on his 3/4 of a second coffee break, reads this post and a tear rolls down his cheek - he prays for our souls, then forgets all about us and gets on with doing what he loves -ie making shit movies, perhaps a spot squash and cross-training, and spending quaility time with friends and family, etc*

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  • Aug 13, 2008 4:36:12 AM CDT

    why couldnt they just leave it alone?

    by obscura

    ..they've made something that looks nothing like the original, has a totally different plot and has lost all meaning.... it doesnt deserve to have the name 'Deathrace' just to win a few idiot supporters. it makes me wanna go iut and run over some old people for 100 points.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 5:15:31 AM CDT

    actually I got The Running Man vibes off the trailer

    by the power of greyskull

    but sure, Longest Yard works too sort of... maybe. I don't really have a problem with Anderson - his movies leave me feeling... nothing. I get nothing at all from them.
    All the way back to SHOPPING, this has been the case - without exception.
    btw well-constructed car chase scenes DO make a good movie - and that movie was called The Cannonball Run

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  • Aug 13, 2008 5:16:45 AM CDT

    actually I got The Running Man vibes off the trailer

    by the power of greyskull

    but sure, Longest Yard works too sort of... maybe. I don't really have a problem with Anderson - his movies leave me feeling... nothing. I get nothing at all from them.
    All the way back to SHOPPING, this has been the case - without exception.
    btw well-constructed car chase scenes DO make a good movie - and that movie was called The Cannonball Run

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  • Aug 13, 2008 5:21:00 AM CDT

    sorry for the double

    by the power of greyskull

    while I'm on a roll...
    Galva - I'm TOTALLY with you - not only should films that are NOT classics be the ones getting the remake treatment, I would LOVE for Krull to be at the top of that list!

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  • Aug 13, 2008 6:29:41 AM CDT

    Brakes

    by killdozer

    Here's a tip: If you're driving next to a giant truck and it's shooting a flamethrower at your tiny car, step on the brakes. Unlike just looking out the window with a scared look on your sweaty face, this will actually get you out of the flames for a bit...And Ghostball, I don't want to make movies. I want to watch good movies. Something that will only get easier once the careers of the hacks that made this film shrivel up and blow away.And why would he pray for our souls just because we don't like his movie? Actually, don't answer that. I don't really care what you were thinking.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 6:32:34 AM CDT

    was that deputy joe from eureka in the car?

    by ian216a

    if so - fuck the car chases, if she gets nekkid i'll be watching this.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 6:35:55 AM CDT

    doh

    by ian216a

    just checked imdb - it isn't deputy jo - so i'm passing

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  • Aug 13, 2008 6:41:40 AM CDT

    Me too...

    by ghostball

    Mel Gibson and George Miller need to get another Mad Max made already - the real deal when it comes to Vroom, Boom and Doom

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  • Aug 13, 2008 8:23:44 AM CDT

    But but but JOAN ALLEN

    by ciroslive

    Joan Allen is in it! It can't be that bad, can it? CAN IT!?!?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 8:43:05 AM CDT

    To give props to Hal Needham

    by palimpsest

    The final stunt sequence in HOOPER is flipping wonderful. Tho STROKER ACE stinks bad. And to think, that was the movie that killed Burt Reynolds' career (it was a tossup between this and the part that went to Nicholson in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT...)

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  • and was going to post a review but what you saw is pretty much the entire fils, no cross country race no satire, just Mario KArt on a prison island. When I say Mario Kart I mean it, they actually drive over 'tokens' to activate weapons and such. This movie is Andersons beast, but the best of a bad bunch doesn't cut it with me.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:56:03 PM CDT

    Wacky Races!

    by larry sellers

    Where's that green dog with the wheezing laugh? Not that I'll see this before Cinemax or HBO pick it up, but what's up with giving away the "THEY SET ME UP!" twist in the trailer? I saw it coming within the first 20 seconds, but did they have to include dialog explicitly giving away that plot point? Anyone know if this is set in a dystopian future like the original?

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  • Aug 13, 2008 2:59:44 PM CDT

    Larry Sellers

    by tmic

    No It's set in the near future where Jason gets framed for murder and end up on the prison Island the just outside of NY (I think), people like to watch the prisons races on PPV, and Jason just happens to be an ex racing champ.

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  • Aug 13, 2008 3:52:13 PM CDT

    uh, this looks fucking great

    by wolfmannards

    I'm glad the internet wasn't around when people were making awesome movies like the first death race. If the first death race was released in its original incarnation today, you guys would tear that fucker apart.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 12:27:06 AM CDT

    Memories of Murder

    by el mono

    Thanks for trying to help me, but I meant what I said & said what I meant. Finding Forrestal was trying to project an image of herself as a lover of good films, and I pointed out that a lover of good films (i.e., a "cineaste") would never reference the film FINDING FORRESTER as their TB handle. It's a wanna-be Dead Poets Society and only an insipid pillow-biter would hold it up as a good film.

    You, on the other hand, have a GOOD handle. Kudos. Bong Joon-ho is a badass and that film is amazing.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 2:00:41 AM CDT

    Condemned On Wheels!

    by warchild74

    CONDEMNED was GOOD! Low expectations going into it, High enjoyment afterwards

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  • Aug 14, 2008 2:43:24 AM CDT

    Fuck you El Mono.

    by finding forrestal

    It makes sense that a schoolyard bully such as yourself would resort to making fun of someone's name. I don't presume to know what your brilliant handle references nor do I care.As far as FINDING FORRESTER is concerned, I never said I liked that film. You, however, are on record defending that hack Paul W.S. Anderson for releasing garbage like "Death Race." I find it odd that someone so concerned with cinematic credibility would align himself with the personification of all that is wrong with Hollywood. But what do I know, I'm just an "insipid pillow-biter" (really?).Keep slinging the shit, El Mono. After all, you insist on rooting in it...

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  • Aug 14, 2008 8:38:52 AM CDT

    rectalscan

    by fireclown

    That's because this isn't a remake, which makes me happy.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 9:24:55 AM CDT

    M-O-M...

    by finding forrestal

    Yeah, aside from Connery's immortal "you're the man now, dog" that film is painfully boring. It makes "Gerry" look like a Michael Bay explode-a-thon.

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  • Aug 14, 2008 5:17:41 PM CDT

    This film will make a shitload.

    by bioforge

    While nerds ae rolling in their graves.

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