This just in.... Ford sells 10,000 Edge vehicles a day for the last week.... as Knight Rider show advertises that the Edge while roomy and comfortable, can actually keep up with a Shelby GT500KR, at a fraction of the cost.

 

I detect some sarcasm.. hehe

 

Great, now for the ricer comments:
Hey yo I just smoked a Ford Edge, that thing's as fast as a Shelby GT500KR. My zero to fifty times are off the hook man.

 

Hey if it gets people to buy more Ford cars, then more power to them.

 

I didn't watch the show, but the over all reaction that I seem to be getting from everybody is that this new knight rider is a cheesy/badly written show/but somewhat enjoyable, right?

Sort of like all the TV shows back in the 80s? Knight Rider, A-Team, Airwolf, etc.

 

basicly

 

I thought it was pretty good. Not the greatest film ever made but not the worst either. It was pretty much what I expected, an update of the original Knight Rider, but with the bonus of KITT being a Mustang this time around.

You guys going on about how the acting was so bad-- I don't think the acting on the new movie any worse than the original. Is David Hasselhoff or any of the actors on the original so much better than the new one? Nope. Ol' Hoff was fresh off the cast of a daytime soap opera when he started the original Knight Rider!

In the '80 series pilot episode, KITT was pretty bland & just as robotic as the new KITT is in new movie, and developed a more human personality as the series went on. I expect the same thing would happen if the new movie got turned into a series.

So what would have made the movie better?

 

Yes. KITT has AI, so he has a "learning curve" which would make him adapt more human traits as he interacts with them. Overall, I liked the show, and that Shelby just kept me drooling . Yah, it was a bit cheesey, but still enjoyable.

 

+1. I don't get it either - maybe I'm more conservative than I would like to admit, but I found the adult content inappropriate and unecessary. It seems like any movie I see at the theater anymore, five minutes into it you will see some kind of eye candy inserted into the visual, irregardless of the plot. It's a tease - "If there's this much nudity/sexuality now, there's probably gonna be more later, so I'm going to keep watching!" Even though I know its happening, it still works...

I kept watching just to see if they were going to use "Turbo Boost", I was dissapointed about that.

You know the acting is pretty bad when Hoff actually puts in the best performance and its in the last five minutes of the show.

The death of Traceur's (btw, what's with the 'u'? - Tracer would have been fine) mom was cold. I got the impression though that he did not know her very well and was in military school prior to joining the army, so that maybe explains the detachment. The Russo character may still have been in denial that her father was actually dead, knew he had been using a double and had some hope he was still alive so maybe that has something to do with her muted reaction to hearing his voice. I don't know. Its a show about a talking car.

I thought KITT's personality was a little cold and robotic too. KITT may have had the most emotional scene of the movie when he was Dr. Phil-ing about talking out your feelings...

The car was SICK though. The escape scene at Stanford was a cool intro to the new KITT.

Oddly enough, this remake had me wondering if they might bring back the A-Team also...Yeah, nobody got shot, but that's how I was able to watch it when I was eight. Do I need to see people graphically get shot to death and blood spurting out of their wounds in order to be adequately entertained after a hard day's work? I liked TV when murder happened offscreen. But that's another debate, perhaps on another forum.

 

The person that seemed cold to me was The Hoff himself upon meeting his son for the first time or at least seeing him for the first time in years. It kinda made The Hoff appear like a tool. While this movie turned up the sexuality (no complaints here but if you had your kids watching I get it)) it turned down the violence compared to the first one. Hear me out now, remember that Michael Long gets shot in the face, later in the chest as Michael Knight and Tonya gets shot off the ricochet off of KITT at the end. Not to mention I think Michael Knight also popped a cap in some dudes as well. I know, mild by today's standard but still.

 

The violence was turned way down, which sad to say I missed. The good guys and the car don't kill or even wound people, they just neutralize or knock them out. Like when Traceur's mother is killed and they've subdued the bad guys still on scene he hesitates before just knocking one of the guys out. I think we need Jack Bauer in the KITT car and then we'd have a show.

 

Saying that the excuse was it was bad because it was a "TV Movie" doesn't hold water, I'm sorry to say.

There are plenty of shows out there that do much more with a lot less. You can probably all think of examples, but take Battlestar Galactica for one. Called the "Best Show on Television" by two major news outlets, it manages amazing storytelling and great special effects on a relatively modest cable budget.

On prime time network TV, budgets are greater, but talent isn't necessarily so.

This idea was stillborn from the get.

 

The current Dr. Who is good as well and another good example of making the most of a small budget

Dr. Who, the Blink episode was pure awesome in this regard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CCUHHeOk4

 

If you recall, KITT explained that he couldn't safely elude them at that point in time without endangering others, so he was just waiting for his opening.

 

Saw a commercial for Knight Rider to be on NBC on Saturday... is this the series, or is it just a relay of last Sunday's movie?

-danny

 

Replay.

 

If you want to see a bad knight rider movie look up Knight Rider 2000

 

I dk if this was said, but since when does the KR use a v6 spoiler and not the gt500 type?

 

Yeah, the spoiler looks bad and whats up with no big boost jumps!

 

I was upset about missing the movie. Sounds like it wasn't that big a deal.