Plus, I got the feeling that they were going too far trying to be edgy. And I haven’t been able to trust Bruce Davison ever since he was Senator Kelly and Magneto turned him into a saltwater-filled sack of goo. Once again, Showgirls is not necessarily a bad movie it’s just overacted. Whether it’s Grindhouse or Knight Rider, they want me to think of her as this strong, kickass woman, when I feel her performance in these roles is as empty as that of Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls. And what’s the deal with Sydney Poitier? Sure, she comes from good stock, citing her dad’s resume, but she’s always put in roles where I feel she’s overcompensating. And he’s pretty much the same character as the sidekick in Chuck. Oh, look! They gave Mike a loveable, good-for-nothing sidekick. That’s what you get when you cast soap stars, I guess. He’s too angsty, even when the script doesn’t call for that. The casting left a lot to be desired! First, there was Justin Bruehning’s terrible delivery. Feeny K.I.T.T.’ that we all know and love, just voiced by Val Kilmer, or is this an entirely new Val Kilmer-only K.I.T.T.?” Does he remember his times with Michael Knight, or has he been reprogrammed? Plus, is the current K.I.T.T.’s AI the same as the original, or is this just based on the original? For laymen, what I’m asking is, “Is this the same ‘Mr. Sure, they were put in as fanboy easter eggs, but why the fuck did they have to dismantle the original? He should be in a museum somewhere! Or they could have said that the government backward-engineered his parts to give us stuff like TiVo and teeth whitening strips. Speaking of original K.I.T.T., I’ve got t say, that it pained me to see the nosecone, steering wheel, and license plate just hanging around the scientist’s warehouse. So, when they show all the “Knight Rider” angles, it comes off looking more like the recent Escalade ad with Kate Walsh. This, however, isn’t custom it’s concept. On the original car, a lot of these parts were custom-made, as you couldn’t get bowling ball hubcaps or a red LED scanner on a standard Trans-Am. There’s the standard Knight Rider camera shot sequence: show the wheel, show the hood/sensor, show the digital dash readout, show the spoiler. I love that they brought back the violet-filtered desert drive montage, but really, how much shit is going down in the desert? And when they’re doing city shots, I swear it’s a Mustang commercial. There’s something about the camera angles, too. Now that’s Knight Rider’s big gimmick? The car can change color? Don’t they already have that shit in Japan? They have everything in Japan (I swear, a couple Godzilla attacks, and they become the technological capital of the world)! When it went to syndication, budget cuts caused it to simply change to silver. When they had the NBC money, the car changed from red to a silver snakeskin pattern. Instead, they got some illegal street racer to drive it. Only this time, the car didn’t drive itself. The show started on NBC because, mainly, they were trying to resurrect Knight Rider. Instead of having artificial intelligence, the car merely changed color (considered an “armor mode”) and had machine guns in the running board. In it, a law enforcement agency created a souped up car to deal with those pesky, not-so-legal missions (sound familiar?). It’s a sad day when Knight Rider starts stealing from a show that stole from IT! That feature is from Viper, a seldom remembered NBC/syndicated show from the mid-nineties. Now, having a car with the OnStar system is just as good.Īnd let’s talk about that little “K.I.T.T. There was no internet during the first show, so K.I.T.T. People take for granted how pervasive and common the internet has become in recent years. I mean, if you gave me a car with a wi-fi linkup to Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube, I’d have a car just as advanced as this one. Also, one has to realize that K.I.T.T., as a concept, really isn’t that hi-tech anymore. While a Mustang Cobra is a nice muscle car, it’s not sleek like the Trans-Am. But man, did they miss the mark.įirst off, let’s start with K.I.T.T. I mean, besides Hasselhoff himself, nobody wanted this to work more than I did. “Let me tell you something about 20 year olds, my friend: half of them are 16.”
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