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Knight Rider To Ride Again
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Zonk
on Sat Sep 29, 2007 02:05 AM
from the how-much-can-you-be-disappointed-lets-find-out dept.
from the how-much-can-you-be-disappointed-lets-find-out dept.
Penguinsh*t writes "Though the movie version of Knight Rider has remained 'up on chocks' for the better part of the last decade, Knight Rider, the TV show is revving into high gear. 'The premise of the show will essentially remain the same as the original, which centered on a mulleted man righting wrongs with the help of a particularly chatty and souped-up automobile. No word yet on who will play the hero this time around, but the Peacock is looking for some new blood.' Besides which, 'the Hoff' is busy."
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NBC in trouble (Score:5, Insightful)
Sing it, bitch! (Score:5, Funny)
dub-du-du-duuuuh,
dub-du-du-du-du-duuuuuuuuuuuuh!
'The Hoff is busy.' (Score:1)
Re:'The Hoff is busy.' (Score:4, Funny)
s/you/just bitter/g
Not totally surprised (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Not totally surprised (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm (Score:1)
Sorry if I sound bitter, I just saw the trailer for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.
Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, they should just go the whole hog and combine two or three series into one new programme.
Personally I'd like to see the KITTs of Hazzard, or the Six Million Dollar ALF.
Above all, though, I'd like to see the A-Team take on the lizards from V. The only problem with that, though, is BA would never make it up to the mothership without being drugged, and the A-Team's complete inability to hit anything at all means that we'd all be lizard food within a matter of weeks.
Errr . . . (Score:1)
it is predictable. Yawn.
Who's brilliant idea was this? (Score:1)
hmmm (Score:2)
Why do I have a gut feeling that this movie will star Ben Stiller with an afro wig, and will be directed by Uwe Boll?
Re:hmmm (Score:4, Informative)
Cartoon Springboard (Score:2)
Is still wait... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is still wait... (Score:5, Insightful)
Car (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh joy (Score:2)
Stop with the remakes (Score:4, Informative)
How many remakes have they done over the past ten years or so?
Charlie's Angels
Transformers
Bionic Woman
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Bewitched
Starsky & Hutch
Lost in Space
The Dukes of Hazzard
Fat Albert
Miami Vice.....
the list goes on and on.
Can't wait for the Thundercats and Get Smart movies.
*rollseyes*
Is the car made out of cheese this time? (Score:2)
Not sure about this (Score:2)
Team Knight Rider (Score:3, Informative)
Tired, oh so tired.. (Score:4, Funny)
What they really need to make is NIGHT BOAT (Score:2, Funny)
We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think robo-cars are really all that interesting now. With stuff like Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes and Dr. Who on the air, and with the whole Star Trek franchise come and gone since Knight Rider, people have a somewhat higher expectation of quality from their sci-fi adventure. Knight Rider is a relic from the hair spray decade, when culture rarely elevated above space invaders and bimbos. I mean, we were listening to "Thriller" and "Devo". --Which yes, I realize aren't much more advanced than the latest. . , what the heck are kids listening to now? But still. There was a highly plasticized happy-happy fakeness to everything. A bullet-proof talking car which could jump over trucks? That could work in such an environment. But now? No chance.
I'm not claiming that people today are any smarter than they were in the 80's. --We've got legions of cynical, drooling game-box junkies who are plenty dull, but that kind of stupid is incompatible with the stupid of the 80's. Our culture is too firmly tuned to violence to give a hoot about such a childish formula as a talking car. --Remember, fun in the 80's involved little multi-coloured cube puzzles and video games where you shot alien space ships, jumped over barrels and ate dots. Today we gun down simulated fellow humans for fun and pretend it hasn't changed us. We've become a race of fat, dull-witted warriors who barely blink when civilians are murdered by our troops. Our reaction to the present events going on in the world would have been very, very different in the 80's.
-FL
Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)
Other remake idea from me, free of charge for anyone to use: blue thunder! But that one was actually about a guy who was disobedient to his boss, not the kind of story that is popular in this patriotic day and age. So was the A-team BTW, didn't they quit the army? Maybe the 80s did have a good thing to it, it just got obfuscated by the giant haircuts.
Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Funny)
Quit the army? They were sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. Then they promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
I'm also told that for quite some time, still wanted by the government, they survived as soldiers of fortune. And that if you had a problem, if no-one else could help, and if you could find them, maybe you could have hired the A-Team.
Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)
I doubt it really has. We've always been violent monkeys, interested in violent entertainment. Before CounterStrike and Halo 3, kids pretended their sticks were guns or swords. Adults blasted the shit out of some deer, watched the hockey game, or watched Hamlet. Even by modern movie standards, Shakespeare closes the curtain on a decent pile of corpses. And hell, there was a time when public executions used to be a spectator sport, and let's not forget that before the movie "Gladiator", there were the real gladiatorial games, where people watched real human beings kill each other. And because they couldn't rent "Predator" on DVD, the Vikings sat around, got pissed on mead, and listened to "Beowulf". "Whoa, totally awesome! Grendel like ripped fifty guys to shreds, but then Beowulf comes in and like rips his whole freakin' arm off, and there's blood everywhere!"
As for nobody caring about the death of civilians in Iraq, go back to World War II, when strategic bombing campaigns deliberately started firestorms in Dresden and Tokyo, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. I could be wrong, but I don't think there was a massive public outcry over it. It was war, and they were on the other side, so who gave a shit? I think we've come a long way, that people even stop to think about the Iraqi dead and what we've done to their country, not that it's much consolation for the Iraqis.
Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)
The Hoff is Busy... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Hoff is Busy... (Score:5, Funny)
w007 w007 w007 (Score:1)
I'm excited. This is so cool. I was a huge fan of KITT back in the ole' days. I wonder how the writers are going to explain the tech behind KITT. Maybe they'll go for nano tech. and talk about AI
I hope that they get the technobabbling right
NBC already has some good shows - the best IMHO, is Heroes. However, Knight Rider is not like Heroes and it's really scifi (without space and aliens), kinda like a down to Earth scifi
Maybe, the ole' show should be left alone. Let the new car be derived from KITT. Let's say that the military develops its own version of KITT. It would be nice to have an episode with the real KITT and Michael Knight starring.
BTW, don't you think the Spider is better suited for KITT, rather than the pontiac?
The General Lee could kick Kitt's ass (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, maybe they can have a reality show to see who gets the part of Knight Rider?
*crosses finger*
"'the Hoff' is busy." (Score:1, Redundant)
Real question on every Slashdottters mind... (Score:4, Funny)
Windows
KITT: Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I'm opening the door for you to get in and be safe.
(C)ancel or (A)llow?
MAC OS
iKITT: Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I'm opening the door for you to get in and be safe.
*iKITT shuts down because Micheal fixed iKITT to go with a different cell phone provider.*
LINUX
*Drives off in a huff*
I've An Idea For The Show... (Score:3, Funny)
And because of global warming, they should consider using a small economical car rather than a great big racy gas-guzzler - say something like a Volkswagen Beetle.
And because the VW Beetle isn't known for its speed, they should paint it white and put a big racing stripe down the whole length of the car and a number, say a "53", to make it look like it's just been in a race!
And then... oh wait.
Back to your Legos, kids.... (Score:1)
Last I Heard... (Score:2)
This is good news (Score:1)
Mullet? Nope. (Score:1)
On the other hand, McGiver? Total mullet city.
25 year old show was good at it's time (Score:3, Insightful)
We've moved past an age where computers were mysterious, dangerous, and somehow held the key to the salvation or the damnation of the human race. Now we accept them as what they are, another tool that people use or misuse. They are not mysterious and no one imagines that they are going to start talking to you. They'd have to do some serious revamping to make me suspend belief enough to get into this show or to not hate it for making my precious childhood memories seem ridiculous.
Original show (Score:2)
New car, new software... (Score:1)
It is hardly a question that it will feature a different car, with a different voice, with a different behavior etc.
The first episode will explain that.
But it will be cancelled.
Because the reason would be that...
...after one of those rare accidents where restoration from some hard to find backup is needed...
...it is found to be impossible because of the DRM installed during the last one.
They tried before and it failed miserably (Score:2)
The KITThoff element (Score:2)
a) KITT
b) The Hoff
If they manage to find both a car and a dude that would be able to have the same impact on popular culture as
those 2 did in the 80's, they will have a success. Otherwise, it will be lame.
I hate to admit it, but Hasselhoff was brilliant in that show and it would be difficult to find someone up to par (by today's, not 80's standards of course)
Please change the car's voice (Score:1)
Euphemism Nazi (Score:2)
Wheel chocks, on the other hand, are wedge shaped items inserted at the front and/or back of a vehicle tire to prevent the wheel from turning and stop the vehicle from rolling. As the chocks simply prevent tire rotation, there is no 'up' associated with them. A vehicle with chocks applied is simply said to be "chocked".
This error is probably excusable under the "diminished capacity" defense. It is not fair to expect anyone who takes an interest in the Knight Rider franchise to have the sort of basic competence necessary to be familiar common with figures of speech.
garbage (Score:1)
Sci fi for the NASCAR crowd? (Score:2)
Perhaps interesting betting fodder on whether it survives from two shows to perhaps two seasons.
KR2000 (Score:2)
Unless, of course, they pretend that Kit is being built for the first time. It will be something new in that case too.
Re:So what about the car? (Score:2)
Knowing network TV, they'll go in two directions:
- If a car company will step and pay MANY millions for a sponsorship deal, they can make KITT *anything*. I will weep the day KITT becomes a Nissan 350Z or something equally stupid.
- If no car companies step up, no doubt they will go after something like a Ferrari or Lambo, to cash in on the bling-laden hip hop culture thems darned rappin' kids are into these days.
I wish I were kidding, but it's entirely plausible...
Re:So what about the car? (Score:5, Informative)
Or they could try to do it all with CGI on a TV budget. Won't that look cool.
Re:Who cares about the Hoff (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So what about the car? (Score:2)
Re:You fucking child (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Talking cars not so hot anymore (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Who cares about the Hoff (Score:2)
Well GM has resurrected the Camaro. All they have to do is paint it black and add a gold flaming chicken.
Of course they could make him a Charger and give him two brothers from Dixie as a driver. Then he will be unstoppable.
Re:Talking cars not so hot anymore (Score:1)
Now I'm imagining KITT pretending to be a GPS whenever someone else is in the car.
KITT: Turn left in 200 feet, Michael.
Other person in car: Did your GPS just call you by name?
Re:Better (Score:1)