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At least with Roger Corman (hack director that he is) you know what you will be getting. A low budget crap sandwich (because they didn't put in enough bread).
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This doesn't look like it takes itself anywhere near as seriously as the other remake did. However the other was 70s cheese, and comes across as having a bit more class than this.
What on earth is up with that map in the beginning? The gap between Florida and Mexico is not that large.
This trailer smells of cheddar, and I love it.
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At least with Roger Corman (hack director that he is) you know what you will be getting. A low budget crap sandwich (because they didn't put in enough bread).
Which was a solid action movie. Had a couple stupid/overdramatic moments, but was a fun watch.
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paulson games wrote: This looks like it'll have all the wonderful cheese and glory of Death Race 2000
Roger Corman? I'm sold.
Sure his movies are stupid. But they are fun to watch with a bag of el-cheapo microwave popcorn. They don't call him "The Pope of Pop Cinema" for nothing. I laughed my ass off at Sharktopus.
Besides, he was one of the producers in the original Death Race 2000 (which I have fond, cheesy memories of).
Roger Corman started the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron, and about 20 other directors. Back when you needed a decade long apprenticeship just to get suggested as director for the second unit, Corman was offering young directors the chance to direct their own movies. Stupid movies with no budget, but still. He had a motto "If you do a good job on this movie you'll never have to work for me again".
And there is something to be said for Corman movies. They're crap, obviously, not just for the cheap production but also the writing and performances. But sometimes something can be fun even though it's crap. Not in the 'this is so crap let's laugh at it way', but more like crap like the way a McDonalds hamburger is crap - it still does the job.
I think that's probably what has been lost in Hollywood. We now have a lot of crap movies that convince themselves they're not crap, like the remake of Death Race 2000. And we have a lot of crap movies that try to be crap and invite people to laugh at them, like Sharknado. What we've lost are those crap movies that know they're crap, but don't mind that they're crap and still manage to entertain an audience that loves that kind of thing even when it is crappily made.
I guess Uwe Boll kind of tried to walk this line, and proved it isn't as easy as you'd think to make low budget crap that is also kind of fun.
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
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I 'get' it, but it still looks like the darkest depths of the sci-fi channel on a saturday.
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