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Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Andrew on March 30, 2003, 04:49:29 PM
David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone are the top drivers in a futuristic cross-country car race.  Their goal: run over the most pedestrians before reaching the finish line.

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Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Joe80 on August 28, 1999, 07:40:51 PM
This movie rules!  I think it is one of the GREATEST movies ever made in the history of films!  Extremely hilarious,  this one has me on the floor laughing every time!  And it's something you can watch over and over!!!


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Chris Schneider on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
     THE 70's! THE 70's!! I want that decade back so badly; great music like P-Funk and great movies that inspired so much hope and promises for the future, such as Roller Ball, A Boy and His Dog and Death Race 2000. It seems that modern life is just as crappy as they predicted in those movies, except we don't have moon bases or monorails leading to major shopping malls.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: http://tuff5.8m.com on March 11, 2000, 12:58:36 PM
I got this movie as a birthday present on DVD.  How about a nice moment of appreciation for a movie which mixes together poor dialogue, abused talent, vehicular homicide, obviously incorrect "futuristic" settings, and a crappy budget.  If you have seen this on TV or rented the video, you MUST see the DVD somehow.  The Leonard Maltin/Roger Corman interview is almost too hillarious to believe.  Also the "action-drama" classification is very interesting.  Good drama always shines through even the most astounding action scenes.  What a great use of 78 minutes of expensive film.  Roger Corman is brilliant.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Dr. outtime on March 19, 2000, 11:34:40 AM
Yo, all Carmageddon fans out there, if you want to see a movie at least close to carmageddon then this is the film. I think that original eagleīs (first car in Carmageddon)design was inspired a bit from frankensteinīs car. Sylvester Stallone was pretty good in this film. I laughed a lot when Machinegun joe crushed that fisher and that hilarius sound effect came (heheh).


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: MessiahMan on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
This film  is a guilty pleasure of mine.  Truthfully, I still laugh as hard as the first time I watch it each time I put it in...it's that good.  3 slimes is a modest rating, in my opinion, but four just seems to be a bit too much.  Anyway, it's earned it's niche in my movie collection.  Money well spent.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: David on June 01, 2000, 04:25:18 PM
Death Race 2000 is one of the best moves ever. Simply because it is a perfect combination of a mystery, action, comedy, porn flick, and drama. Mostly comedy because it is so freaking dumb. I like it.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: little timmy on June 03, 2000, 10:09:19 PM
amazing. I truly never thought I'd hear Slyvester stallone call a woman a "baked potato" as an insult. wow. david carradine and all his replaced parts just truly blew me away. holy frankenstein. also a bonus: old people are worth 100 pts. i always joked about that rumored tidbit of info, but now I know it to be true.

PS: rawhead rex would be another movie I recommend.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Mark Sheffield on July 28, 2000, 12:10:48 AM
Ah, Death Race 2000! A great movie. I first saw this movie when I got my first movie network up and running on my cable (Showtime to be exact) way back in the summer of 1981 and when I was in my teens. I saw DR2000 late night one night and on the advice of my friends who told me I HAD to see it. It was cool then and its even cooler now especially watching it IN the year 2000!!! The version out now on video is digitally remastered (is it just me or was there a scene shown that when that jackhammer dude gets splattered by Stallone they showed briefly blood dripping off the jackhammer? Maybe it was an extra scene they just slapped on the cable version but its not on the version out now. Damn, it looked cool!) and a great job it is too. By all means see DR2000 and see it now! Yeah its cheap and stuff but thats whats makes it FUN! And those women look great without their clothes on. And oh by the way the best line is not Sly's "baked potatoe" insult but his characters introduction - "Here he is ladies and gentlemen Machine Gun Joe Viterbo. Loved by thousands hated by millions!"
Whoa!  


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Andrew K on October 09, 2000, 01:38:37 PM
As a futuristic political satire, this much better than Stallone's Demolition Man or Paul Verhoeven's desecration of Starship Troopers. For some reason, Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars, and his scathing review is in his new book I Hated Hated HATED This Movie. I'm not sure, but I think in one shot, Stallone runs over Bill Paxton's head. This isn't as far-fetched as it sounds; Paxton was a set designer at New World at the time, who was trying to break into acting.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: FLOORMAN on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I saw the move at the drive in when it came out. I have a warm spot in my heart for this move because I got "LUCKY" with my girlfrend for the first time that night!  


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Melissa Martin on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
All of the otherwise mentioned reasons that Death Race 2000 is, quite simply, the best movie of all time, are perfectly correct.

HOWEVER, what I love the most is how all of a sudden, in the last ten minutes of the film, there appears a whole sociopolitical subtext that is essentially NEVER alluded to in the rest of the movie (unless you count the two messages from Mr. President, I suppose)... "Only the winner gets to shake hands with MR. PRESIDENT." And when Frankenstein becomes President, and suddenly all these issues pop up that you would never have known about (moving center of government to New L.A., etc.)

 BRILLIANT. If they had actually employed the sociopolitical-assasination thread through the entire movie, it wouldn't have been such a stroke of genius as to have it just show up like that.

 "Scoring isn't killing, Mr. Frankenstein, it's part of the Race. You're a national hero, Mr. Frankenstein..."

Melissa.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Bruce on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Death Race 2000!!!!! What a great goofy film!!! It has to be remade; it is screaming to be remade!--like 'Death Race 3000' starring Tom Cruise as Frankenstein or something!!!  They knew it would be a low-budget loser when they made it, so they ran with it and had a lot of fun, and that certainly shines through!  Movies aren't fun anymore---they are so over-made. And Let's bring back the Drive-In too!!! Long Live 'Death Race 2000'!


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Mad Hatter on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
CyberPheonix, actually what you call a plothole is not one there is a scene where Frankenstein explain there is a new Frankenstein every year, so THis one has never had the chance to assainate Mr. President. It is a personal vendetta.

Also, it is funny that in the "Feel Good" end of the movie where supposedly everything is supposed to turn out peachy there are a few subtle indications that the new goverment is also going to be corrupt.

If you are a buff of this movie, as I am, Coreman also came out with a comic book sequel, which has a few good gags, but has the subtle nature of a Moose at a cat show.

I attempted to write a sequel as fanfic, but felt it was more trouble than it was worth.  It invovled that David Carridene's character was a French imposter of the real Frankenstein, who had studied him so closely as to lose sight of the mission. The Real Frankenstein deposes him and reinstates the race. It is left amiguous wether or not this is the truth or propoganda of the reinstalled Mr. President regime.



Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Zebulon McCranahan on December 13, 2001, 01:01:49 AM
Is David Caradine the greatest actor of all time?  The answer is yes.  From Death Race 2000 to Sonny Boy with Kung Fu the Legend Continues and Death Sport in between, Caradine has shown time and again that he can suck enough to be funny but not too much as to be unbearable.  Everything this guy touches is drunken gold so check out his entire lifes work


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Chris on May 21, 2002, 10:59:16 PM
Simply put, the greatest drinking movie of all time.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Gary Frazier on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I wouldn't call this classic, I wouldn't call it a great film, but it's definitely worth seeing at least once.

It's clearly a satire (Paul Bartel was an excellent choice as director, his black humor pervades the scenes with characters; he also has an uncredited cameo as Frankenstein's doctor) on the excesses of American Media from the 70's on.   In 1975 it was over the top; by now, 2001, the sort of media nonsense depicted in the movie is so routine that many don't get the jokes.  It seems normal.

Stallone nearly steals the film; this was made just prior to his breakout in "Rocky", and he is great as Machinegun Joe Viturbo.  This thing even has Fred "Gopher" Grandy as Matilda the Hun's navigator.

Watch for the explanation of the scoring system...it's hilarious with graphics for each category of targets...like something that CNN on Faux News would run to explain who was winning during the bombing of Afghanistan, and delivered with exactly the same straight face.

There's also plenty of 70's style gratuitous nudity in this film, something that you just don't see anymore...it reflects, in many ways, a more innocent and less cynical time.

I wish the DVD had running commentary by Bartel or Corman; the interview of Corman by Maltin is pretty lightweight and doesn't get nearly as detailed as I'd like, although the discussion of low-budget vs. high-budget films is very interesting and provides some insight into Corman's moviemaking approach.  Unfortunately, this film wouldn't stand a chance of being a hit nowadays due to distribution politics.  We are poorer for that.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: bessie on March 21, 2002, 04:46:41 PM
This film is dreadful and should be banned. I cannot see the humour in running over children. Stallone should be beheaded. Chap rubbish.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Swamprat on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Terrific movie! Another example of making crap the right way! Funny, fast, clever, and violent. David Caradine is one of the best Deadpan Delivery Camp actors there has ever been. This guy's also a geniune "good" actor. Catch him in "Bound For Glory" sometime. But like Karloff and Price and several other well known B stars he just seems to be swimming in his element in these tongue-and-cheek cheeseball films. The "Hand Grenade" scene is priceless! Herman the German went into politics by way of the Love Boat! Mary Woronov, a true B queen if ever there was one, is as campy and sexy as ever in this one...and she's a mean death car pedaling b***h! And Sly Stallone belongs here, his "A" features gag me. Paul Bartel made one of the best Roger Corman films of all time with this little beauty and I'm amazed that it hasn't picked up a much bigger cult following than it has over the years. Rent it, buy it, watch it with friends and-or car buffs. Throw popcorn at the screen and have a blast. I even remember the arcade video game that came out when the movies did. It was one of the first video games of its kind. Most pinball machines still had spin counters instead of digital readouts back then...that should tell you haw long ago this was. Movies like this one were still considered dirty by most standards and seldom played anywhere but at the drive-ins.  I saw it with a carload of idiots for $1.75...bumber sticker night...as many people has you could stuff in a car for one admission price! Now that was the way to see these kind of movies! Inside the concession stand was the infamous video game machine, there for the week run of the film, 25 cents a play...couldn't get anywhere near it...more people played the game that night than actually stayed in thier cars and actually saw the movie. God...I hate getting old.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Anonymous on July 06, 2002, 03:42:04 AM
Death Race 2000 was actually made in the year of 1975. Roger Corman used a low budget in this movie, but I like it anyway because David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone were the main actors.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Canadaphile on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
DR2000 is awesome, plain and simple.  Complete gory violent mindless fun.  It's amazing how many people have seen this movie and remember it (although many times the name of the movie eludes them).  To this day, whenever pedestrians cross my car's path I mentally tally their point totals.

Oh, and to Bessie--maybe you don't see the "humour" in running over children, but I sure do ...  


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Beef Slapjaw on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
This movie gives me goofbumps!  Word!  I especially enjoy the reprter at the end of the movie screaming "violence!  Violence!!  VIOLENCE!!!" right before he becomes street pizza!  Woo!  Hoo!


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Josh W. on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I remember watching "Death Race 2000" when i was just a boy, (I think I was about 10 years old.) and I liked it ALOT!! My dad watched it with me and then we went out in the backyard and raced my R/C cars around and ran over "G.I. JOE" and "HE-MAN" toys. But, then my mom came home for the store and saw us 'killing' my toys and grounded me from the T.V. for two weeks. After that my dad got me a "Hot Wheels" (I think) Frankenstein's CAR!!! and was playing with that in the livingroom floor. Problem is I left it in floor when i was called to the dinningroom table. After dinner, my mom was walking to her bedroom barefoot and stepped on it, and the top is pointed and it cut her. SO she pick it up and throw it in the TRASH!!!!
"I WANT MY "Frankenstein's CAR" BACK!!!!!


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Bluebird on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
This movie is so bad it's good. Everyone should see this movie at least once. It's just way too funny. Hearing about the great pile up of '99 makes me laugh every time.
A must see all the way.
If you've ever heard anyone shout "old man 100 points!" or shouted it yourself while driving, Deathrace is where it all began.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: dave on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Awesome movie....That and Rollerball (the original) make a great double feature.

BTW - I believe its Grace Pander, not Parker (joke there somewhere)

And I believe if you listen to the dialog, Frankenstein has no replaced limbs - its a new frankenstein every time.  Am I wrong?  He says to annie that he was raised to be the winner "this year."  Its all part of the act.  Also - I dont believe that after 15 (??) races he suddenly decides this year to kill Mr. P.

Theres a lot more political satire here than first meets the eye - I believe the story on which it was based was less of a comedy than the movie turns out to be.  But I wouldnt change a thing in the movie - its perfect in its cheesiness and 70s flavor.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Brad on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
It was good, the music was laughable and the gore was kinda LOW!! lol, junior deserved a better death, and more PED's (pedestrian for short) could of been ran over, but its just fine the way it is now, there should be a REMAKE for 2002 or somethin' the movie was cool, specialy the cars. If you didn't play CARMAGEDDON yet, buy it or i'll turn you into a road sandwich.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Brad on October 13, 2002, 01:44:50 AM
Hey one more thought! the blood is extremely bright in this movie too lol, its like ULTRA-RED like on Bitmap when you choose Bright Red, like that kind of red, and when machine gun joe spits blood, pathetic paint i tell ya! >_<


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Paul Westbrook on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
This movie rocks. Definately a cult favorite loved by many. Forget the inferior sequel DEATHSPORT. Stallone's over the top acting is worth the viewing time in itself.The guy who played the announcer was also equally over the top, but delightful, and made the film good. Why subject yourself to nonsense like FAST AND THE FURIOUS? These guys pioneered the road racing craze. Eat your heart out Vin Diesel.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Dave on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
One of my favorite B-flicks ever, and inspiration for a Drinking Game that is guaranteed to explode your liver...

- one drink for everyone that dies in some car-related fashion

- drink every time Grace calls someone a "dear, personal friend"

- drink every time the howard cosell sounding guy does that heh-heh-heh laugh.

- drink every time Mr. President loves everybody, or everybody loves him.

- drink for RANDOM GRATUITOUS nudity.

All in good fun :)


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Writer on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
This is kind of like a video game movie, except that the video game came out *after* the movie instead of before. (Also, if this movie had been based on the video game instead of the other way around, it would definitely count more as a success than any of the crap based on video games that you get these days.) The reviewer ought to do a page for "B" video games just as he does for "B" movies, complete with clips.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: CyberPhoenix on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I wonder if anyone noticed the HUGE hole in the plot of the movie... if frankenstien wanted to blow up the president on the winners podium after winning the race - WHY DIDN'T HE DO IT THE LAST TIME HE WON?!

Frankenstien won two Death Races prior to the one in the movie, and probably got to shake Mr.P's hand twice before, if the assasinantion was his lifes work - why didn't he do it then?

Oh well... plot was never a requierment for a good movie :)



Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Nny on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
An absolutely excellent movie, dissapointing ending (according to some, including yours truly).

It's like Carmageddon on the big picture!!!
*and we all love Carmageddon don't we* Muahahahahaaaa!!!


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Just a guy on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
One of the best movies of all time.  I first saw it when we got cable tv installed.  It was '80 or '81.  A truly inspirational film.  


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Dan Lyon on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Truely the finest motor-head ultra-violence viddie of it's day. Great cast, great cars, great wummin. Masterpiece Theatre of Schlock.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: slick rick on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
This movie RULED on Betamax! That kind of film your parentīs didnīt allow you to see when we were 9 or 10 (my case). When I got busted watching it on a fourth turn, they took it away... forever! No kidding.
An odyssey began. For years I wandered the surviving images in me. Dreams hunted me, reconstructing the pieces. It was a log journey until I got a copy on VHS 10 years ago. Let me tell you, it as a long black alley.
The flick is great and Iīm pleased to see a lot of people still dig it as much as I do. I recently got the DVD transfer and itīs awesome. Gotta see it again!

And thatīs my DEATH RACE 2000 evolutionary home video transfer experience.



Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Rachel on March 17, 2004, 04:15:38 PM
this  movie is so great, i was cracking up the whole time. my favorite part is when they put all the old people outside to get run over and he drives through the hospital. great movie!


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Alberto on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM

Es una peli de puta madre, de las mejores del mundo y altamente recomendable para niņos por su caracter didactico. Lo mejor de todo es el papelon de nuestro queridisimo Silvester Estaloun. Elementos que este gran actor aporta con su personaje y su gran calidad interpretativa son el gapo que le echa a frankesntein en el coche, el puņetazo que le pega a su copilota por tontear con frankestein, el atropello de su equipo tecnico por hablar de el a sus espaldas, su modo de reventar el violin a un musico, su asquerosisima forma de comer, su intento de violacion, el corte de manga que hace a la grada mientras conduce... Simplemente genial


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: s.h.a.d.o. on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Deathrace 2000 - remains a cult-classic! Little more can be said than most of what has already been said above ... with the exception maybe of repeating 'do get yourself a copy as no library is complete with out'!
That said ... if you're a fan of DR2000 check out David Carridene's other car-gem; CANNONBALL (and I do mean GEM)
Done long before Burt and fellow rat-pack gang decided that a comedy-racing-cheese movie might just be the ticket to boost some sagging carreers.
The CANNONBALL plot is just a tad bit more substancial this time ... an ex-con on probation (also sleeping with his probation officer) enters into an illegal coast-to-coast road-wreck, ... er, I mean road-race ... cars, speed, stunts and tongue-in-cheek black humor abound, and the number of famous 'unknowns' cast here and there top the scales ... from Dolf to Stallone (even his squeaky-voiced blond bimbo co-pilot is back) making it a bit of an all-star-cast by today's standard!
Cheap, dated and cheesy, but I like it too!
Cannonball & Deathrace 2000 ... classic Drive-In fare at it's best!



Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Mark on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
This movie rocks. Stallone plays the ultimate insane over the top pyhsco path. Damn frankenstein for winning, we all know it should have been machine gun joe!

"In My Ear?"
"You lousy sons of b***hes!!!!"
"Lousy stinkin dirtball, you got 2 seconds to live"
"Hey you wanna zip your lip mira?"
"I though i told you to stop playing that music!!!"

All classics joe moments. The movie contains much more


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: bill on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
There must be several cuts of this movie in cirulation. Because I can't believe no one has commented on Stallone's full frontal nudity scene.  I mean really.. how did he ever get the nickname "Italian Stallion"..  or is that nickname just as satirical and campy as this great movie.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Greg on September 07, 2004, 02:03:11 PM
One of the best ever made.  I remember my brother and I laughing through all of it.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: DAVID on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I am amazed that this film has received such positive reviews, when quite simply it is an appalingly acted, poorly directed, low budget piece of trash.

They say the seventies were the decade style forgot, well this movie proves it. By the production standards, I don't think it had a budget, more of a whip-round.

There is little humour in mindless violence of this sort, considering we all know someone who has been involved in a vehicle accident.

I may have p**sed off a few people, but you'll get over it, unless your lives are as sad as it seems to find movies like this entertaining.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Alfred on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Just like in 2005, the French are to blame for disrupting the sanctity of America's way of life. Lou Dobbs you were right...yeah right.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: MasterBlaster on March 28, 2005, 12:00:13 PM
Scrawny bondage clad 40 year old Carradine kills innocent people in a tacky sports car painted up to look like a lizard. What more could anyone want? See this film and your life will be complete.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: George on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
THIS MOVIE IS FRIGGIN' GREAT!!!! It's hilarious to see the dumb-asses get themselves run over. And in such creative ways. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Did anybody see the so-called "sequel/follow up" "Deathsport"? It was pretty good. David Carradine stars again. It takes place in the year 3000 and it has these really cool motorcycles called "Death Machines". They use ray guns that can completely disintigrate (did I spell this right?) people and horses. Richard Lynch (Cromwell from "The Sword And The Sorcerer) plays another bad guy chasing our hero (Carradine) across a barren wasteland. "Deathsport" is available on DVD. Check it out.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: stevie on July 19, 2005, 01:35:13 PM
     I sure wish Paul Bartel was still alive to make more epics like this.  The second coming of Ed Wood....


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: dean on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM

hmmm...

Some things to take from this film:

1.  Stallone makes a good underlying point about the problems with road rage.

2.  Having an ironic sense of humour is something everybody likes in a mass murderer/future leader of the country

3.  Topless women regularly give TV interviews

4.  I love cars running over people, and just general anarchy!!!

5.  People will just take your word that you are horribly disfigured if you wear crazy outfits and call yourself Frankenstien


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Kleine BuzzBomb on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Ponderables:

1..One could say George Lucas based the Darth Vader character on Frankenstein...the black -clad (with cape, helmet and mask, I might add)  superhuman, rebuilt after numerous disasters, best friend of the Emporer/President, attacked by rebels, who switches sides.

2. Finally, a movie that has both Fred Grandy naked on a table! (?!?) AND wearing a Nazi uniform. Both images would have been nice on campaign posters back in Iowa!

3. I'm pretty sure the word "Sabotage" was Dutch and not French.

4. Best line so far not mentioned--"Chicken in a casket!"

All in all, a fun movie, worthy of a remake.



Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Dan on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Pure crap, but I love it. This was Stallone's last movie before "Rocky?" Only in America...


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Alex Panz on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
THIS is, together with STARCRASH and THE HUMANOID, one of my favourites.
I love this move, but unfortunately the good DVD Version isn't available anymore here in Germany.

Anyway, this movie is a must see


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Max Power on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Worse than "Gymkata", better than "The Thing With Two Heads."


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: WidgetHead on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Absolutely hilarious movie.  I remember when the guy was going to run over the baby which was actually a bomb the guy who placed the bomb said, "Come to baby!".  I saw the movie about twenty-five years ago but I constantly think about that line of dialog.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Garry K on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Back in the 1970s, a co-worker saw DR2000 at the drive-in, told me to go see it, that I would love it, and he was right! Watching this movie gives one Walter Mitty-like thrills as we imagine we're the ones giving in to road rage and running over folks who get in our way!

I still use a lot of the lines when I'm out driving with friends who have also seen the movie. "Go for the baby! Go for the baby!" "Good-bye baby, hello 70 points!" "If you leave your navigator lying in the road, you gotta expect someone will run him over!"

And it was definitely Grace *Pander*, not Parker.


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Muffster on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I was cruising the $1 VHS stacks at my favorite local used video game/dvd store and came upon this gem. I, like many of the other commenters, fondly remember being shooed from the room in the early dawn of cable television.

I tortured DH with it last night and am surprised that his being a B-movie afficianao, he wasn't really happy with it. I think reading the comments helps to put the movie into perspective.

The funny part is that they have been pushing the Kill Bill movies on cable lately, and Carradine is now stuck in my brain saying "Yellow Book DOT commmmmm". Anyone else smell a remake coming? Hey, Film Studio Executives, "REMAKE DEATH RACE 2000!!!"

Also, my copy did NOT have any full frontal Stallone shots. And weren't there some nuns that got it, too? Maybe that happened when I went to get another beer....


Title: Death Race 2000
Post by: Don on July 19, 2006, 04:54:19 AM
Death Race 2000 is great fun, Roger Corman is a genius.  Why on earth would anyone being working on the roads or having roadside picnics while a hit-and-run death race is on?  Who cares?  But hold onto your hats... Corman has announced DEATH RACE 3000!!! Release date is in 2008


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Jeff on December 30, 2007, 10:14:35 AM
Dude, It's Cool


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Denver Prator on January 27, 2008, 11:04:19 PM
If you could pick "episodes" out of your life, that you could relive forever, I would say that this. Horrible, cheesy,moronic, WONDERFUL, movie was part of one of those episodes.

     Picture this, 1981, I had just had my 71 Dodge Charger r/t painted hemi-orange, that spring I graduated High School, 3-friends-2-sixpacks, and the Drive-inn, double feature, Star Crash, and Death race 2000. It was like I was living one of those 1980-ish "silly friends" movies, Ne- Ferris Buelhers day off. Sensless, pointless, waste of time, Magnificent! May all of you, have those episodess in your lives.


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Quasmadio on April 14, 2008, 06:01:32 PM
I love this movie! I must have seen it five times back in the 70’s it has everything freaks in costumes, crazy cars, boobs, a cheesy plot, Vehicular Manslaughter more boobs! Why don’t they make movies like this any more?

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Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Z-Demon on May 25, 2008, 11:22:02 AM
LOL! This movie like Carmageddon vido game! :teddyr:


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: sgt. rock on July 12, 2008, 08:27:00 PM
 :thumbup: Saw this movie when it first came out in the 70's. loved it then, love it now. timeless campy fun. Am now a proud owner of it on dvd


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Brandi on August 02, 2008, 11:23:17 PM
[Dunno why this popped up in my RSS feed today, as it's an older review...]

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I can understand society writing off the old folks as useless baggage, because we do that all-too-often anyway, but a child?

Zero Population Growth was a hot topic right around the '70s.

Also, the trailer for the upcoming Death Race with Jason Statham looked really disappointing-- there *may* be some satire, but probably not even as much as in The Running Man, and the drab color scheme was a letdown after the fun goofy cars on show here.


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Jay the Magnificent on August 03, 2008, 01:57:36 AM
[Dunno why this popped up in my RSS feed today, as it's an older review...]



i guess to remind us peoples of the coming feature Death Race starring that guy from The Transporter films.

a "revision" of Death Race 2000

surly, this will be another addition to the Vault of Crappy Movies.....


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Andrew on August 03, 2008, 06:56:44 AM
[Dunno why this popped up in my RSS feed today, as it's an older review...]


The older reviews (7 to 8 years or more) have very short, often single paragraph, plot sections, and are not written to the same standards as I am able to today.  I have been updating one of them per month.  This is the latest updated review.

The original version can by viewed via the Wayback Machine:

Death Race 2000 Review (2001) (http://web.archive.org/web/20010818040616/http://www.badmovies.org/movies/deathrace/)


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Brandi on August 04, 2008, 01:55:56 AM
Ah, that makes sense!

Trivial aside: Junior Bruce is played by "The Real" Don Steele, who was an LA radio personality through the 60s and into the 90s on KRTH 101.


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Flangepart on August 04, 2008, 11:25:01 AM
When ever you call someone " A very large baked potato", youn recieve this wonderful look of stunned bewilderment...heh heh heh...


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Torgo on August 05, 2008, 08:44:11 PM
I love this movie but I have to admit that the upcoming remake does look like a lot of fun.


Title: Re: Death Race 2000
Post by: Cult Movie Mania on August 06, 2008, 09:45:32 AM
    THE 70's! THE 70's!! I want that decade back so badly; great music like P-Funk and great movies that inspired so much hope and promises for the future, such as Roller Ball, A Boy and His Dog and Death Race 2000. It seems that modern life is just as crappy as they predicted in those movies, except we don't have moon bases or monorails leading to major shopping malls.

This is such a beautiful post.  I think we should take Chris's advice to task, and demand that films of the fantastic genres emulate the 1970's as much as humanly possible, or else we'll never be able to tell what's true cinema, and what's Xbox.