"L. Ross Raszewski" <lraszewski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:01:59 -0500, 80 Knight <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> In the Original KR premiere, they used several of KITT's features.
Now,
>> I
>> understand that having a brand new Mustang jump over a car, and getting
>> completely destroyed doing it is a financial burden, but come on. The
>> '82
>> Trans Am would have been just as expensive back then, as the Mustang is
>> now.
>> They could even use computer graphics, but no.
>> Like I said, it was a pretty good movie. Nothing that I would rush out
>> and
>> buy, but I would definitely tune in if it becomes a series.
>
>
> There are two reasons beyond the cost that I can think of why they
> wouldn't want to do the Turbo Boost thing, and, while I'm not sure I
> agree with them, I can see some logic to it:
>
> First, they may just not have been able to come up with a way that
> wouldn't have looked silly. Let's face it, a jumping car is a bit
> silly, especially by 21st century sensibilities. Slo-mo-big-air has
> such an 80s feel to it that it's hard to do it nowadays without
> evoking memories of a simpler, campier time in television history,
> with its overuse by The Dukes of Hazzard, and pretty much every cop
> drama of the 80s. It's just a visual effect with too many unwanted
> connotations now.
IMHO, the producers could have made the Mustang fly, and make it look new
simply by using another plot device. The new KITT can "morph", so to
speak.
I would have used special effects to "morph" the Mustang into a somewhat
different shape. Or, maybe just ad a wing or something coming out of the
front and back, and show some thrusters or something underneath. It
sounds
cheesy, but I think if the show turns into a series, they should look into
it, and if they do it right, I think they could pull it off. It is
strange
though, that in every "Knight Rider" sequel ("KR:2000", "KR:2010" "TKR"),
none of the cars/trucks ever boost over anything. To me, that was one of
the best parts of the show. It was very difficult to trap KITT. Sure,
this
new Mustang might be able to "morph" into something else to get out of a
bad
situation, but boosting is so simple, yet IMHO, looks so awesome. As for
"The Dukes of Hazzard", those were some of my favorite parts of the movie.
As long as it looks real (and for "KR", is plausible...where-as in the
"Dukes" they would hit a "bump" in the road and get air born), it would be
great. Sure, I will admit that jumping a car might be a bit over used,
but
to me it still looks great. "Gone in 60 Seconds", "The Punisher",
"Dukes".
They all had jumping cars, and all cars were different. Hmm...The car
that
they jumped in "Gone in 60 Seconds" was a Mustang too...
> Secondly, they might have viewed the Turbo Boost as "The original
> series's 'thing'", and wanted to deliberately avoid it in order to
> establish themselves as their own thing and not look too much like
> they were just doing a rehash of a show that's now close to thirty
> years old.
I can understand that. But they have to have something that makes this
show
different from any Police show on TV. Yeah, the car can talk. So can a
1980 BMW. They car is bullet-proof, well that's not hard (though,
expensive) to do these days, and it has lots of blinkies on it's dash.
But,
how many Police shows have the central car jumping another car at least
every few episodes? I liked the movie for what it was, but everything
they
showed has been done before. Even the huge Air Force jet they had at the
end, was done in "Team Knight Rider", only (oddly enough), IMHO, TKR's jet
looked cooler.
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