"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:
>> "stephcat" <stephcat560@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> On Feb 17, 11:34 pm, Anybody <anyb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> In article <lN7uj.415$Pn5....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "KNIGHT VIPER"
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>>>> <M.KNIGHT2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> > After having just watch the new KNIGHT RIDER I have few thoughts
that
>>>> > I
>>>> > would like to share. The opening theme music started out all right
>>>> > but
>>>> > then
>>>> > it went down the craper. If they are going to keep the show they
need
>>>> > to
>>>> > change the opening music to something a little less crapy and more
to
>>>> > the
>>>> > orignal. The morphing and color change effects were a nice touch
but
>>>> > they
>>>> > reminded me of the tv show Viper. Val Kilmer did a nice job at
>>>> > voicing
>>>> > KITT
>>>> > the story line was all right a little better then KNIGHT RIDER
2000.
>>>> > The
>>>> > actor who plays Mike Tracuer did a fair to decent job but I think
>>>> > there
>>>> > should have been more in the story line as to what happened to Flag
>>>> > over the
>>>> > last 25 years or at least fill in some of that time. The line in
>>>> > which
>>>> > the
>>>> > Hoff says that 25 years ago a named Wilton KNIGHT told him on his
>>>> > death
>>>> > bed
>>>> > that one man can make a difference. I also would have liked to see
>>>> > what
>>>> > else as far as special effects KITT could do othen then drive its
>>>> > self
>>>> > and
>>>> > the color change and morphing. over all I would watch the new
KNIGHT
>>>> > RIDER
>>>> > if it comes back as a series. I would give this a rateing of 3.5
out
>>>> > of
>>>> > 5
>>>>
>>>> There's only so much you can fit into a two-hour movie. :-)
>>>>
>>>> KITT's other new abilities (and perhaps more of the history between
the
>>>> two shows) are part of what will be in the series, if it happens. BUT
>>>> there is a bit of a limit as to what you can do with a car ... about
>>>> the only new thing you could do is make it fly or become a boat /
>>>> submarine.
>>>>
>>>> > It is going to take some time for me to get use to the idea that
KITT
>>>> > is
>>>> > now a ford mustang.
>>>>
>>>> This is a different KITT (the Knight Industries THREE Thousand). It's
a
>>>> different character to the original Knight Industries TWO Thousand
>>>> that partnered Michael Knight. A new character, a new car and a new
>>>> voice, which makes sense ... and makes a nice change in Hollyweird
>>>> these days.
>>>>
>>>> It's anyone's guess when we'll see it on TV here. The networks here
>>>> have been reasonably good at getting new stuff quite quickly,
probably
>>>> in a hopeless attempt to combat the quick DVD releases and Internet
>>>> downloads.
>>>
>>> I found it really funny that the "new and improved" Knight Industries
>>> car didn't measure up to the original. The old KITT would come running
>>> to meet Michael, rather than leaving him to creep across a dangerous
>>> property filled with hostile gunman as the new car did last night.
>>> There's also the issue of this car not being bulletproof when the
>>> computer is down. KITT was bullet-proof, dent-proof, and pretty much
>>> everything-proof with or without the computer. I'll confess to being
>>> old-school and biased, but KITT's still the best car... period.
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>> Pro's: The Hoff, Somewhat Cool Special Effects,
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>> Con's: Not enough of The Hoff, Mustang selection wasn't all that great
>> of
>> an idea, no turbo-boosting what so ever. So the new car can do 300MPH
or
>> whatever with the stupid wing on the back. Who cares? I would much
>> rather
>> see it boosting over another car.
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>> I liked the movie, though it didn't seem "Knight Riderish" enough.
They
>> could have at least had the Hoff in more of the movie. He was only on
>> for
>> around 2 minutes, then gone again. And come on. Would Michael Knight
>> really get a woman pregnant, and just up and leave? And even if he
did,
>> why
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> I thought that the whole notion of "He sent them away to protect them"
> is pretty solid. THe real question is "what the hell has he been
> doing for the past howevermany years it's been since the original KITT
> was taken out of service that prevented him from going to see his son?"
I respectively disagree on the part about the excuse being solid. I think
we need to know the answers to your questions, and a lot more before we
can
safely make an assumption like that. I am hoping that if this movie
becomes
a series, they will indeed answer all of our questions, but I think that
would depend a lot on the Hoff. Sure, he isn't really up too much these
days, but would he want to have a reoccurring role, or even maybe a
2-parter
"tie up all the loose ends" kind of episode? IMHO, the entire story of
what
Michael and KITT have been doing for the last 20 years could fill an
entire
season...'Cause if the writers try and pull some "KITT has been stuck in
that guy's garage all this time, because he broke" (for those who haven't
seen the movie, at the beginning when we first see the "Mustang KITT", we
see several parts from the old KITT, laying around) BS, I'll be damned
mad.
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