RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Knight Rider: The Movie

I tend to agree.
Back before the 90s, any actor going from the movies to tv was considered as taking a step back, but sometime during the 90s it became merely a sideways step, with some actors getting paid as much for tv as they would for a movie.

Lets face it, would anyone say Keifer Sutherland on 24 was a step back?

If its specifically the voice bit, is voicing a car really that different to voicing an animal or car in Dreamworks or Pixar film?

I would say though, Knight Rider tv movie is not the project I would want to associate my sideways career step with, as lets face it, theres more chances it will stink than be good!

I will be interested to hear what people (not Pro as he is notoriously cranky) think about this when they see it!
I'm sure it'll be online soon though!

I've got it downloading at home right now, but the place I got it from didn't have many seeders just yet as it had just aired hours before I began downloading. I'm willing to give it a shot. I didn't totally pan Knight Rider 2000 as much as that damn thing was lacking; so I'm willing to give this one a go.

Apparently, the show got very good ratings and some people are predicting NBC will put it into production as a series.

yeah at some point in the last 10 or so years tv became respetable. I think it was HBO and other cable networks started doing their higher quality shows and forced the networks to keep up.

I watched the first fifteen to twenty minutes. The moment they introduced us to the "kewl renegade" Michael (waking up in bed with no less than two hot women, of course), I nearly puked up a wad of cliches that I swallowed in the early 90's, and quickly turned the channel before any electronic device could accidentally count me in the "ratings".

Pure. Crap.

Thanks for asking...

See, cranky!

Well, I liked it. I even laughed at the Ford commercials. There's something funny about KITT hitting on Michael's date by saying 'I have keyless entry'.

I thought it was pretty decent, though sandy... errr I mean pro is certainly entitled to dislike it!

Hmmm, who do I listen to, the baldy cranky cunt or the tits and the gaylord?

The problem is here that the gaylord kinda negates the tits.
We need more tits!

well you're always welcome to keep at harley about it - we've seen how well that works...

And how many emails has she sent you?

This is one of those times where my age difference with most of the rest of you is pronounced. I was already in college when the original show first aired, so I have absolutely no memory of seeing it whatsover.

I mean, I might have seen it, but I was too drunk to remember.

I'm not even comparing it to the old series. I'm comparing it to anything reasonably digestible as fiction. This is crap. The fact that Sammitch actually likes it should more than prove my point...

Fair enough. I didn't see the show last night. I was just observing that it's funny for a guy my age to hear people talk about the original show with such nostalgia.

where crap equals anything not lining up exactly with pro's tastes. surprise. I'm just saying if you take it in its context for what it is, the product of nostalgia and product placement filtered for an audience that was in diapers for much of the first time around, it's not really as bad as you make it out to be. at least if you stick around for the whole thing, anyway.

You tell him Steve Dave!

and by the way, nowie, the hoff does indeed have a cameo near the end.

i've heard that voiceover work "doesn't count" towards an actor's reputation. which is why big stars do car commercials.

HOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched it. Igt could have sucked more and a lot of the acting was pretty awful. I spent most of the movie wishing KITT would have been played by GOB.

It wasn't good.

And that's coming from a man who was once a huge fanboy for the original series. Fact is they brought back elements that were better left in the 80's while leaving out other elements that would have made ex-fans like myself fall in love again.

I do not approve.

I watched Family Guy and American Dad then caught the last 20 minutes of KITT. I didn't watch enough to have an opinion either way.

Prometheus did the same and then posted his opinion.

That's how they roll in Canada.

Ok, just watched it. The acting wasn't very good. The plot was pretty similar to an episode of the original series. The special effects were pretty good as was Kilmer's voicing of KITT. The dialogue could use a good bit of work as well. I think the main problem is that they tried to get too hip and trendy with it. Beyond Mike bagging two chicks at once, the main FBI chick is a lesbo. They had to show that right out of the gate. And, apparently, instead of KITT backing out of a semi truck, he backs out of a cargo plane. ........... Whut? Not too impressive, but not bad enough for me to ignore the inevitable series that's going to come out of this.

You know bsams making photoshops of movies you saw on Comedy Central today doesn't make you cool!

Best,
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if that doesn't... then what does..?

Being able to name all three Sannin, I'd say!

Not great, not total garbage.

I watched a replay on NBC last night and I got the feeling they stretched it out to get to the two hour mark.

Just remember you are watching Knight Rider and not Hamlet.

The hardest part for me was that the main baddy was on an episode of Seinfeld.

He played a clothing salesman and dates Elaine, who doesn't want him to think she's dating him for a discount at his shop.

If it becomes a series, I liked it enough to watch an episode or two.

HASSELHOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nowhereman is hooked! hoff be praised!

perennial chart-topper!

i finally got around to seeing this. pretty good, val kilmer was perfect for KITT and the two main leads were good, especially that cute science chick.

They reran this on one of the cable channels this weekend. I watched about five minutes of this when my wife walked in.

Her: "What are you watching"?

Me: "Knight Rider."

H: "What's it about? Why is no one driving the car?"

M: "It's a show about a guy with a talking super car that fights crime."

H: "You're kidding."

M: "No. It was a big hit in the 80s. This is a remake. Val Kilmer's in it."

H; "He plays the guy?"

M: "No, he's the voice of the talking car."

H: "Who plays Knight Rider?"

M: "Some guy. Looks like they got him off a soap opera."

H: "Where is he if he isn't driving?"

M: "I'm not sure. I just tuned in."

H "If the car can talk and drive itself, why does it need the guy?"

M: "I dunno. Ballast?"

H: "Change the channel. There HAS to be something on better than this."

Your wife sounds like a bitch.

Nah. It really did kind of suck.