Death Race 2000

Pros: Women of the future are easy to bed.

Cons: Stallone calls his perfectly breasted navigator "one very large baked potato." I don't get it.

The Bottom Line: I find Death Race 2000 more morally sound than The Family Circus.

Review: Introduction.
In the 1970s, there was a general fear of what the future held in store for mankind (war, pollution, overpopulation) and a specific fear of technology. People thought computers would take away jobs and reduce the human...

Pros: Funny and disgusting at the same time

Cons: Really dumb

The Bottom Line: It's worth seeing just once.

Review: Death Race 2000 is an incredibly cheesy dark comedy from 1975. It stars David Carradine, who was hot off his TV show Kung Fu, and a mostly unknown Sylvester Stallone just a year before he became Rocky.

This movie is...

Pros: Cast, racing scenes, campy tone, boobs.

Cons: Satire is weak.

The Bottom Line: would swerve to avoid the infants.

Review: There's are two types of "so bad it's good" movies. One is those that are conscious of their badness and have something to say through it -- such as Wild Things. It's gleefully terrible but pointed as well. Then there are the others -- those...

Pros: funny in a sordid sort of way

Cons: stupid

The Bottom Line: This one is a curiosity.

Review: Let's take a trip down memory lane. You're driving with a friend. An elderly woman walks out into traffic. You're traffic. She's about 100 yards off. Your friend turns and says, "100 points for the hag."

Raise your hand if that has NOT...

Pros: fun racing team motifs

Cons: bad quality, bad story, bad acting, needless violence, etc.

The Bottom Line: It's poorly done in every way. Don't waste your time unless you're a big B-movie fanatic.

Review: Disclaimer: I want to say first thing that this DVD was given to me free of charge and without me asking for it. I think it was given away as a store promotion, Get a free gift! because they couldn t actually sell them. Judging the book by it s...

Pros: It's a Roger Corman film

Cons: It's a Roger Corman film

Review: Since entering college, that refuge of higher learning and experimentation, I have gained the opportunity to expand my repertoire of a category I have long been a fan off, namely, B-movies. I can, in all honesty say that Roger Corman's masterpiece,...

Pros: Too many to list

Cons: N/A

Review: When I first heard of this movie, I thought it was going to be hilarious. Up to that point, I had a feeling that it would be a type of movie that I've never seen before. Boy, was I right. It was hilarious, well directed, great script, and a nice...

Pros: You have not seen a movie like this before

Cons: There may be a reason for that

The Bottom Line: A very bad, ridiculous and bizarre movie, but one of those bad movies that is so horrible as to be wonderful. Plus, it has Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine!

Review: This is one of those films that is really incredibly bad, but somehow amazingly entertaining.
It's basically the cinematic version of the game 'Carmageddon' (or the other way around, since this came first). The plot involves the Death Race,...

Pros: Great, cheesy fun!

Cons: Nothing I can think of, unless you hate bad movies.

The Bottom Line: Oh Roger Coreman, what wonderful movies you give us! Cheesy, silly, goofy as hell and sarcastic to the hilt, Death Race 2000 delivers the Bad Movie goods like no other.

Review: In honor (sic) of the Death Race remake just released in theaters, I decided I'd take a look at the vastly superior old school movie that spawned it.

Welcome to The Future, AKA the year 2,000. America is ruled by an evil dictator...

Pros: Completely unusual concept; excellent dark humor

Cons: A bit too hokey and heavy handed with the satire

The Bottom Line: A highly original, amusing, satirical piece of low-budget 70's Americana.

Review:
I still remember flipping through TV guide, and noticing that a movie called Death Race 2000 was about to begin. I was only eleven years old, but it was some of the best two hours I've spent in front of the television.
I literally could...