Fifteen Years
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Fifteen Years
Can you believe that 15 years ago today, Knight Rider 2000 aired?
Talk about time flying.
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Talk about time flying.
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I can't believe it's been 15 years already! I remember watching the trailer for the movie and thinking, "Is this what the year 2000 is actually going to be like?"
Seems like time has gone into "Super Pursuit Mode".
Seems like time has gone into "Super Pursuit Mode".
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This is why I was against setting the new movie in "the future", which was one of the options a while back. A hallmark of Knight Rider was that it was always set in the present, with futuristic gadgets. Taking it to the near future, as they did in Knight Rider 2000 -- I feel -- was a mistake. The movie is dated as soon as it hits the screens: an early 1990s idea of sci-fi that seemed to be all the rage back then; Knight Rider channelled through Demolition Man and RoboCop. It takes the viewer out of the action.
Think how different that film would have been if you removed all the far-out Y2K ideas. Set it in 1991, with no cryo-prisons, keep the Knight 4000 as it was, and forget the chip in the head/RNA transfer nonsense. You'd have had a grittier Knight Rider that was more in keeping with the tone of the original.
Anyways, as it stands, Buck Rogers is still frozen somewhere in our solar system, and pretty soon, according to KR2010, LA will have a dome over it. Personally, I can't wait for 2015, and Jaws 19!
Think how different that film would have been if you removed all the far-out Y2K ideas. Set it in 1991, with no cryo-prisons, keep the Knight 4000 as it was, and forget the chip in the head/RNA transfer nonsense. You'd have had a grittier Knight Rider that was more in keeping with the tone of the original.
Anyways, as it stands, Buck Rogers is still frozen somewhere in our solar system, and pretty soon, according to KR2010, LA will have a dome over it. Personally, I can't wait for 2015, and Jaws 19!
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