Death Race 2000 (1975)
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Awful, overwrought, campy...yet great fun!
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"Reason for the future sucking: America is in ruins, and things couldn't be worse. However, there is gladiator styled car races, in which the goal is to run over, as many people as humanely possible. Year it takes place: 2000"
" "You know, Myra, some people might think you're cute. But me, I think you're one very large baked potato." Directed by Paul Bartel Written by Robert Thom and Charles B. Griffith Music by Paul Chihara Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto Editing by Tina Hirsch "
“If Rollerball is the intellectual vision of “blood sport as opiate for the masses,” then Death Race 2000 is the loopy grindhouse inversion of it. Not directed by Roger Corman but shepherded by him, Death Race 2000 is a vision of American life at its most nihilistic. Whatever political framework we once had has long since fallen away, given rise to a Mr. President that presides from overseas, and provided an outlet for the collective sense of anger in a yearly drag race that encourages random acts of violence. Not just encourages but rewards them with a system that places various values on human life. Eventually the curtain drops, and the death race is revealed as an elaborate political machinery with its poster boy driver a blank vessel that’s been inhabited by various performer” read more
"It’s a miracle that society didn’t disintegrate instantly upon the release of producer Roger Corman and director Paul Bartel’s cheapozoid, gearhead cult classic. In the future (see title), the national pastime is a car race where the drivers are given extra points for all the innocent people they kill. (Folks in wheelchairs = 100 points.) David Carradine plays the longtime champion Frankenstein, while a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone is his psychotic runner-up. The All-American imagery, coex"
“This movie is in the category of being so bad that it's great. It was made in 1975 and stars a young David Carradine. The setting is a dystopian futur”