Knight Rider

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the main car is a Ford. of course there isn't much to miss.. :lol: only Blue Oval propaganda..
 
Knight Rider what!? I just saw the new Knight Rider, and I don't like it. It's a really big disappointment. SOme points why it's disappointing:

1. The ceinematics
2. chincy effects
3. crappy mood music
4. couldn't hear the people talking over the crappy music.
5. bad CG
6. unrealistic transformations (using bad CG lol)
7. poor acting (even K.I.T.T.)

The good points:
1. The asian girl Zoey
2. Theme music (opening credits rocked!)
3. The base car was cool

Feel free to add to the list if you can think of anything.

Don't always believe the hype!
 
I saw the last 20 minutes of this episode, and it was really crappy. Though it can be comical at times. The ride over the train tracks did not seem realistic at all. It was like they just glided over them. I think Seinfeld has more convincing driving parts.
 
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8:00: Here we go. We're at the "Foreign Consulate." Mike Tracer is wearing a James Bond costume.

8:03: Sarah is in trouble already. Genius.

8:04: KITT joins the fun. Only there's nothing fun about this so far. KITT knows everything with his magic technology.

8:04: Sarah is about to get tortured by some guy who graduated head of his class at the Wooden Actors Studio.

8:05: KITT goes into new attack mode, showing us what the bastard child of SEMA and Hot Import Nights looks like.

8:06: Mike saves Sarah. KITT is racing to the rescue, underbody neon ablaze.

8:07: KITT turns into an F-150. The bad guys shoot like my mother. KITT is a Mustang again.

8:08: A Cobra (helicopter) shoots a missile at our fearless heroes. It is the world's slowest missile.

8:09: Impact. Something tells me no one dies, as we now go to the starting. At least the da-dum da-dum-da-dum is still cool

8:10: Commercial break. This is living down to all my expectations.

8:11: We're back. Everyone is thrilled with KITT's awesomeness. Super napalm deemed "so not good" by some tool in the command center.

8:12: Some blather about uploading files. KITT is still on fire. Iceman is lecturing Graiman that he can't divert power.

8:13: Sarah in undies. Mike disrobing now, too. KITT tells Mike to watch the window controls. Hey genius, you're the talking robot car. Disable them.

8:14: Apparently, increasing speed interrupts KITT's network connection. He sucks.

8:15: They're bringing KITT in hot! Michael and Sarah have lost consciousness. So, by now, have some viewers, I'd have to guess.

8:16: Fire's out, everyone but me is concerned that Mike and Sarah might die.

8:17: Commercial. Make that...Ford commercial #1.

8:20: Only 40 minutes left!

8:21: We're back. Everyone is yelling at nerd Billy. Zoe: "That was awesome" No, not awesome.

8:22: Billy and Zoe are arguing. The audience is fleeing...

8:23: Now, Mike and Carrie are arguing. Mike is being scolded for losing the package. Carrie has some secret issue with Mike that we'll learn in the second half-hour. More Sarah undressed, which is, so far, the only redeeming quality of the show.

8:25: KITT is on some turntable with lasers now. Mike gets in KITT, drives onto the tarmac in Washington, D.C. from the plane. Funny, I didn't know D.C. had a desert airport.

8:27: KITT and Mike try to cram as much plot and exposition into one conversation as possible.

8:28: Mike finds the package. IT'S A MAN! (like Tivo said)

8:29: Some Latina babe arrives in a Spyker. Kidnaps "the package."

8:30: Commercial for "Eagle Eye" is better than the entire first half-hour of Knight Rider. Also, Olive Garden commercial is better than Knight Rider, too.

8:33: NBC clumsily explains Spykerchick's use of "Papito"

8:35: This Spyker must have the motor from the pilot's Ford Edge, because KITT is having trouble catching up.

8:36: Discuss: Jim Rockford Firebird oversteer is cooler than new KITT GT500 oversteer.

8:37: Mike and Sarah have a complex past. Mike can't remember his past.

8:38: KITT is playing shrink. Package Man is bald. Spykerchick cuts off his thumb, pushes him out of the car. We go to break. My eyes feel like that guy's thumb right about now.

8:41: Only 19 minutes to go!

8:44: Mike gets Package Man. He has to get his thumb back at all costs.

8:44: Dr. KITT fixes the dude's thumb, and doesn't even ask for an insurance card.

8:45: Package Man's DNA is the "ultimate cypher." Presumably it unlocks the secret of how NBC approved this crap.

8:47: KITT in JDM attack mode again. Mike on foot chasing Spykerchick on the subway now.

8:48: Mike catches Spykerchick. She says, "Dios mio" to remind us she's Latina.

8:49: Carrie shows up, shoots Mike. Don't tease me, NBC....

8:50: Commercial break. So, Mike now recovered the package, and he has memory loss about something in Beirut. I think we're supposed to care.

8:52: Ad for Sunday Night Football reminds us that it's not ALL bad at NBC.

8:53: Somewhere over the U.S., Mike is alive, but he's "dead" -- you know, like the original Michael Knight. Carrie shooting him was a red herring.

8:53: More stock footage of the airport. KITT and mike return to base. Mike's past haunts him, as his present haunts us.

8:55: They're shooting hoops at HQ. Apparently, Knight Industries is run out of one of the Real World houses.

8:56: Michael needs a new name. Dumb porn jokes about the the Hoff's old Michael Long name...this is unbelievably bad. We see where this is all going...

8:57: KITT spying on the conversations about Mike's mysterious past. Mike and Sarah having a heart-to-heart. He wants to grab a beer. I want to grab, like, ten.

8:59: "I'm Michael Knight."

9:00: NBC takes us out with lame chick music.

Verdict: Horrendous

NEXT WEEK: Mike and KITT take on street racers!
THE WEEK AFTER THAT: Cancellation?
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:indiff: I knew that it would be a failure of epic proportions, but this..:guilty:
 
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I saw the last 20 minutes of this episode, and it was really crappy. Though it can be comical at times. The ride over the train tracks did not seem realistic at all. It was like they just glided over them. I think Seinfeld has more convincing driving parts.
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Why on earth is anybody surprised that this show is a titanic pile of crap? The original show was a titanic pile of crap! 20 years of baby-boomer goggles is not going to help anything.
 
I am watching this right now and what happened to the seat belts? I didn't know that the FBI could fire shots like a crazed gunman/
 
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Why on earth is anybody surprised that this show is a titanic pile of crap? The original show was a titanic pile of crap! 20 years of baby-boomer goggles is not going to help anything.
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At least the car looked halfway good in the original. Seeing KITT in "battle mode" or whatever they call it with that plastic piece of merde on the hood and the blue LEDs on the bumper... then transforming into a truck (OMFG!!!!!!!!) with the stars jumping into the bin... and magically reappearing in the front seats after the car transforms back into a Mustang... the whole show smacks of 80's cheesy goodness.

But this is the 21st century fer chris'sakes... a cheesy Knight Rider fit in with a TV environment where the A-Team used thousands of bullets each episode without anyone getting shot, where Angela Lansbury could romp across the countryside leaving a trail of dead relatives and acquaintances in her wake, and with scenes and actors (in general) that look ripped straight from a daytime soap. But in this day and age... that just doesn't cut it.

IMHO... Viper was much, much better. And that's a show from the 90's.
 
niky
IMHO... Viper was much, much better. And that's a show from the 90's.
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Please, again. Don't insult VIPER by comparing this pile of [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] crap to it. Thanks.
 
The search feature works OMG lol I really like this program The original is better though. I'm wondering if the Pilot movie thing is out on DVD. Can anyone shed some light on this?
 
HEY! Knight Rider was one of the shows that got me HOOKED on cars.

Pontiac was insulted instead of pleased the second time around when Trans-Am sales went up (everybody especially wanted the "Bowling Ball" wheels). they must have had a HUGE let down, because when Trans-Am sales spiked 6 years previously due to "smokey and the Bandit", GM was practically dancing. I remember JCWhitney catalogs from then, and the hot seller was KITT's "woobwoob" lightbar/scanner.

Using a ford is a Precident. GM no longer wanted the connection anyway, and it was out of production. a few years ago, there was a cash in attempt called TEAM Knight Rider, that used 3 fords and two motorbikes. one of them was a 94 Body Mustang convertable, and, believe it or not, a friggin expedition! look that one up on TV.com.

even "Smokey and the Bandit" got a 90's retrial. another el floppo.

viper didn't impress me 'cause at the time it was coming off as a Knight Rider clone.

as for the new series, the words "So The Drama" come to mind (sneaking Kitt's lightbars into the KR's nostrils was about the only brainy Idea I liked). it's too much complicated conspiracy theory/Apocalypse NOW type for my tastes.
 
I hope there is nothing wrong in bumping an old thread (at least, I found nothing in the rules).



autoblog.com
A mysterious new project called Knight Rider Heroes looks to revive some of the fun of the classic '80s TV show, including reuniting KITT and David Hasselhoff.

The trailer is light on details, but KITT blasts through the desert in a nod to the show's opening. The Hoff also appears in his leather jacket and shades. The end directs viewer's to an official website, but there's no solid info there. Hasselhoff also promoted the clip on his site but without any further explanation.

That said, we noticed that some of the visuals in the trailer were similar to a video from The Aficionauto from last year. Christopher Rutkowski, the creator of The Aficionauto series, tells to Autoblog this take on Knight Rider is "a new production," but he couldn't say whether it's a movie, TV show, or anything else. He confirms that KITT remains a PontiacTrans-Am in this version, and Hasselhoff plays Michael Knight. Rutkowski hopes to direct the mystery project, but he indicated the work was still in the early stages. He didn't know when we might see the Knight Industries Two Thousand in this new adventure.
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This trailer on official Hasselhoff's site
 
...You've gotta be kidding me.

Not too long ago there was a marathon of original Knight Rider on tv. After watching it for, oh I don't know, ten, fifteen minutes, I turned it off.
It has aged rather poorly.
And the unsuccessful reboot back in the late '00 was pretty abysmal too, saved only by those cool Mustangs.


...And look how old The Hoff is!! No way in hell, man. I'm not ready for this. Uh-uh.
 
Aw come on man. So this made then 2008 series non canon ? (original KITT was dismantled yet it shows up here). Well at least its interesting for them to use the original Pontiac.

I'd rather have a Viper revival seeing that the car is gonna be stopped being produced in about a year or two.
 
I love Knight Rider but that doesn't really excite me at all. The 2008 series had a lot of promise that was dwindled away with Ford porn, cheap FnF-ish bodykits, and Optimus Prime, er, I mean KARR.

This just looks more like a webseries than a TV series or movie.
 
I love it!!! Bring it back! Not for me but for the people who have this incredible urge to make this. The Hoff really deserves this.
 

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