New Knight Rider Series

[TomoHawk]

I did a quick check of what details the InternetMovie DataBase has, and it lists David Hasselhof as Michael Knight. There is a new guy taking over in the spot of Michael Knight. I wonder what kind of attractive geek-mechanics they will have, if any.

[justinr54321]

Did anyone see the movie last night? Wife and I had a date night, finally after 3 months, and I missed it. If so, how was it? Thank you in advance.

[zbane]

I watched it, and I've got to say it wasn't all that bad, but it wasn't all that good either.

I was pleased that they kept the original theme music, but updated it a bit with some screaming guitar riffs, healthy bass, and a touch of electronica. Still, the feel of the original was still there.

Story wise, there was a mention of the original Michael Knight and the Trans Am, and there was even a cameo appearance of "the Hoff." Alas, there was no showing the original KITT.

As would be expected, the show featured several Ford vehicles besides the Cobra (and there were many glory/hero shots of that one).

The new driver of KITT is the son of the original Knight.

Stereotypical "hottie" female scientist/computer geek.

Stereotypical comedic sidekick/computer geek.

Not stereotypical is the female FBI agent that teams up the the Knight Foundation.

We first meet her as she is entering her beach house and has a brief conversation with a sweet young lady (still in bed).

To paraphrase the conversation:

FBI: I have to go to work.

Young Lady: Don't you want to have lunch?

FBI: It's an emergency. Feel free to eat something then let yourself out.

Young Lady: Don't you feel uncomfortable leaving someone you just met alone in your house?

FBI: Yes.

[EScanlon]

I watched it also and was bemused by some of the obvious plot ploys used.

In the chase scenes ALL of the other cars seen are ... FoMoCo vehicles, even the truck. The only one that wasn't was a Volvo and that's FoMoCo also.

Interestingly in the final chase scene, the driver's side in K.I.T.T. window gets shot out, yet it magically re-appears once the computer is turned back on. Now I understand that it's the computer programs that render the car AND the window bullet proof, but I wasn't aware of generating a pane of glass out of nothing. (The glass is seen there after the crash of the SUV into the side of the K.I.T.T..)

The color scheme outside the casino was a very beautiful blue/purple color....and used as one of the leads to "Win your own K.I.T.T. Car!". Bet that color turns up as extra $ at the showroom.

The female side-kick, daughter of the car's designer, while being very decisive and self-assured, becomes a twit in an emergency. She also can't shoot a machnie gun less than 3 feet away from another vehicle and hit it...ANYWHERE.

In the crash at the end, the bad Sheriff gets killed, sitting behind the driver who doesn't, also the front passenger dies but the rear right passenger doesn't.

The FBI agent's scene with the sleeping girl....totally irrelevant. Except that she rebuffs a stereotypical puppy-love struck fellow agent who is marmy enough to dislike anyway, so why make it plain she's a lesbian? or at least bi-sexual? Like I said, irrelevant.

Several other items, but I'll let others comment.

Overall, I give it a 6.5 out of 10. Watch-able, but not in the top 10.

E

[TomoHawk]

In case you missed the last showing, Knight Rider will be on at 9pm ET on NBC.

[TomoHawk]

So is there any word about Knight Rider becoming a TV series? I noticed that it's on TV or cable overy few days at odd hours, usually in the evening or at night.

thxZ

[beandip]

The thing is with a show like this they need about 10 different cars to be used for different sort of gags. On the original show the car used to jump over things was powered by a VW engine and was just a skin over a tube frame. They had a couple of them because they usually bent in the middle if jumped to high in the air. There was only one car that was complete and the actual driver sat on the floor in back of the seat with his legs under the front seat. This was the car that was shown driving around with no one in it. Some of the cars were smaller versions of Kit. They were never seen with things that would give away the scale. Like the jump car. I personally think the Mustang was a good choice for the show. they used stripped down versions for other than the car that showed the actors in them. Also the interior shots usually were taken with a car body with no glass and was just an interior and no engine or frame and shot in a studio, I worked as a safety officer on many of the shoots where they did stunts on location. As they say , ''back in the day '' Gary

[Mr Camouflage]

The thing is with a show like this they need about 10 different cars to be used for different sort of gags.

Back in the day that was true, these days they do alot of the hard stuff with computer generated images (CGI).

[WingZr0]

Back in the day that was true, these days they do alot of the hard stuff with computer generated images (CGI).

Yeah, see The Fast and The "Not So" Furious

When the CGI cars showed up it just kilt the show.

The only one they pulled off was when the 350Z in the last one

drifted 2mm's from the wall on the back end in the parking garage.

If it wasn't for the mood of the race built up to that point then it would've been just

another CG sequence, but the fact the race was wrote out good as a whole,

and they made the Z look right, made that Tail Whip Shot come out great.

~Z~