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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: Another Bad Movie
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 17:35:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 17:35:03 1985
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> Anybody remember 'Death Race 2000'? A truly terrible movie. Some
> game company even came out with an arcade game version of it. The
> object of the game was to drive around and kill pedestrians. The
> game disappeared after a lot of complaints by outraged citizenry.
> 	Anyway, the movie was pretty badly done. I watched it because
> I like car race & crash movies, but was very disappointed in this. The
> cars were ridiculous, and the director made heavy use of speeded up
> films.

    I would like to cast a dissenting vote. DR2000 was bad, but not totally.
Remember one of the Carradines as the villain, who scored the first points in
the race by backing over his pit crew.

    --Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
    --aka Steve Howard, udenva!showard
    --"No matter what your occupation is
       Everybody's in show-biz" --the Kinks