monsterdon replay · Best of Death Race 2000

Say what you will about that movie but you cannot deny that it was over in 79 minutes and I can get to bed on time. #Monsterdon

bunnyhero

bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe

who wore it better?

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

honestly corman shoots a sex scene like he'd shoot a furniture commercial

#monsterdon #DeathRace2000

TheREALPaulJohnson

RobynGoodfellow@mastodon.murkworks.net

A HAND Grenade! Get it?

Geeze Roger.

Harvey Sandstrom

cd0

I guess we learned the real treasure was the friends we ran over along the way. #monsterdon

David Zaslavsky

diazona@techhub.social

@bunnyhero

Paco Hope

paco@infosec.exchange

So if someone kills the president with a car, they become president and they can appoint their grandmother-in-law as the Secretary of Homeland Security?

combatwombat@hachyderm.io

bobert

35 minutes to go.. #monsterdon #deathrace2000

when I got up this morning I didn't expect "shot of david carridine's armpit" while people chant "Frankenstein! Frankenstein!"" to be a thing that was going to happen today

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Don't sweat the details. Like in Death Race 2000, where fixes for vehicle problems were solved during shooting.

Part 1
🔸 The cars are actually kit cars, rebodied chassis. They were driven on public streets often to save money.
🔸 Stunt drivers refused to drive them on public streets because they were not street legal.
🔸So Roger Corman drove sometimes.

Cactuar Joe

CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

#monsterdon #deathrace2000

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ohiofi

Is it just me or has Euthanasia Day become too commercialized?

now that's how you pace a movie. it starts, stuff keeps happening, and then it ends and tells you that all the stuff is done #monsterdon

what is the music even DOING #monsterdon

you know, I used to see "speed patrolled by aircraft" signs in the west, now I know what they actually meant

Terencio

That was definitely the best movie of the year so far.

#monsterdon #BakedPotato

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Part 2
🔸 The vehicles did not even work most of the time. They were pushed down hills in some cases.
🔸 Cameras were undercranked to make the cars look like they were going faster than they were.
🔸Mary Woronov couldn't even drive. Her car was towed in her scenes.

frankenstein: "winning is the only thing i care about because it's the only standard of excellence remaining"
also frankenstein: "it doesn't matter whether you win or lose it's how you play the game"

it's time to play.... depth of character or screenwriter was drunk!
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Mother Bones

_L1vY_@mstdn.social

Wow, this is not so much a metaphor for capitalist fascism, it just IS capitalist fascism 😬

[empty]

allanb

Aand Tubi rolls SPACEBALLS

(might just watch)

hell ya dog. and in conclusion everything was fixed and the culture immediately adapted to a society no longer governed by violent spectacle #monsterdon

I would very much like to be a guy standing around with nothing more to do than plunge cartoon TNT plungers, how do you get that job

bstacey@icosahedron.website

Blake C. Stacey

Showing the car miss the mine one before hitting it was almost like suspense. Not actual suspense, but a suspense-like cinematographic product

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Director Paul Bartel on Death Race

2/3
"Nevertheless, there is a joke about the French wrecking our economy and telephone system that I still find amusing...

My "F" tshirt is raising questions already answered by my "F" tshirt

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Producer Corman wanted to get this film completed quickly to beat Rollerball, which had a similar theme, to market.

He cut scenes and budget and forced a difficult tight schedule, and was successful in releasing first.

Many say his Death Race is superior to Rollerball. I'm not sure what their problem is.

Paco Hope

paco@infosec.exchange

If they were trying to make an unrelatable, irritating, and utterly unsympathetic leader for a revolution, they have totally succeeded.
#monsterdon

oh I see, it was CHEKHOV'S hood-mounted giant knife

in conclusion, america was enough of a fascist state in 1975 to be mocked thusly, I guess

one of the movies of all time

Bluedepth

#monsterdon Thank you @Taweret for another lovely time. It's the time I treasure, all of you, and... this movie, uh, has to go. From the Internet Archive into nothingness. More... and Delete. LOL.

Knowing how David Carradine died makes this whole leather sexy character even more, ew.
#monsterdon #deathrace2000

How many points is the President worth?

when i fuck, i am always fucking crumbled up in a ball in the middle of a warehouse with a single spotlight #monsterdon

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Director Paul Bartel is THE Paul Bartel who became a cult movie favorite in Eating Raoul (1982), a movie he also wrote and directed.

His character from that movie appeared in subsequent cult horror films like Monsterdon feature Chopping Mall.

David Carradine is really not hot
#monsterdon #deathrace2000

I can’t help but feel like some of this nudity is gratuitous. #Monsterdon

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mdhughes@appdot.net

Also, the nudity is absolutely essential. It's a New Roman Empire phase, with orgies and death sports as spectacle. They all but say it, about tossing Christians to lions (a damned good idea if you ask me), and poor Nero the Hero.

The '70s were relaxed about sex and nudity and sometimes both, it's the fucking Evangelical '80s and weenie-shrinker Nancy Reagan that turned things back on us, so half'a ya are prudes who've never seen a titty since you were 2.
#monsterdon #deathrace2000

let that be a lesson to you: never have a system of governance where to become president you must kill the president as the victor of the bloodsport that underlies all law and order #monsterdon

And they lived happily ever after and we love VIOLENCE!

The End <3

Thanks everyone for joining tonight! This was a blast! Thanks @Taweret for hosting
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bassist is going wild with this one

Lysdexic

lysdexic@hachyderm.io

THE HAND GRENADE

Is it holy?

Aaah, she ran over the synthesizer!

In the movies, your car’s maximum speed is entirely determined by your level of intensity. #Monsterdon

Hollie

hollie@social.coop

The violins have arrived

so then the capitulation just there, of allowing race officials to be scored upon, is the sign of a waning regime, where they must promise something like the rule of law to keep the public in line #monsterdon

Press F to pay respects

Cactuar Joe

CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

This movie is so incomprehensible it's difficult to tell which weirdness is deliberate and which is accidental. #Monsterdon

Ah, un-brassiered 70s boobs. I've missed you.

This raises the possibility that someone will pop out of their car and say “I must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.” #Monsterdon

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mdhughes@appdot.net

What's weird is, this came out the same year, 1975, as Rollerball.

Death Race 2000 is pro-democracy, but mostly "stop being dumb fucking savages who kill each other on the road!", including a voiceover at the end about Australopithecines inventing the tomahawk in case you didn't get it.

Rollerball is anti-corporate, much more coherent, better shot and acted in every way, but has no positive ideas. Just "Jonathan! Jonathan!" instead of "Frankenstein! Frankenstein!"
#monsterdon #deathrace2000

bunnyhero

bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe

great way to see this again, with the #monsterdon crowd. thanks for the laughs everyone and of course thank you @Taweret for hosting!

ano yatsu

yatsu@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe this move was both the worst thing i have ever laid eyes on, and yet somehow incredible 10/10 no notes.

what in the actual fuck is this music

can't stop thinking about how the anti-race revolutionaries literally only want to stop the race and have no other political agenda

Welcome to The Resistance, Frankenstein! #Monsterdon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_VariViggen

That aircraft is a Rutan VariViggen - in fact, the first prototype of it!

Rutan of course went on to found Scaled Composites.

bunnyhero

bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe

frankenstein has so much plot armour

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REVIEWS!!

"...cartoonish but effective entertainment, with some good action sequences and plenty of black humor."
- Variety

"Bad"
- James Berardinelli

"Death Race 2000 is an unabashedly cheap, deliriously fun B-movie that revels in its first-rate racing sequences, vividly grotesque characters, and comic-strip absurdity."
- Rotten Tomatoes

did david carradine know that "my taste buds got wiped out" was a joke #monsterdon

iocane powder

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Director Paul Bartel on Death Race

3/3

"And I am pleased by the scene introducing the Girl Fan (played very effectively by my sister Wendy) who is to sacrifice herself beneath the wheels of David Carradine's race car and wants to meet him so that the gesture will have 'meaning'."

David Carradine undressing from his leather outfit is exactly how I imagine leather doms from fetlife to be
And I mean it in the worst way possible
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Looks like we’re going back to “Freedom Fries”. #Monsterdon

Always love to see a wheel just bouncing down the hill after a car crash. Couldn't be more cartoon-y if it tried.

Nazi Rick Moranis could try slightly harder to emote....

"I shoulda took a left turn at Albuquerque"

This movie was just a ploy by big F to sell shirts with big F

Cactuar Joe

CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

...Okay, this film started weird, and now it's getting WEIRD. #Monsterdon

Those who have seeen your face
Draw baaack in feeear
I aaaam the maaaask you weeear
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Uh so just random nazi flags are going to be a thing in this?

This opening artwork is the best thing I've seen all week, the movie can end now

Ben Ramsey

ramsey@don.monster

I don't understand what's happening on the @miru stream (after the movie), but I love this version of Rankin/Bass The Hobbit.

bstacey@icosahedron.website

Blake C. Stacey

Bonkers opening, which was good, and a strong close, but I think it dragged a bit in the middle third. Once the dark comedy saturates (oh look they put the old people out in the road every year for cheap euthanasia), there's only so much drivimg around the same California highways without the budget to trash a Blues Brothers amount of cars can do for you.

RobynGoodfellow@mastodon.murkworks.net

TheREALPaulJohnson

And since people exploded:

Who blew up better?

Well, congratulations everyone for making it to New Los Angeles, I guess, see you next week

ok no wait only occasional public violent spectacle in the service of abolishing public violent spectacle or when you are cool and married #monsterdon

rj

arrjay@tacobelllabs.net

Stallone, he drives for THE HATERS

heh heh, a HAND grenade

allow me to quickly dissolve this capsule pill

Mother Bones

_L1vY_@mstdn.social

I don't know how we tolerated the happy sappy soundtrack music on every movie and TV show no matter what kind of scene. I swear it didn't seem as jarring back then!

strangefour with the Pleiades

strangefour@retro.pizza

Oh they used the old racing video game cheat of driving backwards off the line. Nice.
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💬 Director Paul Bartel on Death Race

1/3
"Most of my guilty pleasures in this film were ripped out by the roots by Roger Corman before the film ever saw the light of day and substituted with crushed heads and blood squibs...

Sigh! At the deep romance of the oboe-backed David Carradine love scene!

that eyeshadow is positively bananas #monsterdon