Kittamaru Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Woot... goddamn this movie was awesome! I remember watching Knight Rider when I was 5 and 6 years old and wishing I could own that old black Trans Am and then the T-Top they swapped to... mmmdoggie! The new KITT... hawt. Not a ford fan at all, but the Shelby series mustang was a thang done right. KITT is no exception... nano-armor, adaptive computer analysis programming, thermal imaging, and offensive weapons we don't even know about yet... plus the whole "627 miles in under 2 hours" thing while in Pursuit Mode! Good god! Anyone else watch this movie? I'm seriously hoping they make it into a new series! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxman0324 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 x2 pretty much everything you said. Too young for the original but my dad got me a toy car when i was a kid of the old one and I fell in love. American Gladiator... Watching it to see knight rider... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 I had better things to do than watch a bad remake of a bad original show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 (edited) That movie was crap...maybe I'm a fuddy duddy who loved the original too much. Terrible acting was only ok in the 80's when the original show aired. KITT was way over the top, "Mike" was a loser and the girl wasn't attractive (again, I thought ugly main character girls were only ok in the 80's original series. Mind you, Bonnie was a hawtie from time to time ) Then again, remakes usually all take this turn towards stupidity. Glad I at least saw the finale of American Gladiators and the roid-filled Titan loose everything. Edited February 18, 2008 by navygz19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittamaru Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hey, it wasn't bad for a low-budget TV movie though. And I loved the new nano-tech in the car... plus they couldn't really have done much better than a Shelby... maybe a SkyLine (a Pathy uber-tank version of KITT would be awesome too ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hey, it wasn't bad for a low-budget TV movie though. And I loved the new nano-tech in the car... plus they couldn't really have done much better than a Shelby... maybe a SkyLine (a Pathy uber-tank version of KITT would be awesome too ) If it was that low-budget they could have REALLY triend to save some $$ and used a last-gen V6 Camaro painted black, cause LS1 Trans Am's are too expensive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittamaru Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 They used a donated Shelby Mustang GT500 (least if I remember right it was donated) which, I must say, fits quite nicely - old KITT had the sleek style and good curves, new KITT has high-tech goodies and the muscle to actually do 200+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxman0324 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 you think they paid for the shelby then let ford do ALLLLLL those commercials and name drops and all. The only car other then a ford was a late model tahoe and they wrecked it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 you think they paid for the shelby then let ford do ALLLLLL those commercials and name drops and all. The only car other then a ford was a late model tahoe and they wrecked it That's another reason I hated it...get the hell over the fact that people aren't buying your crap (and sometimes Mexican built) cars...no need to make the bad guys in the movie be chasing KITT in an EDGE!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I simply dont want to watch it because it is a Mustang. Done right I think the Shelby GT 500 is a pretty sweet stang (I wouldnt own one but to each their own). But Knight Rider was a TA. If you cant use that then get something close. I agree a last gen camaro I think would have suited the movie better. Kitt was a streamlined black car. The Mustang is simply not sleek. I dont know, it's just not my cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Why not use a concept again? The Knight Rider 2000 "movie" had the Banshee at least, would have been better black, but eh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey.T Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Could not use the Camaro/TransAm... The Transformers have it trademarked... I only got to see the last 30 min.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittamaru Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 KITT wasn't really even a Trans-Am come later seasons - it was a body modded T-Top and even that changed - by the end of its run, Pontiac wanted nothing to do with Knight Rider Hence why they didn't use the original car for 2k I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 KITT wasn't really even a Trans-Am come later seasons - it was a body modded T-Top and even that changed - by the end of its run, Pontiac wanted nothing to do with Knight Rider Hence why they didn't use the original car for 2k I believe. Uh, the Banshee was a Pontiac concept for the "next-gen" Firebird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxman0324 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I really liked the mustang, granted it wasnt as sleek, but there arent a lot of cars that are that sleek. I think the car looked sweet, I just found it really wierd with Val Kilmer being the voice of the car since hes a better bad guy character then robot car character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 (edited) Uh, the Banshee was a Pontiac concept for the "next-gen" Firebird. I can remember when that concept was first introduced! I even bought a model of it but never put it together. I think it is still at my parents house somewhere. At the time that was a sweet concept. Even now I think that would have been a better car for KITT than a Mustang. Back during the first Kight Rider I really didnt think of KITT as a TA. Now if I watch the new one every time I see KITT I will just think it's a modded mustang. The concept is ruined IMO. Edited February 20, 2008 by zonianbrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittamaru Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 They wanted a car that could DO 200+ mph... I don't know many old T-Tops or TA's that can do that and not fall apart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Do you honestly think that the cars used for movies and TV shows are stock? LOL. Yeah so I guess all the chargers the Dukes of Hazard jumped had no reinforcment. If hollywood wanted a TA to do 200 it would. Dont be Nieve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxman0324 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Do you honestly think that the cars used for movies and TV shows are stock? LOL. Yeah so I guess all the chargers the Dukes of Hazard jumped had no reinforcment.. They didn't, thats why they used so many of them...you can reinforce a car all you want, but the frame cannot take those kind of impacts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I watched a special and the fronte end was reinforced to an extent. I know they did not use the same car but the car was still reinforced for safety and so they could get that 1 second shot of the landing without it just exploding to pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxman0324 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ah yes, that makes sense...i thought u meant they did it to jump the same car multiple times... It still bothers me how in the Starsky and Hutch movie the whole front end of the torino just folds up in the jump right before the credits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 They wanted a car that could DO 200+ mph... I don't know many old T-Tops or TA's that can do that and not fall apart Just like with jumping, do you think they actually hit that high of speed? Do you think that they were actually doing 600mph with the old one when it was in "Super Pursuit Mode"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittamaru Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 I was being funny... yikes, didn't know ya'll would take me so seriously 0o' Though, granted, a Shelby GT500 KR would smack the pants off any old Pontiac in a straight up race. Considering what you can do to a Shelby engine *whistles* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Geez dude would you read your own post. Ofcourse a new Shelby mustang would beat an oldter trans am. It's called technology buddy. Cars are being built lighter and with more power than 15-20 yrs ago. But if they were still making Trans am's and camaro's you can bet there would be competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 AC has a topic on this show also and someone posted a link to a new TA concept for 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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