Death Race 2000

I must be nuts. I belong to this cult video club and so I keep renting these bloody awful films which brings us to the above. What in god's name possessed messrs Carradine and Stallone to be in this? It views like the result of a drunken spree by John Waters and Russ Meyer after being served martinis by Benny Hill.

The thing is, I reckon it would make quite a good remake.

Similarilties to Rollerball are skin deep only I'm afraid, although it does make use of a sort of sub genre I like which is "Ultra-modernist-buildings used-in-sci-fi-to-stand-in-as-the-future" Okay its a sub-sub-genre but its great. 70's sci-fi especially seems to use any big white empty modernist piles as sets, the other classic is using power stations or water processing plants. Vast antisceptic spaces with light light light. (especially Rollerball, Sleeper, Westworld)

Then the eighties happened and it shifted to disused steel mills and the like. Not nearly as fun. Now new buildings have begun to look like disused steel mills or oil refineries (thankyou Richard Rogers) so the CGI sets have followed suit. Shame. Vast cluttered spaces with dark dark dark...