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NirvanaMan · 02-20-2008, 12:46 PM

I loved it myself. I watched it fully expecting it to be terrible and wanting to tear it apart for bastardizing my childhood as they did with "Team Knight Rider" and to a lesser extent "Knight Rider 2000".

And at first, the bad acting seemed to indicate that my assumptions were correct. Though maybe, that was just an homage to the original.

All fears were quenched when I sat up, giddy like a school girl, as they walked into the garage. I saw the original K.I.T.T. under the tarp. The Tuned Port Injection engine that indicated it was a GM product after all. A motor from a Trans Am in fact. Then the old license plate, the steering wheel. Woo hoo!

There were some groans that my former colleagues decided to turn a great product placement opportunity into a ginormous in-your-face obnoxious Ford/Mazda/Volvo/Lincoln commercial (Mercury was currently absent as was Lincoln save for the limos; Jaguar and Land Rover are in the process of being sold so not oddity in their exclusion). I will have to take to my guys about how to do product placement right, though it was likely the result of Bob's good product placement and an idiotic overzealous marketing department looking to capitalize on the placement deal. But I digress.

I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline. The homages to the past "don't wreck the car Micheal" and the continuity they introduced. Instead of so many a remake that tries to bring an old story into the modern era (Dukes of Hazzard comes to mind) they actually continued the story instead of ignoring the 25 year progression. The inclusion of Micheal Knight was well done and well thought out.

Much of K.I.T.T.'s features requires a suspension of disbelief as it should be (remember in the original the buttons would change on the IP every episode to provide features that just happened to come in handy) and the surprise at the end with K.I.T.T. launching out the back of a C-130 as opposed to the expected trailer was delightfully fun. And as proper, kit did a 180 and went on his way.

Tons of fun I thought. Not sure I dig Val Kilmer as the voice though.

02-20-2008, 12:46 PM	#4
NirvanaMan Making Change Happen Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 990	I loved it myself. I watched it fully expecting it to be terrible and wanting to tear it apart for bastardizing my childhood as they did with "Team Knight Rider" and to a lesser extent "Knight Rider 2000". And at first, the bad acting seemed to indicate that my assumptions were correct. Though maybe, that was just an homage to the original. All fears were quenched when I sat up, giddy like a school girl, as they walked into the garage. I saw the original K.I.T.T. under the tarp. The Tuned Port Injection engine that indicated it was a GM product after all. A motor from a Trans Am in fact. Then the old license plate, the steering wheel. Woo hoo! There were some groans that my former colleagues decided to turn a great product placement opportunity into a ginormous in-your-face obnoxious Ford/Mazda/Volvo/Lincoln commercial (Mercury was currently absent as was Lincoln save for the limos; Jaguar and Land Rover are in the process of being sold so not oddity in their exclusion). I will have to take to my guys about how to do product placement right, though it was likely the result of Bob's good product placement and an idiotic overzealous marketing department looking to capitalize on the placement deal. But I digress. I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline. The homages to the past "don't wreck the car Micheal" and the continuity they introduced. Instead of so many a remake that tries to bring an old story into the modern era (Dukes of Hazzard comes to mind) they actually continued the story instead of ignoring the 25 year progression. The inclusion of Micheal Knight was well done and well thought out. Much of K.I.T.T.'s features requires a suspension of disbelief as it should be (remember in the original the buttons would change on the IP every episode to provide features that just happened to come in handy) and the surprise at the end with K.I.T.T. launching out the back of a C-130 as opposed to the expected trailer was delightfully fun. And as proper, kit did a 180 and went on his way. Tons of fun I thought. Not sure I dig Val Kilmer as the voice though.
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