Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

They shot a Roomba? Bastards.

I watched it.  Yawn….

I DVR’d it as well. Maybe I’ll just watch the credits and delete it to save room for more interesting shows like, “Paint drying 101”. :)
E

Ouch!  I Tivo’d it as well - it’s really that bad???

As soon as I saw the new Michael in bed with two young women—what, two minutes into the show?—I felt we were headed for the abyss. The hokey music during the hokey fights? The plastic bad guys? A couple “POW!” and “WHAM!” captions from Batman would have been an improvement. Man, I loves Andy Lau, but this was bad every which way.

How many times do we have to relive the 80s? Wasn’t this supposed to be a remake, as in update? At best, we got a two-hour Ford commercial (I stopped watching and cried my eyes out instead of Extreme Makeover Home Edition).

That was “over” Extreme Makeover. See, I’ve been brain-damaged by Knight Rider.

I didn’t watch it, but wasn’t Will Arnett supposed to be KITT?  I thought he did the voice.

I watched the whole thing just to see The Hoff - and well because I was a fan of the original version.

The theme is awesome!! I didn’t much care for KITT. I missed William Daniels as well.

Michael in bed w/ 2 women?  Isn’t Knightrider something you’re supposed to be able to let yr kids watch?

Watched the whole thing - was sort of hoping Hoff would show up and ask Mike, “I can haz cheezburger?”  I was very happy to see it end with a reminder that we’ll see more Hoff in the next edition of America’s Got Talent.

Mike looks eerily like my ex bf.  It was sort of freaking me out ...

Saw it. It was horrible, horrible! The bf started to read a book and I started to surf the net.

My fiance and I watched it last night. We were both excited to see the next generation.

I really liked the body dancer Ford ad, for those that saw it. Really good!
*grin*

I was rather bored by about the ten minute mark in the moview when the bad guys were too well groomed, the good guys too fortunate in their encounters (who HAS &90,000 just “hanging around” that quickly accessed anyways?) and well… yes, having two women get into bed with our new hero, then the FBI agent leaving her new girlfriend in bed made me wonder at whether this was good family viewing. I watched the original with my dad waaaay back then. Would I let my kids watch that? Would be some ‘splainin’ to do if they were too young.

I was bored to tears, and I was even excited to see the new K.I.T.T. as a Mustang, since, well, I drive one just like it (only mine is the Pony version, not the Cobra or GT). That was kind of cool, I guess.

I would have to say the highlight was seeing a nicely dressed Hoff… I wish there was more of him!

I hope you are not skipping over the Ford commercials. There were the best part.

Will Arnett was supposed to be KITT—heck, the first few promos had his voice in them. Then Ford found out that he’d done some Toyota commercials ten years ago, and dropped him like a hot potato since he clearly had evil ulterior Toyota motives. *eyeroll* I found Michael Knight to be a tool, the bad guys horribly obvious, and Val Kilmer very bland. KITT should be sarcastic!

That thing last night? I think I saw about five minutes of it total. The boyfriend informed me that it was a step past atrocious, so I didn’t bother watching.

Spaminator: make21 . . . cookies? OK!

I watched it - wondered what you’d have to say about it, Sarah! Especially since David did such a swell job there at the end. Snerk.  I was also really looking forward to Television Without Pity recapping it, but I didn’t see it on their website today. I live in hope - maybe later.

I only wish I’d DVRd it instead of watching it live, so I could fast forward.  All the commercials were driving me nuts. I could almost have gotten into the camp-cartoon-hokeyness of the show (and it was definitely that), if I wasn’t always pulled out by the suspenseful music that cut to more damn commercials. 

And I’m thinking that “family tv” was not what they had in mind—at least not the traditonal/conservative sort— when they filmed this. Not only did they start out with Michael in bed with two women, but he hung with those sharks and gamblers. Apparently we’ll get to see his redeeming qualities later on, if anyone continues to watch that is. And the woman FBI agent will no doubt raise some eyebrows as well.  She dressed quickly and left that woman she’d just met in her bed to run out the door when the call came in. So I suppose they can either play up a relationship angle in the future, or else make her out to be a loose lesbian. Whatever gives them better ratings.

So the mom ... was she in the original too, as a love interest to the Hoff? She looked familiar, but I don’t know if it is because of the original show, or something else. I was old enough to watch, but too young to remember all the actors from the original.

Diane

I was unaware such a movie existed.

Ignorance is indeed bliss.

I admit I watched it for the sweepstakes. The kiddo wants a Mustang and if I can win her a Cobra GT, sweet! I think Mike’s mother was the female foil for Michael (The Hoff) in the original? I didn’t watch the original much but I think that’s what they were hinting at.

The best part of the whole movie came at the end when they backed K.I.T.T. out of the back of a moving C-130 instead of the semi-truck as in the original series.

My husband said, “Hey!  The new Knight Rider is on!  Come watch!” and I said, “Did you just hear yourself?”

No, didn’t watch.  I was a kid in the 80’s, I admit it.  I watched that cheesefest.  But… Michael Knight (our MK, from the 80’s) should just be allowed to RIP.

I watched about 2 minutes of it (maybe 5) and found myself laughing so hard that I decided to be thoroughly uplifted by Extreme Makeover: Home Edition instead.  And then I had to watch the last hour of Pride and Prejudice on Public Broadcasting.  :D I love the complete Jane Austen thing they’re doing.

It was so AWESOMELY BAD!  Best part was the commercials where KITT was jealous Mike took another car and he started hitting on his blonde date. ‘She can talk to me.  She can ride in me.  I have keyless entry.’

Loved it unabashedly, in all its horrific glory. Including the commercials where KITT followed along on Mike’s date.

As someone who only knows Justin Bruening from All My Children, it was fun to see him play a semi-sleazebag who can kick ass and take names. Also didn’t mind Sidney Tamila Poitier playing a badass lesbian FBI agent, because, hey, we need more of them around!

Plus, I thought Val-as-KITT was pretty funny. Not quite as fun as the original, but he got off some good lines.

NOT Andy Lau as SB Sarah pointed out in her review. Should have watched longer. Then again, the brain damage might have become worse.

I DRV’d it and watched it last night. The very long driving scenes were . . . very long. But it was sort of “craptastic” as SB Sarah says and the new Mike is hawt, and I’ll DVR it if they make a series.