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Death Race 2000
1975 · Film · 80 min
Directed by Paul Bartel
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
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There's "Death Race 2000" then from 1975 (from a short story from 1956) where the killing is televised.
Love that film.
He also gave so many actors their first break. Just copying from the news: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, William Shatner, to name a few.
While we're on it, what are some of your favorites? I probably don't know some of the movies I watched made/produced by him.
I know I've always loved "Death Race 2000" (1975). Actually like the re-make too "Death Race" (2008) (and he's listed as an executive producers for that too). The 2008 one really has nothing to do with the 1975 one except for re-using some names but both are good fun.
When it mentioned the race being partly inspired by a movie, I was thinking Death Race 2000.
Now that's a ridiculous movie.
The problem with your wager is that on a long enough timeline, the doomsayers are always right.
So saying anything OR societal collapse is going to evaluate to true.
There are any number of disasters, both terrestrial and cosmic, that can radically change the landscape of the Earth.
I also don't really find discussions about what's going to happen beyond our lifetime that interesting for the most part. Often, they're just fantastic wishing attached to some loose thread of logic.
The Island
Escape from New York
The Running Man
Akira
Strange Days
A Scanner Darkly
Back to the Future II
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Death Race 2000
1984
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Freejack
Westworld
Real Steel
Pacific Rim
12 Monkeys
The Abyss
Timecop
And a host of other films and books are set in futures that are now our past. And while some of these are fantasy designed to entertain, they all make assumptions about what would be possible by that time. And we have fallen woefully short of those predictions. So short, that "flying cars and meals in pill form" is a meme about such predictions.
Clearly you never watched Death Race 2000 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/