Knight Rider (2008)
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^Sadly, NBC Universal has blocked that in the U.S. due to copyright issues. What was it a video of?
God, has it been 15 years since the Knight Rider reboot?
1991, but set in 2000. It was called... Knight Rider 2000.
I know! 16 years now.
You're right. I recently rewatched it on Netflix when they had it for a little bit. The soundtrack put me to sleep it was so bad.
There was a plot point in KR2000 that the average American probably wouldn't even notice, but I, as an Italian, was like "WTF"!?!.
The movie was set in a future were finally some form of gun control was implemented. Firearms were almost completely gone. Even police was armed with not-lethal weapons (a kind of sonic taser if I remember correctly). Well, in the context of the movie this was presented as a bad thing. A law wanted by cowardly and corrupt politicians that prevented respectable people from defending themselves. I remember watching this situation depicted as a nightmarish dystopia thinking "Isn't this how the rest of the world works?". Finally at the end of the movie this madness end, the status quo is restored and everyone can buy automatic rifles, rpgs and whatever at their heart's content, leaving this European very perplexed.
The movie was set in a future were finally some form of gun control was implemented. Firearms were almost completely gone. Even police was armed with not-lethal weapons (a kind of sonic taser if I remember correctly). Well, in the context of the movie this was presented as a bad thing. A law wanted by cowardly and corrupt politicians that prevented respectable people from defending themselves. I remember watching this situation depicted as a nightmarish dystopia thinking "Isn't this how the rest of the world works?". Finally at the end of the movie this madness end, the status quo is restored and everyone can buy automatic rifles, rpgs and whatever at their heart's content, leaving this European very perplexed.
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Terrifying.
I still remember this scene: there is a criminal fleeing with a firearm and the police try in vain to stop him with their sonic weapons. But the fugitive has a pair of simple earplugs or something similar that render sonic weapons useless. Running away and shooting, he massacres completely defenseless policemen unable to stop him, like a shooting gallery.
It almost seemed like an NRA PSA: "See??? If you make gun ownership a crime, the only people with guns WILL BE CRIMINALS!!!"
But have those who say Hollywood is a den of liberal sissies ever seen a movie in their life?
After reading the thread dedicated to Echo, I was reflecting that the original series was a hymn to unchecked vigilantism too. What was the concept behind KR? That the government, the police forces and in any case all those democratically chosen organizations and procedures are useless for solving people's problems. So, what do you need? Of "one man who can make a difference". A man equipped with military grade weaponry and who does not have to answer to anyone for his actions. And that he independently decides which crimes to prosecute and which laws to break (because I'm pretty sure that going 300 mph on city streets or trespassing into private property with a turbo boost is not well seen in the legislation of many American states) because he knows that the rules that apply to everyone else do not apply to him..
It's the textbook definition of "vigilante." Who uses the means available only to him for purely selfish purposes (even if under the pretext of helping others). I mean, how many lives would be saved if Kitt's indestructible body formula was made public? What does he use it for instead? To unmask a rigged beauty contest (thus obtaining the eternal "gratitude" of the participants).
It's the textbook definition of "vigilante." Who uses the means available only to him for purely selfish purposes (even if under the pretext of helping others). I mean, how many lives would be saved if Kitt's indestructible body formula was made public? What does he use it for instead? To unmask a rigged beauty contest (thus obtaining the eternal "gratitude" of the participants).
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