Death Race 2000 (1975) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, January 4 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 2am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/675214/death-race-2000
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SEgbolSF4
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those youtube and tubi links
- archive: https://archive.org/details/death-race-2000-1975
- archive: https://archive.org/details/6.2-death-race-2000
- it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/death-race-2000
Set in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, the film centers on the murderous Transcontinental Road Race, in which participants score points by striking and killing pedestrians.
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The film has garnered critical acclaim over the years, having a score of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 83 reviews, deeming it "fresh". The site's critical consensus states, "Death Race 2000 is an unabashedly cheap, deliriously fun B-movie that revels in its first-rate racing sequences, vividly grotesque characters, and comic-strip absurdity."[7] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[28]
The film has long been regarded as a cult hit[5] and was often viewed as superior to Rollerball, a much more expensive major studio drama released later in the same year; another dystopian science-fiction sports film similarly focusing on the use of dangerous sports as an "opiate" for the masses.[5]
Saw this at the drive in as a young kid. Still think about it a lot.