This post contains spoilers for "Rollerball" and his remake in 2002.

It's been 50 years since Rollerball was released in cinemas in 1975, but this scientific cult classic is still difficult. If nothing else, it feels only more appropriate with its almost future setting where corporations rule the world and where every citizen is considered a client. This may feel confusing at the beginning, as "Rollerball" is a technical sports film, where his titular futuristic sport gives the story a certain amount of kinetics of the first action. While this is true, the 1975 Norman Jewish classic sets a lack of social comment that is grilled in its own way, although some aspects of the story do not age too well and can be considered exploitative.

The dangerous, corporate rollerball sport is more than just a vapid party. It is a tool used to control many scattered social classes, disguised as an indispensable spectacle that can end the conflict and eradicate manipulation in its root. If this sounds like a version of the mid-70s of "Hunger Games", that's because it is Processed version of the concept of Battle Royale, which usually comes with criticism of corporate hegemony (or any kind of autocracy). If the hunger games are a reminder of corrosive capitol posture in the areas, rollerbol strengthens each individual effort is in vain, breaking down the idea of heroism while stimulating toxic code addiction.

So, when the Rollerball Starwar player, Athonatan E. (Brilliant Jameseshei Khan) reaches the level of a superhrs that is worrying to the state, corporate directors invent a scheme to maintain its global influence under control. Anyway, the athlete is not that kind of person to make someone's bidding or leave his teammates in a game that he has grown for a really Loveub.

Now imagine today's remake of this premise where each satirical component is completely eliminated in favor of three rollerball tournaments with coded video games, which are all style and has no substance. This is the "Rollerball" of Abysmally Bad in 2002-the film is such a hollow remake of the original that it does not even deserve a one-time ironic viewing. Is also among the films with the lowest assessment of IMDB. Let's talk about it!

Johnon McThternan (who directed Bangers like "Die Hard" and "Predator") He basically misunderstood the attraction of the Rollerball remake, as he made some confusing changes in the script after the ship's release. The initial scenario for the film was more than decent: he reintured the social comment of the original, while ensuring that the central story of success underlined human persistence and the collective impulse to challenge tyranny. However, McTennan didn't want anything, so he copied the script several times with the focus of the WWE-style tournament focus with over-the-line visual style. The result was a meaningless story of shining that did not interfere with the fierce building of the world, deteriorating with an incoherent style of editing that can truly cause nausea.

Now, you may be wondering: can't be that Bad, right? I mean, yes, the movie has a frightening score of 3% spoiled tomatoes, but Even the worst movie ever had some redemption qualitiesDidn't it? Well, "rollerball" would not feel so offensive if it was just a movie that was made; His guilt lies in his hollow center because he wants to take a walk on his predecessor's shoes without dedicating himself to the comment that makes the original so timeless. It is also important to note that McThennan and MGM initially ignored most of the negative feedback on the test projections, but chose to again shoot a piece of the story near the start date of publication in 2001 (which eventually pushed back to February 2002). As a result, the weak narrative was already mixed to form something even more mixed, with much of the violence with the rating of the Republic, reduced to a large extent.

I don't have much to say about the story that played the "roller" in 2002, as there are not many essentials to guarantee discussion. In this iteration, the Athonatan (Chris Klein) skateboards carelessly down the hills and spends most of his time giving repetitive compliments to his Love-Board, Aurora (Rebecca Romain-Stamos). When the amthonate Whether Get on with Rollerball, you'll want to want it to be gone. These sequences are shiny, frenetic and filled with disorienting circles, but you can hardly do what is happening on the screen, which is never a good sign. I would not recommend this remake to my worst rush, but in case you feel iousubopite, it is better to rethink the "roller" of the Jew and its intriguing, troubled world.