The funny thing is that all the folks commenting on this SyFy Grindhouse-inspired series about cars that run on human blood have somehow seemed to gloss over the minor detail that it’s pretty explicitly set in an alternate 1999. Trailer after the fold, and don’t watch it at work unless your boss is cool.
Now, to be fair, SyFy’s original copy for the Blood Drive trailer says that this show is set in the near future (which it is, from the point of view of the late 1970s). But it’s still funny to see a series that’s apparently actually going to slyly mock the doom-and-gloom of the Seventies movie scene, pretty explicitly including the various forms of eco-hysteria that took place back then. And that has never really stopped, either.
Still, this show looks very, very dumb and very, very wasteful of red food coloring, or whatever it is that they’re using. Which might be the classic recipe, at that. Tradition, right?
This movie is clearly a TDEMSYR[1] situation. If fuel was so scarce, they’d make sure not to spray it all over the place.
[1] That Doesn’t Even Make Sense, You Moron.
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This, in an odd way, fits in with what SyFy has been doing lately. Look at Sharknado. This looks similar. Silly premises with complete awareness of the stupidity of their premise, just played for laughs.
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As the guys over at RLM say: “It was what you thought it was.”
I concur. I caught a bit of one of the Sharknado movies (before my wife made it clear that the cost of my continuing to watch it, was her continuing to comment sarcastically).
It was a 70s ludicrous premise disaster flick played earnestly straight.
The film even got the green tint right.
Soooo….. does human blood get better mileage than say, pig blood? Or cow blood? Let’s ignore the whole “nothing in blood really releases energy” thing. We’ll just use our handwave on that. But if it takes 20 years to produce a human big enough to fill a gas tank, well, it’s takes 5 to 6 months to get a pig with the same mass as a person. Plus, you’d get bacon along with the gas.
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FYI- there’s a 2010 Aussie film called “Road Kill” about a “road train” (i.e. tractor trailer) that runs on the human blood of unsuspecting passerbys.