Mal ,'Shindig'
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Okay, you all were absolutely right: 2 was not that good, but I am not disappointed I watched it because I got to see Stratham take out >10 attackers with a bigass lead pipe and that was more than I was expecting from the movie!
I am now watching Death Race. I have not seen so many marginal action movies in a row in like 10 years.
Wait till you see the bus/motor oil fight scene in 1. Truly a thing of beauty.
Transporter is one of those where random rescued woman falls in immediate lust for her rescuer and sex ensues?
Well, her rescuer is Jason Statham, so it makes complete sense.
And smonster is not lying about the oil. Total pandering, and brilliantly done.
I have no real memories of the so-called "plot" of the Transporter movies. Totally remember the oil fight, though.
Transporter 1: Mystery package
Transporter 2: Injecting thingy
That still doesn't really make a dent. It's fine, though. I don't need to remember the plots.
I thought Statham's character didn't actually get it on with the rescued woman until the third movie? I remember reading a complaint from someone disappointed that the character's sexuality had been left ambivalent (well, in the sense that it wasn't touched on at all) for two movies before the filmmakers noticed and decided to demonstrate his straightness.
Though I do think it plausible that someone wouldn't necessarily stop in the midst of frenetic chase and fight scenes to make out with a potential love interest. Shoot 'Em Up's contrary approach proved one of its bigger WTF moments to me.
I think there was a fade-to-black makeout scene in number 1.
Transporter 1: They escape an explosion via water--both Statham and girl drop their wet clothes in a trail to the bedroom.
Transporter 2: Russian girl makes Statham strip before she'll give him the keys to the car. Then she demands a kiss. Then a better one.
Besides the scene in the first one when Statham is fighting in a garage and covered in motor oil, I remember nothing else from these two films.
But I know why Patton Oswalt gets the #stathamvapors.
Transporter 2: Russian girl makes Statham strip before she'll give him the keys to the car. Then she demands a kiss. Then a better one.
That was 3. I know this because I saw it on cable yesterday.