This is arguably the most ridiculous-in-a-good-way movie I've ever seen. It's so over-the-top it's hard to pick the most ridiculous moment, but I'll try:
Turkish is hanging on for dear life on the moving truck's undercarriage and throws the tire iron in the face of Ric Young's driver. Made me laugh harder than any other scene.
Seriously, not a single one of you guys mentioned the bit about him out-running a plane.
They show one scene of him spotting the plane flying off, then next thing we see, is him running after it. Another scene comes, and he's caught up to it, then the next, he's past it.
Next scene, the plane is touching down, and he's just kind of catching up to it, and not terribly out of breath.
If he can outrun planes, he doesn't really need a car, or a paradropping scene afterwards, he can just run up to the trucks, and the cars, and just jump on.
Christ, Jason Statham, is the most badass person on the face of this planet. I believe that he ACTUALLY CAN run that fast. Chuck Norris has nothing on Jason Statham.
I actually have an idea for The Transporter 4. I'm thinking of writing up a script, that would be more ridiculous than anything ever made in motion cinema. I'm thinking stuff like, swimming faster than a submarine, full of crewmen, that he then beats up, and turns into zombies. Then he jumps out of the submarine, taking a zombie with him, so he can lock lips with it, and suck the air out of his lungs, which will kill it in the process all over again.
Maybe a few scenes where he's running away from a guy, who has a gun, and is going to kill him, he turns around a corner, and then the next scene is him dropping 20 feet through the air, to deliver a vicious knee to the guy's head, which causes it to explode, with brain matter like confetti.
What do you guys think?
It was pretty silly that a police computer was in English.
sharelol yeah, but the most awesomely ridiculous thing was the bit where he fly-kicks the door down.
shareYeah the car wheel brace under the truck was very handy. I'm pretty sure that trucks have bigger wheel nuts than that.
Also was very funny when the two mercs crashed into each other during the truck scene and turned into a giant fireball!
So many to choose from. But I have to go with parachuting onto the truck.
First, the plane got a lot of altitude really fast and of course gets just enough to allow him to land on the truck.
Then when he lands on the truck the parachute would have ripped him off the truck before he had a chance to lose it. There was no way he even would remain standing unless the truck is going under 10 mph.
Not to mention when he was parachuting down, he was behind the truck. He somehow managed to float faster than the truck was moving and land on it.
shareReally, the whole truck scene is ludicrous (but awesome). How are they wrestling and flailing around the cab without a)coming to a stop, since neither of them are pressing the gas or b)swerving off the road?
And that comment about how the girl got in the car while tied to a chair had me ROLLING. When I watched that part I was like WTF did someone put her there? If she was able to put herself in the car, she would have been more than able to get out of the way when he was backing the car up. On that note, could he really have stopped the car that fast and gotten that close to her?
The worst moment for me was when they were in the police station and had just knocked Frank out and the police come in. Wall Street then says he wants Frank to be arrested and runs off a load of charges. However when the Inspector wants to question him, he says he wants his lawyer. This is all happening in France, with a French writer and director using Americanisms. He has no right to a lawyer as he is pressing charges, he should have been arrested for wasting Police time (and in France would have been). They put all that rubbish in so that Frank could then use the Inspector as a hostage to escape. Crap.
shareIn the commentaries (yes I'm sad enough to have listened to those) they explained the car stopping close to her scene. That was actually real. They had her be on the chair and Statham backing towards her at full speed. Yes there was a stopping point that he had but he actually admitted (Statham did the commentary) that it was pretty nervewracking for him too.
shareHow about when they had about 30 seconds to see the missile cruising into the house in slow motion (somehow it takes all the open doors), and then it only makes a small fireball in the oven. The very next one takes down the house.
share1. It's hard to believe Frank would be so careless with covering his tracks after opening the package considering he appeared to be a smart by-the-book kind of guy. Wouldn't it be pretty obvious the package was tampered with by seeing a hole cut in the duct tape over Lai's mouth.
2. The hole in Lai's duct tape magically disappearing and reappearing.
3. It appeared Lai was waiting for Frank's permission to take the tape off her mouth after he untied her. She didn't take it off until Frank gave her a bowl of food and went to bed. Who would seriously play with their legs and shoes before taking the tape of his/her mouth?
wow...4 years since you posted this and I don't see where any other post addresses in your post you called Frank...TURKISH!!
yes Jason Staham will AWAYS be Turkish to me as well!!
"when ooo comes....ze' Germans?"
Any of the fight scenes, they were simply comical.
shareI realize this thread is about the ridiculous moments but I will submit that the music was the worst addition to this movie. 100% terrible and the song during the closing credits was the topper. Every song just got worse and worse.
ps. obviously if I was picking a scene the oil fight scene was just terrible. The looks on the goons faces as they fight a shirtless man covered in oil. No smirks? No cracking up? Come on!
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I don't think it's a very ridiculous movie, but I like how when Frank's car blows up at the rest stop, there's a small Asian guy who doesn't even really react to it. He just goes back to doing whatever he's doing... cleaning a windshield or something. Like it's something he sees every day.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.