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October 24, 2005
The Transporter
Categories: Pictures
One of the things I did this weekend was watch The Transporter. Not high-art by any means, but here are some thoughts:
1. The oil-slick fight was pretty cool.
2. How come all these action movies fall prey to the "helping out the girl" syndrome? Badass transporter gets screwed over, but is going to walk away until the girl appeals to him for help. This is lame. Do studio execs think it makes the movie more appealing to women? Do women who aren't forced to by men watch these movies anyway? Would men care if the motivation was just "badass wants to get back at the guy who tried to blow him up"? For movies like this, I'm fine with that. It's not like we watch this movie for riviting plot anyway.
3. Movie comparisions: Ronin. Maybe it's just because they're both set in the south of France. Ronin actually puts a nice twist on the "help the girl" angle, as de Niro and Co. are hired by the girl, then get double and tripple crossed. Ronin was, of course, 500000 times better.
4. The entire end fight in the 18 wheeler was ripped off from Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was complaining vocally about this during the movie, to the point of annoying Sarah. After the Transporter, I put in the Raiders DVD to demonstrate. Even Sarah, who has not seen Radiers 7650 times like I have, agreed that the two fights were basicly the same. Then I got to hear the "It's not the years, it's the milage" line, which was just gravy.
I'm not sure why I needed to write all that about a movie that's average at best. There was REALLY good baseball on this weekend, yet I write about The Transporter.
Am I becoming one of those "complain about it on the internet" people?
Posted by Nakia at October 24, 2005 04:48 PM