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After DEATH RACE's Gale Force Idiocy Has Passed...We'll Get Statham In TRANSPORTER 3!! And Here's A Poster For It...

Dumbest thing Ive seen in movie - Satans exploding piss by JackRabbitSlim	Aug 20th, 2008 03:15:12 PM
Or whatever the hell that was in End of Days
First to call Fowl. by cookylamoo	Aug 20th, 2008 03:15:35 PM
Death race isn't even out yet. Leave it the fuck alone.
GAY by g-ride9000	Aug 20th, 2008 03:17:45 PM
MOVIE OF THE YE AR
Transporter 3: The Search for More Things to Transport by SpyGuy	Aug 20th, 2008 03:17:54 PM
I loves me the first TRANSPORTER film. The second was okay but lacking the charm of the original. I don't suppose there's a chance Shu Qi could be back?
Statham needs a better agent, that's for sure. by The Eskimo	Aug 20th, 2008 03:18:59 PM

Transporter 3: ONE TRICK PONY by g-ride9000	Aug 20th, 2008 03:19:48 PM
Yes in this INSTALMEN of the trazzzporrterr, our man delivers a one trick pony to hollywood.
That banner at the top of the French site is terrifying by Magma Suit	Aug 20th, 2008 03:20:54 PM
"Eggggghhhh!!!" The tagline for Death Race should be "It's the last week of the summer: it must be time for a shitty Jason Statham movie." That being said, I fully plan on seeing it and letting it drop a deuce on my intelligence.
Does he go bionic in Transporter 3? by j_ky2002	Aug 20th, 2008 03:21:48 PM
What the hell is that thing on his right wrist? A webshooter?
I am genuinely excited by this by O_Goncho	Aug 20th, 2008 03:23:54 PM
The second one was a big let down, despite the superior fight scenes, but I still can't wait.
Death Race 2000 is worth watching. Not this. by knowthyself	Aug 20th, 2008 03:24:37 PM
Now THAT is a fun exploitation flick. Rent that instead.
RE: Transporter 3: One Trick Pony by gavdiggity	Aug 20th, 2008 03:26:00 PM
co-starring Paul Simon.
Cmon - Statham rokked da house in Revolver by JackRabbitSlim	Aug 20th, 2008 03:26:46 PM
Oh wait ... chess games ... all that mindless drivel about ego and sublimation shudder. Jason, i understand that you feel you owed Guy Ritchie for the start of your career, and I respect that kind of loyalty, but that harpy Midge has her claws sunk into his nads and is pumping him full and reaming him dry with her Kabbalah-esque madness. Jason, I know with your follicly-challenged good looks you wanna be the guy producers call when they realize they cant quite punch in enough zeros to get Bruce Willis but, c'mon babe, you are pissing your career away.
Norris, Van Damme, Segal, Speakman (who?), and Statham by tylerzero	Aug 20th, 2008 03:30:22 PM
Draw your own conclusions.
Remember, Jeff Speakman is... by Bartleby T. Scrivener	Aug 20th, 2008 03:34:04 PM
The Perfect Weapon.
Transporter 3. Crank 2. by Knuckleduster	Aug 20th, 2008 03:38:10 PM
Oh, why the hell not. The dude's fate is sealed. Might as well go down with a smile on your face.
The teaser for Tranporter 3 was playing before TDK by SpencerTrilby	Aug 20th, 2008 03:41:44 PM
more gay/female friendly shirtless fights, more plot elements knocked off better films, more hammy bad guys (Robert Knepper! Yay!)... it's about time Luc Besson embrace his inner Brett Ratner and stop posturing as a respectable filmmaker; a job he gave up ten years ago, if not fifteen. Way to go, Luc!
When the hell does Jason Statham and Vin Diesel star in Universa by Mr Slippy Fist	Aug 20th, 2008 03:44:16 PM
I mean, come on Hollywood, when does this movie get made!?!?!?
When the hell does Jason Statham and Vin Diesel star in Universa by Mr Slippy Fist	Aug 20th, 2008 03:44:18 PM
I mean, come on Hollywood, when does this movie get made!?!?!?
I love double postings and subjects that are cutoff. by Mr Slippy Fist	Aug 20th, 2008 03:45:14 PM
I suck.
Death Race by AlwaysThere	Aug 20th, 2008 03:47:12 PM
Will be a great capper to the end of the summer.
We got the gist of it, Slippy Fist. by SpencerTrilby	Aug 20th, 2008 03:48:08 PM
Statham. Diesel. UniSols. Amirite? I vote yes.
This time he's transporting... ...himself! by eggart	Aug 20th, 2008 04:04:52 PM
to obscurity!
Death Race by skimn	Aug 20th, 2008 04:07:03 PM
Is at least Ian McShane worth my time of day in this? The grizzled old school prisoner looks like the role he was born to play. Why should this be a suprise..first Cruise/Wagner productions brought us the lame Eye remake, and now this...
Poor Jason Statham by Subtlety	Aug 20th, 2008 04:07:22 PM
thing is, the guy can be quite a good actor when he has the slightest reason to be. Watch his performance in "The Bank Job"... its actually quite layered, nuanced work which is also subtle enough to allow his natural charisma to shine through. Even in the pretty silly "Revolver," he handles himself with way more dignity than just about anyone in a Star Wars Prequel. I don't know why he keeps getting involved with this kind of obvious crap, maybe it's just easier. But I for one am really holding out for the guy to emerge from the action quickies into a few more roles with substance. As an action hero, I think he's got more talent, charisma, and depth than the typical denizens of the B-movie quickie circuit.
Yes The Bank Job by skimn	Aug 20th, 2008 04:08:35 PM
was the little movie that could.
What happened to Transporter 2? by Banzai Rootskibango	Aug 20th, 2008 04:14:19 PM
Did they make that? I like Statham! I wish he would do better movies! He's made an entire career out of starring in mediocre to ass-suck movies. He should stick to projects like The Bank Job and Guy Ritchie fare. He was also fantastic in Collateral Damage.
Statham...FANTASTIC in Collateral Damage! by Banzai Rootskibango	Aug 20th, 2008 04:14:44 PM

THE RUNNING MAN...imperfect films on their own merits by War_Tourist	Aug 20th, 2008 04:14:55 PM
HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW Classic.
Oh I loves me some Statham by palimpsest	Aug 20th, 2008 04:15:16 PM
and yep, he's got enough talent to break into mainstream stardom, though I dig his entertainingly po-faced action flicks. Hopefully he'll move a little away from the kind of material he's been doing for the last decade before made-for-TV-hell embraces him and Vern writes STATHAMOLOGY...
Just cast him in Inglorious Bastards instead of Simon Pegg by StephenHawkingDiarrhea	Aug 20th, 2008 04:16:04 PM
Let him chew on some intentionally cheezy scenery.
The posters have always bothered me... by 24200124	Aug 20th, 2008 04:19:23 PM
Um, why is it that the posters for the "Transporter" series always have Jason with a gun in his hand? He doesn't use guns in the set pieces, let alone one in each hand, John Woo-style. I got suckered in by the first poster and found that it was a pretty damned decent martial arts flick, but the second was just kinda brainless... Wonder what the third's going to be like.
Too bad. by zb.brox	Aug 20th, 2008 04:20:14 PM
I found the first Transporter just insufferably boring. Someone needs to give this guy a break at doing something other than shit action movies, I quite liked him in LSATSB and Snatch.
brox.... by VegasRon	Aug 20th, 2008 04:26:55 PM
...did you see The Bank Job? Great little flick and he turns in a very nice job. But yeah, almost everything else he's done has been shit. Kinda like Diesel, I'd like to see him in GOOD movies(LOLBABYLONADLOL) for a change.
Did I hear this was going to be 3-D? by JediRob	Aug 20th, 2008 04:28:30 PM
Or was that Crank 3?
Thus movie is gonna be HUGE! by conspiracy	Aug 20th, 2008 04:28:37 PM
with highschool drop outs, thugs, welfare moms, Trailer Trash, and both Nascar and Raiders fans.
Fuckin' Merrick by Al Swearengen	Aug 20th, 2008 04:29:35 PM
Considerin' that you've taken at least enough time to drop trou on this Death Race venture, can you at least give some fuckin' insight on my...er, I mean Ian McShane's roll in this fuckin' moving picture show?
get this guy in a movie with a great director by ciroslive	Aug 20th, 2008 04:32:04 PM
And he'll shine in an action role. He was great in The Bank Job, he just needs the right script and director
I can't lie by mastes360	Aug 20th, 2008 04:33:59 PM
I love me some Statham!, i think he makes a great action hero and some pretty crazy action films like Crank and the Transporters. He can also make great films in general like The Bank Job and the Guy Ritchie films. I think quite a few AICN posters like him as well as he only gets about 80% negative posts on here compared to most othes actors who get 99% negative posts!. AICN the best place to be if you are a hater.
Ian Mcshane is better than this... by TheMcflyFarm	Aug 20th, 2008 04:39:42 PM
WELCOME TO FUCKING DEADWOOD!
This movie is stupid because... by DanielKurland	Aug 20th, 2008 04:40:55 PM
The first film, while hitting all the same points, is so obviously a satire and not meant to be taken seriously. The fact that it's got the ridiculous title of "Death Race 2000" is proof enough. The movie is irrelevant now because this remake does not look like a satire or what the first film is, but rather, a typical action, Jason Statham film. I suppose it's not the remake's fault, but just the ongoing trend of action movies getting dumber and dumber as years go by. Having a racer named Frankenstein driving a car called The Monster, is kind of clever and scathing in the original, but now it just comes across as stupid. What was once social commentary is now mindless action.
Dumb as they were by Abominable Snowcone	Aug 20th, 2008 04:41:09 PM
I enjoyed the hell out of both Transporter movies. There, I said it. Yes, they're preposterous.
Who cares by Purgatori	Aug 20th, 2008 04:43:03 PM
Lord Bowler just died :( Sho Nuff is no more. And that fucking sucks.
Not so cool news...The Shogun is dead. by radjac31	Aug 20th, 2008 04:49:38 PM
Sho Nuff from The Last Dragon died he was 56.
I thoughtt you said Transformers 3 by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Aug 20th, 2008 04:52:05 PM
for a minute, and I kept picturing him as one of those Head Master Transformers.
Transporter 3: Death Pizza. by cookylamoo	Aug 20th, 2008 04:52:44 PM
If you're not dead after delivery, the anchovies are free.
Joan Allen is better than this.... by DoctorWho?	Aug 20th, 2008 04:55:23 PM
...steaming pile of dogshit. And no I didn't see the movie. You couldn't pay me to.
I'd love to see Joan Allen as Mistress Whipbitch in a softcore S by JackRabbitSlim	Aug 20th, 2008 05:12:02 PM
Just puttin' it out there.
Sounds a lot like Wanted by IndustryKiller!	Aug 20th, 2008 05:15:31 PM
also a film for worthless poseurs
The only "bad-assity" in The Gay & The Curious... by Jopapa	Aug 20th, 2008 05:32:52 PM
Was the Charger. And the asswipes wrecked it in favor of a bunch of queer ricers. The real laugh was any car being able to hold its own against that beast.
Ass poster. by stardogg	Aug 20th, 2008 05:39:29 PM
Can they at least put a car or two on the poster instead of this Mission Impossible 2 rip-off. I'll see the flick regardless of the dumb poster.
A Paul W.S. Anderson movie that's not good? by otm shank	Aug 20th, 2008 05:42:32 PM
While totally missing the point of the source material? GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE! YA DON'T SAY!
I wonder how many people will stare at the poster... by WhinyNegativeBitch	Aug 20th, 2008 05:46:41 PM
...and think "3? What a strange name for a movie. Do you want to see 3?".
what did your son think of it Merrick? by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Aug 20th, 2008 05:48:51 PM

Liked the first one by Charlie_Allnut	Aug 20th, 2008 05:55:38 PM
Hated the second one, not interested in no. 3.
I have a nagging respect for Statham by sean bean	Aug 20th, 2008 06:00:32 PM
Not just because he was boning Kelly Brook for many years, but because he's made the most of a limited talent. He doesn't do much, but does it well. He's like the mirror universe Hugh Grant.
Sean Bean...is that really you? by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Aug 20th, 2008 06:01:44 PM

Aye. by sean bean	Aug 20th, 2008 06:09:41 PM
Still sharp...
The '3' looks just like... by aversiontherapy2	Aug 20th, 2008 06:31:35 PM
...the logo for a British cell phone company. Poster's nice though.
Transporter by queerfilmjunkie	Aug 20th, 2008 06:34:00 PM
The most homoerotic action film ever made, bar none. Seriously, Statham fights his way out of his shirt and then wrestles a guy in crude oil. It's like Chippendales: The Movie.
Julius Carry III is dead? by Darkman	Aug 20th, 2008 06:35:05 PM
I've seen him in a bunch of stuff over the years. Get the obit up. Now.
Speaking of idiocy... by thedarklinglord	Aug 20th, 2008 06:39:33 PM
Do we really need another Transporter movie? The first movie was better than it had any right to be, but that's what made it an incredibly enjoyable flick. Sure, the ending felt rushed and anticlimactic, but Statham has sort of this dry, smirky charisma about him that makes him infinitely likeable, there was some impressive Jackie Chan-esque martial arts choreography, and it had the token hot Asian chick. They should have left it at that. But, no, they had to push for a sequel that was every bit as limp as it was idiotic, even more ridiculous in "plot" (and you have to use that term VERY loosely here) than the original, but without the same verve that made the first movie so damn fun. I just can't imagine they'll be able to redeem themselves. Then again, some people probably loved the second one. The same people who actually paid money to go see the sequel to XXX and The Fast and the Furious. Dumbasses.
I'd rather see Scorcher VI by Sulla	Aug 20th, 2008 06:41:37 PM
The Transporter movies suck dick so bad. I honestly don't understand how anyone even watches this shit.
Does this news warrant two exclamation points? by TooWhippy	Aug 20th, 2008 06:43:32 PM

Wait a minute. Wasn't Crank the most unapologetically dumb, deli by ev1ldead	Aug 20th, 2008 06:45:06 PM
dopey movie ever made? Or was it Transporter 1. Or Transporter 2? If WS Anderson wasn't involved this not-review would get my hopes high cause people with no humor could say the same about the original Death Race 2000.
Statham always plays a wheelman by CyG	Aug 20th, 2008 07:04:27 PM
and there are few revelatory performances to be expected from that. Death Race seemed pretty fun from the trailers but casting Joan Allen as the antagonist threw me way off. I don't think I'll ever be able to shake the Face Off imagery I have of her as the prudish do-gooder wife.
Verhoevenesque? by Cotton McKnight	Aug 20th, 2008 07:06:13 PM
Who are you trying to impress?
TRANSPORTER III: GET ME A NEW SCIENCE OFFICER by ArcadianDS	Aug 20th, 2008 07:08:36 PM
AND MAKE SURE ITS A VULCAN.
Sean Bean by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Aug 20th, 2008 07:12:14 PM
You were fucking bad ass in Ronin man...
Looks awesome. by SkidMarkedUndies	Aug 20th, 2008 07:14:25 PM
Can't wait for that one.
The way... by mr.brownstone	Aug 20th, 2008 07:36:56 PM
the three buttons on his jacket are lined up just above the number 3 is oh so very French in it's thematic symmetry. But dig that url for the movie: letransporter3-lefilm.com Not exactly the hight of elegance is it? Even for a movie like this.
It's too bad the title by mr.brownstone	Aug 20th, 2008 07:38:22 PM

'ENOUGH' was already taken. by mr.brownstone	Aug 20th, 2008 07:38:58 PM

Speaking of Collateral Damage... by REDD	Aug 20th, 2008 07:39:29 PM
didn't he also have a very small role in Collateral?
Really liked the trailer... by Paul T. Ryan	Aug 20th, 2008 08:16:38 PM
AND the orignal version. On the downside, it's produced by Tom Cruise... Ergo, I don't want my box office bucks going to him. As for the Transporter, the original is high on my list of the worst movies I've ever seen. Didn't bother with 2, ain't wasting my time with 3 either!
Transpo 2 by slugbat	Aug 20th, 2008 09:43:41 PM
I hated how they used the cars from Gran Tourismo in that movie. You know, crashing through whatever with nary a scratch to show for it. Took me out of the gritty realism, the "cinema verite" that series strives so hard for.
by huggerorange	Aug 20th, 2008 09:48:07 PM
hey nerds, jason statham was not in Collateral Damage!!!
I guess I could go for a Transporter 3 by GilbertRSmith	Aug 20th, 2008 09:52:23 PM
As long as it's a hard-R. Transporter 2 was a little too soft and bloodless. Really though, I think Statham could be a truly great action star if he were given some action flicks with more substance. Something more like First Blood and less like Rambo III. Crank and Transporter are all flash, and Death Race is just stupid.
Yeah, Collateral by GilbertRSmith	Aug 20th, 2008 09:54:58 PM
Collateral, the Michael Mann directed Jamie Foxx/Tom Cruise hitman flick. Not Collateral Damage, the forgettable Schwarzenegger flick. Statham plays Tom Cruise's contact who gives him his assignments in Collateral. Some people have suggested that it's his character from The Transporter, but I think that's stupid. The Transporter is a cartoon. It'd be like giving Daffy Duck a cameo in a Herzog film.
Daffy Duck a cameo in a Herzog film by Series7	Aug 20th, 2008 10:03:03 PM
One could only hope. A Herzog cartoon would be fucking awesome.
The worst crime committed by DEATH RACE... by Mister Pink	Aug 20th, 2008 10:21:20 PM
...is that it completely jetisons the whole entire hook from the first movie. The original wasn't about racing, it was about RUNNING OVER PEDESTRIANS FOR POINTS. The remake completely cuts the nuts out of the whole concept. All the trangression is gone. They don't even have the guts to make the protagonist really be a bad guy. He's "wrongly convicted," of course. How fucking castrated can you get? They eliminated any hint of subversion and social satire and just turned it into WWE skit. First ROLLERBALL, now this. What are they doing to all the great, classic exploitation flicks of my childhood? What's next? Are they going to do SOYLENT GREEN starring the Rock, but without the whole cannibalism thing? Roger Corman had more talent and more balls on his worst day than hacks like Anderson will ever have their lives.
I like Statham he's made some good choices but.. by SID 8.0	Aug 20th, 2008 11:06:55 PM
lately, uh I don't think he's even reading the scripts anymore To quote Kirk Lazarus "The script reads me." To go further into "TT" territory he's becoming Tugg Speedman. Scorcher 5 well only two more Transporters and he's wins a set of steak knives. Don't go down this road Jay. Get in your agent's ass for some better work.
Transporter 2 sucked Big Donkey Balls! by slicer	Aug 20th, 2008 11:57:32 PM
Even though I know you are supposed to check your brain at the door when you watch films like these, but Transporter 2 was so unbelievable, I couldn't stop my eyes from rolling several times and saying give me a big fat break! I mean, c'mon, that fight in the plane and it crashing, and he lives?! Yeah right! Dumb dumb dumb. Transporter 3 should amp it up, but keep things at least semi plausible on some level!!
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS is considered 'bad-ass'? by TopHat	Aug 21st, 2008 12:24:05 AM
Jeez...
Transporter 3: Too Transportery by Stereotypical Evil Archer	Aug 21st, 2008 01:31:22 AM

Some of us are thankful for Mr.Statham.... by JERRY HORROR	Aug 21st, 2008 02:14:20 AM
...There is a severe lack of decent fight scenes in recent years. Now believe it or not, I'm not sure whether Statham is a legit martial artist. He is however an accomplished swimmer, from what I understand. Now, I really hope we don't have to sit through a Michael Phelps action film, but, uh, hey...Phelps gotta eat after all the endorsements run out. Oh yeah any way, Transporter 3, yeah, I'll begrudgingly fork over cash to see it. I love me some explosions and English dude whooping ass. Actually, I hope the real star of these films, Corey Yuan comes back to choreograph the fight scenes. Check out King Of the Kickboxers and you'll see why... Oh and the 3 on the poster, reminds me of the Lethal Weapon 3 logo. More useless knowledge, the Gracie's were the fight tech's on the original Lethal Weapon. That and someone told Gary Busey that Mel Gibson had a gram of coke in his trousers. That's all it takes and Busey SNAPS! www.myspace.com/jerryhorror
Besson and Statham : Perfect Match. by La Frog	Aug 21st, 2008 02:59:13 AM
Saw the trailer for that Transporter 3 turd the other day. It looks as promising as previous efforts by the Besson gang : brainless. And we can expect it will be as racist and sexist as his films usually are. Ten years from now, it will probably be seen as cool Euro-trash stuff for braindead teenagers around the world (like mister Horror says above : "I love me some explosions and English dude whooping ass". Gee...), and geeks may even believe there is some coolness in it. Wrong. That said, Besson and Statham are a well associated pair : a cynical French slob and a dumb English hooligan. The worst of both worlds really. I miss Hammer films and Italian exploitation. When Euro exploitation was indeed cool. I miss their sexiness and kinky scares. Could we have a bit of those sometimes and leave the testosterone ass-whooping for little boys to masturbation video games?
My Watch Tells TIme, Looks Good and... by TheBLIGHT	Aug 21st, 2008 03:28:49 AM
Blows SH!T UP! Also, to kick your ass I need to take my shirt off first... YAY! Is that gay? Maybe, but hey, if my nipples don't get you, my fists will. Oh ya, watch out for that perved-freak from Prison Break too, he is in this stankness as well. Don't be afraid of his badness, he has none, be afraid he may crack out that SH!T Russian access he pulled out for that Hitman film he stank up.
statham by PrincessLeias_Poohole	Aug 21st, 2008 05:09:07 AM
I think he is a better actor than he actually believes himself.just watch The Bank Job. This is why he keeps choosing to star in shit, although i did like the first Transporter film.
Trailer is on Youtube by jori2006	Aug 21st, 2008 05:45:55 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =mL3K_ITu7Qw
The Stath is the shit. by DocPazuzu	Aug 21st, 2008 08:13:51 AM
I will watch him in anything, no matter how dire. I loved both Transporter films for being as howlingly retarded as they were. Amazing, slick cinema cheese. Statham is actually a decent actor and one of the few western actors today who looks like he could actually kick just about anyone's ass. The Bank Job was great. Statham's punishment of the bad guys in that one was one of the most vicariously satisfying beatdowns I've seen in ages. You want an appallingly bad movie? Watch Shoot 'Em Up. That movie was smugly pretending to be as retarded as Crank and The Transporter and I find that truly offensive.
le awesome! by aboriginal	Aug 21st, 2008 08:17:51 AM
Go le Franc!
Jeff Speakman - The Jewish Action Star in "Stop with the Kicking by Sequitur	Aug 21st, 2008 08:19:32 AM
Kevin Pollack used to be funny...lol
It's PW Anderson... by Turtle_Z	Aug 21st, 2008 08:36:18 AM
... wtf did you expect?
I used to like Statham... by NiceGuyEddie19	Aug 21st, 2008 08:40:40 AM
But Transporter 2 was an unrepentant, inhumane piece of shit. This one will probably be Le Shit too.
cup of coffee > Sean Bean...sorry Danny boy by just pillow talk	Aug 21st, 2008 08:44:08 AM
Running Man is great, how you could think otherwise is ridiculous. Transporter 2 was even too dumb for me. I don't think that's possible either.
O.K. enough of this trash, bring on CRANK 2! by Stuntcock Mike	Aug 21st, 2008 09:29:12 AM
Now
While I hated the Transporter I otherwise agree with DocPazuzu. by Paul T. Ryan	Aug 21st, 2008 09:32:28 PM
I love Statham no matter what he's in. I also though Shoot Em' Up was utter garbage. Puerile, sleazy, insultingly smug garbage.
I WANT TO SEE MISSILES BLOCKED WITH DINNER TRAYS by turketron	Aug 22nd, 2008 08:27:28 AM
Scene in transporter 1 trailer that wasn't in the actual movie :(

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