Transporter 2

[wolven7]

Queens of the Stone Age - [First It Giveth]--- We here at the House have devised a new scale for any movies meant to be taken seriously: The Ridiculousness Metre. It works like this:

For every time something ridiculous happens, the metre goes up a point. Every time it goes up, it gets more difficult to go up, to the next level; level one ridiculous things are now excusable.

Queens of the Stone Age - [Hangin' Tree]--- When you reach Level Ten Ridiculous, you officially roll over into ReCockulous (and thanks to spinallandscape for introducing me to that term). From this point on, you are soundly in ReCockulous territory, and the scale follows. You start ignoring rules of Newtonian physics, and giving credence to string theoretical dimensions, for your heroes to pass through, now.

Queens of the Stone Age - [Mosquito Song]--- If, by some sting of terrible coincidences, you should manage to make it to ReCockulous 10, you are now Firmly settled into watching a Re-Ghat-Damn-Diculous movie, and, as such, you may ridicule it, at your lesiure, for whatever reason you see fit. For your reference, Re-Ghat-Damn-Diculous movies include "Freddy Vs Jason" and "Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan."

"Transporter 2," staring Jason Statham in his most unintentionally hilarious role ever, sits firmly, by house consensus, at ReCockulous 8. If anyone asks, we can now tell them, "Well, it's not Re-Ghat-Damn-Diculous."

You have been forewarned.

Good night.

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Thinking later, I think there was a good bit of 'We know how ridiculous this is, but DAMN, it's FUN.'

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Some of it, most Certainly was, but some of it was just too ridiculous.

Still, it was a lot of fun to watch. ^_^

[raoin.livejournal.com]

to help with the implementation of this new scale it would be good to have more examples of where different movies sit on the scale:

The Sound of Music
The Matrix (all three)
The Neverending Story
The Harry Poter movies
Singin in the Rain
The Godfather movies
the Die Hard movies
the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Great Train Robbery
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
The Producers (new and old, see how they measure up)
The World According to Garp
Good Morning Vietnam
What Dreams May Come
Big Trouble in Little China
The Last Dragon (Bruce LeRoy???)
Dungeons and Dragons the movie and its made for sci-fi sequel
Star Trek IV: the journey home
House of Flying Daggers
Carlito's Way
The Seven Samurai
Gattaca
The Red Violin
Pulp Fiction
Lost in Translation
Punch Drunk Love
Hamlet
Throw Mama from the Train
Enter the Dragon

just for reference, maybe make a poster, a handy pamphlet for the masses. yeah sure.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

just for reference...

maybe if the movie gets more serious we could use female anatomy...

a rating of one vagina means the movie has no levity at all?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I don't think we should saddle the female anatomy with the task of being the "No Fun" scale.

But we will, of course, work something out, to include the ladies. :)

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

A 'boobulous' rating for how much sex and sexuality is carrying the whole thing...? :)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

So it is written.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

We will re-watch these, over a period of months, and the Council will decide their fate and Rating.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

How do we determine which movies were meant to be taken seriously? For example, I don't think we should include sci fi films b/c, regardless of how seriously the director takes himself, it's sci fi. It's ridiculous to begin with.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yes, but even Science Fiction and fantasy have an internal logic. When the internal logic is broken, more and more points are acumulated.