{"id":100,"date":"2005-09-10T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/replicatedmeat.nocturne.org\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2022-02-21T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T21:44:00","slug":"transporter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Transporter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/MV5BMTQ5MDM0MTI2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM5NDczMw@@._V1_FMjpg_UY720_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/MV5BMTQ5MDM0MTI2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM5NDczMw@@._V1_FMjpg_UY720_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/MV5BMTQ5MDM0MTI2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM5NDczMw@@._V1_FMjpg_UY720_.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>There is a formula in Hollywood. One of many, of course, but this one goes as follows: Car chases + chopsocky = $$$. Car chases always include a) cars that explode, b) cars that drive up ramps on two side wheels to flip them upside down in mid-air, and c) cars that drive off the edge of a conveniently partial bridge. Chopsocky always includes a) people that punch each other, b) people that kick each other, and c) people that jump around a lot, avoiding certain death.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Friday was double feature day at the local mallplex, and the next thing I saw was <a title=\"The Best In The Business Is Back In The Game. \" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0388482\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transporter 2<\/a>. Frank the ex- special forces guy plays the role of Neo if he knew how to drive, dodging as many bullets as a National Guardsman sitting out of the Vietnam War while beating up Generic Enemy 1 through 57 with as much of the scenery as Jackie Chan.<\/p>\n<p>The plot, to be perfectly frank, is irrelevant. It involves the driving and the chopsocky, not to mention a soulless female assassin who spends the majority of her screen time in wet, transparent lingerie. Even the French guy was worthwhile. I&#8217;m not saying movie of the year, here, but it <em>is<\/em> the year with <a title=\"My (subsequent) review of Serenity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serenity<\/a> in it, so that explains why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a formula in Hollywood. One of many, of course, but this one goes as follows: Car chases + chopsocky = $$$. Car chases always include a) cars that explode, b) cars that drive up ramps on two side wheels to flip them upside down in mid-air, and c) cars that drive off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,1055,1056,1057,1058,1059,58,1060,1061,613,1062,1063],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-car-chases","tag-car-flips","tag-cars-that-explode","tag-cars-which-fall-long-distances","tag-chopsocky","tag-explosions","tag-irrelevant-plot","tag-soulless-female-assassins","tag-summer-flick","tag-the-ex-special-forces-guy","tag-the-local-mallplex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8198,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}