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Will Statham Run Around Sticking His Body Parts In Electrical Sockets?? CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE Story Details Emerge!!
Merrick here...
Latino Review has some details/spoilers for CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE.
In the first film, Chev (Jason Statham) is juiced by adrenaline. In the sequel, he needs electricity to keep his newly implanted Abiocor artificial heart beating.
The Abiocor is designed to keep you alive only for a couple of days while waiting for a transplant. It is not built for strenuous activity.
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Basically Chev has to keep his body electrically charged to keep his ticker running. Whereas in the first movie he needed adrenaline to stay alive, in Crank: High voltage he needs jolts of electricity to stay alive.
...says THIS ARTICLE at Latino Review. Much more information to be gleaned in the article, including explanations for & diagrams of the Abiocor.
I'm assuming this won't look as dopey as it sounds...although maybe I shouldn't assume that. What dependence can Chev develop in the third film? I'm thinking Twinkies might be good.
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Basically Chev has to keep his body electrically charged to keep his ticker running. Whereas in the first movie he needed adrenaline to stay alive, in Crank: High voltage he needs jolts of electricity to stay alive.
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Scorsese's never gonna come calling.
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Apr 25, 2008 8:41:18 AM CDT
Actually, it reminds me of David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket.
by knuckleduster
A little pet project he had in mind in the 70's about an electrically-charged boy in the future who had to plug himself into mains every 15 minutes to survive. Oh well, I guess this will have to do.
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Someone cross out plot device 126094.
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I hope some stuff blows up and some stuff happens with bullets since that might be pretty cool. Seriously, that's so insanely goofy that it's cool. For a third movie they should just have him be addicted to anything in site. Let him smoke a pack an hour and OD on some painkillers.
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the other week. Granted it was 4 in the morning and I had just driven 8 hours. Movie does not hold up. People you gotta see Jason Statham movies in the theaters. Thats just how it works. Transporter 2 not as good as first viewing. Still awesome movies though, I'll have my butt in the seat opening night.
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It was a real piece of shit movie with Jason Statham, who makes a lot of piece of shit movies.
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the least of his problems if I remember the ending correctly. Surely he would have been just a messy splat on the pavement?
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Apr 25, 2008 8:52:53 AM CDT
SPEAKING AS SOMEONE WHO WILL EVENTUALLY NEED A HEART TRANSPLANT.
by burgertime
This movie will smoke cock. No guy with an artificial heart will be doing the kind of shit done in the first one. Pass.
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shes dumped that billy zane as well. sh'es into guys with shaven heads. im in with a shot
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Crank 2 sounds, well cranked up. Those who dont see the genius of Crank and the Transporter movies just do not deserve to.
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...and yes, it still holds up. This movie is so insane, I got no what to say.
I just hope the sequel will be a similar level of fun and not just be a lame rip off -
That Jason Statham is actually a god and he is going to announce to the public that he is going to do better because they deserve better. GOD its only been one day and I've already had Hancock overkill with that seemingly misleading trailer if what I hear about the movie is true (and horrible looking flying scene). I guess the negative press its been getting has the $100 million Block Buster a Year for William Tiberius Smith Company, worring about their guarantee.
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If I ever hit the lottery, I am buying a thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters and making billions as a scriptwriter. Shit like this is why you can never really parody Hollywood.
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all god damn day.
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Seriously, he fell out of a fucking helicopter that somehow flew a mile above the city within 30 seconds. Did he land in a truck full of marshmallows or something?
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Jason Statham would have been a much better choice for the lead role in Hancock. I just don't see William as an Alcoholic? I mean if he didn't/couldn't do it for I am Legand where a big plot point in the book was Robert being a drunk. Its like trying to Make George Clooney Batman.
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they could use Harry as the lead in the 3rd film.
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...Like, twice?
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I asked Brian and Mark recently how Chev survived the fall on Game. They said, "He gets up." I said, "He gets up? he fell like a half mile?" Brian smiled at me and said, "He gets up. We're not afraid of it." Awesome.
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Apr 25, 2008 10:22:40 AM CDT
"Game" by the way is the movie they just finished with Gerard Bu
by mojorising74
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...then at the end, when the heart kept beating, I realized I wasn't watching an action movie, I was watching a superhero origin movie. With that perspective, the movie has a lot of entertaining factors, and makes the whole, "He gets up" a lot easier to swallow. You might remember they kept Kong alive on an artificial heart after he fell from the world trade center. So, you know, there's a legal precedence.
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sweet.
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...due to terrorists spiking his lager with a designer neurotoxin, his large intestine completely shuts down. He has to stop the terrorists, but must constantly stimulate his colon back into activity, or die! The only way to do this is lots and lots of (gulp) anal sex. As he tracks the terrorists he has to constantly cruise for leather boys or find a succesion of phallic-shaped objects (cucumbers, fenceposts, lavalamps, etc.) that he has to sit and bounce up and down on vigorously. The title? Crank 3: Deep Anal!
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for sure
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jump off buildings, expecting to get up, after seeing CRANK 2: Crank HARDER!
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I think you've pretty much nailed it. I like the original "Crank", even if it IS profoundly silly, simply because it's insane, it's over-the-top and it embraces how ridiculous it is. This sequel seems like more of the same. Probably won't catch it in theaters, but I'll see it at some point.
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..why should this matter to me? Stratham's talents should'nt be wasted on shit like Crank and In the name of the King. Let's see Transporter 3 instead. War was just slightly disapointing, but far better than Jason's recent stuff.
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Greenlight it!!! PROFIT!!!
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When you rip off King Kong Lives you don't have a classic on your hands.And excuse the injection of logic here, but both falling off the WTC and falling long enough to make a phone call would turn both into a fine paste.
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So, yeah. I'm not all that thrilled about a sequel.
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Apr 25, 2008 2:35:02 PM CDT
RighteousBrother - how could you have neglected the title?
by jollymorphic
Spank.
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My family all like him as well, he's a great action hero imo. All you people bashing him will see Crank 2 at some point just like everyome on here has probably seen RAMBO eben though all the 'cool' posters were bashing Sly.
Not every film has to be Shakespear to be good you know, films like Crank and Transporter are fun movies which make a great 90mins of entertainment. -
REALLY though?
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...did this guy go from great character actor in Guy Ritchie flicks to a BAAAAAAAAAAD 2008 Steven Segal!? Hell, even Steven Segal was a bad Steven Segal.
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The guy IS a machine. Never mind the heart.
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AS IS anyone that dutifully posts "it doesn't have to be Shakespeare"...NOOOOOOO SHIIIT!?!? You're right, a movie DOESN'T have to be Shakepeare...but guess what it DOES have to be...COMPETENT. I'm tired of people defending shitty movies with "it doesn't have to be Shakespeare"...I'm NOT always looking for Shakespeare. MOST of us aren't...neither are we snobs for not liking what you call "not Shakespeare"
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Let's all call Jason Statham "Crank" from now on...the way people called that dude from Sugar Ray "Sugar Ray" and "Hootie". If anyone see's Statham in LA, call him "CRANK!"
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Seriously. It's the little things that made the last one so special.
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http://tinyurl.com/ytnxa7
That shit just happened!!!
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and I laughed out loud on numerous occassions. It was like a teenage boy who had just been injected with speed being allowed to make a film. It was fucking awesome. Sometimes, its good that films can be awesome. Now back to my Ingmar Bergman retrospective....
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The first movie was GRAND THEFT AUTO: THE MOVIE in all but name anyway, so let's be fair: there was no fucking realism in THAT movie, ain't gonna be no realism in THIS fuckin' movie. But it WILL rock, and it WILL be absoutely awesome.
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or did he survive the double whammy of his heart going out and him falling out of a helicopter. The first one was utterly ridiculus so the only chance of me seeing this is if one my stupid friends buys it.
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He he.
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It would have been a franchise.
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WHAT THE FUCK!
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bullshit, he's not superman he fell out of a fucking helicopter and slammed into pavement, his body even bounced. bullshit
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I dont even fucking like Shakespeare so where does that leave me??
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Dear Jason Statham,Do you hate humanity and wish to usher in the end of the world? If yes, why?
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Damn Straight. Shakespere liked fart jokes too, so I don't know what the deal is.
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Jason Statham and Jim Carrey must return a suitcase full of cash to Amy Smart or they'll die. Hilarity ensues. Kick his ass, Sea Bass!
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adrenaline's a funnier and better plot device than electricity.
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C'mon... PLEASE! At the end of CRANK, Statham dropped out of an HELICOPTER and fell thousands of feet to hit the city PAVEMENT! And the camera follows him all the way down, as he calls his dang girlfriend on his cell phone!!!I'm all for over-the-top action films, but if this guy was dying from a "Beijing Cocktail" in the first film, then gets mashed up from a 1000+ foot drop onto concrete, why anyone waste time placing an artificial heart in his mangled, drugged-up body? He's still wanted for shooting up the hospital in the LAST film.I like Jason Statham, but this is yet ANOTHER bad film choice.
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Didn't I see this in an episode of Futurama?
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"The 'action star' has just finished his role in a remake of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN THE FOREIGN LEGION. Statham had been cast in the role formerly played by Tor Johnson. The direct-to-video movie follows on the heels of Statham's latest Fred Olen Ray vehicle..."
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...never thought I'd say this, but: Isn't there an old 80s show that could use a remake? It can't be any worse than this idea.
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Ok so i know its a movie and all, but.... didnt he fall out of a helicopter from like 200+ feet and hit pavement???? hows that work? Im pretty sure you would need a whole body too not just a heart, but hey jason statham is pretty BA looking forward to it.
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Okay, this is what I got after talking to some folks working on it. Turns out, that Chev's heart is indestructible. It's why the poison could only slow it down, not kill him. because of this, Chev is basically immortal, but the fall has left him in a coma. when he wakes up, he discovers that some mobster has had his heart removed in order to have it surgically implanted into his chest. The surgeon performing the procedure, I'm guessing in an act of guilt, puts an artificial heart inside to replace it. However it has a limited battery life, and in order for Chev to continue functioning he must repeatedly zap himself to boost the charge and to simulate the rush his old heart gave him, which, as we know, is the secret to Chev's power. In summation, he gets up. They're not afraid of it.
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Wasn't that the point of the original IRON MAN? Pacemaker...needs recharge...or I'll die?
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It'd be extreme, like this: http://tinyurl.com/3adc6q
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"I use crank to have anonymous, dangerous, unprotected sex with people and things I wouldn't normally!"
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"Superman a ho-ooooo!"
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I will watch anything, and I mean anything, with him in it -- yes, even Revolver.
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this movies sounds as much fun as the first one....possibly more so....who cares how he survived the fall...i knew he was alive at the end of the first movie, when he opened his eyes. ...its a fun movie, who cares if its not grounded in reality
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I loved JS until War with Jet Li. Ugh and what's this wanna be Lord of the Rings movie he's in. I like him - but I liked van Damme as a kid too. Hoped JS could rise above. Oh well.
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I do not think it works how you think it works.
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