Back in the olden days, "jump the shark" was the phrase used to describe a moment when a franchise went bad. Here on FilmDrunk, we use the phrase "durst" or "dursted", in honor of Fred Durst. But look out, vernacular, there’s a new kid in town. Via Urban Dictionary:
The word for June 03 is nuke the fridge
Nuke the fridge is a colloquialism used to delineate the precise moment at which a cinematic franchise has crossed over from remote plausibility to self parodying absurdity, usually indicating a low point in the series from which it is unlikely to recover. [SPOILER ALERT]
The term comes from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which, near the start of the movie, Harrison Ford’s character survives a nuclear detonation by climbing into a kitchen fridge, which is then blown hundreds of feet through the sky whilst the town disintegrates. He then emerges from the fridge with no apparent injury. Later in the movie, the audience is expected to fear for his safety in a normal fistfight.
Guy 1: "Wow. Did you see the new Indy movie? What the hell was that? It was like I was having some kind of flu induced absurdist nightmare."
Guy 2: "Yep… did or did not that series permanently Nuke the Fridge?"
Guy 1: "Oh, totally Nuked the Fridge! But I guess Spielberg is happy as long as he has the money of the people who trusted him."
I don’t have much to add to this, but I’d like to come up with a term to describe the moment at which a crappy movie becomes so crappy that it transcends its crappiness and becomes awesome. I’m thinking maybe "tossed the elephant". As in, Boy, Wicker Man really tossed the elephant when Nic Cage punched that lady while dressed as a bear. Or, For me, Bangkok Dangerous tossed the elephant when Nic Cage fed that elephant.
Thanks to B-ryce for the tip
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Popped her cherry is a colloquialism used to delineate the precise moment at which a girl looses her virginity by way of vaginal sexual intercourse.
Give it a little time and this is gonna catch on like the plague.
Gimme a fucking break……
How about "Signed the Petition"?
I don’t like that baby elephant throwing clip one bit! Now I can’t work. I have to head out to avenge baby elephant. Damnit.
Or "Fought Uwe Boll"?
I think I may have just "Shart my Pants". That is not a colloquialism. I really am having some bowel distress and I need to go check my shorts. BR . . .
I will continue to use "fucked the monkey" until someone other than a priest tells me to.
I told my teacher he "Sipped a Shit-Shake" when he tried to talk to me when having bad breath.
The Mummy franchise really Stepped Up 2 Da Streets by producing yet another film.
I told my friend he really "Screwed the Pooch" when he fucked his dog.
The doctor told my sister she really "emptied the chamber" when she had her fourth abortion.
Step Up 2 da Street really "Stomped the Yard" when they "Brought It On".
*also, insert "Stick It" and any other lame sports/dance/cheerleading movie ref’s you can come up wiff.
I have to imagine that "nuke the fridge" was coined by the same virgin that couldn’t spell "owned". It sounds on par….
Suckle at my information teat…
I think the answer for the term Lance seeks is obvious: Punch the Bear.
"That film started out really terrible, but when the transvestite midget came on and fisted the iguana, it really punched the bear and became awesome!"
I think the answer for the term Lance seeks is obvious: Punch the Bear.
I thought about that – in fact it was the first thing I thought of. But it’s not technically accurate. Because it’s the bear who’s doing the punching. Only in Soviet Russia do you punch the bear.
damn lance you dursted FD !!!
On the opposite end of the failure spectrum is the new colloquialism Rode the Horse.
This term is used to describe Sex & The City’s successful opening weekend.
H’mm. I can’t think of too many crappy movies that inadvertantly redeem themselves with a transcendental moment… i’m gonna go give this some thought.
How about the scene in Alexander where Rosario Dawson gets her tits out? As great as they are that movie was beyond redemption.
Most, if not all, my jokes here at FD "Swallow the Soggy Biscuit".
Just one more way mainstream radio is falling farther and farther behind the visual arts. Television programs jump the shark; movies nuke the fridge; radio personalities mention Rutgers women’s basketball?
NOOOO NOT THE BEEEEES!!! AHH!!! MY EYES!!!!
….radio personalities mention Rutgers women’s basketball?
But never the Donk and J Show.
H’mm. The scene in the 60s Batman movie where Adam West punched the shark. To be fair, the movie had its tongue firmly in cheek throughout.
BTK, Guy One in that example conversation talks like an asshole.
Keep bringing up Wickerman, guys, and I’ll be forced to rent it to see just how horrible it is. FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS WASTE TWO PRECIOUS HOURS WATCHING NIC CAGE’S FOREHEAD.
Only in Soviet Russia do you punch the bear
Not me. I didn’t pay admission to the circus to not get to punch that sedated bear.
But never the Donk and J Show.
We’re too classy for that. Tune in tomorrow morning when we discuss what would happen if Spike Lee visited Connecticut.
Hang on a tic there CB. Rosario Dawson tits? At what point in the movie? I only ask b/c I swore that I would not watch that piece of shite film, but at the same time I really feel the need to gaze upon them titties. Can we get a minute count on the tits?
Why do we need to refer to smething else just to say that a movie fucking sucked dick?
Nevermind CB. I just checked out the screen caps. Those are some nice titties, but she really looks like she would break your dick off. And not in a good way. Like she would grab it all fierce and just *RRRRRIP* off goes your dick. Not cool Rosario, not cool.
Geez, my spelling nukes the fridge.
I think he’ll be ok Donk. Stephen Asshat Smith has pretty much broken Connecticut in, as far as short black dudes that use tough-guy accents to make up for the fact that they are bigger pussies that Cheezy.
The references give us a way of measuring exactly how much dick was sucked. One would not want to confuse wife-on-their-first-anniversary dick-sucking with Shia-LeBeouf-in-a-Pittsburgh-Nightclub dick-sucking. There is a significant difference in the amount of dick sucked there.
This story reminds me of the time I killed all those cops.
She plays some hot Persian piece of ass who impresses the conquering
IrishGreek king with her dancing skills. She gets the goods out on their wedding night. Very nice.Donk, all you need to do is suck 1 dick, and you’re known as the person who sucks dick.
True, Pauly. But, if you say that Ghost Rider sucked dick and you say that My Best Friend’s Wedding sucked dick, one would assume that they both are equally as bad, this is sadly not the case.
Rosarios jugs are truly majestic in that film
I’m suggesting “Haim’d it” in honor of when something just eats total shit and then tragically tries to crawl its way back up.
” Hey, did you see the way that hooker tried to get away after we shattered her calfs? Haha, oh man bro, she totally Haim’d it! “
Donkey, just as with a gaydar, this can also be expressed in fractional Travolta units.
What if I merely jump someone whose hat is like a shark fin?
Donk, maybe instead of how much dick it sucked, maybe we can differentiate the shittiness of a movie by what kind of dick was sucked. Example:
Ghost Rider sucked a limp 4 inch pink dick, while My Best Friend’s Wedding ate a veiny 12 inch black cock all the way to the ballsack.
Pauly my friend, I think we have found ourselves a dick-sucking agreement.
…wait, that came out wrong.
Made of Honor deep-throated Milton Berle.
New post, blood-suckers.
Fuck you all. Ghost Rider sucked way more throbbing black cock than My Best Friend’s Wedding. And MBFW had a known cocksucker in it (not Julia Roberts).
The irony may go off the scale here but there’s a Steven Soderbergh movie called The Limey that i hated, mostly because it’s a vehicle for Ent Terence Stamp. Bill Duke plays a DEA chief interrogating him and after listening to more intolerable Cockney cobblers says, "There’s one thing I don’t understand. The thing I don’t understand is every motherfucking word you say."
Love that line.
I think the moment the script for The Mummy was given the greenlight, it Nuked the Fridge. The sequels were just bouncing the rubble.
Charlie, you didn’t like the Limey? Wow, first time I think we have vastly disagreed…
How can you hate “You tell him, you tell him I’m coming. Tell him I’m fucking coming!”?
I’m just bemused that the android that is Terence Stamp dares to call himself an actor. Some director must have asked him for befuddled insouciance with a hint of incomprehension and he brought it to every fucking movie i’ve seen him in.