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F:AT Movie Scorecard

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21 Jan 2011 15:28 - 25 Jun 2013 19:57 #85310 by jeb
F:AT Movie Scorecard was created by jeb
I hereby propose a scorecard for ranking movies in terms of their Ameritrashiness. Points are award for items like having a wrestler in it and points are deducted for items like montage scenes of women dancing around a table. Unless they are wrestlers.

This first post is canonical. I will edit it as merited by suggestions below. Please indicate the version of scorecard used to score your submitted film. One film per entry please.

Ameritrash Movie Scorecard v1.0
{10  pts} - Wrestler featured in cast. 
            BONUSES: {+05} for starring. 
                     {+05} for leading.
            PENALTIES: {-05} for depicting crying wrestlers. 

{10  pts} - Set in post-apocalyptic Earth.
            BONUSES: {+10} for zombie apocalypse. 
                     {+05} for nuclear apocolypse. 
                     {+05} for depicting the apocalypse.

{10  pts} - Fight scene lasting more than 4 consecutive minutes. 
            BONUSES: {+05} for kung-fu. 
                     {+05} for crotch injuries featured prominently.
                     {+05} for woman or women doing the fighting.
                     {+05} for swords or axes featured prominently.

{10  pts} - Monsters!
            BONUSES: {+10} for monsters bigger than an elephant. 
                     {+05} for aliens. 
                     {+05} for science gone horribly wrong.
                     {+05} for supernatural.
                     {+05} for Nazis in combination with the above.
                     {+10} for depicting human-to-monster transformation.
            PENALTIES: {-05} for animation. 
                       {-05} for depicting monsters getting hugged.

{10  pts} - Space battles!
            BONUSES: {+10} for ships larger than a metropolitan area. 
                     {+05} for aliens winning. 
                     {+05} for embarrassingly bad physics.
                     {+05} for P.O.V. missle/laser scene.
            PENALTIES: {-05} for animation. 
                       {-05} for remarkably accurate physics.

{10  pts} - Gorillas, Chimps, or Orangs (Baboons OK, Capuchins Not)
            BONUSES: {+10} for apes bigger than an elephant.
                     {+10} for talking.
                     {+10} for driving (+20 for a manual transmission).

{10  pts} - Reagan-era "punks."
            BONUSES: {+05} for mohawks (+05 for blue or pink mohawks)
            BONUSES: {+05} for wielding chains as a weapon.

{10  pts} - Chase scene lasting more than 6 consecutive minutes
            BONUSES: {+10} for featuring 18+ wheeler prominently
            BONUSES: {+10} for vehicle going off cliff (+10 on fire)
            BONUSES: {+05} for mixed media chase: e.g. car vs. skiier

{10  pts EACH} - Depicting the protagonist carefully selecting and/or
                 building weaponry prior to use.
               - Depicting a character nonchalantly not reacting to 
                 explosions behind.
               - Depicting simultaneous use of edged and projectile
                 weapons by same character

{01  pts EACH} - Woman with more exposed breasts than spoken lines
{01  pts EACH} - Classic one-liner referenced from memory in post

{05  pts EACH} - Ricardo Montalban, William Shatner, Bruce Campbell,
                 Dick Miller, Kurt Russell, Pam Grier, Jackie Chan, 
                 Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Trejo, Lee Marvin, Lee Van 
                 Cleef, Yul Brenner (NON-SINGING), Bruce Lee, Angie
                 Dickinson, Charlton Heston (NON-BEARDED), Sam Elliot's
                 moustache, Ben Gazzara, James Caan, Steve McQueen,
                 "John Carpenter's"

{-05 pts EACH} - Billy Crystal, Warwick Davis, SEX & THE CITY cast 
                 members

{-50 pts EACH} - Depicting montage sequence with women dancing around 
                 a table.
               - Depicting a character writing a letter as it is read
                 in voiceover.
               - Written and/or produced by Oprah and/or Nora Ephron

Compiled, please justify your scores!:
47 pts --> THEY LIVE (jeb)
38 pts --> ROAD HOUSE (Ken B.)
46 pts --> THE THING (jeb)
47 pts --> ALIENS (Gary Sax)
61 pts --> WILD ZERO (jay718)
90 pts --> THE ROAD WARRIOR // MAD MAX 2 (Shellhead)
57 pts --> ALIENS (Shellhead)
69 pts --> BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (ensemble)
50 pts --> TRANSFORMERS (Ken B.)
76 pts --> THE TERMINATOR (Sabastian Bludd)
73 pts --> PREDATOR (Sabastian Bludd)
72 pts --> CONAN THE BARBARIAN (Sabastian Bludd)
86 pts --> GRINDHOUSE (Shellhead)
80 pts --> HELLBOY (Shellhead)
Last edit: 25 Jun 2013 19:57 by jeb.

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21 Jan 2011 15:29 - 24 Jan 2011 15:39 #85311 by jeb
Replied by jeb on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
THEY LIVE -- 47 Points using 1.0
+20 Wrestler in the leading role, but I think he cries at one point. --> +15.
+15 Epic fight scene with multiple groin blasts.
+15 for aliens, but I think they get hugs in human form at least once. --> +10.
+01 bimbo!
+01 "I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I am all out of bubblegum."
+05 John Carpenter's

//might have punks, I'll have to verify that.
Last edit: 24 Jan 2011 15:39 by jeb.

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21 Jan 2011 15:43 #85312 by Mr. White
Replied by Mr. White on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
I would propose moving zombies from the apocalypse to the monster category.
A movie should have a bonus if there are punks in it. Perhaps a 'people' category. could have punks, cowboys, marines (space or non), etc.

great idea though!

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21 Jan 2011 16:01 #85313 by Juniper
Replied by Juniper on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
+5 for truck drivers
+5 for apes
+25 for truck drivers and apes

+20 for Yul Brenner
+25 for shirtless Charlton Heston
-25 for bearded Charlton Heston

+10 if it's set in the Old West
-20 it it's a remake of an old western
+20 if it's an old western that has been remade

+10 if it's based on a comic book
-30 if it's based on a comic book by Alan Moore
-99 if it's Watchmen

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21 Jan 2011 16:31 #85315 by Dair
Replied by Dair on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
No offense to others on the list, but Bruce Campbell should be worth more points than pretty much everyone else.

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21 Jan 2011 16:37 #85316 by Merkles
Replied by Merkles on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
I think movie with a mushroom cloud of any sort gets at least 10 pts, Jeb!

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21 Jan 2011 16:40 #85317 by Mr. White
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+5 every time a character yells "Wolverines!!"

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21 Jan 2011 16:53 #85319 by Bullwinkle
Replied by Bullwinkle on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
So we don't like naked women anymore? Is this because of Loter?

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21 Jan 2011 17:02 - 21 Jan 2011 17:03 #85320 by jeb
Replied by jeb on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
I'm trying not to target any particular movie, aside maybe from THEY LIVE. So things like "Wolverines" is out. Comic book movies would score things like RICHIE RICH and GHOST WORLD. Bzzt. Westerns are a mess, potentially. DANCES WITH WOLVES? Ye gods. I've got depicting the apocalypse on there, merkles, I am apocalypse-neutral, but mushroom clouds are awesome. And Bruce Campbell's movies tend to score well regardless. I need some PENALTIES...

Montage scenes, as noted.
-05 points for SEX & THE CITY cast members, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy post-1986

@Bullwinkle, I'll put you in charge of this. Find out how to score points for things like UNDER SIEGE's boobs, but not score points for ABOUT SCHMIDT's boobs in 80 chars or less.
Last edit: 21 Jan 2011 17:03 by jeb.

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21 Jan 2011 17:10 #85324 by Juniper
Replied by Juniper on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
jeb wrote:

RICHIE RICH and GHOST WORLD.


+10 each
+70 for RICHIE RICH GOES TO GHOST WORLD

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21 Jan 2011 17:10 #85325 by Pat II
Replied by Pat II on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
Undead Nazis +5
Undead Bimbos +10
Chainsaw used as a weapon +10
Simultaneous use of sword and firearm +10
Use of HP Lovecraft name and or mythos -25
Vampires -25
Graphic depiction of limb(s)rending +5
Classic monster beatdown with barehands(Kirk) +15
Bimbos +1 each
Beer drinking +10
Car chase(c'mon) +5
People being slayed by maniac while running away and the maniac only walks +5
Sunglasses 24/7 +10
Bar room brawl +5
Classic one liner +15
Someone standing in open calmly firing pistol while being the recipient of a volley of automatic fire and explosions +20
Humphrey Bogart +25

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21 Jan 2011 17:24 #85328 by Mr Skeletor
Replied by Mr Skeletor on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
How in the hell are zombies more ameritrash than post nuke worlds?
Amd why is Lovecraft not AT?

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21 Jan 2011 17:37 #85329 by jeb
Replied by jeb on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
Mr Skeletor wrote:

How in the hell are zombies more ameritrash than post nuke worlds?
Amd why is Lovecraft not AT?

They aren't. Post-apoc wasteland is +10, zombie is +5, nuke is +5, but if you show me the mushroom clouds, +5. So nukes you get to see end up +20, zombies +15. I haven't seen a movie yet that shows the zombie takeover very well. Maaaaaybe the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, maaaaaybe 28 WEEKS LATER. Most zombie movies just drop you right in there post-apocalypse. Or they limit the zombie outbreak to a small area.

And yeah, H.P. is AT like crazy. Pat II just wants ZOMBIE DOLEMITE TAKES BERLIN to be the only AT.

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21 Jan 2011 17:41 #85331 by Ken B.
Replied by Ken B. on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
ROAD HOUSE:


(10 pts} - Wrestler featured in cast. (Terry Funk)
{10 pts} - Fight scene lasting more than 4 consecutive minutes.
BONUSES: {+05} for kung-fu. (Dalton was doing some kung-fu shit, right?)


That's it? 25 points? FAIL. We need some credit for boobs, bar-room brawls, knife fights, monster trucks, Swayze, and MOTHERFUCKING SAM ELLIOT.

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21 Jan 2011 17:53 #85332 by jeb
Replied by jeb on topic Re:F:AT Movie Scorecard
I'll add something along the lines of
{01 pts EACH} - Ladies with more exposed boobs than lines.
Sam Elliot's moustache has to go in the ++ list, agreed. Maybe Ben Gazzarra too. That would put it around 38 or 39. I'd be happy with that.

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