History Film / Torque

* StealthParody: According to [[http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/08/the-filmcast-after-dark-ep-98-the-making-of-torque-and-the-imagery-of-kick-ass-guest-joseph-kahn-director-of-torque/ Joseph Kahn himself]] and to recent interviews with Adam Scott (who plays an FBI agent), the movie was mostly intentional in its ridiculousness. Kahn assumes 75% of the movie he wanted to make was in the final effort and that the lack of physics and the general over-the-top nature was entirely intended.

%%* RecycledInSpace: See above.
%%* RuleOfCool

* ShoutOut / TakeThat: At one point ''The Fast and the Furious'' is directly referenced/insulted. Ford borrows VinDiesel's line, "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time." To which Shane replies, "That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard."
** At one point you can also see [[{{Film/Duel}} a red Valiant drive by and then a large filthy tanker truck drives a biker off the road]].

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''TheFastAndTheFurious''... [[RecycledInSpace WITH MOTORCYCLES!]]

'''''Torque''''' is a 2004 action film directed by Joseph Kahn. Martin Henderson plays BadassBiker Cary Ford. 6 months prior to the events of the film, Henry James (Matt Schulze), the leader of a biker gang called the Hellions requested he look after some bikes. When trying to move them, however, Ford found crystal meth in the fuel tanks. Ford hid the bikes and fled to Thailand, where has has been for six months, leading the police to believe he is a drug dealer and Henry to believe he stole his bikes. Now Ford's returned to the states to reconcile with his girlfriend Shane (Monet Mazur). Henry's still pissed, so he frames Ford for the murder of the younger brother of Trey (Music/IceCube), the leader of a rival biker gang called the Reapers. Motorcycles chases ensue...

* AssholeVictim: Junior. You have to admit. He was a complete jerk throughout the beginning of the film who kind of have it coming after trying to get his gang to sell drugs.

%%* CoolBike

%%* NitroBoost

%%* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: And how!

%%* BallroomBlitz
%%* BikerBabe: [[SarcasmMode Or this?]]

%%* JiveTurkey: Ice Cube is in this movie, and he's the leader of an African American biker gang.
%%* JustTrainWrong: The entire train scene. See the trope page for details.

%%* RailroadTracksOfDoom

%%* WomanInBlack: China. Played straight... or parodied?
%%* WrenchWench: Shane.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: And how!

* BikerBabe: [[SarcasmMode Or this?]]

* JiveTurkey: Ice Cube is in this movie, and he's the leader of an African American biker gang.
* JustTrainWrong: The entire train scene. See the trope page for details.

* RecycledInSpace: See above.

* WomanInBlack: China. Played straight... or parodied?
* WrenchWench: Shane.

** [[SarcasmMode It's sure convenient that this was meant as a parody]], seeing as otherwise it would just be a really obvious mockbuster of ''Fast and Furious'' with borderline racist characters. Just like how convenient it was that ''SpaceMutiny'' was [[ParodyRetcon also a parody]], or otherwise it would have been just an extremely bad movie. Yep. Dodged that bullet.
*** There are exactly two points where any form of parody is made obvious: The opening has Ford disturbing a sign that ends up reading "CARS SUCK" and the moment mentioned in ShoutOut above.

* TheCameo: When Shane and Ford argue in her shop, she angrily tells another customer they're closed. The other customer is Jesse James from ''MonsterGarage''.

Do not watch this movie if you know absolutely anything about motorcycles or if you expect stunts, action and plot developments anywhere near the realm of physical plausibility. If you remember your MST3KMantra or drink a few beers or smoke some weed beforehand, however, [[SoBadItsGood you might enjoy it]].

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPWoz7WTmjU This video]] should tell you everything you need to know about it.

* CaptainErsatz: "Man, Tom Cruise sure did look badass doing those motorcycle stunts in that ''MissionImpossible'' movie. Martin Henderson looks sort of like a scruffy Tom Cruise, let's cast him and do a lot of the same sort of {{Badass}} Shots that Cruise did in MI."

* [[GuiltyPleasures Guilty Pleasure]]

'''''Torque''''' is a 2004 action film directed by Joseph Kahn. Martin Henderson plays BadassBiker Cary Ford. 6 months prior to the events of the film, Henry James (Matt Schulze), the leader of a biker gang called the Hellions requested he look after some bikes. When trying to move them, however, Ford found crystal meth in the fuel tanks. Ford hid the bikes and fled to Thailand, where has has been for six months, leading the police to believe he is a drug dealer and Henry to believe he stole his bikes. Now Ford's returned to the states to reconcile with his girlfriend Shane (Monet Mazur). Henry's still pissed, so he frames Ford for the murder of the younger brother of Trey (IceCube), the leader of a rival biker gang called the Reapers. Motorcycles chases ensue...

* CreatorKiller[=/=]StarDerailingRole: Nearly everybody involved saw their careers ruined, from lead actor Martin Henderson (who was an up-and-coming star at that point) to director Joseph Kahn (whom it was thought was the next Creator/MichaelBay). The only ones to make it out in one piece were producer Neal Moritz and IceCube, and even the latter has developed a RatedGForGangsta reputation since.

* BallroomBlitz

* CarCushion
* ChaseScene
* CoolBike

* GroinAttack

* YouFailLogicForever

* NitroBoost

* RailroadTracksOfDoom
* {{Ramprovisation}}

* RuleOfCool

* ShoutOut: At one point ''The Fast and the Furious'' is directly referenced. Ford borrows VinDiesel's line, "''I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.''" To which Shane replies, "''That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.''"

* TakeThat: See ShoutOut.

* WrenchWench: Shane.----

* WrenchWench: Shane.
* YouFailLogicForever

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** [[SarcasmMode It's sure convenient that this was meant as a parody]], seeing as otherwise it would just be a really obvious mockbuster of Fast and Furious with borderline racist characters. Just like how convenient it was that SpaceMutiny was [[ParodyRetcon also a parody]], or otherwise it would have been just an extremely bad movie. Yep. Dodged that bullet.

* YouFailPhysicsForever: Here's a tip: whenever the camera goes into VertigoEffect or otherwise replaces the background with CGI, assume that all laws of physics (other than some residual gravity effects) have taken a cigarette break.

* CoolBike:

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The CGI wasn't anything to write home about back in 2004, and the fact that it's obviously being used for ArtisticLicensePhysics just makes it worse. ''StreetHawk'' did some of these stunts more convincingly almost thirty years earlier.

* JustTrainWrong: In the train scene, the train does not have its headlights on, which is a violation of Railroad Safety Regulations.

* YouFailPhysicsForever

* CoolBike: [[SarcasmMode Or this one?]]

** Much like the similarly disparaging ShoutOut at ''StarWars'' in ''Laserblast'', became rather HilariousInHindsight considering that no one was exactly lining up to make ''Torque 2: Overtorqued''.

* RacingTheTrain: Happens when the chase between Trey and Ford is taken from top of a train to the front of it.