"Taken"

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by superstring01, Feb 12, 2009.

  1. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    yeah because nothing straightens a teenage bimbo out like being put on the sex slave market.
     
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  3. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    And you know that much about the CIA to make those assumptions?

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  5. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    The general procedures for investigation, espionage, assassination, are well known, none of them involve a one man army!
     
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  7. Ghost_007 Registered Senior Member

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    Okay action movie, nothing special.

    There were too many cliches, crazy that the majority of the bad guys were immigrants, Non-White French guys, drug-dealing, women trafficking Albanians, sleazy slave-purchasing Arabs, the good guys and victims were all White (mainly American). And that line about the Albanian mateys taking advantage of the West's tolerance and mistaking it for weakness, bleh.

    That part where Liam shoots that guy’s wife was so random and pointless, it was that other American girl that deserved to be shot!
     
  8. eddie23 information sponge Registered Senior Member

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  9. Ganymede Valued Senior Member

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    This movie rocked! Liam Nesson was at the top of his game. This movie is still doing well in the box office also.
     
  10. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    Actually that was pretty effective move on his part and the other American girl did die...
     
  11. q0101 Registered Senior Member

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    I hated it. I was ready to spend $10 to see it on a big screen until I read post # 15. The movie was a waste of bandwidth. It reminded me of why I enjoyed watching the Last Action Hero. I wish I had one of those high-tech devices that creates a bullet force field around the bodies of action heroes. The only problem is that sometimes they malfunction, and you may get minor flesh wound in the shoulder, ribs, or legs.

    I would also like to own one of those universal translators that you see in movies and television shows like Startrek. I think it was funny that Liam Neesson barely spoke a word of French while he was in France. The only thing I remember hearing him say was merci. Everyone was greeting him in English, and he was able to convince a group of gangsters that he was cop / French secret agent without speaking a word of French. He had to be wearing a universal translator.
     
  12. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    I liked it was ok, didn't think it was great. I really like Liam N. as an actor and that more then anything got me interested in this movie. I gotta agree with the poster who said the characters lacked and I found myself not really giving a crap what happened to them.
    The character that actually got to me more then anyone was the mother. Being a mother myself I HATED her attitude of all kids roam across another country as a learning experience. As for the teenage girls, I didn't find myself even having much sympathy for them as I do for other kids in movies I have watched.

    Anybody ever see An Eye for an Eye (Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland) Now that movie had me in tears in the first 5 minutes. To me a great movie really plays on my emotions and this one really didn't.
     
  13. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    I also didn't like this film. I really didn't care if the daughter was saved or not, she just got on my nerves. But what really did it for me is the soppy ending, action films should not try and be soppy.
     
  14. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    Let me ask those who didn't like the movie and paid for it:

    Had you watched it for free, would that change your opinion at least a bit? (let's say, hey, for free it was OK)

    Since I watch movies for free, my standard is lowered and I am less critical. After all, it is my fault if I watch the whole movie and don't stop at the first 20 minutes...

    Although that translation catch is a good observation, in an action movie I don't necessery look for consistency or logic...
     
  15. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    I watched it for free although I would have been prepared to pay to not see it.
     
  16. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Yep.
    Nothing like it.

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  17. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    So do you always sit through movies you don't like? There is always the off button...
     
  18. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    I got it for free, and still think it was just ok.
     

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