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  1. jamesx

    jamesx Well-Known Member

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    Wow. That is all I can say. It was such a brilliant movie and Liam Neeson did incredible.
     
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    i'll quote myself from prev. thread about same movie.

     
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    Sucked tbh.

    Boring, not intense, overall poor storyline.

    It was *way* too highly cracked up for what it was.
     
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    ^ No dementia, I do not agree with you on that. In my opinion it was a good movie with a fairly good storyline, and the situation showed in the movie is actually based on real events which makes it more interesting.

    I like the movie overall, especially the part with the Turks!
     
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    Right, so you're going to go to Europe with your friends here in the states and you just so *happen* to be calling your ex cia operative dad at the time some prostitution ring breaks in and abducts your friend. Your dad then manages to single handily fly from the US to europe and find the individual whom abducted you in what... less than 48 or 72 hours?

    Completely believable, could happen to anyone.

    The storyline from the get go is unrealistic. The situation in the movie is not intense, nor is it scary (maybe for women, but they get scared with just about anything). Even a movie like say... Saw has more reality incorporated with it than Taken did. I suppose if you like action hero movies or graphic novel movies you'd like it, but I don't do the whole totally unrealistic, hyped up movies with lack of an intense situation.
     
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    Zohair Formerly zohBOT

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    See, I agree with what you tried to explain there but that doesn't mean no one would like this kind of Movie, everyone has different taste and as you said I might like the movie for being unrealistic action hero type and it is true actually. Sometimes, I don't like watching movies that are very intense just because I don't feel like it. But yeah I liked this movie but not that I love it or became a die hard fan for it. Also, I did not mean to say that the movie was a reality, what I wanted to say was that the movie was based on a few real events like Girls getting abducted to be sold by the prostitution rings, not in the Europe alone, but around the world. That's it, her dad being a former CIA Operative or whatever the ------ wasn't obviously real and even if it had been, he would have NEVER handled the whole bunch of hardcore gangsters all by himself without getting a few bullets in his body. That said, let the fiction be.
     
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    Dementia, you honestly don't know what a movie is for do you? It's a form of entertainment, it's something we can watch and be entertained by. It's not about everything being real.
    Did you enjoy The Dark Knight? Spiderman? Watchmen? etc? THEY'RE FAKE! THEY'RE ENTERTAINMENT!
    The story isn't entirely believable, but that's not what this movie was focused on. It showed us that prostitution trafficking is real, and it's disgusting. I'm sure if someone's Dad worked for the CIA and they got abducted, they'd fly to Paris and get sh1t done. Probably not in the same fashion, but that is why it's a movie!

    And then you go on saying women get scared about just about anything? So you can't tell the difference between real life and a movie, AND you're a sexist? Wow.

    Also, you think SAW has more realistic parts than this movie? You sir, are an idiot.
     
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    of course theyre fake, theyre superhero movies
    taken is not a superhero movie

    no

    they do

    definitely does
    YOU sir are an idiot

    anyways, i liked it :>
     
  9. jamesx

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    But it's still a movie. Entertainment.

    Yes.

    No, they really don't you ignorant prick.

    Lmao, no.

    F*cking fool.
     
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    I don't enjoy movies that are *supposed* to be realistic, yet are entirely fake. Superman, spiderman, watchmen, etc. are all *intended* to be fake, this is a movie that was *intended* to be realistic, but it turned out to be just as, if not more, fake than most superhero movies.

    The point is, she just so *happened* to have her dad on the phone when she was abducted, if she hadn't, her dad would have never known and regardless, once she didn't return home a week or more later... guess what? She would have been sold off and he wouldn't have been able to track her down, but just somehow... some poverty stricken ex cia agent with no tools or resources was able to track down a large undercover prostitution ring simply because of a few minutes on the phone with his daughter. This isn't even mentioning that after tracking down the ring he found their central location, killed like 20 people throughout the movie, and found out the leader of the trafficing organization in what... like 48 hours? Right.

    I am sexist, women are inferior in my mind. I have already proven this with statistics and the only thing a woman has over a man is 'emotions' which are irrelevent in most situations because emotions don't get things done, thinking logically is what does. The only point of that whole movie that showed me it was remotely realistic is that an ex CIA agent *knew* and informed his daughter to be calm, that she was going to get abducted, only part of that movie which made sense. The man responded without emotions, speaking pure logic.

    SAW and Hostel are more realistic. Want to know why? People have found these types of things to be true. There are countless amounts of missing persons reports that go unsolved every year. Many of these that are solved are found to be the victims of a gruesome crime. There has been drug rings busted which were also paired as prositituion rings and had torture chambers in them, just as Hostel did. Those movies are things that actually happens, and its a lot more frightening, truthful and intense than anything in Taken.

    The likelihood that your daughter gets abducted within a couple of hours of being in Paris and thrown into a prostitution trafficing ring is about... 0. The chance of you pissing someone off and them getting revenge? Statistically far more likely. The chance of you being a random target from a raving psychopath? Statistically more likely, and again, certainly more frightening.

    I will expand on this a bit more when I get home and have the time
     
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    sure, its entertaining
    they cant make it more realistic though?
    no
    saw certainly is more realistic, and since dem already posted with back up, i dont even have to type it out !
    Lmao, yes.
    fucking smartass
     
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    Women do get scared at everything and I'm actually not sexist. Tell me one woman who doesn't overreact about something.
     
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    There's a difference in the bolded words.

    And I'm not going to bother wasting my time reading a story dem, sorry.
     
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    Yes everything. Don't make me repeat myself. Give me a reason why they're not and I might change my mind.
     
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    Actually, in that context they are the same. It's about comprehension. Look at the sentences as a whole.
     

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