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Post by agent817 on Feb 19, 2013 21:07:22 GMT -5
Okay, we have had numerous threads on IMDB bashing "A Good Day To Die Hard," but I wonder if the sequel to "Taken" was bad. Personally, I liked Die Hard 5, despite its flaws and I can see that it didn't live to the first three. However, regarding "Taken 2," I have heard people say that it really did not live up to the first film. Is it true? The first "Taken" movie was great, no doubt about that, but some people did say that the sequel wasn't good at all.
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Post by Bone Daddy on Feb 19, 2013 21:14:11 GMT -5
According to Wai Ting, it was amazing
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 19, 2013 21:48:32 GMT -5
It wasn't bad.....but it wasn't particularly good either.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 19, 2013 21:51:51 GMT -5
It's stupid but not in the good way, Granted the first was dopey but it was a blast so I went long with it but "Taken 2" just had me  at alot of it because it's stupidity was off the scale |
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Feb 19, 2013 22:34:20 GMT -5
Its main flaw is that it wasn't Taken 1.
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Post by Shy Guy on Feb 19, 2013 22:46:10 GMT -5
it just wasn't the first one
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Feb 19, 2013 22:48:35 GMT -5
Its main flaw is that it wasn't Taken 1. No, its main flaw was the same as Hangover 2's main flaw: it was in a lot of ways just a rehash of the first movie |
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 19, 2013 22:50:28 GMT -5
They should have gone the Gremlins 2 route and made Taken 2 an over the top parody of the first, with the character having a trivial item stolen and him going on a rampage of revenge to get it back. All with Liam Neeson doing and saying ridiculous things while playing it dead straight.
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Feb 19, 2013 23:20:14 GMT -5
They should have gone the Gremlins 2 route and made Taken 2 an over the top parody of the first, with the character having a trivial item stolen and him going on a rampage of revenge to get it back. All with Liam Neeson doing and saying ridiculous things while playing it dead straight. Add a Hulk Hogan chewing out Albanians in a movie theater, and I'm sold. |
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Post by chac on Feb 20, 2013 0:07:06 GMT -5
The infinite ammo cheat was definitely activated.
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Post by celticjobber on Feb 20, 2013 0:16:44 GMT -5
I thought it was great, though presenting Liam's movie daughter as some kind of bad-ass was a bit lame.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Feb 20, 2013 0:19:08 GMT -5
*Throws grenades everywhere
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Post by bibboid on Feb 20, 2013 1:21:25 GMT -5
I want to go to Istanbul and see how far I can run along the rooftops. According to the movie, I should be able to get halfway across the city.
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Post by Evil Homer on Feb 20, 2013 7:23:20 GMT -5
pretty over the top, but I enjoyed it. Maggie Grace was smoking hot in the swimming pool scenes ,just saying.
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Post by 4real on Feb 20, 2013 9:59:19 GMT -5
I enjoyed it. Don't think it deserved some of the flak it received, it wasn't amazing or anything but was solid. The main villian was pretty good I thought too, nothing likeable about him which is kind of the point with villians.
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Post by mike2789 on Feb 20, 2013 10:55:10 GMT -5
I liked it, but the main problem I had with it, was that it just kind of ended. The final scene with the bad guy was really really weak.
Taken had a great ending, this not so much. I was like "that was it? That was the final fight?" very let down but a decent movie if you don't expect much
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Feb 20, 2013 11:36:38 GMT -5
The best analogy I can give is if you compare the Die Hard's to Taken. Die Hard (the original) is Taken 1. Therefore when I went to see Taken 2 at the cinema, I was hoping to see Die Hard II. What I got was Die Hard 4, which isn't terrible but it isn't a patch on the first one.
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