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[clocker]

Taken was the best action film of the last, idk, five years. Provided, of course, you allow yourself the luxury of the suspension of disbelief.
Which I think is what watching a film is all about.

I'm more than willing to suspend disbelief but maintaining total incredulity for two hours is beyond my capabilities.

I would point to the scene in Taken where Neeson is driving a Range Rover around in a construction site while dozens of bad guys with automatic weapons fail to even hit the car.
For fuck's sake, it's a British car, all they needed was a few Super Soakers to completely disable the electrical system.

[IdolEyes787]

If bad guys shot straight in action movies it would make for some very short films.
Sort of like if no one ever did anything stupid in horror movies or if opposites in romantic comedy relationships worked out like they do in real life.

[clocker]

If bad guys shot straight in action movies it would make for some very short films.
Sort of like if no one ever did anything stupid in horror movies or if opposites in romantic comedy relationships worked out like they do in real life.

Be that as it may, how can someone be considered a badass if their opponents are simply heavily armed Helen Kellers?

Edit:
Also, I would consider that Predator and Die Hard somewhat disprove your point.

[manker]

Taken was the best action film of the last, idk, five years. Provided, of course, you allow yourself the luxury of the suspension of disbelief.
Which I think is what watching a film is all about.

I'm more than willing to suspend disbelief but maintaining total incredulity for two hours is beyond my capabilities.

What an odd thing to say. Rather than being unable, wasn't maintaining total incredulity for two hours exactly what you did.
Which is my point. Don't. Suspend it.

What about Kickass, clockster. Surely you must have loved that - and it was even less realistic. Only homosexuals and ... yeah, that's pretty much the only demographic that didn't like Kickass.

[mjmacky]

Surely you must have loved that - and it was even less realistic. Only homosexuals and ... yeah, that's pretty much the only demographic that didn't like Kickass.

It was a pedophile's predilection for spunk wet dream.

[mjmacky]

Be that as it may, how can someone be considered a badass if their opponents are simply heavily armed Helen Kellers?

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[IdolEyes787]

Only homosexuals and ... yeah, that's pretty much the only demographic that didn't like Kickass.

Incredibly buff, lantern-jawed heterosexual Canadians who have the look of eagles but the souls of poets found it pretty underwhelming.

[clocker]

What about Kickass, clockster. Surely you must have loved that - and it was even less realistic. Only homosexuals and ... yeah, that's pretty much the only demographic that didn't like Kickass.

I did like the parts of Kickass that featured Hit Girl, the rest, not so much.

Semantics aside, I had no problem enjoying Iron Sky and Troll Hunter and found both to be far more believable than Taken.

[manker]

Seeing it spelled out like that, I suspect you're right. It was pretty mundane except for Hit Girl.
But the parts with her in definitely made up for all that.

[clocker]

You know what was pathetic though?
The best Hit Girl scenes- the hallway fight and the training sequence where Daddy shoots her- were given away in the trailers for the movie.
I fully expected there to be much more awesomeness in the movie and was greatly disappointed to realize I could have saved the admission and missed nothing.

Stupid movie marketers.