This Is Not Istanbul!
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j_w_pepper — 12 years ago(December 07, 2013 06:32 AM)
I just watched TAKEN 2 last night
after
having read most of the complaints on this board, including yours, and therefore looking for the issues you have. I cannot share them. I noticed exactly 1 (one) "black ninja woman", and as you say, there is "like 1 %" of women running around like that. Chances are those are most abundant in poorer quarters of Istanbul, which is where much of the movie seems to take place.
OK, I can see those Fiat 131 police cars are a bit obsolete by now. But why not use them if you have crash scenes. The Nissan Juke looks as if it had crashed already when it's new, so no one would have noticed.
Ultimately, I think Istanbul as a whole comes over as the marvelous, beautiful city overall that it is. So there is no reason to complain just because some of it works as a dreary background for a crime story. So did Paris in TAKEN 1.
Marlowe had said 15 years ago: Dead men don't wear plaid. I still don't know what it means. -
DBLurker — 12 years ago(December 31, 2013 05:02 AM)
The director created something like India-Iran Mixed Country and has put Our Name On it.
Ahh the irony. This tard is complaining about portrayal of his country and then talking about India, which is a Hindu country, without knowing beep about it. -
imdb-3754 — 12 years ago(January 19, 2014 03:14 AM)
I went to see this movie to see my country from An American Angle Of View
Eh, it's more like the Hollywood point of view. Don't assume that just because a movie comes from America that it is a reflection on how Americans think. I doubt many Americans (including myself) have any clue about what Istanbul is really like. Why? Because it's not our business to know. People from all over the world seem to think Americans should be knowledgeable about what goes on in their country, as if it were really relevant to our lives. Unless we plan to travel there, have friends/family there, or need to know about it because of our jobs, most of us simply don't care about what goes on in other parts of the world. -
eomahir — 11 years ago(December 05, 2014 05:13 PM)
Well, being in both Delhi and stanbul, I can say that Istanbul is more modern and beautiful.
Real Istanbul has nothing to do with what is shown in Taken 2.
But, this does not mean that we can insult India or China. We can not use the phrase "C'mon, this is Europe, not India" to praise a city.
Because I believe that cities like Delhi or Shangai are the future of the World, and they will be more important than New York, or Paris in the very near future.
And you made a mistake too: "Islamic craphole like Istanbul or Pakistan". Please do not respond a mistake by copying the same method of that mistake. -
metaspheres — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 09:32 AM)
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? Tehran looks nothing like that and is a far more modern and cosmopolitan city, and Iran as a whole is significantly more advanced than Turkey, both culturally and technologically. You clearly know nothing about Iran nor have you been to Tehran, so sometimes its best to just not comment when you have no education on a particular area.
Fans of Turkey and Turks themselves, like their genocidal anti-Christian Shia-hating Wahhabi brothers in Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Pakistan and ISIS, love to insult and dump on Persians, Kurds and other Iranian-speaking peoples.
You can thank your pal Erdogan and his Turkish thugs for helping to create ISIS and deliberately flooding Greece and the rest of Europe with thousands upon thousands of ISIS sympathizers and rapists ready to slaughter and behead all the infidels. The kind of white slavery depicted in "Taken" is nothing like what the ISIS hordes in Europe are truly capable of. And Erdogan recently threatened to flood Europe with even more ISIS scum if they continue stalling on Turkey's admission into the EU. Either way, just like the early Caliphates (whose ideology was as extreme as that of ISIS) and the Ottoman Empire that royally screwed over Europe in their attempts to export their genocidal brand of Islam, Turkey is doing the same today, yet the West still refuses to learn from its past mistakes.
Yeah, Turkey is such a nice secular and liberal cosmopolitan wonderland, is it not? Let's see what you have to say about Turkey when more white European women are gang raped and sold into slavery by your Turkish pals and their collaborators like the Albanians and Bulgarians. -
Stenian — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 07:36 PM)
Tehran doesn't look that modern in contrast to Istanbul. No matter how you put it you won't be right. Deal with it.
Look, you are jealous that Turkey is a bit more liberal country than yours. Turks may gang rape and kill white women, but what about your grotesque country? You guys hang gays and execute rape victims. It's rich coming from you, considering how backwards and primitive Iran is (NOT to say that Iranians are generally like that).
I'm not even a big fan of Turkey btw. But NOT all "bad" countries are equally bad. Iran is cancer compared to Turkey. Doesn't make Turkey a "cosmopolitan" though. Get it?
P.S. You're a Christian right? Do you realize that your Christian women are forced to be hijabed in Iran. And yet you're too busy defending that country. Amazing. Shame on you.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -
metaspheres — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 09:33 AM)
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? Tehran looks nothing like that and is a far more modern and cosmopolitan city, and Iran as a whole is significantly more advanced than Turkey, both culturally and technologically. You clearly know nothing about Iran nor have you been to Tehran, so sometimes its best to just not comment when you have no education on a particular area.
Fans of Turkey and Turks themselves, like their genocidal anti-Christian Shia-hating Wahhabi brothers in Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Pakistan and ISIS, love to insult and dump on Persians, Kurds and other Iranian-speaking peoples.
You can thank your pal Erdogan and his Turkish thugs for helping to create ISIS and deliberately flooding Greece and the rest of Europe with thousands upon thousands of ISIS sympathizers and rapists ready to slaughter and behead all the infidels. The kind of white slavery depicted in "Taken" is nothing like what the ISIS hordes in Europe are truly capable of. And Erdogan recently threatened to flood Europe with even more ISIS scum if they continue stalling on Turkey's admission into the EU. Either way, just like the early Caliphates (whose ideology was as extreme as that of ISIS) and the Ottoman Empire that royally screwed over Europe in their attempts to export their genocidal brand of Islam, Turkey is doing the same today, yet the West still refuses to learn from its past mistakes.
Yeah, Turkey is such a nice secular and liberal cosmopolitan wonderland, is it not? Let's see what you have to say about Turkey when more white European women are gang raped and sold into slavery by your Turkish pals and their collaborators like the Albanians and Bulgarians. -
metaspheres — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 09:43 AM)
We all know Turks hate Iranians, non-Sunni Syrians (especially the Alawites and Christians) and non-Muslims in general, but you cannot be stupid enough to not notice that half of Istanbul has been taken over by Sunni and Wahhabi extremists, who are Erdogan's fanatics, and their women all wear the burqa.
Or is it that you are upset that Russia and Iran are basically humiliating Turkey and Saudi Arabia and destroying what little regional influence they have enjoyed thanks to US and Israeli support, without which they would collapse under the weight of their own incompetence and corruption?
Hell, Turkey can't even figure out how to sustain their own military-industrial complex, which is propped up by the Israelis. Without Israeli advisors, the Turkish military can't even wipe their own a** without asking the Israelis to help them do it.