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leonis89 — 12 years ago(August 06, 2013 12:10 PM)
You complaining about this is like going to the Godfather page and complaining it's xenophobic to Catholics and Italians.
Here's a fun fact. People can be nice, people can be horrible, and some people, albeit thankfully a small numbercan be extremely disgusting excuses for human beings REGARDLESS of what they believe.
All you can seriously complain about is factual errors, which isn't going to cause an uproar anytime soon.
Yes, you are oversensitive.
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vestdennis — 12 years ago(August 09, 2013 09:43 PM)
Turkey is changing & rapidly at that. Once the most reliable Muslim country around they are now aligning themselves with other more radical Muslim states.
So the Turkey you are describing might be true of say 5- 15 years ago but it has changed a LOT in the past 3- 4 years. -
A_Saucerful_of_Secrets — 12 years ago(August 11, 2013 09:59 PM)
Why does everything have to come down to a race/creed/religious issue?
Going by that logic, the race card could be played in regards to most movies.
Oh look, that white guy just shot someone in that movie, just what is the director trying to imply here? How racist.
Oh no, those Albanians just kidnapped someone in that movie.. that has to be bordering on racism if they are being portrayed that way.
Whatever happened to just appreciating a movie for what it is? A movie.
Instead of picking it apart and finding something that isn't there.
We're at a stage where politically correctness has gone mad.
Oh, and this isn't an attack on the OP or anyone else in this thread, it's more of a general post as i've noticed things like this alot on IMDB.
I don't pick movies apart and notice certain races of people being portrayed in a certain way and then consider it to be racist, so why do you?
We've all seen movies where people of every race have been both the good guys and the bad guys. Are they racist? No! (unless you choose to make it that way). -
Strazdamonas — 9 years ago(April 18, 2016 11:31 AM)
Why does everything have to come down to a race/creed/religious issue?
Because otherwise those moral crusaders have to admit that there exists such thing as Nuance and they are not always right. and they will rather cut the nose to spite the face than do that.
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Prismark10 — 12 years ago(September 06, 2013 06:26 PM)
Given how xenophobic the original Taken was, I doubt the sequel was going to be any less. We have a plot where after a Muslim funeral, the father of one of the victims who made a living from kidnapping young women and selling them to sex slavery talking about gaining revenge on the person who killed them all with a straight face.
Its that man again!! -
jacksflicks — 12 years ago(September 07, 2013 10:40 AM)
Your uninformed sanctimony is as repugnant now as it was in February. Have you ever read a history book?
Islam was founded by a mass-murdering child rapist. Since then it has unleashed untold suffering and misery on the peoples it has conquered by its "submit or die" ethos. Don't believe me? EVERY Muslim majority society today is marked by violence, oppression, slavery (as in the movie), bigotry and rampant corruption. EVERY ONE!
It's no more "xenophobic" to depict such a crede as evil than it is to depict Nazism or Stalinism as evil. I suggest you educate yourself before parading your ignorance. -
pankaj-saksena84 — 12 years ago(September 08, 2013 12:17 PM)
Xenophobic? It's the truth! The West has become far too soft due to its welfare state and many from the third world take advantage of its system and the situation is getting worse day by day. Nobody is saying all nations are like that. Nobody is saying all Turkey is like that, but a lot of criminals who are hardened by the brutal police culture of these countries have a free run in the West. That is what the movie depicted. And yes, you are crazy.
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TheManInOil — 12 years ago(September 25, 2013 12:55 PM)
Although I don't think the bad guys were depicted as very religious (they openly discussed a murder plot at a funeral) there certainly is a strongly xenophobic slant to the movie.
The only people who witness or take action about anything are European. All the locals just watch events unfold and don't really react to anything. I got the impression that the woman ignoring Famke's call for help simply didn't understand what she was saying, but in general throughout the film there's no real reaction from anyone except the cop chase scene (after police had been conspicuously absent for an unreasonable passage of time with grenades going off etc.).
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siargao — 12 years ago(October 12, 2013 09:08 AM)
"The thing that just got to me was the depictions of Turkey and Muslims, which was silly and covertly (or maybe overtly?) racist."
Oh dear. Oh my!
I do believe you need to travel more, or learn about the world by reading books.
The majority of Turks are Muslim going back to before the Ottoman Empire, for only about 550 years. Didn't you get the memo?
Depicting the women dressed as muslim is racist? How does that work?
"I don't even remember the kidnappers being Muslim in the first film "
They're from Albania for Pete's sake. What did you expect them to be? Baptist?
Bad guys from Albania are most likely to be muslim, but I gather you would rather they be clearly labelled as rampaging Catholics killing for kicks just so that your distorted, garbled view of who is good and who his bad can be true.
Do try and read up on the Middle East so that you can understand that the medieval cult has been in the killing business for centuries. To not depict that accurately as a favoured muslim pastime would be deliberately misleading - a lie. -
HuGoL1101 — 12 years ago(November 30, 2013 12:35 PM)
You are not being crazy neither too sensitive.
There's all kind of bad persons. I know christians, Muslim etc.
The religion is not the problem, is what the persons do with religion that is the problem.
I saw so many movie with bad white men !!!! white christian serial killers !!!!
I saw a couple of black oriented movies that was making fun of white and I'm the first to say that their was some good joke in there I'm not angry about it.
Its not outrageous at all. It's life. That's all.
Sometime I think that some persons of some religions and or races that it too personal, stop acting like victims and the world owes you
We are all representative of our race, religion, colors whatever else.
If I was a black person acting like the cliche suggested by the society I would be a shame to my race because I would encourage these cliche.
As I'm ashamed of my race when I see a racist redneck saying racist stuff.