Factual errors so outrageous
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Brentano_Amaroso — 11 years ago(November 24, 2014 03:14 PM)
As "tehck " said, "Welcome to Hollywood nihat."
I grew up in
San Francisco
and am well acquainted with the layout of the city, generally. So, when they make a movie supposedly set in
San Fran
, I noticed some of the weird errors. For example, in
the "Dirty Harry" series
, I notice him driving in one part of the city and then suddenly they're way over in another part of the city but the way the movie goes you'd think he just drove into that area. And, I'm like that street doesn't go there. How'd he get to that freeway ? What the who ???
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MontyBurns1969 — 11 years ago(December 27, 2014 09:32 PM)
I agree with you that this movie is an insult to human intelligence. Of course Hollywood doesn't take every fact into consideration when making a movie and most go unnoticed by the general public but it should be at least semi-believable or it just becomes a joke as with this movie. The old police cars and 3rd world looking city are probably made that way because they are stereo types of the American public, just like every Russian male is either named Victor, Igor, or Ivan and on and on.
The thing that gets me more is the ludicrous chase scene with the expert teenage stunt driver, the indestructible cab, the grenades tossed around the city, the cel phones with the dial tones, Rambo Neeson fighting off wave after wave of bad guys the things that even a child would say, "that's so phony!" When you see this generation watching shows like Third Rock and Two and a Half Men, you can see that they won't be caring about differences in time zones and where the US embassy really is
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lucianolvr — 11 years ago(January 11, 2015 10:58 PM)
just like every Russian male is either named Victor, Igor, or Ivan and on and on.
Victor? I thought they were all named Mikhail, (Misha), Alexander (Sasha or Shudick), Peter, Igor, Dmitri or Ivan. Well, now there are 7 names you can use in Russia!
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LiamNeesonTrollHunter — 11 years ago(December 31, 2014 02:40 PM)
Be glad they actually shot the movie in Istanbul.
I remember in a movie called Hostel there was supposed to be a scene in Amsterdam, which was actually shot in some Eastern-European city (as if Eastern Europe looks anything like the characteristic architecture of Amsterdam). The same thing happened in one of the Bourne movies. Istanbul got off relatively well presented compared to that. -
yamxt600 — 10 years ago(May 10, 2015 03:27 PM)
well - in "James Bond - Tomorrow never dies" the BMW crashes through the wall from the hotel garage into the car rental. In reality between those two places in Hamburg there are about 2 kilometers. That's one hell of a flying car.
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clark_gillies — 10 years ago(June 29, 2015 04:38 AM)
Agree on the border scene. that was my first thought (as you said, they would have to go through either Greece, or Macedonia and Bulgaria. neither of which would be a single track country road).
Maybe they have been a little poetic, but Taken is trying to pass itself off as belonging in the Jason Bourne universe of more "realism" and accurate, yet seemed to come well short on this. -
sailinalong1 — 10 years ago(July 08, 2015 03:37 PM)
I appreciate your facts, but like many saidit is a Hollywood movie. Yet, your point is correct about "taking too many obvious liberties" in the name of high entertainment.
We all are critical of movies with obvious flaws & inaccuracies. To that endthe movies I find more engaging are the ones that make it a point to stay with the facts, the actual truth, show that Jason Bourne does bruise & bleed, etc. as the plot covers the place, time, people, what a BMW can & cannot do etc.
In Taken 2's case, they took too many libertieswere interested to make it too entertaining and therein, we have a flawed & low rated movie. The box office tickets support what you and I are saying and that is the bottom line. -
Strazdamonas — 9 years ago(April 18, 2016 10:43 AM)
The movie does not show how long it took them to arrive at the Embassy. Its possible they took the 15 miles trip to the Consulate in theory, i guess.
To be honest the golders i knew were all early risers and were in the fields by 7-8AM, but yes the time lag was not visible.
Or they went through Macedonia and Bulgaria thus circumventing EU. They also likely bribed the border guard and specifically took the more out of the way route to get in so there would be no traces of them entering. I dont know all boarder roads in the european part of turkey, do you? I do know that here in EU some border roads do indeed consist of a single hut with 2-3 border guards in it.
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