Last movie you watched......

Just bought "Blind Date" on DVD. I remembered it was funny, but man it was really funny.

 

Exactly. I mean, are we supposed to believe that one man kicked the shit out of all those people in a day or two?

I enjoyed that movie a lot. I've heard it described as a poor man's Bourne movie. Not sure about that, but it was entertaining for sure.

 

Are you talking about the Mel Gibson movie Ransom? Dude, those movies aren't even remotely similar, much less anything resembling a remake.

 

I think that's the point he was making.

And one more thing ...

"GIVE ME BACK MY SON!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Watched "Taken" the other night. It was a good movie, you need to suspend belief going into it, but worked.

 

Fantastic flick, playthrough.

I watched "Win A Date With Tad Hamilton" the other day on TBS. Can't say it was great, even good, but Kate Bosworth certainly made up for it.

 

My Name is Bruce. Awful yet great. Hilarious in so many ways.

 

I think you're giving him way too much credit. Next he'll say he likes the new Star Trek movie because it's not a shot-by-shot remake of Return of the Jedi.

 

"Mean Creek"

OK flick. The production was better than the plot. Liked the ending.

 

If you can't see the similarities between Ransom and Taken, then I feel bad for you because clearly you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I bring up Ransom because Taken could have easily gone that exact route. "Family moment-kidnap-arguing between bad guys and parents-a couple botched attempts at a recovery-big explosions-reunion-end."

A lot of people told me going in that it was basically Ransom 2.0. I'm glad to see they were wrong.

As for the "It's a movie" line above disproving my only gripe with Taken, just because it's a movie doesn't mean it shouldn't be a touch believable. I can chalk up one dude demolishing 300 other guys because A.) He's the hero and B.) He's introduced as a man with 'special skills" and he's squaring off against a bunch of regular folks.

But, (SPOIILER) and this is a big but, for the daughter to walk away from that experience looking no worse than she would if she just played a softball game is a little too much for me.

I'm not saying it ruined the flick, I'm just saying it was a gripe I had.

 

I'm happy to let others speak to our relative sharpness, chief. In this case you are just wrong. Besides including a kidnapped kid and a pissed off dad, the plots of those two films are not even close to being similar.