Factual errors so outrageous
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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.
Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.