phinstd wrote:I'm looking to put a few new movies in my queue for Netflix. I haven't watched much of anything lately due to school taking a huge hole out of arse and time...I did see Wrestler and thought it was slow, but fairly powerful. It seemed to do a good job showing the truly disgusting things that go on in that profession.
Any suggestions? I hate foreign films, and am really not looking for anything that has a hard to figure out message (such as the ending to No Country for Old Men).
Ok, so it is foreign, but it's funny as [expletive].
cardsfansince82 wrote:Taken is one of the worst movies I've ever watched.
It has an 8.0 on IMDB with 70,000 votes. I'm done ever even taking an IMDB rating with a grain of salt.
What were you expecting? Liam Neeson's daughter gets kidnapped and he brutalizes everyone in an effort to rescue her, it was fun mindless entertainment.
I was expecting pretty much exactly that. Except Neeson completely mails it in, plot holes and improbabilities abound and the daughter was so terrible that it if she had any more screen time than she did I would have shut it off. Maybe it worked for you as mindless entertainment but that doesn't equal one of the top 250 movies all time, even by IMDB standards.
I felt the same way, through much of the movie. Sure, mindless fun, but the daughter? I wished her dead. Then, everything changed and it became the best movie ever! when Neeson's character shoots his friend's wife? The audience cheered. It was a great cinematic experience.
