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The pussy version of 'Commando'


Come at me bros!

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Arnie can't act, Liam can.

Liam was a boxer in reality, Arnie just took steroids.

Arnie's films are retarded, Liam's aren't.

"Come at me, bro's" says it all.

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I have to agree. Liam Neeson has a far better acting range than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Liam reminds me of Denzel Washington, who also specializes in action films, but has some acting chops as well.

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I agree to all of that, including Arnolds awful acting skills, which wouldn be good enough even to cast him in some Austrian beer commercials and such, if he wasnt as muscular as he was.

But I don't agree about retardness. I think some of Arnolds movies are way smarter than this one (Taken). For instance The Terminator.

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Arnie's acting has gotten better. As for him getting jobs just b/c of his "kick-ass" style & body, there are equally as many or more women in Hollywood who have gotten acting jobs b/c of their looks.

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Liam was a boxer in reality, Arnie just took steroids.


Whether Arnold took steroids or not, I'd still bet on him in a fight between the two of them, even if he is five years older than Neeson.


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I wouldn't. I'd rather fight a big muscly dude without any fighting experience than someone who's been trained in fighting.

I'd lose against both though probably.

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I wouldn't. I'd rather fight a big muscly dude without any fighting experience than someone who's been trained in fighting.


The thing is that using fancy fighting techniques only works if you can stay away from the big muscle-bound guy without getting hit yourself. While you're hopping around, he's likely to charge you, grab you in a bear hug, slam you against the wall and start punching you in the ribs so hard that they break and you end up with a collapsed lung.


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That's VERY specific. Is that what always happens now?
Pretty sure your average boxer punches harder than a big muscle bound guy that has never done any fighting. At least if they're LHW or HW. Punching hard is not only about brute strength but also about technique. You need to punch from your feet so to speak, twist your body right and so on.

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That's VERY specific. Is that what always happens now?


I haven't been in any fights since I was a teenager, so I can't say for sure, but from the few videos I've seen of impromptu fights, that's what usually seems to happen. The bigger guy usually decides to overwhelm the smaller guy by charging at him and slamming him into something, or even the ground, then just pummels him with punches.

I can't recall ever seeing a real-world fight where two guys circle around each other and trade punches like boxers, or where one uses karate or another martial art against the other guy. Most fights seem to quickly devolve into the two guys rolling around on the ground hitting each other.

Pretty sure your average boxer punches harder than a big muscle bound guy that has never done any fighting. At least if they're LHW or HW. Punching hard is not only about brute strength but also about technique. You need to punch from your feet so to speak, twist your body right and so on.


True, but if a guy who is significantly bigger than you manages to slam you against a wall or the ground, you're probably going to get the wind knocked out of you, and possibly hit your head hard enough to black out. I simply fell a couple years ago, hit my head on the sidewalk and was knocked unconscious for several minutes.

For the Rocky films, Stallone trained with boxers to make sure his fights looked authentic. When he filmed Rocky IV, he decided that he and Dolph Lundgren should basically fight for real. The night after doing several takes of a scene, he had to be taken to the hospital. Apparently Lundgren hit him so hard that it caused his heart to swell.


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I heard boxers are not allowed to use their fists outside the ring as they're considered deadly weapons like guns or knives.

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You're both wrong.

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This is totally different from Commando which I seen over 20 times and is one of my favorite Arnie movies and Taken decent and fun and like Liam

D.H.F.F
Now is the end of days and I am the Reaper:Silent hill

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Taken was probably the better movie but nothing beats the one liner that is "Let off some steam Bennett." That is what makes Arnold great...he can't really act but he can deliver a beauty like that every now and again.

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I never like this line and have been wondering for years why it became so huge. It's just a bad pun...

As far as bada$$ one liner go in this movie, i prefer the other famous one "Remember when i said i'd kill you last? I LIED!", now that's bada$$! :)


People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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Better lines:

"Right?"
-"Wrong."

"I like you... which is why I will kill you last."

As well as the obvious
"Remember when I told you I'd kill you last? I LIED!"

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I'd argue its a thinking man's Commando

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Commando was cheesier, with more guns and worse acting. Actually I think it's brilliant that these kinds of movies are still being made with the growing influence of feminazism on Hollywood. In the future it will be very difficult to make a movie with any female characters portrayed negatively, or with fatherhood being displayed positively, so we should definitely not take for granted these movies.

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