100 things I learned about The Taking of Pelham 123
The hijacker of a train, chances are, is certainly Catholic, definitely Wall Street, and probably gay.
shareThe hijacker of a train, chances are, is certainly Catholic, definitely Wall Street, and probably gay.
sharewhen you work at the control center for the MTA in midtown manhattan, and a subway gets hijacked in midtown manhattan, if you have to deliver the money to the hijackers, it's best to be driven to LOWER MANHATTAN down to the heliport so you can take a flight to MIDTOWN MANHATTAN.
shareHoh, that's good! :)!
shareLOL
shareThat a delivery of $10,000,000.00 in cash originating from the "Brooklyn Federal Reserve" would somehow be transported to Manhattan in a caravan heading over the Queensboro Brodge.
shareWhen the MTA POLICE Captain hands you a WALTHER PPK pistol it will turn into a KAHR pistol on the Manhattan Bridge.
shareLuis Guzman looks weird with a broken nose.(What was up with that by the way?)
Children can pee in stressful situations, even with a man with a gun watching.
Denzel is too cheap to spring for a full gallon of milk.
It's hard to listen to John Travolta say "Mother F**cker!"
John Turturro is a "sleeze-ball."
I learned that even in a hostage situation with heavily armed men involved, the TA keeps trains running on the adjacent tracks.
shareWhen the Mayor's top staffers brief him on the unfolding situation, they do so on a train full of passengers.
shareWhen the Mayor's top staffers brief him on the unfolding situation, they do so on a train full of passengersHhahahahah!! OMG! That is hilarious!! And since when does a Mayor prefer to take a subway car to a crisis situation?
Hhahahahah!! OMG! That is hilarious!! And since when does a Mayor prefer to take a subway car to a crisis situation?Since they invented elections?
-That a shootout can take place with 2 bad guys in the middle with cops on each side shooting at eachother.
-That the same two gunmen can not notice an open laptop on the floor of the train transmitting their situation.
-When they got off the train with the money and everyone was saying that they had to stop at that point, that it would not be necessary to have any kind of surveillance or cops watching that section of the track.
-and the RAT bit me!!
That ass models are from Lithuania and it only takes 6 hours to go from Kennedy airport to Iceland....
When an MTA supervisor gaurantees you that the hostage takers are still on the train, don't believe his dumb ass.
Being the "brains" of the operation isn't necessarily a good thing.
"You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind..."
Garber would be Ryder's bitch in prison
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".
Even though commercial airlines can be struck down by fighter jets post-9-11 in a terrorist situation, they won't do that to one little subway car.
The police WILL negotiate with terrorists.
A civil servant will ask a terrorist "what about the one cent" in the middle of a crisis situation and expect to be taken seriously.
A subway train full of passengers will not gawk or even look in the direction of a laptop computer that has a young blonde undressing in a loud, slutty manner for her passenger boyfriend.
A subway train is very private and you can watch videos of your girlfriend stripping without fear of anyone even looking your direction or looking at your laptop to see what's going on.
You can kill a subway cop in the first five minutes of a film without showing it on screen and never even show the dead body. Just shift the camera around quickly and focus on rain soaked windows then show an employee with blood splatters on her face.
A city mayor makes public decisions with his staff on subway cars.
A city mayor complains about sickly children in school in front of the public.
A city mayor rides in the subway car with dozens of other passengers. (You'd think he'd be more safe in his own subway car.)
Luiz Guzman has NOT aged well.
John Travolta has not aged well.
John Travolta gives a BORING performance as a bad guy.
If there's an empty space, just fill it with a line. . even if it's from another show.
This is my first try at something like this but here it goes, they might as well have gotten Mayor Bloomberg (NYC mayor) to play the Mayor. (Bloomberg has used public transportation before during his terms, has a dollar pay, now would be the last term of the mayor, only if he did not pass the bill to run for a 3rd term, which came to pass at some point during the filming and comes from Boston, so I assume he is not a Yankees fan)
shareThe Mayor of NEW YORK gets $1 a day. And I though my pay was blah.
share"A subway train full of passengers will not gawk or even look in the direction of a laptop computer that has a young blonde undressing in a loud, slutty manner for her passenger boyfriend." -- The OfficeThis is NYC, remember. Nothing at all unusual about that. Not even if she'd been present in person doing the same thing.
shouldn't it be Jay dead?
And the meaning of meaning is?
Too misleading as to the meaning of the pun. I was going for phonetics.
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"I will not tolerate anyone who dislikes [the movie Primer]." -- 'the-author'
Purely massive then.
What is the sound an imploding pimp makes?
Re: Jay ded/Jay dead: Purely massive then.Whose motorcycle is this?
What is the sound an imploding pimp makes?I dunno, Mista' Innerlocitter, what is the sound an imploding pimp makes?
Yes, indeedy doo; all I kno is what I glean from my Mr. Interossiter. Aside from that I is deader than a donut ho'.
What is the sound an imploding pimp makes?
what's worse is the fact that the baduys don't see the girl on the laptop trying to communicate all the time. the laptop is sitting on the floor with the screen pointing at them for all to see. there is no way they badguys wouldn't notice it! the badguys are not dumb. of course they know the instant they see a live web cam chat going on, that a televised door to the outside world is open! that means their identity is no secret any more. the same secret identity that insures they can stroll away through the city from the scene with all the money after the job is done! of course they wouldn't allow a laptop live webcam-chat to happen during a hostage situation!
shareA highly trained US Military sniper is fazed by a rat.
shareI'm from NYC, and it IS unusual, plus, I would have looked as would half the passengers on the train who would have glanced
shareI'm from NYC, and it IS unusual, plus, I would have looked as would half the passengers on the train who would have glancedSeveral replies on this -- if I remember correctly, when she was stripping he had the laptop on his, well ... lap, and when he dropped it on the floor where everyone could see it she was no longer doing that (correct me if I'm wrong, something I'm sure it's unnecessary to say around here).
"You can kill a subway cop in the first five minutes of a film without showing it on screen and never even show the dead body. Just shift the camera around quickly and focus on rain soaked windows then show an employee with blood splatters on her face."
i thought i had missed something or blinked too long. that was weird
What's a subway car going to ram into that it needs to be shot down?
shareIf you're going to have a police car deliver $10,000,000.00 at high speeds through NYC, it's much better to have a motorcycle escort alongside the car rather than to radio ahead and have all intersections along the route blocked.
share-Do not underestimate the power of visualization. When Phil Ramos thought about dying so many times,he get shot accidentally.
-A mayor has to address the crowd for at least 30 seconds to show leadership.
-A mayor is hesitant to address the crowd without his "Rudy Guliani" suit.
-A girlfriend should remove her shirt in a webcam to please her BF on a webcam.
John Travolta gives a BORING performance as a bad guy.John Travolta as a bad guy always gives the same performance - John Travolta's.