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Top 10 Mistakes in Taken 3 (Bonus mistake: Olivier as the Director)

posted 10 years ago by darklits
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I do not know where to start. Taken 1 was Brilliant! Taken 2 was bad.
Taken 3 bad.

The premise is worth for **** just like Taken 2. They are such amateurs
that they make the husband of Lenny the bad guy?! That and extremely
bad editing and camera movement made this close to a B movie. Also
there are so many stupid choices! I will limit them to 10.

1. When they mention phone numbers with 555 it takes people out of the
movie experience. That is a stupid move and the first reason Olivier
shouldn't be directing ****.

2. Mills randomly shows strangers picture of his daughter.

3. When they block logos with stickers it takes people out of the movie
experience. That is a stupid move and the second reason Olivier
shouldn't be directing ****.

4. Police predict Kimmy will take the bugged sweater and use it for
days so they can listen.

5. Audi is labeled A8 in the police report when that car does not
exist. It is a R8. (not a big deal, but you are making a multi million
dollar movie you should not make stupid mistakes like that.

6. What is it with Megatron and his boner for beeping computers.
Computers do not beep when lights flash. Idiot.

7. Security cameras do not have blinking red lights on them and
definitely not BEEPING noises! Idiot!

8. Ex CIA operatives do not let arms dealers stand freely in situation
rooms.

9. Phones do not randomly beep indicating there is an airport near you.

10. Brian Mills would never let Lenny be married to an arms dealer.
Olivier would know this if he had bothered to watch the brilliant Taken
1 before ruining the franchise.

To sum up I highly recommend everyone who watches Taken 2 and or 3 to
do so as independent movies without any connection to Taken 1. Olivier
Megaton should not be making movies of this caliber. He should not be
making movies at all. I do not understand why Luc Besson has EVER
ALLOWED THIS ABOMINATION to make sequels to his movies.

[–] Slimer-has-no-GF 10 years ago

Why I agree you. The 555 thing has to be done. In part thanks to the song 867-5309, which people kept calling. They have to use 555 since nobody in real life has a phone number that starts with that. It's for every film.

[–] MaximRecoil 10 years ago

Not exactly - http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/end-555-phone-number-75539.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

[–] Slimer-has-no-GF 10 years ago

I stand corrected on the origins then. :) I can admit I was wrong. But clearly that song made things so much worse with the use of it.

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[–] MaximRecoil 10 years ago

The "not exactly" applied to everything you wrote, i.e., the 555 thing doesn't have to be done, it is not done in every movie, and some people in real life do have a 555 number. As the article mentioned, the best way to go about using a more realistic phone number in a movie or TV show is to use your own phone number, which you can set up specifically for the purpose, and have some sort of automated tie-in message play whenever someone calls it. A good automated message would be, "What kind of idiot calls a number just because it was in a movie?"

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

[–] franklindf 10 years ago

#5 could be explained with a police error in the report. Police reports do sometimes contain errors. I would even add it was brilliant script writing to slip that mistake in there to make it seem more "real".

[–] vbel 10 years ago

Missing rear view mirrors always take me out of it.

[–] darklits 10 years ago

Good point!

"...I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to have occurred at all..."

[–] MysticInvestigations 9 years ago

Clearly they had planned only making the first movie. Then it did so well that they had no choice but to make another. Then rinse, and repeat. It should have been planned as a trilogy to begin with. One interconnected story consisting of three parts. Obviously it should have been about Bryan's ultimate rise to global supremacy.

[–] lokis_angels 9 years ago

It's ok if you didn't like the movie. I liked it better than 2, and 1 was the best of the three (but nowhere near 'brilliant') but there is no need for the hate on Olivier.

If this is the top 10 mistakes in this movie than let me answer them:

1. No. It didn't (nor does ever) take me out of the movie. Nor do I wish to call any number ever given in a movie or song. People that do are the mistake.

2. Maybe Mills just is one of those guys. Don't come with the CIA BS. He is proud of his daughter and want people to know about that. As shown in #1 with the karaoke machine, Sam and the gang and the fact he goes through lengths to free his daughter in Paris.

3. I didn't notice they blocked anything. Therefore it didn't take me out of the movie. To be honest things like this (together with over 99% of continuity goofs) feel to me like wanting to point out mistakes just for the sake of pointing out mistakes. Says more about the person bringing them to attention than the mistake (or director or what or who ever)

4. I took it more like being a coat, but I grant you that one. It is stupid. By the way, Mills did the same thing in #1.

5. True. But come on, this one makes the Top 10? Just means you haven't got that many good mistakes...

6. Sure about that? Not sure in what point you saw that, but I sure do know beeping, flashing computers. I even got one.

7. Some security cameras do have blinking red lights. Not sure about beeping.

8. But they do so if they think said armsdealer is harmless.

9. But they might beep if they give a location from the GPS. It was tracking Kim's cellphone. This mistake is on you.

10. That should've been your number 1 mistake. Totally agree.

Ow, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?

[–] ryan-j-gallienne 9 years ago

100% agree.

Was going to write pretty much exactly the same response to OP but was glad someone saved me the job

[–] stevelongh4 9 years ago

Another bonus mistake.

In the villains penthouse shootout at the end, the gangsters guns can blow chunks out of concrete pillars BUT our Brian can use a bad guy as a human shield!

Batfan

[–] chiluvr1228 9 years ago

Exactly! I always think that is so weird when someone uses another person as a shield with these bullets can penetrate a wall! Also how come the bad guys are always such bad shots?

"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit".

[–] mel2000 9 years ago

Also how come the bad guys are always such bad shots?

In this movie the police were equally bad shots, especially when aiming at Brian.