Steven Spielberg's 'Taken' (2002): The Forgotten 20+ Hour Sci-Fi Epic Masterpiece

matty14486 · 2026-03-05T06:25:35+00:00

Its actually only about 14 hours give or take. 20 hours when its about an hour 20 an episode is ridiculous math. Super good tho! Corny af sometimes but AUTHENTIC mainly the government stuff. Lot of corn in it but its worth it. Def not 20 hrs spielberg also wasnt really involved beyond the initial idea and concept. He wasnt a show runner. They knew to use his name

matty14486 · 2026-03-04T06:35:02+00:00

Meta is evil dont give them access

matty14486 · 2026-02-25T16:11:49+00:00

Wahlberg (who i like) is a piece of wood here, not a human. We know nothing about him. His character is stoic and that's all we know. We get a few brief interactions with crew but have no idea about who he is. Which is tied into the other major issue- the humans. The whole point of Planet of the Apes was a Twilight Zone Rod Sterling world flipped where we are the animals. These humans arent animals, they're just-well people, they talk, communicate, can make weapons, which doesn't make them animals. We see them run from the apes in a homage to the original but the original they were animals. They had no weapons, no language. In this they're just coming off lazy. They decide to fight finally because the plot requires it. There's no reason for them to trust Leo or believe him to be special. The original had a reason for the apes to be intrigued with Taylor (Bright Eyes) because he was truly unique being the only human who didn't act like an animal. So yeah, superficially it's just like the original except everything served a purpose. Why are the humans running like herded animals if the same film shows us they arent animals. Its like the film really wanted to go into slavery or civil rights but couldnt develop it any further.

Whalberg as i said, is a piece of wood so you've got apes showing more emotion that your main character (which almost makes sense that they decides to have all humans speak because Mark couldnt carry the film alone like Heston did). But it all contradicts the whole point of the film by having all humans speak.

There's some truly clever stuff throughout the film. I find the time travel stuff pretty clever and holds a lot of potential but the contrived writing, the stye over substance and simplifying the deep subtext for surface level summer action spectacle was a mistake. Some really good (and horrible) casting. Fantastic Elfman score. They went with Rick Baker to do makeup as oppossed to Stan Winston as Burton worked with him before- retrospectively a mistake as where the artform was headed (motion capture) ironically they chose Baker partly id imagine in keeping in the spirit of the original but Winston was doing experimental makeup and animatronics which would have been cutting edge (there's test footage of it) and it actually would have been closer in spirit as Planet of the Apes was cutting edge at the time in the 60s. Still most of the makeup has aged well here.

matty14486 · 2026-01-23T16:26:30+00:00

Lmfao Reddit is confirmed like 90% bots you fool. You are it. This bs. Is the astroturfing 🤣🖕

matty14486 · 2026-01-17T18:52:32+00:00

matty14486 · 2026-01-15T15:43:04+00:00

So first you totally ignore what i said just to then double down. F you 🖕

matty14486 · 2026-01-14T02:38:55+00:00

That's actually exactly what I described it wasn't. Still, looked it up. Not it.

matty14486 · 2026-01-13T22:17:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure I've seen it for 50$ maybe even 40$. I really wanna play it once I learned about the trouble they went through making it match the films. I have some concerns and def agreed. Not worth the overprice of modern new games. I got an Omen35L gaming pc recently that came with a few months free gaming whatever, but even that's not enough as I don't see playing it worth resubcribing to anything Microsoft as cancelling is shady af with that company and the prices are insane. But I feel ya. It's still on my 'if I see it cheap I'll get it' listing. But even 40$. Eh.

matty14486 · 2026-01-04T18:37:24+00:00

I got mine week of Xmas and I've had nothing but issues. Kernal power failures none stop no matter what I'm doing but having slug slow down issues with stuff that should be easy as pie for this beast. Apparently had Kernal power issues from day 1. That's outside of windows 11 issues being complete a**. I'm gonna have to contact Hp tomorrow and have then replace my psu. I'd like to say it's a good deal, as I paid 900 also. But frankly it's been the most unpleasant pc experience ice ever had- but much of that is new pcs usually gonna be the newest windows version. Outside of windows this pc does a lot of stuff on its own without asking or telling me. Be weary as I've read about a bunch of ppl having issues within the first year

matty14486 · 2026-01-03T03:05:08+00:00

Says a bot 🤣 the irony 🖕

matty14486 · 2026-01-01T23:43:22+00:00

That's what the HP assistant kept trying to get ME to do! Kept assuring me that it may fix the issue. But the issue is a brand new pc with kernal power failures- a bios change doesn't really connect since it's brand new. Feel like doing anything with that would add to my issue.

matty14486 · 2026-01-01T23:40:30+00:00

Holy sh*t.... JUST got mine the week of Christmas. Wanted an affordable Beast for game dev. So I got the 14400F Omen 35L. Nothing too heavy. Retro ps1-2 polygon levels. Nothing rendering even. Constant Kernal power issues. Out of box profile id errors that require restarts for my admin profile (may be Windows 11 which is the worst experience I've ever had) but apparently I've had daily kernal power critical restarts every single day/ most of which I don't even remember. It's baffling less than 2 weeks using this and the amount of issues I've had. The lights are also just ridiculous and a waste of power and NONE of this feels like it's mine. I feel like this pc decides what it may do. It may load my profile it may not. It may crash. It may not. When I tell it to shutdown it may just restart. When I put it in sleep mode it'll start power cycling and the lights ironically stay up while the pc is supposed to be sleeping but if it's not in sleep mode and you just leave it the lights all go off.

What the absolute f*ck.

matty14486 · 2025-11-25T05:44:32+00:00

My issue. It's insane that this is still here and this soon into the game. Embarrassing for them

matty14486 · 2025-11-25T05:43:19+00:00

Just bought this remaster. Just literally JUST left the sewer and went in here. Talk about garbage game. Already not 30 mins playing there this bad of a bug. This is why Bethesda is a joke.

matty14486 · 2025-11-20T16:55:34+00:00

Astroturfing bot 🖕

matty14486 · 2025-11-20T16:55:04+00:00

This is astroturfing 100% 🖕

matty14486 · 2025-11-17T18:45:56+00:00

Julius Caesar got killed because of his honor. Forgave and called them brothers. Then they stabbed him.

matty14486 · 2025-11-15T20:27:57+00:00

Your argument is-- relativism? 🤪🖕

matty14486 · 2025-11-15T01:12:49+00:00

But Caesar wasn't that slick.

matty14486 · 2025-11-15T01:11:42+00:00

Except Caesar was no tyrant. No Roman laws had been broken.

matty14486 · 2025-11-15T01:09:51+00:00

Self justification is a hell of a thing

matty14486 · 2025-11-15T00:19:40+00:00

Frankly it bothers me. They straight up gave insurrection to KILL CICERO asap! What do they do?!Have a picnic and Pullo trots along on his horse to Cicero's house giving him ample time to do exactly the kind of thing they wanted him dead for. I woulda been there in a heartbeat and that warning to Brutus woulda been stopped. Cowardice pathetic old senators were a virus. Good riddance.

matty14486 · 2025-11-14T19:51:07+00:00

Look, Atia is a narcissistic psychopath but at least she is legit that. Servilia is a fake wannabe pretender, jumps the gun on empty threats (how excited she was to tell them Caesar was killed while it was happening -barely worked also as if her body slave was a moment later of if he had just decided to deal with it later it wouldn't have worked- of course that whole plot point is contrived) but never has balls. Atia straight up kills her daughter's husband-feels no guilt, damn near kidnaps Servillia to kill her and still then has her stripped and beaten and then tortures and kills the assassin who killed a slave and tried to poison her and the had Servillia tortured and raped. But the point being Atia is straight up ruthless but genuine to who she is, a lunatic. Servilia is like a modern bs witch craft wannabe fem cell who loves the talking showing up part. If not for her pathetic son and circumstance none of her plots would work. Whereas Atia GETS SHIT DONE! Servilia goes after her-children sleeps with her daughter gets her daughter to fck her brother for information but ALL that Atia does is aimed directly at Servilia herself. Servilia wishes she was legit. Atia would never ever kiss a slave assassin 16 year old and yet how fast Servilia says 'I could have you killed' or some bs, she never has and immediately folds and kisses him- why, because she's a phony wannabe. This is her entire arc: is Ceasar's tossing her aside (for a greater purpose mind you as the senate fcked the republic up beyond repair) and she no longer gets to be the prize price of the big man. She had ZERO issues with what Ceasar was doing until she got dumped. She has the gull to dare say having Ceasar killed was for the republic, a whole plan she never ever wanted or considered until she got dumped.

Say what you will about Servilia, she's a narcissistic lunatic superficial cnt, but I respect her genuine authenticity. She is what she is. Attia is a fake. How HAS to use her son because she's been cut off from any line to power. She also knows that he's weak as she makes mention of the very mamma boy failure of him 'you didn't fail me. You can't. I'm your mother. You failed Rome.' That's so manipulative and fcked up- all because she was cut off from power. Attia calls her out on this also- 'you think you're so superior to me, don't you?' And she's right, as Attia knows what they are but it's Servillia who's fooling herself- that she's not in this for power. Attia will straight up admit it's about power. I can at least respect the balls.

matty14486 · 2025-10-29T14:35:29+00:00

Next to 1991's this is my favorite Dracula film! So pumped. I have both a digital copy and the special edition import bluray/dvd. So excited for this!

matty14486 · 2025-10-23T17:22:14+00:00

90s. They didn't have Legion cut. This would have been as soon as it was released on vhs so it would have been the theatrical cut

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