Taken 2008

The claim

54:58 – 58:34

… grade. It's a flaw. Yeah. It was tough. How many people does Brian kill in this movie? He kills 31 people. 35. Oh, that was close. Yeah. Close. All right. Apex Mountain. Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson, 100%. Yes. 100%. I know Shen does this one. The Oscar. I know he's had a great career. I'm sorry. Taken is your apex mountain, Liam Neeson. You did the impossible. You became an action movie star in your mid-50s. Congratulations. Maggie Grace, who was also on Lost at the same time as Taken. I'm going to say it never got better for her after this. This is it. Yeah. Taken and Lost at the same time. Yeah. Laramie and …

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And it was like she overcompensated by trying to run like she thought somebody who was younger. But she ends up running like she's in the fourth grade. It's a flaw. Yeah. It was tough. How many people does Brian kill in this movie? He kills 31 people. 35. Oh, that was close. Yeah. Close. All right. Apex Mountain. Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson, 100%. Yes. 100%. I know Shen does this one. The Oscar. I know he's had a great career. I'm sorry. Taken is your apex mountain, Liam Neeson. You did the impossible. You became an action movie star in your mid-50s. Congratulations. Maggie Grace, who was also on Lost at the same time as Taken. I'm going to say it never got better for her after this. This is it. Yeah. Taken and Lost at the same time. Yeah. Laramie and I were watching a movie recently. And that was the thing Laramie said when she came on the screen. She's like, is that the daughter from Taken? Which means that's the role she's going to be forever. Yeah. Albanian sex traffickers. I think this is the best it was ever. Apex Mountain for them. It's great. I wouldn't expect this entry on there, but you are true. Yeah. Let me ask you a question because you mentioned Liam again and it just came into my head. We're talking about dangerous things. Who had the worst luck in this movie out of the two people? The guy who chose on the one night Brian Mills was protecting She-Ra, the pop star? Yeah. This is the night I'm going to try to murder her. That's true. Yeah. Needle in the haystack. Yeah. Or is it the sheik who was just doing his normal, buying some sex slaves and he happened to buy that daughter? I would say the sheik. You think so? Yeah, maybe. Any other day, he just gets his $500,000 sex slave and he's fine. He's just moving on to the next one. But no, wrong day for him. Wrong day, sir. Who would have been best in this movie? Danny Trejo, Steve Buscemi, or Michael K. Williams? Who would you have picked to be in this movie somehow? Give me Steve. I think Steve could have been the guy in charge of the auction. See, this is why we get along. That was not only my answer, but the exact role I had envisioned. No way. As the manager of the sex trafficking auction. I think he would have been brilliant. He'd have been great. Which leads me to the next category, Mark Ruffalo. They knew for the overacting, saying, I'm going with the manager of the sex trafficking club. Really strange performance. Super strange. Not really sure what to make of him. Yeah. He got shot like three times. He's laying on the ground. And he's trying to appeal to this guy who just shot him. He's like, oh, think of it responsibly or something like that. Like logically, whatever. And then, yeah, the whole it wasn't business, it was only business line. Yeah. That's not a thing you're going to say in that moment. You're certainly not going to deliver it that way. But he was trying to win himself an award in that moment. I was watching Alive. When was the last time you watched Alive? The Airplane Crash movie? Yeah. That shoot when it came out in 1990 something. They got to eat each other to survive. I remember that. That's why I didn't watch it again. I watched the last hour of it with my son last night, and he was transfixed. Was he? Just transfixed. You might have to watch it with the boys. It's good. There's an overacting. We'll never do rewatchables for Alive.

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