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Taken The Rewatchables
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Taken

Half-Assed Internet Research

Jeff Bridges casting, Liam Neeson preparation, Famke Janssen advocacy, map continuity, travel warnings, Maggie Grace’s running, and body count

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  • Liam Neeson is reported to have expected a straight-to-video release and trained in Paris for four months
  • Famke Janssen is reported to have become a UN anti-corruption goodwill ambassador
  • The airport map is reported to show dissolved European states
  • Liam Neeson is reported to discourage parents from treating the film’s danger as realistic travel guidance
  • Maggie Grace is reportedly said to have trained with Alberto Salazar to run younger, though the hosts explicitly doubt the claim
  • Bryan is first said to kill 31 people, then corrected to 35
Taken The Rewatchables
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Taken

Picking Nits

Apartment wealth, discarded phone, voice recognition, failed execution, baguette shorthand, and improvised phone-routing technology

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  • The unusually luxurious fifth-floor apartment is questioned
  • Leaving the destroyed phone behind and then locking the door is questioned
  • Recognizing Marco from a repeated two-word phrase is challenged
  • The captors’ failure to shoot their captive after questioning him is challenged
  • Jean-Claude’s wife’s survival and later life are questioned
  • Jean-Claude carrying an unwrapped baguette is mocked as generic French shorthand
  • The ease of buying a transmitter and sending a phone signal to another location is questioned
Die Hard The Rewatchables
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Die Hard

Casting What-Ifs

Bruce Willis was chosen after an extraordinary list of stars; Sam Neill was considered for Hans Gruber, while Tom Berenger and Don Johnson are the panel’s plausible McClane alternatives.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:28:56Read transcript
  • Stallone, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro, Charles Bronson, Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Don Johnson, Burt Reynolds, and Richard Dean Anderson are reported as McClane possibilities.
  • Because the source novel followed an earlier Roderick Thorp book adapted with Frank Sinatra, Sinatra reportedly held a contractual right of refusal.
  • Tom Berenger and Don Johnson are proposed as alternatives who could have worked, though the released film would have been less iconic.
  • Nick Nolte is rejected as physically and tonally wrong for the required action.
  • Sam Neill is reported as considered for Hans Gruber, but Alan Rickman is treated as impossible to replace after seeing the performance.
  • The panel wonders whether Chris Rock or a Wayans brother was considered for Argyle and asks what the final Argyle shortlist looked like; the transcript does not resolve it.
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