My Money Was Taken
Last night I went to see Taken, starring Liam Neeson and that girl who played Shannon on Lost. The movie was really bad but it was, like, funny bad. Add to that the funny badness of the trailer for the new Beyonce movie, Obsessed, that played during the previews and it was almost worth the money. Taken is about Liam Neeson rescuing that girl who played Shannon on Lost and, more importantly, saving her virginity just in the nick of time. It’s about how the Algerians have taken over Paris and how valuable white women are as a commodity. This sheik, not Duncan Sheik, wants them and he seems to want all of them all at once. The bad guys are all foreign “others” from places where Middle Eastern bad guys wear lots of eyeliner. The best part of the movie and the part that I totally loved featured Camille Japy, a seemingly untroubled, happy French mom and housewife, who goes from asking Liam Neeson if he wants white or dark meat at her dining table the one moment to writhing on the floor the next after he shoots her in the arm. It’s only a flesh wound though!
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