We're takers, gents.

Driis Presents: Takers - The Motion Picture Mixtape

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:17:13 GMT

Posted by: mumblemutter

Sadly, the download link at the blog post seems to have expired, but you can still download the whole thing as one giant mp3 file at podomatic.com, which seems a bit awkward, but hey. (Click on "Download episode" at the bottom of the page.)

That being said... OMG IDRIS ELBA CURATED A MIXTAPE FOR A MOVIE HE STARRED IN. ♥_♥

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Swagger on a hundred, thousand, trillion!

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:23:13 GMT

Posted by: mumblemutter

So, apparently the DVD comes out in January. I have no idea what's taking them so long (LOTS OF SPECIAL FEATURES???), but at least we have a date now. For $29 ($20 marked down) I'd expect some cast member to personally deliver it to me, though. Jesus.

Anyway, while we wait! A picspam! Click for biggery and, you know, feel free to make icons and whatnot. Hint, hint.

( Sorry, people on dial-up. )

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In defense of Takers

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:27:41 GMT

Posted by: mumblemutter

Takers Review – A Movie That Likes To Take From Other Films:

The unoriginality of some sequences is just shocking – the film literally takes from other films. Unashamed it even says it's doing so at one point when they discuss "doing it Italian Job style" before copying entire sequences from both the original and the remake. In the third act it steals the climax from True Romance with a hotel room shootout complete with a room that looks the same and even has the iconic white feathers falling through the shots.

Now. If, like me, you discovered most of hip-hop just yesterday (because apparently you spent your entire life under a rock) and learned everything you know about b-boy culture from America's Best Dance Crew, you might actually see some parallels between, say, a hip-hop song and the way Takers works. (That is: if you *aren't* plenty clueless about these things, you might violently disagree with me.)

There's the U Don't Know from-rags-to-riches narrative, the Can't Tell Me Nothing sense of entitlement, the glamorization of (in this case ill-gotten) wealth, the crew as ersatz-family, the "urban" setting itself and, of course, Ghost's magnificent swagger. There's also the fact that the crew's slo-mo walk into the club seems to be taken directly out of a T.I. video and not the other way round. ALSO EVERYTHING IS SO SHINY.

In this context, the "unoriginal" elements of the plot simply become samples. I mean, come on, they put it right there in the ~~liner notes~~ dialogue. "This here is taken from The Italian Job, only we put the dude known for car stunt movies behind the wheel because that's hilarious and adds more meta." (Note: I have not seen The Italian Job.) It's pop culture, man!

For my next trick, I will respond to the critics who took issue with T.I.'s acting.

-A.

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Links

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:14:36 GMT

Posted by: mumblemutter

Takers - Official Site
Takers (2010) - IMDb
Takers - Wikipedia
Takers - Hollywood Backlot

Youtube: Takers - Official Trailer [HD] [download]
Youtube: T.I. - Yeah Ya Know [HD] [download]

[thegeekfiles] Paul Walker talks Takers
[thegeekfiles] Matt Dillon on Takers

Takers – Featurette [puremovies.co.uk]

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