August 14, 2004
Taxi – Who on earth thought this was a good idea?
Does one really need to see anything else in a trailer or poster for a movie that includes the phrase "Starring Jimmy Fallon" to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is going to be one of the GREATEST motion pictures of our, or any other time in the history of movies... verilly... the history of mankind itself? Taxi just oozes QUALITY in the tradition of the theatre arts. Ok, enough of the crap.
Who on earth is making a zillion dollars a year to make decisions that results in a movie like this getting made?!?! 2 things on this planet confuse me. 1) Women. 2) The decision making process used by some studios in decideing what movies get made and which ones don't. I know I haven't seen it yet... but COME ON! Jimmy Fallon?!?! And what on earth is Queen Latifah thinking? She starts building a semi-respectable acting reputation... then even gets an Oscar nomination... and then she thinks to herself "Hey! You know what would be a really good career move for me right now? I'll play a hip-hop speedster sissta drag racing taxi driving chick in a heist movie with Jimmy Fallon! Yeah! That'll be awesome! Academy gold here I come!".
Maybe I'm being unduly unfair to a movie I haven't even seen yet... but come on... tell me I'm wrong. If you wanna subject yourself to the Taxi trailer, you can go here, but I can't imagine why.
Posted by John Campea at August 14, 2004 12:22 PM
Comments
Posted by: Bubba at August 14, 2004 04:25 PM
Wasn't this movie originally based on the video game Crazy Taxi but something didn't clear with the rights, so it underwent a name change to just Taxi? Serious question.
Posted by: Howard at August 14, 2004 10:14 PM
Nope. The film this is based on came out before the video game. Here's the Amazon UK page for the original, complete with synopsis and user reviews ...
Posted by: Bubba at August 14, 2004 10:36 PM
Zowie. I just went and checked Besson's credits on the IMDB and the man is producing SIXTEEN films currently coming down the pipe! That's insane! How does the man have time to breathe?
Posted by: Bubba at August 14, 2004 10:42 PM
the original french movie was great. but this looks pretty bad. (it think the french made another 2 sequals too).
Posted by: louis at August 15, 2004 05:54 PM
I have the dvd for the original version of TAXI, fron Luc Besson Starring Sami Naseri, a very good movie with some nice car chases and the obvious french humor, when I saw the trailor for this rehached american peace of garbage version my jaw dropped.I can't understand why they make these american versions of french films are they running out of ideas.
Posted by: Symon at August 16, 2004 08:44 AM
"Zowie. I just went and checked Besson's credits on the IMDB and the man is producing SIXTEEN films currently coming down the pipe! That's insane! How does the man have time to breathe?" - Bubba
Luc Besson has the time to breathe because he is FREAKING AWESOME!!! (and probably a *little* insane.)
Seriously, though; I love that man.
Posted by: tracy at August 18, 2004 08:49 PM
mY iDEA fOR a mOVIE: ANY MOVIE WERE THEY FUCKING KILL THE PRESIDENT...G W BUSH..ID PAY 10 BUCKS TO GO SEE IT TURN IT INTO THE PASHION OF CHRIST PARODY AND ID Be hAPPY
Posted by: Deeno at August 21, 2004 09:28 AM
"...I know I haven't seen it yet" and Bubba writes "looks like ass but forgot to write "I know I haven't seen it yet" This is the first site that I've found of reviews of film trailers but it reads like ass.
Posted by: safe at January 8, 2005 04:54 PM
This is actually a remake of a french film - produced by Luc Besson, I think - that's supposed to be a good bit of disposable fun. Enough so that it's spawned a little franchise over there. This version, though, looks like ass.