Taken
 

How should we go about handling this movie when it comes to capping it? The movie has been released everywhere else for the better part of a year and is just now coming out to US theaters this weekend.

If it's been released on DVDs in other regions, we have no problem with somebody screencapping it. However, we do not tolerate the use of bootlegs, only screencaps taken by someone from another country who legally owns the DVD.

I saw 'Taken' recently and it's an excellent action thriller. Very fast paced. Liam Neeson kicks ass like an older version of Jason Bourne !

I was kind of dissapointed with the American version of Taken though. I watched the European version prior to watching the one released in the US, and it was a little bit of a let down due to how much of the violence and such was cut to make it PG-13. All in all still a good movie though.

i did call dibbs on it a while ago, but if someone beats me, go ahead, but my mom is a fiend for buying new movies opening day (especially ones she likes and she loved this one) but hey, you beat me to it and its yours, but dibbs is still called for this one

Those MP5K:s used at the end, is there some kind of logic of removing the foregrips from them?

The logic is that it looks cooler.

The foregrip won't snag on clothing when you are hiding it in a jacket, I suppose.

I liked the movie too, sorry I took your screencapping opportunity Winchester.

The unrated cut is much better so I just watch that one and avoid the original cut.

They totally should have taken his offer...

its cool John. You did ask if you could instead of just doing it. I respect you for that.

True, but the sights will. That's why H&K came out with the MP5KA1 and KA5 - those versions have no sights so that they won't snag on the clothes of body guards who carry them. The ones in "Taken" are regular MP5Ks with sights.

BTW, I can't remember, but I think the KA1 is the version of the MP5K that the Secret Service uses, even though movies always depict Secret Service agents carrying regular MP5Ks.

So an MP5KA1 with the foregrip removed would be pretty handy wouldn't it? Unless you needed to aim...

...in which case, an MP5K is the last gun in the world you should want.

Call me crazy, but if you were carrying a compact SMG in a firefight, would you really want to aim it? Or just point and spray? I thought that's what SMGs were designed for.

No, you never want to do that, only in movies does that work. Guns with full auto capabilities run out of ammo way faster than in movies (as in an MP5K's case, with a 30 round magazine, that sucker's empty in ~2 seconds). You want to make every round count and if you just "sprayed-and-prayed", you'd end up dead.

No, machine pistols (as opposed to full-size SMGs) were designed to be concealed and easily carried by body guards and aircraft crewmen. That they are almost always very difficult to control is a mostly unintended consequence of their size, but the designers don't sit down and think consciously, "OK, let's build a gun that is meant to be fired in 'spray-n-pray' mode."

Very good, I shut up now.