odessasteps Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Speaking of Liam Neeson, so is he basically just going to star in different versions of Taken and sequels to Taken? Not that it's a bad thing. Was just wondering. The funny thing about Liam Neeson is that Schindler's List got him so much dramatic cred that people forget that he first made a name for himself in cheesy action flicks like Darkman and Next Of Kin, he still does plenty of cheesy stuff like A-Team or that recent Seth McFarlane abortion, and for the bulk of his career as a name guy he's been a big-budget franchise guy (Star Wars trilogies, Nolan Batman, Chronicles Of Narnia, Clash/Wrath Of The Titans, etc.). For all intents and purposes he's an action star who does the occasional Michael Collins or Kinsey to remind people he can act. In the 90s, I used to say Darkman was the best Batman movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Saw Calvary. what a downer ending. Maybe not fair to compare them, but i loved the Guard and this, a little less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 It's hard to believe there was ever a time when Liam Neeson wasn't telling bad guys exactly what he was going to do to them in all his movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Also, I urge everyone to check out the Saved by the Bell TV movie: *dude playing Dustin walks into TV executive's office and sees him on the phone talking to someone* "This Jerry Seinfeld...he's funny, but I don't know, the pilot just seems too...Jewish...to work, you know?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 i'm watching that movie right now... i'm not convinced they actually spent any money on a screenplay or casting.. I thought they couldn't air movies this bad without silhouettes at the bottom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I expected it to be completely terrible but I found it kind of entertaining and was very amused at how some of the actors were spot on with their roles at certain points, sounding very much like their characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hell I watched The Dead Pool the other day and there was Liam Neeson, the guy has been in everything at this point. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Fuck Kevin Bacon; it's all about Six Degrees of Liam Neeson. Incidentally, am I the only one that has a friend who, no matter how many times I politely try to suggest otherwise, refers to him as "Liam Nelson?" At first I thought they were fucking with me ... now, I'm positive that is not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Apparently this is a thing: OK even by crappy Lifetime movie standards this looks hideous. I don't know what's worse, the clips or the fact that some chick gave Haddaway the Gary Jules "Mad World" treatment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Watching that would really piss me off, she deserves better. Sad story with her. Fuck, her in Black Swan instead of Nathalie Portman if she hadn't died would've been incredible. Funny we're talking Neeson because I caught the end of Next of Kin last night, just because I'd never seen the whole thing. Neeson as a Kentucky hillbilly was pretty... weird. So was him in Darkman but that movie is AWESOME. Loved it ever since my dad took me to see it as a kid. I also caught The Secret of Nimh the other day, another one I'd never finished, and man, that movie is pretty damn dark. Usually I'm not one for Disney/Disney-esque stuff but I had the picture book of the movie when I was a kid. The '80s, back when you could get away with a story like that in a cartoon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Watching that would really piss me off, she deserves better. Sad story with her. Fuck, her in Black Swan instead of Nathalie Portman if she hadn't died would've been incredible. Funny we're talking Neeson because I caught the end of Next of Kin last night, just because I'd never seen the whole thing. Neeson as a Kentucky hillbilly was pretty... weird. So was him in Darkman but that movie is AWESOME. Loved it ever since my dad took me to see it as a kid. I also caught The Secret of Nimh the other day, another one I'd never finished, and man, that movie is pretty damn dark. Usually I'm not one for Disney/Disney-esque stuff but I had the picture book of the movie when I was a kid. The '80s, back when you could get away with a story like that in a cartoon... The only Don Bluth movie that looked like a Disney movie; Fox and the Hound(if it isn't the saddest Disney movie its on the medal stand) the same year, and the Disney did the Black Caldruon a few years later. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Funny we're talking Neeson because I caught the end of Next of Kin last night, just because I'd never seen the whole thing. Neeson as a Kentucky hillbilly was pretty... weird. Neeson, Swayze, and Paxton were brothers but somehow had three different accents. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Heh, The Black Cauldron and The Fox and the Hound are two of the only other Disney movies I love, along with Robin Hood and Fantasia. Go figure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Eh, I liked Murphy, but I couldn't have seen her being some big dramatic actress, like Portman. Comedy was more her strength. If the channel had a sense of humor, the biopic would include a scene where Murphy actually films that Lifetime movie that she did a year or so before before she died and laments how bad her career has gotten because she's doing crap like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Watching that would really piss me off, she deserves better. Sad story with her. Fuck, her in Black Swan instead of Nathalie Portman if she hadn't died would've been incredible. Funny we're talking Neeson because I caught the end of Next of Kin last night, just because I'd never seen the whole thing. Neeson as a Kentucky hillbilly was pretty... weird. So was him in Darkman but that movie is AWESOME. Loved it ever since my dad took me to see it as a kid. I also caught The Secret of Nimh the other day, another one I'd never finished, and man, that movie is pretty damn dark. Usually I'm not one for Disney/Disney-esque stuff but I had the picture book of the movie when I was a kid. The '80s, back when you could get away with a story like that in a cartoon... The only Don Bluth movie that looked like a Disney movie; Fox and the Hound(if it isn't the saddest Disney movie its on the medal stand) the same year, and the Disney did the Black Caldruon a few years later. . . . It's funny, because Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron are what drove Don Bluth to leave Disney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Had to look up Bluth based on that and found out he also made An American Tale and The Land Before Time which I didn't know (and enjoyed as a child). Not only that, but Dragon's Lair! I can see why he left based on something like The Black Cauldron which was a near disaster and certainly different than the norm there. Which surprisingly, The Secret of Nimh was as well. Watching Under Siege on TV again. Man is Tommy Lee Jones great chewing the scenery here, plus you get Gary Busey corpsing and yelling a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Yeah, Bluth had a several year run as the first real challenger Disney had ever had. Especially when Spielberg was backing him. But between walking away from Spielberg after Land Before Time (to do All Dogs Go to Heaven) and Disney suddenly snapping back with The Little Mermaid, that era ended virtually instantly. It's funny Bluth hasn't really caught on anywhere now that lots of studios make animated films, and Disney doesn't have that same stranglehold on the entire industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Ugh, All Dogs Go To Heaven. I guess what goes around comes around considering the rise of Pixar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Nephew has been after us for awhile to watch so this weekend the three of us watched: Lords of Dogtown - The movie companion to the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary on the same subject, namely the rebirth of skateboarding in the 1970s at a surf shop. The Z Boys were a group of surfers who, using the new urethane wheels, brought surfing-like tactics to skateboarding and birthed a phenomenon. There's a great story to be told here but the movie itself is something of a mess. Besides messing with chronology, merging multiple characters into a new one who didn't exist (the "Sid" character) and was less important than portrayed by the movie, deleting other people entirely, and ignoring Jay Adams killing a guy, the movie definitely is more concerned with its style than its structure or story. And it captures that style well - a gritty 1970s style with warm colors and a very distinctive look. It's hurt by seemingly random scene cuts and an edit that makes the movie feel like it's just not "smooth" for lack of a better word. Anyway, this was pretty good but could have been a lot better. 6/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Epix has got Apocalypse Now on rotation. I forgot how fucking good that movie was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Watched The Battered Bastards of Baseball. Tears of joy. Not much more to say than that. My jaw hurts from smiling so much and it's a good reminder for why I love baseball so fucking much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 It's funny Bluth hasn't really caught on anywhere now that lots of studios make animated films, and Disney doesn't have that same stranglehold on the entire industry. Probably too many out-and-out 90s failures for people to feel he's worth taking a chance on (Rock-A-Doodle: $11m; A Troll in Central Park $71k (WAIT, that can't be right?! Can it?!); Thumbelina $11m; The Pebble and the Penguin $3.9m; Titan A.E. $22m on a $75m budget). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Epix has got Apocalypse Now on rotation. I forgot how fucking good that movie was. Netflix has the original (I think) and the Redux versions, both. Which one do I want to watch, having never seen the movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 The original is one of my 5 favourite movies. Redux breaks the rhythm of the film in a way that I can't endorse. I don't mind any of the new parts, but what they do to the whole makes an inferior film. You have to see the proper original version first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Redux but skipping the French Plantation scene is the best version of the movie. To bad you have to do that manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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