LIAM NEESON

Love Actually

:/

darkman lol

'taken' looks like a contender (luc besson-produced action film from the director of 'district 13'!)

Michael Collins (1996) .... Michael Collins
Rob Roy (1995) .... Robert Roy MacGregor
Schindler's List (1993) .... Oskar Schindler
Ethan Frome (1993) .... Ethan Frome
Darkman (1990) .... Peyton Westlake / Darkman

is it just me or does this guy have an uncommonly large number of 'title roles'?

Schindler's over Rob Roy, Husbs & Wives, Bkfast on Pluto

taken! or seraphim falls. distant third for batman begins.

i dont even remember him in gony tbh

He's great in Darkman.

He's Leonardo's daddy ain't he?

Husbands & Wives also great.

http://s.ipernity.com/T/1/L/z.gif

i can't take this dude seriously

I saw him play Oscar Wilde in a very mediocre Broadway play.

is this best movie or best role? so tempted to reward NELL for being the best movie, yet his contributions to it were minimal in contrast with some of his finer roles~

darkman obv jesus christ

did not realize that taken was directed by district 13 dude that makes it even more sure to be full on badass

so tempted to reward NELL for being the best movie

waht

i like the commercial for taken because it's basically liam neeson calmly explaining everything to everyone on the phone

"you will be taken"
"i will use my skills to kill you"

The Big Man. First thing I saw him in iirc. Apart from Excalibur.

Nell trailer = instant comedy

darkman easy, tho i love him in everything

Nell is very (unintentionally) funny.

this dude out-charismas pretty much everyone else in whatever movie he appears in imo

darkman also responsible for my fav neeson line after being told by frances macdormand that things can be the same again -- "don't you think i've told myelf that, night after skinless night?"

so mad that imdb doesn't have actual quotes from Nell on the "Nell" page

i like the commercial for taken because it's basically liam neeson calmly explaining everything to everyone on the phone

"you will be taken"
"i will use my skills to kill you"

― shook pwns (omar little), Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya that ad convinced me that this was a movie that would owne - then i saw it, and it indeed was a movie that owned. shit, i should vote for it

dan, u cant tell me nell isnt the funniest movie ever

(xxxpost) Voted "Batman Begins". Neeson very nearly acts Bale off the screen. "You took my suggestion about theatricality a bit... literally", "If you'll excuse me, I have a city to destroy", and the very effective final eyes closed silent "oh shit" where most actors would have been shouting "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!"

Neeson very nearly acts Bale off the screen.

lol what a challenge

Darkman

Skew-ah in 'da bell-ay!

Ga' anga'!

may tay chichapay

Trouble go away at nigh', an' Nell caw Mi'i - an' Nell an' Mi'i - ye', Nell an' Mi'i - like t'ee in the way!

lololol yes "Nell" is hysterical in an almost transcendent way but it never would have occurred to me to call it a good movie!

Still remember the first time I saw him, in Krull -- bunch of scraggly guys all talking then suddenly this huge dude appears and very gravely says something about joining the cause of good, and everyone else has to crane their necks to look at him.

darkman also responsible for my fav neeson line after being told by frances macdormand that things can be the same again -- "don't you think i've told myelf that, night after skinless night?"

― and what, Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:47 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahahaha

excalibur is the movie from list i'd most like to see again, but he only has a bit part (i do think he hooked up with helen mirren tho because of it)

voted satisfaction ;)

one of the few problems with the otherwise excellent 'kingdom of heaven' was the notion that a badass crusader like liam neeson would be the father to weak link orlando bloom

Well that's the problem with GONY too.

Really what actor could play Liam Neeson's spawn. Certainly not the whiny girl from Lost (I suspect this will be a problem with Taken.)

well unlike the two aforementioned films SPOILERSSSSSSSSS i don't think liam is gonna be dead within the first 30 minutes of the film this time

Valid point.

excalibur is a great film, but neeson is hardly in it

(i do think he hooked up with helen mirren tho because of it)

wtg liam

Pretty sure he wasn't the first.

no!!

i've only seen the shitty things he's in it seems. the les mis movie is godawful.

HAVE YOU SEEN DARKMAN?

Who IS DARKMAN?
Aren't there two (or three?) sequels?

i have not seen darkman

unless i saw it when i was young and don't remember... wait i think i have seen darkman. there's a big abandoned skyskraper or something involved in the climax?

yeah but they are all crap and neeson-free xpost

yeah that sounds like darkman, but it could also be just about every other action movie from the late 80's/early 90's, so..?

The abandoned sparks factory was a common motif.

On the set, Neeson met Helen Mirren, who played Morgan le Fay. Neeson had seen Mirren as Lady Macbeth. "It was mesmeric," he remembers. "She was so sexy. I thought, Gosh, that's Helen Mirren! She was as beautiful up close as on stage. Just so human. I was in love with this extraordinary human being." Mirren was older than Neeson, by how much "I never did know," he says. (Neeson is a gentleman. Mirren is seven years older.)

The next step for the Irish actor was London, and Mirren gave Neeson the courage to move. He went to live with her in her flat. London in the early 80's was terrifying, Neeson says, a time of demonstrations by Irish Nationalists. "There were bombs going off, people with Irish accents being set upon. I felt like a black person in Alabama." Still, Neeson found some work in the British theater -- Mirren paved his way -- and got some more supporting roles in films, including "The Bounty" and "The Mission."

But he was struggling. One day, Gabriel Byrne found Neeson painting Mirren's house. "I can't get a job," Neeson said. "The worst of it is, I'm living with a woman who has a mountain of scripts delivered to her every morning."

"It was difficult for him to be under my shadow," Mirren says. "I was well known; I had the money." Eventually, she says, "I had a sense from Liam that it was time for him to come out from under my wing. He handled it with great elegance and grace. We loved each other. It was difficult to let go."

his face looks kinda weird in the "taken" trailer. can't tell if it's just the lighting or he's had some tightening done or is conversely just getting bonier as he ages.

Actors get that kind of bony from tightening usually so I would guess tightening.

the main thing that sux about taken (besides the writing) is his american accent

he didnt look all that uh tightened to me but i am not an expert so ¯\(°_o)/¯

i saw darkman in the theater with my mom lol

MOM I WANT TO SEE DARKMAN

My parents bought tickets for me and my brother.

this dude is rad, rob roy deserves some love

More for Tim Roth than him though.

Rob Roy, for the scene where he seems to be fingering Jessica Lange by the river.

Have we had a Tim Roth poll?

http://www.beersteak.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/liam-neeson-piss-pants.jpg

lol is he wetting his pants?

I'd be scared enough to do that if I saw pixel guys in real life like that, so hey.

Pee Actually

it's kind of hard to take schindler's list seriously because everyone is putting on ridiculous german accents.

That and also because it's not very good.

xp: is that you, Bryan Singer?

Schindler's Piss

yeah, Schindler's List obv can't compete w/ fucking Darkman, Batman and Lucasman juvenilia where Neeson sounds like he swallowed a factory fulla fortune cookies.

No it's better than Batman and Star Wars.

more like it can't compete with the many high quality german movies made about the holocaust.

Les Piserables

schindler's list is totally great except for some "DO YOU SEE" kind of moments. also, it's another example (iirc) of one of those american films where they start off with everyone speaking foreign languages and then do one of those language switch moments where everyone suddenly starts speaking in english (cf hunt for red october, clear and present danger). i think this happens in SL, maybe i'm wrong.

well, they are the subject matter experts xxpost

Photos like that are the reason people get fake-embarrassed when someone spills something in their laps. Because in normal life, who walks around having peed themselves? You go and buy some pants and change them. But if someone spilled water on you, it's like, who's going to think that's really pee? so you keep wearing them until they're dry.

speaking in english is fine, as long as they're not speaking in english with german accents

I never noticed THAT.

(xxpos)

yeah, Schindler's List obv can't compete w/ fucking Darkman, Batman and Lucasman juvenilia where Neeson sounds like he swallowed a factory fulla fortune cookies.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck you, seriously

It would be a lot better movie if they hadn't completely fucked with the ending of the book (which is also not great tbh.)

IT WOULD BE A LOT BETTER IF IT WAS IN LOL COLOUR

Schindler's list vs. a factory fulla juvenilla wafers

SL missteps: girl in red dress, "I could've saved one more person," and nothing else major.

Basically, there's no way to win with the accent thing.

I'm second to nobody in liking "Schindler," Morbz, but "Darkman" is effing great.

Well there is that one girls dress that was in color. That fucking frame apparently destroyed about a million projectors.

who knew a liam neeson poll would capture the hearts and minds of ilxors everywhere

neeson's lecture hall speech in the factory is pretty zzz

"SL missteps: girl in red dress, "I could've saved one more person," and nothing else major."

Um the whole fucking made up speech, the fact that they completely lied about the fact that German guards got torn apart by the Jews, other stuff I can't be bothered to remember 15 years later.

the fact that they completely lied about the fact that German guards got torn apart by the Jews

i dont remember this scene! or are u saying it really happened and they left it out

Spielberg fite, gbye thread

(but I'm glad they didn't make anything up in Zodiac)

they left out the part where the jews did 9/11

^ first real ilx laff since ever

I have the same problems with the shower scene that Hoberman did: it's cheap suspense.

the fact that they completely lied about the fact that German guards got torn apart by the Jews

what was this about?

SL missteps: girl in red dress, "I could've saved one more person," and nothing else major.

Basically, there's no way to win with the accent thing.

imho it's won by not impersonating foreign accents. (how unbearable would "the shop around the corner" have been, for instance, if jimmy stewart and margaret sullivan had put on fake hungarian accents?)

also, i don't know if i would really call it a "misstep," since SL clearly wasn't intended to provide a completely accurate account of germany under the nazis, but the whole thing is pretty melodramatic and almost cartoonish. i preferred downfall, sophie scholl: die letzten tage, and before the fall (napola), all of which managed to be both realistic in their portrayals and incredibly moving.

never seen darkman, voted for michael collins despite julia roberts being in it.

let's talk about Julia Roberts' accent in Michael Collins.

all i have to say is thank god the movie wasn't about her.

it was poland under the nazis, not germany. i feel like it was pretty accurate, right?

eh, in my opinion it portrays every possible extreme one could have experienced, so while it was accurate in that all of the sorts of people depicted did exist and the sorts of things that happen did happen, i think it gives viewers the wrong impression in leading them to believe that all of these extremes would have been experienced by every person. most people were somewhere between incredibly cruel/benevolent and blindly committed to nazism/fervently opposed to nazism, but i feel like speilberg prefers to deal with extreme examples in order to make a more dramatic story.

uh ya it's a movie dude

there wasn't much grey area about the holocaust imo, i mean maybe so in the day to day german life but w/r/t this there wasn't much "in-between"

eh, n/m, after refreshing my memory with some clips i have to say what bugs me about SL has nothing to do with accuracy and everything to do with it just being overwrought. the holocaust was horrific enough on its own — you don't need to add drama to convince people of that. i'll quit derailing now, sorry!

The Big Man aka Crossing the Line has what Stanley Kubrick called the best fight scene ever filmed.

That movie has a good cast, but fight scene aside it doesn't sound very good.

i saw darkman in the theater with my mom lol

― cutty, Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

MOM I WANT TO SEE DARKMAN

― cutty, Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haha I was like this too! I begged my mom to let me watch it on video until she gave in. Same with Robocop.

my mom bought me legend of the overfiend (^_^)v

i feel like 'taken' is a movie that might contain the most pimp of all his performances

basing this entirely on trailers

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

he's playing abraham lincoln in an upcoming film! another title role.

Darkman forever!

k19 is awesome how come nobody's talking about it?

http://www.henrysheehan.com/reviews/jkl/k-19.jpg
WIDOWMAKER

god Taken was some sub-Bourney BS.

i have yet to see Schindler's, so I'm not even gonna vote.

ah fuck it, I'm voting for Darkman.

so excited for 'taken'

No Simpsons, no cred.

"Sean, you wanker, repent of your sins or sod off."

Checking IMDB, it looks like he's currently doing a Melville remake.

didn't realize Taken was by the District B13 guy, but not looking like its equal.

its nothing like b13 and exactly like the trailers make it out to be. I liked.

havent seen the trailers but i doubt they do the sheer racism and misogyny of the movie justice.

sounds *~amazing~*

did not notice any racism or misogny but forgot to equip my liberal butthurt radar

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

finally a poll we can believe in

The Big Man (1990) .... Danny Scoular 2

ok dom

who the fuck voted for "Ethan Frome"?!

$24,625,000!4,625,000!

$24,625,000, i mean.

I can't believe I was the only one to vote for Love, Actually! It was so sweet.

Any movie titled "____man" wins ILX polls

who else voted for SATISFACTION?!
i love that movie and his song in it was perfectly awful. something about the wind, trees, soft whispering breeze, bird that sings to be free. YES.

taken was pretty rad for a movie about how if you go to france u will be kidnapped by muslims and the french police wont help u

also weird that everyone who made it was european but it was still about how horrible everything outside america is

but still movies about hypercompetent espionagists with made-up job names like "preventer" "stopper" "cleaner" are the best

maybe they are hoping to scare Americans into staying in America.

taken was pretty rad for a movie about how if you go to france u will be kidnapped by muslims and the french police wont help u

― max, Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:34 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also the only way to not die at the hands of french muslims is to be a virgin

taken showed there's a good side to the CIA torturing people. If a CIA dude is your dad and you get kidnapped by Muslims, he will save you from being sold into prostitution.

was luc besson pissed off with his countrymen about angel-a or something i mean damn guys Taken

maybe they are hoping to scare Americans into staying in America.

― fwiw (rockapads), 15 February 2009 10:26 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

this is what i assumed after seeing it this weekend.

mainly it was just a really tight action film, so i think they went for lazy cliched villains etc just to avoid it becoming a heart wrenching analysis of the root causes of human trafficking. worked for me, that's what it said on the tin.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/01/anne_arundel_mans_life_a_life.html

And he frequently speaks out against human trafficking, claiming in marketing materials that his only daughter was kidnapped, forced into the sex industry and killed — a story that became the basis, he has said, for the 2008 film "Taken," starring Liam Neeson.

But authorities say they can find no evidence of a military background, other than a relatively tame stint with the Coast Guard in the 1960s, according to an FBI affidavit filed in Maryland U.S. District Court, reports The Sun's Tricia Bishop. The University of Oregon says it never awarded him a post-secondary degree, either, and others question the story about his daughter.

Unknown was pretty good. Cross between North By Northwest and the Bourne Identify (obv not really a patch on either, but still a fun time killer.)

yeah it was ok. but i was compelled str8 afterwards to watch the Taken 'good luck' epic ownage scene.Psyched for TAKEN II
http://www.nohomers.net/images/smilies/nerdb.gif

I thought Taken was very mediocre, apart from a decent lead performance.

it's like commando without any kitsch value and with some french racism.

i will look for you, i will find you, and i will kill you is p great tho obviously.

yah idg why ppl like taken is it entirely for lols like i have said before the premise of this movie is that there are teenage girls who like u2

remember watching an episode of an american sitcom in which the teenage daughter wants to go to a rolling stones concert and it's considered rebellious or whatever.

btw i had never seen this movie until my little sister borrowed the dvd

heard of this movie. like i didnt know it existed and then

more than just a "little" french racism

iirc the entire premise is "your daughter will be raped and murdered by muslims unless she is a virgin"

i see i have covered that in this thread

i didnae see little bro.

say even

i cannae spell bro

hah i missed that i had already talked about it too, clearl i have a bone to pick

The NYT ran an article last week by the sudden resurgence of Liam Neeson as action hero.

hes so tall

The best thing is that he turned down Bond many years ago because he didn't want to do action movies

i loved taken's monstrous xenophobia so much

he just left that blonde chick from gossip girl chained to a bed in brothel needle in her arm dead

also he shoots the french cop's wife

so great

marco from tropoja

also i dont think they couldve made the muslim rapist any more of a grotesque just this portly pockmarked deviant in a robe

the dialogue is obv so bad in both films. Fave line from Unknown (probably slightly misquoted) 'have you heard from my wife.....my frau?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUP5Vr0lBvY

Lonely guy just thinking baout things. And then punching wolves with shards of glass.

this movie was actually damn good. really daring ending too.

yeah, i liked it alot. refreshingly bleak!

the grey i mean

weakest parts of the movie were the really frenetic sequences e.g. fights w/ wolves. just so much cutting and shaky camera that it was impossible to tell what was going on (true to some extent w/ plane crash sequence too). otherwise a pretty lean, well-written film with a lot of visceral impact and a few stunning scenes.

xpost

yeah it's odd to see an avowedly athiest action movie, i mean this movie puts its money where its mouth is.

i hope this movie makes a lot of money, it deserves to.

did you stay after the credits?

everybody,when you see the grey, stay until after the credits.

i didn't...what happens?

*spoilers*

you know what would be really funny is if the whole plane crash was a ruse to get everybody's wallets

new 9/11 theory?

another BO hit for Neeson!

This movie was brought up in the new horror thread, too. It's an extremely versatile movie.

And clearly this poll needs a redux because I'm pretty sure Taken would run away with it now.

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i didn't...what happens?

― fuckhead (latebloomer), Monday, January 30, 2012 5:08 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ain't gonna tell you

Dammit Nicole lol I was just coming to post that youtube!

LN leaves outgoing VM message for some lady. Skip to 2:07 if you just wanna hear that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tJoNoOAY9Q

He's a good sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdgEq9b-Iog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIbGOx8zpm0

Just saw Taken last weekend--on FX, violence edited, maybe for the best. Was into it, and maybe enjoyed it now more than I would have in the 2000s. Would book into my arthouse on a double-feature with The Limey.

Taken 2 should be 90 minutes of Neeson explaining to the parents of the other girl from Taken just wtf happened to their kid, tbqh

That said I fully support this becoming a Death Wish-style series of increasingly ludicrous and outlandish scenarios for Neeson to do his thing.

TAKEN 5: LIAM NEESON'S WALLET HAS BEEN . . . TAKEN

directed by the moron who did Colombiana. has a phone speech like in the original, but it doesnt sound badass at all. expectations really low for this one

havent seen the trailers but i doubt they do the sheer racism and misogyny of the movie justice.

― ☪, Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:43 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds *~amazing~*

― pwner's manual (omar little), Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:44 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did not notice any racism or misogny but forgot to equip my liberal butthurt radar

― bnw, Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So why isn't the new one just called Retaken </dadjoke>

Holy shit, The Grey was pretty intense!

watched "taken" to see what the fuss was about and it was many times worse than i could have imagined

mercifully short though

havent seen the trailers but i doubt they do the sheer racism and misogyny of the movie justice.

― ☪, Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:43 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds *~amazing~*

― pwner's manual (omar little), Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:44 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did not notice any racism or misogny but forgot to equip my liberal butthurt radar

― bnw, Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:32 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

praise for A Walk Among the Tombstones from Peter Labuza:

How A Walk Among The Tombstones Gets The Apocalypse Right (Even If It Never Happens)

http://www.thecriticalpress.com/how-a-walk-among-the-tombstones-gets-the-apocalypse-right-even-if-it-never-happens/

thanks, enjoyed reading that.
i liked this film, and as you know i am a big fan of the source material.

saw him in a Season Three episode of "Miami Vice" as a moderate IRA guy who has slow sex to Patti LaBelle with one of the Vice squaders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMV7RLj1LiU

oh! What have we here?!

yeah, ian -- unfortunately the closest it's playing now is Baldwin, LI. :p

A Walk Among the Tombstones is indeed a solid genre thriller. Quite a bit of shooting in and near Brooklyn's storied Green-Wood Cemetery.

(btw not for those with a low threshold for gruesomeness / sadism)

noted, I was looking at it the last night but wasn't sure

Labuza blogpost above is otm, but you may want to read after. it mostly nails NYC geography, which is very unusual.

Like amateurist, I was curious to see how Liam Neeson would do as a superhero Bourne-like CIA action figure, so checked out a dvd of Taken and watched it tonight.

The action sequences and car chases all seemed to be deliberately chaotic and confusing montages, most likely to avoid having to carefully choreograph the scenes so as to make them realistic. Lazy. Very lazy. The plot could be written on a matchbook cover. The characters were all sub-cartoonish. If Liam Neeson weren't so watchable, I would not have been able to watch to the end.

I never saw Taken 3 & don't intend to, so I can keep imagining that it's about Neeson getting kidnapped and having to rescue himself.

Neeson's really good in A Walk Among the Tombstones, which has a lot of other things to recommend it as well -- it has a script that's better than it has to be, lots of nice supporting turns, including a pair of really despicable villains with no charisma and no motive beyond their own sadistic pleasure, and it seems to get NYC atmosphere down pat. the original ending, from what i understand of it, would make more sense and the way it finally doles out justice relies upon a single dumb decision by a character who's previously seemed pretty sharp. but definitely good for crime movie fans. it is *extremely* disturbing in the fates of its female characters, and i don't think it actually has a single major supporting female role in which the character isn't a mute victim or mute and bedridden. i'm not sure it's a flaw in this story, however; it kind of creates this world of selfish and evil men that is pretty palpable and gloomy. directed by Scott Frank, and a million times better than The Lookout.

THE COMMUTER is getting pretty decent reviews. it's another Jaume Collet-Serra joint, and his Neeson collabs have all been varying degrees of solid.

I don't begrudge him his 'crap thrillers' if no one goes to see Silence and A Walk Among Tombstones. Dude's gotta eat.

those are both outstanding. i was going to read the link you posted for AWATT upthread but it's gone. I said this better a couple posts ago but anyway i thought it was very good, definitely probably shockingly dark and grim to anyone expecting the usual Neeson thriller. The killers are perfectly despicable and uncharismatic losers and i always like a movie where a fundamentally decent hero acquires a morally suspect right-hand man (Dan Stevens in this case.)

tbh Neeson's PG-13 thrillers are better than most imo.

https://www.businessinsider.com/liam-neeson-says-horse-he-acted-with-before-recognized-him-on-set-of-new-movie-2018-10

kind of bemused about this

its v plausible a horse remembers neeson if only because of the size of his lad

walk among the tombstones is well done for what it is

Fucking hell

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/liam-neeson-interview-rape-race-black-man-revenge-taken-cold-pursuit-a8760896.html

that is... a v weird way to write up neeson's admission

I'm sure his publicist was thrilled to learn of this delightful left turn in the press tour

basically, movie stars stick around until they torpedo themselves

More importantly, who drinks tea from a flask?

did he think this was another ricky gervais bit

REPORTER: So was it fun working with so many celebrities on this film?

LIAM NEESON: I did 9/11

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) February 4, 2019

has anyone done a good "special set of skills" joke about this

i think it all stems back to how he was treated himself when he first landed in new york in the 1880s

Cold Pursuit is supposed to be super ill

the Slant review makes it sound interesting/hilarious, I feel bad for his collaborators that this seems likely to overshadow its actual release

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ransom, I can tell you I don't have money... but what I do have are [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] a very particular set of skills. Skills I have [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] acquired over a very long [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] career. Skills that make me a nightmare for [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it - I will not look for you, I will not pursue you... but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you... and I will kill you.

My advice to Neeson is to get really ripped and do a bunch of underwear ads. It worked wonders for Mark Wahlberg and, unlike Wahlberg, Neeson didn't actually hurt anyone.

seems like Neeson is confessing to some not-great thoughts and admitting weakness in that regard and saying he stepped back from it and tried to change his way of thinking? i mean it's a bit of weird timing and awkward but i don't necessary think it's particularly damning, unless i missed other bits in the piece or elsewhere.

I haven't seen anyone calling for him to be outright cancelled (though I'm sure it's happening in some corners), more just bafflement at the choice of timing and venue

I feel sorry for the co-star, sitting with him in that interview.

The reporting is a little "LIAM NEESON HATES BLACK PEOPLE" which... eh... I guess welcome to 2019

his telling has him going straight to "what colour was he" which is inexcusable

the rest of it is clumsy hardman retelling of a regretted reaction

didnt need to be blurted out to sell a movie

Barnesy reckons he deserves a medal.

Ah fuck it. That doesn't work.

https://news.sky.com/story/john-barnes-liam-neeson-deserves-a-medal-for-race-admission-11628709

I don’t know what the general reaction to this has been but “we are all unconscious racists” shouldn’t preclude ppl being weirded out by “did I ever tell you about the time I was gonna do a hate crime but luckily there weren’t any blacks around”

I feel sorry for the co-star, sitting with him in that interview.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

reminded me of this

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2011/05/25/trier_dunst2.gif

do ppl

rly believe

liam neeson walked around with a cosh for a fortnight looking for a likely looking black guy to batter

because

i dont believe that

nb this doesnt preclude it being a dumb thing to say in 2019

Yes, where do you buy coshes anyway?

Osh Cosh B’gosh

Coshcutters

Coshco

Ask the Express

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1082371/Liam-Neeson-cosh-what-is-a-cosh-meaning-weapon-Liam-Neeson-interview-news

WTF is a cosh anyroad?

Sorry for getting all pre-cosh on you, piscesx

It's a sort of lettuce eaten by Sean Connery.

darragh otm except the fantasy makes it worse if anything

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/360/1014/10/360_78b2f574ea6f1e504f394ff2d04e9225.jpg

Also nobody said they believed it

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It's a sort of lettuce eaten by Sean Connery.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, February 5, 2019 6:50 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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its not irrelevant

reacting to him saying a shit-thick thing as a theatrical hardman fantasy vs reacting to him actually going put and behaving in the manner described vs reacting to him actually having followed up and done it are all in the mix

only one is correct obv, the one im doing obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCf1xkf0cCc

That's narrated by Liam Neeson "doing a voice".

a cosh is what tintin is always getting knocked out with by a henchman

Liam Neeson in the Land of the Congo

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tap-on-the-head_tintin_870.png

but at what coshed

there it is

it's a good exemplification of the irrationality of racism isnt it. could actually have made a compelling little parable if people weren't so fucking eager to make it all about the person.

tbf all coverage of celebrities is about the person, primarily

actually, rephrase that with some long-winded pomo verbiage but you know what I mean

whatever the outcome of this is for neeson's career, at least we'll always have darkman

actually now i think about it that title might be a bit problematic

:D

yeah, guess it's on him for choosing such a awkward manner of telling the story

Right, so next time Liam N needs to draw on his experiences to look like he's after revenge in one of his movies, 95% of the viewing public will be all "ah, he's thinking back to when....."

Some people have said that Mel Gibson managed to turn things around, but I think this is a different thing.

mel gibson actually did say and do horrible things tho - neeson regretfully admitted to considering racial violence which he never acted upon, which is clearly not cool but not close to being actual real-life abuse

it's been a couple of days and I'm still utterly baffled by this whole thing tbh

xpost I did say that some people have said that Mel (etc), I don't know if he's back to being regarded well now.

Yeah, if L had said he went on the prowl for a day or something, that'd be one thing. A Week?

And seeing as no black people annoyed him sufficiently, did he get to the end of day five (weekends off) and say "ah, these people seem to be OK, really" and go home?

This seems much less bad than what Mel Gibson did. There is a huge difference between merely thinking about doing something racist/violent and actually acting racist/violent.

I doubt will affect Neeson's career a whole lot.

mel's back to directing best picture nominees so i think it's fair to say he's back in the ways which matter to him

it's a fuckin' weird thing for neeson to have said to a journalist but ultimately no-one was hurt and he acknowledges he scared himself with his obviously wrong thoughts, let's just let the guy get back to making his latterday-bronson manpunching movies in various eastern european locales

Gibson even gets to star in prestige genre movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QtpAuXKGu0

Yeah I mean this is one of the most blatant Didn't Happens ever and I'm sure Neeson thinks he was making a salient point about the human condition but good lord it was hamfisted.

Imagine being the PR guy in the room when Neeson gave that answer, or being anyone else involved in the film knowing it's dead in the water from the start.

Neeson's thought-crime confession doesn't even come close to the ugly record of Mel or Marky Mark.

I think a lot in the US are reacting to "black bastard" which admittedly sounds awful but it also a fairly common (albeit racist) English turn of phrase. At any rate Neeson seems to be stating his regret at these thoughts and this incident which is something. I don't think this is career ending given that fucking Mel Gibson makes movies.

id

look ok im irish btw so listen im with liam insofar as its appropriate here but

id prob like to note that the malicious glee hatchet job by the interviewer is a lovely exampke of the type of 'waiting for gotcha' shithousery that twitter loves and everyone else hates and yknow its v toxic inhuman behaviour

Hatchet job? Felt like they went weirdly out of their way to explore the "triggers behind that awful desire for violence" with psychologists.

yeah, if anything it seemed unusually anxious to exonerate him

which er obviously hasnae worked

Yeah I've said elsewhere a lot of the press seem to be euphemistically going with "Neeson in race storm" instead of "Neeson claims thoughts that are the dictionary definition of racist as fuck"

Will ye have a cosh?

Buzza!!1!

.........................did everyone forget about the multiple recordings of Mel Gibson........................................................

no

I think a lot in the US are reacting to "black bastard" which admittedly sounds awful but it also a fairly common (albeit racist) English turn of phrase

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/294626/large/kmd-blackbastards.jpg

it's definitely a bummer that Gibson is in the new Zahler

that anybody is willing to work with that fucker is super-gross

if it's just three hours of Gibson's face being dragged across concrete while Vince Vaughn pisses on the concrete slighty ahead of his face, I'm in

what the christ...it's 159 minutes long

def bummed out about Zahler working w/ Gibson, and defending it too. Gonna do what I can to see it without paying lol

Walter Chaw:

When a white man "confesses" to being racist without initiating a conversation about his path to understanding the innate bias that would have him instantly equate the deeds of one black man with the character of all black men--not to mention instantly turn a woman's victimization and tragedy into a story of his own crisis and redemption--what he's actually doing is providing a racist/sexist dog whistle for thousands of similarly-blinkered white men to say "but for the grace of God" and, "who among us?" Except I've never thought the actions of one minority spoke to the worth, for good or ill, of an entire race. Not even when it seems like every mass shooting in the United States--and there's a new one every couple of days--is carried off by a mediocre white man who's usually angry with women for somehow identifying that he's not worth shit. I have certainly briefly fantasized about killing specific individuals for wrongs done to me or my family, but I have also never carried a weapon to their door in hopes they'd open it. I want to think I represent the majority. When the hordes sharpen their pitchforks in defense of poor Liam Neeson, though, it's cause to wonder.

that one with the wolves is good

Neeson has all the elements of the "leading man type", a good build, a good deep voice, craggy handsome looks, a measure of athletic grace in his movement. His big weakness is his limited acting ability.

nah i disagree

hes a quiet actor but a fine one in the detail, imo

He's fine and subtle in Schindler's List, Rob Roy, Michael Collins, even better as a supporting actor. He was sinister and marvelous in Silence.

imo, he has no problem portraying his character's actions or expressions onscreen so that I understood what was supposed to be going on, but I cannot recall his ever drawing me into his character's feelings and perceptions so that I shared or participated in them at all. It's the difference between e.g. 'I see he's nervous' and 'I'm nervous for him'.

I don't think that's a demerit, really; it's a consequence of the characters he plays and the director's choices for framing those characters. Schindler's List works because the eponymous character's motives remain 90 percent behind a curtain.

that one with the wolves is good

― steer calmer (darraghmac), Monday, April 20, 2020 6:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Cold Pursuit?

A is for (Aimless) at 5:32 20 Apr 20

Neeson has all the elements of the "leading man type", a good build, a good deep voice, craggy handsome looks, a measure of athletic grace in his movement. His big weakness is his limited acting ability.

tbh he has a very particular set of skills

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Darkman was on Freeview last night. Saw the bit where he snapped that guy's finger in front of his gf because he wouldn't give her the fluffy elephant. That was good.

Neeson has all the elements of the "leading man type", a good build, a good deep voice, craggy handsome looks, a measure of athletic grace in his movement. His big weakness is his limited acting ability.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Lots of athletic grace on display in Darkman

More seriously (and from what Alfred us saying) he is an ok actor if he is given a cold, stand-offish kinda character. Probably the only mode he can work in (guessing it isn't an act).

Rewatched "Batman Begins" the other night -- still my favorite of the Nolan run -- and was reminded of how well Neeson can do "sinister", as Alfred mentions upthread.

I haven't watched the Taken movies, but doesn't he play a malevolent hero?

wouldve said that his real moments come when he gets to display easy/quiet warmth, tbh

yeah he's quite sexy as Judy Davis' lover in Husbands and Wives and Diane Keaton's boyfriend in The Good Mother.

range is fine but its not the measure of an actor

certainly not the type of actor that scorsese is gonna use, for instance

You're saying he's no Leonardo Di Caprio?

certainly not the type of actor that scorsese is gonna use, for instance

― steer calmer (darraghmac),

He did.

no i mean range is not the measure for eg a scorsese actor, etc

a thread

Love that there's like 20 separate photos of Liam Neeson pissing himself in public pic.twitter.com/q4xKmP8hm6

— jesus was a juggalo (@saint_porgy) January 2, 2021

This is elder abuse, paddywhackery, mockery of substance addiction, and running a serious risk of a visit from the bigfella himself

is it making you... pissed

there surely must be some medical issue going on here. I mean above and beyond being a drunk. I have pissed myself while drunk on the odd occasion but yer man Neeson does it often and seemingly without compunction. he's also not that old in a lot of those pictures, they look like they're from the about a decade ago when he would've been in his 50s. mind you he had just had a terrible and sudden bereavement around then, so fair dos

how did I foget Krull

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I'm hard.

How do sign up for this Mirrenization

We are a part of the Mirrenization.

QUI GON JIN!!!!!!

prick

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro

sounds like he is anti-prick

UPDATE: After initially declining to comment, Cannaday provided the following statement to Important Context:

We all recognize that corruption can exist within the pharmaceutical industry, but that should never be conflated with opposition to vaccines. Liam never has been, and is not, anti-vaccination. His extensive work with UNICEF underscores his long-held support for global immunization and public-health initiatives. He did not shape the film’s editorial content, and any questions about its claims or messaging should be directed to the producers.

Unless you'll have me believe that Liam recorded his narration one word at a time, out of order, I don't buy it.