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.

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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..?

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

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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

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/386/lot/126282

https://i.imgur.com/HmE0p9G.jpg

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.