Where Are the Women? Taken 3
When a franchise is built around the concept of a man coming to the endless rescue of his wife and daughter, you cannot expect a feminist utopia. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Liam Neeson
Taken 3 movie review: give it back
This is a movie as its own death wish. To call it cheap, lazy, and perfunctory grants it a dignity that implies there was another path it could have taken.
A Walk Among the Tombstones movie review: only mostly dead
Liam Neeson’s good performance only just elevates the general seen-it-before-ness, including a risible appropriation of women’s pain for men’s redemption.
Rage (aka Tokarev) movie review: Nicolas Cage’s public mid-career crisis takes a pathetic turn
Sporadically hilariously awful, but mostly cheap, amateurish and so distasteful it borders on the vile. Poor Nicolas Cage and his foundering career.
man I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with: Liam Neeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones
“Formerly a detective with the NYPD, now a recovering alcoholic haunted by regrets…” Oh, FFS, Hollywood, change the goddamn record already.
A Million Ways to Die in the West movie review: “nice guys” need to shut up
Director, producer, writer, and star Seth MacFarlane laments the epic romantic tragedy of Seth MacFarlane, who deserves a beautiful girlfriend because he’s “nice.”
Non-Stop review: your popcorn bucket doubles as a floatation device
There’s a delicious cleverness to this very silly but very entertaining flick.
A Million Ways to Die in the West redband trailer: oh [expletive]
I’m gonna be rooting for Liam Neeson to shoot Seth MacFarlane dead in this one.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Aug 31-Sep 06 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Taken 2 (review)
If this is any indication, Taken 3 will be nothing but Liam Neeson running around whatever European city ponies up the biggest tax credits, growling and beating up random swarthy passersby who look at him askew. It would be only a tiny step below this.
