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Oct. 11th, 2008 11:35 pmI just finished watching a movie called Taken, which is out in the UK right now but apparently not scheduled to open in the States until next year. I watched it partly because it has Liam Neeson. I still have a soft spot for him from back in the days when I thought Qui-Gon Jinn was the best thing ever. I think I still have my Qui-Gon doll somewhere. (You know, in retrospect, the fact that I kept going for the fatherly characters and ignoring the ostensibly hot younger male characters should have been A HUGE FUCKING CLUE. But I digress.) Also, yes, Liam was in the Les Mis movie from 1998, part of which I watched this morning. I will probably get back to it. And then bitch about it. So I was in kind of a Liam-y mood.
But most of the reason? This trailer. This is an awesome trailer. I don't usually pay much attention to the quality of trailers themselves, but this one got me.
In reality, the movie kinda sucks. It's offensive on about twenty different levels and there is no actual logic to the plot and while I did watch the whole thing through (because "JEAN VALJEAN FUCKS EVERYONE'S SHIT UP" actually works eerily well as a plot summary: just pretend the kidnapped girl is Cosette. It's set in Paris! And he runs from the police!), I can't bring myself to recommend it.
I recommend the hell out of that trailer, though. Just pretend it's a story all by itself. I just watched it again, and now I'm all pissed at the movie for not living up to it. AND I'm pissed at it for not being based on a book that I bet would have been awesome, so I could at least have read that.
But most of the reason? This trailer. This is an awesome trailer. I don't usually pay much attention to the quality of trailers themselves, but this one got me.
In reality, the movie kinda sucks. It's offensive on about twenty different levels and there is no actual logic to the plot and while I did watch the whole thing through (because "JEAN VALJEAN FUCKS EVERYONE'S SHIT UP" actually works eerily well as a plot summary: just pretend the kidnapped girl is Cosette. It's set in Paris! And he runs from the police!), I can't bring myself to recommend it.
I recommend the hell out of that trailer, though. Just pretend it's a story all by itself. I just watched it again, and now I'm all pissed at the movie for not living up to it. AND I'm pissed at it for not being based on a book that I bet would have been awesome, so I could at least have read that.