Saw Taken 2 last night. Really not Good. The only redeemable moments for me were a couple of okay fights and some close-ups of Neeson's world-weary and totally dreamy blue eyes.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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Scrappy - Oct 07, 2012 9:56:12 am PDT #22638 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2012 10:20:43 am PDT #22639 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What, specifically, are you doing to get that, Tom?
I wish there was a proper thread to discuss picture-making things.
billytea - Oct 07, 2012 10:24:37 am PDT #22640 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Saw Taken 2 last night. Really not Good. The only redeemable moments for me were a couple of okay fights and some close-ups of Neeson's world-weary and totally dreamy blue eyes.
Did they set things up for Taken 3: And Your Little Dog, Too?
Tom Scola - Oct 07, 2012 10:25:54 am PDT #22641 of 30000
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Desaturating the colors, adding a layer of sepia, and the Tonal Contrast filter in Color Efex.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 07, 2012 12:31:52 pm PDT #22642 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Did they set things up for Taken 3: And Your Little Dog, Too?
Ha! When I saw the trailer in the theater a few weeks ago, I immediately thought Taken 3: Honey, Have You Seen the Dog?
le nubian - Oct 07, 2012 12:54:57 pm PDT #22643 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Critics panned Taken 2 and yet I think it made $50 million this weekend.
Damn.
Connie Neil - Oct 07, 2012 2:53:50 pm PDT #22644 of 30000
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People just want to see Liam Neeson kick ass. There are worse ways to spend a few bucks.
Scrappy - Oct 07, 2012 2:55:02 pm PDT #22645 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Connie speaks truth.
le nubian - Oct 07, 2012 3:11:59 pm PDT #22646 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
But Taken was bad.
Point taken.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2012 3:20:47 pm PDT #22647 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay--I get what was confusing the shit out of me with Looper. Two things: 1. you can't affect your own past. So even if you do something that means old Joe never goes back, or whatever, your past won't change. And, secondly, the timeline works both singly (young Joe scars old Joe's arm) and multiply (old Joe sits down for breakfast with young Joe as a result of the scar) at the same time. I most definitely do not get why it takes suicide to wrench the future away from killing Cid--surely the realisations young Joe has along the way, getting clean early, bonding with Sara and Cid--don't those change that precise future Joe enough that a) he might not meet the Chinese woman who doesn't rate a voice or a name and she certainly doesn't need to clean him up from the lamest DTs ever and b) plain has had enough epiphany he won't kill the kid he likes (even if he hasn't quite grown enough to not kill a kid he doesn't know)
And then there are the non-time travel WTFs, but whatevs.