taken – Moe Lane

And now, a brief break…

…for a scene from one of the best damn samurai flicks of the last decade:

That’s it. Nothing else. No deeper message. Just Liam Neeson abruptly stopping being ronin.

Movie of the Week: The Wizard of Oz.

It was going to be Taken, but I did that one already. So it being Wednesday: farewell to Village of the Damned, and hello to the 70 year old The Wizard of Oz.

And what was wrong with Clash of the Titans?

Apparently Liam Neeson – who, again, did a great job in Taken – is going to be playing Zeus in the remake. Why we need a remake of Clash of the Titans in the first place in not mentioned; I’m still scratching my head over that.

I mean, come on: that’s some fine stop-motion animation there. And you know that they’re going to CGI the new one, and you know that it’s going to suck, and you know that I just sounded like every other aging geek on the Internet, so I’ll stop now.

Introducing Movie of the Week.

Someone suggested that I start doing these, along with Book of the Week. I’ll probably update this one on Wednesdays.

Anyway, we’ll start off with Taken, which is coming out on DVD in a few weeks: as I noted at the time, it’s a pretty good samurai flick. With guns.

My highly amateur review of Taken.

Short version: very good Samurai flick.
Continue reading My highly amateur review of Taken.