As if millions of brain cells cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…
Liam Neeson pivoted from offering condolences to the victims of the savage terror attack in Paris to a profane tirade against American gun run rights. “There are too many [expletive] guns out there, especially in America,” Neeson said, as he stood in front of a huge poster of himself holding a firearm.
To be honest I’ve loathed Liam Neeson since I first became aware of him, which was when my then-wife sat me down and forced me to watch Ethan Frome and then – to my complete perplexity then and now – demanded a discussion of its moral lessons. That may have been when I first noticed my wife had actually grown to hate me, and I’ve never quite forgiven Neeson for being a part of it. So technically, not his fault.
But he’s still an idiot because gun control, with extra points for hypocrisy.
We used to get the same with a Scottish nationalist who won’t live in Scotland because the taxes are too high, and who made his money glorifying state licenced psychopathic violence, but then produced cinema adds calling for Brits to be disarmed.
he was probably the worst actor to play bond.
Some Scots may have a genetic remnant that still lusts to swing a broadsword. Have you seen what one of those things could do? Talk about violence. 🙂 I’m too little to use a sword… but I do love to see movies like Braveheart.
But most of the folks with that genetic pattern moved out of Scotland a long time ago. What’s left is pretty pathetic.
I’m usually too much of a movie fan to boycott films because their actors, directors, or producers are political morons. Heck, if I did that, I wouldn’t have much left to watch.
I grit my teeth and go on watching many movies that feature self-righteous actors and actresses who prate anti-gun messages after mowing down everybody in sight on film.
I can’t even bring myself to boycott the biggest assh*le in all filmdom, Alec Baldwin.
But I’m really, really starting to reconsider in the case of Neeson. Gadzooks, he really has taken unreflective, missing-all-the-irony, anti-gun self-righteousness to a level even Baldwin would find … inspiring.
Oh, and I was so moved by the book Ethan Frome when I was a teenager. Had no idea anybody’d ever made a movie out of it. But yeah … I think if I had a life partner who demanded that I find some moral message in it (presumably, in the case of your ex, a message about what a terrible, wrong, bad person you are, Joel), that person would suddenly become only a part-of-my-life partner.
I do believe I’ll start my boycott of Neeson by skipping Ethan Frome. Not to metion all those Taken flicks I’ve already handily skipped just because they sounded so idiotic.
… best known for portraying an American vigilante murderer …
I thought it was either Schindler’s List, or Clash of the Titans he was best known for. Must be a generational thing. What’s really scary, and I wasn’t aware of this until just now, is that there’s a sequel to Clash of the Titans. I’ll have to look that up, as it’s bound to be so bad as to be somewhat enjoyable. I’ve always wondered why he did that film, which is on par with wondering why Connery did Zardoz.
I have been boycotting George Clooney films ever since that incredibly tedious disaster called Perfect Storm. I also boycott Tom Cruise, except that a neighbor loaned me Valkyrie, and I admit that was worth watching.
Did not know that about Neeson. Guess I won’t be watching any more of his movies.
Did not know that about Neeson.
David Codrea’s been covering it for some time now.
I get DVDs from the public library and watch them on my computer (with VideoLAN, aka VLC, which is free and plays everything). I think the last movie I watched in an actual public theater was one of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I haven’t even plugged in a television set since before the digital changeover.
Mamaliberty all I can say is you’ve evidently never been in Glasgow on a Saturday night! Or in fact seen Scotish soldiers in action.
Not sure that bat shit crazy is the same thing, wibble. I’ll grant you that the genetic deal is questionable in this, but I did watch the insanity going on with the Scottish “independence” vote, and I certainly didn’t get the impression that very many there were interested in liberty, let alone swinging a broadsword for liberty. Seemed to me that they all wanted to be at the steering wheel all right, as long as the bus was taking them to greater socialism.
My father’s people came from the Scottish Highlands in the mid 1800s… But no, I’ve never been there so I very well could be wrong. I was mostly being a little facetious. 🙂
Mamaliberty, so was I. Yes many are actually bat shit crazy and madly in love with socialism. It’s why the rest of the UK didn’t want them to go independent. Imagine having a bunch of socialist spongers on your doorstep, it’d be like say if California went socialist and was inundated with ilegals and social security spongers…………… 🙂
There are those who know full well that gun control (followed by gun confiscation) is absolutely essential before you can subugate all the people and thus allow full takeover peacefully if possible and by force if necessary. After all who really thinks it woud be possible to suddenly sieze power in a country of 330 million people where all or almost all are armed and many with multiple guns? Then there are those people who are simply useful idiots and never really dug into the whole gun thingy but since so many of their peers object and since only those ‘icky’ redneck conservatives seem to be for them then they must be bad.
I guess I generally put such little stock in the opinions of people who make their living pretending to be someone they are not (essentially professional liars), that it has never bothered me what asses most actors are in real life, nor what opinions they hold. Hypocrisy is almost by definition the norm for them, isn’t it? After all, almost none could do only roles that fully expressed what they actually believed.
It *does* bother me that so many people give a rat’s ass about their opinions, but that isn’t exactly something I can blame on them, even though they seem to think it is somehow justified… Just more proof that we are already down the tubes as a nation.
I agree with Mark mostly, although I have occasionally declined to watch a movie just because it had that asshole Alec Baldwin in it. I didn’t know about Neeson. I think he did a great job in Schindler’s List, although I wonder who butchered the ending which was (as I understand it) completely false: apparently the Nazis at the end had the job of killing all the rest of the surviving Jews, but the film showed that they were dissuaded by a good speech. I had read that the real reason they were dissuaded was that enough Jews had managed to arm themselves. Imagine that!
Most of the time, when an actor speaks up like this, they sound like idiots and hypocrites enough that I think the effect is the opposite of what they hope for. So it does not concern me much.
The list of Hollyweirds to boycott just gets longer and longer. Neeson, Paltrow, Rogen, Michael Meyers, and a dozen more I can’t bring to mind just now. Next thing I know Matt Damon will join the cuckoo nest, and his bud Brad Pitt might too. Who knows – will Angelina give money to some anti-gun agenda? They’re ruining cinema for me. Someone please make them stop!!!!