Posted on 04/03/2025 5:30:17 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Also, he was thinking of becoming a muzzie.
Don’t think he did, but he may have.
Same. I heard him make disparaging remarks along the lines of 'stupid American's and their guns' just after the success of the first "Taken" movie, where he portrayed an American father who used a range of firearms and other weapons to track down and eliminate scores of bad guys in the search to rescue his daughter from the kidnappers selling her as a sex slave.
I and hundreds of thousands other viewers saw that movie and applauded the representation of a father willing and able to do absolutely anything required to protect his daughter. Sure, it's a fictional tale, but it tells a story that is horrifying to fathers of young girls and lets us at least imagine that we could do the same in that situation because of the freedoms we enjoy in the USA.
Hearing Neeson spouting-off the way he did has forever ruined any affinity I had for watching any of his performances - past, present or future. It won't make any difference to him, but I feel better not supporting his work, even if the result means that I have to pass on movies that I might otherwise enjoy.
He grew up in Ballymena during the Troubles.
My father in law is from the same neighborhood and has Alzheimer’s. He frequently goes into a time warp where he can’t see us but is apparently interacting with people from his childhood.
We’re learning a lot from the flashbacks that he never talked about. Shootings in the street, home invasions, a kid burning to death in a fire started deliberately, “croppies lie down”.
Neeson has reasons for the American obsession with guns triggering him. I’d put money on it.
He’s done adverts for the Hallow (spelling?) app, but I’m not sold on him being Christian.
But he makes his major money off of playing people doing violence with guns in his movies. I can no longer stomach him.
I can't see him playing the part formerly played by Leslie Neilsen who had a face you would laugh at just seeing it.
I am told this is his actual tombstone:
Or Enrico Pallazzo.
"And the rockets' red glare ... bunch of bombs in the air ..."
Skeptical until the OJ reference. Now I’m in. Bring on Enrico Palazzo for the next generation.
Lloyd Bridges played Mike _NELSON_ on Sea Hunt when we were kids.
Also how history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes dept: Liam NEESON playing the role previously played by Leslie NIELSON.
Ireland and England as well as most of Western Europe has lost their d@mned minds!
Exactly how I feel.
lol... how fkn stupid!! But I think you’ll be wrong... for some reason, America has always loved stupid. look how far that queer Will Ferrel got playing a feminine asinine fool...
That seems like a plausible explanation. But whatever evil he experienced certainly hasn't stopped him from making a career representing violence. Weird.
We watched his show too. Leslie Neilson played Revolutionary War Hero Francis Marion in the mini-series titled "The Swamp Fox" that aired in 1959 on "The Magical World of Disney." I can still remember the lyrics of the chorus from the theme song.
(Chorus)
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox is at
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hiding in the glen
He runs away to fight again
(Verse 1)
Got no blankets, got no beds
Got no roof above our heads
Got no shelter when it rains
All we got is Yankee brains
(Chorus)
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox is at
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hiding in the glen
He runs away to fight again
(Verse 2)
Got no cornpone, got no honey
All we got is Continental money
Won't buy bacon, hominy, or grits
Rodent ears and possum is all we get!
(Chorus)
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox is at
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hiding in the glen
He runs away to fight again
Those Swamp Fox episodes are on youtube. Quality not that great but I loved that show as a kid.
LOL!!
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