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[CardsofSTL]

not only is american democracy dying, this looks [expletive] awful

I am a big fan of Liam Neeson but this is not right.

[mikechamp]

Oh no.

Can they not release that? That looks horrible.

[The Third Man]

Best movies are old movies.

Uh oh. @CardsofSTL is showing their age.

I first started posting on forums when I was around 16 (including our old STL Post-Dispatch forums) and everyone always thought I was like 35 because I kept asking people about Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson films. Anyway I'm 36 now, good to catch up to my age in taste.

[heyzeus]

Oh no.

Can they not release that? That looks horrible.

Woof.

[ghostrunner]

I thought Neeson was great casting for the part when I first heard about it, but yeah that does not look good.

[Jocephus]

I thought Neeson was great casting for the part when I first heard about it, but yeah that does not look good.

That was my thought. Well, my first thought was "this is completely unnecessary, not needed or wanted" but I did think Liam could at least pull off the straight man vibe while wackiness was happening around him but that just looks like awful, at least from the trailer.

[AdmiralKird]

Neeson is a terrible casting for this.

A couple of years ago I went to read the actual The Phantom Menace script for whatever reason. When I came to the parts that had Jar Jar Binks, one thing lept out at me on the page that I had not imaged: the Jar Jar Binks introduction was actually funny. After going back from the script to the movie, the biggest problem was Neeson. It is written as a buddy cop comedy, where Neeson is supposed to be bouncing one liners off Ahmed Best playing Binks as if it was Chris Rock and Jackie Chan in Rush Hour. But Neeson plays the role as dismissive, condescending, and fed-up. It ruins the interaction, and the way he plays the elder Jedi, it makes you hate Binks because his character hates Binks. Liam Neeson just does not have comedic timing. Upon doing further research, I ran into a sketch Ricky Gervais did about this:

[ghostrunner]

Neeson is a terrible casting for this.

A couple of years ago I went to read the actual The Phantom Menace script for whatever reason. When I came to the parts that had Jar Jar Binks, one thing lept out at me on the page that I had not imaged: the Jar Jar Binks introduction was actually funny. After going back from the script to the movie, the biggest problem was Neeson. It is written as a buddy cop comedy, where Neeson is supposed to be bouncing one liners off Ahmed Best playing Binks as if it was Chris Rock and Jackie Chan in Rush Hour. But Neeson plays the role as dismissive, condescending, and fed-up. It ruins the interaction, and the way he plays the elder Jedi, it makes you hate Binks because his character hates Binks. Liam Neeson just does not have comedic timing. Upon doing further research, I ran into a sketch Ricky Gervais did about this:

George Lucas has directed some of the worst performances ever from talented actors. Almost everyone in TPM is terrible. Not going to hold that against him.

[CardsofSTL]

[mikechamp]

Does that mean The Man of Steel is sitting on top of a grain elevator in East St. Louis?