>> ^enoch:

im with A_C.
the word "contrived" is a perfect word to use in describing the first movie.
though i would not say i hated the first, i will say it was chock full of ..meh.
the trailers are all you really needed.
they were freaking AWESOME!


I just found it enormously enjoyable action nonsense. And Liam Neeson is so fucking cool he just pulls it all off magnificently.


Things I love about Taken - SPOILERS;



The way his "17 year old" daughter runs to convince us she's 17.
He kills half the Albanian gang presence in Paris.
He gives his daughter a mobile phone without a charger.
Shooting the wife of his ex-colleague - I was just gobsmacked by that.
Neeson's running. He can't actually run so it's just as well people come at him.
Whatsherface as a megastar popstar which seems a slightly cruel bit of casting.
The fact that he NEVER reloads in the film - he just picks up new guns.

And of course that speech on the phone. It doesn't get better than that in my opinion.

Although slightly cruel, there are enough of us able to downvote to discard it that way.

However, under the circumstances of self linking being a bannable offense, I think having a video downvoted to oblivion is better then a ban.

While I am of the mind and conviction that sometimes cats just need to be washed... (another catastic example: when mine were kittens they had this unfortunate habit of crapping on one another in the litter box, like it was some sort of group activity, for a while there, I was bathing them at least every other day), I do think that this is probably more cruel than doing it yourself... at least when I have to wash one of them (I recommend suiting up in a thick wool long sleeved shirt and heavy rubber gloves), I am right there with her, talking to her, petting her, and generally keeping her calm. They're pretty good at dealing with it, to some extent, and after the initial shock of the water they tend to relax a bit and not fight back... by the end of the experience they're usually pretty sedate, the one even lets me use the blow drier on her (a must as her massive amounts of fluff will mat otherwise). They're never happy about it, but they deal (although the small neurotic one has a habit of grabbing the faucet with her front paws and holding on for dear life- so heartrending!- fortunately she usually keeps herself OCD clean).

With this thing however, poor kitty is just all alone in the box, and seems much more agitated than mine ever get over the ordeal... so I can't help but think that it is slightly cruel... although for some cats (my brother's for instance, who was a stray who decided to live with us and barely lets us pet him let alone pick him up or bathe him), a device like this would be useful if it had to be done.