My absolute favorite Taken-related story is that when petition to support Polanski was being signed by celebrities and the like someone asked Luc Besson to sign and he refused, and I'm thinking, of course the guy who made Taken does that.

Ponyo's dad being voiced by Liam Neeson, soon after I had watched Taken, was sometimes a deeply weird experience…but he won me over when he said nature was out of whack, "look at the moon!" and it was right next to him. I have no idea why that one is so underrated.

Huh, it's listed as having a second season on imdb, and even JEH refers to the addition of Indira Varma and Janet Montgomery as happening in the second season in the interview above. Wait, is this one of those you hate the second season so much you deny it's existence things?

Third season you mean. Unless you mean the Rick Springfield version.

I love me some DJ Spooky. Amon Tobin as well.

The violence is the point of a movie like this—if it has other points, you can probably make the points with less violence—I kind of think the opposite, that if it got less silly and more naturalistic(?) and still so violent you'd end up with an even smaller cult.

I haven't read it either, actually, and yeah, as a precise description it wouldn't fit, but mutants as imperiled minority has always been a loose goosey kind of metaphor. The same way if Magneto was also intended, wouldn't a politically minded Erik Lensherr turn into a Zionist rather than necessarily a mutant activist?

Actually, I thought it was, what would Israel do with a nuclear option (Phoenix). While it has never officially announced nuclear capability, Israel is generally assumed to have it since 1967(?).

I actually have no interest in Mirror Mirror, but sometimes?  Or rather, I don't think the description "Tim Burtonesque" immediately implies ripoff, or even really Tim Burton. I think of Roald Dahl first. And I know Burton was involved, but Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline are more Henry Selick than Burton, and…

Hmmm…Mirror, Mirror actually sounds better now. Actual Tim Burton movies are kinda hacky.

I admit it's more the sentiment in the question then literally what I think SEALs should be spending time on that popped the question—that weird ambivalent space between enjoying "war" movies and respecting what war actually means. When reality mixes in, here with active duty soldiers prominently displayed or say the…

My respect for the Navy SEALs is such that since day one of the advertising campaign of this I've been thinking, "Don't they have more important things to do?"

Nope, it's an adaptation of The Borrowers, a book series that predates The Littles.

Gabriel Knight 3 did it, but seemed designed well enough that you could see almost everything if you really tried, and if you didn't the variations were just different scenes delivering the same information.

That second Gabriel Knight game, made when everyone thought live action was the way to go, was it any good?

Fate of Atlantis! I went with Wits until I messed up and just punched all the nazis away anyway.

Kinda ended up hating it because of that, and am appalled when people say they love it. I hit various points where I saw the puzzle (and the solution) far before it's introduced to you—Oh look locked chain link fence. Half an hour later of running around to be given the task of opening the fence and opening the…

I don't know, I think it became pretty noticeable when the The Hater and then Tolerability index became permanent parts of the site.

As other people have mentioned, the bit about not moving the camera is an awesome thing to read for a fight movie fan. No questions about the voice futzing though?

Wow, I actually thought the 3D was terrible, like it had to have been done in post. The framing was a cute/clever way to seque things, but the multiple planes effect during the dances themselves made it feel like peering at a diorama most of the time, and the things on screen discrete as opposed to sharing space. If…