"Oscar can go fuck himself"

This year, he can!

To me, Liam Neeson = Ethan Frome. I'm not interested in seeing the man be anything other than a tortured soul torn between passion and duty. However, I will also accept him as a medieval lord. But, that's it.

This is the kind of movie that is only possible because of CGI. Airliner movies were always pretty dorky, because it was obvious the exteriors were fake and the interiors on a soundstage instead of in a fuselage. Now that technology exists to make exciting exteriors with burning & tattered planes, studios feel compelled to make movies using that tech. Of course, the vast majority of action movies have horrendous scripts, regardless of the setting. CGI has just expanded the settings for shitty movies.

I'll pretty much watch Neeson in anything (well, except Taken 2, fuck that shit), but it still aggravates me that he only makes bad movies these days.

That "texts on the screen with no voice-overs" style was also very effective in Fruitvale Station. I agree, Paul. It's a clever way to display it.