Friday, February 17, 2012

The Grey

****Spoilers Below****
If you haven't seen the movie The Grey with Liam Neeson and want to, you may want to skip this post as it is bound to have some spoilers

Sidenote: I haven't had an art class since 6th grade...and even then I was not great.  However, I've kind of felt like drawing a little bit, so I figured I would try it out for the blog.  I would like to learn to draw better, so I figure the best way is to just draw a little bit...even if it is stick figures.  So below are some of my (awesome) illustrations.

Nearly every week, my friend Cam and I (and whoever else will join us) go to a movie.  This started with Billy Joes...and although we haven't found a good place to replicate that experience but we still usually have a good time - good movie or bad.


A couple weeks ago we went to see The Grey.  I think we all walked out thinking that it was an OK...nothing spectacular but a decent action flick.  The Grey is just full of horrible and disturbing situations to make the characters and audience feel uncomfortable. For example...



Isolation and loneliness in the middle of nowhere:


 A plane crash:


Possibly freezing to death:


Wolves:


Watching friends die and/or get eaten by wolves:


Lost in huge forest in the middle of nowhere:




But the scariest, most disturbing part of the movie:







Liam Neeson's Toe Thumbs.  I don't think Liam actually has toe thumbs (unless there was some kind of light saber accident on the set of Phantom Menace) but it definitely looks like he does.  Unfortunately, once you see them you can't stop seeing them.  They are forever burned in my brain and I think that will be all that I will now see of Liam.  Hopefully not.  I really enjoy him as an actor...but I don't like close ups of his thumbs.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

LMAO! I noticed his hands several movies ago. I think you see more into a person's personality when you see their hands (or feet). You know what tools they have been using all their lives. Neeson's hands, in particular his thumbs, are mysterious, rugged, and gentle. Show-casing them is best thing a director can do for amplfying the types of realistic, "against all odds" characters for which Neeson plays so incredibly well!

Anonymous said...

His thumbs are called brachydactyly type d , not as rare as you think, we with BDD even have a facebook page.

Anonymous said...

^^ Yes I am one of the members! https://www.facebook.com/groups/35970797484/