EWW. I'm proud to say that I have never liked Michael Douglas in anything. (I did like Corey Feldman playing him in "Fatal Attraction: the Play" but that's as close as I've gotten.)
Yeah, I have been watching a lot of crap, haven't I? On the plus side, I've discovered "Home for the Holidays," "Stormy Monday" and "Extremely Dangerous," all of which I like very much, and wouldn't have known about without Netflixing everything by certain actors. So it's worked out.
Oh yes and "GoldenEye," which I didn't so much like as found incredibly hot in a slashy way. It let to some good fic, so that counts, too.
Well, War of the Roses was funny, and he played an asshole in it so it was palatable and fitting...the humor good largely due to it being a Danny Devito movie, of course. He does(did) have chemistry with Kathleen Turner, though, so carrying that into WotR and turning it around to a hate thing worked well.
Falling down was good because I liked the idea of the character just freaking out like that...but it could have been played by anyone.
It's been a while since I saw The China Syndrome. I wonder what I'd think of that performance?
I think we have thereby concluded that he's famous because of his dad, and who the hell knows why he's done better than his icky brothers.
I think Michael Douglas is a pretty good actor when he's doing his thing, which is basically being the onscreen incarnation of the self-absorbed baby boomer male (Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, etc). Kind of like Alec Baldwin, he's miscast as a sympathetic good guy.
Hmm, maybe. Watching him vanquish Sean Bean was just wrong. It so should've been the other way around; perhaps Michael Douglas would have worked as a bad guy.
I haven't seen "Henry VII" or "Tom & Thomas" or "Caravaggio" or "Anna Karenina." I'm limited by Netflix. *sob* We should so have a Bean night. ;)
I did see Troy, but that was before I cared who Sean Bean was, so it's in my Netflix queue to see again. (And to fast forward through everything but Sean Bean; damn, that was a bad movie.)
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I think I only liked michael douglas in romancing the stone, war of the roses, and falling down. he got ridiculously icky after that.
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Yeah, I have been watching a lot of crap, haven't I? On the plus side, I've discovered "Home for the Holidays," "Stormy Monday" and "Extremely Dangerous," all of which I like very much, and wouldn't have known about without Netflixing everything by certain actors. So it's worked out.
Oh yes and "GoldenEye," which I didn't so much like as found incredibly hot in a slashy way. It let to some good fic, so that counts, too.
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Falling down was good because I liked the idea of the character just freaking out like that...but it could have been played by anyone.
It's been a while since I saw The China Syndrome. I wonder what I'd think of that performance?
I think we have thereby concluded that he's famous because of his dad, and who the hell knows why he's done better than his icky brothers.
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I did see Troy, but that was before I cared who Sean Bean was, so it's in my Netflix queue to see again. (And to fast forward through everything but Sean Bean; damn, that was a bad movie.)
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