When the film started, I sort of marveled at how absurd it was–Joel Schumacher and Michael Douglas making a subversive movie, then I quickly realized Falling Down isn’t subversive… it’s “controversial.” Obviously, Schumacher doesn’t have a controversial bone in his body–and neither does Douglas–so Falling Down gets repetitive and boring before too long. I suppose […]
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The China Syndrome (1979, James Bridges)
December 13th, 2005 · No Comments
Silly attempt at a Pakula-style paranoid thriller collapses under its own importance. Michael Douglas stars in the film–probably one of his first high profile roles–and produces it too. China Syndrome proves who’s responsible for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (if it wasn’t Kesey) and it isn’t Douglas. Syndrome doesn’t have a firm protagonist, it […]
Tagged: Columbia Pictures· Jack Lemmon· James Bridges· Jane Fonda· Michael Douglas· Mike Gray· T.S. Cook· Wilford Brimley· ★
The Game (1997, David Fincher)
November 27th, 2005 · No Comments
I don’t know what possessed me to watch The Game again, probably my access to the DVD, but even so, I don’t know what possessed me to finish watching it. It’s fairly atrocious early on, once it becomes obvious that no reasonable human being could identify with Michael Douglas’s character. He’s playing a lonely, depressed […]
Tagged: David Fincher· John Brancato· Michael Douglas· Michael Ferris· Polygram Filmed Entertainment· Sean Penn· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
