I'm not a fan of Michael Douglas, and I really can't stand Joel Schumaker...who would've thought there would be a movie out there that involved the both of them that I actually didn't mind?
HBO ran "Falling Down" last night, and I caught all but the first ten minutes or so. It was pretty entertaining; Michael Douglas plays a conservative, right-leaning "average American" who gradually just snaps because of all the little things in life that piss us all off at some point -- gridlocked traffic, unfair convenience store prices, street thugs, etc. As he encounters these things throughout his day, he responds more and more violently. It's an interesting movie because Douglas is the "bad guy", yet you're made to feel for him, as he doesn't lash out until he is provoked.
It's not a good film by any means -- everything is horrendously overacted to the point of being unintentionally hilarious, and there are some pretty significant plot holes. But it was pretty entertaining and it kept my interest until the end, which is more than I can say for other efforts by either of the two aforementioned men.
Anyone else see this? (For reference, it originally came out here in the States in 1993.)
HBO ran "Falling Down" last night, and I caught all but the first ten minutes or so. It was pretty entertaining; Michael Douglas plays a conservative, right-leaning "average American" who gradually just snaps because of all the little things in life that piss us all off at some point -- gridlocked traffic, unfair convenience store prices, street thugs, etc. As he encounters these things throughout his day, he responds more and more violently. It's an interesting movie because Douglas is the "bad guy", yet you're made to feel for him, as he doesn't lash out until he is provoked.
It's not a good film by any means -- everything is horrendously overacted to the point of being unintentionally hilarious, and there are some pretty significant plot holes. But it was pretty entertaining and it kept my interest until the end, which is more than I can say for other efforts by either of the two aforementioned men.
Anyone else see this? (For reference, it originally came out here in the States in 1993.)