Wade -- Just put Le temps qui reste on the top of my queue.

And I just saw Michael Douglas in Wall Street. The film has aged and Charlie Sheen is no great shakes. But Michael Douglas is great. Almost as good as Martin Sheen. Fun film and still a real grabber.

I haven't see Wonder Boys in years. But it has to be one of Douglas' best performances hands down. Or does it just seem that way because it is so very different than his other films? I wonder.

To me, Michael's the better actor. He always seems in character to me (even if he frequently plays the same kind of character: harried yuppie), while Kirk never did.

I will watch it again. But I suspect the performance is just as good as we remember it being. I always sort of liked Michael Douglas, sometimes very much (Wall Street, The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, It's My Turn)--but Wonder Boys trumped all his performances by a wide margin.

Michael is probably the better actor, but there's no substitute for Kirk (one of my all-time favorite movie stars). And there's never been a Douglas performance (Kirk or Michael) better than dad's in Lonely Are the Brave.

Michael Cimino's The Deerhunter packs a lesser punch today than it did in 1978. The story of the drinking buddies from a northern industrial town (probably soon to be part of the rust belt) who go to fight in the Vietnam war (that Russian roulette place) and have some harrowing and maturing experiences, is sensitively told. The performances are very good, especially those of Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken. The movie is long, 181 minutes, and the pace is slow, but judging from this movie no one could have predicted that the director was going to lay an egg 2 years later.

....First of all it didn't pack a wallop for me when I did see it in '78. I thought the movie was a bloated piece of egotistical nonsense.....