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I always despised Michael Douglas. And after seeing this movie again


I can only say I despise him even more. AWFUL AWFUL actor. And a real moron. "NucUlar". What a schmuck!

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unfortunately.

You don't watch many press conferences, do you?

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Better than psycho midge Mel Gibson

F aggot

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Nucular is an accepted pronunciation? It's a gross mispronunciation that some people, sadly including US presidents, use. That doesn't make it right. There is not a second U in nuclear. It's wrong. It is not acceptable. It always was wrong, and it always will be wrong.

We have a rich beautiful language. Languages evolve, but they should not evolve into stupidity.

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

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Ugh, I can't imagine the mentality that says pronouncing words incorrectly is acceptable unless one just chooses to be ignorant and uneducated.

I guess saying AXED is an acceptable replacement for ASK? I agree with you, people willfully dumbing down society.

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I don't despise him, but here he's not just overacting.
I'd say his whole character is based on beard and hair. Everytime Douglas gets angry, he slips his hand through his hair, touches the beard and then he yells. This reporter/cameraman will clearly be having a heart attack before 50.

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I know this is probably hard for you to understand, but Douglas is playing a *character* in a fiction film, and it's that character that is pronouncing it that way.

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No, he mispronounces it in a documentary he narrated, too. He wasn't playing a character then.

I don't even dislike him.

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

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I just watched this again for the first time in YEARS. And Michael Douglas bothered me so much in this film. I can't even remember if he bothered me when I saw it in the theater because the style was beards and long hair that blew in the wind....lol

Good grief, what a baby face he had. And Kimberly Wells hair? omg. how awful was that? I cannot remember that people wore their hair like that in 1979.

What a terrible hairdo. That HAD to be a wig.

All in all the fashions are dated and so 80s even tho it was 79, you can see what was coming for the 80s. But it was a big hit because of TMI. The movie came out first, then TMI happened and literally everyone wanted to see this movie.

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What was wrong with her hair? Seeing that I was 21 when this came out, I have a fondness for the styles of the 70s and 80s.

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Nothing was wrong with her hair. The 1970s were awesome, a hell of a lot better than the lame, uncreative fashion trends (if you want to call them that) of the last 30 years.

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Cameraman Richard Adams was supposed to be played by Richard Dreyfuss. But his price became too high after hit movies "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "The Goodbye Girl".

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To be fair, he was playing a bit of a jackass, so it may have been intentional. But I confess, "nucular" grinds my gears to a considerable extent.

"We're in the cular, Jed!"
"Don't you mean, 'in the clear', Todd?'
"Yes. I just can't say, 'cular', is that cular?"


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