michael douglas
anybody else find his character wimpier and not so macho as in the 1st one?
shareI would have to agree and that is part of the reason the movie is so bad and it did so poorly at the box office(the other reasons being a bad script, poor direction, bad pacing, a toothless villian, and boring action sequences). The problem with his character arose at the end of the first movie, Jack let the crocodile who had eaten El Corozon go in order to attempt to save Joan's life(that he didn't succeed in helping her is beyond the point). His character has now done a selfless act. There is no going back to the way he was before. The problem is that they never came up with anything interesting for him to do and left him moping through the rest of the picture. Also, Douglas was a producer and he was pressured into putting the movie into production too quickly even though he knew the script was awful. I think some of that pressure and stress as a result of it showed up in his performance.
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This is a very funny film, I don't understand the running it down. It was one of the box office leaders in 85, what really made it suffer, was it had the misfortune of being released at the same time as another "awful" film, you may have heard of it, BACK TO THE FUTURE!
I saw JEWEL first, then BTTF, I own them both.
I actually think that Romancing the Stone was not as good as JEWEL. Jack Colton spent WAY too much time sulking because he wasn't rich through thievery? You have to sell DRUGs if you want to get rich, Jack. Or rip off investors.