omg the accent.

Ten minutes into the movie I knew I'd have to watch it again with the sound muted. Maybe strategically unmute for the couple of times he laughs out loud, but that's it. (Could probably have watched it with the sound muted the first time through too ... )

The accent was temporary. Not being particularly experienced with such things, I have no idea what it should have sounded like and from y'all's comments, neither did she. :-)

The movie was, well, it was a Lifetime movie. I have sat through a number of them over years for one reason or other (but never as good a reason as this ;-).

On the other hand, this was a very good role for him. Very different from other stuff he's done and he did it very well. He was nicely creepy, with a capital creep. :-) I must admit my favorite line was "Say AH". But maybe that's just me. :-):-)

He sounded like a bleedin' leprechaun. I was very grateful it was just part of the charming act that got dropped early on.

Michael Shanks is about the only reason I'd sit through one of those awful things. I worry that there are women who spend time watching those things for real because they sure would give you a very warped sense of the world. Frankly, I find them disempowering no matter how much the woman triumphs in the end because the view that all men are inherently untrustworthy unless they're, say, the dead husband seems to me like a new version of Madonna/Whore dichotomy, only it's about violence and applied to men. But, hey, people like those sorts of fairy tales with their clear lines of good and evil. Just not my cuppa.

I didn't find him creepy until he lost it at the end. OK, I cackled when he was taunting the senator about what people would think if he were killed with the senator's gun in the backseat in San Francisco. :) I wonder if he knew all the slashers would be highly amused. I know, he didn't care and doesn't give slashers a thought but I need my own fairy tales. ;-)

Once they let him totally lose it rather than walking the line between charming ladies' man and psychotic stalker, I thought he had something to work with and I thought he achieved a certain level of creepiness. The Lifetime formula worked against him there, though, because he had to be a cardboard bad guy for most of the time.

I do miss Daniel, though. I love my gentle soul geeks who only kill when it's necessary. It just so happens that's more often than you'd imagine ;-)

It's kind of you to give the scenario? the actor? the benefit of the doubt. The movie provided an excuse for the bad accent, and I'm happy enough to seize on it, but it's debatable whether it was a deliberate interpretation or the result of too little time to prep or be coached. Possibly it was a combination -- there wasn't a lot of time, and the director said hey, don't worry about it, the character's putting on the accent anyway and it's plausible enough that the judge wouldn't know a good one from a bad one. The kind of scumbag criminal that his rap sheet made him out to be might not be good at accents, but then again he might have quite a talent with them; I could argue that one either way. :-)

Jack Sullivan had similarities to the Ball Cap Man he played in Suspicious River, but with a lot more screen time. :-)

More Icon Love! Urgo! Those were the days when silly, one-off episodes were actually funny. *sigh*

I'd like to think it was lack of time and not "who cares anyway" film making because even if the thing is a piece of shit story-wise, I find myself wondering what the point is of doing a job only half-assed. Personally, I found the bad accent to be very distracting. The Lucky Charms sound undermined a character who was supposed to be smooth and sophisticated. (I cannot believe that I'm seriously discussing characterization in a Lifetime movie.)

Have you watched Suspicious River? I read a synopsis and felt it wasn't something I could enjoy or distance myself sufficiently from to watch it for the Shanks.

I watched suspicious river. Least I tried. I ended up skipping through it to cap The Non-Don Stunt Legs (tm) and a few of shanks. It was a rather depressing piece of slock.

Helena

Love the icon! I need to icon Dresden. *adds to really long list*

I really couldn't bring myself to watch it, despite its MS and DD content. Just. Could. Not. What the hell were they thinking, making that movie?

oh! you are a dresden fan?? EXCELLENT. I'm so in love with the show that I'm sorta adopting Terrence mann as a new Selmak Boy Toy - even though he doesn't appear to fit the general criteria of the other boys on my site.

Yes, he has a full head of hair.

Sigh.

It's the snark. he has the best lines. and the last two episodes I've gotten some major Harry!Bob vibes. And I'm not into slash as few people can write it properly - and they turn guys into females, you know?

As for the icon, I stole it off someone on the scifi.com forum.

I *am* a fan. It's due entirely to nialla42, though, because I wouldn't be able to handle the weird characterization jumps if she hadn't told me that the Sci Fi idiots are airing the episodes in an almost random order. WTF is wrong with them? Because she told me, I went ahead and stuck it out, knowing it wasn't the show's fault that shit didn't always make sense.

I love Harry and Bob. Or Harry/Bob. Or Harry. Or Bob. ;-) I'm enjoying them singly and together. Bob gives me Tim Curry vibes, which is a good thing in my book. :) I've come to enjoy Dresden more than BSG, such that I prefer having a rerun Drsden and a new Dresden to having new Dresden and new BSG. :| Never thought I'd say THAT. The series has made me want to read the books.

I'm looking forward to the addition of the first ever, er, Bald Challenged? Differently Haired?, Boy Toy. :)

well, I guess he fits the general age criteria of most of the boys, so he'll fit in :P

:) He should be honored. He's keeping fine company.

That accent was just....*shudder*

I haven't watched Lifetime in probably just over a decade so I was hoping that perhaps they'd finally moved beyond the Woman the Victim, Man the Victimizer formula. Once I accepted that I was to be disappointed, I could relax and enjoy the train wreck.

There is something to that old chestnut about misery loving company because knowing that jalabert was watching it, even if she was cheating and watching that Fake Archaeologist Josh and only peeking into the MS train wreck, made it better. "Oh! I thought he was a gigolo in this but he just raped her! Oh! He's a stalker, too! And a blackmailer!" By the time he got to murder, well, I was gleefully along for the ride. :)

Within the first twenty minutes, jalabert said to me, "You know he has to die, don't you?" Which, of course, I did but I was hoping for maybe a good death scene for MS to sink his acting teeth into but, alas, we didn't even get that.

On the shallow end, whoever did his lighting lighting an hair dye should be drawn and quartered but the person responsible for dressing him in yummy clothes (at least at the beginning) deserves kudos.

"Oh! I thought he was a gigolo in this but he just raped her!

Er, re-reading that now I thought I'd clarify "just raped her" was meant as "he just now raped her when I thought he was going to be a gigolo" not "Oh, he's just a rapist rather than an evil gigolo."

::nodnod::

I was kind of hoping for a minute there -- and I think we were supposed to be suspicious for a minute -- that the person who set the judge up was her old (female) friend. That would have been a somewhat interesting twist. But I gather that it would have subverted the Lifetime-movie formula a little too much. Ah, well.

::grins:: at you and jalabert. These things are definitely more fun with company. And I was surprised too, after hearing that he was going to play a 'male prostitute' (and I forget where that information came from now, but maybe it was deliberate misdirection away from the incredibly obvious set-up *g*).

Heh, about his death scene, I wondered if getting shot was as annoying as getting zatted. *g*

Yes, yummy clothes!!

I had so hoped they were going to leave the rails and have the female friend be one of the Bad Guys. Or turn the Victim of the Evening Movie into a personal growth as her judicial philosophy changed as a result of her experience or...something. Sadly, it was not to be. Perhaps my second clue -- after the network airing it -- should have been the casting choice of Anne Archer.

I think they deliberately misled us about his role. My cable DVR description described him as a gigolo. Now, yes, he hired himself out to put her in a compromising position but if Cancer Man is to be believed, the rape wasn't part of the deal so I suppose I'm supposed to believe Jack's comment about "You're so beautiful" is supposed to mean that he was so moved by her unconscious form that he raped her? Um, ewwww, and no, men don't rape because the woman is just too sexy to resist, and, and...damnit, this is why I don't watch their movies. They get this stuff all wrong.

What was my point? Oh yeah, the gigolo thing was a ruse. I anticipated an entirely different kind of movie but, hey, I'm shallow. I can enjoy the nice clothes, the little bit of skin (very, very little), and the opportunity for Michael Shanks to go wacko.

(And I am so not making the whole, "Michael is Jack and going wacko" jokes. Really. ;-) )