Subject: hmph
I just watched The Seventh Sign, and you guys are on your own with that one. It's the kind of thing I think I ought not to like because I can list 5 major complaints about it in a heartbeat - but I enjoyed watching it anyway and would be happy to see it again. And I don't even like Demi Moore, and THAT didn't even bother me this time.
I can't say anything meaningful about Prochnow's performance without ruining the whole movie, but actually I'd have to see the whole thing again to make up my mind about that. It seemed like he was way too understated, so he wasn't as interesting as he could have been; on the other hand, I'm not sure he could have played it up much more without either losing the integrity of the character or taking most of the suspense out of the plot. I wouldn't have minded seeing the director poke him with a cattle prod here and there, but better too little than too much. Chewing the scenery in this role would have been an awful mistake.
My new idea of a good time would be to get him and Al Pacino together. You'd be bound to end up with a pretty good comedy no matter what was in the script.
Subject: And the other thing
you need to do is watch The Seventh Sign, if for no other reason than to marvel at what a sorry job they did of lighting Jürgen Prochnow. The only time he looked good was in the outdoor scenes in natural light. I wanna find out who was responsible and get him a job on the next Kilmer flick. It'll be an Oscar-winning film.
sheesh, The Seventh Sign must be someone's homage to all of Mom's bad vacation snapshots...
[The remark about Val Kilmer is a reference to The Kilmer Principle: the worse Kilmer looks in a movie, the better the movie is.