Filmography:
Grease 2 (1982): Mcdoanld burst onto the scene in his method portrayal of Goose Mckenzie, a bad boy with style. Most watch this classic sequel for a pre-Fisher Stevens Michelle Pfeiffer because seriously, things were never the same afterwards. She took the role in Grease 2 because she was looking for some more serious material after the laugher Scarface. She found it here because obviously Al Pacino is no Maxwell Caulfield (Who's that guy? :-0). Btw my personal favorite pre-Fisher Stevens Pfeiffer film has to be Married to the Mob because Matthew Modine has never made a bad movie. Look it up, the guy's batting 100 percent like Denny Crane in court (Wow, Too post-Fisher Stevens obscure?) Only Mathew Modine can turn an AIDs movie into a rousing romantic comedy where everyone goes home happy but in this case, everyone dies. Back to my main point, please try not get lost, I don't watch Grease 2 for Pfeiffer, I watch it for Mcdonald and the cleverly well written songs of course, such as We're Gonna Score Tonight (while bowling), Do It (not duet) for Our Country (in a war bunker), and Reproduction (while talking about reproduction). Mcdonald made Grease 2 the best sequel ever until Sly Stallone's Stayin' Alive came out one year later. Because when a woman wants to make love to you, there's only one action a man can take, and that is to STRUT!
Another Midnight Run (TV Movie - 1994): The first Midnight Run was so good and had such great finality to it (Seriously!) that the studio executives just had to make a straight to television sequel starring Mcdonald rather than De Niro because in all honesty De Niro cannot even imagine the emotional depths Mcdonald brings to each and every character he becomes (Run on sentence). Mcdonald was in 1 episode of Cheers, an American classic, whereas Bobby D. made a movie with Val Kilmer (all careers die with Val Kilmer unless your Macgruber where your career triples itself a thousand times in strength ex. Bridesmaids). Easy win for Mcdonald.
Happy Gilmore (1996): I will not talk about Shooter Mcgavin except it is the greatest performance ever captured on celluloid. This one character deserves it's own post by itself on a mantle where people can only look but can't touch. And I'll leave it at that.
Celtic Pride (1996): The true inspiration for this post as I just watched this classic for the hundredth time earlier today. Mcdonald gets to the heart of coaching professional basketball with his quote: "In basketball, you see the problem, you solve the problem, that's coaching." And that my friend is Oscar worthy. Well done sir, Well done. But Daniel Stern deserved better but after his bush whacking accident, well it's to hard to talk about (He strutted too). Maybe I'll tell you in the next three days.
The Perfect Storm (2000): Mcdonald brought some needed weight to a film that Dewey Cox just couldn't carry himself. I love pre-Will Ferrell John C. Reilly as much as I love John C. Reilly now. The way he caressed Jennifer Aniston's boob (That's Holden Caulfield, not Maxwell Caulfield, don't be greedy, you had Grease 2), the way he wanted to bang that heroin addict because he was lonely while Tom Cruise acted like himself on screen, the way he used to dance. Yes, that's what I miss most, I liked the way we danced (Too soon? A black man can't be God unless his name is Morgan Freeman but even the trailer gets me emotional). The real problem with The Perfect Storm is it had a cast, and a budget, and a script (notice my Steinbeck style with the repetitive "And") but it didn't have a title. Cue Christopher Mcdonald. He came in all serious, looked at a weather report and said, "A storm is coming from the left, and another storm is coming from the right, and a third one just appeared and my lord, they're all gonna merge at the center and create......THE PERFECT STORM!" -exact lines from film
61* (2001) His long goodbye. Mcdonald had a voice that could melt a woman's heart and used it to great effect in this true classic about America's pastime. This film was already classic as it starred Barry Pepper and you can never ever get enough pepper from the Pepper even if he's losing his hair. Thomas Jane hung on for dear life as these two heavyweights duked it out on screen. Jane ultimately was lost forever to a deep blue sea.
Christopher Mcdonald died shortly after the release of 61* . He knew his time was up so he left the way he came, abruptly. A fat man, however claiming to be a Christopher Mcdonald, has appeared on several T.V shows in bit parts over the last decade. I can neither confirm or deny if this man is telling the truth.
There you have it. I missed many films (Flubber) but I ran out of power and need be recharged for future posts.
Hope you were tickled a little,
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