25 years have passed since my one and only viewing of Robert Zemeckis‘ What Lies Beneath (7.21.00). I was thinking last night about giving it another watch, but then I dredged up some memories and went “naaah.”

Besides not liking it much, I was also kind of distraught over Harrison Ford having made one of the biggest mistakes of his career by blowing off the role of Robert Wakefield in Steven Soderbergh and Stephen Gaghan‘s Traffic, which was shot around the same time as the Zemeckis and opened six months later (12.27.00).

Michael Douglas played the Wakefield role…skillfully, effectively. I couldn’t understand why Ford would reject this kind of acting opportunity in order to play a deranged husband in a piece of shit like What Lies Beneath. Douglas was totally fine in Traffic, but Ford might’ve been even better…we’ll never know,