I kept my mouth shut about this when I first heard about it, but I can't stand it any more.

From Wolfe Video's newsletter:

--This Submarine has some hot Sea Men! "Highlander" hunk Adrian Paul is currently filming TIDES OF WAR, in which he plays a gay naval sub commander on a covert mission who is having an affair with another commanding officer, played by none other than "Six Feet Under" star Mathew St. Patrick. The film also stars "The Shield" hottie Catherine Dent!

There's so much room for mockery in that I don't know where to start.

One assumes that a movie that aspires to a more rounded level of entertainment than, say, gay porn requires...acting. (I'll stop there, mindful that I have otherwise intelligent friends who seem inexplicably unable to share my opinion of AP.)

Anyhow, I understand the movie will be shown on some channel I don't remember the name of and hadn't ever heard of when I did.

Nor, quite frankly, would I have been inclined to turn the movie on, no matter who it starred.

Those exclamation points in the description are probably what reminded me of gay porn, not to mention the "hunk" and "hot sea men" and the "hottie" woman. That description has, "Please don't watch me" written all over it.

(Can't help it. I have to ask. What on earth makes people keep casting that man and why? There are a lot of people with talent in Hollywood.)

(Also, I have to wonder if his appearance in this role is the indicator of a career going down for the third time that it appears to be.)