# What is the general feeling on Steven Seagal now a days? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271 "2006-04-19T08:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fishquail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90db22/32.png) [@fishquail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishquail)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/1 "2006-04-19T08:09:34Z")
So what is the general feeling about Steven Seagal in this day and age? ---
**Author:** ![Melkor28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Melkor28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melkor28)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/2 "2006-04-19T08:23:29Z")
He’s fat, and washed up! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/3 "2006-04-19T08:36:40Z")
> [@Melkor28](#): > > He’s fat, and washed up! 😛 Word. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/4 "2006-04-19T11:00:32Z")
Since the OP needs informed opinions, let’s move this to IMHO. **samclem** ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/5 "2006-04-19T11:02:48Z")
Same as always: Crappy actor who bullshits a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/6 "2006-04-19T11:23:09Z")
Three words: Straight. To. Video. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/7 "2006-04-19T11:28:40Z")
Doofus. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/8 "2006-04-19T12:29:17Z")
His movies are 90 minutes of ass. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/9 "2006-04-19T13:46:05Z")
There’s a great drinking game you can play in his movies- whenever Mr. Seagal strikes a pose for the camera (and he does it often), you have to take a shot. You’ll be drunk before the opening titles have finished, and if you can make it to the end credits without a blood alcohol content that would fell a rhinoceros, then you deserve some kind of medal, as well as free rental of movies that don’t suck so much. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/10 "2006-04-19T13:48:02Z")
> [@Martini Enfield](#): > > There’s a great drinking game you can play in his movies- whenever Mr. Seagal strikes a pose for the camera (and he does it often), you have to take a shot. > > You’ll be drunk before the opening titles have finished, and if you can make it to the end credits without a blood alcohol content that would fell a rhinoceros, then you deserve some kind of medal, as well as free rental of movies that don’t suck so much. I can’t think of a better way to end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. Seagal mugs for the camera a lot. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/11 "2006-04-19T14:14:06Z")
[He gives me that “not-so-fresh” feeling & he tastes like ass!](http://www.xoxide.com/lightning-bolt-asian-experiance.html) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/12 "2006-04-19T14:14:20Z")
I think that he wouldn’t be held in such low contempt if he lost 50 or 60 lbs. But then again, he may. What rankled me was his trying to cover up his fatness in that movie from 2001, or whenever, when he was in prison. All through it he was wearing some robe-like overcoat. Boy, that sure fooled me into thinking that he was still in shape! hh ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/13 "2006-04-19T14:25:07Z")
Yeah he would. He comes across as obnoxious, even in his movies. I mean, lots of actors are probably plenty obnoxious, but they can at least hide it behind a facade when they’re in front of a camera, especially when they’re playing a character. He can’t. I swear it must’ve been in his contracts that at some point in his movies, a character will refer to his character as the biggest, baddest motherfucker/badass (depending on rating) they’ve ever met. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/14 "2006-04-19T15:52:43Z")
Here’s something interesting about Segal: in all of his fight scenes, he never gets hurt. Other action stars, they get bloodied, shot, bruised and generally messed up (Bruce Willis is especially good at getting the crap kicked out of him); but our Steve, he’ll get through the entire movie with nary a scratch. He’s JUST THAT TOUGH. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/15 "2006-04-19T16:23:04Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Three words: > > Straight. To. Video. Yes, but his latest “movie”, while having a three word title, has more than one syllable in the first word! Totally different! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/16 "2006-04-19T16:27:51Z")
For some bizarre reason, he still has some measurable level of popularity over here (maybe because he speaks halfway decent Japanese), so there are actual ads right now for his latest (straight-to-video) movie release. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/17 "2006-04-19T16:29:42Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Here’s something interesting about Segal: in all of his fight scenes, he never gets hurt. Other action stars, they get bloodied, shot, bruised and generally messed up (Bruce Willis is especially good at getting the crap kicked out of him); but our Steve, he’ll get through the entire movie with nary a scratch. He’s JUST THAT TOUGH. Eh, almost. In _Hard to Kill_ he got punched in the mouth. He turned, spit out some blood, and said, “Is that all you got boy? Cause if that’s all you got, I’m just gonna have to kill you.” He then kicked the guy’s ass, who happened to be a namby-pamby senator with zero fighting skills. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/18 "2006-04-19T16:37:36Z")
Well, it doesn’t matter that he’s not much of an actor, now that we know what a fantastic musician he is! Who didn’t love _Songs from the Crystal Cave_? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/19 "2006-04-19T16:46:24Z")
Wasn’t this actor mixed up with the mafia at some point? Or am I thinking of someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271/20 "2006-04-19T16:55:45Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > Wasn’t this actor mixed up with the mafia at some point? He has claimed that, yes. He has also claimed to have been a CIA agent, the reincarnation of a lama Buddhist something-or-other, and actually good at fighting in real life. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-general-feeling-on-steven-seagal-now-a-days/353271.md?page=2)