Heh, after saying how much I liked his acting, a weird guy I used to work with was insistent that I watch another of his movies, which he insisted was Hauer's best work: Hobo With A Shotgun.
I didn't get more than about 20 minutes into it before I realized that if my wife came out and saw what I was watching, she might divorce me then and there on the grounds of being creepy and morally twisted enough to even watch something like that.
It is one of the few movies I have turned off and never seen the ending on. Another one was Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson.
I don't generally watch that kind of movie, and as a guy, I didn't need to have nightmares about some gal seducing me who was as good looking as Scarlett Johansson luring me into some black liquid killing zone, because there was a time in my life I might just have voluntarily followed her in a completely zombie-like fashion!
I didn't need that bouncing around inside of my head.
Hauer was really good in BLIND FURY - or maybe it’s BLIND JUSTICE - too. Okay it’s a sh*try B-flick but has a decent cast over all - Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb - and a good story. I don’t think he was ever too concerned about how he chose his roles wrt to where that would leave him for the next opportunity.