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i haven't seen this movie but i find it weird that he's holding her in the air above the subway tracks. that's just not safe.
― da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Bill Paxton = motherfucker who looks like he has some secrets
― aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
i think bill will happily tell you all of that shit
― da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Bill Paxton motherfucker who looks like he has some crazy stories about getting drunk with jim cameron in 1983
I had no idea Nathan Patrelli had an acting career prior to "Heroes"!
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
As an eight-year-old, Bill Paxton was in the crowd waving when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Ft. Worth, Texas, on the morning of Nov. 22, 1963. There are pictures at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas where the young Paxton can clearly be seen astride the shoulders of an unidentified man.
― aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, you should check out his TV series Profit, so ridiculous
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
paxton in a walk. pullman is a dork
― Lo_Ol (cozen), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
RONG, Bill Pullman all the way. Who cares if Paxton was killed by Alien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their asses, that's why he wasn't cast in the first place!
Nah, Pullman in Lost Highway is fab though
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Alien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their assesAlien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their assesAlien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their assesAlien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their assesAlien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their assesAlien/Predator/Terminator? Pullman would've kicked all their asses
― Heady Snobbin (Pillbox), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Pullman would just play a dude that got mistaken for Michael Douglas in those movies...
― aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
YOU ARE A DORK COZEN.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
I have seen While You were Sleeping. It's . . . not good.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
no but compared to pretty much every other romcom since it pretty much rules.
― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
― gyac, Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
I really wish HBO would serialize Stephen King's "The Stand"...so I could forget the crappy watered down cable miniseries
― aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't realize you hadn't seen Near Dark, Traveller, Frailty, Trespass, A Simple Plan...also I got a soft spot for middle-american secret-weirdo actors like Paxton, Dennis Quaid, Jeff Daniels, etc
― da croupier, Sunday, June 19, 2011 8:50 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
^^ was said to me in response to my Paxton diss in the HBO thread that helped inspire this thread and uh...it's more or less right since the only one of those i've seen is A Simple Plan, which i liked but don't necessarily think rested on Paxton's shoulders.
Spaceballs is probably doing a lot of the heavy lifting in my preference for Pullman, and i love Zero Effect if not so much for his performance
― Helen Girly Drown (Whiney G. Weingarten) (some dude), Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
fun fact of no relevance whatsoever: Bill Paxton played Wyatt Earp's brother in Tombstone the year before Bill Pullman played Bat Masterson's brother in Wyatt Earp
― Helen Girly Drown (Whiney G. Weingarten) (some dude), Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Pullman's such a dullard, I don't know what he's really good for, aside from maybe being like the poor man's Michael Douglas, in the same way that Charlie Sheen used to be the poor man's Tom Cruise. (Except that Sheen was always BETTER than Cruise, even back in the days when Tom was the crazy one.)
Paxton, though - classic alone for the bits in Aliens when he goes all sissy. And for being dosed with angel dust while filming Titanic.
― boring wank about Linda's pies and Denny Laine's tunings (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 20 June 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
feel like this is the reason ilx polls exist tbh
you are correct sir
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 June 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
abbott just likes pullman because he lost his sense of smell in college after an injury left him in a coma for two days.
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 June 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
christ people, pullman for the serpent and the rainbow.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 20 June 2011 06:51 (twelve years ago) link
inexplicably, pullman is going to be in the new season of "torchwood" they're doing on starz. he's the villain, so that lowers the likelihood of him making out with john barrowman to say 30% or so.
aw i loved this movie back in the day, me and mom would watch it all the time. bill pullman's grandma was the suffragette mom from mary poppins!
― broke, broke, broke usher (reddening), Monday, 20 June 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
in the movie, i mean. if it was in real life that might change my vote
From wikipedia:Paxton has the distinction of being one of only two actors, the other being Lance Henriksen, who has starred alongside an Alien, a Predator, and a Terminator. He further holds a distinct honor of being the only actor to have been "killed" by all three, as each of his characters in these films meets his end during conflict with the lead antagonists.
― da croupier, Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
game over
― aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Monday, 20 June 2011 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
I like Pullman but c'mon
"What do you mean, *They* cut the power? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!"
― in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:00 (twelve years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, June 20, 2011 2:26 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
wow...that makes him starring in While You Were Sleeping kind of fucked up
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
Pullman was in Zero Effect, and Paxton wasn't. But I still got to give it to Paxton despite the high number of flaming turds in his cv.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 20 June 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
blurring the distinction between "despite" and "because of"
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 20 June 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit i just remembered: Paxton was even in The Groove Tube way back in the '70s! No fucking contest (plus I already voted anyways.)
― boring wank about Linda's pies and Denny Laine's tunings (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
anosmic friend to newsiesthis man is living my ideal life
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
paxton no contest
― Dr. Frog, B.S., M.S.E., Ph.D (Lamp), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Bill Paxton why because he look intresting (as a vampire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk_ZfUI4oPg
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
MARTINI RANCH
― Morley Timmons, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
OK, someone here *has* to have seen this...
http://www.critcononline.com/images/brain%20dead%201990.jpg
Which Bill survives?
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
remember, a vote for Pullman = a vote for hen fap
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
this may be the most important poll in ilx history.
― Heady Snobbin (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
18 more hours to run a smear campaign
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
bah... picture didn't load
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― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
If Pullman wins this, I'm quitting ILX. Ok probably not, but I'll be unhappy.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't think you need to worry about that happening.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
Add The Last Seduction to that Pullman list.
He's been doing a lot of plays--would like to see how he does there.
― Let me tell you something about that song. (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
pullman should have morphed into paxton in lost highway, not that balthazard guy
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
results too close, imo release the names of Pullman voters and let a tribunal decide their fate...
― SBing crosby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
the good guys won
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't matter, it's the principle
― SBing crosby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
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damn this was close...too close.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
Thought Pullman was excellent in Brokedown Palace.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
paxton pwns in true lies
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Pullman is aloof, arch, it almost always comes across to me like "I can't really act" acting which is fine, of course, but it doesn't work for me in his case. Paxton does the opposite really, or tries to, and it works for me. But maybe that's just cos I find him hot.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
Well, bummer news indeed about Paxton. What a sad way to pass as well, after complications from surgery. He made a mark for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 February 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
Oh no! I just listened to Dean Delray's* interview with him last week and was starting to work my way through his roles. Damn, what a bummer.
*It was amazing because it felt like Delray had finally found a guest who actually complimented his (often distracting) voice.
― how's life, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/deandelray/324-bill-paxton
― how's life, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link