Paxton vs. Pullman

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feel like this is the reason ilx polls exist tbh

Poll Results

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Bill Paxton 35
Bill Pullman 25


little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link

pullman's a quality bro, but ive been a die-hard paxton partisan for years and will vote for him with relish

little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link

Bill Pullman was Lonestar, therefore he wins everything.

the emancipation of distraction (askance johnson), Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

paxton.

though pullman's fake sax playing in lost highway will always have a place in my heart.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

man, these two are fuckin a
shit, i cant even choose

nakhchivan, Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

Voting Pullman because I think Paxton's gonna walk this but really they're both winners as far I'm concerned.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 19 June 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

Greil Marcus has written about Pullman like he's Marlon Brando or somebody, but I don't have any sense of him at all, beyond that he starred in an insane David Lynch film. I liked Paxton in A Simple Plan and Twister (I don't remember much about One False Move, and should look at that again).

clemenza, Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link

Only one of these men is motherfucking King of New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWli7LeYQuU&feature=related

free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link

go ahead, vote pullman

http://media.dvdtown.com/images/displayimage.php?id=13820

i dare you

Heady Snobbin (Pillbox), Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link

omg Abbott OTM x1000

so glad I voted Pullman

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link

Paxton 4 Lyfe

Nhex, Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

I've liked Pullman in some stuff, but he was the worst SNL host I've ever seen. Paxton by a fucking mile.

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

I can't decide if Pullman should be docked for that "oh my fiancee is leaving me to meet a guy she's never spoken to on the empire state building well swell i'll pick up the tab" scene in sleepless in seattle or given points for somehow surviving it

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link

i forget he was also in spaceballs and ruthless people, too. I think the SNL nightmare makes me forget he's been decent, but Paxton can fucking own the screen, and I can't say that about Pullman (sax solos aside)

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

also if Bill Pullman has ever been part of a new wave duo who credited judge reinhold for whistling on their album, someone should let us know

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link

For Spaceballs and Lost Highway, I have to pick Pullman. Don't think I can name a single Bill Paxton movie.

Moodles, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

you can't name aliens? or titanic? or weird science?

balls, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

you can't name aliens? or titanic? or weird science?

lol forgot about chet!

http://cinemade.startlogic.com/weirdsci-paxton.gif

Heady Snobbin (Pillbox), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

geezus he's been in some awesome flicks, don't make Paxton sound like he's fucking Richard Grieco!

aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

he was even in that shitty Twister movie

aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

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, 19 June 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link

game over

aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

god near dark is so fucking great

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

Paxton, despite being in Titanic, should win this.

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link

part of me wants bigelow to squander all her post-oscar middlebrow good will by showing these vampire pretenders how it's done

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

she already did!

little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link

oh well good.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

Bigelow is doing the Osama Bin Laden movie next actually..

Despite Frailty, Near Dark and a few others, it's gotta be Pullman.

Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

paxton 4 eva

ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

oh man i forgot about coconut pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtrjUyoGzN4

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEclreHys-Q

"fuck that guy...son of a son of a bitch!"

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

TS: Bill Paxton / Will Patton v. Bill Pullman / Jeff Daniels

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:24 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link

Pullman for managing to deliver that speech in Independence Day without laughing.

gyac, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

fish heads

slugbuggy, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

okay, i had no idea paxton had anything to do with fish heads. this just isn't fair to pullman anymore.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link

so far the argument for pullman, afaic
the sax shit in Lost highway
he was funny in ruthless people
he stood next to some funny people in spaceballs
young boys twirled around him in newsies
he got through a bad speech in ID4
he got through a bad scene in Sleepless in Seattle
i also believe he's done some theater

this against the director of both Fish Heads and Frailty, who has been murdered by a terminator, alien and predator, and played the most bad-ass vampire in the most bad-ass vampire movie. plus he's played the lead in a bunch of solid b movies, supreme goofballs in weird science and the dark backward, "coconut pete" in a broken lizard movie, managed to hold his own against three wives for a handful of seasons on HBO, yeah c'mon people.

also, martini ranch.

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link

this poll has inspired me to watch Near Dark, which I've been meaning to get around to for a while now tbh

Heady Snobbin (Pillbox), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link

Near Dark by itself makes Paxton the winner, not to mention Alien, but ever since that Greil Marcus shit I've been a pretty big Pullman defender, like he seemed really hurt and confused about his American berserk face.

Cosmo Vitelli, Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

Not only did young boys twirl around him in Newsies, you boys also twirled him around in Newsies!

free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

you boys, you!

free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link

Poor Pullman.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

http://inthenameofmovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/while-you-were-sleeping.jpg

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

da croupier, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

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

in the movie, i mean. if it was in real life that might change my vote

broke, broke, broke usher (reddening), Monday, 20 June 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link

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

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, 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.)

anosmic friend to newsies
this 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

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PC0KY68DL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

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

damn this was close...too close.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link

every bill pullman movie has an ilxor who loves it enough to ignore the unfuckwithable glory of bill paxton's career

da croupier, Thursday, 23 June 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

watched "dead alive," which might be the only movie with pullman and paxton, with some chilx pals on saturday. pullman is definitely the star, but paxton has some substantial scenes, and it's kind of archetypical roles for both - pullman is nerdy and nervous, paxton is brash and swarmy. great movie if you haven't seen it, also has a creepy bud cort in a big role.

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link

you mean Brain Dead

Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link

oh shit yeah

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link

looks like i'm the one who's "brain dead"

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.13wmaz.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/photogallery/197835/BillPaxton.jpg

damn excited to find out what is up with his emmys stache

da croupier, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link

disturbing

ENBB, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

AHHHHHHHHH! I HATE IT!

ENBB, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link

looks like gabriel byrne

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

can't believe paxton won this. paxton! over pullman! crazy world.

tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link

the best

ENBB, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link

http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/movie/large/Mr_wrong.jpg

tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...
five months pass...

lol.

turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 08:21 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

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

one year passes...

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


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