BILL PAXTON POLL

I interview the guy once, and halfway through he basically just said "enough about me! let's talk about you!" And we just hung and chatted for an hour.

You know you can count on Bill Paxton to flash a full smile with natural teeth in 2012

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<3 you bill paxton

there should be more dudes like Bill Paxton in the world

there is, he's called Bill Pullman

RONG

Y'all know about that History Channel miniseries he and Kevin Costner did about the Hatfields & McCoys? I think it just started last night.

it's on my DVR waiting for me to start watching tonight. I set my my TiVo as soon as I saw Paxton was in it :D

Not sure why One False Move didn't make an impression on me when it came out--really liked it this time. Thorton's scary, but it was the guy who played Pluto who really impressed me. And whatever happened to Cynda Williams? Great here, great in Mo' Better Blues.

rewatched frailty a couple of weeks ago, it was not as good as it was in my memory - great concept but i had completely blocked the mcconnaughey framing device and plot twist

RIP

Ah, thanks, revived another thread just now but this is the better one.

One of the best character actors of all time.

rewatched frailty a couple of weeks ago, it was not as good as it was in my memory - great concept but i had completely blocked the mcconnaughey framing device and plot twist

It's imperfect but I appreciated the film going in hard on a spiritual belief that turns out to be true, and often it's a film of moments -- thinking about when Paxton has his vision and there's a bit where it cuts to a wide shot just showing him laying flat and rapt under the car he's working on while other work and life goes on around him. I think the commentary pointed out that it's also a showcase for a slew of Texas actors all at once; not anything new per se but gives it a distinct feeling, even if the whole thing was filmed in California.

love him in Apollo 13

he showed up on a 4 episode arc in Agents of SHIELD and brought the full Texas Paxton, it was a thing of beauty

did u guys know this? crazy (from IMDB trvia)
As an eight-year-old, he was in the crowd waving when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas, on the morning of November 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

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<3

You don't always recognise people when they are younger, but that kid is Bill P alright!

Paxton and Walsh, jammin' in heaven.

Tip-top work in so many films, particularly One False Move (rather yummy too).

have never seen One False Move, I'll have to correct that

It is a great little noir that I would deffo watch again.

Carl Franklin's other noir from the 90's Devil in a Blue Dress is also underrated imo

Paxton also what I would call "attainably handsome"
Like, handsome but in a real-world way.

Seems v charming & laid back from interviews

*seemed :(

his marc maron interview from a little while back is worth a listen - he's got some great stories (including the JFK one mentioned earlier) and seems like an awesome guy. he spends a lot of time talking about his dad, who he had a great relationship with, and who lived well into his eighties so it somehow seems a bit sadder that his son only made it to 61 :(

i need to listen to it, i have it saved & never got around to it

i think people always forget about A Simple Plan because i guess some might consider it the poor man's Fargo or whatever, but I think it's a better film w/equally good performances.

https://twitter.com/therealjuicyj/status/835932004340350977

dying of surgical complications is a frikkin nightmare (assuming it was an otherwise routine op)

Bill Mumy from FB:

Eileen and I are shocked to tears. Devastated to hear Bill Paxton is gone. Billy was an integral part of our world for many years. There would be no Fish Heads success or Barnes & Barnes films without Billy's positive, boundless energy and tenacious follow through. Billy pushed us to make the film and he quickly took it to SNL and got it on the show. In a world of talkers, Billy was a doer. Eileen gave him a job packing Jane Fonda's Workout books and vinyl albums and tapes as he did odd jobs when he started acting professionally. He was even a paperboy and made a short film, "Scoop", about that experience. He was always enthusiastic and ready to go. He was limitless. We made four Barnes & Barnes films with Billy and he was always fearless and brilliant. A sweet, funny, talented actor who loved the Golden Age of showbiz and especially Buster Keaton. Although our relationship had become one of Christmas card exchanges and an occasional phone chat, Billy was family. Our deepest condolences and love to Louise, James & Lydia.
We are utterly shattered by this...

R.I.P. Brother...

It's pretty much a pulp movie but Bill Paxton kind of recaptures a bit of the Chet/Private Hudson vibe playing the skeevy bad guy in '2 Guns'. His part is really entertaining and you can tell he enjoyed playing a schmuck.

2 Guns is pretty underrated actually

i think people always forget about A Simple Plan because i guess some might consider it the poor man's Fargo

or given that it's not a snarky farce, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

listening to the WTF interview finally and i cannot control my OMG MARON WOULD YOU JUST LET THE GUY FUCKIN TALK

usually it doesnt bug me as much but dude is such a natural storyteller quit steppin all over him lol

This was pretty great:

http://gizmodo.com/storm-chasers-unite-to-give-bill-paxton-an-epic-tribute-1792765560

awwwwww <3

Like Ned, I didn't see this thread. Here's the link to the Dean Delray interview from late January that I posted on the other one. If you're not familiar with Dean, his voice might be a little grating, but he and Paxton had some background together and they were really simpatico.

https://soundcloud.com/deandelray/324-bill-paxton

Didn't know he was in Stripes, will have to look out for him next time

Another interview, this time with PFT,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XxgEFe9OJk

roundup of obit/tribute links

Paxton will soon be seen “playing Emma Watson’s father in The Circle, James Ponsoldt’s adaptation of Dave Eggers’s paranoid drama about the goings-on inside a mysterious and powerful tech company."

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/bill-paxton-1955-2017

ohhhh i saw a trailer for that, looks weird

listening to the WTF interview finally and i cannot control my OMG MARON WOULD YOU JUST LET THE GUY FUCKIN TALK

usually it doesnt bug me as much but dude is such a natural storyteller quit steppin all over him lol

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tbf this is the problem with every single WTF interview

yeah that's true, it just bugged me more than normal i guess lol

Check out the Delray interview I posted upthread. He still has a horrible habit of talking over his guests. To be honest he's worse than Maron with most guests. But it seems like he was actually friends with Paxton and they got into a good rhythm, I thought.

God bless the intertubes.

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Predator?

Oh, shit, he's in the second one, isn't he?

Anyone notice that while he didn't make the formal In Memoriam montage, he did feature prominently in the scenes-from-movies Rolex ad that showed several times.

He didn't make the montage, but Jennifer Aniston did mention him during the introduction to it.

Yeah, I know. I just meant that he ended up in a prominent commercial regardless.

Wow, never realized that Paxton was the running guy in New Order's Touched by the Hand of God video! Where he makes out with Rae Dawn Chong at the end. And the video was directed by Kathryn Bigelow!

struggled with twister on rewatch a few years back - we couldn't get past how much bill is stuck repeating lines, like "we have to go! we have to go now!!!" or whatever.

PSH is actually one of the things that bugs me about the film. I don't put the blame on him--he's a great actor, and he invents a character here. But the writers treat him like a sitcom character with a signature line. Whenever they're on the road, it seems like every other scene ends with a close-up of Hoffman delivering some effusive bit of stoner-dude doggerel just before they head out.

Line I sort of remember from this movie: "When you said you chased storms for a living, I assumed it was a metaphor!"

er, tornados

That was a great line--that might have been the line I couldn't remember, but I think there was another one that made me laugh too.

Bill Paxton reflects so much of what I love about America

Game over, man

:-(

Watched 'One False Move' last night - I had never seen it (don't even remember it in theaters in my town in 92). Holy shit, great film! I'm sure my vote in this poll was 'Near Dark' role, but had I seen this, it woulda definitely been my vote.

One False Movie is great, as is his character in it