BILL PAXTON POLL

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5weUajWUAA80Qu.jpg

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!

Yeah, there is a whole nexus between her, Paxton, and James Cameron, for obvious reasons.

he's everywhere I wanna be

First viewing of One False Move in maybe 26 years last night (35mm at BAM, paired with Touch of Evil). I would call it a great HUGE noir, not a little one. Doesn't seem to be at all available in the usual digital formats, but if you have a local rep screen you should badger them to show it. Excellent performances all around, and Paxton deepens the obvious elements of his role (not-too-smart sheriff in over his head).

Billy Bob Thornton's co-writing of the script and playing of Cynda Williams' psycho lover is probably his finest hour. Carl Franklin has settled into directing prestige TV, lots of "House of Cards." Should've done a lot more features.

available on amazon streaming, fwiw

oooh

Still sad about this.

"Should've done a lot more features."

I agree and One False Move is a top movie. Franklin seems to be highly regarded in the TV realm, and he has done so much directing - I don't even know what TV work of his I've seen tbh. Conversely John Dahl seemed a much lesser talent and made some so so noirs in the same era, and quite a few more features than Franklin, that weren't too good at all imo. Oh and also he ended up working on many of the same TV series as Franklin, I think.

Twister held up pretty well. Same strengths (flying cow) and weaknesses (a little repetitious at a certain point) as 20 years ago. Did get a kick out of spotting--you see him twice, about three seconds each time--Jimmy Barrett/Lynch-guy Patrick S. Fischler. He's part of the competing storm-chasing crew.

TWISTER was my favorite movie when I was 12. I was also really into weather

The effects and editing are often eye-opening. By the fifth or sixth twister, though, I'm a little exhausted. There were a couple of jokes that really made me laugh, only one of which I can remember now: Helen Hunt's long pause when Paxton tells her that his fiancée is a therapist. "Yours?"

haha, great line

phillip seymour hoffman is in this movie!

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

:-(