Your favorite Bill Paxton (RIP) roles, film or television?
I was just looking at his filmography, and there are many to choose from.
Chet from Weird Science, the bit part as the anonymous Punk in The Terminator, and you know many of the rest (Tombstone, even Twister, Aliens of course, Big Love, Frailty, True Lies, Apollo 13, A Simple Plan, Edge of Tomorrow, and more...).
Any dude who can not take himself too seriously is actually cool, to me. Like his role in True Lies, funny.
Or Weird Science...
I thought he delivered in Edge of Tomorrow, too. And I enjoyed Big Love (HBO series).
I must have ten favorites, myself.
You?
April 23, 2020, 10:21 PM
divil
One of the few actors whose untimely passing bummed me out. I liked him in everything you mentioned. Twister being a favorite because Bill Paxton finally got a leading role and the movie was released right around the time and I finished USAF 1W031 weather apprentice school.
April 23, 2020, 10:33 PM
LastCubScout
Some under the radar ones I enjoyed: The Dark Backward, One False Move, a bit part in The Last Supper, and especially, Near Dark! "Finger-Lickin' good!"
Any of you guys out there fans of Joe R. Lansdale? He does the Hap & Leonard books — some were adapted for the Sundance TV show now on Netflix. He's really good at answering fan questions online. I asked Joe if he thought the actors on the show were cast well, as I always pictured Leonard as a bigger guy in my head, like Forest Whitaker. He told me if he had to cast the characters, a younger Laurence Fishburne would be his Leonard, and Hap would be his dear departed old pal Bill Paxton. I thought that was interesting.
April 24, 2020, 02:01 AM
YooperSigs
A Simple Plan. Great movie!
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April 24, 2020, 05:04 AM
gearhounds
A Todd up between Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow. I’d have to take Aliens only because “GAME OVER, MAN!”
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April 24, 2020, 06:01 AM
CQB60
He was perfect as the sleaze ball car salesman “Simon” in True Lies.
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April 24, 2020, 06:52 AM
Sig209
you gotta figure his role in Aliens was ICONIC
was in the Army in the late 80s - 90s and I cant tell you how many times we quoted his various lines:
Game over Man!
How do I get out of this Chicken Shit outfit??
Why don't you put HER in charge?
We're on an express elevator to hell -- going down !
Hey man -- its a DRY heat !
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April 24, 2020, 07:15 AM
PowerSurge
He was funny as the used car salesman in True Lies. When he said, “I got a little dick, it’s pathetic” everyone in the theatre laughed.
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April 24, 2020, 07:50 AM
jljones
quote:
Originally posted by CQB60: He was perfect as the sleaze ball car salesman “Simon” in True Lies.
Yep. This is exactly What I think of.
He was Patrick Swayze’s younger brother in “Next of Kin” and Dane the sniper in “Navy SEALS”. Not comedy roles but still roles I think of him in.
Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
April 24, 2020, 10:28 AM
Ryanp225
Big Love was a great show also but be always be Hicks. Hudson, sir. He's Hicks.
April 24, 2020, 10:49 AM
46and2
quote:
Originally posted by LastCubScout: Some under the radar ones I enjoyed: The Dark Backward, One False Move, a bit part in The Last Supper, and especially, Near Dark! "Finger-Lickin' good!"
Any of you guys out there fans of Joe R. Lansdale? He does the Hap & Leonard books — some were adapted for the Sundance TV show now on Netflix. He's really good at answering fan questions online. I asked Joe if he thought the actors on the show were cast well, as I always pictured Leonard as a bigger guy in my head, like Forest Whitaker. He told me if he had to cast the characters, a younger Laurence Fishburne would be his Leonard, and Hap would be his dear departed old pal Bill Paxton. I thought that was interesting.
Last Supper is a sleeper. I dig it.
Is Hap and Leonard good? I'm not familiar with the books. Does Omar do a good job in the show?
April 24, 2020, 12:27 PM
YellowJacket
Thought he was great as Ran'l McCoy opoosite Costner's Devil Anse Hatfield.
I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log.
April 24, 2020, 12:45 PM
Dzozer
As Chet in Weird Science - I loved this movie - saw it a couple of times in the theater when it first came out.
But yes, many more too - Aliens, Edge of Tomorrow, Twister...
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April 24, 2020, 01:48 PM
az4783054
His last tv series was "Training Day" which was starting to get interesting.
April 24, 2020, 03:39 PM
mesabi
I liked the guy's performances, starting with his really early music videos as a member of "Martini Ranch".