Bill Paxton RIP

[Dr Rangelove]

Bill Paxton, the great actor and director of The Greatest Game Ever Played has passed. RIP Bill, gonna miss you

[Jagpilotohio]

Yes...This came across my news feed earlier. Very sad. Only 61 I think.

 

Not golf related, but I always think of him fondly in twister. Corny flick but I've seen it a million times on TV and I always like it.

[foijord]

I liked him in The Terminator :)

[Dr Rangelove]

First time I remember him was in True Lies, as the used car salesman, he was brilliant. On The Greatest Game Ever Played, which he directed, Disney dropped the ball (no pun intended) when they spent heavily promoting Chicken Little and spent next to nothing advertising Greatest. I worked on the sound side of things, rerecording the ball impacts with the hickories used in the film. I wish I could have kept those sticks but they went back to the production department. Probably ended up in Bills garage.

[Qqq123xx]

Such a great actor, very versatile. RIP.

[Browns71213]

Great actor loved him as Chet in Weird Science and as the soldier in Aliens.

[Guia]

RIP. I will miss him.

[sumed]

Great actor loved him as Chet in Weird Science and as the soldier in Aliens.

 

Those were the two movies that put him on my radar, and I was fan from then on...sad news.

[Hawkeye77]

I worked with him couple of times, last was on The Greatest Game Ever Played. RIP Bill, gonna miss you

 

Big fan, big loss.

 

Greatest Game just never seems to make lists of favorite golf movies, but I love it. Boy Ted Ray would have been a blast to hang out with.

[nitram]

He will always be Chet to me. RIP

[Vonex586]

sucks, his new show training day was great and just starting :(

[moonshine]

I'm still trying to get to the bottom of it...however RIP...he was funny and training day was pretty good had my attention over all the utter crap on TV these days.

[Cwing]

Weird Science, Aliens, etc... RIP!!!

[glk]

One of two actors killed by a terminator, alien, and predator. RIP Always liked Frailty which he also directed.

[2putttom]

I gotta say life's fragile and fleeting make the best of it while your here ya never know when you time is up.

[glk]

One of those guilty pleasures , coconut pete

 

 

[ode1]

His directorial debut scared the sh1t out of me, Frailty...as others have mentioned The Greatest Game Ever Played was fantastic and a nice compliment to the book. Two vastly different flicks....wish he would have directed more....RIP

[MtlJeff]

While any loss of life is tragic, obviously i didn't know Bill Paxton personally so it's weird to talk about being "affected" by this.....but it's weird, this one kind of hit me like "Wait....Bill Paxton????"

 

I mean i remember watching Twister growing up and he wasn't old in that. Must've been early 40's. For some reason i instantly thought that he was way too young for me to be reading about this. So it was a bit of a shock in that sense.

 

And yes, i did always like him as an actor.

 

Easily my favorite Bill Paxton scenes were in "true lies" , one of my favorite movies ever....where he played the sleazy car salesman masquerading as a spy.

[llamont]

I'm still in shock over Bill Paxton's passing. He seemed like a positively dynamic person who had passion in his profession. Rest in peace...

[Man_O_War]

does any one know what happened to him? He made a great movie with Billy Bob T...one of my all time favourites. RIP. Made polygamy look almost cool.

[glk]

does any one know what happened to him? He made a great movie with Billy Bob T...one of my all time favourites.

RIP. Made polygamy look almost cool.

He suffered a stroke during/after heart surgery. Exactly what the surgery was has not been released but he did have rheumatic fever as a child.

[Sanders74]

I liked him in almost all his films. He will be missed.

[Gamble Gamble]

Game over man, game over.

 

[Turbsinthebunk]

One of two actors killed by a terminator, alien, and predator. RIP Always liked Frailty which he also directed.

 

I'm sure I could try to think hard or just Google it but who is the other?

[pappaf2]

Hey Vasquez have you ever been mistaken for a man?

 

 

Game over man, game over.

 

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Pvt Hudson will be missed. :(

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[glk]

One of two actors killed by a terminator, alien, and predator. RIP Always liked Frailty which he also directed.

 

I'm sure I could try to think hard or just Google it but who is the other?

 

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Of course, did Bishop really die?

 

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[billyhandsomeface]

I grew up in a town in Texas along the Red River where it seemed like tornadoes were a daily occurrence. I loved Twister as a kid. I really feel like that movie is responsible for kick starting the interest in meteorology and especially tornado research. Cheesy as it could be, it was still a good flick. One of the few DVDs I kept when my wife made me get rid of them....RIP Extreme