Science Fiction Actor Bill Paxton Dies At Age 61 (ew.com) 142
Bill Paxton died Saturday at the age of 61 after complications from surgery. An anonymous reader remembers Paxton's work with some YouTube clips: Bill Paxton starred in a surprising number of cult science fiction favorites. After playing both the blue-haired punk rocker who confronts The Terminator and the mean older brother in John Hughes' nerd comedy Weird Science, Paxton was cast as private Hudson in Aliens, the soldier who at one point wails "Game over, man!" Sigourney Weaver called his performance "brilliant," while James Cameron said Paxton's character released some of the audience's tension. [For Hudson's climactic final showdown with the aliens] "Bill made up different dialogue on every take, and he was yelling it over a machine gun, so none of it actually recorded."
Paxton also appeared in Predator 2, Apollo 13, Twister, and James Cameron's Titanic. Most recently he provided the voice of the executive Kahn in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and had a recurring role as Hydra agent John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Paxton also appeared in Predator 2, Apollo 13, Twister, and James Cameron's Titanic. Most recently he provided the voice of the executive Kahn in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and had a recurring role as Hydra agent John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
GAME OVER MAN (Score:2, Insightful)
For real.
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Game over, man :(
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Think for a second how good of an actor you have to be to deliver that line and make it instantly memorable. Even more, he ad-libbed it.
May he RIP.
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And let's not forget his apt comment to the most beloved quote form Aliens [I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure]:
- Fucking A!
In my head both quotes are always linked...if I say the Ripley's line I always add Hudson's as well...
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In my head both quotes are always linked...if I say the Ripley's line I always add Hudson's as well...
GP didn't say it was his line.
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Sad he seems to be only remembered for sci-fi.
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Which sucks cause Training Day, his new show, actually had a lot of potential. Wonder if they'll pivot it in the second season to concentrate on the interplay between Law and Cornwell or just cancel it.
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I see on IMDB that the ordered episodes for the season were complete before Paxton died.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt49... [imdb.com]
I haven't watched the show so I don't know where they were going with the character. I have a suspicion that the show will not continue without Paxton if his character was seen as a major player in the plot.
I've seen Paxton's work and it's sad to see him go so soon.
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I saw A Simple Plan when it came out and thought he was amazing in it - sort of a dark Fargo-esque morality tale. He never seemed to get leading roles like that, I guess because he was perceived as making top dollar movie stars look better since every movie he's been in, he's improved it tremendously. Anyway, from what I've read he seemed like a decent guy and I loved his work. His poor family must be devastated. RIP
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Two of his most famous roles are in Twister and Big Love.
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Game Over : ( (Score:2)
C'mon now. "Science fiction"? (Score:2)
I love the guy but he's been on plenty more than Predator and Aliens.
Personally i though he was a damn underrated director. The Greatest Game Ever Played is a solid movie, but Frailty is a bona fide modern classic IMHO.
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Plus, he was an Earp in Tombstone, and a slimy used car salesman in True Lies, and played both well.
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And how can you forget him as a respectable polygamist in HBO drama Big Love?
Re: C'mon now. "Science fiction"? (Score:3)
Only one of two actors whose characters were killed by Terminator, the Alien, and the Predator. That's something, no?
The only actor to... (Score:5, Interesting)
The only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and Terminator!
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He was dragged under the floor by an alien, and presumably killed off-screen, as the group escaped from the from the control centre.
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No. The android Bishop (played by Henriksen) was cut in two by the mother Alien, but survived. He, Newt, and Ripley were in stasis until they crashed on the prison planet in Alien 3. In that sequel, Ripley revived Bishop briefly in order to get his help with something (accessing some log from the ship computer?) but Bishop asked Ripley to "kill" him because he was too damaged to be restored fully.
Good idea (Score:2)
I haven't watched Alien 3 since it was released.
Trust me, keep it that way. The rest of them are OK to watch.
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It's been a while since I have seen it, but I seem to remember it was not in any way a good movie by itself, I remember it being really terrible, compared to anything.
I was fine with the Alien movies that came after personally, I just remember 3 was so bad I literally wished I had never seen it.
Coincidences of the Strange and Unexpected (Score:3)
The only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and Terminator!
Yes- having just seen the clip, it appears to have been one of the other guys, not Paxton's blue-haired punk.
And what makes this strange is that I hadn't looked up the clip on YouTube. Nope. What's strange is that it was through pure luck in having just caught a scheduled transmission of "The Terminator" at *exactly* the point that scene was showing on TV.
Don't believe me? I'd read the article summary mentioning his role as the blue-haired punk and- out of curiosity- did a Google Image search for ' "Bil
You're dogmeat pal (Score:2)
I say we grease this rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch right now
So many good lines
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He was deffinitly killed in Aliens, you're thinking of a different character. It's arguable in Terminator.
Here's all three in one go.
Bill Paxton - An Alien, a Predator and a Terminat: http://youtu.be/DHg6S4AYlb4 [youtu.be]
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Er, I mean deffinitly killed by an Alien
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I thought this too... until reading up on Bill Paxtons death I discovered this trivia is wrong [blumhouse.com].
As others have pointed out below...
-Lance Henrikson was Bishop in Aliens. Impaled by a Xenomorph and in the next movie (Alien 3) asked to be shutdown because he was too badly damaged.
- He was killed by a Predator in Aliens vs. Predator
- He was also killed in The Terminator.
So, really it was true until Aliens vs. Predator.... If you count the irreparable damage in Aliens and 'killed' in Alien 3.
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Did you even watch the movie??
Caught me. Actually, no and I'm fairly proud of that fact.
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Now make yourself one, dickweed!
Current Events (Score:1)
Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!
One of my favorite movie lines of all time!
What's a Science Fiction Actor? (Score:1)
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Apollo 13 was science fiction.
Found the moon-landing denier.
No, Apollo 13 was not science fiction. It wasn't a documentary either. It was a dramatization, based on a true story.
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Twister... questionable. It had meteorological science as part of the story, but the plot didn't depend on the science at all.
"We have a new type of sensor that, if we get it inside the tornado in just the right way, will advance the science a thousandfold and save future people from tornadoes." That part seemed like science fiction to me.
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An accident? (Score:2)
Well there goes our ride home (Score:2)
Hudson, this little girl...
Well why don't you put her in charge
Hudson: oh jezus, this ain't happening... (Score:1)
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"role them in there"? WTF
Yes, it's a nerve gas cannister's role to act as a weapon. Or I just fucked up, which I did, or your being a paedophile.
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Alverez? Wasn't that Vasquez?
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Yeah, it was, my bad
Hudson (Score:2)
Don't forget Slipstream. (Score:2)
Bill Paxton Pinball (Score:2)
...and who could forget this memorable tribute (Bill Paxton Pinball) https://features.slashdot.org/... [slashdot.org]
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"I gotta get me one of these!"
Weird line, since BP already had him one of these.
Already had him one of them, you mean. C'mon people, grammar is important.
True Lies (Score:2)
Science Fiction actor? (Score:2)
He was in just as much, if not more, non SciFi films. So what's the point of the title?
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Thank you Bill Paxton (Score:1)
"This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training." "Why don't you put her in charge."
"knives. sharp sticks"
Thank you Bill Paxton for your impact on my life. I'm saddened that this happened.
RIP (Score:2)
Well, I guess that's one way to get out of this chicken-shit outfit.
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LOL. What a tool. What do you think OBAMACARE is? It's insurance affordability, it doesn't have anything to do with the doctors
I manage IT systems for hundreds of doctors. It absolutely has everything to do with doctors. If it costs $5,000 for a surgery, Obamacare ensures they will only get $2,500 for the surgery. So they have to cut costs elsewhere. You know that they call a man who scores 100% on the test? Doctor. You know what they call someone who scores 70% on the tests? Doctor.
Hire crap doctors. Cut cleaning costs. Use older, less accurate equipment. That's Obamacare.
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Health care facilities negotiate costs with insurers. If they negotiate badly, that's on them. Insurance serves as a check and balance for the patient by disallowing excessive charges for things like surgery. If insurance only pays half what was asked for and the hospital happily takes it, you know they're overcharging. Now try that without insurance. Good luck.
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LOL. What a tool. What do you think OBAMACARE is? It's insurance affordability, it doesn't have anything to do with the doctors
I manage IT systems for hundreds of doctors. It absolutely has everything to do with doctors. If it costs $5,000 for a surgery, Obamacare ensures they will only get $2,500 for the surgery. So they have to cut costs elsewhere. You know that they call a man who scores 100% on the test? Doctor. You know what they call someone who scores 70% on the tests? Doctor. Hire crap doctors. Cut cleaning costs. Use older, less accurate equipment. That's Obamacare.
Nah mate. that's the American health care system where good health is a privilege, not a right.
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Doctor. You know what they call someone who scores 70% on the tests? Doctor. Hire crap doctors. Cut cleaning costs. Use older, less accurate equipment. That's Obamacare.
You have the most expensive healthcare in the world. And it's nowhere near the best.
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America has one of if not *the* top rated health care system in the world.
Only if America is counting. America costs more and delivers less than almost all other industrialized nations.
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As usual. More than 88,000 people die in US hospitals each and every year for reasons that have nothing to do with why they were in the hospital. OBAMACARE! AT! WORK! and this is what Trump WILL FIX!
Quite possibly. No one who doesn't make a six figure salary or work for Congress or the Executive Branch will be able to afford to get into a hospital in the first place. Trump will remove the onerous regulation of treating everyone regardless of their ability to pay and replace it with the old timey wallet biopsy.
That alone should cut health care costs significantly.
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As usual. More than 88,000 people die in US hospitals each and every year for reasons that have nothing to do with why they were in the hospital. OBAMACARE! AT! WORK! and this is what Trump WILL FIX!
Fuck yeah, those are rookie numbers, Trump's gonna pump 'em way up. At least a cool million.
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downmodpoints
You think this is reddit or someshit?