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Bruce Willis To Retire From Acting.
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Would never call him a fantastic actor (though maybe better than generally thought) but he certainly was (for a time at least) a "film star" - you knew what you were getting from him but people really liked it, enjoyed it and paid to see it.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Never thought he was a great actor and relied on his charisma on screen.
Awful that he has cognitive decline - I hope he gets all the support he needs. Very worrying for him and his family.
Hopefully he can be allowed to retire gracefully and get support and not be hounded by paps.3 -
There are a number of actors who are very charismatic and essentially play themselves on screen - Bruce suited a lot of the roles he played. I've enjoyed watching him in a number of films.thenewbie said:
Would never call him a fantastic actor (though maybe better than generally thought) but he certainly was (for a time at least) a "film star" - you knew what you were getting from him but people really liked it, enjoyed it and paid to see it.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Never thought he was a great actor and relied on his charisma on screen.
Awful that he has cognitive decline - I hope he gets all the support he needs. Very worrying for him and his family.
Hopefully he can be allowed to retire gracefully and get support and not be hounded by paps.
We have to hope he's not hounded.
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Quite liked lucky number slevin0
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And I bought his album.
Going to dig it out from the loft 😍1 -
I wish him well for the future. What he has sounds awful.0
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Very sad news. I hope he gets a little bit of quality time and peace with his family now.0
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What's the "I see dead people" one? That's a good film0
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For me it's Demi Moore.golfaddick said:
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Yeah I loved Die Hard With A Vengeance. Remember watching it on a hot summer's day in Reigate cinema with no air-con. The opening sequence really hit home ("hot time, summer in the city...") like Reigate cinema had stumbled across an early form of 4DX.JohnBoyUK said:
the 3rd was just as good as the 2nd for me.BR7_addick said:Absolutely mental opinion from me but Die Hard with a vengeance is the best one and probably the only decent 3rd film ever.
But love all 3 and have watched them over and over.
Oddly, DHWAV got a bit of stick for being based on another script - Simon Says - that was adapted to become a DH movie. Thing is, that's often true of the DH movies. The original was based on a book called Nothing Lasts Forever and was supposed to star Frank Sinatra in the lead! Die Hard 4.0 (which I really like too) was based on an article in Wired called Farewell To Arms.
Personally, I don't give a shit where an idea originated as long as the execution is good. And thanks to John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator) coming back to direct the third one, it absolutely was. Although McTiernan's own story after that is pretty bizarre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McTiernan#Criminal_charges,_felony_conviction,_and_incarceration
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He is one if the movie stars of my time to me
Along with that late 80s and early nineties big hitters Stallone, Big Arnold, Cruise. Proper box office and the Die Hard movies are great fun with lines that leak into popular culture yippee Kie Yay motherfucker
I remember leaving Die Hard 4.0 at the pictures and one of my mates saying it was a good film but the bit where he leapt atop a fighter jet and brought it down was "a bit unrealistic" which drew a few laughs from the group as we tried to think of much more believable scenes from Die Hard movies. I'd have been done with all the glass in my feet
Anyway, I've seen few of the movies he's done lately and watched with a really confused look on my face wondering why on earth he agreed to do them, didn't realise some cruel wankers were exploiting the shit out of a pretty vulnerable man. Looper was a lot of fun and whilst I was annoyed his character from unbreakable got a very underwhelming end in Glass he played that character brilliantly in Unbreakable
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always enjoyed his films .. he never seemed to take either himself or any role he played too seriously .. not an actor for a tear jerker or too serious a topic1
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Last time I watched 4 I skipped that bit and the film is all the better for it. Such a shame they went with that idea.Carter said:He is one if the movie stars of my time to me
Along with that late 80s and early nineties big hitters Stallone, Big Arnold, Cruise. Proper box office and the Die Hard movies are great fun with lines that leak into popular culture yippee Kie Yay motherfucker
I remember leaving Die Hard 4.0 at the pictures and one of my mates saying it was a good film but the bit where he leapt atop a fighter jet and brought it down was "a bit unrealistic" which drew a few laughs from the group as we tried to think of much more believable scenes from Die Hard movies. I'd have been done with all the glass in my feet
Anyway, I've seen few of the movies he's done lately and watched with a really confused look on my face wondering why on earth he agreed to do them, didn't realise some cruel wankers were exploiting the shit out of a pretty vulnerable man. Looper was a lot of fun and whilst I was annoyed his character from unbreakable got a very underwhelming end in Glass he played that character brilliantly in Unbreakable0 -
Last Boy Scout. The hits just keep on coming!0
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As a kid I loved him in moonlighting and of course I loved diehard too, didn’t mind his album, remember there being a track on it that had pretty much the same intro as Club Tropicana and I remember seeing him interviewed by Wogan or someone and he was your full on charismatic movie star, everything you’d imagine the guy who brought David Maddison to life would be but jump forward a few films and his interviews just turn monosyllabic like he can’t be arsed anymore and the performance just left him, always thought that was a little odd meself.
Interesting chapter about him in Kevin Smiths autobiography.
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He made the most of his fairly limited range as an actor. The action hero he played very well I have to say Wish him all the very best navigating this serious debilitating Ill health.0
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This makes for a tough read.0
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Says a lot about the entertainment industry if it allows this to happen...JiMMy 85 said:0 -
very sad, we can only hope that the publicity from Willis' case will increase knowledge of and research into this diseaseJiMMy 85 said:1 -
Hope so. I FaceTimed a friend tonight who is a gold pro in LA. Bruce Willis is a member of the club that my friend works at and his retirement came up in conversation. My friend said that Bruce Willis has had a guy with himLincsaddick said:
very sad, we can only hope that the publicity from Willis' case will increase knowledge of and research into this diseaseJiMMy 85 said:
since 2019 who does all his talking for him. Although this makes sense now, he just assumed that Bruce Willis was an arrogant superstar who paid someone to talk for him!!0 -
It would also be good if society became more accepting of degenerative cognitive disorders. A huge number of people are affected by them and there shouldn't be such a sense of shame around the subject.Lincsaddick said:
very sad, we can only hope that the publicity from Willis' case will increase knowledge of and research into this diseaseJiMMy 85 said:
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