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Apr 2019
I miss that guy. Looking over his filmography, he really was in some interesting movies. Even after he achieved some degree of mainstream fame and success, he continue to appear in really weird, offbeat films like "The Dark Backward" and "The Vagrant."

Of course, he started his career in horror with "Night Warning" (according to his filmography; I honestly don't remember him in it, but it's been over a decade since I last saw it) and "Mortuary." Then he appeared in a bit part in a little known movie falling "The Terminator" and would end up again working with some dude named James Cameron a few more times. I love his wimpy role in "True Lies."

Then of course he's an utter badass in "Near Dark." A role any horror fan is well familiar with. By the mid 90s he was in a lot of major Hollywood blockbusters but still took the time to star in Sam Raimi's awesome "A Simple Plan."

I dunno. He just seems to have had a hell of a career and I really think he had some serious acting chops when you think about the wildly different characters he would portray.

What do you think? Do you like him as an actor? Favorite movie or role of his?


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jimb14red says:
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Apr 2019 *
Obviously he has done a few duds and I dislike his blockbusters like Twister and Titanic but I like him. I will always remember him as Chet in Weird Science. Terminator would be my favorite movie he is in but obviously had a very small role. Same with Commando. You mentioned The Vagrant. I think that is a little underrated gem. Also Frailty is awesome so he could direct to.


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sfpx says:
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Apr 2019
Oh yeah, loved him in Weird Science. Sometimes, when he plays a more "normal" character, like the ones in Twister and Titanic, I almost can't believe he's also played some of the zaniest, or most asshole-ish characters in movies, like in Weird Science. There's this other side of him that comes out, kinda similar to how there's "two" Nic Cages - The one who does stuff like "It Could Happen to You" and the one who does stuff like "Vampires Kiss."


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Box_a_Hair says:
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Apr 2019
Bill Paxton was a guy I always liked seeing in movies. He was even a tv actor, but I never watched his show "Big Love".

What I liked about this dude is that he was killed by a terminator, a xenomorph, AND a predator, just like Lance Henriksen. He also did an episode of Tales from the Crypt where his brother was played by Brad Dourif. I also remember him in that movie 'Braindead' he did with the other Bill (Pullman).

Navy Seals gets made fun of a lot, such as in Clerks, but I liked that movie enough. A lot of people like "Tombstone" too, which also had Michael Biehn in it.

I think "True Lies" is my favorite. He's naval lint! (Naval seals?) He has to lie to women to get laid! It's pathetic! And at the end, he still hasn't learned his lesson. emoticon

My second fave role of his has got to be Coconut Pete in Broken Lizard's "Club Dread":

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One of his final roles that I liked was somewhat of an homage to Aliens in "Edge of Tomorrow", where he was the master sergeant who kept getting in Tom Cruise's way.



He was great. It's still hard to believe that he's gone, because nobody saw it coming.


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sfpx says:
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Apr 2019
I need to see Club Dread again, that little chuckle he did at the end was hilarious.


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Tommix says:
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Apr 2019
That is cool about how he and Lance were both killed by a terminator, a xenomorph, and a predator. I don't think I have ever though about that before. You could say they were also both killed by a vampire-turned-back-into-a-human, in Near Dark. Although, for Lance H's character, time just sort of ran out for him... he was killed by the sun, an electrical fire in an exploding car, possibly a conscious decision that he had had enough fun and was ready to die... it was complicated for him. But the Caleb character certainly had a lot to do with the fact that he died, and the fact that Severen died..


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Ballz says:
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Apr 2019
I miss him too. My favorites, at least where he had more than a bit part, are Aliens, Near Dark, Trespass, Tombstone, True Lies, A Simple Plan, and Frailty.

Since no one else mentioned it, I'm going to take the opportunity to recommend Trespass. It's a Walter Hill flick where Bill Paxton and William Sadler go looking for gold in the ghetto, only to end up trapped in an abandoned factory while a street gang tries to kill them.


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sfpx says:
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Apr 2019
Trespass is a good one and I only watched it somewhat recently in the past few years. The 90s seemed like a good era for regular good guys to go wandering into tough inner city areas and then have trouble escaping. Kind of like "Judgement Night." I like movies with this plot.


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Ballz says:
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Apr 2019
Trespass reminds me a lot of Judgment Night. Pretty sure I even bought them on DVD at the same time. Those are the only two though I can think of off the top of my head with that kind of plot. Got any recs?


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sfpx says:
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Apr 2019
No, I was hoping you had some. Lol. I'm confident the 90s had a lot of movies with that scenario, but I can't think of any more.

There's "Enemy Territory" with a pre Candyman Tony Todd, but it's from 1987. Still a cool flick tho.


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Pavlovs_Bell says:
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Apr 2019 *
I only wish he had dived a little more into directing, Frailty was such a good film he clearly had the chops and I wish I could have seen what else he might have accomplished after. Always liked him as an actor, straight or mad, he just nails any role he works with I felt.

Loved him in Frailty of course, the Vagrant as well + The Colony, Aliens, Near Dark etc.

Of anything recent, I LOVED him in Nightcrawler, didn't get enough recognition for his part in it I'd argue and I liked the fraught tension between him and Bloom.


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Tommix says:
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Apr 2019 *
He was always a pleasure to see, in anything he did. He was best when he got to be a wildman in some way, but he was always solid, I thought.

Sometimes I think about how some of the great Texas actors of our lifetime have added so much to our lives. I wonder if they would have turned out the way they did, and been the people they were, if they had grown up in other states. Bill Paxton, Michael McConaughey, Woody Harrelson... there are plenty of others, of course, but those actors in particular just seem like they couldn't possibly have come from anywhere but Texas. I am not sure they would have turned out as awesome as they did if they grew up in Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Vermont, the states I'm most familiar with. I had to check on R. Lee Ermey, who actually grew up in Kansas and Washington state... he certainly had a Texas vibe going on. I guess the fact that he did not grow up in Texas might disprove my main point, sort of, but you can see what I'm getting at, with the three actors I named up above.


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sfpx says:
#12, Reply to #10

Apr 2019
Wildman. That's certainly an apt word to describe all those guys. They definitely acted like rock stars.


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