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Science Fiction Actor Bill Paxton Dies At Age 61 (ew.com)
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.
For real.
Game over, man :(
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Game over.
Game over...
Sigh.
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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.
, you fool.
The only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and Terminator!
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That's not a whale's dick. It's Pershing missile, chip. RIP.
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!
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 mean come on. He was an actor, and a well liked and respected one. He wasn't a "Science Fiction Actor." He had notable roles in Titanic, Twister, True Lies, Apollo 13, Big Love, Frank & Jesse and many many other movies. Science Fiction represents a small part of his resume and you're calling him a Science Fiction actor?
An accident? An accident? Do you realize it's snowing in my room goddammit!
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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.
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.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Apparently he's on an express elevator to hell.
Hudson, this little girl...
Well why don't you put her in charge
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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 ' "Bill Paxton" Terminator' to get a look at the character. (I knew Paxton had died earlier today, but I hadn't remembered he'd played that character in The Terminator until I read that).
Literally a minute or two later, having moved away to do something else, I happened to look at the TV behind me that I hadn't really paid attention to in several hours.
Some guy with no clothes on was looking out over a city... oh, hang on, I remember this, it's that bit in the original Terminator film isn't it? Right about the time that the Terminator goes up to the punks and steals their clothes. Lo and behold, the next thing on-screen is the scene with Paxton as a blue-haired punk!
What makes this odd is that it wasn't even a news report into his death- as I said, it was an entirely unrelated and pre-scheduled (#) showing of the Terminator that through pure luck I just happened to have caught at exactly the right point.
Bear in mind that I definitely hadn't left the TV on Channel 5 for any particular reason- probably got bored after flicking through the channels- and I hadn't known at all that they were going to be showing The Terminator that night.
(#) I assume it had nothing to do with Paxton's death since printed listings from yesterday morning include it. If they'd wanted to give him a tribute, I assume they'd have gone for a film in which he had a bigger role anyway.
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Paxton was both a lead actor and the director. It's a great movie that a lot of people haven't seen.
...no sequel to The Dark Backwards?
I can't be alone on this.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Hudson
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I say we grease this rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch right now
So many good lines
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Moron. That's the insurance companies that do that. And they've always done that. Like nobody ever died from a doctor screw up before the ACA.
In addition to his better known acting career, Bill Paxton was also in a campy 80s band called Martini Ranch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_Ranch
We must never forget Slipstream . On second thought, maybe we should forget it. It was terrible.
No sequel to Near Dark. Love the "I hate it when they ain't been shaved." comment.
Everything was perfect before Obama, there was no racism, no national debt, no wars, no insurance costs, no failing schools, no pollution.
I know this, because I read it in the Sacred Book of Reagan.
...and who could forget this memorable tribute (Bill Paxton Pinball) https://features.slashdot.org/...
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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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I liked him best as the President in "Independence Day." I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned that. . . . . .
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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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.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
What the fuck are you on about
No. Dipsh!t. Infections are getting harder to cure for a lot of reasons. Among them were people who did not continue taking their medication hence "bio-engineering" drug-resistance bugs. For those not into fancy phrases - it's evolution at work.
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Moron. That's the insurance companies that do that. And they've always done that.
Actually you are the moron, who do you think bills the insurance companies? The reason healthcare in the US is so out of control is because hospitals have to treat everyone including those who have no insurance. So they end up eating the cost 76% of the time. And the 24% of those who do have insurance yeah who guessed it have to make up the difference (somehow) with higher rates.
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He was in just as much, if not more, non SciFi films. So what's the point of the title?
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Bill Paxton's characters quotes are THE quotes I think of when I think of memorable movie quotes. (He's #2 in my book behind the Simpsons).
"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.
Obamacare doesn't set any pricing. How can it be both that costs went up under ACA and care went down under ACA? Oh, are Americans finally learning that cost of care and quality of care aren't as linked as they thought? Because for less money, you can have better care. Almost every other 1st world country has that now. The US is quite far behind, in live expectancy and quality of care, and for the highest price, for bottom of the barrel care. And no, none of that is Obama's fault. It all pre-dated him.
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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.
Yeah, whatever. Prior to Obamacare I could afford insurance and had a high but not crazy high deductible ($70/mo and $1500). Now I literally pay 4 times as much and have a 4 times higher deductible ($300/mo and $6500).
I had to go to the ER for basically nothing. Just walking in the door was $4000 out of my pocket (that's some sort of single fee for using the ER, the doctors and test were extra). That was the "has insurance but not our insurance" rate. If I had their insurance it would have been about $2000. If I had no insurance I don't know what it would have been but probably even less. I should have just told them I had no insurance but I didn't realize how bad it had got. The last time I went to the ER prior to Obamacare it was less than $500 for a whole bunch of tests and everything.
Most people don't realize how fucked up the healthcare system is. Providers and insurance companies work in cahoots to fuck over everyone else.
America has one of if not *the* top rated health care system in the world. However, when compared to other countries, America tends to fall flatter with mortality rates.
Funny thing is, mortality rates are a product of health care and *other things*, such as lifestyle, of which America has some of the worst, due in no small part to our nation's war on fats and other "we can make people better" trials in the past century.
Confusing lifestyle with health care will only get you used and abused by the people who are taking your money.
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God, my mind is a junkyard.
But what cool parts he got to play - going to miss him!
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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> America has one of if not *the* top rated health care system in the world.
Is that right?
(To be clear: you said "top rated" and not "best", so which ratings do you mean?)
..ain't me.
RIP Hudson - stay frosty.
I think he was brilliant in "True Lies" and also the Modern Day vampire flick "Near Dark" - along with Bill Paxton, also starring Lance Henriksen and one or two others from Aliens. Well worth watching if you haven't seen it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Dark
not mentioning he had survived pretty insane hurricanes eh?