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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 :(
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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.
The only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and Terminator!
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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!
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!
Beware of the Leopard.
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!
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They can have my command prompt when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Hudson, this little girl...
Well why don't you put her in charge
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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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Hudson
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I say we grease this rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch right now
So many good lines
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We must never forget Slipstream . On second thought, maybe we should forget it. It was terrible.
...and who could forget this memorable tribute (Bill Paxton Pinball) https://features.slashdot.org/...
SIGERR: laziness exceeds quota
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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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.
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.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
"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.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
"The 'vette makes 'em wet."
Alverez? Wasn't that Vasquez?
He was in just as much, if not more, non SciFi films. So what's the point of the title?
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
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.
Well, I guess that's one way to get out of this chicken-shit outfit.
THE SOFTWARE, IT NO WORKY!!!
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.
Learn to love Alaska
Now make yourself one, dickweed!
Yeah, it was, my bad
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ok Mr AC, I was being a bit of a dick because I was in bad mood - sorry.
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