A thread for Bill Paxton

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As the older brother in Weird Science: awesome.
As the crazy dude (Tex?) in Aliens: awesome.
As the creepy yet loving dad in Frailty: awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

This is a thread for Bill Paxton.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

This guy:
http://www.movies-on-dvds.com/bill_paxton.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

As the chopper-riding vamp in Near Dark: awesome (or so I heard).

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

also, the street punk in Terminator.

and he plays "hudson" in Aliens.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

COCONUT PETE! COCONUT FUCKING PETE!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brainkiller.it/aliens/aliens/hudson1.jpg

"Game over man!"

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Selected filmography:

Stripes
Terminator
Commando
Near Dark
Predator 2
Tombstone
True Lies
Twister
A Simple Plan
Club Dread

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I've liked him in just about everything I've seen him in. He's also good in Trespass and Pa$$ The Ammo.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I prefer Will Patton.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

http://mirrorimageorigin.collegepublisher.com/media/paper540/stills/g25567a8.jpg
there's a little place where the sun sleeps late
pours himself a shot of tequila
it's a little place called Pleasure Island
and that's where I'd like to feel ya

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

It seems like most of the time, or at least up until the last 10 years or so, he almost always played: a) a redneck, b) a soldier, or c) a redneck soldier.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, I totally forgot he was in Stripes!! Coming very close to unseating Gary Oldman as my favorite actor ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

rubbish in Twister

great in True Lies

storming in Aliens, obv

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

TS: Bill Paxton / Will Patton v. Bill Pullman / Jeff Daniels

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and A Simple Plan, I don't think he played a redneck OR a soldier! And it was GREAT!

x-post Bill Paxton pwns all those guys hard

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I really think Coconut Pete is his penultimate role for me, though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Paxton has been killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator. full house! he deserves ULTIMATE RESPECT for this.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

"He also directed the video for the cult hit "Fish Heads"
RESPECT.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

OTM gkit

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Paxton would own just for Traveller and One False Move.

And he was in Pat Benatar's video for "Shadows Of The Night"!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Paxton has been killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator...

...and the Fun Police!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I spent the first two episodes of Deadwood trying to remember Paxton's name, because I wasn't convinced that Timothy Olyphant wasn't him.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

If you haven't seen Frailty, rent it out now. Directed and starring Paxton, its the most serial filler fun I have had in the movies for five years.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

If you haven't seen Frailty, rent it out now. Directed and starring Paxton, its the most serial killer fun I have had in the movies for five years.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

two words: MARTINI RANCH

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

oh but it can't be just two words: Martini Ranch produced by Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

oh, all right

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

such a classic! a really great character actor. and i really liked frailty, he was so delightfully psychotic in it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

He appeared in the video for Touched by the Hand of God by New Order, which, like Near Dark, was directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

He'd be great if all he had done was star in One False Move, which is one of the few films to really get to me emotionally.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Warning warning, avoid "A Simple Plan," the most annoying movie I have ever seen. But everything else I've seen of Paxton (which is basically, like "Aliens") thumbs up.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Is this gonna be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody see the golf movie he directed?

― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I was debating renting that James Cameron documentary about searching for the real titanic or surveying the ocean whatever. Evidently Paxton is there the whole time offering variations on "gosh!"

― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpN9ce_qF0

― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Frailty is great, wicked fun.

I can't believe he directed "Fish Heads"!!

― Simon H., Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

WHY DON'T YOU PUT HER IN CHARGE?!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

He's super in "A Simple Plan," probably Sam Rainmi's best film. *ducks*

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

WHOOPIE FUCKIN' DOO.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

i liked a simple plan too

― n/a, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Someone should collect all Paxton's dialogue from Aliens.

His best performance is still in One False Move, and he was really cute too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

This guy wanted to custom build his own pinball machine. He needed a theme for it, so why not Bill Paxton? Why not indeed...

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the Bill Paxton pinball machine. It is AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRZJgPCNDY0

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

Maker level detail on how this thing was built: http://benheck.com/03-16-2010/bill-paxton-pinball

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPpZgOxhi4

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

it really is nothing short of incredible for all the work and silly references (Big Love wives multiplier! A Simple Plan wheel of fate!) though featuring Brittany Daniel in the center there (just because she was in Club Dread) is kind of a massive failure

― Nhex, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Apparently Bill made an episode of Tales From The Crypt where he and Brad Dourif are hillbilly cons who go after an ice cream man played by Michael Lerner who done them wrong. Russell "Highlander Like The Wolf" Mulcahy directed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45vGHYEZOU

Bill Patxon forever.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 06:11 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAzmb6KAFhE#t=2m17s

bill discusses murs, people under the stairs and jedi mind tricks on today

― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 06:32 (fourteen years ago)

discussion begins at 2:00

― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 06:33 (fourteen years ago)

ten years pass...

The scene in One False Move (which I just rewatched the other day) where he overhears the two L.A. cops talking about him has to be one of the greatest depictions of quiet humiliation ever put on screen.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 23:24 (four years ago)

two years pass...

I still can't believe Bill Paxton is dead.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 22:52 (two years ago)

what would it take

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:10 (two years ago)

I bet he would have killed starring in a series by the Yellowstone/Tulsa King guy.

Or even as the Tulsa King instead of Sly.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 18 April 2024 10:13 (two years ago)

I still can't believe Bill Paxton is dead.

― Josh in Chicago

game over, man!

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2024 12:20 (two years ago)

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