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American character actor Wilford Brimley has died age 85.
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Was also due another watch of Hard Target and The Thing.
I have a friend who comes around to mine regularly for a movie night. He's seen very few movies and I've been going through a pile of classics and favourites and I'm dying to show him The Thing but I'm waiting for the 4K to come out.
On the other hand, I have a real dislike for all John Woo's Hollywood fare.
Hard Target, Face Off, MI:2 (awful, truly, truly awful), Paycheck. Dislike them all.
His HK films like The Killer, Hard Boiled etc. Excellent.
I have a friend who comes around to mine regularly for a movie night. He's seen very few movies and I've been going through a pile of classics and favourites and I'm dying to show him The Thing but I'm waiting for the 4K to come out.
On the other hand, I have a real dislike for all John Woo's Hollywood fare.
Hard Target, Face Off, MI:2 (awful, truly, truly awful), Paycheck. Dislike them all.
His HK films like The Killer, Hard Boiled etc. Excellent.
As it's an obituary thread I shall keep my abject horror at this outrageous statement in check
For me Brimley always came across as a cool grandad, the epitome of that being none other than in Hard Target. (In this case of course he was someone's Uncle).
Thinking about it, I've actually clocked up some serious viewing time of his films over the years.
Part of another "Ratpack" too with Don Ameche and Hume Cronyn.
Watching him in Cocoon - and reading about the tributes to him - it’s not outrageous to suggest he was probably like that in real life.
Agreed, plus when he went back to HK he made the excellent Red Cliff, so it's not like he'd lost his talent.On the other hand, I have a real dislike for all John Woo's Hollywood fare.
Hard Target, Face Off, MI:2 (awful, truly, truly awful), Paycheck. Dislike them all.
His HK films like The Killer, Hard Boiled etc. Excellent.