Film Gene Hackman (95), wife (63) and dog (?) found dead at home

That’s sad. Yeah hoping it’s a carbon monoxide leak rather than some suicide pact or something.
 
Whenever I read his name, I immediately picture him playing his saxophone in the conversation. His performance was a thing of beauty. As were so many more of his.
 
Didn't realise he hadn't done anything since 2004. So many good movies, then bang...stopped.
 
Ekkie Thump said:
Didn't realise he hadn't done anything since 2004. So many good movies, then bang...stopped.
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Made a conscious decision to live out the rest of his life in retirement. Was said to have been fecked off with acting by that point anyway.
 
Ekkie Thump said:
Didn't realise he hadn't done anything since 2004. So many good movies, then bang...stopped.
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He preferred to retire and follow his hobbies instead of staying to keep starring in rubbish films like many actors of his era.
 
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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Yes to all three!

The French connection is his best though, for me
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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Unforgiven is an excellent film, one of Eastwood's best.
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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Yes. Especially The Conversation and The French Connection.
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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The French Connection, The Conversation, Mississipi Burning, Unforgiven are all good films.
I love him in Wes Andersons The Royal Tenebuams, even though Hackman was a complete pain in the ass on set.
And I have a soft spot for the goofy disaster movie Poseidon Adventure.
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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Yeah same. I was telling my partner who didn't know who he was and I was like "he was in loads of stuff...he was in..... erm... *checks imdb* oh not that much I know actually."
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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Yes all three are worth watching, Unforgiven isn't that great but the other two are brilliant.
 
Solius said:
Yeah same. I was telling my partner who didn't know who he was and I was like "he was in loads of stuff...he was in..... erm... *checks imdb* oh not that much I know actually."
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The two of you should see this as an opportunity to get more familiar with his work.
 
Solius said:
Yeah same. I was telling my partner who didn't know who he was and I was like "he was in loads of stuff...he was in..... erm... *checks imdb* oh not that much I know actually."
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I had that exact conversation an hour ago :lol:

Enemy of The State was the only one I could think of straight away.
 
Looking through his IMDB, that guy liked a legal thriller. Not as much as he seemed to like starring in terrible movies, but still.

Royal Tenenbaums was great, though.
 
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I did not know this. You'd hope it is something like this that killed a household and not some kind of death pact - it seems to stand more to reason because, who kills their family dog?

If this isn't foul play, it's brutal how a household can be wiped out just like that.

RIP to Gene. He did it the best way.
 
You can't really go wrong with Friedkins The French Connection and Coppola’s The Conversation. The sequel to the French Connection isn't to bad either considering.
 
Scandi Red said:
He's one those "weird" actors for me. I hear his name all the time and I know exactly what he looks like and yet I can't remember a single role he played (although I have seen a few of the shittier films on his IMDb list).


Should I watch The French Connection, Unforgiven or The Conversation? The last one is already on my watchlist, I think.
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Yes, watch all three.
 
Brophs said:
Looking through his IMDB, that guy liked a legal thriller. Not as much as he seemed to like starring in terrible movies, but still.

Royal Tenenbaums was great, though.
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The man’s just died, did you really have to describe his body of work as terrible?
 
Pexbo said:
The man’s just died, did you really have to describe his body of work as terrible?
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Not all of the movies he did were terrible. I mentioned Royal Tenenbaums, didn't I?
 
Ekkie Thump said:
Didn't realise he hadn't done anything since 2004. So many good movies, then bang...stopped.
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Yeah, that struck me as odd as well. Being a Ray Romano fan back in the day I watched Welcome to Mooseport as soon as it released on DVD.

Sad news though, and very peculiar circumstances.
 
Nah, the guy had a bunch of good films under his belt:

The Conversation
Unforgiven
Scarecrow
Mississippi Burning
French Connection
Night Moves
Royal Tenenbaums
A Bridge too Far
 
HTG said:
Whenever I read his name, I immediately picture him playing his saxophone in the conversation. His performance was a thing of beauty. As were so many more of his.
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Rewatched The Conversation very recently and "thing of beauty" doesn't even begin to describe it. Fantastic performance. Brilliant film, too, still relevant after all these years.


Ekkie Thump said:
Scarecrow's worth watching.
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Yup, little gem of a film.


RIP Gene.
 
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