Bruce Willis

[Mumbles274]

I find this a sad story. I've always loved his films, no matter how silly they can be. He's a legend in my eyes and probably doesn't get the accolades of some of his peers. Maybe he's a dick and I don't know, but I've still never watched one of his films I didnt enjoy. Die Hard BW

BBC News - Bruce Willis gives up acting due to brain disorder aphasia

Bruce Willis gives up acting due to brain disorder aphasia

The Die Hard actor has aphasia, a brain condition "impacting his cognitive abilities", says his family.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[High Voltage]

He doesn't get the credit he deserves for saving the world in Armageddon

 

[High Voltage]

Last Man Standing - you like shooting, you'll love LMS

 

[A380]

Moonlighting was brilliant and years ahead of its time.

 

[Saffy]

Moonlighting was brilliant and years ahead of its time.

I loved Moonlighting!

 

[killer b]

Just reading this story about him, it's pretty bleak - reads like he's spent the last few years being exploited to wring the last few millions out of his career

Concerns about Bruce Willis' declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years

In interviews with The Times this month, nearly two dozen people who were on set with the actor expressed concern about Willis' well-being.

www.latimes.com

 

[Sprocket.]

I’ve watched a lot of his work. I liked his character in The Whole Nine Yards, looked like he was enjoying it too.
Sad news, horrid condition.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just reading this story about him, it's pretty bleak - reads like he's spent the last few years being exploited to wring the last few millions out of his career

Concerns about Bruce Willis' declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years

In interviews with The Times this month, nearly two dozen people who were on set with the actor expressed concern about Willis' well-being.

www.latimes.com

Bleak is the word

 

[Pickman's model]

He's a right wing shit but a great actor, very sad to hear this

 

[Pickman's model]

Moonlighting was brilliant and years ahead of its time.

Ended with him and cs hating each other

 

[seeformiles]

Read this today - what an awful condition. Like a lot of his films even if his politics aren’t to my taste.

He did also say this:

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Showbiz | Actor Willis' $1m Saddam bounty

news.bbc.co.uk

 

[seeformiles]

Moonlighting was brilliant and years ahead of its time.

When they regularly broke the 4th wall it was hilarious

 

[DaveCinzano]

I guess we'll be getting an article about John Cusack next

 

[Cerv]

Bradshaw's tribute to Willis here is spot on.

Soft, gentle and always battle-ready: Bruce Willis is an action star to stir the heart

Willis has announced he’s to retire from acting following an aphasia diagnosis. How we will miss new work from a man who brought such wry humility to mainstream cinema – and reinvented the vest

www.theguardian.com

but surprised he doesn't mention Twelve Monkeys. an outstanding performance I've always thought. no-one could ever claim Willis was another dumb 80s/90s action star. somehow I'd never seen Moonrise Kingdom until recently and that's another role he brought such depth to it's a joy to watch.


poor guy
it's been suggested that he'd been in so many straight to video stinkers recently due to money problems. what if he'd known he was getting sick and would have to quit soon. what an awful thing to have hanging over you.
e.g. here From the highest-paid actor in Hollywood to straight-to-video B-movies: The rise and fall of Bruce Willis

 

[Mumbles274]

Bradshaw's tribute to Willis here is spot on.

Soft, gentle and always battle-ready: Bruce Willis is an action star to stir the heart

Willis has announced he’s to retire from acting following an aphasia diagnosis. How we will miss new work from a man who brought such wry humility to mainstream cinema – and reinvented the vest

www.theguardian.com

but surprised he doesn't mention Twelve Monkeys. an outstanding performance I've always thought. no-one could ever claim Willis was another dumb 80s/90s action star. somehow I'd never seen Moonrise Kingdom until recently and that's another role he brought such depth to it's a joy to watch.


poor guy
it's been suggested that he'd been in so many straight to video stinkers recently due to money problems. what if he'd known he was getting sick and would have to quit soon. what an awful thing to have hanging over you.
e.g. here From the highest-paid actor in Hollywood to straight-to-video B-movies: The rise and fall of Bruce Willis

That's a great article. Gonna spend the weekend watching some Bruce filmd

 

[T & P]

He's a right wing shit but a great actor, very sad to hear this

I have since tried to separate the artist from their work as the saying goes, but I vividly remember the disappointment when I first found out his neocon right wing views. Was the first actor I liked who I subsequently realised might be a dick irl, and to my shame I never saw him in the same way since.

Which is even more irrational as after I decided to separate the man from the actor I have overlooked people with far more objectionable views/ traits. Willis might have done or supported some properly dodgy shite I don’t know about, but the only defining fact about him that put me off was his enthusiastic support for GW Bush’s Gulf War. Which is not great, but frankly nowhere near as bad as some of the shit plenty of other male Hollywood A-listers have since been alleged to have been involved in.

If nothing else I’m not aware of him having sexually harassed women, and he seems to have a genuinely cordial and amicable friendship with ex-wife Demi Moore and all their kids, so comes across as an overall decent guy despite his political leanings.

Anyways, as well as being part of some iconic action & sci-fi classics, he is no one trick pony. I thought he was brilliant and actually quite moving in The Sixth Sense, and whereas a supporting role only, fucking superb in Pulp Fiction.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Twelve Monkeys was peak Bruce Willis I reckon.

 

[Mumbles274]

Twelve Monkeys was peak Bruce Willis I reckon.

Will be watching this weekend. 5th element is also a great film

 

[T & P]

Twelve Monkeys was peak Bruce Willis I reckon.

Yes, that one goes on my top-five list too.

 

[Mumbles274]

Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way, so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life.

 

[Mumbles274]

Ok so that's a Rickman line, but still

 

[Epona]

Twelve Monkeys is superb, it's one of my favourite films.

It's on iPlayer atm.

 

[T & P]

Fuck, I’ve just checked IMDB and intriguingly he suddenly went from a gradual decline in the number of roles taken every year since the early 2010s, to a sudden explosion of roles in mostly shit low budget films. Twenty-five odd films from 2018 to 2021

I wonder if it was a financial issue a la Nicolas Cage, or if he suddenly felt the need to keep acting throughout for whatever reason regardless of the quality of the roles available. Perhaps he felt his acting career was coming to an end due to his diagnosis

 

[Epona]

I also like The Fifth Element, and am quite fond of Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense too.

Moonrise Kingdom is quirky goodness.

 

[Mumbles274]

Isn't there some talk that he worked as much as he could at the end even though he wasn't up to it. The Razzies have taken back their awards to him in respect of his health problems

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I've never seen Twelve Monkeys (long since downloaded to watch but haven't got around to it) but the Die Hard films are fantastic (all three of them)

 

[Petcha]

Die Hard is still the greatest Xmas movie ever. I hear he's a lovely guy too, not exactly your Tom Cruise or Christian Bale. This is a real shame. It sounds like an awful condition to have.

Interesting fact, or maybe not, but Frank Sinatra was offered the part in Die Hard before Bruce, for some obscure contractual thing with the studio. Now that would have been something.

 

[Reno]

Die Hard is still the greatest Xmas movie ever. I hear he's a lovely guy too, not exactly your Tom Cruise or Christian Bale. This is a real shame. It sounds like an awful condition to have.

Interesting fact, or maybe not, but Frank Sinatra was offered the part in Die Hard before Bruce, for some obscure contractual thing with the studio. Now that would have been something.

Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel Die Hard is based on, was writer Roderick Thorp's follow-up to his novel The Detective, which was filmed with Frank Sinatra in 1968. Thorp wrote the book in the late 70s with the intention for it to be adapted as a sequel to The Detective with Sinatra, but by the time Die Hard got made, Sinatra was too old and had retired from acting.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Fuck, I’ve just checked IMDB and intriguingly he suddenly went from a gradual decline in the number of roles taken every year since the early 2010s, to a sudden explosion of roles in mostly shit low budget films. Twenty-five odd films from 2018 to 2021

I wonder if it was a financial issue a la Nicolas Cage, or if he suddenly felt the need to keep acting throughout for whatever reason regardless of the quality of the roles available. Perhaps he felt his acting career was coming to an end due to his diagnosis

I think it was the latter if you look at how out of it he is in all of those films. Check out glass again baring in mind his condition. He's hardly in it doing anything other than sitting in a chair and flatly delivering lines given to him off camera. looks like he was heavily written around just to get the film made. The two meatiest parts he has in glass are walking towards his son and delivering a couple of lines, and a slow mo close up of his face in a puddle. Apart from that it's just silently walking from a to b, delivering lines off camera, body doubles and sitting down saying nothing.

Moonlight Kingdom is good though.

 

[BigMoaner]

so handsome when bald. gives hope for us forever thinnings

poor guy, wish him well. i always liked him.