Tombstone (1993) Review
Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed on screen by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator, which is a distinction he enjoyed.
Aliens gives him Hudson, whose panic is the film’s comic relief and whose game over line entered the language. Apollo 13, Tombstone and Twister filled out a career of dependable, likeable presence.
One False Move and A Simple Plan show a much darker capacity, and he directed Frailty, a genuinely disturbing film about a father who believes God has instructed him to kill.
He was in the crowd at a Kennedy motorcade as a child, photographed by chance, and died in 2017 following surgery.
Bill PaxtonTombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
Bill PaxtonTitanic (1997) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cameron built the ship at ninety percent scale, sank it, and hung the oldest story in the world off the side of it. The door problem is real. The…
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