NikoBaltimore Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 We're only 14 days into the year and already I'm thinking "Fuck 2016" A third notable death (and more as covered in the general celebrity death thread) The fact all three died of cancer really fucking sucks. Can never say this enough, but fuck cancer, fuck it so much. I'm not a fan of my voice and would have killed to have a voice nearly as awesome as Alan's. And he had a great variety of roles. Aside from the ones mentioned I absolutely loved him in Dogma. He was absolutely tremendous in it. And I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I damn sure loved him as Snape. Damn, what a great actor and from what's been presented great guy he was also. RIP, Alan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterien Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 He was Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (with Liam Neeson) as well and fucking owned it!! RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 If you are British, 69 years old, and famous, watch out cause cancer has declared open season on your ass this year apparently... Thank god my Dad isn't famous. When you think of Die Hard, not only was it his movie debut (he'd done a bit of TV work, but was basically a pure stage actor at the time), but he nailed the role so hard it not only opened the Hollywood career door for him, it opened the door for so many of his peers that a couple of years later it was a cliche that the villain in every action movie was a British stage actor. He goes to LA to try a couple of auditions, test the waters, see if there's any interest out there, and within a fortnight he's got second lead in the best action movie ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Meanwhile, I work across the street from News Corp and their crawl just framed him as "the lizard guy from 'Galaxy Quest.'" BURN. IT. TO. THE. GROUND. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 And that was right after they took nearly everybody but him from the stage version of Les Liaisons Dangeruse to make Dangerous Liaisons. Fuck fuck fuck fuck this sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Probably my favourite thing he ever did was this performance of Beckett's Play. I've watched this numerous times over the years and it's still mesmerizing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Meanwhile, I work across the street from News Corp and their crawl just framed him as "the lizard guy from 'Galaxy Quest.'" BURN. IT. TO. THE. GROUND. We should probably be doing that anyway, frankly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 You know every single action film that has a vaguely European bad guy in a nice fancy suit? Yeah, they're almost always trying to be Hans Gruber. And never quite managing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 He was Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (with Liam Neeson) as well and fucking owned it!! RIP Apparently, he did not like the "watered down" ending. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Man, the choices on Netflix for Rickman films is thin. Galaxy Quest it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 This makes up for the lack of Rickman on Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 It's really creepy how these deaths in show business seem to happen so close together. I remember always thinking recently that I never really believed Rickman was in his 60s because I always thought he looked younger. So surprising he and David Bowie were sick. I'm comforted at least that Rickman is leaving a pretty nice legacy, both as a classical actor of the stage, and as a guy who played really awesome cinematic badguys. But in Snape, he played a bad guy everyone thought was bad but deep down was truly good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterien Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 He was Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (with Liam Neeson) as well and fucking owned it!! RIP Apparently, he did not like the "watered down" ending. Ya he apparently wanted the proper ending to the story and not a "Hollywood" ending. Have to respect him even more now.Great man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Truly, Madly, Deeply is on youtube with spanish subtitles but it's pretty rough VQ. It's almost impossible to get otherwise it seems. I've never seen it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Truly, Madly, Deeply is on youtube with spanish subtitles but it's pretty rough VQ. It's almost impossible to get otherwise it seems. I've never seen it. Truly, Madly, Deeply is on youtube with spanish subtitles but it's pretty rough VQ. It's almost impossible to get otherwise it seems. I've never seen it. It was on the college art film circuit when i saw it. Dont know if i have seen it since. Until the other day, id forgotten it was directed by anthony minghella. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 As a sidebar Kevin Smith talks a bit more in depth about Rickman on Hollywood Babble-On this week. I think it's about 52 minutes in. The segment tinsel town stiffs starts about 40 minutes in covering Lemmy David bowie and several others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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