One of my favorite actors of all time. If you haven’t seen it, watch The Dish.
also the Event Horizon, his change of character is something you don't forget..
Even Horizon is a Warhammer 40k film that has nothing to do with Warhammer 40k.
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#22I’ve watched “In The Mouth of Madness” so many times. It is in my top 3 most re-watched horror movies list. Perfect Lovecraftian horror, and Sam Neill was perfect in it.
Do you read Sutter Cane?
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#23I watched Possession (1981) a few weeks back. One of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. His acting was so different from his later stuff.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's to "trying to be someone's childhood heroes"
Without dancing on TikTok or pulling stupid faces for YouTube thumbnails
Yup, we can dream bigger and give bigger dreams :)
A silver lining in the tech progress is this : I remember watching movies from the 60s or the 70s, in the 90s, and feeling "damn, that looks old". I could only care about movies made after 1984, or something (and, men, did amblin and the "produced by Steven Spielberg-verse" give us good things to watch.)
I suspect that, now that movies are kinda "converging" in terms of visual, it will be easier to share the movies of our childhoods with the next generation.
Besides, they don't care that much about looks : I litteraly witnessed 10 year old kids getting hooked on my 1991 game boy !!!!
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#25Ah, that sucks. I’ve always enjoyed him.
One of the inevitable features of getting older. All my cultural icons keep checking out.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
also the Event Horizon, his change of character is something you don't forget..
Not my favourite movie though. The horror in space trope is a very tired one. Alongside the poorly lit spaceship. Spaceships are workplaces and workplaces should provide adequate illumination so you can see what you are doing. But I LOVE what he did for the New Zealand flag.
Pandorum was pretty crazy (he wasn’t in it, but it was an odd space horror movie, and I feel that Event Horizon kind of paved the way).
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#27I watched Possession (1981) a few weeks back. One of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. His acting was so different from his later stuff.
Possession is such a fantastically special movie, heavily due to Neill and Adjani’s performances.
RIP to a real one.
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#28As a kiwi he was the best of us. Creative, talented, willing to roll up his sleeves, maker of exceptional wine. Haere ra
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#29An absolute legend. I thought he'd be around for longer. Thanks for making Jurassic Park what it is, Sam.
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#30One of my favorite actors of all time. If you haven’t seen it, watch The Dish.
also the Event Horizon, his change of character is something you don't forget..
That's always the role I remember first when I hear his name, because it seems so unusual for him and because he was so great in it.