James Earl Jones has died • Hacker News Board

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by cylinder714 » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 4:24 AM UTC

jcastro wrote: post #14

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #11

I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…

When Jack hands him the photos of Red October: "Jesus that's a big sucker."

"I told you to speak your mind, Jack, but Jesus!"

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by rasengan » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 4:35 AM UTC

I guess there's going to be a flood of JEJ AI.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by 4thgenrustcoder » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:16 AM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #147

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just read on his Wikipedia page that he made it through Ranger school in the Korean War era. That's an accomplishment. Several readers here will know that's not really an easy thing to do. Overcame stuttering as a kid. Went to Ranger school (as an African American in the 50s.) Performed Shakespeare and contemporary plays and worked in film. A true dude. Lifting one in his honor this evening (though I'm old enough tha…

wikipedia says "Jones was commissioned in mid-1953, after the Korean War's end, and reported to Fort Benning (now Fort Moore) to attend the Infantry Officers Basic Course. He attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab."

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Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by cdchn » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:39 AM UTC

mesbahamin wrote: post #118

david-gpu wrote: post #4

For me he will always be Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian. You need to watch that movie if you haven't already.

A delightful performance https://youtu.be/a7Mx9fGzAmM

Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by Arrath » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:43 AM UTC

kevinventullo wrote: post #122

liquorist wrote: post #21

He’ll always be the GDI’s General Solomon from Tiberian Sun in my mind.

Yes! I remember the cutscenes being pretty campy, but he elevated them.

I loved that DARTH FREAKIN VADER was the General in my campy game FMV cutscenes.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by tomkarho » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

I find his lack of life disturbing.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by alexjplant » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:56 AM UTC

david-gpu wrote: post #4

For me he will always be Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian. You need to watch that movie if you haven't already.

I saw "Conan" a year or two after I first saw him in "The Sandlot" and lost it when I realized that the same guy that was doing battle with The Terminator was responsible for saving Smalls from a lifetime of being grounded... his voice made him instantly recognizable in spite of the wig and crazy costumes he wore in the former. RIP.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by ManuelKiessling » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:56 AM UTC

iancmceachern wrote: post #32

aidenn0 wrote: post #24

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For me it's Sneakers "We are the US Government, we don't do that sort of thing"

Love this movie, it really holds up too. I live right near that plaza in SF where Sydney Poitier yells at Martin "its your Mother" with the Car phone in his hand. Great movie

Whenever the line „they don’t make them like this anymore“ comes up wrt movies, I think of „Sneakers“ and „The Hunt for Red October“.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by UberFly » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

I saw him close up filming "Three Fugitives" with Martin Short in Tacoma, WA on a random summer day in 1988. He grinned and gave a peace sign to my friends and I. I don't know if they make them like him any more.

Re: James Earl Jones has died

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Post by alexjplant » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 6:12 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #131

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #107

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Gary Oldman is one of the best actors I've had the privilege of seeing. Consider that Mr. Zorg, Winston Churchill, and George Smiley, are played by the same person, is amazing.

Rosencrantz and Stansfield made him my favorite actor for the first decade of my adulthood. Zorg is okay. That terrible Lost in Space movie lowered his trajectory for a while. He’s been hitting home runs a lot since. But if you hear him in interviews he thinks of himself as a working actor. He’s doing the job. But the right people think he can do a good job so he’s getting better roles.

> That terrible Lost in Space movie

I'll never defend "Lost in Space" as a cinematic tour-de-force in the traditional sense but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most quintessentially-90s films ever made. It has Silicon Graphics logos and bubble-shaped silver electronics everywhere. William Hurt managed to find time to slip away from the "Dark City" set to make an appearance. Pre-Felicity Shagwell/post-Rollergirl Heather Graham fends off advances from Joey Tribbiani while the crazy guy from "Leon: The Professional" makes a bunch of bizarre wisecracking non-sequiturs. A brash Big beat remix of the original TV theme blares over the credits immediately following a fight involving a giant CGI (SGI?) spider.

I disliked it intensely as a kid but enjoy it a lot in retrospect because of my high-resolution nostalgia goggles.