As you all know, we lost Bill Paxton this year. In honor of his extraordinary career we want to pay tribute to him and talk about three very different performances (out of so many) that Mr. Paxton left for us to enjoy.
Even though we’ve both seen it, we just had to include True Lies (1994) in this show because he’s just so damned good in it. And we both want an excuse to watch it again. We said we would break our own rules, didn’t we?
Paul has chosen a baseball movie (ANOTHER ONE) starring Jon Hamm called Million Dollar Arm (2014) in which Bill plays Tom House, who is a real person according to Paul. Of course I have no idea who he is, but Paul swears by Bill’s performance, so I’m taking his word on this one.
My choice for Paul is the horror film (ANOTHER ONE) Frailty (2001) starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by…Bill Paxton. This one has been on my short list for Paul since day one, so the choice was a simple one. This movie is truly dark, and Paxton’s performance is absolutely haunting. PLUS there’s lots of skeevy moments where I get to torture Paul, so it’s a win all the way around…
…so please join us as we pay our respects to a great actor, a talented director, and the only man to have been killed by a Terminator, an Alien, and a Predator.
Jay