Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
02-28-25 | 09:04 AM
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All the same. Depends how you choose to purpose it. If it's covered with floor mats it's purpose is a mud room. That's why stores put the carts there after bringing them in. To keep wheels dirty and wet from rain and snow from tracking up the floors of the store proper, which some employee spent the overnight shift polishing.
02-28-25 | 09:09 AM
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This only leaves Marc McClure and Valerie Perrine left from the principle cast of Superman: The Movie. The three villains from the Phantom Zone only did cameos in the first movie and weren't in the main cast until the second movie.
02-28-25 | 09:12 AM
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The garage is my mudroom
I leave my shoes there before I enter the house.
I leave my shoes there before I enter the house.
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02-28-25 | 09:56 AM
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The CNN article had an odd choice for some words in the article. It stated that both Hackman and his wife were found lying on the ground. They were inside the house in the bathroom and the kitchen, both of which would be tiled, so it would have made more sense to say they were found lying on the floor. Saying they were found on the ground makes it sound like they were outside and not indoors.
02-28-25 | 10:01 AM
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Is it possible to put a kennel in a mudroom or can a mudroom be used as a kennel? And is it just a laundry room, if they never have muddy shoes?
02-28-25 | 11:00 AM
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Last night I revisited Crimson Tide. Stayed up until 1:30am. This is the Unrated Extended Cut DVD that I got from Best Buy 19 years ago and only watched once. Never upgraded to BD.
Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel. I’m surprised this movie doesn’t get mentioned more from his filmography. It was part of the splashy Bruckheimer/Simpson productions from the 1990s and maybe is not regarded as a prestige film.
Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel. I’m surprised this movie doesn’t get mentioned more from his filmography. It was part of the splashy Bruckheimer/Simpson productions from the 1990s and maybe is not regarded as a prestige film.
02-28-25 | 11:34 AM
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Last night I revisited Crimson Tide. Stayed up until 1:30am. This is the Unrated Extended Cut DVD that I got from Best Buy 19 years ago and only watched once. Never upgraded to BD.
Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel.
Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel.
02-28-25 | 11:46 AM
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It's second only to The Rock as far as splashy Bruckheimer/Simpson productions from the 1990s go.
02-28-25 | 12:54 PM
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RIP. Damn, this is one celebrity that resonated with me when I was a kid (First Superman movie obviously) but I've always just loved him as an actor, even the not so good films he was in I would still watch because he was in it.
Not that "I'm hoping" or anything, but out of all the tragic shit, I do hope it was something like carbon monoxide poisoning and not some of the other stuff that has been mentioned in this thread.
Not that "I'm hoping" or anything, but out of all the tragic shit, I do hope it was something like carbon monoxide poisoning and not some of the other stuff that has been mentioned in this thread.
02-28-25 | 02:59 PM
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02-28-25 | 03:13 PM
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02-28-25 | 03:20 PM
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I think that the idea of thinking a mudroom is for wealthy people is because a true mudroom is a room solely dedicated to being an intermediate room between coming in from the outdoors to entering the house proper.
That room does not contain the washer and dryer because such homes also have a separate room that is the laundry room.
So the idea is that it is wealthy people who have homes large enough to include all these rooms for specifically designated functions.
I must be pretty poor because I don't have an entry way, and my washer and dryer are in the kitchen.
That room does not contain the washer and dryer because such homes also have a separate room that is the laundry room.
So the idea is that it is wealthy people who have homes large enough to include all these rooms for specifically designated functions.
I must be pretty poor because I don't have an entry way, and my washer and dryer are in the kitchen.
02-28-25 | 03:22 PM
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Last night I revisited Crimson Tide. Stayed up until 1:30am. This is the Unrated Extended Cut DVD that I got from Best Buy 19 years ago and only watched once. Never upgraded to BD.
Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel. I’m surprised this movie doesn’t get mentioned more from his filmography. It was part of the splashy Bruckheimer/Simpson productions from the 1990s and maybe is not regarded as a prestige film.
Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel. I’m surprised this movie doesn’t get mentioned more from his filmography. It was part of the splashy Bruckheimer/Simpson productions from the 1990s and maybe is not regarded as a prestige film.
02-28-25 | 03:31 PM
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02-28-25 | 03:50 PM
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What I liked about the movie when I revisited it a couple of years back, that while the audience is rooting for Denzel as the hero, Gene Hackman isn't presented as the villain. Both of them have a good point for their reasoning, it's not a fight between good and evil, not even right or wrong, just between caution and action.
02-28-25 | 04:06 PM
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Yes, but since free thinking isn't how the military is set up, it makes the fight so interesting. Both of them are reasonable in their position. I prefer Denzel's point of view, but I understand the other one too. They could have easily present Gene Hackman's character as a crazy man, who has to be stopped, but they didn't and that's what shows me there was some free thinking in the writing and directing process.
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02-28-25 | 04:16 PM
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I think that the idea of thinking a mudroom is for wealthy people is because a true mudroom is a room solely dedicated to being an intermediate room between coming in from the outdoors to entering the house proper.
That room does not contain the washer and dryer because such homes also have a separate room that is the laundry room.
So the idea is that it is wealthy people who have homes large enough to include all these rooms for specifically designated functions.
I must be pretty poor because I don't have an entry way, and my washer and dryer are in the kitchen.
That room does not contain the washer and dryer because such homes also have a separate room that is the laundry room.
So the idea is that it is wealthy people who have homes large enough to include all these rooms for specifically designated functions.
I must be pretty poor because I don't have an entry way, and my washer and dryer are in the kitchen.
But seriously, Gene Hackman was one of the greats and I hope, for his sake, his mudroom didn't have laundry.
02-28-25 | 04:33 PM
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https://variety.com/2025/film/news/g...ed-1236323847/
No carbon monoxide in Hackman and his wife. His pacemaker last recorded data February 17th.
No carbon monoxide in Hackman and his wife. His pacemaker last recorded data February 17th.
02-28-25 | 05:05 PM
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Well, that's to be expected up there in New England where all the rich liberal elites live. Down here in Texas, we are just simple and down-to-earth patriotic Americans.
02-28-25 | 09:04 PM
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02-28-25 | 09:20 PM
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I forgot about Scarecrow a movie he did with Pacino which i probably saw edited on a local TV station.
I bought it at Amazon today.
I bought it at Amazon today.
02-28-25 | 09:39 PM
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I always thought "using the mudroom" was a euphemism for anal sex.
03-01-25 | 08:41 AM
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03-01-25 | 10:38 AM
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Back to Hackman, this may end being on Dateline because of the mysterious circumstances of what exactly happened. Probably would have featured on Unsolved Mysteries if it had happened in the 1990s.
03-01-25 | 11:14 AM
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There's lots of possible scenarios of what could have happened. Police say there is no evidence of external trauma and no immediate signs of carbon monoxide or natural gas poisoning. He could have collapsed and died. Then his wife could have committed suicide which would match up with there being an empty pill bottle and some pills being scattered in the area. They had been dead for days, so the dog could have died of starvation of dehydration after a while. It says the dog died in the bathroom closet, but doesn't say it was intentionally locked in there, so it may have been staying close to its family member in an effort to "protect" it and eventually just died.
She could have died of natural cause first and Hackman may not have been well enough to take care of himself or get help and eventually collapsed in another part of the house and the dog died the same way as in the other scenario. I'm sure lots of pets die when their human dies unexpectantly in the house and doesn't have a way of getting help. That happened to the one child actor from ALF when he died in his car.
She could have died of natural cause first and Hackman may not have been well enough to take care of himself or get help and eventually collapsed in another part of the house and the dog died the same way as in the other scenario. I'm sure lots of pets die when their human dies unexpectantly in the house and doesn't have a way of getting help. That happened to the one child actor from ALF when he died in his car.