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Old 03-31-22 | 08:28 PM
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Well Red letter Media did a follow up to their previous Bruce Willis video. They just touched on the rumors that are now confirmed about his health and how it led him to his B Movie output. I still think their previous Bruce Willis video is noteworthy in that they talked about the "Geezer Teasers" and the aging actors who have been reduced to doing B-movies.
Old 03-31-22 | 08:33 PM
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According to his IMDB, Willis has 8 more movies coming out that are either completed or in post production.

Old 03-31-22 | 09:19 PM
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I only hope his decision to take part in so many crap cash-in movies was his, and he wasn't being pushed by handlers and the like.
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Old 04-01-22 | 10:19 AM
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This really is sad news but also explains a lot of his output for the past few years. I've not watched the DTV stuff but will always fondly recall him in Moonlighting and his action movies like Armageddon, Die Hard etc. not to mention the Sixth Sense and other serious roles of that era.

It's funny I was listening to Sirus radio last night and they even played one of his songs off the album he released back in the 90s
Old 04-01-22 | 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Bluelitespecial
I still think their previous Bruce Willis video is noteworthy in that they talked about the "Geezer Teasers" and the aging actors who have been reduced to doing B-movies.
I do too. Bruce Willis started appearing in Geezer Teasers while he was making big movies on a regular basis. Fire With Fire, Setup and to a degree Catch .44 and The Cold Light of Day started off his descent into the DTV world and he was still in RED 2, Sin City 2, G.I. Joe 2, Die Hard 5 and Looper at that time. In 2014 he started to be primarily in Geezer Teasers, about two of them per year and it only started last year when every couple of weeks a new movie hit.
So to me it looks that he started doing them for the easy paycheck and when he or is entourage realized he can't do anything else and just for a limited amount of time, they started crapping those movies out to bank on his name as long as possible. I still hope it was his decision to occupy his mind and to keep on doing what he loves. It would be terrible to find out, he was a puppet.
Old 04-01-22 | 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Hazel Motes
Top 5 Bruce Willis films:

Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
12 Monkeys
Unbreakable
Sin City
i'd put Red in place of Unbreakable, but solid list there.
Old 04-01-22 | 11:29 AM
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We'll have to wait a whole year before we can hear Chris Rock make fun of Bruce Willis's condition at the Oscars.
Old 04-01-22 | 12:07 PM
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GMA piece from today about Willis and his condition. They talked to one of the directors of one of his recent movies and what he observed.

Old 04-01-22 | 12:08 PM
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Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
The Fifth Element
Sin City
Moonrise Kingdom

At least those are the ones I come back to the most.

I'd swap out Moonrise with Beavis and Butthead Do America when feeling nostalgic and The 6th Sense but, being a huge Wes Anderson fan, Moonrise makes for more repeat viewings (though not necessarily for Willis' performance)
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1. Die Hard
2. Pulp Fiction
3. 12 Monkees
4. The Sixth Sense
5. Unbreakable
6. The 5th Element
7. Red
8. Die Hard 2
9. Die Hard With A Vengence
10. Armageddon
Old 04-01-22 | 02:26 PM
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1. Die Hard
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
4. The Sixth Sense
5. Unbreakable

Unfortunately he loses points for being in The 5th Element.
Old 04-01-22 | 03:20 PM
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1. Unbreakable
2. The Sixth Sense
3. 12 Monkeys
4. Death Becomes Her
5. Pulp Fiction

These are my favorites of his. I have a lot of his movies in my collection.
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Don't know if it was already scheduled or was due to the news but Prime added some of his movies today: Armageddon, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
Old 04-05-22 | 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by DJariya
Kevin Smith feels like an asshole for how bad their relationship was on Cop Out

https://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/s...-IYI7aj_r_O9NA
My first thought upon hearing the news, after wishing the best for Bruce and his family, was whether his condition contributed to the tension on that Cop Out set. It never really sat right with me as Kevin Smith always seems to be a mellow kind of guy in the interviews that I have seen and seems to get along with everyone.
Old 04-05-22 | 04:43 PM
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My first thought upon hearing the news, after wishing the best for Bruce and his family, was whether his condition contributed to the tension on that Cop Out set. It never really sat right with me as Kevin Smith always seems to be a mellow kind of guy in the interviews that I have seen and seems to get along with everyone.
Cop Out came out 12 years ago, I don’t know if Willis actually had any signs of aphasia then.
Old 04-05-22 | 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by The Antipodean
Cop Out came out 12 years ago, I don’t know if Willis actually had any signs of aphasia then.
I wouldn't think so, as the last film Willis seemed perfectly fine in was Looper (in 2012)...it seemed to be a slow progression downward from 2013 on. Of course, that's only a guess based on his on-screen work.
Old 04-05-22 | 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by The Antipodean
Cop Out came out 12 years ago, I don’t know if Willis actually had any signs of aphasia then.
Yea, the aphasia didn't cause him to have a massive ego and get kicked off The Expendables.

I think he started to decline a few years ago... around 2015 when he left a Woody Allen film.
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Old 04-06-22 | 07:41 AM
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Yea, the aphasia didn't cause him to have a massive ego and get kicked off The Expendables.

I think he started to decline a few years ago... around 2015 when he left a Woody Allen film.
Willis sustained a head injury on the set of Tears of the Sun in 2002. One of Smith's complaints about Willis on Cop Out was that he refused to memorize his lines. I think there's a possibility that he started declining after the injury, but things didn't become untenable until 2015 or so. I don't think he'd have been the first person to develop dickish behavior to compensate for diminished capabilities. I have no idea if it's true, but it's not a difficult narrative to believe.
Old 04-06-22 | 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by rocket1312
Willis sustained a head injury on the set of Tears of the Sun in 2002. One of Smith's complaints about Willis on Cop Out was that he refused to memorize his lines. I think there's a possibility that he started declining after the injury, but things didn't become untenable until 2015 or so. I don't think he'd have been the first person to develop dickish behavior to compensate for diminished capabilities. I have no idea if it's true, but it's not a difficult narrative to believe.
I hadn't heard of an injury from that far back. But that makes sense. I now see that there is news about a lawsuit Willis filed against the studio back then.
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I never saw the original show, but for a long time I was always amused by some of the clips on YT from Comedy Central's roast of Willis in 2018. Less so these days, of course, but it's interesting to watch Ed Norton's bit now and not wonder if he was unwittingly calling out some of Willis's issues before they were public.
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Old 04-16-22 | 05:28 PM
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Old 04-17-22 | 08:16 AM
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The Comedy Central Roasts need to make a comeback.
Old 04-20-22 | 12:35 PM
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A Tubi original...

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Old 04-30-22 | 09:20 AM
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So has anyone here watched some of Bruce Willis’s b movies? The Red Letter Media videos have made me curious to watch a few of them even they said they suck.
Old 04-30-22 | 09:34 AM
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I've watched a bunch of them. They're bad but not entertainingly bad but more on the boring side.


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