didn't he allow them to use his likeness or something? we can have Die Hard's for decades

Nope.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...ke-1235231331/

Bruce Willis in happier, healthier times:

A virtual Expendables reunion in this compilation:

shame

Dunno if it's included in either compilation, but here's were the Willis deepfake stuff stems from.

Funny, I had the opposite reaction.

why? if an actor authorizes it, and I imagine sets up something where his family/estate gets to decide on what it is used for, so he's not fucking a chicken in a vat of lemon custard, why can't we have a young Harrison Ford or Bruce Willis forever?

In this case, there would be serious questions about whether or not Bruce would have wanted it when he was in full control of his faculties (and he very much might have if the story is true that he wanted to make movie after movie to provide for his family once he could no longer work).

My favorite Bruce Willies movies:

Pulp Fiction
Die Hard
Last Boy Scout (loved it as a teenager, don’t know if it holds up decades later)
12 Monkeys
Look Who’s Talking (he’s funny as fuck as the talking baby)

Seems to me the value of our human experience is that we are all ephemeral.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from celebrity families it’s that they are greedy sons a bitches. It may not be fucking a chicken but eventually the family will OK a project that would embarrass and cheapen the actor’s name. If the family can make a buck out of a dead relative they’ll milk that shit until the actor’s legacy is all but destroyed.

Thats how you get shit like Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil.

This video popped up in my recommendations on YouTube and thought it was a nice tribute to share here.

That was a great video. Thanks for posting it here.

Not that it was news to anyone, but his body of work is really impressive, although he made some stinkers, too. The last couple of years just don't count for me, but he started doing those cheap direct-to-dvd crap, while he was still in the game, so I can't disregard all of those. I guess the last movie which felt like a Bruce Willis is giving a shit was Once upon a Time in Venice, which wasn't all that great, but entertaining enough.
In Death Wish and Glass he started looking "sleepy".

Got a cheap DVD rental and watched Detective Knight Redemption last night.

It’s slightly better than the first movie mainly due to Paul Johannson’s psycho villain. Again, Willis gets top billing, but he’s hardly in it. It’s 90 percent from the perspective of the villains. Willis literally has no dialogue in the first 30 minutes. And it’s just sad to see him just mumble most of his limited lines. Most of his lines were just short phrases. The writer really tried to help him not have any extensive dialogue that he would struggle to memorize. The writer and director said in the bonus features that they filmed all 3 movies in 26 days. That really shows how low budget this series was. I bet Willis was probably only on set for a week of those 26 days.

Death Wish was a lot better than I expected it to be. As for his performance in Glass, I think it's more to do with the direction given. Even in Unbreakable he was rather subdued.

Although a very limited role, I liked him in Motherless Brooklyn.

Does anyone here think the Academy would give Bruce Willis an Honorary Oscar? I have seen it mentioned in this thread and a few online articles suggesting the idea.

No. Especially now.

Hell no, Bruce's wife basically told photographers to leave them alone. Willis is in no condition to make anymore public appearances.

As soon as it was announced that he would have to retire from acting for medical issues, I posted in this thread that they should award him an honorary Oscar while he was still alive to receive it, and he still had the faculties to accept it and appreciate it. The general response was that he idea was morbid. Now that the diagnosis is public, I wonder if people feel differently. But having been through dementia with my father, the last thing I want to see is Willis in an overwhelming public situation. Which is why I can't believe that the paparazzi still hound him. The idea that someone suffering goes out in public and has people shouting at him is disgusting and upsetting.

I'm not saying he would but if the Academy were to honor him for his body of work and do something like have his eldest daughters accept an Honorary Oscar on his behalf it seems like that could be done.

Why would Willis even WANT such an award? It would just scream of "You're fading fast. Here's a pity award for you." If anything Bruce would just tell them to F off.

We don't. That'd just make such an award even more morbid.

Or it could just be seen as an acknowledgement of reality. The man is not going to work anymore because he is ill. If they are ever going to do it, it should have been immediately; otherwise, you end up waiting until he is dead.

I have no idea what Willis understands about his condition, so that is certainly a factor, but one to be explored by the Academy and his family.

I seriously doubt that under any circumstances, Willis would have disdain for the honor. He has devoted 40 years of his life to being an actor, and this would be the highest recognition he could receive for that lifetime of work. There is no way in hell that he would feel insulted by the honor, at worst he would be confused about it.

So you'd be okay for his family to wheel him out so everyone can gawk at him looking confused. That's fucked up.