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Old 08-17-25 | 10:51 AM
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Old 08-17-25 | 10:54 AM
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RIP. I absolutely loved The Limey when it came out. Watched that DVD, including the director commentary several times. Kind of a stunner that he didn't get an Oscar nomination for that role.
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
Chancellor Vallorum in The Phanton Menace.
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Old 08-17-25 | 11:25 AM
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"Kneel before Zod!"

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Old 08-17-25 | 11:36 AM
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Well, so much for that “Priscilla” sequel. I was really looking forward to that but given his age, knew it had to happen sooner than later. RIP.
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Old 08-17-25 | 12:02 PM
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
I was thinking about him just a few weeks ago. Terrific actor with an instantly recognizable voice. Watched him in The Collector one late night back when TNT showed old movies before TCM existed. The Limey was a real tour de force performance. Fellini's segment Toby Dammit was another really fantastic performance, (be sure to see the English language version). He definitely had a good run and was always busy. Was great seeing him in Last Night in Soho a couple years back.
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RIP

It was not one of his best works but he did a Ashton Kutcher comedy forgot the name of it.

Glad he made up for it years later in Last Night at Soho.
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
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Chancellor Vallorum in The Phanton Menace.
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I wonder if a new Superman movie didn't happen to be out right now the headlines would say "Star Wars Star Dead" instead of "Superman Star Dead"?
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R.I.P. to a great actor. Last Night In Soho was a wonderful swan song ...






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Old 08-17-25 | 12:54 PM
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I still need to see that.
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
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Chancellor Vallorum in The Phanton Menace.
I honestly don’t even remember him in The Phantom Menace. Superman, however, I certainly DO remember.
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Old 08-17-25 | 01:21 PM
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
Too many roles to pick, but General Zod was definitely one of his most memorable.

He also voiced Joe-El in Smallville


Any remember The Hunger? It was a late 90s horror anthology series that aired on Showtime. Stamp was the creepy host that introduced and summarized each story. It was a fun little series.
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I still need to see that.
Yeah, it's a stylish little flick ...

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Last Night In Soho (2021)

"If I could live any place and any time, I'd live here, in London in the 60s."

Eloise Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) has left home to attend the London College of Fashion in the hopes of becoming a famous fashion designer. Deciding that living in the dormitory, with her bitchy - and obviously jealous - roommate, isn't all that its cracked up to be she answers an ad for a bedsit placed by an elderly woman (Dame Diana Rigg, in her final on-screen performance) and rents a room from her instead, where she encounters mysterious visions of London in the Swinging 60s and of an aspiring singer at a local nightclub named Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) whom she soon becomes obsessed with. Part time-travel adventure, part psychological thriller, part murder mystery, and part horror (with elements of Giallo thrown in), this is an interesting and very stylish film by Edgar Wright, and one that I enjoy revisiting. Wonderful soundtrack and cinematography here. Great cast, including Terence Stamp as a menacing link to Sandie's past and Rita Tushingham as Eloise's grandmother. If I had one minor quibble with the casting, it's with Michael Ajao as Eloise's classmate and eventual romantic interest as I feel he was miscast here. Still, it's not enough to dampen my enjoyment of the film. A cool movie to watch when you're in the mood for it.







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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
He was a staple of so many movies I have watched in my lifetime. RIP
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
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R.I.P. to a great actor. Last Night In Soho was a wonderful swan song ...





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I still need to see that.
Great film. Just watched it again last week. And what a soundtrack!
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Old 08-17-25 | 02:06 PM
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I, sadly, disagree. Stamp was great in Last Night In Soho, but the movie was trash.
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Old 08-17-25 | 02:20 PM
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
The Hit (hugely underrated Stephen Frears film) and The Limey are two of my favourite existential crime movies ever. Of course there’s Zod, still the best Superman villain on screen. And who would’ve thought he could pull off Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? One of my favourite actors of all time. R.I.P.
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Old 08-17-25 | 02:27 PM
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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
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I, sadly, disagree. Stamp was great in Last Night In Soho, but the movie was trash.
Even if you hated everything else about it, the doubling and the mirror tricks used to swap out Thomasin McKenzie for Anya Taylor-Joy and vice versa were sublime. Movie magic of the highest order. Definitely not trash.

And since it hasn't been mentioned, The Hit rules.

Edit: I guess it had been mentioned. Still rules.
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Old 08-17-25 | 03:09 PM
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Even if you hated everything else about it, the doubling and the mirror tricks used to swap out Thomasin McKenzie for Anya Taylor-Joy and vice versa were sublime. Movie magic of the highest order. Definitely not trash.
All the illusionist trickery in the world can't conceal the fact the movie was a boring, predictable slog. So, yeah, trash.
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RIP Sir. Enjoyed so much of your work.
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I know it bombed but one of his roles I always recall is in Red Planet.

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Re: RIP Terrance Stamp (1938-2025)
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All the illusionist trickery in the world can't conceal the fact the movie was a boring, predictable slog. So, yeah, trash.
Then call me the trash picker. I'll take Last Night in Soho, you can keep *insert name of dumb movie you like here*. That movie is trash.
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Old 08-17-25 | 03:45 PM
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Then call me the trash picker. I'll take Last Night in Soho, you can keep *insert name of dumb movie you like here*. That movie is trash.
Cool. I can live with that. In the spirit of "agree to disagree"... *fist bump*
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Terrence also wrote books, mostly on his remembrances, "Rare Stamps: Reflections on Living, Breathing, and Acting" 2012, and "The Ocean Fell into the Drop" 2017, and cookbooks! RIP
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