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Montana
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Gene’s performance in Royal Tenenbaums was otherworldly….always loved this scene in particular and the dozens subtle choices Hackman made here with Royal….its a performance that gets better with every single watch…..definitely deserved an Oscar nom, imo.
Denzel still would have won it, but Gene was vastly more deserving of a best actor nomination than Sean Penn in ‘I am Sam.’….or anyone in the supporting actor category other than maybe Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, (who should have won it, and didn’t)
Gene was also one of those actors that it didn’t matter the quality of the movie, you always enjoyed watching him and his performance. Tarantino talks a lot about “hang out” movies….and I feel like any movie Hackman did, not matter how bad, you’d at least enjoy that you were hanging out with Hackman.
Incredible career tho in a truckload of classic movies…
The Conversation
French Connection
Unforgiven
Hoosiers
Tenenbaums
The Replacements
Get Shorty
Crimson Tide
The Firm
Mississippi Burning
The Birdcage
….and another dozen I’m sure I’m forgetting.
Montana
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Yeah that was my thought….I'm glad he got out of acting when he did to enjoy his life away from the spotlight. I know he got really into cycling for instance….and yeah can’t complain that he got to live till 95….and I’m going to assume (hope) this was probably carbon monoxide poisoning, so he likely went out about as peacefully as one could hope for.
It was a big deal when a photo of him came out recently about how thin he looked, but the photo plastered everywhere kinda made it seem worse than it was…..for mid 90’s he was looking pretty damn good.
MyNameIsJonas
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Some absolute gems on this list.
Royal Tenenbaums is top 10 all time for me, and Mississippi Burning is well worth a watch for anyone not alive in 88
MyNameIsJonas
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Yeah, how one looks at 95 is not entirely relevant, you made it to 95 and are out in public. Thats a W
MyNameIsJonas
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Probably Danny Glover's best support role past 1990 and not Roger Murtaugh as well
zeke
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Those top 5 there are legendary and you're missing some more fun classics like the Supermans and The Quick and the Dead and The Poseiden Adventure, but I've actually been going through his backlog of lesser known stuff lately and he just makes all of them great. Stuff like I Never Sang for My Father, The Gypsy Moths, Night Moves, Downhill Racer, Scarecrow, Bite the Bullett.....he's just so magnetic he makes all of them worth watching. Love that guy.
Montana
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The Conversation is fucking brilliant too, and is weirdly overlooked a bit in Hackman/Coppola’s filmography’s….its up there with the best of them.
….and I’m with you on Tenenbaums…it’s my personal favourite/most watched movie. Watch it once a year easily, and love it every time.
zeke
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He actually became a solidly successful novellist over his last couple decades too.
MyNameIsJonas
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Absolute Power, Heist and Runaway Jury are all above average as well. Really, he had very few duds on his resume, and it is a shame his last film is that Mooseport thing
Montana
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I was hoping someone would make this kind of reply, cause as I wrote those films out I realized there must be a dozen or more movies of his that didn’t get a ton of fan fare that I missed over the years. So this makes for a great list of those to get started on.
Also, I’ve never seen Poseidon Adventure, despite hearing about it all the time so will have to check that out.
Like you say he just has that crazy on screen charisma & magnetism that makes him endlessly entertaining in anything, so it’s all gonna be worth the price of admission.
Montana
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He looked fantastic. We could all be so lucky to be in that kind of shape at 95.
He was great in so many roles... but his most underrated perfomance and the one that I probably rewatched the most was Heartbreakers. He stole the show.
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worm
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Probably not murder suicide then
axlsalinger
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Apparently Gene Hackman was a real asshole to a lot of people. But as an actor he was definitely a Hall of Famer. This thread reminding me it's been way too long since I watched the Royal Tanenbaums, will definitely have to fix that this week.
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He was great in Power, with Richard Gere, Under Fire, with Nick Nolte and in The Package, with Tommy Lee Jones, which I just happened to watch again for the first time in many years last weekend.
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Oh, and let's also not forget No Way Out with Kevin Costner, an excellent remake of the 1948 classic The Big Clock with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton.