Goddamn motherfucking bullshit. I feel like I’m living through the mass extinction of my childhood.
Everyone my age first noticed Bill Paxton as Chet in Weird Science, but Aliens firmly cemented him in our consciousness. To most people today, he’s probably “that guy from Big Love and Apollo 13.”
But his greatest achievement –one that appallingly few people have seen– is his directorial/starring turn in Frailty, which is also notable for being the first time it was possible to take Matthew McConaughey seriously as an actor. If you dig horror movies, murder, mental illness, and religious zealotry, Frailty has you covered.
Bye, Bill. Anyone who confused you with Bill Pullman was a fucking moron.