RIP Gene Hackman

[Rambler]

RIP Mr. Hackman. God needs you on the floor.

 

[ironwez20]

Def a suicide situation. The dog is involved? Nah this is strange? And they died the same time? Yea it’s leasing to something unnatural

 

[davejames]

Damn that is some crazy news. I expected him to go any day with how thin and frail he's been looking, but not quite like this.

Fantastic actor. And he'll always be my favorite Lex.

 

[ZE_501]

If I was 95 waking up each morning to the endless division in the world, I'd happily take the carbon monoxide. His best years were well behind him anyway: physically, mentality, emotionally.

The current idiotic straight humanity is in would be so foreign to him, he probably felt like he was on an alien planet.

Maybe his wife had had enough to, and they didn't want to leave the dog behind? Who knows?

I understand euthanasia in the case of massive suffering, the terminally ill ... although I also find it profoundly sad. Suicide on the other hand, is almost always a dark and brutal thing, the suffering that accompanies senescence notwithstanding. It does things to survivors, leaves darkness in them. I've seen it firsthand. If I'm lucky enough to live to 95 and lucky enough to still have people, I'll try to see this life through. The world has always been endlessly divided and I don't expect that to change.

 

[crows]

Def a suicide situation. The dog is involved? Nah this is strange? And they died the same time? Yea it’s leasing to something unnatural

are you saying ritualistic?

 

[Wor-Gar]

This one hurts. Grew up with Hackman since Poseidon Adventure. Seems like he was in 2-3 movies every year as I was growing up. He was always great. No one shouted someone down like Hackman.

 

[Mr.E]

I understand euthanasia in the case of massive suffering, the terminally ill ... although I also find it profoundly sad. Suicide on the other hand, is almost always a dark and brutal thing, the suffering that accompanies senescence notwithstanding. It does things to survivors, leaves darkness in them. I've seen it firsthand. If I'm lucky enough to live to 95 and lucky enough to still have people, I'll try to see this life through. The world has always been endlessly divided and I don't expect that to change.

Those left behind. That's the one major consequence I consider most.
I digress.

We don't know the full story here. Best not to jump to conclusions. Apparently, there were two other dogs alive in the home.

 

[davejames]

I guess the Superman curse continues...

 

[The Buffinator]

my movie memories of him outside of Superman was royal tenembaums and the birdcage and also heart breakers, I liked those movies. but they were more like comedies,
I never saw his more serious movies,

The first thing I thought of when I heard:

 

[The Buffinator]

You’re right my bad.

Well, someone said someone else was an ******* lol

Fixed lol...

 

[Wor-Gar]

Thinking through his films, I totally forgot Young Frankenstein.

 

[The Buffinator]

Only a cameo but a great one.

 

[Otomofan]

I guess the Superman curse continues...

What curse? Getting to live to 95? Sign me up for that curse!

Just read a later report that they were all found in separate rooms, they had been dead "for some time" and that there was a bottle of prescription pills scattered near his wife's body.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I was thinking of the great roles he's done, of course we all talk about his Lex Luthor, but that was a silly bit for him... he made a lot of great movies obviously -- he seemed ever-present throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's -- and a few standouts for me that sometimes get forgotten -- like Young Frankenstein -- are:

No Way Out
Unforgiven
Crimson Tide
Quick and the Dead
The Birdcage
Enemy of the State
Runaway Jury

 

[Mr.NoCredit]

When they filmed the “French Connection” there’s a scene in a restaurant where there’s a huge glass aquarium full of fish that gets shot up along with a bunch of booths, people etc. That particular scene was filmed at night. They literally destroyed the restaurant during the shoot. Once filming was done for the evening crews came in and rebuilt the restaurant for them to be able to open during normal business hours the following day. I don’t remember how many takes were done but it’s more than one. It’s been a lot of years since I read about it.
He has given us many years of entertainment filling the screen. Thanks Gene! Rest is peace!

 

[davejames]

What curse? Getting to live to 95? Sign me up for that curse!

Just read a later report that they were all found in separate rooms, they had been dead "for some time" and that there was a bottle of prescription pills scattered near his wife's body.

I just mean dying in strange, tragic ways.

 

[Otomofan]

TMZ is saying the authorities consider it suspicious.

According to a search warrant, obtained by TMZ, a Santa Fe detective who sought a search warrant wrote in his affidavit, he believes "the death of the two deceased individuals to be suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation because the reporting party found the front door of the residence unsecured and opened, deputies observed a healthy dog running loose on the property, another healthy dog near the deceased female, a deceased dog laying 10-15 feet from the deceased female in a closet of the bathroom, the heater being moved, the pill bottle being opened and pills scattered next to the female, the male decedent being located in a separate room of the residence, and no obvious signs of a gas leak."

 

[Wor-Gar]

That is really freaky.

 

[DEATHASYLUM]

Earlier reports of no foul play were made, but that was obviously wrong. I just assumed it was carbon monoxide poisoning, but if the gas company found nothing wrong wtf? Hope they get to the bottom of this one cause that sounds pretty freakin suspicious. Dead dog in the closet, pills everywhere, and everyone in different rooms

 

[Wor-Gar]

Sounds like the wife either found Gene dead and couldn't live with it, or she had something to do with it...

I don't understand taking the dog, though.

Assuming the TMZ reporting is the whole truth.