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Ernest Borgnine RIP
shmokes:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on July 10, 2012, 10:41:44 pm ---I just turned 39,
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Pretty sure we're from the same generation. Seriously, you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. I said, "His filmography is just a long, long list of almost nothing but mediocrity." It is. There are some good films/TV shows on the list. But by far the majority of the films/TV shows on the list are not good. At all. And that's fine. I would love to have had that career. I think he probably made a ton of money having a helluva lot of fun. But his filmography still is what it is. 7th Heaven. Touched by an Angel. Walker Texas Ranger. BASEketball. About 150 poorly rated made-for-TV movies that nobody has heard of. You all supposedly know this guy by name, but literally almost everything he has ever been in is very bad, most of it completely obscure made-for-TV stuff, and most of it small guest roles. I mean, Ginsu Victim is just flat out lying about him and his wife. That's just silly. ;D
In other words, I have absolutely nothing against the guy. It just strikes me as strange that he has a thread dedicated to him. And coming right on the heels of the Andy Griffith thread, I wondered whether Saint might want consider an Obituary subforum. But now it's beginning to strike me as even stranger that I'm in here defending this position so ardently. So I guess I'll stop.
yotsuya:
RIP Ernest Borgnine RIP thread
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: wp34 on July 10, 2012, 11:57:59 pm ---
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--- Quote from: shmokes on July 10, 2012, 09:39:23 pm ---And it's not like any of us, not a single one of us, ever in our entire lives went out of our way to watch something because we knew that Ernest Borgnine was in it.
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I've done this plenty of times. My wife, as well.
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I watched "The Wild Bunch" a few years ago specifically because I was curious to see him in a more serious role.
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I love his reaction at the end during the Mexican standoff. You know these guys are going to die, they know they are too, and he laughs. Great stuff.
wp34:
--- Quote from: Rando on July 10, 2012, 10:55:37 am ---What's the big deal? The Subject line is pretty clear, so non-interested people can skip as needed.
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Very good point.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 11, 2012, 12:11:29 am ---BASEketball.
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Love this movie. I need to watch Orgazmo again as well....