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I wonder if his upcoming movies will get released now?

posted 3 years ago by seagal72 (2015)
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For a year or two, I (and others) took pleasure in mocking how little Willis was putting into his movies. I'm aware he'd made several STV releases from around 2011(ish) but he still seemed fairly lucid....up until around 2020 (when his condition, in retrospect, took hold and was noticeable) But I still took his (in)actions as just plain laziness on Willis' part?

Now that his condition is 'news', I wonder if that effects the 6-7 releases that he still has 'in the can' (so to speak?)
They are obviously the same 10-15 minute BW switch-and-bait releases. But (regardless of which producer knew what in the past) any further releases would now be tainted by the fact, that these shady moviemaking practices are common knowledge (alongside Willis' deteriorating condition) which casts a dark cloud over further proceedings. I'm aware that a few producers/directors are now defending/sticking up for Bruce ....but I wonder if they'll put their money where their mouths are and shelve these future releases?

I'm sort of tied between wanting to see them, but now knowing that they'll have a slightly tragic aura about them?
However bad the movie (or Willis is in them) they'll have lost what little humour B-Movie buffs like myself derive from them.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 years ago

I'm sure they'll be released. Only difference now is that when someone informs BW that his latest movie is being released, he'll reply "Bruce? Who is that? What movies was he in, and have I seen any of them?"

[–] ILJtheFirst (2139) 3 years ago

His illness doesn't affect his memory, it's not Alzheimer's. He simply has problems with his speech, etc.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 years ago

His illness doesn't affect his memory, it's not Alzheimer's. He simply has problems with his speech, etc

That's a silver lining on what's otherwise a dark cloud then. When told that one of his latest movies is going once again straight to streaming, Willis will reply "Fhuhuck.... Aigh yoused twohoo hehe n Ahhh-lhist moohouvies....." Dude can still remember his glory days, even if he can't really speak coherently about them anymore

[–] ILJtheFirst (2139) 3 years ago

Yep. He will literally go insane because he won't be able to talk about anything. Imagine trying to ask for toilet paper without being able to say toilet paper.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 years ago

Yep. He will literally go insane because he won't be able to talk about anything. Imagine trying to ask for toilet paper without being able to say toilet paper

Dude's got the cash to have a bidet installed

[–] sslssg (35178) 3 years ago

You're a dick.

I really hope that you never have to experience what it's like to know what you want or mean and have no idea how to express that word. It doesn't matter how much money someone has. Be thankful you are able to communicate.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 years ago

I really hope that you never have to experience what it's like to know what you want or mean and have no idea how to express that word.

Hey, I still remember seeing a bootleg of one of Tracy Lord's videos as a toddler. I already knew that I wanted to do to her exactly what the dude who had on all fours was doing, yet I didn't at the time didn't have the language to express this out loud

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I can enjoy a good B movie, but lets be honest the bulk of these trash movies don't make it up to the level of an even average B movie... they are just crap. A good B movie wouldn't even bother with doing these shitty 5 minute A-list cameos, they would be putting what little money they have into the movie... These stinking turds give B movies a bad name.... and even worse i'm now seeing Mel Gibson making these shit fests. I thought only Nicholas Cage and Bruce Willis were doing this crap but it seems like every damn action guy from the 80's is starting to do this shit.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 years ago

Nic Cage was never really an action guy. His career trajectory is more attributable to both Hollywood and critics taking an ungodly long time to realize that dude can't really act, so much as he can mug like no other performer before or since. Sounds like Mel Gibson did something else really fucking moronic behind the scenes that we still haven't heard about, and that really did burn his remaining bridges. Remember, even after that last meltdown, he still helmed Hacksaw Ridge, and got himself another Oscar nomination

Wouldn't be surprise if we start seeing Kevin Spacey in some of these flicks

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

Nic Cage did Face/Off.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 years ago

Nic Cage did Face/Off.

Let's not forget Con Air. Where he managed to look even more silly than he did in Face Off