Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

I mean

5000x more ppl know them from it. It's hugely understandable.

It seems a .....kinda snobby.....gripe

Bollocks, it's intensely annoying, anything to do with Harry Potter is shite

Not a value judgement on Harry potter

Goldy McJohn, original keyboardist for Steppenwolf

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/goldy-mcjohn-steppenwolf-dead/

I've got nothing against Harry Potter per se, but I do wish every obit for every Brit thesp who was in one or more of those films didn't lead with that.

lol i just came here to make this exact gripe.

i guess it shd be a lesson to all character actors to think long and hard before doing some popular children's movie bollocks hi Alec Guinness

i don't think it's snobby but fuck it if it is, personally i think it's just an over-representation of adult children in popular media who see the world thru their own crappy fan lenses

i guess it shd be a lesson to all character actors to think long and hard

Michael Caine, Butler to Bruce Wayne, 104

Robert de Niro, A Parent Who Was Met, 92

Orson Welles, voice of Unicron in Transformers cartoon

ron howard, the fonz and the happy days gang, 93

That's not what he was most famous for at the time of his death. Caine IS 'most famous' for Dark Knight now.

(ie it's not about their roles, it's about cultural arrested development)

Lame try, though.

xp

also Happy Days/Andy Griffith is a more significant than Howard's filmography

Okay: Orson Welles, Paul Masson spokesman.

Max Von Sydow is obviously Emperor Ming.

Caine IS 'most famous' for Dark Knight now.

This miiiight be true in 20 years (and only if they stop showing The Italian Job in favour of its remake), but is unlikely now.

DeNiro is most famous as Harry Tuttle, obviously.

Trying to think of a godawful pop star but I never know their names. I was searching lyrics to identify some shitty lyrics by an American singer from 7 or 8 years ago. I thought it was maybe Taylor Swift but I guess I might have been blaming her for years for someone else's song. Maybe I've never heard Taylor Swift.

Orson Welles might actually be "Muppet Movie star Orson Welles".

De Niro is "Star of Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."

Michael Caine is "From the Cars movie franchise".

Or another for Caine, "who played opposite David Bowie in Christopher Nolan's 'The Prestige'"

Played Robin Williams in The Cider House Rules.

On Max von Sydnow, IMDB says the four things he is best known for are Shutter Island, Minority Report, The Exorcist and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which will surely be the one quoted in obits).

Oh wait, he's been in Game of Thrones, so that.

Yeah, GoT picking up the slack here in a serious manner.

Nobody seriously thinks Welles won't be citizen Kane and van shadow won't be exorcist.

So yeah snobs imo

Goldy McJohn posted angry comments under a Steppenwolf story (by Scott Seward!) that I published on my site earlier this year.

almost no Americans under 45 have seen Caine's career-making British films

I'VE never seen The Italian Job

Huh, I didn't realize Jaws IV was a British film.

yeah that made his career in its third decade

I can remember Jaws 3, because of watching it in 3d. But Jaws 4 completely escapes my memory.

Was that the Smell-o-vision one?

just 3d as I recall. But very bad 3d, like when a harpoon was coming out of the screen at you it would split into 3!

I meant 4, where do you after 3d?

ah, scratch n' sniff some Caine :p

IV was the one where the shark followed a family halfway around the world for the sake of revenge and then jumped all the way out of the water and roared like a lion.

RIP Jawx

The only scratch and sniff movie that I know of is John Waters' Polyester

IV was the one where the shark followed a family halfway around the world

and got there first, even though the family travelled by plane

Sharks on a Plane

strange brew > emperor ming for max von s

caine will be best remembered for people doing impressions of him

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w-Ea5lu06Oo/hqdefault.jpg

May his name live forevermore on the lips of those who are stingy with their nose candy.

jfc you guys had me worried that Caine had died STOP THAT

I'VE never seen The Italian Job

wtf

it's good!

Is that the

.. one with "Italian Job" Star Noel Coward?

No, it's the one with "The Italian Job" star Benny Hill.

but I thought he's the "Ernie (Fastest Milkman in the West) Hitmeister".

Dolores Marsalis jazz funeral 'I'll Fly Away' by @Delfeayo and @wyntonmarsalis in New Orleans @theadvocateno @wwltv pic.twitter.com/mPTxPZyd7Q

— Matthew Hinton (@MattHintonPhoto) August 2, 2017

That was gorgeous, thanks.

Haruo Nakajima, who wore the Godzilla suit in every Godzilla movie up to 1972

RIP Mr. Gojira :(

i hate to ask about his posthumous wardrobe