Bruce Willis - End of an Era

[Captroop]

I don't know if you guys have been following Bruce Willis' career of late, but over the last 2 years he's starred in over a dozen terrible direct-to-streaming "Geezer Teasers." Just to give you an idea of how many and their quality, here's his Rotten Tomatoes since 2020:

No Score Yet		Fortress: Sniper's Eye	Robert (Character)	-	2022
No Score Yet		A Day to Die	Alston (Character)	-	2022
6%		Gasoline Alley	Detective Freeman (Character)	-	2022
No Score Yet		Vendetta	Donnie Fetter (Character)	-	2022
0%		American Siege	Ben Watts (Character)	-	2021
20%		Fortress	Robert (Character)	-	2021
No Score Yet		Deadlock	Ron Whitlock (Character)	-	2021
0%		Apex	Thomas Malone (Character)	-	2021
14%		Survive the Game	David (Character)	-	2021
8%		Midnight in the Switchgrass	Karl (Character)	-	2021
0%		Out of Death	Jack Harris (Character)	-	2021
3%		Cosmic Sin	James Ford (Character)	-	2021
20%		Breach	Clay Young (Character)	-	2020
0%		Hard Kill	Chalmers (Character)	-	2020
14%		Survive the Night	Frank (Character)	-	2020

 

There's been a lot of speculation recently as to why, and some of the darker theories were confirmed yesterday when it was revealed that Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with Aphasia, and is retiring from acting.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/31/bruce-willis-cognitive-state-report-aphasia-diagnosis

It seems this glut of recent low-effort bombs may have been an effort to rake in as much money as possible for him and his family to live off for the rest of his days.

It's an incredibly sad development, and I wanted to doff my cap and celebrate the career of one of the last great action movie heroes, and one of the first to make bald look cool!

[Anybodyhome]

Yippee ki-yaaa!

 

[Khyber53]

The guy had some of the greatest movies of the last 35 years. 

Die Hard.

The Fifth Element.

Unbreakable.

Last Man Standing.

Bonfire of the Vanities

The Sixth Sense.

Pulp Fiction.

12 Monkeys.

And Hudson Hawk is a movie I dearly love for all of its fever-dream goofiness.

I wish him and his family well.

[ladypanther]

This is very sad for him and his family.

[Tyler Waves]

On 4/5/2022 at 11:18 AM, Khyber53 said:

The guy had some of the greatest movies of the last 35 years. 

Die Hard.

The Fifth Element.

Unbreakable.

Last Man Standing.

Bonfire of the Vanities

The Sixth Sense.

Pulp Fiction.

12 Monkeys.

And Hudson Hawk is a movie I dearly love for all of its fever-dream goofiness.

I wish him and his family well.

An incredible career regardless. One of the coolest actors ever for sure 

[Grace Haley]

That's a pity as Willis cemented himself as one of the world's top action stars with Die Hard. He didn't have Arnold Schwarzenegger's body or Jean-Claude Van Damme's training, but he was a man of the people, and the people have embraced his numerous everyman heroes through the years.