Eddie,

It's cool. I usually try to explain myself thoroughly because what you mean, and how people take your meaning can get easily confused in text.

Good point. I've loved Murphy as "Axle Foley", and in "I-Spy". I can understand his wanting to do movies he wouldn't mind his kids watching. So far the only one's I've enjoyed have been the "Dr. Dolittle's". Actor Kevin Kline has turned down MANY big roles in order to go after what he "want's" to do. Kline is one of the greats today.

- Josh

Josh,

Hey, I know that you're not picking a fight. :)

I actually understand what you mean, but there are times when people choose movies based on what they want to do rather than on what is "good". For example, Eddie Murphy makes awful "family" movies because he wants to make movies for his kids now. That's really up to Mr. Murphy, though I have to wonder about any dad who would subject his kids to stuff like "Daddy Day Care" and "The Haunted Mansion".

Eddie

Eddie,

Don't get me wrong... I think Paxton is a great actor. I was just wondering why (since Titanic) he's had nothing but pitfalls. I'll have to disagree with you on "Verticle Limit". I didn't get very much out of that movie at all. But if you look at Paxtons career since Titanic, it's been horrible choices in movies, with maybe the exception of "Frailty", since I haven't seen that. I was just curious as to why such a good actor has had 7 years of bad luck. Did the guy break a mirror or what?!

- Josh

So, maybe Paxton will be playing Mr. Moto before long? (That was Lorre's only continuing starring role, a low-budget series in the thirties. Not to be confused with his one great starring role in "M.")

John

I recall a few years back reading an interview with Bill Paxton and him mentioning his career was pretty much: one family film and then an independent, and so on and so on...I dont mind it. Like Eddie said, he's a great actor and every few years he hits one of the park, as was the case with A Simple Plan and Frailty.

Tony

"vertical limit" is a decent movie.

bill paxton is always interesting to watch, though he can't seem to become a leading man in his own right. i dunno, throughout cinema history, a lot of people have been great as character actors, and i don't think it hurt peter lorre's reputation any that he was a kooky sidekick rather than the main character in most of his movies. the same can be said for bill paxton, so let's not write him off too quickly. :)

probably. in the movie we will also see;

all of the thunderkids go into thuder-puberty
see them get thunder-acne
fight the thunder-villian
save the thunder-day
thunder-rescue who ever they were trying to thunder-save
and then a storm and we'll hear some thunder
everyone goes to the thunder-basement
the thunder-family eats some leftover thunder-tacos
the thunder kids get thunder-diarrhea

just wanted to post this:

Thunderbirds racked in a whopping opening-weekend gross of...



$2.7mil.!!! wow! ive never seen a movie bomb like that! i think new york did twice that! i think gigli tripled that! astounding!

Both New York Minute and Gigli got by Thunderbirds easily, but they didn't do double or triple business, respectively. On its opening weekend, New York Minute did much better, making $5,962,106 (taken from imdb.com). Gigli did considerably less, but making more than Thunderbirds with an opening weekend of $3,753,518. Even with that disappointment, Universal has also got something to be happy about with The Bourne Supremacy's weekend take which puts it right near $100 million. Universal has one more film they can do, with The Bourne Ultimatum and I did read the other day that they plan to extend it to a fourth film and possibly beyond. All they have to do is remember how carefully to treat the material because they got this much success with it through certain elements: Good directors (Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass), a satisfying script by Tony Gilroy, and of course Matt Damon taking on a role that no one expected him to do. And some good action too but more than that, character development.

Anyway, back on topic. Post-Thunderbirds, Paxton's on an indie film called "Haven", but there's nothing listed for him beyond that. In my opinion, he should head back to the director's chair. After Frailty, it's a good idea.