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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: NightWolve on August 20, 2012, 04:08:47 AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001716/
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/08/20/tony-scott-partnered-with-brother-ridley-had-several-blockbuster-hits-but-never/ - (Damn, his wife is pretty hot!)
No one ever mistook Tony Scott for a great dramatist. He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story. The filmmaker did not dazzle the imagination with visions of lost or alien worlds, like brother Ridley Scott.
Tony Scott was as populist as they come in Hollywood, a man of action films, pure and simple. From Tom Cruise as a daring fly boy in 1986's "Top Gun" to Denzel Washington mutinying against an unstable captain in 1995's "Crimson Tide" or trying to slow a runaway train in 2010's "Unstoppable," director Scott mastered sky, sea and earth in the name of movie adrenaline.
The 68-year-old Scott died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said. His death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said.
It was a puzzling end for a filmmaker who had maintained a busy pace, with a sequel to "Top Gun," his biggest hit, in the works.
The Hunger (1983)
Top Gun (1986)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Revenge (1990)
Days of Thunder (1990)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
True Romance (1993)
Crimson Tide (1995)
The Fan (1996)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Spy Game (2001)
Man on Fire (2004)
Domino (2005)
Déjà Vu (2006)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Unstoppable (2010)
I saw his last movie pretty recently, Unstoppable, also pretty damn good, but I'd say my favorite out of that list is between Top Gun and Spy Game (Brad Pitt, Robert Redford). If his name's familiar, it's because he's the younger brother of Ridley Scott, the Blade Runner/Alien/Gladiator director...
Anyway, bad news. Of most of the crap that Hollywood turns out, he was the exception in many cases. Sounds like he catches the same shit that Michael Bay does for emphasis on action over story though, but f*ck those people, I enjoyed many of his movies!
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that bridge is so close i can see it from my pad, i was gonna go over it at about that time, but decided not to. too bad he seemed to be a talent.
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Saw this last night...from news updates it seems he may have had inoperable brain cancer.
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way to pull a goose, tony.
way to go.
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True Romance is quite the flick if anyone hasn't seen it.
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Funky, I wonder what drove him to off himself. I enjoyed a good bunch of those flicks too.
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Too bad, but at least he was 68 and had led a pretty full life.
way to pull a goose, tony.
way to go.
Classy. :lol:
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Funky, I wonder what drove him to off himself. I enjoyed a good bunch of those flicks too.
it says he was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.
He should've stuck around and let it influence his movies.
Might have been interesting.
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Stinger: There making a sequel to Top Gun?
Maverick: Yes, sir.
Stinger: God help us.
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Maybe he didnt want that money leaching hot wife to get his life insurance money?
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Sounds like he catches the same shit that Michael Bay does for emphasis on action over story though, but f*ck those people, I enjoyed many of his movies!
I'd take Scott over Bay ANY DAMN DAY! Tranformers is such an overrated mess and now we gotta put up with a 4th one!?!?
Top Gun 2 please....
RIP: Tony Scott
Condolences to Ridley and the rest of the family :pray:
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RIP.. may put on the top gun movie sometime later this week and blast up the movie speakers just to hear those 1980's synthesizer music and Berlin's: take my breath away
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Sad news indeed. True Romance and Crimson Tide are a couple of awesome moves, along with at least half a dozen others on that list.
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Seems the inoperable cancer theory has been retracted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott
The next day, ABC News reported Scott had an inoperable brain tumor but they later edited their story to express doubt.[35] after his widow told investigators the tumor claim was "absolutely false".[36] On 24 August, the LA County coroner's spokesman stated that the two notes that he left behind, a contact list in his car and a message to his family at his office, did not provide any motive explaining why he took his life and did not refer to any illnesses, diseases or other health issues.