Charlton Heston: 1923 - 2008

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Tiassa, Apr 6, 2008.

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Heston's best moment?

  1. "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!"

    9 vote(s)
    47.4%
  2. "Soylent Green is made of people!"

    4 vote(s)
    21.1%
  3. The chariot race

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    0.0%
  4. That thing about his cold, dead hands

    4 vote(s)
    21.1%
  5. The Ten Commandments

    2 vote(s)
    10.5%
  6. Other; _____ (fill in the blank)

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    From the Los Angeles Times:

    No word yet on whether he made a point of dying with a gun in his hands. Maybe if I thought he was a good actor his movies would be the first thing to come to mind.
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    Welkos, Robert W. and Susan King. "Charlton Heston, 84; Oscar-winning actor played larger-than-life figures". Los Angeles Times. April 6, 2008. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-heston6apr06,1,2698820.story
     
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  3. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    I wonder if morticians have a special tool for prying guns out of cold, dead hands?
     
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  5. draqon Banned Banned

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    :bawl: oh I liked that actor

    Soulent Green 4 ever

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  7. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    From my dead body indeed..

    Guess theres no fun at gun rallies with him around.
     
  8. Exhumed Self ******. Registered Senior Member

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    "Soylent Green is made of people!"

    Where is that from...?!
     
  9. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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  10. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    He choked to death eating those green wafers!!

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    Sorry to see him depart but he did leave us with some great movies to remember him by....The Ten Comandments was a very special movie when it was made with some great special effects as well as some Bible learning to go along with it.
     
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  11. draqon Banned Banned

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    Soylent Green, the movie

    :bugeye: *blank stare*
     
  12. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the ecology have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.

    The film overlays the genres of science fiction and the police procedural as it depicts the efforts of New York City police detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) and elderly police researcher Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) to investigate the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman named William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). Thorn and Roth uncover clues which suggest that it is more than simply a bungled burglary

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
     
  13. Exhumed Self ******. Registered Senior Member

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    Was it actually a popular movie? :shrug:

    Anyway, I voted for "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!". Who else could of made that line so good?

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  14. draqon Banned Banned

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    yeah cosmic, prepare to be shown a very nice relaxing before the death movie with flowers and awesome music and injected a slow "painless" toxin to cause death in 1 min...and than the next day cosmic will be converted into green munchkins for hungry toothless children outside New York
     
  15. draqon Banned Banned

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    that movie is hilarious

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    its sort of like dark humor comedy of overpopulation, it was popular back in its time.
     
  16. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    For its time it was pretty good. Not much in the way of special effects but the message it presented us with made people pause and think for an instant, then back on towards global destruction full steam!


    Faye Ray in King Kong?
     
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  18. superstring01 Moderator

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    Ahhh Heston. One of the greats... possibly THE great. I do so love "Planet of the Apes". One of my faves.

    They don't make 'em like they used to.

    Hmmm... I suddenly want to buy a 12 gauge.

    ~String
     
  19. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    I voted for planet of the apes, because I love that movie. But how could you omit

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    from your poll?
     
  20. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    From Wikipedia:

    That in itself almost makes Ben-Hur worth watching.

    Almost.

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    Um ... it was four in the morning?
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    Wikipedia. "Ben-Hur (1959 film)". Updated April 6, 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)


    I knew I was forgetting something. Like I said in the topic post, maybe if I thought he was a better actor, his movies would come more readily to mind.
     
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  21. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I have to agree with MadAnt. The 10 Commandments is what I think of when it comes to Heston. Growing up, we watched it every Easter (?????) because my Mom said so.
     
  22. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    I was always hoping that he would have realized that he has wasted his life promoting death, violence, hate and extremism and taken one of his precious guns and shot himself at an NRA convention and splattered his brains all over the other fucks who frequent these events.
     
  23. invert_nexus Ze do caixao Valued Senior Member

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    Fixed.

    Any others?
     

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