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Posted: 9/19/2022 7:46:21 AM EDT

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Sela Ward in The Fugitive.
She was gone in a few minutes.
Not as quick as Segal, nor as rewarding.

Posted: 9/19/2022 7:47:00 AM EDT

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Jack Elam - Once Upon a Time in the West.

Posted: 9/19/2022 7:47:27 AM EDT

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Colonel Sumter Stargate Atlantis first season first episode

Posted: 9/19/2022 7:54:05 AM EDT

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That’s what came to mind but I couldn’t remember the movie

Posted: 9/19/2022 7:55:43 AM EDT

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Many of the characters in LOST.

Hurly’s girlfriend as a good example.

Posted: 9/19/2022 8:19:34 AM EDT

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Contributing The German from Kingdom of Heaven.

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Definitely this

Posted: 9/19/2022 8:20:26 AM EDT

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Captain Tupolev : Go to 105 percent on the reactor.

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He didn’t die, he came back in Ronin.

Posted: 9/19/2022 8:34:38 AM EDT

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Brandon Lee as Eric Draven.

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Movies, not lives. But point made.

Posted: 9/19/2022 8:50:00 AM EDT

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I would say that his character probably had a little more than very little screen time but the one that I didn't see happening was Kevin Spacey's character Jack Vincennes in LA Confidential.

Didn't think Dudley was going to kill him in the kitchen while he was sitting there waiting for coffee

Posted: 9/19/2022 9:01:54 AM EDT

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First thing that came to mind. Wasn't sure what purpose he served in the movie.

I was a big Steven Segal movie junkie in the late 80's/early 90's.

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He was in it so they could market a John Leguizamo movie as a Steven Segal movie. Fooled me. I walked out of the theater pissed that I had spent money on it (I was a broke teenager).

Posted: 9/19/2022 9:13:26 AM EDT

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James Yeager, Daylight’s End.

Posted: 9/19/2022 10:48:41 AM EDT

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I would say that his character probably had a little more than very little screen time but the one that I didn't see happening was Kevin Spacey's character Jack Vincennes in LA Confidential.

Didn't think Dudley was going to kill him in the kitchen while he was sitting there waiting for coffee

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Yeah, that's not minimal screen time. He was a major character.

But that was one of the most out-of-the-blue deaths I have ever seen. The whole theater gasped.

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:14:38 PM EDT

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Now, technically, does the vanisher get any screen time before he dies?

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Brad Pitt's character in Deadpool 2

Now, technically, does the vanisher get any screen time before he dies?

1.5 seconds.... as he got zapped

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:17:39 PM EDT

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Ben Affleck in Smokin' Aces.

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:18:08 PM EDT

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Smoking Aces.

He had the best scene in Triple Frontier, too.

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Ben Afflek getting shot up with a Sten gun in that turkey movie about Vegas with the chick with the Barrett.

Smoking Aces.

He had the best scene in Triple Frontier, too.

Beat.

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:33:44 PM EDT

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How about Alex Rocco as Moe Greene in The Godfather. Two scenes and BOOM, right through his glasses.

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:34:10 PM EDT

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Terry Crews in Street Kings

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:39:24 PM EDT

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Not a movie, but a TV series: the police chief from Season 3 of Hell on Wheels. He was a genuinely good guy and deserved better than to be killed by one of the Mormon homesteaders, not to mention that he had a family. He also treated Elam like something more than a former slave.

Posted: 9/19/2022 3:47:58 PM EDT

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The opening of “feast”

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:06:48 AM EDT

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Bladerunner is full of interesting characters that die after one or two scenes. Holden, Zhora, Tyrrell, Chew, Sebastian.

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“Know what a turtle is?”

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Bladerunner is full of interesting characters that die after one or two scenes. Holden, Zhora, Tyrrell, Chew, Sebastian.

With the exception of Zhora, it's a documentary statement of the lethality of Roy the skin job. A warning. A foretelling of the future.

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:08:52 AM EDT

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He should have gotten an Emmy for that part.

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:14:52 AM EDT

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Sean Connery in Lonesome Dove.

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:18:26 AM EDT

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First thing I was thinking of as well.

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Steven Segal in executive decision.

First thing I was thinking of as well.

Me too. It blew my 4th grade mind the first time I seen it and always stuck with me. I thought Segal was the shit when I was a kid.

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:19:46 AM EDT

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He should have gotten an Emmy for that part.

I'm trying to understand your comment. So far I've come up with only two possibilities.

1. You are a Level 3 satirist.
2. You don't know that Emmys are for TV shows, and Oscars are for movies.

Am I missing something?

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:31:02 AM EDT

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YOU'LL BE F*CKING FAT BITCHES IN NO TIME! YOU MIGHT EVEN FIGHT A N***** OR TWO!!!!!!!!!

MMMMMMMM. MMMMMMMM BITCH!!!

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:33:17 AM EDT

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Ben Afflek getting shot up with a Sten gun in that turkey movie about Vegas with the chick with the Barrett.

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Smokin' Aces

Posted: 9/20/2022 7:54:16 AM EDT

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Sgt Apone in Aliens. Can't believe this thread went 4 pages deep & no one posted this before me.

Posted: 9/20/2022 8:07:59 AM EDT

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Steven Segal in executive decision.

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When that movie came out, a friend said he wouldn't watch it because he hated Segal. I told him that he would love this movie.

Posted: 9/20/2022 8:10:46 AM EDT

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Bill Paxton in Terminator.

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:15:15 AM EDT

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This.

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:18:51 AM EDT

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Buster Scruggs in "The ballad of Buster Scruggs" Tim Blake Nelson

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:21:14 AM EDT

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Walter White in that shitty Godzilla movie.

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I was 100% prepared for him to be the main character, and boom, he's dead. movie nose dived pretty hard after that.

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:32:45 AM EDT

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Now if we're talking a character, Luca Brasi in the Godfather.

"That means he sleeps with the fishes"

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:40:35 AM EDT

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Half of the cast of The Suicide Squad

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:53:10 AM EDT

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Bill Murray in Zombieland

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I'd watch a prequel of what Bill Murray was doing before he met everyone else.

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:53:59 AM EDT

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He was apparently really fucking mad about that because he couldn't understand why he wasn't the star of the movie.

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Steven Segal in executive decision.

He was apparently really fucking mad about that because he couldn't understand why he wasn't the star of the movie.

I really didn’t want to see the movie because he was in it. When he was killed 10 minutes in, there was a good bit of laughter and applause in the theater. Then it turned out to be a good movie. My only regret is that he still got a paycheck.

Posted: 9/20/2022 9:54:48 AM EDT

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I'm trying to understand your comment. So far I've come up with only two possibilities.

1. You are a Level 3 satirist.
2. You don't know that Emmys are for TV shows, and Oscars are for movies.

Am I missing something?

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Bill Murray in Zombieland

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He should have gotten an Emmy for that part.

I'm trying to understand your comment. So far I've come up with only two possibilities.

1. You are a Level 3 satirist.
2. You don't know that Emmys are for TV shows, and Oscars are for movies.

Am I missing something?

Ahem. We are not the same person. "you're"

Posted: 9/20/2022 10:16:06 AM EDT

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that was basically what i came to post, it was DEFINITLY a solid "WTF" when that happened.

Posted: 9/20/2022 12:58:11 PM EDT

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Ralph Fiennes as the Contractor Team Leader in the Hurt Locker

Posted: 9/20/2022 1:55:36 PM EDT

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2nd this

Posted: 9/20/2022 2:29:11 PM EDT

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Salacious Crumb from Return of the Jedi.

Posted: 9/20/2022 3:21:55 PM EDT

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The night king in game of thrones

Posted: 9/20/2022 3:31:27 PM EDT

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Boba Fett

Posted: 9/20/2022 3:50:17 PM EDT

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Even though everyone knew it was going to happen, Wild Bill in the TV show Deadwood. For such a great character, they killed him off in Season 1. I would have liked for them to get more screen time.

Posted: 9/20/2022 4:03:53 PM EDT

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Even though everyone knew it was going to happen, Wild Bill in the TV show Deadwood. For such a great character, they killed him off in Season 1. I would have liked for them to get more screen time.

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Edges out Bridges Wild Bill portrayal...mainly due to the godawful Deadwood story in the movie.
Take all the backstory flashbacks and combine them with Deadwood...