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04-15-2018, 10:31 PM
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Just another Facist
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RIP Gunny
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04-15-2018, 11:26 PM
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A lot of people forget the role he played in the Vietnam movie, The Boys in Company C, where he also played a Marine Drill Sergeant. Nobody did it better than him. 74 seems too young these days. My flag has been lowered to half mast.
Semper Fi Gunny
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04-16-2018, 12:26 AM
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In "Full Metal Jacket", Ermey was only going to be a technical adviser but when director Stanley Kubrick saw a video tape Ermey made about how a DI would do his job as a guide for whatever actor was going to play the role, Kubrik instead offered him the role and even allowed Ermey to write most of his own dialogue, unusual since Kubrick was a notorious control freak.He was one of those character actors who always made any movie he was in just a little better. Ronald Lee Ermey.
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04-16-2018, 12:44 AM
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Ronald Lee Ermey
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04-16-2018, 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by barahona44
In "Full Metal Jacket", Ermey was only going to be a technical adviser but when director Stanley Kubrick saw a video tape Ermey made about how a DI would do his job as a guide for whatever actor was going to play the role, Kubrik instead offered him the role and even allowed Ermey to write most of his own dialogue, unusual since Kubrick was a notorious control freak.He was one of those character actors who always made any movie he was in just a little better. Ronald Lee Ermey.
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Did you write this? Because if you did, it was a really nice piece of writing.
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04-16-2018, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
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Same here. I loved his show where did a shoot off with an M-16 against a current soldier and weapons instructor using an AK-47. The object was to shoot a full clip on full auto into a target. Most hits on silhouette wins. The soldier aimed from the shoulder and managed about 6 hits from the clip. R. Lee at almost 70 years old, held the M-16 at waist level, braced himself and put most of them in the target. Impressive. RIP.
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04-16-2018, 12:08 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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He was great in his roles!
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04-16-2018, 12:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
Did you write this? Because if you did, it was a really nice piece of writing.
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Yes, I did.Mines teechers in school learned me to writes and reads real good,like.
Thanks for the compliment.
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04-16-2018, 02:51 PM
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04-16-2018, 10:26 PM
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He also had a cameo as a helo pilot in Apocalypse Now
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04-17-2018, 03:46 AM
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From Breitbart:
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Actor R. Lee Ermey, who died at 74 of pneumonia Sunday morning, was Exhibit A in the New Hollywood Blacklist. After criticizing Barack Obama in 2010, Ermey’s thriving film career immediately dried up. Even after apologizing, he was ostracized, fired by GEICO insurance and never did another commercial. After disappearing completely for a few years, he managed to appear in a couple of C-grade reality shows in the last few years of his life.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywo...-barack-obama/
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04-17-2018, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Clocker
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Blacklisted for criticizing Obama in 2010? Be serious. Except for Toy Story 3 in 2010-a roll which he got because he was in the first two-his last roll was in Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003. Apparently there was a retroactive blacklist in effect.
Not only that, but I don't believe him when he says he voted for Obama.
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04-17-2018, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by mostpost
Blacklisted for criticizing Obama in 2010? Be serious. Except for Toy Story 3 in 2010-a roll which he got because he was in the first two-his last roll was in Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003.
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Ermey was doing TV in the years 2003-2010. He had 2 regular series on the History Channel.
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Not only that, but I don't believe him when he says he voted for Obama.
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Hard to argue with that kind of detailed factual information.
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04-17-2018, 02:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clocker
Ermey was doing TV in the years 2003-2010. He had 2 regular series on the History Channel.
Hard to argue with that kind of detailed factual information.
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Doing reality TV on the History channel is not the same as doing Hollywood movies or series TV. Face it. Basically Ermey was a one trick pony. By 2010 there were plenty of younger actors who could do what he did.
As for him voting for Obama, why would an avowed conservative military lifer vote for Obama? Particularly when Obama's opponent was military hero and conservative John McCain.
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04-18-2018, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by mostpost
Particularly when Obama's opponent was military hero and conservative John McCain.
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Maybe he bought into the liberal bullshit spin that McCain was about to die any minute?
You remember when the liberal media demanded to pour over McCain's medical records because he was on death's doorstep, right?
They did the same when Hillary collapsed in the streets of NYC, oh, wait a minute....
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