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Title: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eschaton on February 02, 2014, 01:31:28 PM
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

 :-\
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 02, 2014, 01:33:56 PM
WHAT?!
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 02, 2014, 01:34:48 PM
fuck this gay earth
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 02, 2014, 01:39:59 PM
Poor Brandt. :(
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 02, 2014, 01:40:30 PM
RIP in peace, sweet prince :(
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: brob on February 02, 2014, 01:42:34 PM
46 years old? ffs.  :(
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 02, 2014, 01:50:51 PM
god fucking dammit

fuck this gay earth

I loved him in everything he's done
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 02, 2014, 01:57:15 PM
:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pynxRRVBu74
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 02, 2014, 02:06:36 PM
his inclusion in MI:3 was a stroke of genius and he played one of my favorite recent villains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLNUIU7AzTg&list=PLDA24E7A6E1307B26&index=1
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Positive Touch on February 02, 2014, 02:19:11 PM
fuuuuu

i dont usually care about actors, but this guy made even the most boring art-house movie or the shittiest hollywood flick (see fistfuls post) enjoyable. this really sucks
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eli Gulgin on February 02, 2014, 02:38:38 PM
Oh fuck this seriously. RIP.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Bacchus7 on February 02, 2014, 02:40:20 PM
WHAT THE FUCK? NOOOOO

R.I.P.

He was a fantastic actor and might have been the best out there for a while when he was on a roll. I might end up watching some of his movies that I haven't seen yet in tribute.

That would be so touching.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 02, 2014, 02:43:36 PM
rip

he was great in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 02, 2014, 02:52:28 PM
Hopefully his stuff is done for the hunger games.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 02, 2014, 02:52:35 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?_r=0

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Investigators found a syringe in his arm and an envelope containing what is believed to be heroin, the official said.

:(
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Bacchus7 on February 02, 2014, 02:58:29 PM
WHAT THE FUCK? NOOOOO

R.I.P.

He was a fantastic actor and might have been the best out there for a while when he was on a roll. I might end up watching some of his movies that I haven't seen yet in tribute.

That would be so touching.

Excuse me? Is that an insult?

The movies I haven't seen yet were Capote and The Master. And since they're considered great and I never got the chance to see them I don't see how it's wrong to finally watch them.

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If that wasn't an insult, sorry for going off like that. I just can't tell anymore on this board.
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I would just want a little more commitment out of ya! The man is dead, and you "might" watch his opera magna
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Diunx on February 02, 2014, 03:01:30 PM
what the fuck!
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 02, 2014, 03:15:43 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?_r=0

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Investigators found a syringe in his arm and an envelope containing what is believed to be heroin, the official said.

:(

Drugs, man. :-\
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 02, 2014, 03:24:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OwpGUI-TAI

 :'(

he was so good
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Mupepe on February 02, 2014, 03:38:39 PM
Dont watch the master to commemorate him. Its awful. The talented me Ripley is a much better choice.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 02, 2014, 03:51:55 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2FCCZ50VU

loved him in this, too
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Shaka Khan on February 02, 2014, 03:54:22 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?_r=0

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Investigators found a syringe in his arm and an envelope containing what is believed to be heroin, the official said.

:(

Fuck.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 02, 2014, 03:57:06 PM
Dont watch the master to commemorate him. Its awful. The talented me Ripley is a much better choice.

Good character study, shot well, not much of a movie
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: tehjaybo on February 02, 2014, 04:23:16 PM
:(
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 02, 2014, 04:23:30 PM
At least he got to bang  Marisa Tomei on camera before he went. :(
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Himu on February 02, 2014, 04:24:45 PM
I didn't know who this guy was. He was one of those actors I recognized on sight, but I had to google his name and shit. RIP I guess.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Himu on February 02, 2014, 04:27:03 PM
:wtf
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 02, 2014, 04:55:20 PM
Don't look at that as an insult, Exodust. That's every character actor's dream, really. Once people start to know you by name alone, and the kinds of roles you play, that is sort of the last call for a character actor's career. You stop getting hired.  There's an old story, and I forget the actor's name who told it (haha), but it goes something like this:

You start getting known, and every casting director out there says "Get me Paul Giamatti." Then you're all over the place, everyone knows who you are, you're being paid more, and casting directors start saying "Get me someone like Paul Giamatti." Then a few years after that, every once in a while a casting director might say "Get me someone like that guy...what was his name, again? Paul somebody?"
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: brob on February 02, 2014, 05:03:15 PM
I've always heard it like this

“Who’s Hugh O’Brian?”
“Get me Hugh O’Brian.”
“Get me a Hugh O’Brian type.”
“Get me a young Hugh O’Brian.”
“Who’s Hugh O’Brian?”

Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 02, 2014, 05:06:56 PM
Yeah, that's it.  It's an apocryphal story, so there's probably been hundreds of variations on it over the years.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on February 02, 2014, 05:49:59 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?_r=0

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Investigators found a syringe in his arm and an envelope containing what is believed to be heroin, the official said.

:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8Z5VPTHS0
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Diunx on February 02, 2014, 05:52:40 PM
:goty2
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: chronovore on February 02, 2014, 06:12:04 PM
This is a horrible tragedy. My god, one of my favorite actors.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Shadow Mod on February 02, 2014, 06:52:02 PM
I remember when he got popular and I had the realization he was in The Big Lebowski. Blew my mind.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Raban on February 02, 2014, 08:26:05 PM
And we lose yet another legendary actor.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: ToxicAdam on February 02, 2014, 10:10:56 PM
His passing and people reminiscing of his career reminded me that he was the guy who played Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. He was fucking great in that flick.

 His best was still Boogie Nights. I don't even know who else could pull that role off.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 02, 2014, 10:21:02 PM
Great actor, he will be missed

:nsfw
http://www.metacafe.com/w/1326969
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: drew on February 02, 2014, 11:42:39 PM
somewhat ironically that movie where he plays a rich brother/businessman that pays for a heroin babysitter is my favorite movie of his and on my top ten of all time.

edit: before the devil knows you're dead yeah thats the one
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 03, 2014, 01:39:50 AM
My favorite actor in early PTA films... sad news...

Wonder how they'll handle his character in the Hunger Games?
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 03, 2014, 02:42:12 AM
Don't look at that as an insult, Exodust. That's every character actor's dream, really. Once people start to know you by name alone, and the kinds of roles you play, that is sort of the last call for a character actor's career. You stop getting hired.  There's an old story, and I forget the actor's name who told it (haha), but it goes something like this:

You start getting known, and every casting director out there says "Get me Paul Giamatti." Then you're all over the place, everyone knows who you are, you're being paid more, and casting directors start saying "Get me someone like Paul Giamatti." Then a few years after that, every once in a while a casting director might say "Get me someone like that guy...what was his name, again? Paul somebody?"
I'm pretty sure that was Joe Pantoliano who said that, and as he's been mostly MIA for the last ten years, I guess its true.

Hoffman was a major talent.  With an astounding range.  I know he did well as the sad sack type, but he could do comedy, heavy drama (yeah, he's amazing in The Master), and whatever this is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5m6FrFsi8Y

he was one of my very favorite actors and I'm saddened, dissapointed really, that I won't get anymore performances from him in the future.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: benjipwns on February 03, 2014, 04:14:07 AM
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In a 2006 interview with 60 Minutes, Hoffman revealed that he had suffered from drug and alcohol abuse after graduating from college, and went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, recovering at age 22. He said he had abused "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all."
...
Hoffman relapsed over 20 years later, checking into a rehabilitation program for about 10 days in May 2013 because of problems with prescription pills and heroin.
:fbm
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 03, 2014, 08:10:58 AM
My favorite actor in early PTA films... sad news...

Wonder how they'll handle his character in the Hunger Games?

Tell Michael C. Hall to gain some weight and stay out of the sun.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Mandark on February 03, 2014, 08:15:54 AM
My favorite actor in early PTA films... sad news...

Wonder how they'll handle his character in the Hunger Games?

Tell Michael C. Hall to gain some weight and stay out of the sun.

 :ohhh
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: king of the internet on February 03, 2014, 09:13:30 AM
I'm trying to find a clip of that scene in Happiness where he jerks off while he talks to some chick on the phone, then there's a quick shot of his splooge flying across the room then splatting against the wall. It was pretty good.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 04, 2014, 11:25:34 PM
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    Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the most talented actors of his generation, a leading man without leading-man looks, an actor whose magnetism onscreen sprang from intelligence and fervor rather than appearance. But his self-inflicted death is yet another hallmark of the broken leftist culture that dominates Hollywood, enabling rather than preventing the loss of some of its greatest talents. Libertarianism becomes libertinism without a cultural force pushing back against the penchant for sin; Hollywood has no such cultural force. In fact, the Hollywood demand is for more self-abasement, less spirituality, less principle, less standards.

    No one knows what sort of demons plagued Seymour Hoffman. But without a sound moral structure around those in Hollywood who have every financial and talent advantage, the path to destruction is far too easy.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-shapiro-actually-blames-philip-seymour-hoffmans-death-on-broken-leftist-culture/

 :holeup
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 04, 2014, 11:41:23 PM
Even people from good families with moral upbringings get caught up in drug/alcohol addiction.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 04, 2014, 11:48:40 PM
His death makes me yearn for the days of Reagan, when no one did drugs.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: MartinLutherVandross on February 05, 2014, 04:57:01 PM
I guess I've been lucky not ever having a close friend/family member pass away from a drug addiction, so news of drug overdoses always seemed like "sad" occations. PSH's death was the first time I ever felt anger and understood why people get pissed at family members/friends/celebrities that die of addictions and overdoses. It could have been a surprise but you always wonder "This person had so much more to give the world, and now nothing, he's dead." Shit sucks man.
Title: Re: RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 05, 2014, 05:57:27 PM
Quote from: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve_cohen_philip_seymour_hoffman_pot
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) on Tuesday cited the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman while arguing that the federal government shouldn't treat marijuana and harder drugs like heroin equally.

"It is ludicrous, absurd, crazy to have marijuana in the same level as heroin," Cohen said during a House Oversight Committee hearing on marijuana policy. "Ask the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, if you could. Nobody dies from marijuana. People die from heroin."

Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday with a syringe in his arm. More than 50 bags of heroin were also recovered from the apartment by police.

During the hearing Cohen urged the deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli, to reconsider classifying marijuana as a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse like heroin. He also chastised the federal government for jailing those charged with marijuana possession, which he called a a "waste of resources."

"Every second that we spend in this country trying to enforce marijuana laws is a second that we're not enforcing heroin laws. And heroin and meth are the two drugs that are ravaging our country," Cohen continued. "And every death, including Mr. Hoffman's, is partly the responsibility of the federal government's drug priorities for not putting total emphasis on the drugs that kill, that cause people to be addicted and have to steal to support their habit. Heroin and meth are where all your priorities should be."