RIP Gene Wilder

omerin · 29-08-2016 10:04PM

rest in peace Gene and thanks

Dr Crayfish · 29-08-2016 10:07PM

Walk this way. No, walk this way!

BorneTobyWilde · 29-08-2016 10:07PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1mST8AzGo

cml387 · 29-08-2016 10:10PM

RobAMerc wrote: »

rip Gene

I think blazing saddles was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema and I honestly think there has rarely a week gone by that I didnt quote a line from it
I particularly like "they said you was hung!", "And they was right !" or "You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons."

Don't forget "The Producers"

no way out no way out no way out.

I'm in pain...and I'm wet...and I'm still hysterical.

Ol' Donie · 29-08-2016 10:12PM

Christmas wouldn't be the same without Blazing Saddles. Saw it on RTE 2 one Christmas Eve. Had no idea what it was.

Don't know if I've ever laughed so much at a film.

"Little b*stard shot me in the ass!"

fleet_admiral · 29-08-2016 10:16PM

'Yeah but I shoot with this hand'

RIP

Pherekydes · 29-08-2016 10:24PM

RIP. A legend.

On my mother's anniversary, too.

1hnr79jr65 · 29-08-2016 10:26PM

Only 2 words about this guy - fking legend

Yamanoto · 29-08-2016 10:26PM

First time I saw this I actually hurt with laughter.

Very sorry to see him pass, but people will rightly remember him with real affection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FLZPFI3jc

Panthro · 29-08-2016 10:30PM

His boat ride in Willy Wonka still scares me.
Rip

fryup · 29-08-2016 10:34PM

Willy Wonka is dead

mansize · 29-08-2016 10:39PM

He will always be Willy Wonka to me.

Eccentric, loveable, wonderful

Duggy747 · 29-08-2016 10:49PM

Good day, sir!

Every single Xmas day, without fail as far as I can remember, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is watched on the telly in the family house. Just something that's carried through since childhood seeing Gene Wilder on that day, doesn't feel complete if you don't see that curly hair and purple suit.

Was just something really likeable about him, loved the films with Richard Pryor. The 2 of them had such great chemistry, it's odd they never really hung around outside of their films.

Gene Wilder binge weekend it is, so................bar Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, save that for Xmas day!

Kerrydude1981 · 29-08-2016 10:57PM

RIP Gene Wilder

fryup · 29-08-2016 10:59PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Gene Wilder binge weekend it is, so................bar Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, save that for Xmas day!

you mean, Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory was the god-awful Johnny Depp remake with the CGI Oompa Loompa's

Duggy747 · 29-08-2016 11:01PM

fryup wrote: »

you mean, Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory was the god-awful Johnny Depp remake with the CGI oumpa lumpa's

Bah, I'm seeing people write Charlie everywhere that even now I'm typing it :mad:

That remake was muck, songs were awful too.

kfallon · 29-08-2016 11:01PM

The jail scene in Stir Crazy cracks me up still

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLzPRyMmOGY

Gene Wilder was a legend!

sonofenoch · 29-08-2016 11:13PM

Funny man good actor from an era when they made good films

zcorpian88 · 29-08-2016 11:13PM

Always thought Gene Wilder looked a lot like my Dad, except he didn't have the curly hair.

My Dad can even perfectly do the skit of him from the scene from Stir Crazy where they come back to their cell exhausted from prison work

Scene starts at 0.51, that bit was hilarious, and when my Dad does it, just as hilarious, especially the "Oh shee!" bit haha Also have to mention Willy Wonka, was always a magic movie to grow up with.

Pickpocket · 29-08-2016 11:14PM

"Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman?"

SEPT 23 1989 · 29-08-2016 11:14PM

Nice statement from his family

Gloomtastic! · 29-08-2016 11:21PM

Stir Crazy and Blazing Saddles, two great stoner movies from the eighties. Oh how we giggled helplessly.

dublinman1990 · 29-08-2016 11:28PM

I will miss him as Willy Wonka. I didn't know he had died of Alzheimer's Disease. I found it heartbreaking to know something like that about him.

I have the original version of The Producers on DVD at home. I have never actually seen it at all.

Some time later in the week would be a good reason to watch that movie now.

R.I.P. Gene Wilder. You were a legendary actor. Hope heaven is a better place with Richard Pryor up there with you.

FatherTed · 29-08-2016 11:49PM

Met him once about 10 years ago at a charity function here in CT, I was nervous so I just said I loved you in Blazing Saddles and he said wow, thanks so much. He seemed a nice gentle man. RIP, I'm sure he's up there now having a good laugh at us all with Richard Pryor and Gilda Radner.