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R.I.P. R. Lee

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  • #2
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?!


    RIP.


  • #3
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxSl8BEvnQ


  • #4
    NinetyTwoTeam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭NinetyTwoTeam


    He's gone to fingerbang the ol' Mary Jane Rottencrotch in the sky


  • #5
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,532 ✭✭✭✭Arghus




  • #6
    greencap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Arghus wrote: »


    Holee Jesus.


    What is thaaat??

    What the fck is that!!


    ...........What is that private Arghus!!

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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  • #7
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,337 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »
    He's gone to fingerbang the ol' Mary Jane Rottencrotch in the sky


    Mary Jane Rottencrotch is still with us.
    I was fingerbanging her only last night.

    She said that she was very disappointed with the present you got her for mother's day


  • #8
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    R. Lee Ermey, made famous by playing the hard but fair Gny. Sgt. Hartman in full metal jacket, has passed away.


  • #9
    DwightSchrute1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭DwightSchrute1


    Never get tired of watching him in Full Metal Jacket. Absolute scene stealer. R.I.P


  • #10
    thefinalstage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,503 ✭✭✭thefinalstage


    I thought it was Stan Lee from the title....now I don't know how I feel :(


  • #11
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    'What is your major malfunction numbnuts?' - A classic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4q3leE5Uw


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  • #12
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    He made that film.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NP8y63Ms4o


  • #13
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What a lot of people don't know about his role in Full Metal Jacket is that he wasn't the original choice for that role. I don't remember who was, but Ermey was an actual ex-marine drill sergeant brought in as a "technical advisor", in other words give the real actor lessons in how to be a ba$tard. He turned out to be so bad that the real actor was told to hit the road and Stanley Kubrick gave the role to Ermey instead.


  • #15
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Showed up in a few horror films too. Good actor.


  • #16
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Though Ermey wasn't originally going to act in Full Metal Jacket, he wasn't totally new to acting either e.g. he had an uncredited role as a helicopter pilot in Apocalypse Now, and had played a Gunnery Sergeant in the movie Purple Hearts three years before Full Metal Jacket. Some years later he played the police captain in Se7en, and I honestly didn't recognise him until I saw the credits. It was a less intense character whio didn't use that voice. :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #17
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    "You will be a minister of death, praying for war. But until that day - you are pukes"

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #18
    Relikk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭Relikk


    Aw, this is sad. Hartman is one of my favourite chracters in any movie, ever. :(

    RIP.


  • #19
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,871 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    "You look like the type that would fcuk a guy in the ass and not have the goddamn courtesy to give him a reacharound!!"


  • #20
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,222 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Ran into him in the bar he owned down in southern California. He hung out with us a while as I was with my former unit doing our ten year reunion from the Iraq deployment. Guy never had anything other than a smile on his face, very friendly and good natured.

    He had his FMJ uniform on display by the wall.


  • #21
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Where the hell are you from anyway, private?

    Private Cowboy: Sir, Texas, sir.

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog ****! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?

    Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you a peter puffer?

    Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy who would **** a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you!

    fcuking legend. :pac:


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  • #22
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    He owed me a jelly donut!

    RIP, I LOVED every bit of that film.

    "Get the hell offa my goddam obstacle!":D


  • #23
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    He was also in Dead Man Walking, playing the father of the girl that Sean Penn's character was accused of raping and murdering.

    It really showed a different side to his acting, although his voice is so distinctive that I kept expecting him to jump out of his chair and tell Susan Sarandon to "drop and gimme twenty!!"


  • #24
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    As far as I know, a lot of his lines in Full Metal Jacket were not scripted.

    There is also a scene in Seven where the phone rang during the take and he just carried on with it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7tAtB430oY


    I'd love to know how many more of these there are.


  • #25
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    The Boys In Company C.

    R.I.P. Lee Ermey




    Brilliant here



    March :)




    Coors Ad :P

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #26
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Absolutely stole the show in FMJ can't think of another actor who could portray a Drill instructor who could pull off anything as good Gunnery Sargent Hartman .

    Godspeed Gunney
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  • #27
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    gandalf wrote: »
    He made that film.
    He literally made it as well in part by rewriting much of the script... which is even more remarkable given he wasn't even meant to be in it.



  • #28
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,222 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Although, of course, the... eloquent... characters that R. Lee played in movies or on Mail Call are well embedded in my cognitive association, I have also run into him 'out of hours', as it were. He had a bar, down in the Southern California near Palmdale. When he discovered that our little group was actually the local armor unit having a reunion on the tenth anniversary of our Iraq deployment, he made sure to hang out with us. I don't recall him ever having anything other than a smile on his face and enthusiasm in his voice. Definitely, he was one of the good ones. Oh, presuming the bar's still around, his FMJ uniform is on display in a cabinet.


  • #29
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    The Frightners, a very underated film.. R. Lee playing his role in the afterlife, well he's there now! RIP



  • #30
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Although, of course, the... eloquent... characters that R. Lee played in movies or on Mail Call are well embedded in my cognitive association, I have also run into him 'out of hours', as it were. He had a bar, down in the Southern California near Palmdale. When he discovered that our little group was actually the local armor unit having a reunion on the tenth anniversary of our Iraq deployment, he made sure to hang out with us. I don't recall him ever having anything other than a smile on his face and enthusiasm in his voice. Definitely, he was one of the good ones. Oh, presuming the bar's still around, his FMJ uniform is on display in a cabinet.

    Thats twice you told us that.

    You ok man?


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  • #31
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Did he have permission to die? :pac:

    RIP :(


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