Well, I'm just mad…..
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Philip Seymour Hoffman
lisajohn-4 — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 03:29 PM)
Hoffman was one of the finest actors of his generation. I always looked forward to his next picture because I knew his performance would be outstanding. Now he is gone and we won't see any more work from him..and that's what makes me mad! And sad. We should have had another 30 years of his work to enjoy! I'm going to go watch Capote and remember him.
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youpifish — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 03:31 PM)
That is always the case with actors or writers or artists. You don't necessarily mourn the person (did we REALLY know them?), but rather their work. And the work that was yet to come. That's why it's especially sad when great actors die young. Imagine what they still had in them?
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SausagePourVous — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 09:31 PM)
Be happy you got alot of work to love. Do you Think the drugdeath was an isolated dance with narcotics or that just maybe,like many of us,he used something to calm him down,to deal with pressure,find courage to try new things,open up the artistic mind? Hollywood is a pretty unforgiving World andhad he nevr done drugs,he might just be a TV-actor who had alot of potentialI didnt know him well enough to say.
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lisajohn-4 — 12 years ago(February 05, 2014 01:23 PM)
I agree we can consider the "glass half full" and relish the body of work Hoffman did leave us. And he probably did take drugs to escape his demons. But I disagree with the implication that drugs helped elevate his acting career. He had drug problems prior to rehab at age 22..years before he became a known, celebrated actor. Perhaps he returned to drugs to deal with issues related to his fame, but I don't believe drugs made him a better actor.
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Stirchley — 12 years ago(February 07, 2014 09:23 AM)
To respond to the OP, there are still a couple of movies he has done that haven't come out yet.
The Hunger Games
, for one. He also stars in a TV show (
Happyish
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Soodinum — 12 years ago(February 07, 2014 10:13 AM)
I don't feel that way, as much as I enjoyed his work. Having lost my father recently, all I think of is his family and friends and the loss that they will be feeling. Compared to that, the issue of seeing him in films kind of takes the seat at the back of the bus.
'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings. -
lisajohn-4 — 12 years ago(February 12, 2014 09:08 PM)
I agree that many who were close to him will feel a much greater loss. It was not my intent to get into a pissing match about suffering. Hoffman was a great talent. No less than Sydney Lumet compared him to Brando. I am saddened by his loss and cherish his body of work all the more.
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Soodinum — 12 years ago(February 12, 2014 09:32 PM)
Jah, I get that. IMDb threads are a bit like Chinese whispers. If you don't start at the beginning, you sometimes get a distorted view of what's being discussed, and certainly of the OP's point.
'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings. -
SimplemindedSociety — 12 years ago(February 27, 2014 09:15 PM)
'I don't feel that way, as much as I enjoyed his work. Having lost my father recently, all I think of is his family and friends and the loss that they will be feeling. Compared to that, the issue of seeing him in films kind of takes the seat at the back of the bus'.
That's because you're not one of the sheep shedding tears over a stranger because he won't make any more movies for them to enjoy. I wonder what would happen if people actually met their idols and then thought "what was I thinking?" Wouldn't that be a sobering exp. for them
Yeah, actors have nothing on doctors and scientists who save lives and create cures. It's all about the worship of people who move in front of a camera.
They l1c84ikely never lost a close one, so to them, Hoffman is a devestating loss for the world at large. -
Delvin1 — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 09:08 AM)
I'm sorry but how is appreciating an actors work and being disappointed that you won't see him again in any way disparaging the work of doctors and scientists? Those are two completely different things and I appreciate their work in completely different ways.
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tomislav888 — 12 years ago(February 07, 2014 05:33 PM)
exactly as You said I am still so pissed of about it, for many years I always checked his current shootings and awaiting as crazy to finally see it, I tell You, I would feel nothing like it if I read in news that Shia LaBeouf od'd and gone
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bellamae — 12 years ago(February 09, 2014 03:09 PM)
That was my first response too, mixed w/ sadness. But the other day it occurred to me that if he was in that much pain, that he started using again after being clean for many years, maybe he is better off not being in a body. We are just being selfish when we think of all the great future work we will miss. The real sadness is for his family and his children who are deprived of their father as they grow up.
I've heard it only takes trying it once to get addicted to heroin. -
listigspindel — 12 years ago(February 10, 2014 12:51 PM)
This is mean, but among the first thoughts I had was "Why could'nt a bad actor have died instead". I hate that he's dead.
It was probably the acting itself that killed him in a way. To loose yourself in a role, must be exhausting, and after a while it must be hard to shake it off and you bring the pain of the character home. It must have been other things too, but to play a deeply disturbed person must leave marks, especially if the anxiety and depression are already present in the persons psyche.
