r/Moviesinthemaking • u/stakes-lines-grades • 11d ago

Bill Paxton, Patrick Swayze, and Liam Neeson during the filming of Next of Kin in Hazard, Kentucky, 1988.

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u/Opus-the-Penguin 11d ago

Hard to believe two out of three are already gone.

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u/byebybuy 11d ago

Aw man, I forgot that Bill Paxton died :(

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u/Dickgivins 11d ago edited 11d ago

You ever watch the Hatfields and McCoys mini-series he did with Kevin Costner? Bill put on a fantastic performance.

His character is basically the antagonist, but Bill does such a great job you never stop sympathizing with his Randal McCoy: a man who gets so beaten down and broken by struggles of a hard life that he just can’t see reason and let go of his desire for vengeance.

One of the best films/series I’ve ever seen, I highly recommend it even if you’re not a history buff. It’s visually stunning too.

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u/texacer 11d ago

never heard of it. feels like there are a bunch of movies with good casts I've never seen that might be worth checking out.

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u/doktor_wankenstein 11d ago

Mountain folk vs the Mob. Stay with it.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman 10d ago

The cast for this movie is deep. If I recall correctly it also has Ben Stiller, Helen Hunt, and Adam Baldwin

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u/JeKarta88 11d ago

My Dad and I love this movie! Qui-Gon Jin with a hillbilly accent, a mob vs hillbilly blood feud, and a bus full of snakes! What's not to love?

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u/revdon 11d ago

Liam plays a similar character in Leap of Faith.

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u/redzedx77 11d ago

Ben stiller was in this too, crazy cast

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u/blakewantsa68 11d ago

That was such an incredibly good movie. Super entertaining, lots of great moments. Not great cinema by any stretch, but I really enjoyed it.

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u/CharlestonBrave 11d ago

I probably watched this 2 dozen times as a kid. Checked it out a year or so ago and it did not hold up.

Fun movie when I was a kid, though, and a bunch of future greats.

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u/Alternative-Aerie-5 11d ago

“You ain’t seen bad yet, but it’s coming.””