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**Dis** · January 10, 2006, 17:47

Originally posted by

Smiley
How'd he manage to do that?

Jon-Erik Hexum. Actor: Voyagers!. In the early 1980s, this ruggedly handsome young American actor of Norwegian parentage was seen as the "next big thing", and then suddenly he was dead from an accident via a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The son of Thorleif Hexum (born in Norway) and Gretha Paulsen (born in Minnesota), Jon-Erik Hexum was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, where he was a musically gifted student at school...

exum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull, whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery. Despite five hours of work, the chief surgeon Dr David Ditsworth, described the damage to Hexum's brain as life ending, and one week later on October 18th, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead.

**Dis** · January 10, 2006, 17:49

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

There was a series about spies who traveled the world posing as models. The series was cancelled after the male lead took a gun loaded with blanks to his head and fired it, resulting in his death. He apparently was laboring under the false belief that it wouldn't hurt him. I can't recall the name of the series. It was not Sci-Fi. There was a movie called "The Crow". The lead actor was killed by a blank gun also, but they managed to finish it anyway. I wouldn't classify that movie as Sci-fi either.

I already answered my own question in the post below that one.

. The show was called Voyagers.

**Dis** · January 10, 2006, 19:21

so I'm watching spike tv, and I think I realize why I like ST:TNG so much. Worf. Klingons are just cool. Their culture is cool, and really made the show work. The other series just don't have Klingons (though didn't Worf join DS9 late in the series?).

**Proteus_MST** · January 11, 2006, 05:15

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
There was a movie called "The Crow". The lead actor was killed by a blank gun also, but they managed to finish it anyway. I wouldn't classify that movie as Sci-fi either.

Yep, the lead actor was Brandon Lee, son of the famous martial artist Bruce Lee.

**Colon™** · February 21, 2006, 22:15

Just watched Starship Troopers.

Damn, that's one bizarre movie. I really hope Verhoeven's intention was satirical because he grandly succeeded at bringing satire. Didn't know how to react but laugh all the way at the stupendous acting and the ridiculous situations. It's just completely over the top.
Maybe it's by accident or maybe not, but that movie is brilliant at confusing you who the real bad guys are: the bugs or the humans? It's certainly not as straightforward as in most sci-fi movies and that makes it interesting.

I haven't seen Starship Troopers 2 yet but I really hope the bugs kicked some human ass.

Quote of the movie:

"He's afraid!"

*cheering*

**Colon™** · February 21, 2006, 22:31

And those newsclips/commercials in the movie.

Soldiers:

"I'm doing my part"

"I'm doing my part"

"I'm doing my part"

Some kid: "I'm doing my part too"

Commentator: "... and you?"

Just great.

**Fve Crathva** · February 21, 2006, 23:02

Starship Troopers is an underappreciated and well-executed satire. Paul Verhoeven is one of the great junk science fiction directors of our time (he also did Total Recall).

Originally posted by Dis
so I'm watching spike tv, and I think I realize why I like ST:TNG so much. Worf. Klingons are just cool. Their culture is cool, and really made the show work. The other series just don't have Klingons (though didn't Worf join DS9 late in the series?).

Worf moved over to DS9 after Generations (I think that would make it DS9 season 3 or 4). Interestingly, nearly all of the Klingon-centred episodes in TNG and DS9 were written by Ronald D. Moore, who is now the creator and head writer for Battlestar Galactica.

SP

**Harry Tuttle** · February 21, 2006, 23:11

Originally posted by Colon™
I haven't seen Starship Troopers 2 yet but I really hope the bugs kicked some human ass.

Quote of the movie:

"He's afraid!"

*cheering*

Glad you liked the movie.

Don't see ST 2. Let me put it this way. They showed the movie on TBS at 10pm before it was released on DVD. I liked the first one, but the second one was pure rehashed crap.

**Colon™** · February 22, 2006, 00:08

You know, I had also been watching Aliens (the sequel) tonight, and that movie somehow irked me in its seriousness. If you're going to be serious, then at least show "elite" marines that have some discipline and respect for rank for instance. Or a child that's actually behaves traumatized rather than frowning all the time.

But Starship Troopers. Damn. White teeths, neat haircut, slim body, and then they get chopped into bits by bugs. Hilarious. Or that propaganda clip in which kids were stamping on (terran) bugs in all their patriotic fervour. Genius. Or those scenes in which the drill instructor breaks someone's arm and hurls a knife in someone's hand, and then goes on to stoically call the medic who are on standby as if it's standard practice at drills. Classic. And I could go on and on like this. It's like a giant **** you to all the pretensiousness in the sci-fi genre. A bit like Mars Attacks!, except that Starship Troopers has this disturbing undertone that, in all their high-mindedness, the humans are the real bad guys.

**Urban Ranger** · February 22, 2006, 01:16

Originally posted by Dis
so I'm watching spike tv, and I think I realize why I like ST:TNG so much. Worf. Klingons are just cool. Their culture is cool, and really made the show work. The other series just don't have Klingons (though didn't Worf join DS9 late in the series?).

This may seem shocking, but the Klingons in TNG were almost identical to those in the game Star Fleet Battles. You may notice how they are more of a warrior caste in TNG as compared to the warlike brutes in TOS.

TOS came out in the 1960's, while the first print of the game, which was loosely based on Star Trek, came out in 1976 or thereabouts. In more than a decade all the major races in the game underwent a series of refinements, and the Klingons were no exception.

**Arrian** · February 22, 2006, 08:38

I have to admit, I didn't know what to make of SS Troopers (like the abbreviation, btw?) at first. I think if I watched it again I might have a better appreciation for it.

-Arrian

**Veritass** · February 22, 2006, 10:53

The Veritass awards...

Best great book made into the worst crappy movie goes to: Dune, for completely missing everything that was significant in the book to make a stupid shoot-em-up.

Worst anthropomorphizing of computers goes to: Tron, for making the world even more clueless about computers.

Worst use of special effects goes to: The Black Hole, where a meteor (which is glowing even though in cold space) hurling through space at 10,000 miles per hour crashes into the ship, and its speed is somehow reduced to 6 miles per hour as it rolls (?) down a corridor after the protaganist who is running to get out of its way.

Worst science fiction movie company goes to: Disney, for making The Black Hole (1979) and Tron (1982) and creating a record amount of bad science fiction in such a short time.

**Arrian** · February 22, 2006, 10:55

Oh, come on! Tron was cool!

-Arrian

**Docfeelgood** · February 22, 2006, 14:19

SST reminded me of combo toothpaste and Raid commercial.

Loved the book, hated the movie.

**Urban Ranger** · February 22, 2006, 21:11

Re: The Veritass awards...

Originally posted by Veritass
Worst anthropomorphizing of computers goes to: Tron, for making the world even more clueless about computers.

Don't diss Tron, man.

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