Just watched 12 Monkeys (1996), and it’s a little uncomfortable seeing Bruce Willis portray a character struggling mentally, know of his real-life problems with frontotemporal dementia. It’s not the time of year yet, but I’m wondering if my enjoyment of Die Hard will be reduced, since the hearing loss he suffered on that film may have been a contributing factor.

The Crow (1994) - on which Brandon Lee died, and Rust (upcoming) - on which Halyna Hutchins died - aren’t films I’d normally watch anyway, so I don’t know how the deaths would have affected my decision to watch them. Conversely, Kevin Spacey is in a lot of films I like, but it’s a bit queasy seeing his performances, with the suspicion that we all now know why he’s so good at portraying creeps.

So do you just try to enjoy a film as a film, or does real-life events ever stop you re-watching them?

  • WarmSodaEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I agree. I’ll watch Seven or Usual Suspects any day of the week.
    I won’t watch anything he did recently though.

    • quicksand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I haven’t seen Seven and didn’t really get into House of Cards, so I don’t know what he even did recently. Usual Suspects is amazing tho, I make Keyzer SoZe jokes like once a week even tho nobody gets them lmao

      • WarmSodaEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Seven and Usual Suspects are back to back masterpieces.

        I have no idea what he’s done in probably a decade or more, tbh.

      • WarmSodaEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Baby driver was ok. Great beginning, then it just kinda got boring, imo.

        I did forget he was in that. Superman Returns is like the last thing I remember him in off the top of my head.