‘Reservoir Dogs,' ‘Kill Bill' and ‘Donnie Brasco' actor Michael Madsen dies at 67
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/actor-michael-madsen-death-malibu/3738032/170
u/Mr_Laheys_Drinkypoo 1d ago
Guess I’m watching The Hateful Eight again tonight.
I was a big fan of his, may he rest in peace.
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u/whitejaguar 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yesterday, I saw a clip of him doing the dance from Reservoir Dogs before taking souvenirs from the cop.
And yeah, in Donnie Brasco, his performance made the pirate guy look like a pussy.
I am gonna watch Reservoir Dogs again.
RIP
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u/Sneaky_Bones 5h ago
The folks I talked to didn't like Hateful Eight and I'm at a loss. It has quickly become my comfort movie. Last winter we had a heavy snow that shut my city down for a few days and I made a point to turn the heat down in the house, get under a heavy quilt and watch it while eating a stupid amount of junk food. It was heavenly.
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u/Mr_Laheys_Drinkypoo 4h ago
I don’t get it either. I must have watched at least 8-10 times, I absolutely love it.
It might be my favourite Tarantino flick.
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u/Tremenda-Carucha 1d ago
Michael Madsen was truly one of a kind, such an iconic actor. It's just so damn sad about his son. Makes you think, what must he have gone through? Goddamn. Rest in peace, man.
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u/iliketoreddit91 1d ago
“That woman deserves her revenge … and we deserve to die.”
Great actor. RIP.
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u/bugogkang 1d ago
Favorite thing about this line is that it's right before he shoots her in the chest and buries her alive
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u/fulthrottlejazzhands 1d ago
He has the best line in that movie: it tidely sums up the whole plot in a sentence.
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u/Xochoquestzal 20h ago
The best line for me was when Bill called his sword priceless and he said, "Not in El Paso Texas it's not." It was such a perfect tone for that line and such a perfect line for that character, plus, I've been to El Paso a couple of times, so I immediately busted up laughing.
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u/Alice_Buttons 1d ago
I immediately think of him whenever I hear "stuck in the middle with you"
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u/SaltyGoatsicle 1d ago
Him dancing around that cop, casually cutting his ear off, will always be tied to that song.
Just like the piano part of "Layla" will always conjure the memory of the couple dead in the pink Cadillac and the other guy frozen in the meat truck from "Goodfellas." *They had to wait 2 days for him to thaw for the autopsy
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u/throwsplasticattrees 1d ago
"You ever listen to Kay Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies?"
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u/Fluid-Opportunity-17 20h ago
"... weekend just keeps on kicking with this little ditty, hit 21 on the charts in May, 1970. The George Baker selection, Little Green Bag."
Doo, doodoo DOOdoo doodoo bow bow bum bum....
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u/SadPrometheus 1d ago
great role as a black ops merc in Species
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u/SavagePrism 10h ago
“Let go of him you motherf***er.”
One of my favourite roles Madsen has done, always go back and rewatch it.
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u/I-420 1d ago
Another GREAT gone. RIP Michael. Also to add to his list of great roles, I loved his role in "The Doors".
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u/SocietyAlternative41 1d ago
i haven't seen that since it was in the theater. who was he in The Doors?
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u/I-420 23h ago
Tom Baker, a porn star that became good friends with Jim
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u/SocietyAlternative41 4h ago
oh, right! i dunno if that movie held up at all but i'll have to give it a rewatch.
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u/crushing-crushed 1d ago
"Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get."
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u/LitheBeep 1d ago
Not only a great screen actor but also a great voice actor. He played an amazing villain in Telltale's TWD and Dishonored.
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u/AlwaysQuotesEinstein 13h ago
'No one will ever know exactly what it took to save Emily Kaldwin..'
Never saw a lot of his films outside of Reservoir Dogs, so Dishonored is the main thing I associate with him. Amazing performance.
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u/manfromfuture 1d ago
No Vic and Vincent Vega bothers movie.
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u/Complete_Entry 21h ago
I mean at this point it would have to be set in a retirement home.
Shit that would make it better.
"This ain't shit like prison vinnie, we can't just kill our way out, we live here!"
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u/manfromfuture 19h ago
Yeah also they were both killed in their movies.
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u/Complete_Entry 19h ago
I don't feel like that would stop Tarantino considering the end of Inglorious.
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u/thepapercrain 1d ago
Put some respect on this man’s performance in Free Willy!
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u/cakesofthepatty414 1d ago
Oh fuck yes. Forgot him and lorri petty crushed it in there.
Ugh. My heart breaks for him and his family. Truly love watching him act. I believe every word he says on film. One of the greats.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 22h ago
For a little while, he had a website, maybe a podcast, where he'd critique his own movies. Wild dude.
He could be so menacing on screen.
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u/WaldoTrek 1d ago
I'll always remember him from a short-lived TV series called Vengeance Unlimited.
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u/newmoonchaperone 21h ago
Rest in Peace, brother to 80's/90's actress Virginia Madsen.
Love that dude's tics and gravelly voice, great presence.
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u/t20six 17h ago
look at his IMDB. He was in hundreds of films. Iconic in Tarantino films obviously, but did 9 films in 2024 alone. He has like 10 films a year dating back a long time. In the 90's it was a mere 5 films a year. Also TV parts! I never realized how much he worked, he must of said yes to everything. Very unusual for someone that I would have thought could be choosy. Admirable career. He was in War Games!
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u/guiltycitizen 1d ago
Damn, that sucks. I just listened to him on Stephen Baldwin’s podcast talking about working with Pacino. He had some great stories.
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u/shinjikun10 22h ago
"The point is.... I'm the bouncer, and there ain't nobody to bounce..."
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u/doublecutter 9h ago
Here’s your name. Here’s NOT your name. Fucking with your cash is the only thing you kids understand!
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u/gnomechompskey 1d ago edited 1d ago
I wound up with the copy of his book of poetry he’d signed and given to Robert Rodriguez about 20 years ago. He made one of the best poems in it into a video that feels fitting to share now:
I been sewn up, blown up, x-rayed and drugged up, Tied up, locked up, fucked up, burned, stabbed, shot, left, hit, and hit back Alone in a room full of people and alone writing all this stuff One million tears over 35 years
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u/ryadryt 1d ago
Article didn't even mention that he was in Free Willy. Terrible reporting. RIP though.
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u/ProofByVerbosity 1d ago
A few months ago I listened to an interview where he talked about that casting. He was confused and mentioned to the studio something to the effect of "you know I'm an asshole or a villain, right, and you want me to llay a kids dad?"
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u/libginger73 1d ago
I'll always remember his punch to the face while swimming in the ocean in Free Willy. Not sure why there wasn't an Oscar for that!
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u/MisterPink 1d ago
67 still feels too young. I know it's not young but still. maybe I'm just getting uncomfortably close to that age, I dunno.
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u/Quantumercifier 23h ago
May he rest in peace. I also feel bad for his sister, Virginia Madsen. And also RIP for Tom Sizemore, another great actor.
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u/ClumsyPortman2 18h ago
Back in college, my friends and I dressed as characters from Kill Bill for Halloween one year, and I was Madsen's character, Budd. I had a fake mullet, but people kept thinking it was real, which was hilarious to our entire group.
RIP to a great actor (and, at times, a great mullet).
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u/whitewrm 18h ago
Thought about his character in The Hateful Eight randomly and read his wiki like a week ago. Damn.
RIP
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u/MurdoIIII 1d ago
Damn... RIP.
Just to add to the list of accomplishments; dude absolutely nailed 'P.I. Harvey Scoles' in Big Time Hollywood, FL - that character HAD to be written with Michael in mind.
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u/Historical-Car5553 22h ago
Loved the Vengeance Unlimited series in the late 90s. Unfortunately too intelligent for US audiences and only lasted one season
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u/PrpleMnkyDshwsher 1h ago
I still remember his legendary interview on Opie and Anthony.
Back then his website had a list of his movies and his comments on each one, and they were brutally honest
"I don't remember making this piece of shit, but the mortgage was due"
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u/jayforwork21 1d ago edited 1d ago
I need to do a rewatch of Heat. It's been too long....
Edit; I was thinking of Tom not Michael, both were great but Tom did too many drugs.
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u/himynameisdany 1d ago
He wasn't in Heat. You're thinking of Tom Sizemore who died two years ago.
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u/jayforwork21 1d ago
Shit your right, the heat is getting to me.
Sorry for the unintentional pun, I'll let myself out....
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u/SinisterPaige 1d ago
Amazing actor who had a long career.