@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
Prince was just announced dead.
Turns out that Vanity died on February 15: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/entertainment/vanity-denise-matthews-dead/index.html
We still have Morris Day... for now.
@Karmageddon said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
Prince was just announced dead.
Turns out that Vanity died on February 15: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/entertainment/vanity-denise-matthews-dead/index.html
We still have Morris Day... for now.
jfc. sigh.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
@Coin
It gets worse. I was clueless about so many of these.
http://www.cnn.com/specials/world/obit-2016
Few things make me feel older than parts of my childhood dying.
Letting George RR Martin script this year was a bad idea.
If GRRM was scripting 2016, it wouldn't have come out until 2025.
@Autumn And thus he'll never die! Well played, George, well played.
Watching Muhammad Ali box was one of the best pieces of live entertainment I have ever seen.
Float well Butterfly.
RIP Christina Grimmie.
Maybe not as big a name as some of the others here, but she was a gamer, a great talent, and a genuinely good person. I will miss her. All people deserve to be safe, full stop. No qualifiers necessary. This is a senseless tragedy.
@VulgarKitten It's a very strange sensation to see someone you vaguely know (friend of a friend type thing) as a trending topic...
He/Him
@Tinuviel It was a huge shock. I'm sorry for your loss/the loss of your friend.
Well sonova bitch. I really liked him as an actor and what I've read about him as a person was pretty stellar too.
Shit.. now who's gonna play Chekov?
@Miss-Demeanor said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
Shit.. now who's gonna play Chekov?
Hopefully, no one. This is one of those moments where you retire the character, at least from that continuity.
"Where's Chekov?"
"Oh, he decided to be a novelist and took a desk job."
"Kay."
I'm sad. Kid was great.
Or they can bring in another Chekov. Say it's his brother or sister. That might be a more fitting tribute.
I'm under the impression the new Trek movie is going to not do that well... which means eventually they'll want to reboot the whole thing.
I'm withholding judgment until I see it. I didn't think the first one was going to amount to anything either. And that turned out amazing. I'm willing to give JJ some leeway.
@Miss-Demeanor He's just a producer on this one, it's not his movie.
@Arkandel Still willing to give it a chance. Its the last time you'll get to see Yelchin as Chekov. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
I have to admit I just... hated most of the new Star Trek movies. I mean, as movies go, they're fine, but they're not fine Trek movies. They definitely feel like Star Trek by way of Star Wars, with a lot of the thoughtfulness replaced by a lot of action - it's a thin veneer of Star Trek stretched over something that could easily be another franchise, and quickly forgotten if it didn't have the brand recognition. Then again, that could be said about most of Star Trek.
That being said, the moment I saw Abrams' first Trek movie, I had the impression he was auditioning for Star Wars. I do think his touch is far better geared towards Science fantasy shootouts., and it definitely found itself at home with Star Wars.
Yelchin was great, though. I always enjoyed him, even if I didn't enjoy how off-model the universe he inhabited felt.
Vorpal is actually Satan made MU*nifest
I felt like I was watching the series that Galaxy Quest was meant to be.
Anyhow, the Star Trek movies have replaced actors before, so. I'm more concerned about the guy getting pinned between his car and a wall. That sounds painful and a slow way to go.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
Prince was just announced dead.
Turns out that Vanity died on February 15: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/entertainment/vanity-denise-matthews-dead/index.html
We still have Morris Day... for now.
