I love Gene Hackman
 

We just watched Hoosiers again. He and Dennis Hopper just kick ass in that movie.

one actor that I always know will be good. no matter the role.

gene hackman
morgan freeman
rip torn
denzel
robert duvall
just off the top of my head

A very talented actor..one of my favorites

Very true on all of them.

there is no bigger Hoosiers fan on the planet then me. It's a magical movie to me. And Hackman is one of the great actors of all time.

Run the picket fence one more time Jimmy Chitwood wherever you are.

Soundtrack is great too - i play it when I want goose pimples.

I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Gene Hackman for several hours a cpl years ago When I lived in Santa Fe, NM. which is where he lives. Super nice guy, very down to earth and incredibly interesting to talk to.

definietly one of the greatest actors of all time

I'd bought the anniversary edition awhile back, and had never watched the entire set. Tonight, we didn't get to watch the whole 2nd disc before it was the munchkin's bedtime. But we did watch enough for me to learn some cool stuff. ie, the kid playing Jimmy had never hit *the* shot in practice. They brought out, the real life Jimmy, Bobby Plump, to show him where the shot was made from. When they said "action", the kid swished it in, nothing but net.

However, the director had never told the cast and extras what they were supposed to do if the ball went in. He wasn't expecting it to go in the first time, because of the inablility to make it on prior attempts.

So what you saw after the bucket was just Indiana hoops fans reacting like they would had it all been for real. That's cool. :)

I live in the town I grew up in, Mutt, and our entire school system, k-12, is maybe 1,000 kids. So I grew up going to ball games in dinky gyms where it was packed to the rafters. It simply didn't get any better than Indiana high school basketball.

Until they killed it with multi-class, that is. ;)

yeah that was a great movie

I've never seen it, but I'm convinced. :) I'll watch it the next time I get a chance.

Hoosiers is a GREAT movie. Hackman and Hopper are excellent. And I'm noy just saying that because I'm a Hoosier ;)

Coolness! :) Nice to meet you, so to speak. Bloomington vacinity here.

IU alum, B.S. Biology

I'm in Bloomington/martinsville/bedford/nashville all the time. we should get a beer...except I dont drink beer. Would it be okay if I drink diet coke?

Midwest has a mystique about it - Hoosiers captured it.

you live in the town where the high school is/was located?

I haven't watched the film in 5 years or so - just thinking about the scene where the coach measures off the court to show his small town kids that even with the 15,000 seats and bright lights in Indianapolis that it's the same court, the same game as back home.

Breaking Away was another great coming of age Midwest movie.

Breaking Away was also made in Indiana, Bloomington's Little 500

As long as I can have the diet dr pepper option. ;) I drink sometimes, but not too much anymore.

No, I don't live in Milan. But alot of our small towns are interchangeable in many ways. One thing is true for them all...

you'll see alot of basketball hoops. :)

Edit:

Ooops!

I doubled.

I'll buy. (knowing full well that the refills are always free. hehe)

bet you remember this song from the 70's


Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
I wish I had you, to talk to

If a man ever needed dyin' he did
No one had the right to say what he said about you
And it's so cold and lonely here without you
Out there the laws are coming
I'm scared and so tired of running

Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
I wish I had you, to talk to

Actually, I have never heard that, that I can remember. I looked it up to see if I could jog my memory, and I am drawing a blank.

I was around when the Jackson Five sang "Goin' Back to Indiana" though. :winkwink:

Gene Hackman is one of my favorites, as much as I enjoyed him in Hoosiers, I most liked him in Mississippi Burning.