>Reed died from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta, on the afternoon of 2 May 1999. According to witnesses, he drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whisky and a few shots of Hennessy cognac, in a drinking match against a group of sailors on shore leave from HMS Cumberland at a local pub. His bar bill totalled a little over Lm 270 (almost £450; about US$590) *--about 1,050 in 2022 bucks--*. After beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling, Reed suddenly collapsed, dying while en route to hospital in an ambulance. He was 61 years old.
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WHAT A LIFE
Absolute fricking champion.
>Gandolfini guzzled four shots of rum, two pina coladas, and two beers at dinner with his son — while he chowed down on two orders of fried king prawns [slathered with mayonnaise chili sauce] and a “large portion” of foie gras
Both of these gluttonous sinners are burning in hell, as do all obese people 🙂
Seething twink detected
>Oliver Reed
>obese
nope
He was a fatass during the filming of Gladiator
Yeah, I wonder what killed him, gaining some pounds in his late 50s or long-life abuse of alcohol.
Both anon
Not sure if baiting or moronic, probably both
7 deadly sins isn’t anywhere in the bible
israelite detected
Wow what a cool drug. Well at least they weren't smoking weed. That would've been really horrible. Why else would it be illegal while alcohol is literally everywhere?
Weed is a loser drug. Druk is for winners and chads.
Yeah I guess that why they're dead because they're winners.
Long term effects of smoking marijuana have not been studied.
Being a fat frick was the problem dumbass. I’ve drank that much plenty of times.
Yeah right. Although for example it doesn't give the size of the bottle but I assume it's a liter.
Well they're fricking dead so yeah.
Everyone dies you moron
dude weed xd
weed is disgusting narcotics
Yeah thank God these people are dead instead of disgusting.
people who smoke weed are narcotic addicts and need to be locked up
kek
Here's a hot take - both are bad. CBD is useful for some people as a painkiller and anti-anxiety medication, but that's it. Recreational users are fricking losers. It's always been associated with lazy, criminal hispanics and Black folk and White trash, and rightfully so.
>Here's a hot take - both are bad.
Thanks Einstein but that's not the topic. The topic is keeping these two people alive. They very obviously wanted competitive recreational drug use and with weed they could've had it.
Actually, the topic was you - an asspained White trash loser - whining that weed wasn't legal, in an irrelevant thread.
>an irrelevant thread.
Dumbass
No one mentioned weed until you piped in fricking whining about weed being illegal, so yeah.
That doesn’t even seem like a lot but he was already fat
Better way to go out than losing your faculties in your 70s and turning in to a drooling old moron that no one wants to take care off.
a local bartender told me the legendary tale of when Reed took off all his clothes and walked several blocks harassing and scaring everyone nude
the man was based
We should celebrate his life more than his death.
For all his faults, he still was a wonderful personality.
He bore with him a certain brutal strength and an equal measure of dignity and simple, unpretentious wisdom. In most public appearances he was the definition of a gentleman, strong but reserved. His friends and family seem to mostly confirm this picture of him. And he was a beast of an actor on top of all that. One of the greatest on-screen actors of Britian.
The Devils is worth watching for Reed alone. Such a good performance.
Here's a fresh one from BBC Archive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVLXrWFoGiU&ab_channel=BBCArchive
Great bit which shows his noble side.
If only he hadn't fallen into those debts.
Fricking hell, even here he gets the girl.
holy based
Right? I dare you to find a man half as based nowadays.
Jeremy Irons, maybe, but he's not enough of a chad.
in case anyone wants any context, all the references to the tax man in this clip, was because this was a time when the proper socialists were in power in the UK, and the tax rate on any earnings above 50 grand a year, was 83%.
Olly stayed in the UK, most other Brit actors fled to the US.
>50 grand
20 grand a year. Never vote Labour.
Him and Harris were something else..
>“If you think *I’m* drunk, wait till Peter O’Toole gets out here.”
Peter O' Toole is indeed the third of the triforce of based old time actors.
This was a true Man's Man. Christ, why are actors these days such limp-wristed pansies?
>if you don't literally die at 61 consuming ~30 drinks and spending $1050 competing against small-PP sailors, you're a limp-wristed pansy
>almost £450; about US$590) *--about 1,050 in 2022 bucks--*
God damn, inflation is absolutely out of control.
Recommend me some Reed Kinography, outside the ones already mentioned here of course. Looks like The Devils got panned upon release, but the 70s were weirdly puritanical on occasion.
He's in a lot of kino but is rarely the star. Pic related is great and curse of the werewolf is a fun hammer horror.
I didn't really like the The Devils but every scene with Reed is a masterpiece. The scenes with the nuns are just pornographic without even bringing that much of an impact; you see what's happening, but you can't really feel the horribleness of it.
>The Gladiator
obviously
>Oliver!
A good adaptation and Reed is again the highlight.
>Women In Love
The film which made him famous
>Dante's Inferno (1967)
Hard to find, but it's worth it. You can see clips from it on You Tube.
>The Four Musketeers (1975)
Not sure about that one. People seem to like it, I definitely liked Reed in it, but it's definitely a product of its time and I found it terribly dull for the most part. I haven't seen the sequels; those might be good.
>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Reed plays a small part, but the film is great fun overall and his performance as Vulcan just adds to the enjoyment.
I also recommend you check out interviews with him, some people already have linked good ones.
Here are some more:
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There used to be more but You Tube keeps deleting them. ffs
> Reed left the set of the Channel 4 television discussion programme After Dark after arriving drunk and attempting to kiss feminist writer Kate Millett, uttering the phrase, 'Give us a kiss, big breasts.
legend
>about US$590) *--about 1,050 in 2022 bucks--*
israeli bankers need to hang for this crime
I thought this looked familiar
https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/e5KHq3WgO71rgHQPpGbn7Q/
weird thread to repost
Blessed thread
Worked solo nights in a hotel, real alcys were always the worst, the paranoia of harder stuff with zero bladder control, plus they fricking stink
>oliver reed drank the whole minibar
Based.
If only every drunk on Earth were like drunk Ollie.
>In a drinking match with sailors
All the best druks come from the UK
The Pub now openly advertises "this is the place where that actor guy drinked himself to death" and people go there just because of that.
Not sure if based or cringe.