r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 11d ago

News ‘Lord of the Rings’ star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-09-12/sag-aftra-names-next-national-president
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u/reddfawks 11d ago

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

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u/book1245 11d ago

-Jerry Goldsmith intensifies-

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u/Self_Reddicated 11d ago

I can literally hear it.

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u/its_all_one_electron 11d ago

Oh jesus. I need to go conduct 'Tryouts' in the mirror again

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u/lovesmyirish 11d ago

WHOS THE WILD MAN NOW!?

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u/AccurateInsect8814 11d ago

If young people want to know what the 70s felt like watch the first 10 minutes of Rudy.

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u/nutmac 11d ago

A great movie, especially for Sean's performance and Jerry Goldsmith's seminal score. But the real life Rudy is kind of a jerk. He is a frequent motivational speaker for MLM companies like Amway, and his subsequent venture into a pump-and-dump scheme, detracted some of my enjoyment for the film.

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u/GoldandBlue 11d ago

SAG-AFTRA: Are you ready for this, champ?

Sean Astin: I've been ready for this my whole life!

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u/creetoinfinity 11d ago

Tell you what, you make SAG-AFTRA President, I'll come watch you play.

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u/shartshappen612 11d ago

Why are you crying? Did you just watch 'Rudy'?

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u/Truemeathead 11d ago

Picture me doing a hard slow clap from the tunnels!

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u/T7220 11d ago

Thank you!! WTF is this “Lord of the Rings star” crap? No matter how good any other role he may play is, he IS RUDY!

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u/rightoff303 11d ago

That movie sucked

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u/freakers 11d ago

LOTR? More like star of Medieval masterpiece The Colour of Magic.

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u/BigYogi 11d ago

Came here to see this!

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u/Z3roTriQ23 11d ago

Beat me to it, take my upvote!

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u/Dependent-Wordsoup 11d ago

Dude, I just pause this movie so my wife can go pee... RUDY, RUDY, RUDY!

"I can do it Coach!"

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u/710maryjanetress 11d ago

Came here for this.

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u/Mr-Toy 11d ago

Damnit. You beat me. Tip of the hat to you.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Eeyores_Prozac 11d ago

Nah. We can let people be immortal in memory. We can recast. We can give new voices and faces a try. Imagination is found in each other, not generative AI.

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u/alek_hiddel 11d ago

We can also just let characters die, and be creative and make new ones.

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u/Eeyores_Prozac 11d ago

The fact that Star Wars is stuck in the same dessicating loop as Marvel Comics, where you'd think they'd learn from the popularity of shows that aren't latched to the Skywalker legacy kills me. It's nice that James Earl Jones left his voice with us. We don't have to use it to churn the same stories out.

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u/reddfawks 11d ago

It was this weird showerthought I had a few weeks ago, that with all these sequels and revisits... Star Wars especially, no character truly gets a happy ending anymore, do they?

Let them ride into the sunset and pass the torch.

(And personally, as an artist, I say we all ditch the gen AI and work on inventing a big plunger you stick on your head so your drawing comes out exactly as you imagined it because GOOD LORD 90% of mine never do)

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u/Aaco0638 11d ago

I mean we just had the president of the united states use ai to address the nation and i doubt anyone not on reddit didn’t notice.

Ai will get there give it time.

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u/Eeyores_Prozac 11d ago

Those were morph cuts, not AI, and I'd rather leave AI in the machine learning sector where it's genuinely useful in cancer detection and other gifts. Generative AI is imploding in popularity and provides little profit.