Bruce Willis retires from acting

that's pretty sad he's a part of all our lives, from the moonlighting days on, at least he's free now he probably should have retired years ago after reading the link the op put up, i'm just thinking of him in Friends even he was so funny in it

Go stand in front of a mirror, take a good look at yourself then give yourself a good hard slap.

or call Will smith !

He wasn't my favourite actor or anything but it's sad to see the art slipping away from a man who gave so much entertainment.

I hope he has a contented retirement.

Jaysus lad, careful not to cut yourself on the edge. 🙄

Die Hard

Last Boy Scout

Pulp Fiction

Sin City

Sixth Sense

He's been involved in some absolutely smashing movies over the years but like many, the star wanes as time passes. Sad to see his career end like this but hopefully it will improve his quality of life.

I feel bad now knowing his phoned in performances over multiple movies over the last year or two are because of illness, however that criticism i had is now admiration for getting paid huge sums by phoning in performances over the last year or two while ill.

I can't say I'll miss him as an actor, but I wish him well and best of luck with his diagnosis.

I know other people liked his acting so fair play, but I can't think of any movies where I thought he was good. He was in some good movies though and Pulp Fiction must be the highlight of his career. Never got the appeal of the Die Hard movies. Found them boring.

I never really understood why he was supposed to be so intimidating. It was a bit like being on a ghost train where you have to pretend you're scared in order to enjoy the ride, I thought you generally had to pretend you were enjoying his acting to enjoy his movies.

Lucky Number Slevin was alway my favourite...

As I said on the off-topic thread, in the right role, he could be great. I think throughout his career he's picked some pretty awful roles, and a lot of them he didn't seem to care much or put much effort in. But when he gave a damn, it showed. He had a lot of awful performances, but he had a lot of great ones too.

I certainly don't begrudge him taking on as many awful roles as he could over the last few years, especially if the reason he was doing so was to earn money for his family as he knew he'd no longer be able to do so.

I hope his condition is as kind to him as possible and affords him some enjoyment and peace going forward.

One of the best guests on Friends, The Last Boy Scout and Striking Distance are two of my favourites of his, probably both are underrated

It looks like that LA Times article was either timed to coincide with the news of Willis's retirement, or that his people knew it was coming and got their announcement ready. Either way, it's a sad end to his acting career. Even if you leave out those late films, his career was always something of a mixed bag. But still, he had some well loved roles and films in his back catalogue. That's pretty good innings.

When I read down through that article, the incident where he fired the gun at the wrong time on a set reminded me of that awful Alec Baldwin accident. Questions were asked at the time about how that unfortunate cinematographer came to be shot dead on the set. Now, I'm reading about an actor who seems to have been working on movie sets, despite having some sort of cognitive impairment. I wonder who was making the big decisions behind the scenes and how much input did Bruce have into them?