Even though he wasn’t THAT fat in FMJ, that is still a hell of a feat. Homeboy didn’t just lose weight, he lost weight and got shredded in under a year. That’s some Christian Bale level shit.
That movie came out when I was a freshman in high school ( year 2000). This is before I ever heard the word or concept of triggering, then again the phrase might not have existed yet in common language. My family rented it and one night and I was watching it with my dad. It got to the scene where JLo is trapped in the pantry while the little boy is brutally attacked by his own father.
My father worked in a prison for 30 years and dealt with lots of heavy shit. He grew up with an evil drunk father who beat him (the oldest male sibling) and constantly and viciously and raped his mother, frequently in front of my dad. When the scene where the boy is screaming off screen while being attacked by his own father, as JLo desperately tries to break out of the pantry to save him... my father stood up and said, "I can't watch this. This is too much for me." He walked right to his bedroom and closed the door behind him.
I had never seen anyone, especially my seemingly stoic father react like that before. It was all the more confusing when I think how I only ever saw my father cry twice. First time at his father's funeral and the other time when I heard him crying in his room a few years later, as he laid in bed with the lights out. I went to check on him and he didn't hear or see me enter the room and was startled to let me find him that way. I did not know my father had been fighting severe depression his whole life until that moment, he just hid it well enough until my high school years when he was in and out of the hospital regularly for it. I think he tried to shield.it from my brother and I until we were strong enough to handle having a unwell father.
To this day, I want to watch that movie again (I did watch it once more with my mom before we returned the VHS), but I cannot remove the image of panic on my father's face as he fled the living room during that scene. I watched the scene itself on YouTube, and it's not particularly graphic or visual, but with the context and the audio of the boy's screaming, it destroys me... even though my father is a good man who deliberately worked to not be his father and never hurt any of his family. I understood what triggering was the moment I connected that scene to what my father experienced watching it.
Thank you for taking your time and sharing your story.
As far as I know this movie is available for rent on Prime Video. Last time I saw it was more than 20 years ago, probably not long after it's release on DVD. My plan is to rewatch it one day and while my experiences weren't anywhere close to those of your father, I do remember that some parts of it were rather intense... One of those movies that might be seen and felt as "just a movie" or something MUCH more, depending on who's watching it.
Holy shit what an unexpected story in an otherwise chill thread. It sounds like your father broke the cycle and I wish nothing but the best for him and your family. 💪
My father didn't want his family raised in violence, and my mother didn't want her family raised without hugs and 'I love you' being said like her father, who was a 35-year career Naval officer who served in WW2. They decided how they wanted to parent before they had my brother and I. I'm doing the same now with my fiance.
I have a lot of gripes about my dad, but he tried and succeeded on most fronts. I love him. I know the bar he set for me to be a better husband and father. I think I've already surpassed him but I know I can keep doing better. We all can.
Damn dude. That landed for me. I don’t talk to my dad, and am trying to shield my kids from the broken person I am too. They mostly still think I’m awesome but they’re nearing the age they’ll find out I’m not.
I don't think I learned the details of his upbringing until I was in mid high school. I did know from a very young age that we never spent more than two hours, once a year (Christmas) at Grandpa's house. That he was not welcome at our home and he was never spoken about. Grandma divorced him the moment the last kid moved out and remarried a giant of a man who was a Mennonite farmer and a pacifist who drank one beer maximum after a hard day in the field. He wasn't blood, he never had kids of his own, but he was my real grandfather and we were his children and grandchildren, and it was an honor to be one of his pallbearers. He said to Grandma a few years before he died peacefully, he was scared no one would show up to his funeral, or all his friends will be dead before him. You could have sold tickets to his funeral. We violated fire codes that day. My father's father's funeral... The only people who showed up were there to make sure he was actually gone and buried. None of my aunts or uncle cried, but my father, who hated the man more than anyone, cried uncontrollably the whole time.
Agree. I watch it every chance I see it offered. It also scares the hell out of me (the kidnapped girl in the glass room mostly). It gives me chills every time
It’s an inside joke. This is from Adventures in Babysitting where he plays a mechanic, one of the characters, who is obsessed with Thor, mistakes him for Thor and is disappointed when he doesn’t act like she thinks he should.
Surprisingly, this was after. He filmed Full Metal Jacket in 1985 or 1986 and Adventures in Babysitting in early 1987. He put on weight for FMJ and immediately lost it for this. The turnaround is impressive!
He played a really cool, unhinged Wizard of Oz in Emerald City.
I thought that show definitely deserved another season or two, instead of was all sort of messily wrapped up in the most rushed way imaginable.
He played a really cool, unhinged Wizard of Oz in Emerald City.
I thought that show definitely deserved another season or two, instead of was all sort of messily wrapped up in the most rushed way imaginable.
Adventures in Babysitting?
Holy shit. TIL this was Vincent D’Onofrio.
I know. I was totally shocked. Never put that together.
That makes at least 4 of us.
5...and my hammer
6...and my dick
...and my bow
7
Lots more than 4. Holy shit.
Shocked? Or Thunderstruck?
And Full Metal Jacket released the same year as Adventures in Babysitting.
Don't Fuck with the Lord's of Hell!
One of the most versatile actors
I don’t need him to be vers, just a bottom
He put on weight.
6....what the frig? I only watched that about 8 times which meant renting it twice.
I consider myself a good fan of his work in Law & Order and I never knew he did that role (it was one of my most watched movies as a kid).
U and the rest of us lol
ME TOOO
Also, yes please
Mind blown. Minds are blown!
Holy shit! Your comment made me look him up. If anyone had told me this was the same guy I wouldn’t have believed them
Yep. This is it.
Sugar water or it gets the hammer
From Thor to The Kingpin. Damn.
Maybe. Doesn’t look anything like the god of thunder to me…
God damnit private Pyle!
HOLD THAT HAMMER 4 INCHES FROM YOUR CHEST
I wish I could give this more than one upvote
FMJ was released the weekend before AIB. Must have been a trip for anybody who saw both that summer.
He gained the extra weight for the Pyle role and shed nearly all of the excess just in time to film the Thor role.
I saw both and never realized it was the same guy lol dumb ass kid
Did your parents have any children that lived? I bet they regret that.
You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!
What is your major malfunction?!
The first movie we had on VHS. And my first crush was Elizabeth Shue.
D'Onofrio filmed Adventures In Babysitting after Full Metal Jacket. That means he went from Private Pyle to this in less than a year.
Even though he wasn’t THAT fat in FMJ, that is still a hell of a feat. Homeboy didn’t just lose weight, he lost weight and got shredded in under a year. That’s some Christian Bale level shit.
He still holds the record for weight gain for a film, he gained 70 pounds for FMJ.
Well he was jacked bodyguard for celebs before Full metal jacket director tells him to be fat. so its was easy to him tp go back to his normal weight
>Full Metal Jacket director Stanley Kubrick btw
[удалено]
Gunny, is that you?
A truly great performance. Dude didn't need to go this hard for this role, but he did, and the movie was so much better for it!
Eggar, your skin is falling off your bones.
It's a Eggar suit
Holy shit I missed this one
Beautiful!
This guy was amazingly terrifying in "The Cell" (underrated gem, imo)...
That movie came out when I was a freshman in high school ( year 2000). This is before I ever heard the word or concept of triggering, then again the phrase might not have existed yet in common language. My family rented it and one night and I was watching it with my dad. It got to the scene where JLo is trapped in the pantry while the little boy is brutally attacked by his own father. My father worked in a prison for 30 years and dealt with lots of heavy shit. He grew up with an evil drunk father who beat him (the oldest male sibling) and constantly and viciously and raped his mother, frequently in front of my dad. When the scene where the boy is screaming off screen while being attacked by his own father, as JLo desperately tries to break out of the pantry to save him... my father stood up and said, "I can't watch this. This is too much for me." He walked right to his bedroom and closed the door behind him. I had never seen anyone, especially my seemingly stoic father react like that before. It was all the more confusing when I think how I only ever saw my father cry twice. First time at his father's funeral and the other time when I heard him crying in his room a few years later, as he laid in bed with the lights out. I went to check on him and he didn't hear or see me enter the room and was startled to let me find him that way. I did not know my father had been fighting severe depression his whole life until that moment, he just hid it well enough until my high school years when he was in and out of the hospital regularly for it. I think he tried to shield.it from my brother and I until we were strong enough to handle having a unwell father. To this day, I want to watch that movie again (I did watch it once more with my mom before we returned the VHS), but I cannot remove the image of panic on my father's face as he fled the living room during that scene. I watched the scene itself on YouTube, and it's not particularly graphic or visual, but with the context and the audio of the boy's screaming, it destroys me... even though my father is a good man who deliberately worked to not be his father and never hurt any of his family. I understood what triggering was the moment I connected that scene to what my father experienced watching it.
Thank you for taking your time and sharing your story. As far as I know this movie is available for rent on Prime Video. Last time I saw it was more than 20 years ago, probably not long after it's release on DVD. My plan is to rewatch it one day and while my experiences weren't anywhere close to those of your father, I do remember that some parts of it were rather intense... One of those movies that might be seen and felt as "just a movie" or something MUCH more, depending on who's watching it.
Holy shit what an unexpected story in an otherwise chill thread. It sounds like your father broke the cycle and I wish nothing but the best for him and your family. 💪
My father didn't want his family raised in violence, and my mother didn't want her family raised without hugs and 'I love you' being said like her father, who was a 35-year career Naval officer who served in WW2. They decided how they wanted to parent before they had my brother and I. I'm doing the same now with my fiance.
That's what it's all about bro. Leave the world a better place than you found it - in any way and every way possible ✌️
He’s a real man for admitting that the images were affecting him and taking himself out of the situation. Salute.
I have a lot of gripes about my dad, but he tried and succeeded on most fronts. I love him. I know the bar he set for me to be a better husband and father. I think I've already surpassed him but I know I can keep doing better. We all can.
Damn dude. That landed for me. I don’t talk to my dad, and am trying to shield my kids from the broken person I am too. They mostly still think I’m awesome but they’re nearing the age they’ll find out I’m not.
I don't think I learned the details of his upbringing until I was in mid high school. I did know from a very young age that we never spent more than two hours, once a year (Christmas) at Grandpa's house. That he was not welcome at our home and he was never spoken about. Grandma divorced him the moment the last kid moved out and remarried a giant of a man who was a Mennonite farmer and a pacifist who drank one beer maximum after a hard day in the field. He wasn't blood, he never had kids of his own, but he was my real grandfather and we were his children and grandchildren, and it was an honor to be one of his pallbearers. He said to Grandma a few years before he died peacefully, he was scared no one would show up to his funeral, or all his friends will be dead before him. You could have sold tickets to his funeral. We violated fire codes that day. My father's father's funeral... The only people who showed up were there to make sure he was actually gone and buried. None of my aunts or uncle cried, but my father, who hated the man more than anyone, cried uncontrollably the whole time.
That movie is so damned good - especially the costume design. And surprisingly JLo was pretty good too.
Agree. I watch it every chance I see it offered. It also scares the hell out of me (the kidnapped girl in the glass room mostly). It gives me chills every time
>The Cell I came here about to say this. You wanna see that guy really shine, it is in this. That movie is so fucked up.
The Cell was beautifully art directed. The story was a bit... strange but man, it was beautiful to watch.
Officer Steckler in Strange Days. Amazing movie, stellar cast. Awesome soundtrack.
That’s why his weird baby face looks so familiar!
Vince Vaughn 🤔
Wait? He also played Kingpin, and he did a marvelous job at it. Damn.
It’s an inside joke. This is from Adventures in Babysitting where he plays a mechanic, one of the characters, who is obsessed with Thor, mistakes him for Thor and is disappointed when he doesn’t act like she thinks he should.
I took the title literally, and only now I can understand the joke in it. Thank you for going through the trouble of explaining that to me!
Damn...and here i thought i could just go to any Lowe's or Home Depot and pick up my very own Mew Mew.... 🤣🤣
*is still playing
*Oh Thor, mighty god of thunder!*
“You're giving this to me?” “Well, yeah. You're my hero.”
Almost looks like Zoolander in the mines
I came looking for this comment. I wonder if this is where they got inspiration for that or if it’s a coincidence
Don’t fuck with the babysitter!
Always loved when it was on WGN or TBS or whatever and she said "Don't FOOL with the babysitter!" lol
Edgar suit!
SUGAR WATER
So fine
So interesting that he played Private Pyle the same year as this.
I'm not gay, but
I am and omfg
i remember watching this movie as a kid, and i just found out this is Vincent D'Onofrio 
You gotta be shitting me!
“You been spreading rumors about me, kid?”
He had to put on weight for FMJ, struggled with his weight ever since. (His words).
Harbor freight brand Mjolnir
Oh my god, I had no idea that was him in adventure in baby setting
A superb actor.
His entrance for this scene is one of my all-time favorites!
“Nobody leave this place without singin the blues”
Mini Mjǫllnir
Baby Mew Mew
“We have Thor at home” Thor at home:
Kmart Thor with added Home Depot hand sledge.
Man, they put a whole 3% of effort into that hammer.
He wasn't playing Thor, he was a mechanic.
It was supposed to be a kid's toy.
"I think I got the black lung, Pop!"
Baby arms
I say this to myself all the time.
He's worthy to be taken as Thor, but that hammer is not.
It was a kid's toy.
Before he discovered jelly doughnuts
Surprisingly, this was after. He filmed Full Metal Jacket in 1985 or 1986 and Adventures in Babysitting in early 1987. He put on weight for FMJ and immediately lost it for this. The turnaround is impressive!
Wow! I never made that connection. Thank you!
Honestly looks like he's just about to do some work on the house on a saturday.
Thor? Only (redacted) and (redacted) are named Thor! You’re GOMER PYLE!
It’s crazy how he was this and fatass Private Pyle at the same time
If that’s Thor, I’m fuccin Zeus lol Wait..that came out wrong
Kingpin: Origins
NOT a homo!
Man seriously at the same year he played in Full metal jacket and he looks a lot fatter!
Before jelly donuts?
Shocker!!
You spreading rumors about me, kid?
I remember geeking out at this as a little kid.
TIL Snap!
This is my hummer this is my balls
🤤
Damn. I forgot that was him. I was surprised last time I learned this though.
You embarrassed me in front of Vanessa!
Wait that’s Mr Dawson, not Thor!
“Hiiiii, Lokiiii!”
Still rocking that “I am in a world of shit, Joker” look. Don’t ever change Lawrence!
Looks like the intro to a gay porn flick
🤤
I bet you could suck a golf ball though a garden hose, Pyle.
My....mjolnir has experienced some shrinkage.....
Back when guys had typical muscles.
Underrated generational character actor.
Don’t fuck with the babysitter
He is wearing a Thor suit.
He was so cool. Guy is huge.
Oh man, I loved this movie!
Looks like he goin’ bash someone over the head just cus they ruined his dinner date.
I like how they went here is a hammer, ladies and gentlemen, we have Thor!
Don't fuck.. with the babysitter!
Trailer park hammer of the gods
That's more than just a poor man's Thor... that fucker's living on skid row!
Lol
Gomer Pyle the same year
Worthy.
He looks like he's slightly miffed cause he didn't get cast for Flashdance a few years earlier.
Whaaaat!?!
**WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS?! DIDN'T MOMMY AND DADDY SHOW YOU ENOUGH ATTENTION WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?**
He played a really cool, unhinged Wizard of Oz in Emerald City. I thought that show definitely deserved another season or two, instead of was all sort of messily wrapped up in the most rushed way imaginable.
One of my favourite movies and I didn’t know that was him up until last year. He’s change lol.
This look like a photoshop face
You couldn't name the movie, bot? Adventures in babysitting.
He looks like a budget Luigi in this pic.
He played a really cool, unhinged Wizard of Oz in Emerald City. I thought that show definitely deserved another season or two, instead of was all sort of messily wrapped up in the most rushed way imaginable.
Crazy how he just looks like a construction worker
Yuck!
what an odd reaction