Val Kilmer has died
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He managed to outshine Tom Cruise in "Top Gun". I've enjoyed his movies. Well done.
And of course the iconic role in "Top Gun", and the silly but classic "Top Secret"
As the article notices, he really had a wide range. Probably my favorite actor of his generation.
It's absolutely a classic though. It's a shame that the genre isn't as popular as it used to be.
It did get on a bunch of "most watched" lists, and it wasn't grimdark like all fantasy needs to be nowadays.
But the director did hire Caltech students as extras, as the director put it, the costume director could not duplicate the look of them.
The student pranks and such in the movie actually happened, except the last one and the voice of god one.
And - they never seem to age to me. Maybe it's the makeup or what not. I remember him from Heat and even in subsequent films somehow he stayed that old or young - like in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, or Salton Sea, there was this with Michael Douglas, and some more. don't remember Top Gun for Cruise, hell I don't remember any Tom Cruise film for Tom Cruise. If I noticed him in a film I'd just assume I'd like that film and that kinda seemed irrational but I did like the film. There was something about him. There are few more actors like him. It's sad. They never look older to me, they just die one day and that becomes more shocking. In a way it reminds me of my own mortality harder compared to maybe if I would have noticed them steadily growing and looking older. I will miss him.
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Tom Cruise still remembers that we go to the theater to be entertained. And he delivers on that above everything else.
And he knows how to give the fans what they want, all the way up to the gimmicky use of an F14 in Top Gun 2. Or seeing IceMan again.
and part 2:
Splendid performance!
For any Heat fans reading this comment, Michael Mann co-wrote a novel, Heat 2, that focuses on his character, and the entire time I was reading it I imagined it being Val the entire time. It's very good - a worthy follow-up.
One of a kind movie.
The professor, though, was not based on anyone I knew of.
He did all the singing, which blows me away.
In fact in the movie Val Kilmer did vocals himself and real members of the Doors said that they could hardly distinguish his singing from real Jim Morrison.
Loved him on "The Saint".
It’s interesting how one person can have such an impact on us. Many thanks to Val Kilmer for giving us wonderful movies.
Every time Doc Holiday drinks you take a shot. Nothing less than 80-proof allowed. No other food or drinks allowed. You cannot vomit before the end of the credits. If you get through the whole movie you get to sign the house's Tombstone movie poster. With the director's cut I believe it was 21 shots total, with one or two of the scenes in the saloon what really push people over the edge because he drinks frequently in a short period of time.
I never even attempted it. We had one or two brothers who vomited during the credits.....FAIL! Ah good times.
"I got two guns...one for the both of ya."
Kilmer personified cool in Tombstone. He was a childhood hero
That doesn't happen much now. Usually we know they are a nazi supporter or something by the time they are 19.
He had any number of great lines but this one I really enjoyed.