Rest in peace Val!!

[eli77]

Another legendary actor gone!

 

[BillyPilgrim]

Good actor, Val Kilmer was. Salton Sea is an underrated classic.

Pity the Doors movie obfuscated the absurdity of Jim Morrison's father helping start the Vietnam War by directing the Gulf of Tonkin incident, while Jim was helping lead the counterculture revolution by being rock music's biggest bad boy. Both anti-heroes but extreme polar opposites; the chances of this organically occurring are about 1/1,000,000,000. But film director Oliver Stone likes being alive, so...

 

[Bible_Belt]

"I'll be your huckleberry," from Tombstone is my favorite of all his lines. I saw that movie as a teenager and even then was suspicious of their depiction of the shootout at the ok corral being about enforcing a local gun control ordinance
..in the wild west. It made me go to the library, because this was before the internet and we only had stone tablets. Turns out the real reason for the conflict was "they was talking sh1t."

 

[New_Journey]

He had throat cancer but died of pneumonia? Dropping like flies, I wonder why.

 

[The Duke]

He had throat cancer but died of pneumonia? Dropping like flies, I wonder why.

Must of had a lot of oral sex!

 

[BillyPilgrim]

Must of had a lot of oral sex!

Bro needed to take his Gardasil-9, right?

 

[BaronOfHair]

All the more tragic when one recognizes

dude definitely had more than enough talent to be among those who enjoyed Liam Neeson-esque later career revival

 

[zekko]

"I'll be your huckleberry," from Tombstone is my favorite of all his lines.

His depiction of Doc Holliday is one of the high points in cinema for sure.

On a less serious note, I thought he made a decent Batman. The movie he was in stunk (Batman Forever), but I didn't think he made a bad Batman. That was the third movie in that series, but I always thought that title should have been for the fourth.

 

[BaronOfHair]

On a less serious note, I thought he made a decent Batman. The movie he was in stunk (Batman Forever), but I didn't think he made a bad Batman

In the documentary "Val", he discusses the original script having been a far more somber exploration of Bruce Wayne's trauma , and his doubts over the life path he'd chosen + How the movie ultimately became one gigantic ad for merch*, even though traces of what could've been can still be found in the final product


*We can give Joel Schumacher and 90s Warner Brothers credit, in some demented sense: They anticipated what mainstream Hollywood would degenerate into a few decades later, once we were deep into The 10s