What the hell happened to Val Kilmer?!?
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I'm not a woman and I don't consider myself a viewer resistant to thinking, and I loved Tombstone. Despite holding a degree in history, I hold Westerns to a very low standard for depicting reality. Like a lot of Americans, I favor a romantic belief about the era held aloft by fanciful movies and an admittedly willful ability to ignore things so long as the story at hand is entertaining and lives up to my desire that the Old West be treated as a mythological period.
In any event, most of the criticisms leveled at Tombstone in this thread may very well be fair. They don't detract from my enjoyment of the movie in the least, and a large part of that enjoyment comes from the terrific dialog.
In any event, most of the criticisms leveled at Tombstone in this thread may very well be fair. They don't detract from my enjoyment of the movie in the least, and a large part of that enjoyment comes from the terrific dialog.
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He'll be in Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt Now and Sunrise later this year, from the Interview Magazine article:
Val Kilmer says it is something we should look forward to. In an interview with Interview Magazine, he says, "It's a Halloween extravaganza. There're dogs and vampires. I play a writer who's something like [author] Mario Puzo, or at least how Francis describes Puzo's experience where he wrote THE GODFATHER while he was waiting for inspiration for his masterpiece. My character is a guy who tossed off this book about witches, and it became a big deal, and now he's known as doing these silly witch books and he's on hard times now looking for inspiration."
Val Kilmer says it is something we should look forward to. In an interview with Interview Magazine, he says, "It's a Halloween extravaganza. There're dogs and vampires. I play a writer who's something like [author] Mario Puzo, or at least how Francis describes Puzo's experience where he wrote THE GODFATHER while he was waiting for inspiration for his masterpiece. My character is a guy who tossed off this book about witches, and it became a big deal, and now he's known as doing these silly witch books and he's on hard times now looking for inspiration."
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Kind of a shameless self-promotion for this thread bump, but I was at C2E2 the weekend before last and there was an hour long Q&A with Val Kilmer in which he discussed several of his movies. I wrote about it for Flickchart.
I can tell you, that hour was hilarious. He complained a few times that he really wants to do a comedy but that he can't get those kinds of roles. I've attended several conventions over the years and I have to say, I have rarely seen anyone as demonstrably comfortable, friendly or funny as was Val Kilmer. He did mention that he's working on a short film with Jack Black and Will Forte to tie in with his one man play based on Mark Twain. A couple of times, he recited some lines of Twain's in character (sounding like a caricature of his Doc Holliday voice to me). It's something that he clearly loves and I'm excited about that short film, whenever it may emerge.
I can tell you, that hour was hilarious. He complained a few times that he really wants to do a comedy but that he can't get those kinds of roles. I've attended several conventions over the years and I have to say, I have rarely seen anyone as demonstrably comfortable, friendly or funny as was Val Kilmer. He did mention that he's working on a short film with Jack Black and Will Forte to tie in with his one man play based on Mark Twain. A couple of times, he recited some lines of Twain's in character (sounding like a caricature of his Doc Holliday voice to me). It's something that he clearly loves and I'm excited about that short film, whenever it may emerge.
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whats so funny about that? Twixt looks really good. Tetro was amazing and I quite liked Youth Without Youth.
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Kind of a shameless self-promotion for this thread bump, but I was at C2E2 the weekend before last and there was an hour long Q&A with Val Kilmer in which he discussed several of his movies. I wrote about it for Flickchart.
I can tell you, that hour was hilarious. He complained a few times that he really wants to do a comedy but that he can't get those kinds of roles. I've attended several conventions over the years and I have to say, I have rarely seen anyone as demonstrably comfortable, friendly or funny as was Val Kilmer. He did mention that he's working on a short film with Jack Black and Will Forte to tie in with his one man play based on Mark Twain. A couple of times, he recited some lines of Twain's in character (sounding like a caricature of his Doc Holliday voice to me). It's something that he clearly loves and I'm excited about that short film, whenever it may emerge.
I can tell you, that hour was hilarious. He complained a few times that he really wants to do a comedy but that he can't get those kinds of roles. I've attended several conventions over the years and I have to say, I have rarely seen anyone as demonstrably comfortable, friendly or funny as was Val Kilmer. He did mention that he's working on a short film with Jack Black and Will Forte to tie in with his one man play based on Mark Twain. A couple of times, he recited some lines of Twain's in character (sounding like a caricature of his Doc Holliday voice to me). It's something that he clearly loves and I'm excited about that short film, whenever it may emerge.
I loved him in Willow and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Both times he showed really good comedy chops.
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Kind of a shameless self-promotion for this thread bump, but I was at C2E2 the weekend before last and there was an hour long Q&A with Val Kilmer in which he discussed several of his movies. I wrote about it for Flickchart.
I can tell you, that hour was hilarious. He complained a few times that he really wants to do a comedy but that he can't get those kinds of roles. I've attended several conventions over the years and I have to say, I have rarely seen anyone as demonstrably comfortable, friendly or funny as was Val Kilmer. He did mention that he's working on a short film with Jack Black and Will Forte to tie in with his one man play based on Mark Twain. A couple of times, he recited some lines of Twain's in character (sounding like a caricature of his Doc Holliday voice to me). It's something that he clearly loves and I'm excited about that short film, whenever it may emerge.
I can tell you, that hour was hilarious. He complained a few times that he really wants to do a comedy but that he can't get those kinds of roles. I've attended several conventions over the years and I have to say, I have rarely seen anyone as demonstrably comfortable, friendly or funny as was Val Kilmer. He did mention that he's working on a short film with Jack Black and Will Forte to tie in with his one man play based on Mark Twain. A couple of times, he recited some lines of Twain's in character (sounding like a caricature of his Doc Holliday voice to me). It's something that he clearly loves and I'm excited about that short film, whenever it may emerge.
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What he's like off the clock, of course, I can't say but he could not have been nicer or friendlier. Most celebrities I've seen in these situations sort of go through their rehearsed repertoire of jokes; Kilmer instead ad-libbed his way through the whole thing, showing a great deal of comfort with us. I walked away (hobbled, really; my feets hurt!) very impressed.
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What he's like off the clock, of course, I can't say but he could not have been nicer or friendlier. Most celebrities I've seen in these situations sort of go through their rehearsed repertoire of jokes; Kilmer instead ad-libbed his way through the whole thing, showing a great deal of comfort with us. I walked away (hobbled, really; my feets hurt!) very impressed.
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He's clearly not good on talk shows. I think he does have a stream of consciousness thing going and I think he becomes very uncomfortable with the shallowness of most such interviews.
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I don't blame him. I would hate going on talk shows and repeating pre-rehearsed stories and jokes worked out with the screener beforehand...not to mention having to answer such inane, boring questions. That's more the domain of stand-up comedians and stars more concerned with furthering their fame then engaging in thoughful discussions about their work or the business at large. Val Kilmer isn't Tom Cruise, afterall.
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I watch a lot of bad low-budget movies, so I've seen plenty of Val Kilmer over the last several years. No matter how terrible a movie is, he is usually excellent. Does he have a rep for being difficult on the set?
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Val Kilmer. Still awesome. I figured that he just doesn't like being in big movies. There's a subset of movie people like that. Including Francis Ford Coppola (who directed the upcoming Twixt). There's enough money to be made, that they get to do what they want and a modest scale.
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Ten years ago this weekend, Val Kilmer turned in a great performance in the neo-noir THE SALTON SEA. It's not perfect - meth addicts hardly look this pretty - but Kilmer's lonely tweaker, investigating his wife's murder, is great to behold. The screenplay is twisty and often funny, and definitely makes the film worth a watch.
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So somehow I knew this thread existed, but odd it’s so old. I could have swore it’s been on the front page of Movie talk, but turns out it’s been 8 years.
Anyway, interesting that this thread stopped receiving attention, and that was before his “cancer.”
Thought you might be interested in a recent NY Times article on him. He’s still working, but can’t speak really these days due to chemo and a tracheotomy. I also didn’t realize he’s so heavy into Christian Science. Sounds like if it wasn’t for his family, he wouldn’t have gone the surgery route.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/m...al-kilmer.html
Anyway, interesting that this thread stopped receiving attention, and that was before his “cancer.”
Thought you might be interested in a recent NY Times article on him. He’s still working, but can’t speak really these days due to chemo and a tracheotomy. I also didn’t realize he’s so heavy into Christian Science. Sounds like if it wasn’t for his family, he wouldn’t have gone the surgery route.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/m...al-kilmer.html