RIP Val Kilmer

[Hicks]

What a great actor and all around intriguing person. 

Sucks that he had health problems for a long time and wasn't able to act much because of it.

He was in a bunch of classics and I was a fan. 

RIP

[PIE-GUY]

This is not Mel Tormé. 

[susep]

Such a bummer.  I too was a fan.  So many great roles, his performance as Jim Morrison will go down as one of his best.  Also love him as Thunderheart opposite of Sam Shepard.  RIP Iceman

[rowjimmy]

[mopper_smurf]

Liked him a lot in Bloodworth. Hated him in The Doors, but that is because I hated the movie as a whole.

[mistercharlie]

I thought he was a great Morrison and a passable Batman. RIP

[mbw]

[Hicks]

He was the greatest swordsman who ever lived. 

[emay]

Dang just watched Heat the other day. 
Always remembered him as Batman and the doors movie when I got older. 
RIP

[mistercharlie]

I forgot about Willow. He was awesome in that, too!

[PIE-GUY]

The Doors movie was so overwrought. There are a couple of great scenes in there, tho. My favorite scene is Jim hanging out at the Factory in New York. Good shit.

[Caravan2001]

Real Genius for life.  Must have watched that and Top Secret at least 100 times each.

[VA $l!m]

Heat all day.

[mattstick]

Found this amazing interview excerpt with Chuck Klosterman interviewing Val Kilmer...

CK: You mean you think you literally had the same experience as Doc Holliday?

Kilmer: Oh, sure. It's not like I believed that I shot somebody, but I absolutely know what it feels like to pull
the trigger and take someone's life.

CK: You understand how it feels to shoot someone as much
as a person who has actually committed a murder?

Kilmer: I understand it more. It's an actor's job. A guy who's lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. Most guys were borderline
criminal or poor, and that's why they got sent to Vietnam.

CK: You were in Top Gun. Does that mean you completely
understand how it feels to be a fighter pilot?

Kilmer: I understand it more. I don't have a fighter pilot's pride. Pilots actually go way past actors' pride, which is pretty high. Way past rock 'n' roll pride, which is even
higher. They're in their own class.

CK: Let's say someone made a movie about you--Val Kilmer--and they cast Jude Law in the lead role. By your logic, wouldn't this mean that Jude Law--if he did a successful job--would therefore understand what it means
to be Val Kilmer more than you do?

Kilmer: No, because I'm an actor. The people in those other
circumstances don't have the self-knowledge.

CK: Well, what if it were a movie about your young life,
before you became an actor?

Kilmer: I guess I'd have to say yes.

[cactusfan]

Real Genius for life.  Must have watched that and Top Secret at least 100 times each.

Ditto.

I also love The Island of Dr. Moreau. Which has a great first half or so, before collapsing into a steaming pile of hot garbage. But it's a fun pile of hot garbage!

Also don't sleep on Herzog's Bad Lieutenant. Val doesn't have a big role, but he's still memorable.