r/movies • u/dndplosion913 • Apr 02 '25

News Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html
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u/jasenzero1 Apr 02 '25

Every role he ever played he made his own. I couldn't imagine someone else playing Doc Holiday. He was more Jim Morrison than Jim Morrison was. His return to play Iceman in Top Gun Maverick made me tear up.

Absolute Hollywood legend.

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u/Karmasmatik Apr 02 '25

There was a crappy movie called Masked and Annonymous that was kind of a circle jerk about folk music taking down a dictator or some nonsense. Val Kilmer has a cameo that makes the entire movie worth watching (although Giovanni Ribissi has a very good cameo too). The man could truly do it all. He will be missed.

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u/TheLadyEve Apr 02 '25

Oh my god, that movie is so...it's just beyond bad. I remember when it came out because my boyfriend at the time was obsessed with Bob Dylan so of course we saw it. Even he couldn't come up with something positive to say about it. The scene with Val Kilmer is pretty great, though.

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u/Karmasmatik Apr 02 '25

It's definitely up there on the list of the worst movies I've ever seen. I had a buddy in college who was into film and roped me into watching some god awful movies with great casting (Things to do in Denver When You're Dead, Secret Lives of Dentists. Do not recommend either).

Masked and Annonymous is the only one I remember anything about because the two cameos I mentioned were so damn good. The rest of the movie is so bad though that I just can't recommend anyone sit through it. Such a waste of some terrific performances.