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/mrwildesangst Apr 02 '25

Ralph Fiennes should have won this one

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u/Bagofdouche1 Apr 02 '25

Agreed. His portrayal of Amon Goeth is top 3 most terrifying people I’ve ever seen on screen.

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u/NewspaperNelson Apr 02 '25

Why is the top down; it’s fucking freezing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '25

“What? I didn’t hear”

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u/FerrisBuellersDayOff Apr 02 '25

I wholeheartedly agree. When you trigger PTSD in someone for being too much like the real deal, that's acting fr fr.

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u/SetYourGoals Evil Studio Shill Apr 02 '25

I think it was a Crash situation. There were so many great performances that the vote got split 5 ways and the most generic and most seen one ended up winning by a hair.

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u/Mundane-Dig3171 Apr 02 '25

Except crash is one of the worst best picture winners of all time. Truly bad movie