\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Watching Every Single Val Kilmer Movie in Chronological Order

Top Secret! (1984)
Drab startled house
  04/04/25
This is the gayest thing I've read in months.
Bipolar citrine sound barrier whorehouse
  04/04/25
...
Onyx set
  04/08/25
...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/10/25
...
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
I'm gay
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/10/25
Same
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
SKEET SURFING!!
brilliant tattoo legal warrant
  04/10/25
look I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman tha...
Confused Gas Station
  04/17/25
https://youtu.be/8WFHnHYmmsY?si=_VkGrCj7qDQFFdjM
Drab startled house
  04/19/25
"Wait, you dropped your phony dog poo"
Ebony sweet tailpipe
  04/19/25
Big fan of this even zanier “airplane!” The line...
comical gunner
  04/04/25
Real Genius (1985)
Drab startled house
  04/08/25
(he lisped)
Onyx set
  04/08/25
Theven Eyethmanss
Drab startled house
  04/08/25
Top Gun (1986)
Drab startled house
  04/10/25
You've clearly decided on homosexuality.
Bipolar citrine sound barrier whorehouse
  04/10/25
You can ride my tail anytime, penis six nine.
Drab startled house
  04/10/25
...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/10/25
...
Drab startled house
  04/10/25
...
translucent range
  04/10/25
Okay, I lol’d
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
how many until you get to Wonderland?
Glittery Philosopher-king
  04/10/25
his email used to be valk@netcom.com
Soul-stirring Rigor Foreskin
  04/10/25
1800000 thread idea and tyfys creating old school xo threads...
dead fantasy-prone halford queen of the night
  04/10/25
...
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Kilmer
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
The Saint is one of my favorite Films looking forward to you...
Aquamarine Brethren
  04/10/25
...
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
Brother, I have bad news
Drab startled house
  04/19/25
Are you actually going to watch The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chai...
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/10/25
We’ll see about made for TV movies. I do want to watc...
Drab startled house
  04/10/25
...
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
Willow (1988)
Drab startled house
  04/12/25
...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/12/25
...
Insane exhilarant mood
  04/12/25
unlike the pussies at LOTR, Willow was willing to go hard wi...
Swashbuckling Bawdyhouse Antidepressant Drug
  04/18/25
Watched Kill Me Again last night. A tight, well paced Nevada...
dashing disturbing associate
  04/12/25
Hey that’s next. Don’t bite my thread.
Drab startled house
  04/12/25
I’m gay
dashing disturbing associate
  04/12/25
Tagged for The Ghost and the Darkness
magenta multi-billionaire
  04/12/25
Kill Me Again (1989)
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
Spoiler alert!!
dashing disturbing associate
  04/13/25
Not really. There are like seven double crosses in this mov...
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
I’m joking that I posted above I watched this a few ni...
dashing disturbing associate
  04/13/25
saw this last night, great Film.
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/17/25
...
8=D
  04/27/25
The Doors (1991)
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
you’ve convinced me to finally watch it
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/13/25
just watched it he did an incredible job of acting, but c...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/15/25
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the problem with American liv...
Cowghost
  04/27/25
Thunderheart (1992)
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
cr, underrated movie
Obsidian vibrant turdskin
  04/13/25
The Real McCoy (1993)
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
https://brocoflix.com/pages/info?id=2047&type=movie
At-the-ready generalized bond
  04/13/25
It wants me to install a specific VPN. I am watching these ...
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
Weird, I never had to do that. Computer plus HDMI to TV work...
At-the-ready generalized bond
  04/13/25
Tombstone (1993)
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
Are you gay or something?
magenta multi-billionaire
  04/13/25
...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/14/25
It has a 50 on Metacritic. It’s not as good as you ar...
Drab startled house
  04/14/25
Wyatt Earp is the better story, but Tombstone is epic in its...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/14/25
Rewatching it and it just wasn’t as fun as I remembere...
Drab startled house
  04/14/25
it was overall absolutely terrible and as the above poaster ...
Obsidian vibrant turdskin
  04/20/25
mediocre to poor as a western. Kilmer's performance rises ab...
Bright Base
  04/21/25
True Romance (1993)
Drab startled house
  04/13/25
Which chronology are you following? The year they were relea...
beady-eyed flirting resort
  04/13/25
Release - that shit gets insanely complicated after he tanks...
Drab startled house
  04/14/25
Batman Forever (1995)
Drab startled house
  04/15/25
Nothing to do with Val but I couldn't figure out what was ev...
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/15/25
How do u not even mention kissed by a rose?
Galvanic autistic stag film masturbator
  04/15/25
Amazing. From peak music video era. https://youtu.be/hDd...
Drab startled house
  04/15/25
This is a classic example of a 90 'mediocre film with great ...
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/15/25
Cr. They just don’t do soundtracks like this anymore,...
Drab startled house
  04/15/25
My favorite Jim Carrey Batman Forever story: "The ma...
cannon
  04/29/25
Heat (1995)
Drab startled house
  04/17/25
I love this movie and I don't give a fuck what anybody says
Confused Gas Station
  04/17/25
...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/17/25
...
Razzle idiotic theatre
  04/17/25
Ya i heard its back on netflix
Galvanic autistic stag film masturbator
  04/17/25
Yep, that’s where I watched
Drab startled house
  04/17/25
One of my favorite movies and im gonna have to rewarch now. ...
Galvanic autistic stag film masturbator
  04/17/25
I always felt that Heat fumbled around a bit with the plotti...
Obsidian vibrant turdskin
  04/17/25
...
Judas Jones
  04/25/25
First time I saw Heat was at the New Beverly in LA a few yea...
dashing disturbing associate
  04/17/25
It's one of the best curated soundtracks ever too Terje R...
Cowghost
  04/29/25
I watched this for the first time today and its 180.
animeboi
  04/29/25
this seems mentally ill but i like where you are headed
Ivory cracking keepsake machete
  04/17/25
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Drab startled house
  04/18/25
Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Drab startled house
  04/18/25
Dead Girl (1996)
Drab startled house
  04/18/25
just torrent bro.
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/19/25
Only have a work computer right now
Drab startled house
  04/19/25
"57 days ago I decided to watch every Val Kilmer movie ...
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/19/25
What do you think life is like for the Val Kilmer superfan k...
Drab startled house
  04/19/25
I keep several albums of the German electronic noise music c...
awkward indirect expression hominid
  04/19/25
The Saint (1997)
Drab startled house
  04/18/25
Ah man. I really liked the end when he resurfaced as the chu...
Aquamarine Brethren
  04/19/25
“ Any fond memories you have of this movie are because...
vigorous circlehead parlor
  04/19/25
wtf brother
Low-t juggernaut brunch
  04/19/25
I felt like that whole movie was an extended Volvo commercia...
Cowghost
  04/29/25
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Drab startled house
  04/19/25
At First Sight (1999)
Drab startled house
  04/19/25
Joe the King (1999)
Drab startled house
  04/20/25
Pollock (2000)
Drab startled house
  04/21/25
Red Planet (2000)
Drab startled house
  04/22/25
Loved this movie when it first came out watched it like 10 t...
Wes Scantlin
  04/24/25
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/red-planet/
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/25/25
There was also another terrible Mars movie released that sam...
cannon
  04/29/25
There was a period there where all the studios had competing...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/29/25
The wiki story about their fight on Red Planet is lol. Th...
cannon
  04/29/25
Salton Sea (2002)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/24/25
Hard Cash (2002)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/24/25
up to kiss kiss bang bang yet? That one was great
No Paye No Gain
  04/24/25
I’ve watched 24/72. Kiss Kiss is like 32. This threa...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/24/25
JFC you will be legend if you finish this
Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  04/25/25
...
Traditional Latin ass
  04/24/25
Wonderland (2003)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/25/25
ty. I had avoided watching this due to bad reviews but will ...
Judas Jones
  04/27/25
Come back and post your own
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/27/25
The Missing (2003)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/25/25
Blind Horizon (2003)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/25/25
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/26/25
Spartan (2004)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/26/25
Two minutes of Val Kilmer talking shit about David Mamet: ht...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/26/25
Lol
Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  04/26/25
I bought this on DVD and never watched it
Traditional Latin ass
  04/26/25
Severely underrated. Phenomenal script. Kristen Bell plays a...
lfo
  04/28/25
Stateside (2004)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/27/25
Alexander (2004)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/27/25
I remember not liking the movie, so your review is actually ...
Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  04/28/25
The Ultimate Cut was practically a different movie. It lose...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/28/25
Mindhunters (2005)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/27/25
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/29/25
Dead Man’s Bounty (2006)
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/29/25
"Polish arthouse western featuring Val Kilmer as a dead...
animeboi
  04/29/25
I might. We are now entering his Direct to Video era.
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  04/29/25
lol wtf
Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  04/30/25


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: April 4th, 2025 9:54 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Top Secret! (1984)

I had never seen this movie before tonight and was shocked how funny it was. Val Kilmer’s first role and he is already fully formed - it is striking how much his face stayed the same throughout his career. He is just a clear movie star and it’s interesting that he started out in comedies. He turned down an ensemble role in The Outsiders to take top billing here.

The best description I’ve ever read of Val Kilmer is that when he makes an acting choice he doesn’t play it straight and he doesn’t do the opposite, like the good ones. He does something perpendicular. And this movie is full of perpendicular choices that make him perfect for the straight man in an absurdist comedy.

Interesting note, the movie clearly codes homosexual as evil.

I rate it 7.5 Icemans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48816904)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 4th, 2025 9:56 PM
Author: Bipolar citrine sound barrier whorehouse

This is the gayest thing I've read in months.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48816908)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 8th, 2025 10:30 PM
Author: Onyx set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48829551)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 6:55 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48833939)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:11 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840965)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:06 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

I'm gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834073)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:11 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood

Same

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840963)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: brilliant tattoo legal warrant

SKEET SURFING!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834065)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 6:51 AM
Author: Confused Gas Station

look I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island, who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856222)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 7:17 AM
Author: Drab startled house

https://youtu.be/8WFHnHYmmsY?si=_VkGrCj7qDQFFdjM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862393)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 9:51 AM
Author: Ebony sweet tailpipe

"Wait, you dropped your phony dog poo"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862543)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 4th, 2025 10:04 PM
Author: comical gunner

Big fan of this even zanier “airplane!” The line “Sunday? That’s Simchas Torah!” was for many years memed on ytmnd.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48816925)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 8th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Real Genius (1985)

Whither the zany caper movie? I have to say there was something so comforting in watching that TriStar Pegasus enter the frame. They just don’t do wacky like they did in the mid-80s.

I also had never seen this movie (maybe once some Saturday on tv as a matinee) and really enjoyed it. It’s got a great cast totally committed to the preposterous premise.

Val Kilmer is again completely developed, fully inhabiting the total weirdness of his character, even as he has to find an emotional connection with a high school super genius. Every line and his physicality is delivered in such an unusual and surprising way. This is a fantastic way to kill an afternoon.

7.0 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48829523)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 8th, 2025 10:31 PM
Author: Onyx set

(he lisped)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48829555)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 8th, 2025 10:36 PM
Author: Drab startled house

Theven Eyethmanss

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48829575)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 6:33 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Top Gun (1986)

It’s impossible for a red-bloodied American man not to get chills when the Bruckheimer/Simpson card comes up and the planes start taxiing around the carrier deck.

This is only Val Kilmer’s third film, but it’s the third time he’s cast as the Uber Male (bizarrely, his third time showing off his physical dexterity with his fingers).

Every scene is iconic and it sets the standard for the modern action movie, while featuring surprisingly little action. The flight scenes became the greatest recruiting tool in the history of the Pentagon and is still the reason they happily loan military equipment to almost any production.

As a kid the death of Goose was the second most affecting film death (behind Apollo Creed) and I can’t hear Good Balls of Fire without picturing a widowed Meg Ryan and Goose’s baby.

As explained by Quentin Tarantino, the film is a meditation on a young man deciding between heterosexuality and homosexuality and against Val Kilmer the ladies don’t stand a chance.

Val Kilmer’s performance is a smoldering, sweat-slicked fever dream of homoerotic tension. He struts onto the screen with a chiseled jawline and a cocksure swagger that practically drips with unspoken desire, turning every cockpit into a crucible of barely restrained lust. His icy blonde locks and piercing stares lock onto Maverick like a heat-seeking missile, each confrontation crackling with a subtext so thick you could cut it with a flight stick. The volleyball scene is a glistening, sun-drenched ballet of flexing biceps and taut torsos, where Kilmer’s smirking confidence and cool detachment feel like a teasing invitation, daring Maverick to close the distance. Their rivalry is less a clash of egos and more a dance of pent-up yearning.

Even Kelly Gillis’ trans man performance can’t sway Maverick away from the gay way.

“I want some butts!”

10 Icemans

https://youtu.be/ZF1LXL6OOsM?si=WLXTqc6Q7LzoC_mi

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48833905)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Bipolar citrine sound barrier whorehouse

You've clearly decided on homosexuality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48833933)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 6:51 AM
Author: Drab startled house

You can ride my tail anytime, penis six nine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48833935)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 6:56 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48833941)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 8:47 AM
Author: Drab startled house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834033)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 8:50 AM
Author: translucent range



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834039)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:11 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood

Okay, I lol’d

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840966)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 8:52 AM
Author: Glittery Philosopher-king

how many until you get to Wonderland?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834044)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:02 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Rigor Foreskin

his email used to be valk@netcom.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834066)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:04 AM
Author: dead fantasy-prone halford queen of the night

1800000 thread idea and tyfys creating old school xo threads that arent about politics

can you pls post the films in chrono order? Id like to see the list and just run my eyes over his gorgeous filmography

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834069)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:11 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840967)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Drab startled house

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Kilmer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48842609)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:05 AM
Author: Aquamarine Brethren

The Saint is one of my favorite Films looking forward to your review.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834070)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840968)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 7:31 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Brother, I have bad news

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862402)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:11 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

Are you actually going to watch The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834086)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 10th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Drab startled house

We’ll see about made for TV movies. I do want to watch his After School special (with Michelle Pfeiffer!). There is some real dreck coming up in 2000s just including direct to video.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48834236)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840969)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Willow (1988)

I hadn’t seen this movie since I was a kid, when it wasn’t one of my favorites compared to Never Ending Story.

As an adult, I understand why. The plot is very basic shit, with dumb mythical creatures (the Brownies?). The humans aren’t even humans, they’re daikini. I did not enjoy having to spend so much time thinking about Warwick Davis’ monster hands. Also ridiculous that they’re forced to give a baby so much screen time - the movie would be much better if Elora was a tween.

But Val Kilmer delivers. It’s a complete 180 from his role as iceman, playing villainous, goofy, and heroic, often within moments of each other. He handles it as well as he can and is totally committed to the bit. It’s the George Lucas story/script that is mostly retarded.

I rate it 3 Icemans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840958)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48840976)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: Insane exhilarant mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48841112)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 18th, 2025 4:26 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Bawdyhouse Antidepressant Drug

unlike the pussies at LOTR, Willow was willing to go hard with real midgets. respect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48861127)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 6:24 PM
Author: dashing disturbing associate

Watched Kill Me Again last night. A tight, well paced Nevada neo-noir. Very good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48841153)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 6:32 PM
Author: Drab startled house

Hey that’s next. Don’t bite my thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48841169)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 7:45 PM
Author: dashing disturbing associate

I’m gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48841389)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 12th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: magenta multi-billionaire

Tagged for The Ghost and the Darkness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48841160)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Kill Me Again (1989)

Taut, private eye crime caper with lots of noir, but set in sunny Nevada. Kilmer plays a not so bright lovelorn dick in debt to the mob. He isopposite his real life wife who he met on the set of Willow, a homicidal two faced bitch that he can’t help but fall in love with. It’s interesting that in her role in Willow she was beating him up and here is doing the same thing. It’s a pretty straight role, but Kilmer makes it interesting playing Jack Andrew’s as mourning sad sack who is kind of a dummy.

Movie is a crisp 90 minutes that ends with a quintuple cross as the mob, cops, and others try to find Jack and some stolen mob money.

Michael Madsen as the bad news boyfriend is an unexpected surprise. Tarantino basically cast him to play the same role in Reservoir Dogs. Available free on Amazon Prime. This is a strong recommend if you’re looking for something to watch and want an old school potboiler.

7 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48842607)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 11:39 AM
Author: dashing disturbing associate

Spoiler alert!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48842642)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 11:48 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Not really. There are like seven double crosses in this movie, including in the first act.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48842654)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: dashing disturbing associate

I’m joking that I posted above I watched this a few nighths ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48842794)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 7:23 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

saw this last night, great Film.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856248)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: 8=D



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48885841)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: The Doors (1991)

When I think of Val Kilmer I think of The Doors. When I think of Jim Morrison, I think of Val Kilmer in The Doors. Easily Kilmer’s second most iconic role, and the first one where he went full method. I read recently that when he went to audition he showed up shirtless and sexually assaulted a woman, which the studio paid out when it cast him.

I owned a VHS copy of this in middle school and would easily jerk off twice every time I watched, especially the black magic sex scene. This is also one of my favorite Oliver Stone movies. If you haven’t seen it, you must.

10 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48843206)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor

you’ve convinced me to finally watch it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48843210)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor

just watched it

he did an incredible job of acting, but cot damn Morrisson seems like the most insufferable pretentious cocksucker in an industry known for this type of person

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848662)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Cowghost

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the problem with American lives is that they have no second act. The problem with Jim Morrison’s life was that it had no first and third. His childhood was lost in a mist of denial – he never quite forgave his father for being an admiral – and his maturity was interrupted by an early death, caused by his relentless campaign against his own mind and body. What he left behind was a protracted adolescence, during which he recorded some great rock ‘n’ roll.

If we can trust Oliver Stone’s new biographical film, “The Doors,” life for Jim Morrison was like being trapped for months at a time in the party from hell. He wanders out of the sun’s glare, a curly haired Southern California beach boy with a cute pout and a notebook full of poetry. He picks up a beer, he smokes a joint, and then life goes on fast-forward as he gobbles up drugs and booze with both hands, while betraying his friends and making life miserable for anyone who loves him. By the age of 27 he is dead. Watching the movie is like being stuck in a bar with an obnoxious drunk, when you’re not drinking.

The songs he left behind, it is true, are wonderful. Many of them are on the soundtrack of “The Doors,” which combines Morrison’s original vocals and new vocals by Val Kilmer so seamlessly that there is never, not even for a moment, the sensation that Kilmer is not singing everything we hear. That illusion is strengthened by Kilmer’s appearance. He looks so uncannily like Jim Morrison that we feel this is not a case of casting, but of possession.

The performance is the best thing in the movie – and since nearly every scene centers on Morrison, that is not small praise. Val Kilmer has always had a remarkable talent, which until now has been largely overlooked, but if you want to see why Stone thought he could be convincing as a rock star, look at “Top Secret!,” the “Airplane!”-style spoof of spy movies in which Kilmer plays Elvis Presley. Because of Kilmer, and because of extraordinary location work with countless convincing extras, the concert scenes in “The Doors” play with the authenticity of a documentary.

If the songs are timeless and the concert footage is convincing, however, the scenes from life are more painful than in any other backstage movie I can remember. The typical showbiz biopic describes a sort of parabola, in which the talented kid wins early fame, begins to self-destruct, hits bottom, and then makes his big comeback and goes on, of course, to have a movie made about him. Jim Morrison becomes a star very quickly, and then self-destructs as quickly and efficiently as he can. It is not a pretty picture. He must have been one of those people with a constitutional inability to handle drugs or booze in any quantity. For him there is no moderation; he isn’t seeking to get high, he’s looking for oblivion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48885098)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Thunderheart (1992)

It was seeing people talk about this movie in some of the Kilmer retrospectives that caused me to start this thread. I very vaguely remember seeing this as a kid on tv some Sunday afternoon.

Kilmer, who is part Indian IRL, plays a part Indian FBI agent sent to Badlands South Dakota to investigate some recent murders set against internal political violence based on the real life American Indian Movement. It’s a solid, well made movie and Kilmer’s extremely in control playing a hothead who hates his family past.

If you like Wind River, you will like this movie because they’re extremely similar. It’s actually kind of surprising how woke (in the sense of awareness) this movie is for 1992, but I think that’s because the AIM and FBI fight was very public and well known at the time. Good watch, free on Prime.

I rate it 8 Icemans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48843663)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Obsidian vibrant turdskin

cr, underrated movie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844024)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: The Real McCoy (1993)

Placeholder. I can’t find this to stream anywhere. I watched it on VHS in middle school, but don’t remember it much at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48843668)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: At-the-ready generalized bond

https://brocoflix.com/pages/info?id=2047&type=movie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844050)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 10:34 PM
Author: Drab startled house

It wants me to install a specific VPN. I am watching these on my big screen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844052)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 10:36 PM
Author: At-the-ready generalized bond

Weird, I never had to do that. Computer plus HDMI to TV works for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844056)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 10:15 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Tombstone (1993)

Not a very good movie overall. Structurally it doesn’t make any sense and Wyatt Earp ends up looking like a psychopath. It’s very bizarre around 90 minutes when it just switches to mass slaughter. And Wyatt didn’t really seem to have a plan for making money in Tombstone.

But it is packed with great actors, including especially Powers Boothe and Val Kilmer. Kilmer’s Doc Holliday is considered the most iconic and he steals the scene every time he is on screen. Hopefully you’ve already seen this one and can just watch some clips of Kilmer online.

I rate it 7 Icemens and 10 Huckleberrys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844018)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 11:24 PM
Author: magenta multi-billionaire

Are you gay or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844151)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2025 3:27 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844474)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2025 6:26 AM
Author: Drab startled house

It has a 50 on Metacritic. It’s not as good as you are remembering. Here is a typical review: “ As much as these actors heroically struggle to focus the film, the director more successfully hacks it apart. But if you really love Westerns, despite its faults, it's got to be recommended for Kilmer's performance alone.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844589)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2025 8:23 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor

Wyatt Earp is the better story, but Tombstone is epic in its own way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844727)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Rewatching it and it just wasn’t as fun as I remembered.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844791)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 20th, 2025 12:30 AM
Author: Obsidian vibrant turdskin

it was overall absolutely terrible and as the above poaster said wyatt earp was a better film, and actually dennis quaid got shafted simply becase kilmer is so damn cool

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48863930)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 21st, 2025 9:41 AM
Author: Bright Base

mediocre to poor as a western. Kilmer's performance rises above the dreck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48866409)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 10:22 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: True Romance (1993)

I’m not going to rewatch this one since I’ve seen it 30 times and it’s only a cameo. You can see the total commitment to being a figment of someone’s imagination yourself at the link. If you’ve never seen True Romance you are missing out on the greatest use of the word eggplant of all time.

https://youtu.be/Kk9A6E1EXjI?si=Ii9fHCEE0flsNd2h

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844032)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 13th, 2025 11:54 PM
Author: beady-eyed flirting resort

Which chronology are you following? The year they were released or the year they happened in the VKU?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844213)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2025 6:27 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Release - that shit gets insanely complicated after he tanks his career in the late 90s. He’s making like five direct to video movies a year by 2009.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48844591)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 6:47 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Batman Forever (1995)

It’s weird watching capeshit from a time period where capeshit wasn’t the most important product made in Hollywood. They would just let a big time director do anything he wanted, with no respect for the source material. It’s like Joel Schumacher spent the entire time on set yelling “Campier! More camp!” until even Jim Carrey was like, “this is a little over the top.” It’s also really hard to appreciate an Adam West-y Batman when we know that the Nolan-verse exists.

Kilmer is just not a good Batman. And he gives line readings here that would embarrass a high school drama teacher. He plays Wayne as very stern but then is forced by the script to be silly.

Despite all its flaws, this version of Batman is still somewhat enjoyable, mainly because Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey are having the time of their life playing baddies. When this came out Jim Carrey was arguably the biggest movie star in the world, having just released Ace Venture, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber. And TLJ turns it up to 11. The best scene in the movie is Riddler meeting Two Face for the first time.

I rate it 4 Icemans



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848527)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 7:15 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

Nothing to do with Val but I couldn't figure out what was even happening in the find combat scene. Just a terrible movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848548)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 8:55 AM
Author: Galvanic autistic stag film masturbator

How do u not even mention kissed by a rose?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848676)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 9:26 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Amazing. From peak music video era.

https://youtu.be/hDd2G_V1rzc?si=8r6gZj1JF4jwzzS9

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848739)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 9:39 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

This is a classic example of a 90 'mediocre film with great soundtrack'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848787)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 15th, 2025 10:32 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Cr. They just don’t do soundtracks like this anymore, because they can’t make up the licensing fees on the CD sales.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48848933)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: cannon

My favorite Jim Carrey Batman Forever story:

"The maitre said, 'Oh, I hear you're working with Tommy Lee Jones. He's over in the corner having dinner.' I went over and I said, 'Hey Tommy, how are you doing?' and the blood just drained from his face. And he got up shaking — he must have been in mid kill me fantasy or something like that. And he went to hug me and he said, 'I hate you. I really don't like you.' And I said, 'What's the problem?' and pulled up a chair, which probably wasn't smart. And he said, 'I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891843)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 6:42 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Heat (1995)

Fucking A this movie is next level.

I hadn’t actually sat down and watched this thing in one sitting in at least 15 years, and it was the most enjoyable movie watching experience I’ve had in long time, including watching all of the movies on this list.

It is smart, thrilling, creates an entire universe of L.A., beautiful to look at (inspired by L.A. noir: https://images.app.goo.gl/FNiEWtJpbMSTzMvo8 ), stocked to the gills with great actors and feels too short at just under three hours. It is also the source of our greatest Spaceporn meme (pls someone link).

It’s Michael Mann’s masterpiece (Heat 2 is apparently in production). Al Pacino is insanely over the top, but actually in control. Sizemore is electric. Natalie Portman leaves an impression with just one scene. Ashley Judd with just a few, like they forgot she was in the movie. De Niro is playing a character unlike all his others. It has two subplots that could be their own movies (serial killing Waingro, who nearly steals a lot of his scenes, and the plot to sell the financier back his own bonds). And of course there is the diner scene with Pacino and De Niro at their peak, before they became caricatures. I always forget that that scene starts with a completely gratuitous but gorgeous helicopter chase.

Then the robbery centerpiece is so well done it has never been bested - iconic shot after iconic shot all the while raising the stakes higher and higher. It’s been ripped off so many times but even when ripped off well, like in Den of Thieves, it’s not even close. Even Christopher Nolan used its style to open The Dark Knight. Mann manages to get all the characters invested into the robbery and subsequent chase to flee.

And Kilmer. Maybe this is his third most iconic role, just from the shot where he flips the loot and starts firing in downtown L.A. He is electric. His devotion to his family coupled with his gambling problem, contrasted with his ice-cold approach to the work. Supposedly the new sequel will be about his son Dominick all grown up. That’s how good Kilmer is - he created the spinoff.

After watching this and getting to reread old essays about how great this movie is, it is obvious this one of the three greatest heist movies of all time, yet somehow still incredibly underrated.

10 of 10 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856213)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Confused Gas Station

I love this movie and I don't give a fuck what anybody says

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856223)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 7:00 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856231)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 8:00 AM
Author: Razzle idiotic theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856309)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 8:27 AM
Author: Galvanic autistic stag film masturbator

Ya i heard its back on netflix

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856362)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Yep, that’s where I watched

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856404)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 8:46 AM
Author: Galvanic autistic stag film masturbator

One of my favorite movies and im gonna have to rewarch now. Thank u for your service.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856410)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 11:08 AM
Author: Obsidian vibrant turdskin

I always felt that Heat fumbled around a bit with the plotting and the various schemes going on at any given time and the waingro thing honestly never makes any sense from start to finish, but it is just so goddam beautifully filmed that it works, the final scene with kilmer is a great example, it makes no fucking sense they should know what this fucker looks like, but they play it all miami heat and it works

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856790)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 25th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Judas Jones



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48880654)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 11:51 AM
Author: dashing disturbing associate

First time I saw Heat was at the New Beverly in LA a few years ago. They said the sound for the film had been remastered, and it was nuts. 1800000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856904)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:38 PM
Author: Cowghost

It's one of the best curated soundtracks ever too

Terje Rypdal, Joy Division, Moby and Passengers tracks are incredible finds that nobody was thinking about

Every track feels like it was originally composed for that specific scene

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891837)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:38 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

I watched this for the first time today and its 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891833)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 17th, 2025 12:11 PM
Author: Ivory cracking keepsake machete

this seems mentally ill but i like where you are headed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48856964)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 18th, 2025 4:22 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

Back in 1996 I used to see literally every single movie that came out in the megaplex I could walk to near my house. But the buzz around this movie was so bad I skipped it and never even bothered to watch it - until now. And . . . I kind of sort of liked it?

My expectations were so low that I was able to accept it for what it was: a cheesy B-movie made with a big budget and top acting talent. Marlon Brando is terrible (his daughter killed self during filming), but Kilmer is shockingly dialed in for his performance as a disaffected brain surgeon devolving into madness. He has a great arc in this film and his last line and death scene are great. It also features a young David Thewlis and Ron Perlman as the leader of the mutants.

If you accept it for what it is rather than its reputation, it’s not a bad watch if you have 98 minutes to spare. Also, prime Fairuza Balk as a cat mutant.

Apparently Val gave Brando a run for his money in terms of being difficult to work with and this movie really marked the beginning of the end of Kilmer’s major star period in Hollywood.

Five Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48861122)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 18th, 2025 8:06 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Val Kilmer got nominated for a Razzie for both The Island of Dr. Moreau and this movie, but he didn’t deserve either nomination. He plays both roles all out, it’s just the movies that aren’t great. It’s Michael Douglas’ preposterous performance as an American hunter (completely invented character), that is over the top and detracts from the movie. Kilmer plays everything in this movie like he’s holding back, thinking and meticulous, like the engineer he is playing. When he goes a little crazy at the end it’s totally earned. I think people were just piling on because of the reputation he was earning as an over serious difficult actor.

The second act of the movie is kind of a mess and is little boring as the pair hunt the lions. Maybe it’s because I am a middle aged man into history, but I wanted more about building the railroad and colonialism. There is not much going on in the subtext of the movie - it’s just pure man v. nature. The special effects are pretty bad, even by 1996 standards, but the film did win an Oscar for sound editing.

I saw Ghost and The Darkness when it came out and mostly forgot about it and after watching it again, I will probably forget about it very soon.

4 Icemans



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48861608)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 18th, 2025 8:12 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Dead Girl (1996)

Placeholder. Can’t find this streaming.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48861618)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 9:08 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

just torrent bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862465)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: Drab startled house

Only have a work computer right now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862500)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 9:38 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

"57 days ago I decided to watch every Val Kilmer movie ever released and I have reached the end of that road 83 features later. This wacko nonsense is the last of them purely because it was never released anywhere except on an Australian double feature DVD along with Dream A Little Dream 2 and it took the whole of these 57 days to secure and receive a copy from down under. Was it worth the hassle? Was any of this worth it?"

ok nvmd you can't even get in on torrent.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862519)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 10:05 AM
Author: Drab startled house

What do you think life is like for the Val Kilmer superfan keeping the obscure 1996 film Dead Girl seeded and available is like?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862561)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: awkward indirect expression hominid

I keep several albums of the German electronic noise music collective P16.D4 seeded on soulseek and as far as I know am the only copy up. I know that feel. 😞

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862566)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 18th, 2025 10:15 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: The Saint (1997)

And so ends the Val Kilmer Hollywood leading man era. This movie was dogshit. Any fond memories you have of this movie (which I did) are because you watched it when you were 13. For comparison’s sake Goldeneye and Mission: Impossible had both already come out, so this could have been a decent movie.

But the gimmick with the costumes and the accents and the dumb saints names makes it look ridiculous. He puts on four hours of makeup in two minutes several times . Literally nothing happens that makes sense. An apartment building has a common shared space for hiding from the stassi. At one point they get lost in the sewers and some rando revolutionary art thieves guide them to the embassy. Cold fusion is invented in an hour - in her head! Elizabeth Shue was one of the biggest force memes of all time and her character is crazy.

Just complete horseshit of a movie. Kilmer seems like he was having fun though and did put a lot of work into all the accents. Bitchin’ 1990s sound track.

2 Icemens (artificially inflated because I know there is some real trash coming up in the 2000s)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48861888)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 12:57 AM
Author: Aquamarine Brethren

Ah man. I really liked the end when he resurfaced as the chubby saint with long hair.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862153)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 2:05 AM
Author: vigorous circlehead parlor

“ Any fond memories you have of this movie are because you watched it when you were 13.”

😢😢😢

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862238)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: Low-t juggernaut brunch

wtf brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862248)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:43 PM
Author: Cowghost

I felt like that whole movie was an extended Volvo commercial

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891858)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 6:41 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Placeholder. Going to watch with my kids when I get a chance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48862373)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 19th, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: At First Sight (1999)

Ugh, so glad Matthew McConnaghey came along and saved Val from having to do all these romcoms. This movie is two hours and fifteen minutes and is about a woman meeting the perfect guy, except he’s blind, so of course she tries to change him. “I thought you’d be excited. What’s the problem?” she asks.

Val goes full bore, though, as a blind masseuse. He is very believable as a blind man. During press interviews he said this was the hardest role he’s ever done and it’s clear he really wanted to nail being blind. So far the only movie where he kind of half assed it was Batman Forever. The movie kind of gets good in the final act when his blindness goes Flower for Algernon, but it is painful getting there.

It’s a tedious Lifetime level romcom with bad dialogue that isn’t worth watching - but Kilmer is impressive in it. I checked how much time was left at least a dozen times. One hilarious scene was Nathan Lane taking him to a strip club to do a seeing therapy session. Bizarre Oliver Sacks cameo.

Three Icemen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48863115)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 20th, 2025 8:04 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Joe the King (1999)

This was a surprising gem of a movie I had never seen before. Unexpectedly dark, Kilmer plays an alcoholic janitor (it’s a period piece, obviously) whose shiftlessness is leading his son to a life of crime. It also features John Leguiziamo and Ethan Hawke. It was nice to have an artsy bright spot to close out the 1990s for Kilmer.

It’s a tough watch in places if you know anything about how alcoholism destroys families and how Joe is almost certainly doomed. Kilmer’s best scene is at the end as he previews his son’s possible paths forward. Kilmer was recently divorced when he made this and he’s drawing from some dark places.

Would recommend, available for rent.

6.5 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48864129)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 21st, 2025 9:14 AM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Pollock (2000)

Jackson Pollock was an alcoholic asshole who painted. Then he got famous and remained an alcoholic asshole. He caused a lot of pain to the people around him. Then he died.

Val Kilmer is in this movie for like 15 seconds. He was great. I enjoyed this movie, but very much not an important part of the Val Kilmer oeuvre.

Five Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48866332)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 22nd, 2025 10:48 PM
Author: Drab startled house
Subject: Red Planet (2000)

This is another one where Pitch Black had just come out and was an amazing stranded on a planet movie, while the Val Kilmer version is just very very bad. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to finish this, but the second and third acts get in the so-bad-its-good territory. Like, why did you send a military robot on a science mission for no reason? Every problem is solved with something absurd and none of the characters bear any resemblance to real people.

Val Kilmer plays a “space janitor” and plays him basically as a spiritual stoner. He is kind of phoning it in here but I enjoyed it.

Apparently Kilmer and Sizemore hated each other on set and Kilmer did all sorts of dickish things to him, so a producer made Sizemore just promise not to punch him in the face. He did end up punching him and throwing a weight at him after Kilmer belittled him. They’re supposed to play buddies but they ended up hating each other so much they had to use body doubles for all the scenes where they’re talking directly to each other. Absolutely hilarious old Hollywood shit.

I’m barely 1/3 into this Kilmer project and it’s starting to get expensive having to rent these, since no one in their right mind would want to watch this and therefore no one is licensing it for streaming. But the second and third acts were watchable.

3.5 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48872665)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 24th, 2025 6:40 PM
Author: Wes Scantlin

Loved this movie when it first came out watched it like 10 times. You’re starting to make me think I was a regarded kid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48878031)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 25th, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/red-planet/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48879571)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: cannon

There was also another terrible Mars movie released that same year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_to_Mars

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891823)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:49 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

There was a period there where all the studios had competing projects like that, Armageddon and Deep Impact being the classic example. But also Dante’s Peak and Volcano.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891877)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 10:00 PM
Author: cannon

The wiki story about their fight on Red Planet is lol.

They’re both dead now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891911)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 24th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Salton Sea (2002)

This movie was the second reason I decided to tackle this project - I’d never seen it. It may be the most Val Kilmer-y performance. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two acts of this wacky, twin peaks meets Tarantino story, with a stacked cast of character actors. Vincent D’Onfrio’s Pooh-Bear is an all time great character and performance. BD Wong as a cowboy is hilarious. Luis Garcia playing Luis Garcia. Danny Trejo as Danny Trejo. Adam Goldberg, R.Lee Ermey, Deborah Unger.

Kilmer is perfect as an adolescently stunted crankhead with more going on in his head. I see why this movie is considered a cult classic. But when the real plot and psychodrama reveals itself it’s just too bonkers and far fetched. What the fuck was his plan? But the momentum carries you through that mess and all of the fake out endings.

It’s available free on YouTube and worth a watch if you’ve never seen it.

8 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48876338)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 24th, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Hard Cash (2002)

Haha, holy shit. I’ve never really watched these super low budget action movies/international tax dodges and I didn’t realize everyone involved takes them seriously.

This movie was produced by John Thompson, of German Goo Girls fame, starring Christian Slater, Kilmer, Bokeem Woodbine, Daryl Hannah, and Verne Troyer, all of whom have the energy of a high school drama kid who thinks he’s getting his first big break. Seriously wild scene in the first three minutes when Verne Troyer pops out of a pregnant chick’s belly.

Kilmer gives a great performance as a bonkers FBI agent wearing a suit that does not fit. None of this is supposed to make sense anyway, so he can just do whatever he wants. It feels like this movie should have come out in 1988. Can’t really recommend this as a good use of your time, but it’s free on Tubi. There is a lot of Tubi in my future.

6 Icemans*

*for these trash movies I am rating Kilmer alone, the movie is terrible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48877931)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 24th, 2025 6:40 PM
Author: No Paye No Gain

up to kiss kiss bang bang yet? That one was great

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48878032)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 24th, 2025 9:28 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

I’ve watched 24/72. Kiss Kiss is like 32. This thread is gonna get dark before it’s all said and done.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48878546)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 25th, 2025 12:14 AM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)

JFC

you will be legend if you finish this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48878883)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 24th, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: Traditional Latin ass



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48878574)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 25th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Wonderland (2003)

This movie slaps. It’s a Rashomon style telling of the still mostly unsolved Wonderland murders, with Kilmer as John Holmes, who is directly at the center of the brutal murders. They really capture all the details and the difficulty of figuring out exactly what happened. The more you know about the murders the more enjoyable it is (for example, they get some of the key forensic evidence like a palm print correct).

Not sure why the critics didn’t like it more, but the cast is awesome, including Josh Lucas using the n-word, Jeanine Garofolo, Tim Blake Nelson, Eric Bogosion, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow and more. It’s shot in a very 70s-style, with some great visual filmmaking and a tight script. My guess is that the critics were writing in 2003 and the true crime boom hadn’t started yet. One critic said Boogie Nights was more realistic, which is absurd.

All the critics agreed, however, that Kilmer was excellent. After his Jim Morrison, this is Kilmer’s second best performance so far on this list. I don’t think John Holmes had this level of range, but Kilmer is acting his ass off and you get an amazing picture of a big shot in his own mind junkie. He actually makes you feel sorry for him when the truth is it’s a shame he wasn’t murdered also. His performance creates all sorts of doubt as to what really happened.

Will lead you down some Wikipedia rabbit holes. Available free on Plex.

10 Icemans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48880613)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: Judas Jones

ty. I had avoided watching this due to bad reviews but will give it a watch based on your review.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48885029)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Come back and post your own

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48885047)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 25th, 2025 10:43 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: The Missing (2003)

Pretty decent western directed by Ron Howard with Cate Blanchette and Tommy Lee Jones. Jones is excellent in this. Movie is pretty harrowing and violent without being dark enough. They encounter every conceivable cliched difficulty you can find in 1885 New Mexico on their journey.

Kilmer has a small role as a Lieutenant who encounters the main characters as the pursue their Apache kidnapped daughter. No idea why they felt the need to cast Kilmer, it’s not an important part. Even still, he finds a way to give his character real depth and some surprise when he apologizes for his enlisted men looting.

4 Icemen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48881608)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 25th, 2025 11:06 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Blind Horizon (2003)

Placeholder. Can’t find this to stream anywhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48881731)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 26th, 2025 9:33 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Masked and Anonymous (2003)

If this movie came out in 1971 it would be considered a classic - Putney Swope meets Woody Allen’s Bananas. Instead it came out when there was already a backlash to Bob Dylan, much less any interest in a meandering, philosophical satire about the state of man and the power of art and music to heal the savage beast. It is one of the most panned movies on this list, which is saying something. But I had a really interesting conversation with Grok about the movie’s meaning and themes, which are many and varied.

This movie is lousy with great actors, from Cheech Marin to Jessica Lange to Giovanni Ribisi (amazing scene) to Luke Wilson to Ed Harris (in blackface) to Christian Slater to John Goodman to Angela Bassett to Mickey Rourke to Chris Penn to - I could go on (Jeff Bridges, Selma Hayek, Bruce Dern, etc.). And of course Bob Dylan performing a half dozen songs.

There’s a loose plot, but it’s mostly a collection of short scenes with great actors philosophizing, kind of like an early Linklater film. It was written in part by Bob Dylan, part of the last very productive part of his career. Is it good? I don’t know. Should you watch it? Fuck yes.

Kilmer’s scene is below so you can see for yourself how into the project the actors were. If you like this scene you’ll find this an enjoyable movie. Free on Tubi.

7.5 Icemans

https://youtu.be/jGh6R3ZA0-Y?si=d-Z3pokFS57Rd4_b

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48882484)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 26th, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Spartan (2004)

Actually really enjoyed this one. It’s pretty good as far as stupid action movies go. Features the line, “Alright boys, I’ve only got two things for you tonight, a hard dick and bubble gum and I’m all out of bubblegum.”

That line was written by David Mamet, who wrote and directed this thing. Apparently Kilmer hated working with David Mamet and found him a pretentious asshole. The plot is preposterous, but Mamet clearly sprinkled some magic dust on this thing because it strangely works.

Kilmer is excellent as a “worker bee” delta force sniper/recon who is sucked into plot around who kidnapped the president’s daughter and sold her to be a Saudi portapotty. America’s sweetheart Kristen Bell plays the Saudi portapotty with lines like, “I’m just a whore, a little whore. Raised by wolves.” Again, this is a David fucking Mamet movie. Kilmer really elevates this picture and gives it some gravity you wouldn’t get from a Statham or Gerard Butler. Available for rent, $3.95. If you want a stupid action movie that is actually a good stupid action movie, then this is a solid choice.

7 Icemens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48883531)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 26th, 2025 5:56 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Two minutes of Val Kilmer talking shit about David Mamet: https://x.com/jfrankensteiner/status/1907953105842352600?s=46

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48883538)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 26th, 2025 6:36 PM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48883589)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 26th, 2025 6:19 PM
Author: Traditional Latin ass

I bought this on DVD and never watched it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48883563)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2025 8:20 AM
Author: lfo

Severely underrated. Phenomenal script. Kristen Bell plays a high school teen who takes her top off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48886764)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Stateside (2004)

I enjoyed this movie, but I enjoy movies about mentally ill people sitting in support groups talking about how life is too hard and how they’re too crazy. This is an ostensibly true story about a rich kid who gets in a drunk driving accident and is sent to the marines, but he falls in love with a schizophrenic actress played by Rachel Leigh Cook, before shipping off to Beirut. The real life actress was apparently Sarah Holcomb from Animal House and Jaws movies.

The movie is a little muddled, but it’s messy like real life. Val Kilmer plays the marine corp boot camp Sargent and I think I realized what it is about Kilmer that makes him so fascinating to watch. He’s not afraid to play dumb and when he plays a character as being dumb it’s believable. Most actors who play a mildly dumb character cant do it in a way where you don’t notice they’re playing dumb. Kilmer can be dumb and your reaction is “this guy is dumb” not “he’s playing this guy as dumb.” It’s worth watching just for Kilmer’s take on this cliched role.

The movie is a bit like Catcher in the Rye meets Girl, Interrupted meets Tigerland, so if you like those you should enjoy this. The reviews run the gamut from praise to pan, so ymmv. Really melancholic vibe and does a great job of capturing the early 80s. It made me wish I could fall in love with a crazy girl for the first time all over again. It’s free on Prime.

7 Icemens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48884714)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 6:18 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Alexander (2004)

Hour 1: This is a completely misunderstood masterpiece

Hour 2: Okay, I can see why some people don’t like this movie.

Hour 3: Must be getting close…There’s an hour left?!?!

Hour 4: Holy shit, Alexander wouldn’t have lived to see the end of this.

I chose the Ultimate Cut because 1) I’d only ever seen the theatrical version, 2) It has way more Val Kilmer, and 3) way more gay shit. It’s actually a significant improvement over the original version, which was mostly chronological. This one opens with the battle of Guagamela and it’s awesome. Then it alternates between his march through the known world and much longer flashbacks to growing up with his father, Philip, played by Kilmer. It also plays much more with the themes around Alexander being a god or a titan.

One of the stoic quotes I noodle on frequently is that, “In life, the world was not big enough for Alexander. In death, a coffin sufficed.” So I’m predisposed to enjoy this movie, which takes the history and actual conquest seriously. It adds Angelina Jolie in her prime as a barbarian queen and, other than her accent, she is fantastic. The accents are all over the place. Kilmer’s is almost Irish.

The movie is extremely stuck in 2004 and how we think about it. People wanted to trash Colin Farrell and Oliver Stone and the entire tension around his sexuality would be nonexistent if the movie was made today (everyone in 1950 and everyone today would agree he did some buggery, but only in 2004 did people feel the need to argue he was straight/gay).

Kilmer is really good, but his Philip is one of the least historically accurate parts of the movie. Still he fills the screen when he’s on it, which is a lot more in this cut. Farrell doesn’t really have the range to hit all the notes but is good in places.

Great cast (Gregor Clegane is in this) and shot beautifully, with the battles being excellent. Battle of Guagamela and in the Indian forest with the elephants are awesome. But just too much boring faggotry spacing out the 3 and 1/2 hours. There’s actually an intermission. I think it’s better than its reputation, but I’m not going to pay to watch this ever again.

6 Icemens.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48885821)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2025 1:51 AM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)

I remember not liking the movie, so your review is actually more favorable than I remember it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48886566)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2025 8:15 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

The Ultimate Cut was practically a different movie. It loses a lot of his obsession with Darius but presents the story in a more compelling way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48886758)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Mindhunters (2005)

If I was 15 this would have been a great movie to go to on a date and get to third base. Nearly all LL Cool J movies were perfect for this exact reason. Val Kilmer is the best part of this movie and he’s only in the first ten minutes. He probably got paid a few million for a few days work.

It’s a New Line Cinema style horror/slasher flick with an FBI profiler twist. It bears zero resemblance to the book or 180 TV show. It’s not the worst of its genre, and the underwater bullet fight at the end is kind of cool, but there’s no reason any thinking adult should watch this. It’s the kind of thing that would be loved by teenagers and meth addicts who stole the DVD.

Signed up for Kanopy to watch this - apparently you can watch movies free with your library card.

3 Icemens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48886168)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:30 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Nice little screwball comedy with some old Hollywood charm (Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn could have made this) updated for our modern, coarser culture, but with just a little too much sarcasm and cynicism for my taste. Also seems weirdly dated with all the gay jokes.

Robert Downey, Jr. plays basically Robert Downey, Jr. as a small time crook who stumbles into a Hollywood murder plot that I couldn’t explain to you if my life depended on it. It makes Under the Silver Lake seem like an episode of Colombo. Michelle Monaghan plays the love interest, and watching her in her prime gives her role in White Lotus S3 a newfound sense of depth and sadness. Men would have fought wars for her the way she looks in this movie.

Kilmer is the big draw though, playing gay for the first time in his career. Apparently the writer (who created the Lethal Weapon franchise) wanted to do something where the big tough guy was gay. The problem is that Kilmer is the least convincing gay you’ve ever seen. That’s probably why the other characters are constantly having to remind the audience he is gay. Watching all of these films I’ve realized that Kilmer is strangely asexual, a real Iceman. He only did one romance on this list and seems to go out of his way to avoid having sex in a lot of these movies. His role as Jim Morrison is the only one I would say was bristling with sexuality, but even there he ramps up the childlike naïveté.

The movie is good and funny and I’d watch it again, but it’s not half as funny as The Nice Guys.

7 Icemens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891809)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:42 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Subject: Dead Man’s Bounty (2006)

Placeholder. Also known as Summer Love. Only place I can find this is by purchasing it on DVD for $27. Given that this is the Wikipedia plot summary, I probably won’t:

The plot involves a desert countryside with a group of rowdy cowboys, a woman bar tender and a drunkard sheriff.

A peaceful village suddenly turns violent when a certain stranger walks into a bar with the poster of a wanted man. He enters into a scuffle with other cowboys. He manages to escape from the clutches of the locals and then is chased by them.

—-

That’s the entire plot summary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891854)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

"Polish arthouse western featuring Val Kilmer as a dead body. A dead body that’s lying around throughout the whole movie. No flashbacks, no twists. Dead! They move him around. Lots of different looks at his corpse. Kinda into it. A few weird laughs."

131 reviews on letterboxed, you just need 2 pony up the $27 and torrent it for the rest of us.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891873)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 29th, 2025 9:52 PM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

I might. We are now entering his Direct to Video era.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48891887)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 30th, 2025 12:04 AM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)

lol wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5705567&forum_id=2#48892342)