Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65 (theguardian.com)

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Also star of Real Genius

I mean, I would probably have highlighted his starring in Top Secret! first, considering it was his break-out role, and he is excellent in that film. And also that Top Secret! is an excellent film, that too few people have seen.

squarefoot 1y ago ↗

Watched it as it was just released back then and loved it, a lot more than Airplane and other similar comedies.

ReptileMan 1y ago ↗

I think that his best role was Doc Holiday in Tombstone. He was the embodiment of the flawed wild west gunslinger.

tmountain 1y ago ↗

I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang recently and really appreciated his performance in that movie. He’s one of the original “indie stars” of my generation. Sorry to see him go.

a-french-anon 1y ago ↗

Never seen any of those, I'd have mentioned Heat instead.

walrus01 1y ago ↗

https://kommandostore.com/products/the-heat-rig

note: Would definitely not recommend wearing this loaded outside of a LARP environment at a range, with friends that have a sense of humor

mkl 1y ago ↗

I highly recommend his autobiographical documentary Val (2021). I also recommend the absurd comedy Top Secret! (1984), his first movie.

evrflx 1y ago ↗

I wonder why „The Saint“ is not mentioned. Loved the movie and the different characters played by val kilmer.

hans_castorp 1y ago ↗

That's also my favorite Val Kilmer movie

qingcharles 1y ago ↗

Loved this movie. Has one of my all time favorite songs in it, Polaroid Millennium, and features a Nokia 9000 joke. What's not to love?

gnabgib 1y ago ↗

Discussion (113 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553573

[dead] hhhcard 1y ago ↗

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p0w3n3d 1y ago ↗

I wonder what does this sentence mean

  Kilmer took part in Suzuki Method training

PeterWhittaker 1y ago ↗

The Suzuki Method of violin training, perhaps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method

p0w3n3d 1y ago ↗

That's what I was suspecting, however couldn't connect the dots.

Also I found a contradictory information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UtterlyUniquePhotos/comments/1jr8tm...

It seems that there is another Suzuki who created method of learning of acting

aeortiz 1y ago ↗

So I guess that any article from the Guardian is automatically flagged, no matter the subject?