Comments on: The Chaos Experiment Should Have Stayed in the Lab http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-chaos-experiment-should-have-stayed-in-the-lab/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rick http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-chaos-experiment-should-have-stayed-in-the-lab/#comment-379379 Rick Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:03:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64809#comment-379379 I will second "Kiss kiss bang bang". He was also great in Tombstone. Maybe he is not liberal enough to get more roles. . . I will second “Kiss kiss bang bang”. He was also great in Tombstone. Maybe he is not liberal enough to get more roles. . .

]]> By: Splunge http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-chaos-experiment-should-have-stayed-in-the-lab/#comment-379093 Splunge Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:20:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64809#comment-379093 Eon, Kilmer's back catalog has much more worth mining than the two you mention, which I have not seen -- he can be superbly hilarious in comedies: Top Secret - sort of the precursor to Airplane. I still have to laugh every time I think of the Nazi boots scene and a few others...like "It's like some kind of bad movie." Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Underappreciated smart, funny movie with a great pairing of Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. And many would also throw in Real Genius (I think it's called), which I enjoyed, but not as much as the other two. Talented guy. It's a shame to see him reduced to this. Eon,

Kilmer’s back catalog has much more worth mining than the two you mention, which I have not seen — he can be superbly hilarious in comedies:

Top Secret – sort of the precursor to Airplane. I still have to laugh every time I think of the Nazi boots scene and a few others…like “It’s like some kind of bad movie.”

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – Underappreciated smart, funny movie with a great pairing of Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr.

And many would also throw in Real Genius (I think it’s called), which I enjoyed, but not as much as the other two.

Talented guy. It’s a shame to see him reduced to this.

]]> By: Sebastian Shaw http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-chaos-experiment-should-have-stayed-in-the-lab/#comment-379017 Sebastian Shaw Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:35:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64809#comment-379017 Val Kilmer needs to get out of his bubble then, perhaps, he may start making good movies again; otherwise, he will remain on DVD-limbo. I can see The Chaos Experiment quickly added to the Sci-Fi channels list of horrible films they show every weekend. Val Kilmer is in good stead with Tom Cruise at this point. Val Kilmer needs to get out of his bubble then, perhaps, he may start making good movies again; otherwise, he will remain on DVD-limbo. I can see The Chaos Experiment quickly added to the Sci-Fi channels list of horrible films they show every weekend.

Val Kilmer is in good stead with Tom Cruise at this point.

]]> By: eon http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-chaos-experiment-should-have-stayed-in-the-lab/#comment-378929 eon Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:25:01 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64809#comment-378929 I pretty much stopped watching anything Kilmer did after the disappointing "The Saint" and the absolutely appalling "Batman Forever". (The latter played like an episode of the 1960s Adam West TV version as "re-imagined" by somebody who directs music videos for a living.) His two good films, that I am aware of, are "Tombstone" and "The Ghost and the Darkness"- both of which are set in the 19th Century on frontiers (America and Africa). Kilmer seems to do a good job of playing roles requiring little dialogue and a fairly sedate brand of action. Anything requiring any sort of grasp of abstract concepts seems to be beyond him. (Batman and Simon Templar being cases in point.) This film would seem to be yet another indication that he is limited in this respect. And as Clint Eastwood famously remarked, "A man's got to know his limitations". clear ether eon I pretty much stopped watching anything Kilmer did after the disappointing “The Saint” and the absolutely appalling “Batman Forever”. (The latter played like an episode of the 1960s Adam West TV version as “re-imagined” by somebody who directs music videos for a living.) His two good films, that I am aware of, are “Tombstone” and “The Ghost and the Darkness”- both of which are set in the 19th Century on frontiers (America and Africa).

Kilmer seems to do a good job of playing roles requiring little dialogue and a fairly sedate brand of action. Anything requiring any sort of grasp of abstract concepts seems to be beyond him. (Batman and Simon Templar being cases in point.) This film would seem to be yet another indication that he is limited in this respect.

And as Clint Eastwood famously remarked, “A man’s got to know his limitations”.

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