However, when it came to accepting the role in the mid-1990s after Michael Keaton bowed out of playing the character, Kilmer is more frank 25 years on than your typical junket interview soundbite. When it comes to discussing the Dark Knight, the actor is entirely gracious to the character and Batman’s biggest fans-noting how much he admires their enthusiasm at Comic-Cons. The memoir also provides an outlet for Kilmer’s personal musings about his career and private life, including, yes, his time as the Batman. Luckily, the prodigious artist also recently released a memoir about his various exploits, Val Kilmer: I’m Your Huckleberry.Īffecting an authorial tone that’s more conversational and intentionally scattershot-he introduces his book as though the reader is about to enter a “pinball machine” inside his mind-the book covers some of the same ground as the documentary (and glosses over some of the doc’s most painful elements, too). Relying mostly on the vast reams of camcorder footage he saved over the course of his life, the movie observes as much as it enters Kilmer’s mind. Yet as good as the doc is, its impressionistic view of the actor’s life tends to leave some of his sardonic musings and general conviviality off the screen. Hence the film must must talk about his time as Bruce Wayne in 1995’s Batman Forever. Melancholic and wistful, the film documents Kilmer’s eclectic career as a rising movie star in the 1980s and ‘90s, and his more recent battle (and victory over) cancer. It’s easy to see why after the premiere of the documentary Val, a new release from Amazon Studios and A24. I wouldn't call it a scary movie but it certainly has its grizzly parts which might shake you up some.Val Kilmer is back in the public conversation. I'll give the most credit to the animal trainers, because these lions give great performances. In general though, The Ghost and the Darkness actually amounts to an entertaining monster movie. A there are also a couple of scenes which are just playing goofy. He plays the role with too much Indiana Jones in him. I didn't think Michael Douglas was that great either. this is too lame a role for such a good actor. There are a few other problems with The Ghost and the Darkness. Regardless of their size or ferocity, are we supposed to believe that two lions can kill that many people in thirty seconds flat without one escaping. One scene in particular, involves the cats ambushing a dorm of about two dozen, all are killed. Sometimes though it gets a little unbelievable. They are more monster than animal, which is the intended approach of course. I do know that cats are generally more aggressive than dogs towards people (because of their rogue personalities), but these lions are unnaturally ferocious. They were actually maneless, but for obvious reasons this film gives its killer fuzzballs the hunk hair which makes Lions stand out from any other cat. I've even seen the hides of the two lions preserved in Chicago's natural history museum. It wasn't until I heard what other people had to say that I realized that The Ghost in the Darkness is half way to a Jaws rip-off. He teams up with famed hunter Charles Remmington to bring down the cats from hell. He ends up a bit over his head when the lions show up. Pattersson is sent from England to supervise the building of a bridge in Uganda across the Tsavo river. True story, two lions killed a hundred railroad workers in east Africa in 1898.
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