It was one of the ones that I never got around to watching growing up in the 80s/90s, and I still have quite a few to go through (especially 80s rated R movies I wasn't allowed to watch but thankfully Tubi exists).
The movie was fine, but unfortunately I couldn't help but think about how Disney totally butchered the IP. I cancelled D-Plus in 21 but I heard about the Willow tv show and while watching the movie I couldn't help but say "you really couldn't come up with some sort of family friendly followup without injecting gay crap or current year nonsense into it". They constantly talk about diversity but it seems like the writer rooms are people with the exact same worldview off of a factory conveyer belt. Best example is an article I read when Star Trek Discovery had first started about how the writing room had to do a Star Trek boot camp because they didn't have any knowledge of the IP.
I just feel awful for Val Kilmer.
Great actor who lost his voice to throat cancer.
He met his wife working on Willow.
He chose not to get treatment until last minute due to religion. I can't remember who convinced him to get treatment, but it was another actor.
This is why "Christian Science" (that's the name of his sect) has always rubbed me the wrong way.
We live in a fallen world. You're going to need medicine. Get it.
At least, do your research first. I don't trust doctors now either.
Pro tip: fenbendazole.
It's all about choices. I'm glad he made a choice he could live with. I was sad that they hyped him up for the second Top Gun, and then he didn't speak. He has a documentary that uses all of his movies to use his own voice. And, they could use him silent ?! I did not like that choice.
I like him in ,"The Saint" the best I think.
Yea, he was in a lot of great movies. I was thinking about his portrayal of Jim Morrison the other day when I was listening to some Doors music. He did a great job. Also that one movie with Denzel about time travel was really good. To name a few of course.
Fun fact: He imitated Jim Morrison's voice so well that he fooled the surviving members of The Doors into thinking it was actually Morrison.