RIP Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer was in a few well-known films in the 1980s and 1990s. He continued to get work but was no longer in his heyday. I saw his first two films: Top Secret! (from the makers of Airplane!) and Real Genius (directed by Martha Coolidge, so better than many 1980s teen films).

He was also a joke in an episode of Friends. Ross gets a "celebrity suit jacket" and thinks it is from the premiere of Batman, but it is actually from a drama "chick flick" film he did. Chandler ultimately likes a suit jacket that turns out to be from Diane Keaton. 

Roger Ebert found Top Secret! very amusing. I re-watched it (part of the DVD was inaccessible) and found it amusing and clever. Unlike Robin Hood: Men in Tights, some moments made me laugh out loud.  

It is a fun movie to watch on television. LATRINE!!!!! Both films had a character named "Latrine," one of each sex. Both have music numbers too. Ha! 

I also checked out Psycho again after reading the book. I only watched the very beginning, not feeling like rewatching it after reading the book after all. 

The doomed shower person is more sexy in the film, the film starts with her in a hotel room with her boyfriend in her bra. The scene is not in the book. The boyfriend also is not as explicitly manly as in the film.