*primal scream*
Irradiated by LabRat
Val Kilmer Considering Run For Governor When Richardson’s Term Ends
FUCK NO.
ETA for even more FUCK NO: Excerpted from this interview:
Me: You mean you think you literally had the same experience as Doc Holliday?
Kilmer: Oh, sure. It’s not like I believed that I shot somebody, but I absolutely know what it feels like to pull the trigger and take someone’s life.
You understand how it feels to shoot someone as much as a person who has actually committed a murder?
I understand it more. It’s an actor’s job. A guy who’s lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He’s some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn’t get on the football team, couldn’t finagle a scholarship. They didn’t have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.
FUCK NO.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I would say that Mr. Kilmer certainly appears to have a better idea of what it’s like to be a crass, self-absorbed, reprehensibly opinionated moron than most real politicians do.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Oh great Gob in Heaben!
If there is a Hell he should be tied down and forced to listen to himself ACTUALLY say that for eternity.
What a dick.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Well, the guy’s got talent . . . if you call successfully stepping on his own dick “talent”. If that interview gets much attention (and it will in an election), I think it’ll be safe to assume that almost every voter who has ever seen combat, or is the family member or friend of a combat veteran, will choose to vote for anybody BUT Kilmer, should he run for office.
My vote: FUCK NO!
February 6th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hmmm…
Well, Kilmer’s pretty much a sandless sandstorm – but I thought the article was great.
– MuscleDaddy
February 6th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Who cares if he’s a narcissistic doofus? He has those dreamy smoochy lips. That qualifies him to be Governor… OF OUR HEARTS! /sarc
February 6th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Wow. The Fatuometer needle is wrapped around the the peg, and apparenlty he’s stupid into the bargain. What a wanker … perhaps literally; I seem to recall that, in the Victorian era, those traits used to be attributed to excessive masturbation.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
This infuriated me sufficiently that I couldn’t respond adequately in a comment here. I ‘borrowed’ your interview with Mr. Kilmer and blogged about it myself. It’s at:
http://tinyurl.com/blruyq
What a maroon!
February 6th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
That there is a very special kind of self-absorbed stupid. Shame about Kilmer; he played such an amusingly smartassed Doc Holliday. Looks like he also has enough arrogance, idiocy, and condescending noblesse oblige for a truly terrifying career in government.
I found that Last Letter Home cleaned my brain out nicely after reading that drivel. Not recommended if you don’t like bagpipes.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Considering that people on his side of the fence are constantly screaming about white people culturally appropriating minority voices, I find Kilmer’s opinion amusing (in a sick sort of way) on all sorts of levels.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Dammit, my comment disappeared.
February 7th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Kilmer expropriated your comment, Jtg, ‘cuz, y’know, he’s, like, an *actor*, and with a little bit of studying, he can more effectively represent what you’d say than you can.
Right now, he’s researching “the United States,” so he’ll be ready to post “your” comment any minute now…
February 7th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam.
Interesting POV, because most of us were pretty convinced we were there because LBJ was making a deliberate attempt to kill off the American Middle Class.
February 7th, 2009 at 8:21 am
The mind reels. I’d say impossible but look at Al Franken. FUCK NO!!
February 7th, 2009 at 11:33 am
…you know how our entire political overlap is pretty much gay rights and some environmental issues? Look! We found something else we agree on!
Oh dear god.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I laughed my ass off when I read this in the “news” yesterday.
I recall reading, some years ago, a comment by a Hollywood director who directed a movie in which Kilmer appeared. He stated that he wouldn’t cast Val Kilmer as Val Kilmer in The Val Kilmer Story. Between his ego and his asshole, he is insufferable.
February 7th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
He could be called Val FucKilmer.
February 8th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Hey, but he knows how to skeet surf!
February 8th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
So, If I understand this, he knows what it’s like to be me, better than I (me) do?
Excellent! “Hello, IRS? Yes I’d like you to send my tax bill to Val Kilmer, since he’s more me than me”
February 9th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I remember seeing The Doors, and my date walking out and saying “Wow. That was impressive. They actually found someone who was more wrapped up in himself than Jim Morrison to play Morrison.”
Too true.
Friends, this is the danger of our Hollywood celebrity. For over half his life, poor Mr. Kilmer has believed that he, himself, was worthy of greatness, because he has been paid large sums to be seen portraying characters. He thus believes that his depictions matter more than the actual acts of the original characters that he portrays. In a certain way, you almost have to be sorry for him; he believes this alternative view, and is thus technically mentally ill. The math works for him, because the money that he’s paid for acting like someone else is real. And our society uses dollars to define worth.
So it may become the case that a person who has never done anything himself comes to believe that he is as great or greater than those who have shaped our world.
I’ve often said that there was a brink of wealth that makes one insane. I believe that celebrity vastly accelerates the process, and lowers the bar for how large the bank balance must be for insanity to kick in.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Keeping in mind that celebrities are nothing more than trained monkeys paid to entertain us, this one seems to have the IQ of one also.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I… I just don’t have the words.
I’ll never be able to watch Tombstone the same way again. Or Heat, for that matter.
What a world-class douche bag. If there’s a just God, he will let him say that crap at a DFW post or something.
tweaker
February 11th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Wow, and I like him in Real Genius too.
I’m from New Mexico, the morons will vote him in and the sane people in the state will be wondering if they can have Bill Richardson back just so it’s the lesser of two evils.