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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Shane Black
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
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There are actors I developed an affinity towards. I don't know for sure whether it was their role or acting in that role. I don't think so. I just think I saw some of them when I started exploring cinema from the world, outside my country, and hence in the beginning that meant mostly from the USA. I think it is just early familiarity. Kilmer is one of them.
And - they never seem to age to me. Maybe it's the makeup or what not. I remember him from Heat and even in subsequent films somehow he stayed that old or young - like in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, or Salton Sea, there was this with Michael Douglas, and some more. don't remember Top Gun for Cruise, hell I don't remember any Tom Cruise film for Tom Cruise. If I noticed him in a film I'd just assume I'd like that film and that kinda seemed irrational but I did like the film. There was something about him. There are few more actors like him. It's sad. They never look older to me, they just die one day and that becomes more shocking. In a way it reminds me of my own mortality harder compared to maybe if I would have noticed them steadily growing and looking older. I will miss him.
I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang recently and really appreciated his performance in that movie. He’s one of the original “indie stars” of my generation. Sorry to see him go.
I guess it depends on what you like. There's plenty I like and though of a few. Picked a few that wouldn't be on most people's list already. No 1 I'd recommend for those who like comedy - Mortadelo & Filmon if you like comedy you'd probably greatly enjoy if you don't mind subs or understand Spanish.
Funny Farm (1988)
Kuffs (1992)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Asterix live action films (1999 - 2012) [1]
Ice planet (2001)
Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (2003) (Spanish, cartoonish humour, I found very funny)
Gettin' Square (2003)
Suspect Zero (2004)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.(2005)
Slipstream (2005) [2] (mind the write up there of the plot is daft)
Dark Sense (2018)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_films_(live_action)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(2005_film)
" the studios initially wanted to give the main character Light Yagami a new background story to explain his downward spiral as a villain. The new background would have had a friend of Light murdered when he was young. When Light obtains the Death Note - a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names - he uses it to seek vengeance"
This really makes me cringe. This is precisely the sort of thinking that gave us so many mediocre/bad movies. Only someone who has no idea of what the story is about could suggest such a crude alteration of the story. And for what? Do they really think the movie would be better because of it? Or at least draw more audience?
Anyway it's great that the director managed to hold off these changes, I saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and it was absolutely great so I'm anxious to see what he'll make of it :)