Water Cooler: RIP Val Kilmer, Discworld, The Studio, and More
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On the April 2, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been watching.
Before we get to that, RIP Val Kilmer.
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Jacob ran two half marathons and then suffered a terrible accident.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Ben read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
- Jacob read The Path to Paradise by Sam Wasson, and has begun reading Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben has been watching a bunch of stuff he can’t talk about yet, but he wants to talk about The Brutalist 4K.
- Jacob watched Warfare, Mickey 17, The Studio, and The Pitt.
- What we’ve been Playing:
- Ben has been listening to The Serpent and the Rainbow score.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to gather around the virtual water cooler to talk about what we've been watching. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com. And I'm joined on today's episode by Slash Film Editor, Jacob, Hello, hello. All right, Jacob, before we get into the water cooler, we have some unfortunate news to share, which is that Val Kilmer has died. |
| 0:23.2 | And this is just a big loss. |
| 0:25.1 | It's really sad. |
| 0:25.9 | He was in a documentary called Val that came out a few years ago that kind of chronicled the health problems that he was having later in his life. |
| 0:33.5 | So I highly recommend watching that. |
| 0:34.7 | It's a really, really good movie. |
| 0:36.3 | But yeah, man, what do you think about Val Kilmer? |
| 0:38.7 | Like, do you have any favorite performances of his that you wanted to shout out here? |
| 0:42.2 | And very interesting actor, very talented actor. |
| 0:45.4 | A guy whose reputation sometimes overshadows, well, his reputation as a personality |
| 0:51.5 | overshadows his ability as an actor. |
| 0:54.6 | I mean, I think for a long time, more people talk about Val Kilmer being an incredibly |
| 0:58.8 | famously difficult personality on a film set as opposed to being a very good actor. |
| 1:03.3 | And he was, he was a very good actor. |
| 1:05.7 | And actually my favorite performance of his is in Kiss Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, where I, |
| 1:09.3 | him and Robert Down Jr. just have this incredible chemistry in that Shane Black movie. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, where I, him and Robert Young, just have this incredible chemistry |
| 1:11.7 | in that Shane Black movie. |
| 1:14.2 | And I think that movie made really good use of Al Kim or the Weirdo. |
| 1:18.5 | I think he never quite jelled for me as a leading man. |
| 1:21.1 | I mean, his Batman is fine, for instance. |
| 1:23.1 | He's fine when he's doing the action hero thing. |
| 1:26.0 | But I always liked it when people found |
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