The one year anniversary of The Kilmer Project has snuck up on me. What a year it was. To think just a year ago, almost to the day, I was sitting down to Top Secret. Wow.
A lot has happened in that time. Not least of all, I moved from Washington, DC to Los Angeles, CA. While I'm not done with The Kilmer Project yet (and believe me, as I've been sitting through the different versions of Alexander for a massive upcoming post, there have been several points where I've come close to quitting). I have some big news for all you Kilmer-Project-aholics out there (and thanks to the tracker I turned on with Google, I know there are at least a couple of you out there). I've decided to transfer the blog to Tumblr. I'm a little sick of the blogspot layout (soooo 2004) and like Tumblr much more.
It's not that big of a change, the link is:
http://thekilmerproject.tumblr.com
Over the next few days I'll be migrating over all the old posts and then, hopefully with a nice stiff drink in hand, I'll sit down to describe my viewing of Alexander (theatrical, director, and "final" cuts!). As well as Mindhunters which is just super weird. Please stay with us.
February 11, 2010
February 3, 2010
Stateside (2004)
This movie apparently tells a close to true life love story of a young starlet who goes crazy and a silver spoon-bred elitist who ends up having to enlist in the Marines after a drunk driving stunt goes horribly wrong. Val Kilmer plays the tough as nails drill sergeant who, much like the drill sergeants on daytime talk shows, grinds the arrogant young protagonist into something resembling an upstanding young gentleman soldier.
Rachel Leigh Cook plays the schizophrenic pop star that the spoiled teenage marine falls for. She was of course the lead in the formative (at least for me) teen movie "She's All That." It's probably in large measure due to that movie that I still carry quite the candle for her. She's looking great in Stateside, but seems (apparently to some degree by choice) to not have had many big star turns since her breakout role some time ago... interesting.
According to IMDB: "Val Kilmer originally only had a cameo, but his part as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor was extended significantly by Reverge Anselmo after filming had began."
Forgetting for a moment how silly of a name Reverge seems to be (almost like a mix between reverb and revenge), his part STILL isn't very long at all. His last scene takes place when the spoiled kid turned marine is about to graduate boot camp. Staff Sergeant Skeer (Kilmer) gives a rambling speech in which he more or less says that he doesn't have any idea how this world truly works, but that by some stroke of fate he ended married to a Polish girl he met off of base somewhere and now he has to go shopping for a stroller. That's what they're fighting for. Amen.
Rachel Leigh Cook plays the schizophrenic pop star that the spoiled teenage marine falls for. She was of course the lead in the formative (at least for me) teen movie "She's All That." It's probably in large measure due to that movie that I still carry quite the candle for her. She's looking great in Stateside, but seems (apparently to some degree by choice) to not have had many big star turns since her breakout role some time ago... interesting.
According to IMDB: "Val Kilmer originally only had a cameo, but his part as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor was extended significantly by Reverge Anselmo after filming had began."
Forgetting for a moment how silly of a name Reverge seems to be (almost like a mix between reverb and revenge), his part STILL isn't very long at all. His last scene takes place when the spoiled kid turned marine is about to graduate boot camp. Staff Sergeant Skeer (Kilmer) gives a rambling speech in which he more or less says that he doesn't have any idea how this world truly works, but that by some stroke of fate he ended married to a Polish girl he met off of base somewhere and now he has to go shopping for a stroller. That's what they're fighting for. Amen.
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