# Holy Cow-WHAT Has Val Kilmer Been Up To? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062 "2011-01-01T17:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/21 "2011-01-01T23:23:24Z")
> [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](#): > > His IDMB photo shows a lot more weight than the news photo. [See?](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/) He looks like he ate John Ritter. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/22 "2011-01-02T04:02:52Z")
The problem was in his youth he was very good-looking. So as he aged, he fell to where most average people would be today. So in terms of proportion he is worse, 'cause he fell from so far above. Had he been average looking in his youth it would seem like he was OK today. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/23 "2011-01-02T04:06:25Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > obligatory “I’d hit it” post Well, no homo mio, but, if I looked like that, I’d be able to get a few chickies. Best wishes, hh ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/24 "2011-01-02T04:41:48Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Seriously. He has bad hair and a bad suit, but otherwise he looks OK for his age. Yeah, I don’t see Jabba the Hut. He looks fine, a little chubby and the ponytail isn’t exactly age appropriate fashion, but he looks like a reasonably decent looking 51 year old man. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/25 "2011-01-02T04:46:07Z")
But, he’s Batman! Oh well, I guess [Cat Woman](http://www.thesaudavoice.com/.a/6a00e55291ee848833010536a1d62f970c-800wi) got a little puffy as she got older, too. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/26 "2011-01-02T07:50:11Z")
I know fat people whose faces look skinnier than that IMDB photo. Heck, I’m one of them. I wonder if something else is wrong. ETA: A bloating medicine would make sense, but I was thinking more of an illness. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/27 "2011-01-02T13:57:38Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > He looks like he ate John Ritter. From the nose to the cheeks he looks like he’s channeling his inner Mel Brooks to me. Man his eyes are beady in that pic though! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/28 "2011-01-02T14:16:15Z")
I think the problem faced by celebrities is that every man that posts on a message board is a virtual Adonis and every woman is a Goddess. I work with women that I wouldn’t fuck with a borrowed penis that have conversations about how “ugly” certain actresses are. The guys just look at one another. Same thing seems to apply to some guys. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/29 "2011-01-02T15:56:08Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > But, he’s Batman! > > Oh well, I guess [Cat Woman](http://www.thesaudavoice.com/.a/6a00e55291ee848833010536a1d62f970c-800wi) got a little puffy as she got older, too. At the risk of being whooshed, that isn’t Halle Berry. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/30 "2011-01-02T16:07:41Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Ew, no, that’s more like the guy at the pool who keeps trying to buy you Cosmopolitans but you don’t want to drink them because your spidey sense says “Roofies!” Girl, you funny. > [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](#): > > His IDMB photo shows a lot more weight than the news photo. [See?](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/) :eek: > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > At the risk of being whooshed, that isn’t Halle Berry. At the risk of being whoosed, are you being serious? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/31 "2011-01-02T16:08:19Z")
Eating, it would appear. Jeez, a guy got old and fat. It happens. It’s kind of a bummer, but it’s not a personal betrayal to everyone who ever found him attractive. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/32 "2011-01-02T17:22:18Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > At the risk of being whooshed, that isn’t Halle Berry. Sorry, I wasn’t going for era parallelism. When I think of Val Kilmer, I think “Batman” as that’s the only thing I know him from. When I think Catwoman, the only one I can think of is Eartha Kitt. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/33 "2011-01-02T18:11:52Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > He looks like he ate John Ritter. Or [Mary Kay Place](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4092893952/nm0005316). ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/34 "2011-01-02T18:14:58Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I was expecting a lot worse as well. The guy’s 51, and he’s carrying maybe 30 extra pounds around his gut. Like about 75% of the other 51 year-olds in the U.S. He could lose that weight in about 2 months with one of those Hollywood movie-prep trainers. Tom Hanks has been about that size, and he’s back down to his normal fighting weight. DeNiro has jumped up and down by more than 50 lbs during his career. Matt Damon put about that much weight on for a recent movie, and so did George Clooney - and both of them lost the weight again after the shoot. John Travolta goes up and down that much all the time. > > Brando was over 300 lbs as I recall. Orson Welles was even bigger. Both were lithe and fit all the way into their 30’s or 40’s. Val Kilmer’s not in that league. I mean, Kilmer probably has a well-equipped gym, and a personal trainer-so why has he let himself go like this? Frankly (puffy face) he looks like a candidate for a massive heart attack. Yes, we all age..Kilmer will never look like he did in “Top Gun”-but why go to the othe extreme-,maybe he could learn from Dick Clark? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/35 "2011-01-02T18:22:08Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > SWhen I think Catwoman, the only one I can think of is Eartha Kitt. Or [Julie Newmar](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EDafL1qUqg/S_MWTAGPt9I/AAAAAAAAKSc/cCbob0L-bxc/s400/newmar_catwoman-030.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fashionsmostwanted.blogspot.com/2010/05/fashions-most-wanted-interview-julie_18.html&usg=__8XcHdwOrkU7OkiR0hOxp8xBOi0w=&h=394&w=275&sz=40&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=8Gz33so2pfZpcM:&tbnh=163&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djulie%2Bnewmar%2Bcatwoman%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DpKT%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D648%26tbs%3Disch:1%26prmd%3Divnso&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=968&vpy=90&dur=3028&hovh=269&hovw=187&tx=98&ty=292&ei=EsIgTYTtMsWAlAfI05WiDA&oei=4MEgTeWII8GB8gbJk83RDQ&esq=6&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0). Me-OW! ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/36 "2011-01-02T18:37:23Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > When I think Catwoman, the only one I can think of is Eartha Kitt. Or [Michelle Pfeiffer](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_LVWXPA6kLCs/SaLCjSLi_QI/AAAAAAAAD8I/Wm_OxALTe4g/IMG_8735.JPG). There’s been a few Catwomen. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/37 "2011-01-02T19:15:34Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I mean, Kilmer probably has a well-equipped gym, and a personal trainer-so why has he let himself go like this? Frankly (puffy face) he looks like a candidate for a massive heart attack. Yes, we all age..Kilmer will never look like he did in “Top Gun”-but why go to the othe extreme-,maybe he could learn from Dick Clark? Why should he? Why don’t you? You don’t need a home gym or a trainer to do so, just motivation. You might as well ask why there are any overweight rich people? The answer is that it’s hard work and not a lot of immediate reward. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/38 "2011-01-02T20:46:26Z")
Doncha think it looks like a steroid moon-face? Like, the prescription, not-fun kind of steroid? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/39 "2011-01-02T21:34:14Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Or [Mary Kay Place](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4092893952/nm0005316). Oh God YES! That woman is just a bundle of blubber! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062/40 "2011-01-02T21:38:25Z")
Maybe now that the Quaids have claimed sanctuary in Canada the Star Whackers have gone after him. He’s always been the king of “I worked with him… ONCE” actors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-what-has-val-kilmer-been-up-to/566062.md?page=3)