I am going to anticipate the HELL out of Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095217/
Staring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Coolidge, Fairuza Balk, Brad Dourif

Quoting from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/26/werner-herzog-interview:

MK: So, Werner, are you making Bad Lieutenant?

WH: No, because I've done it.

MK: But it's not a remake, is it?

WH: No, it's not, although I cannot fully verify it because I have never seen Bad Lieutenant made by Abel Ferrara. I do not know who the man is, although he has made a lot of noise about this. Only the producer, Ed Pressman, who owns the rights to the title and was apparently planning to do some sort of franchise out of it, named it Bad Lieutenant. I added the subtitle, Port of Call New Orleans, because it takes place in New Orleans. And the leading actor in this is Nicolas Cage, with whom I had a wonderful working relationship. I took him where he has not been before.

MK: And he's been a lot of places. [audience laughs]

WH: I'm not speaking of physical places.

MK: I'm not either. [audience laughs]

WH: [laughs] Sorry, I have to take things almost verbatim here.

MK: Anyway, very quickly, there was a phrase that you used. I said the Abel Ferrara film was about the burden of guilt, but your film is about ...

WH: The bliss of evil. What I'm trying to do is ... When I accepted this film, and I accepted partially because Nicolas Cage wouldn't do it unless I directed. What was intriguing was the idea to put film noir on to a new different level that is appropriate to today. And that was in April or May when I accepted it. Sometimes cultural history coincides with economic history. When you look at the Great Depression in the 1930s, that spawned a type of literature, like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, which in turn spawned the film noir, with Humphrey Bogart and Edward G Robinson and others. So, in my opinion, it is a result of a very intense economic and cultural climate of depression. When I said yes to it in April, I had the feeling that there was something coming at us, which in a way made it, I say it with caution, necessary to get into film noir and to develop it. And then, just when I had finished shooting, the economy started to collapse and unravel. It was more like a coincidence but there is something in the air and I think it is the right thing to do film noir nowadays.

Ugh.. Starring not Staring. But you never know...

MK: So, Werner, are you making Bad Lieutenant?
WH: No, because I've done it.

no bullshit with werner. i'm totally looking forward to this. herzog + new orleans + noir, heck yes.

as long as it's not like angel heart or something.

i am anticipating

From Wikipedia -

Xzibit as nemisis Big Fade

Oh HELL yes. I am so in. I am officially anticipating.

yeah i am psyched for this. i spent weeks when they were filming this hoping for a herzog sighting. no dice. apparently he did it super-cheap, tiny crew, natural-lighting-as-much-as-possible... also new orleans' #1 tourist trap cheeseburger joint is named port of call.

Hoping this is more Rescue Dawn and less Invincible.

new orleans' #1 tourist trap cheeseburger joint is named port of call

When I frequented the Crescent City (98 - 2002), PoC was an alright divey place to get full and a little drunk.
I seem to recall some decent live music, too.

Shame if its gone tourist trap.

I used to know a waitress who worked there, too. She helped me out more than few times.

When has Herzog last made a good non-documentary though? I don't count Rescue Dawn either

When was Nicholas Cage last good in anything? It's been at least as long... right?

I think you're forgetting about a little movie called "the wicker man"

I liked Invincible.

Trailer:

Val Kilmer?!

he's getting old and weird looking

this movie could be fantastic

if not it will be fantastically bad

that trailer is pretty rough

there aint no iguana :)

Val looks better than he has recently, actually.

It looks like an amazing movie, and one that I'm not going to spoil by watching the trailer too often. I'm not sure whether Cage really went all in on the performance though.

i have a feeling the critical reaction is going to be contentious w/me on the PRO side and everyone else repping for CON

I want to thank in advance all the clip artists who will extract the most awesome parts of this movie and string them together on youtube for posterity. Glory be unto you.

omg i think i can't wait for this; best kind of nic cage part, goofy and unhinged, like national treasure but with drugs instead of documents of historic importance

i hated eva mendes when i first saw her (ghostrider prolly) but she has grown on me

a BONER!

"Now in Post-Production"

This is gonna be somethin' else.

this looks like a fucking RIOT.

looks horrible but i cant wait to see it!

you don't have a lucky crack pipe?

this looks AMAZING

this looks hilarious, gotta see this now

"bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans" is such a straight-to-dvd sequel name

trailer looks straight-to-dvd too

"bad lieutenant: the naked mile"

bad lieutenant: havana nights

his SOUL IS STILL DANCING

i wish werner had set this in antarctica -- nic cage stumbling around with the confused penguin from encounters at the end of the world.

hopefully each chapter of this franchise will deal with a different bad lieutenant, like every american pie dvd sequel deals with a different member of the stifler family

bad lieutenant 3: even worse lieutenant

i love that this has both nic cage and val kilmer in it.

am appreciating the harmonica motif from the end of stroszek on the soundtrack
nicolas cage is pulling more faces that should be soundtracked by deadpan dongggggggs.

omg the dancing chicken music, yes

This better have a pinball machine tie-in.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/badlieutenantportofcallneworleans/

f yes

sold out at afi fest :(

trainwreck!

NY Times loved it!

saw trailer in theater yesterday. Has a chance if it's a comedy.

it is

and it is awesome

imagine werner herzog made a straight-to-video '90s cop thriller

awesome :) i can't wait for this

imagine werner herzog made a straight-to-video '90s cop thriller - I'm sold.

but u know I mean INTENTIONAL comedy, riiiight

(it does look funny, sorta)

OMG awesome

There ain't no iguana.

but u know I mean INTENTIONAL comedy, riiiight

(it does look funny, sorta)

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the comedy is intentional for sure. maybe not ALL of it tbh but it's clear that they realize what they're working with.

:D

It basically has nothing to do w/ the Ferrara film, right? I certainly hope not.

nope and he even said he was pissed off the producers insisted on the title... not his idea

Movie should be subtitled "If only the Bad Lieutenant could get off the drugs he'd be a really sweet guy!"

That's the gist of it. It's okay. But if the whole point of the Ferrara was the shock value, there's no shock value in this, which leaves you wondering what exactly the point is ... Because it does seem like a 90s straight-to-video cop thriller, and not a lot more.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128755f6fb2970c-pi

lolz is that guy about to cap Nic Cage or what

what makes u think that

I dunno - the guy is scowling at him with a pretty clear hatred (also can't see what he has in his hands), Cage looks distant/resigned, perfect opportunity to kill him...

LA Times on making this

Nonetheless, Cage was galvanized by Herzog's speed and confidence and delighted in extensively improvising his scenes -- stone cold sober, thank you very much -- to hilarious but also often poignant effect. "Because [the character] had the chemicals to explain his behavior, I saw this as an opportunity to go to more abstract places with acting," Cage said. "I tried to design a performance that would be more extreme."

Herzog also lived up to the producers' expectation by concocting one of the movie's most memorable scenes on the fly: a long, impressionistic sequence in which Cage's character hallucinates seeing iguanas while on a stakeout of a suspected killer's home. In keeping with a motif that runs through many films in Herzog's filmography -- man and nature vying for supremacy -- the actor is framed peering quizzically at the scaly beasts from the iguanas' point of view while primal rock music blares.

The scene proved to be a breakthrough for the director, one Cage remembers as "the defining moment" of working on the movie.

Herzog's epiphany took place at a party about midway through shooting. "Werner had had a couple of drinks," Cage said. "He said in this distraught voice, 'The iguanas are the best thing in the movie. And I must have five minutes of iguana time! And if I don't have my full five minutes of iguana time, I will never make another movie again!' " (Needless to say, the iguanas stayed in the picture.)

I must have five minutes of iguana time!

That guys wearing two watches

awesome

"Because [the character] had the chemicals to explain his behavior, I saw this as an opportunity to go to more abstract places with acting," Cage said. "I tried to design a performance that would be more extreme."

It's nice that Cage has finally found a role that allows him an opportunity to abandon his usual restraint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkw-5htPw0

ayo so

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/111909/upfront.html

Cage's forehead should get a secondary credit line.

Hahah okay S1ocki why am I positive that headline is your intentional reference to a certain never-filmed Gilliam project...

Loved this a lot. Supporting cast also terrific - Jennifer Coolidge just as loopy as Cage is.

perhaps one of the few American films of the last couple years that can be called "visionary"?

Even Michael Shannon isn't mannered in this.

Cage's face should be a Halloween mask by now.

also, maybe Nic works best in irregular doses ... the last two films of his I saw were Adaptation and Bringing Out the Dead.

btw the onscreen title is THE Bad Lieutenant... The definite article seems vital.

seeing this in the morning S T O K E D.

btw the onscreen title is THE Bad Lieutenant... The definite article seems vital.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:41 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's weird, it's sort of both. IMDB and press materials are without the the

glad u liked it!!

I think it might be WH's second-best in the '00s after The White Diamond.

loved this film

Imagine what a turd could be made from that script done 'straight' -- it'd be as boring as a typical ep of NYPD Blue.

Cage's face should be a Halloween mask by now.

totally

Would see. Don't remember Sonny as being very good.

Ha at Cage physiognomy jokes. This movie seems to be tapping the potential that was only hinted at in Face/Off.

dammit wish this movie would come to my hick town

Theater in downtown Brooklyn not at all packed on opening night. Too gonzo to be a hit, I suspect.

I recall seeing the first BLT in Times Square. And the end credits with that Schoolly D song that sampled Led Zeppelin that probably got removed for the home version.

just saw this. pretty hilarious, and a good balance to the utter terribleness of 'knowing', which we watched last night.

cage is really really good at playing a totally believable crazy - the second scene with the two old women in the nursing home is just priceless.

oh that Werner:

So much so, in fact, that Herzog can find unexpected joy at the notion of Ferrara wishing upon him a fiery streetcar death. "I enjoy these moments," Herzog said. "It's the same joy when I watch a baseball game. The unforgettable moment is when the manager rushes out to the umpire and yells at him from 5 inches away from his face before finally stepping back to kick sand.

"It has nothing to do with the outcome of the game. But I love baseball for those wonderful moments. In movies, you sometimes have blissful moments like this."

How does this stack up next to that Barbet Schroeder movie set in NYC in which Cage worked autobody in the iron triangle and as a result had Popeye muscles?

Kiss of Death?

Yeah, that's the one.

god that was a barbet schroeder movie? I only ever thought of that as "the david caruso flop that nic cage was also in"

hated it

BAM is like five minutes from my apartment and I have the whole next week off, my odds of seeing this = high

I will get my iguana time

No Ava Gardner dancing in the surf with the iguana, no credibility.

also, gator cam

"this guy, this uh * chortles * this 'G'"

Trying not to read the thread because of spoilers but at the same time speculating what's so crazy about it: do they build a giant ferryboat to go to Algiers?

cage is really really good at playing a totally believable crazy

After frittering his fortune away on dinosaur skulls, I don't know how much of that is playing.

pretty sure that his dad's dog is the same dog who plays 'vincent' on LOST

hoping to go to this tomorrow. not sure if day or night yet, though.

Awesome. Awesome.

I loved this movie so much.

My favorite part was NC's thousand yard stare after the, um, situation in Big Fate's office. And oh man yes: the second scene with the two old women in the nursing home is just priceless. Two hours later and I was still like, "Why was he back there shaving?" Basically everything that makes Nic Cage awful in everything else makes him wonderful in this movie. Including his disturbing lack of sideburns.

I actually clapped with glee at the reprise of the Sonny Terry song.

you know what i realised during this movie? it's not just his lack of side burns - which has creeped me out for some time now, and which i just don't... get - but it's his entire hairline: like, it's receding, but not just at the top like on a normal balding dude, but also all the way round his head.

Yes! Like all his hair is trying to crawl to the top of his head to await pick up by a rescue ship.

lolololololol!

OK, I haven't seen this movie, though I probably will if I'm ever close to a theatre that shows it. But, I gotta say this thread has delivered the goods between strange Herzog quotes and most importantly those Nic Cage Pachinko ads. That thing's a poll waiting to be made.

i thought this movie was great fun. it could have been a lot darker, and i'm glad it wasn't.

I thought it contained maximimum darkness! As with A Serious Man, the laughs deepen the doom.

weird weird movie

very retro in feel too

the second scene with the old ladies is really something

yes! the shaving behind the door is astounding.

That was one of my favorite parts.

retro to what, the late '70s?

retro '90s! or late '80s. it feels like a straight-to-video thriller.

Aah, this doesn't open here for a few more days. So convincing the gf to go to this.

retro 90s definitely!!!

OK, so Cage is pretty real deal, but wtf in calling this visionary? This is merely Herzog making a bad-faith piss-poor American cop movie to I guess make the point that bad-faith piss-poor American cop movies are terrible?

Funny and fun in a The Room sort of way, tho.

I tend to agree with the Werner Jerking Off analysis, but surprisingly good given so.

Yeah, it's the best objectively bad (horrible) movie of the year.

loljectively.

It's not "bad," HE's not even too bad! The first thing he does is rescue a prisoner from the flood. Candyass!

have no idea what you two are trying to say :(

thought this was hilarious though. all the performances were spot on. it never felt like a piss take, or like it was trying to prove anything. looking forward to seeing it again.

Eric H if it was funny and fun, as you say, then how is it also objectively bad/terrible? (Have not seen it yet btw)

Plenty of lousy movies are pretty fun and funny!

Maybe it's objectively fun and funny, and only subjectively terrible

I did see it, and while I was laughing throughout, I still sort of think Herzog is making bad movies on purpose. Either that or he really can't actually make a decent fictional movie anymore.

But what the hell, let's just call Cage the auteur at work here and move on.

I LOVED THIS. Probably my fave Nic cage "performance". "Till the break of dawn haw haw haw!"

Eric H if it was funny and fun, as you say, then how is it also objectively bad/terrible?

He hates comedy.

"this guy, this uh * chortles * this 'G'"

by the third time he did this line in the interrogation room I was dyin'

this was surprisingly hilarious. liked it a lot

Really - I love Cage in this. One of my favorite performances in a long long time.

yep he was undeniable. special mention for the flipout in the pharmacy

this fuckin movie

Catchphrase for 2010: "C'mon. Where's the kibble?!"

It is a weird, wonderful and hilarious movie.

slocki otm

btw the producers idea to franchise the concept on the cheap w/slumming upmarket directors is amazing - def allowed herzog to work in a new mode

this was so great

god i want to see this so bad but it's playing nowhere near me

its on the internet fyi

really funny but also cheesy as hell the way the storylines wrap up perfectly and the hidden spoon thing from out of nowhere. the new orleans setting didn't really seem.. i don't know, it was there as a nice backdrop but no casting of locals or even bad attempts at accents? why new orleans?

because it was cheaper to film it there than detroit afaik

One of my favorite performances in a long long time.

Didn't see Joaquin Phoenix or Alex Descas this year?

sry u had to heard it from me but joaquin is a RAPPER now

Finally just saw this and laughed my ass off. "Til the break of dawn!!!"
"the new orleans setting didn't really seem.. i don't know, it was there as a nice backdrop but no casting of locals or even bad attempts at accents? why new orleans?"
I noticed a couple locals in bit parts (also, Coolidge is a local now). I think the main reason of "why new orleans?" is because it's probably #1 in the country for police corruption at this point(also the nic cage connection).

"This G."

OK, I've cooled off considerably on this one in retrospect (which is to say I don't hate it). Still think it was one of those bad-on-purpose jobs, and I like my camp a little more accidental, but that's just me.

http://slutsky.tumblr.com/post/306566035/me-asking-nicolas-cage-about-the-way-his-character

;)

the new orleans setting didn't really seem.. i don't know, it was there as a nice backdrop but no casting of locals or even bad attempts at accents? why new orleans?

i read an interview with herzog where he said they weren't planning on filming there but did so because it's a v. attractive place to do a movie these days budget-wise. he also said he specifically wanted it to have no french quarter, jazz, or anything that could be taken as tourist-y.

I dug this!

one of my favorite larfs was when that guy came out of the hotel room in biloxi after telling terry that he was going down because his father was powerful and said OH YEAH to that kid darryl. then it was reprised during that bizarre "everything gets tied up perfectly" scene at the end. that guy was a riot.

http://slutsky.tumblr.com/post/306566035/me-asking-nicolas-cage-about-the-way-his-character

― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:46 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a+ this is what journalism should be like why isnt it a top story on nytimes.com

that's what my lawyer is trying to find out - stay tuned

I think my fave thing in it was when he's with Big Fate & he's watching the guy's soul (break)dancing – just this glazed over, blissed out look on Nic Cage's face, flycatcher mouth & all.

this was awesome, would watch again.

this was AWESOME

the scene where he pops out from behind the door shaving...\m/

haha i had forgotten that

also saw Daybreakers right before this which was the perfect campy appetizer to this sublime main course

this was awesome, would watch again.

Gah, YEAH. I do want to see this again.

loved this movie so much

saw this today..loved it! Seeing Nic go full crazy again, I was almost teary like "Damn Nic, where you been?" Gloriously fun.

Is Nick Cage wearing hair extensions?

i LOVED this fucking movie

seriously. it came out last year but it's still the best movie i've seen theatrically this year.

it bothered me that i think the gambling on football was a little screwy? he tells the qb to win by 5 or less or lose which means it only makes sense that louisiana is -6 and hes going to take texas...then, he bets on louisiana (wrongly cuz hes high?), supposively giving the 6 and ultimately hes told louisiana only won by 3 and he WINS $ ?

I was disappointed.

MORE IGUANAS AND VAL KILMER PLZ

yeah this was not good. mostly boring. iguana-cam was fun.

guys, this wasn't a werner herzog nature doc this was a nicolas cage cop drama. judge accordingly its merits and worth to you as such.

and as someone who couldn't get fifteen minutes into bangkok dangerous this was A++++++

there's definitely a great 5-minute youtube of nicolas cage making intense face just begging to be made out of BD, though.

that film was terrible

Nah, I wanted lurid, purple, and over the top. All I got was a dead crocodile and Nicholas Cage's forehead.

yeah this wasn't really crazy/ridiculous ENOUGH. Eva Mendes was terrible. lacked tension, the script just wasn't there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYJOAW7r03s

Yeah, but where was the scene where he threatened the iguana and Val Kilmer?

why did you type that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RDdpdVZUCM

only a monster would complain about the script in a cage / herzog movie

this was the most comic book-y movie i've seen in a long time

also this was more like Bad But Ultimately Decent Lieutenant

what? he doesn't really redeem himself in this at all!

who the hell are you crazy people who think this wasn't over the top enough?

only a monster would complain about the script in a cage / herzog movie

― jeff, Monday, April 12, 2010 6:42 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

Only Cage's character would complain about the script in a cage / herzog movie

what? he doesn't really redeem himself in this at all!

― lesley gorguts (latebloomer), Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:16 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah but he never really goes ~over the edge~ either. i haven't seen the original, but isn't his character TRULY depraved, like raping and killing and shit? cage does a lot of drugs and lies to everyone and waves guns at old ladies but he seems to studiously avoid any actual violence, and is sweet to what's her name and what not. he's "just" a drug addict, not a monster.

also, don't know why this resonates, but i just read the Dylan Dog Case Files, and this really seemed like an almost breezy European (or even Japanese) comic book---morally ambiguous but basically decent, plot neatly tied up, beautiful damaged sexpot girlfriend who is True, childhood nostalgia, etc.

man, this was fucking terrible, iguana bit notwithstanding

i haven't seen the original, but isn't his character TRULY depraved, like raping and killing and shit?

yes

Compared to Harvey Keitel, Nick Cage's character was more like the not-so-great lieutenant. Still, I found the more humerous approach taken in Port of Call: New Orleans to be somewhat more entertaining than the harsh grit of the original.

this is basically a fairytale in comparison, then

xp right, he's the naughty lieutenant, who stops short of truly despicable because he is never, ever violent

yeah he just forces women to have sex with him to evade arrest

i may be forgetting something but kietel played a druggie who killed thugs and jerked off while making teen potheads show ass and lick the glass. not that different and iirc his forced perviness with the ladies didn't involve actual sex.

oh forgot about the opening scene

dunno, still think that cage's LT was deliberately set up as an almost whimsical comic hero by herzog

it was never in doubt that he'd "triumph" in the end

is anyone debating the difference in tone? though if two films are totally ridiculous, i'll take the funny one with the iguana over the turgid one with the giant virgin mary statue.

Cage is miles more likable and forgiveable than Keitel - he gets the bad guys and a fucking promotion at the end! And puts his whore-with-a-heart-of-gold gf in rehab! it's totally a fairytale by comparison.

full-frontally-nude Cage crying with his gun montage would have been funny tho, they shoulda thrown one of those in there

enh i was just saying---the difference in tone seems to alter how we're meant to evaluate the character? he's practically made out to be a lovable scamp, a cop that Gets Shit Done by his own rules, etc., with a propensity for drugs and sex but w/e those things aren't THAT bad compared to ~murder~

i thought keitel's character was supposed to have been grimly portrayed as a true degenerate?

xp

Keitel has a family/kids in the original, which he completely ignores/acts as if they don't exist - too busy out there banging crackheads and shooting punks iirc

kietel's crimes in BL are basically the same as Cage's iirc, and while the film is a brutal chore, he's portrayed as an extreeeeeemely lapsed catholic (with a wife and kids he ignores instead of a hooker girlfriend) who seeks redemption after quality time with an assaulted nun. The tones are wildly different but to say "kietel's a bad lieutenant, cage is a not-great one" ignores that they're both fucked up dudes doing the same fucked up shit but trying to stop. One just gets to.

xpost

nun is raped with a crucifix iirc

not by him!

it's her desire to forgive the guys who did it that makes him all blubbery about his sins

right. I only brought it up cuz that initial rape scene/assault helps set the overall tone. I don't even remember what they were after Xzibit for in this, killing a drug runner and his family or something, right?

At the time of its release Ferrara said his movie was an "homage" to Ingmar Bergman.

hahahahahaaa

oh Abel

just watched the original. when a character said, "junkies are like vampires... except we suck the life out of ourselves" I was all, "jeez, eff this movie. I wish I was watching nic cage being funny instead."

that's pretty much the first thought that comes to mind whenever i'm bored by a movie

reminds me of when a friend and I tried to watch Ruby a few years ago and had to stop and throw on JFK once they got to the David Ferrie character, cuz why the hell weren't we watching Joe Pesci that moment.

this was bizarre.

cage is a genius.

this was indeed great

Herzog's version is flimsy and spurious, and Nicolas Cage delivers an eccentric, haphazard performance that never touches Keitel's anguish. We hardly feel we are in New Orleans – despite the begging opportunity to explore the post-Katrina city; the moral tension is feeble to non-existent, and this lieutenant has a sweet, obliging, sexpot girlfriend (Eva Mendes) – enough to remind us that in his career Herzog has not offered one interesting female character.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/13/werner-herzog-david-thomson

There was something airless about this movie. Like not enough extras or something. But I thought Cage's "eccentric, haphazard performance" was pretty great.

I loved the possibility of the ending all being the dream of a dying nick cage on the couch watching the football game.

That didn't even occur to me!

"his career Herzog has not offered one interesting female character."

Mostly prostitutes, IIRC. It's prob. My biggest beef with him.

also, this movie deserves canonical status just for the "ohhhhhhhh yeah" guy.

Good morning ILE. The Ferrara Bad Lieutenant is on tv tonight and the Herzog one came out yesterday. Which should I watch first? Should I search/destroy one or both movies? Very curious with all the press.

The original is worth a watch. Also broadcast at a time where you can basically go straight to sleep to get over it if you don't like :-)

they're both fantastic, doesn't matter which you see first

Wicked.

I didn't need to see that Thomson has slagged this film off. Dude has a way of predicting and mirroring my own thoughts.

It's quite a gentle slagging as slaggings go

this is a great film and david thompson is a fucking idiot

gonna have to object strongly on that latter point. history mayne will agree with you, though

(Thomson doesn't nail it 100% of the time, and always approaches film in a very personal manner, is my concession)

such a lot of crap written about this film cos of the producers' inexplicable insistence on the horribly formed title

they say thompson used to be alright and he can write a bit but the endless nostalgia and invocation of past greats for negative comparison is rly dull

So I saw "THE Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" last night. It was great fun. Man, we've all found ourselves having to take some coke because we just took some heroin by mistake and have to be in work in an hour.

In some ways it was quite conventional as a cop film, except that the cop was a lunatic.

Haven't seen this yet, I don't like Nicolas Cage, that's stopping me from seeing it. The original was often hilarious, but unintentionally so.

I like Nicolas Cage when he is playing maniacs.

loved this

SHOOT HIM AGAIN

This was basically "Crank" meets "Stroszek". Loved it to pieces. Iguana Time was amazingly o_O

Oh man, I finally saw this last night. So hilarious. Shaving behind the door...

I like Nicolas Cage when he is playing maniacs.

I liked him in Wild at Heart a bunch. I've seen Leaving Las Vegas and parts of Con Air. What are some of his other especially over-the-top performances?

http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A1417/141757/300_141757.jpg

My wife recommended that to me a half dozen times after we watched Bad Lieutenant. I'll have to check it out.

http://www.montrealfilmjournal.com/dat/pic/M0000272.jpg

http://www.cipherism.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/RaisingArizona1987NicolasCageHIMcDun_imagelarge.jpg

yea vampire's kiss & pocno would be an a++ double feature

Did anyone see him playing a witch hunter in this year's Season Of The Witch? I don't know if it even opened in the US...

it did??

Saw this on Sunday night at a packed cinema - funny because it really underperformed in its first week here. It seemed to get such a big push with those ads at every tube stop and newpapers.

It was truly awesome, I've never actually enjoyed Nicholas Cage in a film before and he was born to play this part.

Sequel, anyone?

Sequel needs to be done by a completely different director and lead, and have nothing to do with the previous two.

Bad Lieutenant 3: Fire In The Cornfield, dir. Ken Loach (Vin Diesel, Amanda Plummer)

or in a better world...the European arthouse incarnation!

Bad Lieutenant: Histoire de la mort dir. Michael Haneke

You wld have some wonderfully ravaged older actors to choose from there.

"You're the fucking reason this country's going down the drain!"

Saw this last night, certainly some (unintentionally?) funny moments but it was pretty horrendous overall!

Bad Lieutenant 3: Tokyo Rampage (dir: Takeshi Kitano, starring: Vincent Gallo, Shannon Tweed)

this "g"

THIS WAS AMAZING.

otm

til the break of dawn

:)

always happy when someone else discovers this film

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldc5hknpbi1qe0eclo1_500.gif

^put that on the herzog oscar roll for lifetime achievement in abt 2025

i felt the need to take this screenshot while watching, although it didn't quite capture what i was seeing:

http://oi55.tinypic.com/2i8evdv.jpg

anyway, brb going to tell all of my friends to watch this.

damn i've been watching that gif for an hour now and he's still just standing there shaving

Finally saw this on dvd rental, the most straight-up enjoyable film I've seen in a long time. Cage beyond description and I kept imagining I could hear Herzog from behind the camera "now vee vill take ze beast's point of view - the second alligator sees his fallen comrade, dead in ze road, the pain of life washes over him" delivered in his measured monotone (per Iguana Time et al upthread).

This was the best movie I saw in 2010. It didn't open here, I just straight up bought the DVD because Nic Cage was in it and I heard he goes nuts in it. That's really all I need to know when it comes time to decide whether or not to buy a movie. Yes the original was more depraved but this one is such a bizarre movie. I mean there are a lot of movies about "bad cops" and "worse cops" but Cage plays this one like he's in a Pachinko commercial the whole time, just randomly flipping out on random people. I know the "you either love it or you hate it" line is thrown around all the time but I think it really applies here. Like, it's so out there that you can't help but be either enamored or completely replused by it.

btw totally agreed that this would go well with "vampire's kiss". that movie is basically nic cage flipping out at people for 90 minutes too.

i recently watched vampire's kiss. it was great. plus esg is in it!

Deadfall is an (entertaingly) terrible movie in which his character is completely, ridiculously wacked-out

I just bought Deadfall for a couple of bucks on your suggestion and I don't even know what to say. The movie is terrible but the character of Eddie is so strange that I wonder if they just told Cage to do whatever the hell he wants; not only does he switch accents several times but almost nothing his character says makes any sense...please find some clips on youtube

god damn

this movie y'all

god damn

werner herzog played a german pharmaceutical tycoon on the simpsons the other night
he was p.funny in a very strange and un-simpsons-like way

playedvoiced, I guess

snowy otm as usual

need to rewatch this

snowy otm as usual
aw shucks/feeling's mutual/etc <3

I actually haven't watched any nic cage lately — some weird personal baggage connected with the fact that my ex and I watched a lot of his movies together...

... but then Ghost Rider came on TV in spanish the other day, which was awesome (really all you need to know in order to follow it is "alma" = soul) and has given me the itch again

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201105/werner-herzog-profile-cave-of-forgotten-dreams?printable=true

this was phenomenal i wanna watch it again tonight

watched this tonight w/probably the only two folx in my life who do not know who/give a fuck who herzog is. gator and iguana bits went over great.

:)
always happy when someone else discovers this film
― nakhchivan, Saturday, December 18, 2010 5:08 PM (6 months ago)

Cosigned!

one of my best friends, who is a film buff and movie-maker, got into a big fight about this movie: he says he's tried to watch it twice but can't get past the 'stupid' opening scenes bc he thinks that NC hurting his back to help that prisoner is a) too much exposition and b) a ridiculous premise to the movie. i got so mad when he told me this and now i can't trust any of his film reccs.

a). how could he possibly know it's too much exposition if hes never watched the whole thing? b). fuck that guy

My favourite film of last year. Well, this and The American. It may even be one of the few films I actually buy, if I see it for cheap enough.

xp i know! that's what makes me so mad!

well for piece-of-mind sake, youre right, hes wrong. it's a 5 minute scene ffs!

lol missed that scene tbh

late to the party (as usual) and not my fave Werner Herzog or Nicolas Cage film ... but still, damn this was a good one!

Finally saw this. They basically just replaced crushing Catholic guilt with cracked-out reptile hallucinations. I loved it.

To the break o'dawn.

Stands up to repeat viewing!

yes, watched again last night. mcdonough's behaviour/unravelling wasn't a crazy as i remember it from first time round, but man is cage great in this.

new favourite moment- the second the chief tells him he's going into the evidence room as his modified duty

finally watched this and it was great and really funny. cage is amazing in this.

Still remarkable and fun. And fucked up. Possibly the last great Herzog feature? Haven't watched the Nicole Kidman in the desert one yet.

Is My Son My Son after this? Cause that's great.

The two films premiered at the same Venice Film Festival. I prefer My Son My Son as well.

Revisited tonight and its a much straighter narrative than i remembered once you can observe outside of the jitters

I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded. pic.twitter.com/eMidcChuOC

— Jesse Crall🕊 (@jessecrall) April 28, 2021

there is no "top" to human emotion

Id applaud too

Hahaha, what the fuck even was this movie. Great.

Great is what it was.