Burn, Nic Cage, Burn!

No Paul Giovanni, no credibility.

Yeah, the music was so integral to the original, it'll be crucial as to what is used in the remake.

It'll be boring old satanists all the way, mark my words.

btw this was so fucking awful... what a joke. totally idiotic, misogynistic, everything good about the original excised in favour of horrible back-story and renaissance faire bullshit

when the opening credits ran I was like 'hey that name is familiar, what else did he direct again?' and then I moved on, but by the time Nicolas Cage is screaming "YOU BITCHES" at the top of his lungs I was like 'oh yeah, now I remember'

goes without saying that it can't even begin to compare to the original, and the direction is very very very poor, so much leaden tedium, great casting but phoned in acting, etc. but the film's fantastically paranoid gender war spin on the original is so unbelievable, when it turns the final corner and begins underlining it's female-thesis, it goes over the line into watchably bad. I saw this on a date with a friend was laughing hysterically through the last third and on the way out she said 'well, what are you even going to do with that'

Perhaps this should be on the 1986 thread.

Fuck you anyway Johnny...

pretty much. this country was founded by Puritans you know. There is no history of paganism in the US like there is in Europe. the closest we come is highly diluted rituals/motifs imported from Africa and the Caribbean.

HAHANO.

I dunno. It just seems a silly reason to object to a horror film, that it's unrealistic or something.

wicker men were used for all kinds of sacrifices, including human, at least according to "The Golden Bough". And there have been all kinds of pagan communities in Scotland throughout history (regardless of whether there's any there NOW, surely you can see how their previous actual existence would be relevant/lend weight to a horror story?!)

when the credits came up on the words 'dedicated to Johnny Ramone', right the big ending, well... we were just... we didn't know anything anymore

See also Stephen King.

nic cage is an essential movie star, love him. i will never complain abt his presence in a movie though i may lol at it.

I just wanna give a shout out to this scene from Bad Lieutenant, every time I see it it's even crazier than I remembered. And to think it takes place before his character goes really nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8otgTeqyjMI

did anyone see his David Gordon Green noncamp movie?

Love that little speech he rehearses when he's waiting in a line in Leaving Las Vegas. I kept expecting him to get nuttier later on but it just becomes quieter and it's quite sad.

A report from the field

Just received the best press release of 2017:

"NICOLAS CAGE IS IN NO WAY ENGAGED WITH AN ENDORSEMENT FOR JAPANESE SNACK FOOD BRAND RISKA" pic.twitter.com/XmOGM0Qq66

— Zach Schonfeld (@zzzzaaaacccchhh) October 11, 2017

easily the worst news of the day

https://i.imgur.com/GMgXMHz.jpg

https://theoutline.com/post/3121/you-can-now-watch-nicolas-cage-play-james-bond
https://gfycat.com/FlawlessForthrightAmericanshorthair

A vision.

there is a direct to video movie from the late '80s that Nicolas Cage randomly appears in. this is the entirety of his performance. pic.twitter.com/j0YcJSJ8Oy

— A Cruel Angel's Beavis (@alex_navarro) July 24, 2019

the movie is called Never on Tuesday and it's never been released outside of VHS. which is how it should stay.

— A Cruel Angel's Beavis (@alex_navarro) July 24, 2019

interesting encapsulation of his career there

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a damn treat, it turns out.

The apotheosis is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmO6rmDW08

this is a sequel to Vampires Kiss right

Posted this on the San Francisco thread since that's where it's going to be at but a week from tonight Zach Schonfeld and I will be talking about his great book How Coppola Became Cage:

https://www.booksmith.com/cage-book

And if possible we'll see about recording it!

Longlegs is the first Nicholas Cage film I've seen since, I don't know, maybe Adaptation or Snake Eyes, whichever one came later. I've had no interest in whatever he's been doing since his elevation to cult-figure status.

But I like a good serial-killer film, so I thought it was worth a chance. In some prior universe, Cage would have played the detective...Went off the rails in the last 20 minutes, when it starts explainin' stuff, but before that, grim and reasonably effective. The point of it all, I don't know. It's got something to do with Bill Clinton, and a lot of something to do with T. Rex.

Looked at his filmography. I think I saw The Weather Man--that'd be the last one.

Hated nearly every single thing about Longlegs. Alicia Witt is fine until her character becomes too ridiculous.

I thought there was directorial skill in the first two parts, a few nice compositions, a decent build-up. Part three was preposterous.

Fascinating stuff I didn't know about the director, Osgood Perkins (from the Vulture review):

Perkins, for his part, is creating a Freudian cocktail from autobiographical elements. His father was Anthony Perkins, a closeted actor who died of complications from AIDS in 1992 and was best known for playing the title character in Psycho, a motel manager who takes orders from a psychological construct of the mother he murdered for her sexual appetites, and who still haunts him. Perkins’s mother was model, actress, and photographer Berry Berenson, who died on 9/11 while traveling in one of the hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center a day before what would have been the anniversary of her husband’s death.

"Looked at his filmography. I think I saw The Weather Man--that'd be the last one."

Every fibre of my being wanted to reply with "actually it was The Wicker Man". With the word "wicker" in double italics.

But he was in a film called The Weather Man. It came out in 2005. He was a weatherman, although nowadays you have to call them weatherpeople or weatherpersons. They get offended if you call them weathermen.

I hope he completes the trilogy by appearing in a film called The Wither Man. Except that it would be The Wither Person get out of my head.

And here's the recording! Turn up the volume, the recording level was low.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZRFiu_G9dU

heard a description of Leaving Las Vegas, which I haven't seen since the 90s, and realized that both of Cage's Oscar nominations have been for roles in which he played a screenwriter (Adaptation being the other)