nicolas cage, the greatest entertainer of our - or perhaps any - generation (a POLL)

my friend compared that first act to Lost Highway

that works too! hints at a super duper excellent movie in panos that i want to see so bad

Scored a copy of Schrader's homemade edit of his "Dying Of the Light". Looking forward to watching Cage lose his mind via ACTING and silly jump cuts!

Will: RFI your dinosaur kigurumi

haha! my gf picked it up from the internet, i will ask her :D

ty jay vee for leading me to this story

A few months later, Hirsch sent a links to clips and the trailer for “Dying of the Light” posted to Fandango in the weeks leading up to its release. Schrader wrote back right away: “Why the fuck are you sending me this you slime ball! You stole my life’s work. I will never forget or forgive.”

Also, I just posted Next (2007) which may be my magnum opus as far as photos go. i am very good at ms paint, you will hardly believe i don't have two triplet brothers!

not the movie, and certainly not the write-up, but the PHOTO!!

also her response re: kigurumi:
"Tell them I skinned a dinosaur for you because I love you."

these reviews are awesome

Ghost Rider was such a garbage film but Nic Cage was the perfect lead. "so the main character, his head randomly starts on fire"...who else would you get for that role

hahaha it was such a unique variety of trash! i'm low key excited about the sequel tho (prob watching some time next week), it's directed by the crank bros?!

god I'm gonna have to watch Vampire's Kiss again aren't I

btw there is no way anyone from Philly actually talks like that. somewhere in the DVD extras they mention that Cage thought his character was supposed to be classy, so he just invents this "classy"-sounding accent for it out of nowhere. other cool fact is that Cage eating the cockroach was completely ad-libbed. he just thought that's what his character would do. Nic Cage is a lunatic.

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I paid to see it in the cinema in 3D as my only way of voting for Crank 3-D being financed, but it is no Crank

presumably a lot better than Ghost Rider 1 though

Drive Angry >> Ghost Rider

ok. one more thing. I own Deadfall on DVD. I'm always amused by the cover of it, which depicts what looks like some run-of-the-mill sci-fi thriller, complete with a Nic Cage that looks nothing like the guy who appears in the movie. I have no idea what the hell he's doing in this film. It's like every scene is completely ad libbed. He adopts a different accent every 2 minutes. Its so nuts.

HIII FUCKIN YAAAAA!!!!!!

The most implausible thing about Next, a movie that involves a man who can see into the future, is Jessica Biel's character falling for Cage's character after about five minutes.

It's one of the few Philip K. Dick adaptations that, for better or worse, is very true to his writing style. It's pulpy and pretty ridiculous!

I've only seen Drive Angry once, in 3d in the theater, and was entertained because they did 3d how it should be done. Stuff flying at the audience, including shots where weapons are thrown right at the camera iirc

the first Ghost Rider is pretty boilerplate, the second one fails to be as fast-paced or ridiculous as the aforementioned Drive Angry which was disappointing, considering it's the Crank dudes running the show. best part is riffing on the fact any vehicle the Ghost Rider drives becomes hellish. worst is their "what happens when the Ghost Rider has to piss" bit

reeeally looking forward to Mandy! I was really into Beyond the Black Rainbow and the idea of Panos Cosmatos applying his overly-stylized bit to a Nicholas Cage thriller is right up my alley

ok. one more thing. I own Deadfall on DVD. I'm always amused by the cover of it, which depicts what looks like some run-of-the-mill sci-fi thriller, complete with a Nic Cage that looks nothing like the guy who appears in the movie. I have no idea what the hell he's doing in this film. It's like every scene is completely ad libbed. He adopts a different accent every 2 minutes. Its so nuts.

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:25 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DUDE do you know about the movie Arsenal?! it's a quasi-official sequel! or at least, cage is playing the smae character (but it was made in 2016. and i don't think the character is 23 years older. it seems insane. i don't know much about it yet but if you have watched deadfall, it seems like arsenal is a must-watch just to see what they've done???)

also i just looked up the DVD case, which isn't the poster i had seen, and WTF? it looks homemade!! fits in with that movie tho, which as you said feels improvised and sooooo sloppy and weird. it is possibly a peak cage performance tho. i'd rank it top 5 so far for out-there cage performances.

god I'm gonna have to watch Vampire's Kiss again aren't I

btw there is no way anyone from Philly actually talks like that. somewhere in the DVD extras they mention that Cage thought his character was supposed to be classy, so he just invents this "classy"-sounding accent for it out of nowhere. other cool fact is that Cage eating the cockroach was completely ad-libbed. he just thought that's what his character would do. Nic Cage is a lunatic.

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely watch it again, it is monumental. it might be my fave of his movies (albeit with ~30 left to watch). only face/off might challenge it. and for the philly thing -- there's definitely SOMETHING philly-inspired to it, although yeah, nobody would actually talk like that. i think i heard the accent is based on his father or someone his father is friends with? oh and they had to shoot the cockroach scene TWICE. this is the only movie i think i've ever wanted to seek out the commentary for?

I paid to see it in the cinema in 3D as my only way of voting for Crank 3-D being financed, but it is no Crank

― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:19 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:( :( :(

they only directed, didn't write it

Brian Crank's "Mom and Dad," from earlier this year, is a better combo of him and Cage

i watched that one last weekend! (because drive angry had been taken off Netflix and it was planned for a triple-feature i was putting on for my incredibly kind, patient friends and needed a quick replacement). that movie is astounding. soooooo wild. apparently it was even crazier in the first draft and they were forced to dilute it a bit, which is hard to imagine given the end product!

The most implausible thing about Next, a movie that involves a man who can see into the future, is Jessica Biel's character falling for Cage's character after about five minutes.

yes but it's because he Groundhog Day's their every encounter! so creepy

the second one fails to be as fast-paced or ridiculous as the aforementioned Drive Angry which was disappointing (...) worst is their "what happens when the Ghost Rider has to piss" bit

both GR2 and Drive Angry coming up for me very soon, excited to chime in on this. the "what happens when he has to piss" part does NOT sound like a negative

reeeally looking forward to Mandy! I was really into Beyond the Black Rainbow and the idea of Panos Cosmatos applying his overly-stylized bit to a Nicholas Cage thriller is right up my alley

if someone makes a thread for it when it comes out please post it here, i have a lot to say on this dang movie!! i will probably see it again if i can!!

I had no idea about Arsenal - to tell the truth I don't know much about his movies of the last 7-8 years, other than the fact that there are a lot of them. I'm watching the trailer, what the hell are with these wigs and fake moustaches? It looks like a high school play!

btw doesn't his character die halfway through Deadfall? makes this even better I guess

HE DOES DIE HALFWAY THROUGH!! (i mean he could have maybe not died... but... like... his face was in boiling oil, and he never came back)

this thing looks completely jacked up and weird, and bad, and I promise to follow up once i've seen it!

here is Will's interpretation of the Kick-Ass pitch meeting: http://www.brilliam.net/cagedheat/2018/08/24/58-kick-ass-2010/

excellent

I remember the first time I saw this movie, I was not as aware of Nic Cage’s acting skills, and kinda thought the weird voice and the inability to walk/move properly were REAL, like something terrible had happened to Nic Cage in real life. What a relief it was to watch again and just realize it was because he is an excellent actor, and not an injured sad dude.

blog is an embarrassment of riches

I just watched JOE last night. Excellent movie, Cage is great in it

isn't Mandy out now in the US, that was what I was expecting this to have been bumped for

haha thanks for enjoying :) looking at that article tho goddamn i hate that fucking font

i got someone else to pick the theme/etc for the blog and i always hated the font but was too lazy to figure out how to change it. NO LONGER

yeah idk how without changing the whole theme. ill figure it out later. anyway yeah i just watched USS indianapolis - men of courage last night and it is one of the worst movies i have seen (not as bad as left behind, but close)

yessss Bad Lieutenant definitely deserves a 5/5. his performance gets so intense and off-the-rails that it's actually kind of harrowing to watch. even if he's just playing a crazy clown cop

amazing that Cage has two classic pharmacy scenes. the other one being in Matchstick Men of course

MANDY ruled. I loved a lot of things about it.

I feel like that was the movie that all those phony grindhouse-aping filmmakers from the mid-00s thought they were making, or wished they could.

I suspect MANDY is also the closest thing Cage has made to the Ghost Rider movie he used to imagine in his head.

I feel like that was the movie that all those phony grindhouse-aping filmmakers from the mid-00s thought they were making, or wished they could.

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the exact review i want to hear

all impressions i've read of this movie suggest that *i* personally made it

also, i am in the home stretch -- 8 of 88 movies left (unless one unexpectedly gets a release i can watch)

the blog is a bit behind that, because i am terrible at remembering to take the photos! if i can find something resembling a big fuzzy grey hat today i'll post #72

trying to watch dog eat dog at work today and realizing it is maybe incredibly nsfw

have to say, the blog has been a very entertaining journey

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

this is pretty great. talking bout his love of the german expressionist style and mimicking it at points. his personal fave is vampire's kiss!

^^that rules, thank you

thanks foir posting that! someone sent it to me yesterday (i now get sent all of the cage stuff by everyone i know, haha) but forgot to watch. meant to watch the first 5 mins and grab lunch, got sucked in and watched the whole thing!

also glad you like the blog outic (and others)! i thought it was just a really dumb thing that nobody would like so it's pleasing to hear i'm not literally only doing it for myself

Mandy was pretty good!

SPOILERS

SO MANY SPOILERS

SERIOUSLY

a couple of things I really appreciated about Mandy

Mandy (the character) was easily the most fleshed-out person in the entire movie - we get to know her tastes, a bit of her work, a bit about her past, and a lot about her personality from how she handles Jeremiah. so when she dies it feels like a real loss that alters the fabric of reality, not just a cheap bit of character motivation - so much so that all that's left for Red is revenge-movie, horror, and fantasy tropes to process his grief (see also the animated sequences). I also thought the explicit 80s setting was interesting - all of the music and fantasy references felt much more 70s, and Jeremiah's pop single was obvious Summer of Love era pastiche, so even older. it felt like a movie about different approaches to cocooning yourself away from the world coming into disastrous conflict with one another.

agreed on all of those points! that's honestly why i was wishing that the part that happens around the hour never happened -- the movie up until that point is a completely different movie, and it's a movie i really, desperately wanna watch!

really enjoying cage's impression of herzog in that gq video

the california klaus kinski

the NY Times' Glenn Kenny gave it a near-rave today (I thought it had opened already)

"The movie’s imagery is consistently unearthly; its pacing has a magisterial weight. Call it pulp Tarkovsky, maybe."

not a bad description.

Some close friends of mine hated this lol

Nick Wrigley called it "Golan-Globus Sokurov"

"pulp Tarkovsky"

again, i personally made this movie

I liked this a lot.

Simon H.’s assessment upthread OTM

Also, Cheddar Goblin

fun fact ... the Cheddar Goblin video was directed by Casper Kelly, of Too Many Cooks fame

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/mandy-movie-cheddar-goblin-too-many-cooks