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

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

whoa damn

& yea mandy was good/crazy

https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2786834/size/tmg-article_tall.jpg

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

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 4:27 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It'll probably be about a week before I post my Arsenal review but I said I'd follow up so here's a quick update: it is very bad, but also, incredibly curious, and if you watched Deadfall at any point, I'd argue this is required viewing (particularly if you can enjoy a very bad film ironically). Cage is at his Cage-iest here -- sadly isn't in the movie enough, but he does beat Christopher Coppola to death (his real-life brother, playing his in-movie brother) in one of the most perfect/bizarre Cage scenes in history. I just wrote over 800 words on it, which is my second-longest review (after my second-to-second recap of his 45 second cameo in Never on Tuesday). Of all of the VERY bad movies I've had to watch during this stretch in his career, this is definitely the one I am thinking about the most.

incredibly curious? that is not the word I meant to use, and I'm not sure what word I meant. Hilarious, maybe?

mandy kicked goddamn hella ass

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 shares this with beyond the black rainbow which... both movies talk to each other, if you liked mandy you should loop back around to it imo

man

rarely have a watched a movie more on my wavelength

I was all in for Beyond the Black Rainbow until like the last 20 minutes

the last twenty minutes are the best part

omg will you're so close to mandy

v glad this appears to have gone wider. reports of local screenings selling out!

omg will you're so close to mandy

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, October 4, 2018 8:05 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more importantly, i'm so close to The Humanity Bureau, which, spoiler alert, I loved -- it is the next The Room to me, maybe, as far as "wtf they thought this is how movies are supposed to be made?" (post on Saturday if I don't miss a day)

oh shit

v glad [Mandy] appears to have gone wider. reports of local screenings selling out!

got extended by a week here, playing daily at 9pm on the biggest screen in a 3-screen theatre

i watched Mandy last night (iTunes rental) and really liked a lot of things about it! the scene with the guy playing ocarina of time to summon the ATV gang, especially

I'm considering going to a screening at AFI Silver of this tonight. Right now my most probable alternative is to go home, drink too much, and fart around on the Internet. Recommendations one way or the other?

combo: go see the screening, with a flask. when nic cage drinks, you drink

don't worry, you only have to drink during one scene. but you also have to bring LSD

The theater does have booze at the concession stand....

(Several weeks ago my officemate showed me a Facebook page for a purse containing a pouch big enough to hold a bottle of wine. My first reaction is that I should have filled said flask with whiskey and taken it into the theater for Capitolfest.)

combo: go see the screening, with a flask. when nic cage drinks drinks or takes a drug, you drink

― Karl Malone, Friday, October 5, 2018 1:16 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fixed, RIP

do whippets right when he does the drug imo

imo only do whippets when the guy rolls the window up or down

i watched while maturely sipping a single glass of wine, but it is destined to become a cult classic drug film

spoilers for j.lu who should totally go see this but Cage only does five drugs in the movie counting nicotine and alcohol and griefrage

i was out-of-this-world stoned when i saw it which i v much recommend if that's your kind of vibe

I have opinions about this movie.

also see it in a theater if you can

i also thought Andrea Riseborough was really good as Mandy, and it was nice to see a familiar kind of person - heavy metal, dark fantasy loving young woman - that isn't often represented on the screen

otm

she really feels like the most realistic, fully-formed human being in the movie which is also very refreshing

I saw (and heard!) this at a fancy suburban theater, found it great and heartbreaking. It confirmed what I've always imagined living in the wake of horror and total loss must be like. The final shot of Nic Cage (and subsequent landscape reveal) is so haunting, I hope its nascent meme-ification doesn't dilute its impact for anyone.

I think this is the most purely METAL movie I've seen - I can't decide if I liked it, but the ending and final shots were completely satisfying. If it's at all possible, see this in a theater.

Please make a separate MANDY thread.

let’s do it

Funny to see the explosion of interest in Mandy, but it does almost fit into this Snakes on a Plane level of playing to the audience’s glee in the apparent absurdity of concept and actor. Tho the movie is def a different beast than the synopsis or trailers suggest.

See it as a relative to Drive too. Similar sort of break out and also codifies another branch of “80s” aesthetic that’s been in the ether.

I liked it. The first half more than the second. Director can do dreamy atmospherics but maybe not so much satisfying action vengeance.

The second half of the film is not about satisfying action vengeance, it is about grief.

Just watched the hilariously terrible "Between Worlds" where Cage plays a Southern truck driver who saves psychic Franka Potente from being "assaulted" in a truck stop restroom then proceeds to lose his accent ( and his shit) as the film progressively derails. It's totally awful "filmmaking" and a lot of fun.

The sex scenes in this are gold.

ah yes, the one that became available precisely when i thought i was "done"

trying to keep pace with nic cage's release schedule is like trying to drink from a firehose

"Mom And Dad" was a lot of fun as well.

i'm taking extra-long on my "last" review (mandy) bc i have something special planned

but i would just like to re-iterate my love for The Humanity Bureau, a film that appears to have made an entire movie with real-ass actors after only having the concept of films described to them very briefly in a loud room

this clip doesn't really give you the full Humanity Bureau experience but you get some of the key bits here:

- bizarre dialogue that ALMOST sounds right but not quite, in an almost uncanny valley "I guess it's correct English" way
- - "hey have to leave now. the three of us."
- - "pack a bag. we're leaving. take only what i can carry." "but what about my books?!" "TAKE ONE."
- little boy saying incredibly 50s little boy things
- - "hey mister!"
- sarah lind hilariously shooting a submachine gun (THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME IN THIS FILM, NOR THE FUNNIEST TIME)
- the lead singer of the headstones being just cartoonishly, stupidly evil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qryCW0IwIdA

there's a scene where three villains stand in a half-circle in an warehouse that's empty but for a pallet with about 500 cubic feet of what is revealed to be human bones and teeth, solely to expose that they are, in fact, Bad People

so I watched Vampire's Kiss for the first time last night, since it had popped up in my feed and I've always meant to get around to it. And seriously WTF with this film - the plot (such as it is) is just the flimsiest of structures, which seems to exist solely to allow Cage to do... whatever it is he is doing. In some ways I wouldn't even call what he does acting, because there's no discernible character or human emotion or recognizable motivation to how he behaves from one scene to the next. It's like this weird amalgam of mannerisms and improvisation where he's just trying to do whatever he thinks will be the most jarring from one moment to the next. Yelling, whimpering, talking in some kind pseudo-British accent (which he often doesn't even bother to maintain for the length of a single line) etc. I mean, it isn't boring to watch - because its so unpredictable - but it sure isn't good.

this kinda seems key to Cage's appeal, in a lot of ways.

took me nearly a month to make my last post (mandy) on the blog, because i had this fun plan to make a short mockumentary of me recreating the last photo. had most of the footage and VO and then my hard drive died, so i said fuck it no video. post up now. i'm "done"!!!!

congrats will! reading now

a+ photo choice and recreation