Burn, Nic Cage, Burn!

It wasn't for "Raising Arizona" but if you want to remember why you care, that's the one to watch.

Instead, Cage's character has acquired a serious allergy to bees and travels with a bee-sting kit, as well as rosary beads and self-help tapes."

Clearly someone needs to mashup this movie with a certain Steve Carell vehicle.

he's been in plenty of pretty good movies... what contemporary actors (or rather, movie stars) who have been in as many movies as he has have been in this many good ones?
he's not my favorite actor or anything, but seriously, who has?

also, labute can be awesome. an actor who has done some good shit (and recently), a director who has done some good shit (and recently), combined with an awesome story and something that seems completely untranslatable to a mainstream audience, this should at least be interesting, right?

Cage was miscast as Brad's Bud in "Fast Times." Shoulda been The Anthony Edwards Stoner Bud and vice-versa.

he might not actually remember much about making Vampire's Kiss, but he was pretty great in it.

You just love the cockroach consumption.

http://www.kino.orc.ru/js/review/stills/vampire_kiss1.jpg

http://www.houseofhorrors.com/wicker2.jpg
Vs.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/robhatchmiller/ellen.jpg

I think we all know who wins.

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'

both cages looking v. shatner-esque

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Aw, nuts.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbov8rzwaD1qa9bmvo1_1280.jpg

Time for dude to live the dream and get a Beach Boys biopic going. Set in 1975.

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/3655/1975qh9.jpg

Cage looks waaay more zonked out than BW

This is true.

Did an actor ever prematurely age as overnight as NC? Looks his age in Rumblefish, Peggy Sue etc etc...suddenly we're up to Face/Off and he looks 10 years older than he is.

Younger than Depp, Pitt, Cruise lest we forget

funny he was already playing a dad (of sorts) in 1987

also pairing up with kathleen turner and cher

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jW-fh9ywn8A/UFzemc0rXsI/AAAAAAAAOsc/D91D5NPP3ok/s1600/tumblr_m9rea4zm411qmhx2yo1_400.gif

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118061012

Nicolas Cage in talks to star in 'Left Behind' reboot

I'm all for a reboot as long as it means better CGI.

that's perfect for him. he really always picks the most Nic Cageian roles. which the world is better for imo

Did an actor ever prematurely age as overnight as NC? Looks his age in Rumblefish, Peggy Sue etc etc...suddenly we're up to Face/Off and he looks 10 years older than he is.

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

roids

Nic Cage has already made a movie about the rapture, wtf

How soon we forget the suited alien angels of Know1ng!!!

"Stolen" made $300,000 in the US box office and was pulled after two weeks. Budget: $35 million

Another day, another story. Via Idris Elba:

Yeah - Nic Cage came back one day on set, and he came down to set and he looked a little bit tired, a little bit - kind of like he'd ben up all night. So I was like "hey Nic man, how you doing man" and he said "i'm alright' and I said "You seem a little spoked out" and he said "Yeah man, I went up to Dracula's castle...the ruins up in the mountains, and I stayed the night" and i said "What?! Why|?" and he said "I just had to channel the energy, and it was pretty spooky up there." We were shooting in Romania, Transylvania, and he just went up there to spend the night, as you do.

And then he walked away.

True story.

<3

Bran Castle is a massive tourist attraction, tbf.

Saw "Vampire's Kiss" last night for the first time.

I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!

I think it's seriously underrated.

There's a lot of people who think the humour undermines the seriousness of his major crime but I think it was all done very well. I didn't find that aspect too jarring but it does come as a shock.

Post-film discussions were mostly on whether or not any of the film was real, and if some parts were real and others weren't, where the cutoff was. He seemed to think the bat was the catalyst, I think he was just slipping into insanity over the course of the whole movie.

Him reciting the ABC's like a lunatic was awesome. Also the scene where he first has the fake teeth and is prowling around that club. Ghost Rider comes close to this level of insanity, but this is easily the most OTT performance I have seen of his.

did anyone see that nic cage/paul schrader film that was in theaters for about two days?

Light Sleeper II: Port of Call?

Ghost Rider comes close to this level of insanity, but this is easily the most OTT performance I have seen of his.

check out Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, it's a crazy movie as a whole but there are some real "holy shit" scenes in there. like, way past the usual self-parody thing that Cage does.

Vampire's Kiss indeed is underrated - though I kinda understand since it's a tough one to describe. it's not exactly a comedy, is it?

I always think of it as a good companion piece to American Psycho. I'm sure the comparison has been made a million times.

Vampire's Kiss was the first movie I ever saw Cage in. I don't think he's ever equaled his performance in it.

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)