The one positive review:
It's creaky, predictable and frequently idiotic. But for a tipsy Saturday night, this should tick all the right boxes.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
with friends like that
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7254/cagebird.jpg
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
totally read that as "lick all the right boxes"
― da croupier, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
deffo gonna peep season o' the witch dis weekend
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/feb/19/nicholas-cage-bad-film-guide
the problem i have with cage is that i even like his shit films. well apart from ghost rider, that was the absolute worst.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 21 February 2011 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
drive angry is shit... not as bad as bangkok dangerous or whatever it was called
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Monday, 21 February 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Guardian commenters unusually OTM. Don't write about Nic Cage if you don't even like Face/Off and Con Air.
Lord of War is underrated.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 21 February 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
actually i meant bangkok dangerous. that one was pretty shit. but i really liked the sorcerers apprentice!
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 21 February 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
My wife was watching National Treasure yesterday and that is such an awful movie. It made Da Vinci Code look like Citizen Kane.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Lord Of War i'd put up there with Matchstick Men as one of the few later Cage flicks that's just a perfectly good movie
― some dude, Monday, 21 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Bad Lieutenant may be may favorite Cageflick, it seemed to have sank like a stone but if you like Nic Cage as much as I do you should enjoy it; it's basically Nic Cage flipping out on random people for a good hour and a half. Very much like The Vampire's Kiss (another A+ flick in my book). I don't think he's ever made a bad movie. Even the terrible stuff like Season of the Witch or Ghost Rider is at least funny because he's in it. Also, keep in mind that these are my favorite things that Nic Cage has ever done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkw-5htPw0
― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"I don't think he's ever made a bad movie."
I believe it when people say he's totally without self-awareness because NEXT would have been saved ifCage was at all aware about what it is people want to see him for, instead of playing a corpse the entire movie.Even worse than Affleck's stab at PKD.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 21 February 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I admire Cage as an actor because he seemingly does not give a shit about what roles he takes and whether it's good for his actorly "reputation". Of course this means that he'll appear in lots of shitty movies but 9/10 times they're watchable because of him.
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Monday, 21 February 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my personal Nick Cage turning point was Wicker Man, because no other actor could pull that kind of ridiculousness off. Wicker Man would just be a bad remake of a classic horror flick instead of a hilariously batshit bad remake of a horror classic.
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Monday, 21 February 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I was down on Cage for a while then saw him in Kick-Ass, where he was gold through and through--he knew exactly what to do with that role. Very disappointed that the makers of the Green Hornet flick didn't let him do his jamaican-accented bad guy.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 21 February 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my personal Nick Cage turning point was Wicker Man, because no other actor could pull that kind of ridiculousness off.
That's basically why I like the man so much. Lots of his roles - The Vampire's Kiss, The Weather Man, Bad Lieutenant, Kick-Ass, etc. etc. just could not be done by anyone else. I mean the guy acts like a lunatic in every movie (and his off-screen persona backs this up) and plays every role 110%. The scene where he eats a cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss" wasn't even in the script!! He just suggested, "I think it would be better if I ate a cockroach here", so he did it. Daaamn
― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah idg how anyone can hate on someone this batshit - he's game for anything. Nothing's beneath this guy. If Tommy Wiseau wanted him to play a dog he'd probably do it. you gotta avoid half his films like the plague but I can't imagine a cinema without him. Also would love to see a super-insider doc about him blowing his millions.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 21 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Ouch. "A Score To Settle" (2019). OUCH! Has a death scene to rival that of Peter Sellers' bugler in "The Party". Not kidding.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
Still doin it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6372694/
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Whether that's gonna be good or not probably depends on how much one would want to see Boomtown Festival: The Movie
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Impressed that there's barely any mention of Deadfall itt. But it may actually be the greatest of all his performances so maybe it has no place here.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link