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

like the last 30 seconds of that has got to be improvised right? who would put something like that in the script ?????

i have this bk which has the script in it & that end dialogue is there

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Lieutenant-Port-Call-Orleans/dp/0789320134

what i think is improvised or maybe was a herzog suggestion is the scene starting w cage hiding behind the door & shaving

Mandy is by the guy who did Beyond the Black Rainbow so it was already a must-see for me.

btw I highly encourage all of you to watch this series of Pachinko commercials he did in Japan, each one of them is like a mini-Cage movie and they get progressively crazier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkw-5htPw0

to those who wanted this in a blog, let it never be said that will m. doesn't deliver

looks like my link wasn't working before because i don't know how to use wordpress. anyway, it's working now. also, i've watch The Best of Times, Fast Times, and Valley Girl, and I'm watching Rumble Fish now. Good movie so far but god this is a weird way to spend my summer

ADDED TO HOME SCREEN

stoked for the madness!

National Treasure is a rare film that lives up to it's name. the movie should be in the Smithsonian. it is an act of pure nationalist magic, the best kind of full-hearted propaganda that loves its subject matter and is a ton of fun.

it is a non stop thrill ride. it is like Indiana Jones or something where it just keeps going to new, thrilling, gleefully batshit places. a rollicking adventure helmed by a madman. just non stop insanity from the first frame. North By Northwest on mushrooms.

wtf is wrong with you that you don't "get" Fast Times

xxp

i watched fast times a few weeks ago. holds up extremely well

admittedly, i didn't even know cage was in it

he's like...not really in it. does he even have a speaking line?

he's in one scene. but that doesn't mean the film sucks! cuz the film is p great

the bit was that i was mad he wasn't in it at all

these aren't gonna be... incisive reviews

after a series of 300-ish word "reviews" for nick cage movies i have now decided to write a 2000-page epic about his 45-second appearance in his 13th film, Never On Tuesday

Stoked

https://media0.giphy.com/media/CiTLZWskt7Fu/giphy.gif

He really has turned into Timothy Carey, except he makes more (shit) movies and plays the lead.

Didn't know he had a role in Stone's Snowden!

Did anyone see this thing, which featured Jerry Lewis (last film) as NC's dad?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3733774/fullcredits/

bears a physical resemblance to Carey too, oddly

that's what i was primarily thinking of!

so it ended up at only 1200 words but that's like 25 words per second of screen time so I think that's enough. goes up on monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI054ow6KJk

🤘

That looks incredible.

excited for that one!!

hell yes

the first panos kosmatos film beyond the black rainbow is worth watching.

sorry I cannot watch that without thinking "HOW'D IT GET BURNED!!!" over and over

BtBR is dope, this looks to be a different beast. Actually I'm a little concerned with how over-the-top grindhousey it looks, wackier than I was expecting

holy shit i cannot wait to see mandy

huh didn't register with me that that was the Black Rainbow guy. Kinda curious about it now

also man do I love Peggy Sue Got Married. love most of Cage's 80s films tbh

I got some unfortunate Hobo With a Shotgun vibes from some costuming & color correction choices in that trailer but Black Rainbow was incredible and advance critical word for Mandy has been very, very good so I'm here for it

apparently there's a 2-minute scene where Cage chugs vodka and yells at everyone, that's worth the price of the ticket alone

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/14/i-watched-nicolas-cage-movies-for-14-hours-straight-and-im-sold

lol that was pretty good but I definitely would have put Bad Lieutenant in there, its sort of a darker spiritual successor to Vampire's Kiss, and somehow even more over the top

My friends who caught Mandy are raving about it.

I'm now 60 of 88 movies into his oeuvre this summer and i'm losing my mind. but that writer is correct. he is the best actor

and i did see mandy after all -- my verdict:

- Acts 2 & 3 are precisely what you would expect from a panos cosmatos/nicolas cage weirdo revenge epic, and are great, but
- Act 1 hints at an incredible movie that i wish they had instead made: a kind of kaleidoscopic, quiet, suspenseful character piece. almost reminds me of the shining or rosemary's baby or something, really, really good
- yes the vodka scene is great but the crowd was whooping and hollering at what is actually a pretty harrowing scene, but it was a genre festival crowd so what do you expect

I've been going in mostly chronological order and I'm up to 2009 now. I'm far less worried now about the "rough patch" of 4, 5, 6 movies a year than i was at the beginning: i trust that this guy can make any movie watchable. plus i've heard some good/exciting things about some of the upcoming ones (joe, dog eat dog, arsenal) and the two very recent ones I've seen (mandy & mom and dad) were fantastic.

I'M ALMOST THERE

I have watched the first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes on TV more than I have watched any film on TV

just throwing it in here bcz Will did not give that ludicrous tracking shot a shout-out in his blog

i meant to! along with all of the different angles and first person stuff it was one of the things that made that movie feel so video game-y

loved that guardian piece

a kind of kaleidoscopic, quiet, suspenseful character piece. almost reminds me of the shining or rosemary's baby or something, really, really good

my friend compared that first act to Lost Highway

I also urge Will to shamelessly plug his blog itt at least once a week

Oh but I would never, ever dare to shamelessly plug on ILX! That would be OUTRAGEOUS!

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.”