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

I've had it with this motherfuckin cat on this motherfuckin boat

hold on a second isn't this just Con Air with zoo animals

what's your point?

"just"

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so beautiful, truly elegant

cage is at risk of - if he has not already - being baconed

yeah I think that happened about 6-7 years ago

still think the entire essence of Nic Cage is perfectly captured in those 30 second Pachinko commercials he did for Japan

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

cage is at risk of - if he has not already - being baconed

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Nah, he’s not Chuck Norris. He can’t be reduced to a bunch of dumb memes.

Cage cannot be caged

Color Out of Space was dope. visually similar to Annhilation (though obv Lovecraft predates the book that inspired that film).

Cage gets old-school Cage at times, there's laughs, but it's a visceral experience.

wish I'd gotten baked beforehand.

lmao is this the one with Tommy Chong in it

i wanna see this movie so bad!!!!

seeing it tomorrow; will pack goodies

and yes, chong is in it

He rules in it

how scary are we talking? i desperately want to watch this but my wife does not like anything too horror-adjacent.

not v scary but it gets pretty gory

when I'm down I love to revisit the pachinko ad where everyone is having bad luck but Cage, it cheers me up every time

it's disorienting but yeah not outright terrifying, outside of uhhh....well let's just say, what are your opinion on fingers

Muttered this on FB last night about it:

The basic framework of the story is pretty much the Lovecraft; Stanley’s dark humor is absolutely in full effect in many ways. The changes to make the story more immediately dramatic are a mix — couple of obvious moves here and there I wasn’t completely on board with, and it there’s a key change it’s that the alien presence is more active at various points instead of it being a slow, steady degrading (but again, drama for the story). Cage doesn’t start fully Caging until about an hour in — one particular moment garnered a spontaneous round of applause, which I didn’t expect, but then again, wasn’t sure how many people are just there to see Cage do Cage. Gorgeous looking film at many points, and Colin Stetson once again has an amazing score. In the Q&A from last week’s premiere they showed, Cage and Stanley talked about how _Ordinary People_ was a reference in ways on the family drama front, and I can see it. Lots of fun references here and there and there is one key reference that gets a specific visual echo right at the end which I enjoyed — suffice to say I want to hear Nathan Carson’s reaction to it (great adaptation BTW). Oh one big thing I did NOT like was that in the end credits one of the featured songs was some track by fucking Burzum. Whoever’s idea that was, it was shit, and if either Stanley or Stetson picked it, I’m gravely disappointed if so.

triple-bill this in between Fast Color and Annihilation, yeah

in terms of Cage-iness, it's very fun that he's a normal calm dad until he gets infected with an alien brain virus that turns him into ~Nicolas Cage~

although tbf this is to some degree also the premise of Mom & Dad (2018)

when I'm down I love to revisit the pachinko ad where everyone is having bad luck but Cage, it cheers me up every time

I love these commercials so much. There's a compilation on YouTube of all five which I have probably watched over a hundred times. They capture the essence of Cage so perfectly, there are a couple which basically encapsulate an entire Nic Cage movie in 30 seconds

so this is kinda "Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets The Shining as directed by Jodorowsky, starring Nic Cage and a team of alpacas". If that doesn't sell you, you're not gonna enjoy it.

About a half hour too long, the fx is occasionally corny as fuck and i found the sound design really annoying (quit it with the whistling already!) but it's generally a blast visually, especially for the last ten minutes or so, plus lots of lovecraft jokes if that's your thing.

Beyond that, my audience was roaring at every Cage-ism and I mostly was too. You'll definitely want to pregame.

absolutely awesome and p much as good as Mandy

v funny, v hyperaccelerated, v surreal and v v eldritch

Watched Deadfall over the holidays, to which that series of descriptors also roughly applies.

absolutely awesome and p much as good as Mandy

lol no

In no way in the same league as Mandy but fun nonetheless.

It helped that my expectations were only moderately high - it surpassed them at every turn. The two films will absolutely come to be regarded together I think. This one had more of a focus on ecological destruction and familial anxiety and subsumed the antagonist into the protagonist, and perhaps Mandy had the stronger and more original vision, but they're both superbly-executed odes to different eras of kickass fantasy horror idk

I haven't seen Annihilation yet - maybe that's next

former ilx0r m1ccio is running a bracket poll of Cageflix on twitter during lockdown, if anyone wants to play

I hope that Sono/Cage movie wrapped before COVID hit.

i think it's been 18 months since i watched every cage movie and i am pretty sure i am now like 10 behind

like trying to visit every page on the internet

Juria316
5 months ago
I love how Nicolas Cage has become a genre.

Obvious choice in retrospect

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/04/nicolas-cage-joe-exotic-tiger-king-miniseries

Saw Pig, the Nicholas Cage looks for his pig movie, tonight and I was pretty floored. Don’t miss this one…

It could be summarized as John Wick meets The Truffle Hunters. But by the third course act it's really much more.

Got Snakes on a Plane vibes from the trailer but Nic Cage seems like the kind of actor who could actually pull this off

I think he did. Certain elements of the Portland culinary underworld, as presented in this movie, strain credulity. But Cage's performance works in this setting.

Question for anyone who knows more about restaurants than I do: is molecular gastronomy still a thing? I was under the impression that it had died with El Bulli, in part because of Noma and the hype around foraging.

I want to see Pig but I don't go to theaters anymore. Once it pops up on Amazon or Hulu or someplace I'll definitely check it out.

is molecular gastronomy still a thing?

In the context of Portland, no. I don't think it ever took hold here to begin with.

is molecular gastronomy still a thing?

It's been two years since I've been to a top-end restaurant, but imo what happened is that those techniques have been more broadly absorbed by top-end "fancy" restaurants. Even top-end places that don't advertise themselves as molecular gastronomy may use aggressively modern elements/techniques within whatever else they are doing.

is molecular gastronomy still a thing

Absolutely, but I think so many of its attributes and trappings are just common practice now that it's not really called that.

The real culinary frontier is elemental gastronomy.

liked this a lot. seemed like all that stuff was just a vehicle to say "none of this is real," as Cage's character doesn't know or care what's happening in that world anymore. restaurant scene was great - "old world, uh, traditions."

It's kind of a shame that Cage has been in this cycle of ott kitsch and gun for hire shit, as I keep hearing nothing but good things about this.

Got Snakes on a Plane vibes from the trailer

I didn't see the trailer but this is definitely not that kind of movie. Watched it last night, it's excellent and very touching, and I like the extremely weird implication that there's some underground of chefs running a fight club (this whole scene was kind of incongruous with the rest of the film but it added a nice surreal touch). Cage seems a lock for an Oscar nomination.