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

Early money's on Wicker Man but this is wide open

I'm very content never to learn what "Windtalkers" is really about and just pretend it's an hour and half of Nic Cage portentously talking to the wind.

do i vote for his good movie, or do i vote for any of his AMAZING LOLZ this is hard

is there another oscar-winner of the last few decades who can match his volume and diversity of terrible movies? he's pretty well eclipsed cuba gooding jr., and i can't think of anyone else close.

you can take away oscar-winner in the above sentence

i'm torn between valley girl (for sentimental reasons) and adaptation (the last time he was trying, as far as i can tell).

xp Robin Williams probably matches him on that count.

omg captain correlli's mandolin -- i forget that movie exists, all the time

more than anything else i am amazed that his bad movies do so well

i have only seen 3 of these movies - the 2 1997 movies and the kaufman...i am such a fuxx

they are all awes btw, i kinda don't wanna ruin it

louis go see the rock right now.

Yes the Rock is amazing.

raising arizona

gotta go with my first nic cage experience

Vampire's Kiss (1988)

I was gonna vote for The Rock and then I remembered FACE/OFF! I need to see that again.

oh also, bringing out the dead

what's so impressive about his bad movies is they are almost uniformly AWESOME - i really cant think of anyone in hollywood who has entertained me as much over the years, when u get down 2 brass tax

biggest disappointment - world trade center, for being all solemn and -_-. i had a wishlist of things i wanted to see in a nicolas cage 9/11 movie (like, say, a shot of the first tower going down and cage leaping onto the 2nd one from it) and those wishes went woefully unfulfilled ;_;

# Grindhouse (2007) .... Fu Manchu (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")

e's pretty well eclipsed cuba gooding jr., and i can't think of anyone else close.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra)

^^no way, cage movies are still amazing experiences

not all, Next is incredibly shitty

Matchstick Men gets my vote. he's really sweet there.

max, RE "DO SO WELL," lots of the big-budget FX shit sandwiches are no more than marginally profitable if they gross $100 mill in US. I really don't think the National Treasures would be any less profitable if you stuck some other name-recog ho in there.

The Weather Man and Lord of War got some respectful reviews, but didn't look bad/lol enuf for anyone to go see i guess.

also, aside from Raising Arizona the most defensible choice is RED ROCK WEST.

Dave has recently applied for a position as the weatherman on a national show called "Hello America" which is hosted by Bryant Gumbel, and represents a much, much higher salary than the already high salary Dave has, but also would mean a relocation for himself and possibly his whole family (provided he can reconcile with Noreen) Dave sees this job opportunity as a final way to prove himself to his father and make him proud before he passes away.

Dave has a 12-year-old daughter Shelly (Gemmenne de la Peña) who smokes and is obese and teased by her classmates, who call her "camel toe" because her genitals show through her tight clothing.

I really have to catch up on my post-Y2K Cage movies.

http://www.filmwad.com/fw_images/worstmovies/matchstickmenwarner.jpg

Peggy Sue Got Married

Voted weather man. It's not amazing or anything but tons of lines and moments had stuck with me.

Next is pretty fucking bad but at least it's pretty tight compared to 8mm which is boring as well as horrible.

Voting for Con Air but more for the ensemble cast than for our boy.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Redrockmovieposter.jpg

There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively." Ebert adds, "He alway seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him

srsly, I've never seen this movie but I might vote for it anyway.

remake of bad lieutenant directed by werner herzog and starring nic cage waht?!

biggest disappointment - world trade center, for being all solemn and -_-. i had a wishlist of things i wanted to see in a nicolas cage 9/11 movie (like, say, a shot of the first tower going down and cage leaping onto the 2nd one from it)

I swear to god, when the very first news of 9/11 came through and all that we knew out here was a plane crash and fire in one of the buildings I made a comment to some friends about how I wasn't looking forward to the inevitable movie starring Nicolas Cage. AND IT CAME TRUE.

but surely you didn't think it wd be a conspiracy-free O.Stone film

You are correct.

I want to take my... face... off...

srsly voted for Wild at Heart.

WILD AT HEART

Lord of War is pretty underrated.

boring as hell choice, but gotta go with H.I. McDunnough.

this dude's unintentional lols ratio is out of control. i caught the first few minutes of moonstruck on tv a while back and he is fucking perposterous.

preposterous

gotta go with my first nic cage experience

Vampire's Kiss (1988) Moonstruck (1987)

― bela fregosi (brownie)

I LOST MY HAND
I LOST MY BRIDE
JOHNNY HAS HIS HAND
JOHNNY HAS HIS BRIDE

^^^hahaha YES

a bride without a head

OMG "to the bed"

OMG

I don't think I've seen that scene in maybe 15 years but it has a different ring to it now.

"Raising Arizona" ffs!

Voted Wickeman, Adaptation close second, Ghostrider in third, but I mainly remember Eva Mendes' performance.

well when I say performance, I mean cleavage.

Wild At Heart. No contest.

I do have a soft spot for Face/Off though. Hated it on the first viewing. Really enjoyed it subsequently.

Went with Wild at Heart, but could have picked Valley Girl, Raising Arizona, Con-Air, Rock, Face/Off, or Adaptation. Sure his hit/miss ratio is terrible, but he's in a lot of stuff I love too.

i'm the only one who's going to vote for snake eyes aren't i

I just bought next on DVD for £3. Shall feedback later.

srsly, I've never seen this movie but I might vote for it anyway.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

weatherman is pretty hilarious recommended

Oh, I saw Weatherman, it said something like "Feel good comedy of the year" on the cover - such a lie, though it was quite good.

the whole cameltoe discussion was so lol tragic

is there another oscar-winner of the last few decades who can match his volume and diversity of terrible movies?

Michael Caine wants a word with you.

THE ROCK for that scene where he stabs himself in the chest and goes into the jesus pose with the fighter jets above him holy shit

And massive lols @ this:

It was Nicolas Cage's idea that his character wouldn't swear; his euphemisms include 'gee whiz' for Jesus Christ; 'A-hole' for asshole; and 'Zeus's butthole'. Cage had to fight the producers and director to keep the butthole line, but he agreed to deliver the lines "Do you know how this shit works!" and "Eat that, you fuck!" as swearing is a staple of the action genre, and to show how the mission had changed Goodspeed.

ACTING with Nic Cage

gotta be Adaptation but Red Rock West 2nd

Gene Hackman wants a word with you.

Wild at Heart is shit and seems to have destroyed part of his brain

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The Weather Man is great, I think I gotta go for it. Can't imagine anyone calling it "a feel good comedy" thought, wtf?!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

booo serious answers

I was going to vote Boy In Blue, but forgot, if that makes you feel better.

glad peggy sue got a shout out

that was me

i want to say that was my first exposure to mr. cage (i didn't see rumblefish or valley girl 'til years later) and raising arizona was second... really no way to prepare for what he would eventually do with his *ahem* craft.

surprised that 'the rock' only got one vote

Missed this poll, but all the same: "Vampire's Kiss", now and forever.

booo serious answers

Heck, it's too easy to rib cage about his bad flicks.

rib cage

after reading that post, not understanding it, and then seeing 'rib cage' i feel like i'm on drugs

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/lets_go_see_the_new_nicolas?utm_source=b-section

Yeah, that's what I think of when I think of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

What kind of times are these when a man can't keep his castle anymore.

booo serious answers

# Zandalee (1991) .... Johnny Collins 1

Whatya say we cut the CHIT-CHAT -- A-HOLE?!?

I wish I could find a clip of this... (from The Rock)

http://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/

Nicolas Cage As Everyone

I have enjoyed Next, Face/Off and Con Air all over again over the last few days

Can't wait to see Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans, tonight

really hate this guy

^ it's an acquired taste.

THE ROCK for that scene where he stabs himself in the chest and goes into the jesus pose with the fighter jets above him holy shit

OMG I have seen this movie!

If you had asked me had I seen THE ROCK STARRING NICHOLAS CAGE, I would have insisted NO.

Cage is like that.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/seasonofthewitch/

??!! That's some seriously obscurantist misogyny right there.

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/07/14/entertainment/photos_galleries/sorcerers_apprentice/sorcerer9--350x600.jpg

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/07/14/entertainment/photos_galleries/sorcerers_apprentice/sorcerer8--415x415.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6QY5LOa6MM

this is going to slay so hard

I don't even know what the hell it's about but I'm inclined to agree. Our Joel keeps calling it "Seasoning of the Witch"

i've been unironically anticipating the shit out of season of the witch. movie of 2011 imo.

tbqh it looks like everything i want in a movie right now although i worry that the battle scenes were done too much on the cheap to be really effective. have you read the witcher books? think u might like them & this looks like itll be dark & rad & hilarious like those books are.

hope theres more than one girl in this movie though - needs boning by torchlight to really slay

no but i PLAYED ~*the witcher*~!! i do hope he bones a sexy witch in this

based on the trailers it actually looks like a much more polished movie than i would've expected... it could even be GOOD!

^^The Japanese commercial up there is worth a look

if its like the game he will collect naked pictures after each of his triumphs

http://www.metro.co.uk//weird/876039-man-claims-140-year-old-photo-proves-nicolas-cage-is-a-vampire

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/20/article-1316526311177-0E003CF000000578-313340_304x253.jpg

Cage, at the Toronto film festival along with director Joel Schumacher promoting the film about a home invasion, said that he has actually lived through the nightmare in real life.

"It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed," he told reporters on Wednesday.

"I know it sounds funny ... but it was horrifying."

A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.

i think we may have discussed this on another thread

Pretty damn psyched to see Trespass - the trailer is great and the AV Club quotes Cage yelling “Your filthy lust invited them in!” at Nicole Kidman in the film

i think we may have discussed this on another thread

Oh, my bad. I checked all the Cage threads, but one of them gave me one of those red DO NOT GO THERE warnings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JyukEGjb0

"[Winning Oscars] isn't important to me," he admitted. "In fact, I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. I think that it's ... right now, what I'm excited about is trying to create a [pauses] kind of a cultural understanding through my muse that is part of the zeitgeist that isn't motivated by vanity or magazine covers or awards. It's more, not countercultural, but counter-critical. I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking."

amazing

my God, interviews worse than the films

nouveau shitmatic

ONYX

corrupt cop comedy (?) w/ Elijah Wood and (unseen in the trailer) Jerry Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLspHA8m6Ac

Run this again imo bad lieutenant wins

That looks really good

i also recently heard announced iirc he is directing an adaptation of joyce carol oates rape: a love story

oh yesssss, this looks like prime Cage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTabX1ONwRY

finally

Schrader's latest "Dog Eat Dog" has some prime wacko Cage

in

looks awesome

Academy Award Winner
Nicolas Cage

yes pls

i watched it this morning, dafoe steals it, outshines cage; gd movie

Yeah Dafoe def steals it but Cage was in top form I thought.

Schrader's latest "Dog Eat Dog" has some prime wacko Cage

I have 20 minutes left to watch of this but goddamn this movie is soooo bleak and fucked up. The opening sequence is insane and genuinely shocking, and even though that level of intensity doesn't carry through the whole film, Dafoe is compelling throughout. Cage is allright.

good enough for me im in

amazing that Nic Cage has filmed two separate movies about stealing babies

art mirroring life

lol that didn't even occur to me

xp

In other news, Nicolas Cage is in Kazakhstan. pic.twitter.com/ceAk0ktgqy

— Fabrice Deprez (@fabrice_deprez) July 23, 2017

What an artist. What a man.

bend the knee

couldn't decide which thread to resurrect so it's this one.

due to a series of stupid decisions and events i have decided to watch everythign nick cage has ever been in this summer, for a summer i am calling CAGED HEAT. going to be going more or less in chronological order (some will be out of order as i do movie marathons over the next 90 days and invite people over and tantalize them with his more palatable offerings) basically i am making a huge mistake. i don't actually watch that many movies in my real life (like MAYBE 10 a year?) so by the end of this i think 10% of all movies i have ever watched will have had nick cage in them.

i'll try to remember to document my descent into madness here

man has almost doubled the length of his resume since this thread was started, 55 in this poll, another 40 since mid 2009

I really wish you luck in this endeavor. fwiw I don't think there's a single Cage movie I've outright hated. but I've missed the last 10 or so years of 'em

lmao caged heat, i love this

a life project it’s good needs a logo

Do a podcast.

Leaving Las Vegas is not represented well here
TBf he’s also very good in kick ass

When cage falls and breaks that table in Vegas that’s hilarious

yeah Will move here, I will produce this podcast

I have only seen one Cage flick in the cinema in 2018 though

just realized that he has not one but two incredible pharmacy scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM6X_wdZJaE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVz0RcDbAp8

sort of the yin and yang of Nic Cage, if you will

yeah this is def a podcast waiting to happen

i offer my services as a guest for the ghost rider episodes

well the thing is 1) there is i think already a "let's watch all of the cage movies" podcast but also 2) where do u live anyway sic?

i will be documenting the whole adventure for those with a fb account at fb.me/bingekokdangerous (yes the @name is sweaty as hell but cagedheat and everything else i thought of in that 45 seconds was as well)

a life project it’s good needs a logo

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well i made some hasty and v shitty art for this for the fb, this is the cover photo:
https://i.imgur.com/lD9Hizk.png

and the call for if anyone wants to watch week 1/2 movies w/ me:
https://i.imgur.com/lRO61Y6.jpg

and then te profile photo i just stole from the internet
https://i.imgur.com/DlDpkPJ.png

where do you even find the more obscure ones?

# The Wicker Man (2006) .... Edward Malus	4
# Leaving Las Vegas (1995) .... Ben Sanderson	0

This is a good place.

i believe nic cage himself will sell you a bootleg dvd of any of his movies from the back of the vw camper he lives in behind a truck stop in barstow xp

where do you even find the more obscure ones?

― rip van wanko, Thursday, May 31, 2018 9:14 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been pretty lucky so far -- managed to find a source for everything on the list up to guarding tess (1994) so far. took a break from the hunt, since that's most of what i need for june, and a lot of his stuff is on netflix. i am of course maintaining a spreadsheet.

plz plz anything but facebook or your work will be lost forever in the facebook memory hole :(

or just watch the movies, like that's totally chill, you don't have to make a work of art out of it if u don't want to

what do u mean lost in the fb memory hole? i could also xpost it somewhere else

livejournal or gtfo imo

Isn't his new film supposed to be kind of amazing?

lol which one? there are 3

'Mandy'

the only words i have heard about it so far are "chainsaw fight" so i know i'm in

(i also know i am in because i said i would watch all of his movies and i can't back down now)

well the thing is 1) there is i think already a "let's watch all of the cage movies" podcast

looks like there are four! (I'm in Seattle)

yeah facebook is pointless for this, at least do a blog

Mandy does not have a release date yet. Mom And Dad had a one-week run simultaneous with VOD. Looking Glass was VOD only? The entire format that The Humanity Bureau was meant to be screened in went bankrupt. the Teen Titans Go cartoon that he does a voice cameo in has trailers in multiplexes now.

Bad lieutenant is one of the funniest movies ever

The entire format that The Humanity Bureau was meant to be screened in went bankrupt.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

yeah facebook is pointless for this, at least do a blog

originally decided on FB because my wall post when supernova so i just invited all of my friends to follow the page. I think I'll just crosspost everything to a blog somewhere. Will update once I find a home for it. (what blog platforms do people even use anymore?)

Bad lieutenant is one of the funniest movies ever

i am SO excited to rewatch this

woow, his last theatrical release of 2017 was initially a Lindsay Lohan vehicle but ended up starring someone off Australian digital-only soap opera Neighbours, plus Cage and Faye Dunaway, who broke her leg and tried to get out of it, but the director - a day spa entrepreneur & hotelier who had not written the screenplay, nor directed before - rewrote the part overnight to shoot all her scenes sitting down. the shoot was cut from a month to 15 days, and made $218,179 on an alleged budget of $13 million.

the director also cast himself as Gina Gershon's gynecologist: "Was I stiff? Yes."

Nick cage is the ultimate corrupt cop. The scene where he busts the girl for drugs and then does then is all kinds of wtf

...have you seen Bad Lieutenant?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barco_Escape

http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/article/barco-escape-ceases-operations

Still my favorite Cage performance in a long and storied career

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oEKxMsmMY

man has almost doubled the length of his resume since this thread was started, 55 in this poll, another 40 since mid 2009

hmm, I have seen 16 out of 95

I have only seen one Cage flick in the cinema in 2018 though

lol I forgot that I have also seen both of his 1987 releases in the cinema this year

well if any of the podcasts you produce want to interview someone who watched all of the nic cage movies get @ me in september-ish haha

the most recent Nic Cage thing I saw was that one with him and Willem Dafoe as three-time ex-con losers where, oddly, Cage was out-weirdo'd by Dafoe.

that being said the opening sequence of that film is fucking *insane* and the rest of the movie kinda pales in comparison

is there a more insane Nic Cage scene than this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYJOAW7r03s

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.”

Also, I just posted Next (2007) which may be my magnum opus as far as photos go. i am very good at ms paint, you will hardly believe i don't have two triplet brothers!

not the movie, and certainly not the write-up, but the PHOTO!!

also her response re: kigurumi:
"Tell them I skinned a dinosaur for you because I love you."

these reviews are awesome

Ghost Rider was such a garbage film but Nic Cage was the perfect lead. "so the main character, his head randomly starts on fire"...who else would you get for that role

hahaha it was such a unique variety of trash! i'm low key excited about the sequel tho (prob watching some time next week), it's directed by the crank bros?!

god I'm gonna have to watch Vampire's Kiss again aren't I

btw there is no way anyone from Philly actually talks like that. somewhere in the DVD extras they mention that Cage thought his character was supposed to be classy, so he just invents this "classy"-sounding accent for it out of nowhere. other cool fact is that Cage eating the cockroach was completely ad-libbed. he just thought that's what his character would do. Nic Cage is a lunatic.

xpost

I paid to see it in the cinema in 3D as my only way of voting for Crank 3-D being financed, but it is no Crank

presumably a lot better than Ghost Rider 1 though

Drive Angry >> Ghost Rider

ok. one more thing. I own Deadfall on DVD. I'm always amused by the cover of it, which depicts what looks like some run-of-the-mill sci-fi thriller, complete with a Nic Cage that looks nothing like the guy who appears in the movie. I have no idea what the hell he's doing in this film. It's like every scene is completely ad libbed. He adopts a different accent every 2 minutes. Its so nuts.

HIII FUCKIN YAAAAA!!!!!!

The most implausible thing about Next, a movie that involves a man who can see into the future, is Jessica Biel's character falling for Cage's character after about five minutes.

It's one of the few Philip K. Dick adaptations that, for better or worse, is very true to his writing style. It's pulpy and pretty ridiculous!

I've only seen Drive Angry once, in 3d in the theater, and was entertained because they did 3d how it should be done. Stuff flying at the audience, including shots where weapons are thrown right at the camera iirc

the first Ghost Rider is pretty boilerplate, the second one fails to be as fast-paced or ridiculous as the aforementioned Drive Angry which was disappointing, considering it's the Crank dudes running the show. best part is riffing on the fact any vehicle the Ghost Rider drives becomes hellish. worst is their "what happens when the Ghost Rider has to piss" bit

reeeally looking forward to Mandy! I was really into Beyond the Black Rainbow and the idea of Panos Cosmatos applying his overly-stylized bit to a Nicholas Cage thriller is right up my alley

ok. one more thing. I own Deadfall on DVD. I'm always amused by the cover of it, which depicts what looks like some run-of-the-mill sci-fi thriller, complete with a Nic Cage that looks nothing like the guy who appears in the movie. I have no idea what the hell he's doing in this film. It's like every scene is completely ad libbed. He adopts a different accent every 2 minutes. Its so nuts.

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:25 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DUDE do you know about the movie Arsenal?! it's a quasi-official sequel! or at least, cage is playing the smae character (but it was made in 2016. and i don't think the character is 23 years older. it seems insane. i don't know much about it yet but if you have watched deadfall, it seems like arsenal is a must-watch just to see what they've done???)

also i just looked up the DVD case, which isn't the poster i had seen, and WTF? it looks homemade!! fits in with that movie tho, which as you said feels improvised and sooooo sloppy and weird. it is possibly a peak cage performance tho. i'd rank it top 5 so far for out-there cage performances.

god I'm gonna have to watch Vampire's Kiss again aren't I

btw there is no way anyone from Philly actually talks like that. somewhere in the DVD extras they mention that Cage thought his character was supposed to be classy, so he just invents this "classy"-sounding accent for it out of nowhere. other cool fact is that Cage eating the cockroach was completely ad-libbed. he just thought that's what his character would do. Nic Cage is a lunatic.

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely watch it again, it is monumental. it might be my fave of his movies (albeit with ~30 left to watch). only face/off might challenge it. and for the philly thing -- there's definitely SOMETHING philly-inspired to it, although yeah, nobody would actually talk like that. i think i heard the accent is based on his father or someone his father is friends with? oh and they had to shoot the cockroach scene TWICE. this is the only movie i think i've ever wanted to seek out the commentary for?

I paid to see it in the cinema in 3D as my only way of voting for Crank 3-D being financed, but it is no Crank

― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:19 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:( :( :(

they only directed, didn't write it

Brian Crank's "Mom and Dad," from earlier this year, is a better combo of him and Cage

i watched that one last weekend! (because drive angry had been taken off Netflix and it was planned for a triple-feature i was putting on for my incredibly kind, patient friends and needed a quick replacement). that movie is astounding. soooooo wild. apparently it was even crazier in the first draft and they were forced to dilute it a bit, which is hard to imagine given the end product!

The most implausible thing about Next, a movie that involves a man who can see into the future, is Jessica Biel's character falling for Cage's character after about five minutes.

yes but it's because he Groundhog Day's their every encounter! so creepy

the second one fails to be as fast-paced or ridiculous as the aforementioned Drive Angry which was disappointing (...) worst is their "what happens when the Ghost Rider has to piss" bit

both GR2 and Drive Angry coming up for me very soon, excited to chime in on this. the "what happens when he has to piss" part does NOT sound like a negative

reeeally looking forward to Mandy! I was really into Beyond the Black Rainbow and the idea of Panos Cosmatos applying his overly-stylized bit to a Nicholas Cage thriller is right up my alley

if someone makes a thread for it when it comes out please post it here, i have a lot to say on this dang movie!! i will probably see it again if i can!!

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

HE DOES DIE HALFWAY THROUGH!! (i mean he could have maybe not died... but... like... his face was in boiling oil, and he never came back)

this thing looks completely jacked up and weird, and bad, and I promise to follow up once i've seen it!

here is Will's interpretation of the Kick-Ass pitch meeting: http://www.brilliam.net/cagedheat/2018/08/24/58-kick-ass-2010/

excellent

I remember the first time I saw this movie, I was not as aware of Nic Cage’s acting skills, and kinda thought the weird voice and the inability to walk/move properly were REAL, like something terrible had happened to Nic Cage in real life. What a relief it was to watch again and just realize it was because he is an excellent actor, and not an injured sad dude.

blog is an embarrassment of riches

I just watched JOE last night. Excellent movie, Cage is great in it

isn't Mandy out now in the US, that was what I was expecting this to have been bumped for

haha thanks for enjoying :) looking at that article tho goddamn i hate that fucking font

i got someone else to pick the theme/etc for the blog and i always hated the font but was too lazy to figure out how to change it. NO LONGER

yeah idk how without changing the whole theme. ill figure it out later. anyway yeah i just watched USS indianapolis - men of courage last night and it is one of the worst movies i have seen (not as bad as left behind, but close)

yessss Bad Lieutenant definitely deserves a 5/5. his performance gets so intense and off-the-rails that it's actually kind of harrowing to watch. even if he's just playing a crazy clown cop

amazing that Cage has two classic pharmacy scenes. the other one being in Matchstick Men of course

MANDY ruled. I loved a lot of things about it.

I feel like that was the movie that all those phony grindhouse-aping filmmakers from the mid-00s thought they were making, or wished they could.

I suspect MANDY is also the closest thing Cage has made to the Ghost Rider movie he used to imagine in his head.

I feel like that was the movie that all those phony grindhouse-aping filmmakers from the mid-00s thought they were making, or wished they could.

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the exact review i want to hear

all impressions i've read of this movie suggest that *i* personally made it

also, i am in the home stretch -- 8 of 88 movies left (unless one unexpectedly gets a release i can watch)

the blog is a bit behind that, because i am terrible at remembering to take the photos! if i can find something resembling a big fuzzy grey hat today i'll post #72

trying to watch dog eat dog at work today and realizing it is maybe incredibly nsfw

have to say, the blog has been a very entertaining journey

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

this is pretty great. talking bout his love of the german expressionist style and mimicking it at points. his personal fave is vampire's kiss!

^^that rules, thank you

thanks foir posting that! someone sent it to me yesterday (i now get sent all of the cage stuff by everyone i know, haha) but forgot to watch. meant to watch the first 5 mins and grab lunch, got sucked in and watched the whole thing!

also glad you like the blog outic (and others)! i thought it was just a really dumb thing that nobody would like so it's pleasing to hear i'm not literally only doing it for myself

Mandy was pretty good!

SPOILERS

SO MANY SPOILERS

SERIOUSLY

a couple of things I really appreciated about Mandy

Mandy (the character) was easily the most fleshed-out person in the entire movie - we get to know her tastes, a bit of her work, a bit about her past, and a lot about her personality from how she handles Jeremiah. so when she dies it feels like a real loss that alters the fabric of reality, not just a cheap bit of character motivation - so much so that all that's left for Red is revenge-movie, horror, and fantasy tropes to process his grief (see also the animated sequences). 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 felt like a movie about different approaches to cocooning yourself away from the world coming into disastrous conflict with one another.

agreed on all of those points! that's honestly why i was wishing that the part that happens around the hour never happened -- the movie up until that point is a completely different movie, and it's a movie i really, desperately wanna watch!

really enjoying cage's impression of herzog in that gq video

the california klaus kinski

the NY Times' Glenn Kenny gave it a near-rave today (I thought it had opened already)

"The movie’s imagery is consistently unearthly; its pacing has a magisterial weight. Call it pulp Tarkovsky, maybe."

not a bad description.

Some close friends of mine hated this lol

Nick Wrigley called it "Golan-Globus Sokurov"

"pulp Tarkovsky"

again, i personally made this movie

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

also i am v sorry that your crowd cheered through the bathroom scene

yeeahh! to review and to Brad's posts

hey ilx let's all chip in for an Xmas gift for Will!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/659788931/nicolas-cage-face-dreams-pillowcase?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=enamel+pin+nic+cage&ref=sr_gallery-2-33&organic_search_click=1&pro=1&frs=1

would it surprise you to know that I HAVE ONE NIC CAGE PILLOW ALREADY

click if u dare (warning: male shirtlessness)

lmao

name a more iconic duo

extremely good #content

oh and i finally remembered to post one of these, of which i will be posting 4 more in the future.

the five to come at some point (incl. this):
- Top Ten Nicolas Cage Performances
- Top Ten NICOLAS CAGE Performances (you get the difference I assume)
- Ten Worst Nicolas Cage Movies
- Ten Worst Nicolas Cage Movies, But Like, Also Somehow Good
- Ten Best Nicolas Cage Movies

I already have my lists, just need to edit the photos and write the blurbs.

i love what you wrote about his performance in mandy there

In which Martin Short meets Nicolas Cage on an airplane pic.twitter.com/eTG4lBZkJ8

— Music Box Theatre (@musicboxtheatre) April 23, 2017

adorable tbh

clifford is a very odd movie.

i am no Nic cultist, but there was a NYT Mag interview this week w/ many quotable quotes.

not gonna waste one of my free article links posting, so one of you richies will have to.

My fave part (cant remember the exact quotes) was when he was talking about buying properties around the world as part of a search for the holy grail, and the interviewer asked what he meant by that metaphor and he was like "searching for the actual holy grail."

also, major influence on his acting method: Stockhausen

Did being a young man who was insecure about money color your attitude about buying things and what success looks like?

You have good investments and bad investments. The good investments came from personal interest and my honest enjoyment of the history. For example, Action Comics No. 1: I bought that for $150,000. Then it was stolen. I got it back and sold it for $2 million. But that was a good thing to have, because I had an interest that was sincere. The funny thing is, my real estate buying spree was what the real problem was. It wasn’t these other things like shrunken heads that the media liked to talk about.

Or that dinosaur skull?

Or an octopus. What is an octopus, $80? You’re not going to go into dire straits buying an octopus. The dinosaur skull was an unfortunate thing, because I did spend $276,000 on that. I bought it at a legitimate auction and found out it was abducted from Mongolia illegally, and then I had to give it back. Of course it should be awarded to its country of origin. But who knew? Plus, I never got my money back. So that stank. But I went years where all I was doing was meditating three times a day and reading books on philosophy, not drinking whatsoever. That was the time when I almost went on — you might call it a grail quest. I started following mythology, and I was finding properties that aligned with that. It was almost like “National Treasure.” Of course, that didn’t sustain. On top of which, I said, “I’m going to get off philosophy,” because I became like a kite with a string but no anchor. No one could understand what I was talking about. And I thought people would rather see me as an orangutan than as an eagle meditating on the mountaintop anyway.

Wait, what did you mean when you said you were on a grail quest and finding properties that aligned with that?

One thing would lead to another. It’s like when you build a library. You read a book, and in it there’s a reference to another book, and then you buy that book, and then you attach the references. For me it was all about where was the grail? Was it here? Was it there? Is it at Glastonbury? Does it exist?

Oh, O.K. I thought you were being metaphorical about going on a grail quest.

Yeah, if you go to Glastonbury and go to the Chalice Well, there’s a spring that does taste like blood. I guess it’s really because there’s a lot of iron in the water. But legend had it that in that place was a grail chalice, or two cruets rather, one of blood and one of sweat. But that led to there being talk that people had come to Rhode Island, and they were looking for something as well.

That’s why you bought property in Rhode Island?

I don’t know if I’m going to say that’s why I bought the Rhode Island property. But I will say that is why I went to Rhode Island, and I happened to find the place beautiful. But yes, this had put me on a search around different areas, mostly in England, but also some places in the States. What I ultimately found is: What is the Grail but Earth itself?

I find that grail quests tend to be more fulfilling when they’re metaphorical.

Well, I knew that, and the metaphor for me is the earth. The divine object is Earth.

He's so fantastic in Moonstruck. The hysteria of the earlier scenes sure but then following them with the scene at the dinner table (which took so many retakes diretor Jewison refused to let them break for lunch) where he does the best 'observing' routine you can imagine, he's almost motionless, just smiling and watching.. aw it breaks my heart it does.

This is great, bit disappointing to hear the Coens were kinda dicks to him, possibly an embellished tale though

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

(and the Alec Baldwin one of those is hilarious too.. )

that nyt interview is fantastic

nic cage is the real national treasure

I'm just glad he's out there, being Nice Cage. he's one of a kind. like, do you think Matt Damon or Leo or Brad Pitt or Matt Damon has ever said anything truly interesting?

Matt Damon's so forgettable you forgot you typed his name once before.

looking suspiciously like jimmy hart, the mouth of the south

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/08/11/magazine/11mag-talk/11mag-talk-threeByTwoSmallAt2X.jpg https://ringthedamnbell.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/mi.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Out_of_Space_(film)

Matt Damon's so forgettable you forgot you typed his name once before.

― omar little, Thursday, August 15, 2019 4:08 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao i meant to say affleck

mookie, i had that same thought; glad to hear it's not just me.

When Frank Walsh (Nicolas Cage), a hunter and collector of rare and exotic animals, bags a priceless white jaguar for a zoo, he figures it’ll be smooth sailing to a big payday. But the ship bearing Frank’s precious cargo has two predators caged in its hold: the cat, and a political assassin being extradited to the U.S. After the assassin breaks free – and then frees the jaguar – Frank feverishly stalks the ship’s cramped corridors in hot pursuit of his prey, right up until the thrilling, unpredictable climax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7UF9BMgKts

TAKE IT EASY WITH MY CAAAAT

gettin a Weinstein look

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

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:42 (yesterday) link

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.

ok I guess I really do need to see this, leave it to Cage to make something like this actually good

pig is such a soulful and beautiful film

Brad OTM.

I went to a free viewing of Mandy and I can report it's still amazing even the third watch through

more people in every trade/artform could stand to be told "none of this is real"

pig is such a soulful and beautiful film

Ha, yer such a mark. It's one of your best qualities, mind you.

I watched it this past weekend when it popped up on Hulu; it was... better than I expected. But come on; it's set in a world every bit as fantastic as JOHN WICK or ROAD HOUSE, and Cage as nearly silent avatar of What Really Matters is totally absurd. There's not one Dead Wife but TWO! But I'll give it this much - the movie sells it so well you only laugh afterward. Scott Seward called it "a dumber Nomadland for Chuck Palahniuk fanboys" and that's dead on.

"a dumber Nomadland for Chuck Palahniuk fanboys" can not possibly be "better than you expected"

It has the virtue of being completely original and mostly successful at bringing off its premise; it's the intersection of film and ILX's quiddities-of-the-NYT thread. Maybe the year's sharpest political film.

watched and very much loved Pig over the weekend

if it was a dumber palahniuk he’d have been fucking the pig imo

I didn’t buy a lot of bits of the script but Cage sold the dialogue like he meant it. He’s made to emote and act out some really iffy concepts and somehow sell them, imo

Ha, yer such a mark. It's one of your best qualities, mind you.

one of your best qualities is your complete inability to see beyond your narrow-ass tastes so thanks

y’all just namechecking palahniuk just because there’s an brief underground fight club scene in the movie? idk, think better

Pig

it totally depicted the outrageous rituals and trend-chasing that defines any kind of scene without resorting to straight realism, which is distinct from the fictional world of assassins in john wick and the deep interrogation of masculinity in fight club but then again maybe these different things are all the same

Road House was a much deeper interrogation of masculinity than Fight Club. Palahniuk’s best book is Invisible Monsters.

I love movies about work. This one was curious about food culture and the politics of food sourcing. It may be why I liked the writing and directing of the Wolff character so much. We've seen these underachievers before; his sadness and sincerity and just-smart-enough air touched me.

otm

I left Pig a little bemused but not untouched - however its virtues were thrown into sharp relief by my next Cage screening, the irredeemable Prisoners of the Ghostland.

Irredeemable? That film is going to rule and you cannot convince me otherwise

I’m mildly bristling at “underachievers” here. I don’t think Arkin’s character necessarily wanted his son to achieve anything, in that he was as dismissive of him as he was unable to let go of his wife

That's fair.

Irredeemable? That film is going to rule and you cannot convince me otherwise

― imago

No, it's awful nonsense with a couple of nice sets.

are you a fan of any of Sono's previous work

Haven't seen it. This didn't entice me to.

that is all i needed to know

the film will ruuuuuule

have to say i'm with unperson, this was fun and all but ends up being about as deep as a puddle. its great to see cage actually trying & succeeding to act, he's extremely watchable & gives the role more than it deserves. but i'm bored silly by 'damaged stoic hardman trying to Get Back That Which Has Been Stolen' when its done this self-seriously - Point Blank was 50 years ago ffs. at least John Wick had a sense of camp.

y'all are acting as if this movie ends violently

I expected it to go Point Blank and JW and it didn't.

it's a meditation on loss and the ways it obstructs us from true human connection and healing and, as alfred said, it is also about work, about craft, and the ways capital separates us from the dignity of that craft, and fair enough if y'all have seen so many movies that cover this ground both simultaneously and richly while also being funny, poignant, melancholy, and constantly making, ime, unexpected narrative turns, but i haven't and i loved it. also every character the film dwells on has a wonderful, three-dimensional arc, and the movie looks stupidly beautiful. i am a mark, though

the film will ruuuuuule

i’m a big sono mark and think norikos dinner table is an all time great movie and also thought he was on a nice streak lately (loved escher street) but… ghostland is just a mess that doesn’t work at all. worst sono i’ve seen and i must’ve watched like 15 or 20 of em at this point. and it’s particularly disappointing bc it’s gonna be the first exposure a lot of people get and will keep em away from the good stuff, like we’re already seeing on this thread. total bummer.

Thanks bgm - that makes me much more likely to check out his other stuff than certain other posters' 'you're not in the cool club' crowing ;)

D:

lol np

fwiw, depending on your tastes, tag, noriko, antiporno, why don’t you play in hell?, or himizu are all a significantly better way in imo

(x-post)

the half of "why don't you play in hell" that i watched was very much a good time

Time to redo the poll, folks: Nicolas Cage To Play Dracula In Universal’s ‘Renfield’ Starring Nicholas Hoult

pig was not very good

why not?

Will this make Cage the first actor to play two very different vampires in two very different vampire movies?

it is functionally a fantasy/comic book movie that fridged a "character" to kick off the plot which was a revenge thriller retread but with lessons about respect, patience, and tolerance instead of violence, and none of that is what i want from any movie ever. also i draw a line at the amount of "the modern world is bad, because of phones" type shit, which Pig was doing every single chance it got

[n.b., i am a lifelong portlander who is always going to have weird opinions about narratives built around my home and also have tons of personal relationships and arguably work within specifically the portland pretentious food world, but i was psyched to see this dunked on, and i felt like it was at best lazy sketch comedy level dunking]

Where are you drawing the conclusion that the movie offered anything as didactic as a "lesson"?

Even if it did offer a lesson, I guess the films of Renoir and Ford, steeped in respect, tolerance, etc., aren't for you.

Where are you drawing the conclusion that the movie offered anything as didactic as a "lesson"?

There was this big standout scene where Cage forces his former subordinate to interrogate his values as a chef (and by implication as a man), remember?

but the modern world is bad because of phones

if you don’t think pig is speaking through its protagonist, around whose story the entire film is built, who is designed to sit in judgement of everyone he encounters, which he does throughout the film, well I guess you won’t see it as a didactic work. Me, I figure it is, and I see it as a very didactic film that verges on being a (very creaky) morality tale.

There’s plenty of PNW film that deals with the impoverishment endemic to the area without using it for fantasy. Happy to pass on some of my favorites! Kelly reichardt’s earlier work is the obvious touchstone but even 80s van sant or, like, leave no trace was pretty widely seen.

but the modern world is bad because of phones

y’all just namechecking palahniuk just because there’s an brief underground fight club scene in the movie? idk, think better

tbf in addition to the underground fight club scene (which even in the pulpy world of the movie is completely out of nowhere and obviously a reference to palahniuk), a major scene is basically lifted from fight club, where the avatar of authenticity who Sees Through All The Bullshit chastises someone for giving up on their youthful dreams and becoming a part of The System. but like palahniuk's cheapest instincts, its a cheat because all it does is flatter the audience for hating a caricature.

There’s plenty of PNW film that deals with the impoverishment endemic to the area without using it for fantasy. Happy to pass on some of my favorites! Kelly reichardt’s earlier work is the obvious touchstone but even 80s van sant or, like, leave no trace was pretty widely seen.

― Clay,

I like most of those films.

yeah those scenes function very differently in their respective movies you uncharitable dicks

i don’t remember any “phones” shit in this movie literally at all

i also feel like that’s an incorrect reading of fight club on top of it. nothing tyler says is meant to be taken at face value

the supposed caricature in pig is a very real person in my experience lol

i mean obviously the movies have different plots, but just saying its a fair point of reference imo

Also, it's clear we're not supposed to identify with Cage.

I think I'm going to retract what I wrote a little while ago. What's wrong with didacticism in movies? You can reject the message or not; it still doesn't impair the movie.

i identify with the cage character but the movie is not wholly on his side, no

thanks Alfred, I will emphasize again that my relationship with this movie is always going to be complicated by my lifelong residence in portland and where and how I’ve worked here. It does not strike true for me, but it probably isn’t supposed to! I’ve heard positive and negative things from local friends, so my judgement is personal! I should start a thread for, like, living on the edge in the northwest woods films, as I could live the rest of my life doing and watching nothing else

can we come up for truffles

i run through the woods* 3 miles a day, if you can keep up I’ll show you the way!

*(its 90% asphalt streets but buddy, the trees are so huge everywhere)

I'll fess to having a somewhat rose tinted view because it was one of my best Back To The Cinema experiences, but I fucking loved Prisoners Of Ghostland. "Couple of nice sets" is I think somewhat misleading when the sets are so much of what it's about, and you're unlikely to get the same kind of charge anywhere much in modern cinema; that and the film's use of extras really made it shine as a spectacle for me. And I mean yeah there's not much in it for you if you don't like spaghetti westerns or samurai flicks or the tradition of grindhouse cinema, but hell, how can you hate on a movie that ends with the line "I think Samurai Town is going to be a beautiful place someday"?

For a movie that tried to do the same thing but actually sucks see Sukiyaki Western Django.

i identify with the cage character but the movie is not wholly on his side, no

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 1, 2021 7:22 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otherwise there would be no reason for him to develop such an intimate relationship with the alex wolff character. his singlemindedness which causes him to go off the grid in the first place is something the movie gradually undoes even though he does get to lecture a former orderly whose impersonal pretensions have led him astray etc. again, i have no knowledge of the food scene but this was very easy to layer over my experience as a writer

fair if ppl in the pnw found this hollow i guess, i’ve only visited

fwiw I was lukewarm on Pig but also agree you're not supposed to see it through Cage's eyes - like part of the film is about uncovering how that dude got to where he was by the beginning, the character is difficult and frustrating and totally incapable of functioning in normal society, yes said society is mostly portrayed as rotten but I don't think the character's alternative of a unabomber type existence is shown to be particularly attractive either?

otm, albeit a misanthrope and outcast who knows from good wine.

i also understand objecting to genre subversion on the face of it, i just thought this movie did it really well, balancing a total ridiculousness with a weary low-key wisdom, which made it very much more than a revenge-movie-with-the-revenge-subtracted for me. i did see promising young woman a few weeks beforehand so maybe i had an object lesson in How Not To Do It in mind as well

i also now wholly cop to it being similar to fight club bc the message of both movies seems to be that there are all kinds of bullshit in the world that you can use to fill the void or assemble your personality around but the only thing that's mostly not bullshit is genuine human connection

Cage’s character in Pig knows that his entire shtick is incompatible with society and isn’t telling anyone to go live in a shack with a pig and no shower

imo the film makes it clear his ideals were untenable in the long term. he had success, an amazing restaurant, and ended up ditching society completely when he lost his wife because he wasn’t getting anything out of life anymore and decided everything is fake. despite the fact he’s able to break down his antagonist with a sublime meal in moments in the last act!
he breaks down the chef/former employee about “realness” but imo it’s partially a reaction to “oh, I didn’t recognize you, the greatest chef ever!”

all he has at the beginning of the film is a recording of his dead wife’s voice and a pig. and at the end it seems like maybe he’s willing to let the former go

Just watched Pig last night, found it odd and enjoyable. During the middle section, when it still seems like it might go full revenge film, I said to my wife that it was like a Safdie Brothers film directed by Kelly Reichardt. (Alternatively, Oldboy meets Old Joy.)

But then it didn’t go that direction at all, and turned into something more minor key, and a bit pat. That both the protagonist and antagonist are mourning lost spouses was very tidy, and Cage’s apparent total-recall thing was sort of gimmicky. Still, I liked that it never quite went where I thought it would. And Cage’s restraint was a nice gimmick of its own, because of what we have been conditioned to expect from him.

Safdie/Reichardt is good comp. yeah, I think the landing could have been stuck better but overall the performances were great. Really liked the first face to face between Cage and Arkin.

Cage gave one of 2021's best perfs.

I encourage viewers to watch Nic Cage in PIG ❣️

— Sharon Stone (@sharonstone) January 8, 2022

I thought it was great, spellbinding, beautifully paced and knowing without quite crossing into arch, and so generous

apropos of nothing I just remembered this SNL clip in which he appears next to Andy Samburg who is playing a Nic Cage clone. the fact that Cage doesn't smirk even a little through any of this is incredible. I'm not saying it's particularly funny (I mean, I like it) but idk if any other actor could do a live comedy skit like this without cracking once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMol8x9aUj8

Pig ain't great but was a huge surprise.

Just watched it last night, it’s slow paced and a bit hard to follow (thanks to a protagonist who mumbles everything) but by the end I was pretty emotionally wrapped up in it. I’ll give it points for subverting expectations, both in this type of “gruff stoic older man tries to take back what’s his” film and what you expect out of Cage, who you can forget sometimes is a damn good actor when he wants to be.

One thing that did bother me though - Cages character doesn’t take a shower, doesn’t change clothes, was (until recently) hanging around with a pig all day….wouldn’t he smell fucking awful? Like bad enough that it would’ve bothered everyone he came in contact with?

i think you just have to ride your suspension of disbelief there along with "he looks like shit, shouldn't he go to the hospital"

film seemed to delight in the absurdity of never addressing either of these things afaict

Maybe there are a lot of infrequent bathers in Portland and he didn’t stand out

How did "Leaving Las Vegas" get no votes???

Someone in the underground restaurant worker fight club should have said something at least.

timely thread bump as i'll be seeing the unbearable weight of massive talent tonight. hope it's fun

Pig was a sweet movie that went in unusual directions, though as someone who'd be fine never going into a restaurant again, I struggled with the concept of "magical chef who remembers every meal he makes" and "diner whose heart can be unlocked by dinner nostalgia".

Two points:

- There's a dark irony in the scene where Amir is in a loading bay trying to get a reservation to the fancy restaurant... and there's multiple pigs (?) hanging on hooks, unloved and unsearched for.
- I was startled to do the math that this guy living in the woods for 15 years would have retreated from society... in about 2005! I've got a fixed idea that everyone who goes Unabomber did it by 1979.

The more I think about it the more I think of it as being like a parable - like one major lynchpin of the plot is the guy cooking a meal so great that it becomes the best moment of someone’s life!

Pig was a sweet movie that went in unusual directions, though as someone who'd be fine never going into a restaurant again, I struggled with the concept of "magical chef who remembers every meal he makes" and "diner whose heart can be unlocked by dinner nostalgia".

I liked Pig in part because it excited me about eating in restaurants again.

I struggled with the concept of "magical chef who remembers every meal he makes"

ok, think of an artist instead

Treating it as a parable makes sense.

about the pig thing:

Nicolas Cage says “I would love to be in a Muppet movie. I think Kermit and I can be best friends and I've always had a crush on Miss Piggy.”

(Source: @TwitterMovies) pic.twitter.com/ts0KkujRkH

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) April 16, 2022

<3

I will say the pig itself was really cute. I had no idea they looked like that.

I watched Pig last night with my wife. It 'worked' for me in spite of what I considered to be a weak, barely adequate, and often ludicrous script. A lot of loving care was lavished on this film. The temptation to play the script for its comedic potential must have been powerful. Playing it straight-faced and making it work anyway was damn near a miracle.

I credit a big part of it's fascination to the audacious choice to keep Cage's derelict-who-slept-under-a-bridge appearance unchanged throughout, except for the addition of caked-on blood in his hair and beard after the assault, while never treating any of this as worthy of comment by other characters. Cage's acting was excellent, but it often consisted of looking stolid while his appearance did most of the work.

That's often all I want from actors.

wanted to look something up at will m's blog but it seems to be dead now? :(

was reminded of depalma's snake eyes and was wondering if it's worth watching.

Sad that it went offline before Massive Talent, seems like the perfect way to wrap that up

what the heck, i have no idea why it's down. i will try to figure out why

i do plan on going back at some point and playing some catch up, i wanna say maybe around november but no promises! i had a few more written up after mandy but it's been so long! last i checked i have between 15 and 20 movies to do again damn

first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes is one of DePalma’s best movies, and a jaw-dropping piece of technical work by Cage. He leads the choreo, never stops moving, presumably had the script letter-perfect to coordinate with the motion, and always, always finds his light and makes sure the camera has him without appearing to see it.

site's back up, after puzzling over its disappearance and finally contacting support

i watched snake eyes and... it certainly was a depalma movie, but not a very good one. but yeah cage is fantastic throughout that intro.

I just watched Pig, and did not expect to be this emotionally affected by it. Was kind of blindsided by the fact it was a) good and b) so very sad

lmao what is this

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT - NICOLAS CAGE

Official Gameplay Trailer pic.twitter.com/sVOluyKrzL

— ❦ (@dvveet) June 8, 2023

I’ve watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far

I hope The Surfer does well, I liked it a lot