All three segments from his appearance last week on The Late Show.
https://youtu.be/gOIkw7SyWus
https://youtu.be/3Ezg0KfOREw
https://youtu.be/Fbkds3zI9M8
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All three segments from his appearance last week on The Late Show.
https://youtu.be/gOIkw7SyWus
https://youtu.be/3Ezg0KfOREw
https://youtu.be/Fbkds3zI9M8
I dug NC’s list of his favorite NC films:Quote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
PIG and MANDY are great.
I “need” to revisit both BRINGING OUT THE DEAD and BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, though.
And I just added JOE to my watch list…
I do wish that Colbert had gotten Cage to elaborate on why those are his favorites…
60 Minutes did a segment on NC last night. His home is…interesting?
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Nic Cage is uh…interesting lol
This is pure cage:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...234951452/amp/
Definitely ... different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skistack
https://youtu.be/QqrhKjrgFrk
Didn't Gary Oldman do that exact thing in True Romance?Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
EDIT: Well, I misremembered. (Happens a lot these days.) Not exactly the same thing, but in the appropriation ballpark. Still, I'll bet it was one of young Seth Rogan's favorite flicks.
https://youtu.be/qXUcVuAWEOU
Of course that was 30 f'n years ago!
Just scored this at the used bookstore in Reno:
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Sweet find, enjoy! Looks like perfect shitter material. ;)
I've had a hankering lately to see Wild At Heart, but haven't been able to find it streaming anywhere, and the library doesn't have it, which is surprising.
The Collector's Edition DVD and Blu-Ray is available on Amazon, but if anyone comes across a streaming option please post the source.
https://youtu.be/1inubE_yzq4
“Brilliant”!!!
Community had so many high points, especially with Abed.
Animal Control , while mildly entertaining occasionally, pales in comparison.
Just finished this.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
First takeaway: I thought I’d seen most of his films, but apparently not.
Second takeaway: Trying to wrap my head around the author’s comparison of Busby Berkeley and Michael Bay; mostly because I’ve never seen a Busby film…
Anyway, the book is breezily written, contains lots of excerpts from a wide range of interviews, and has some decent insight into the Hollywood machine. While essentially a career retrospective, it’s also a total esoteric film nerd kinda read.
My only complaint is that the final coupla chapters feel rushed and the author merely glosses over some of Cage’s recently great films (Pig, Mandy, Color Out of Space, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent). I am guessing the book was already in the publishing phase when these films were released, but it’s kind of a shame that the author wasn’t able to/didn’t analyze them further.
But as a career retrospective for a still working actor, it’s a great read.
JOE
Just watched this 2013 Nic Cage vehicle and he’s in prime, restrained intensity throughout.
It can be a bit of a rough watch at times due to the realistic violence and dark lens shined upon downtrodden, working class denizens of an unnamed Texas rurality, but it’s always enthralling due to Cage’s performance. The story is familiar, yet it unfolds with a taut sense of purpose buffered by a solid supporting cast.
You could call it a “roir” (rural noir) if you’d like.
RIYL
Winter’s Bone, Pig
Dammit anyway!
When will I ever learn?
Basically I can’t unsee this, and not because it was horrible, but mostly because I think they just crammed all the best bits into it, thus kind of negating any reason to see the film itself. :frown:
If you hate spoilers, perhaps avert your eyes…
After seeing The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, I put Paddington 2 on my movies-to-watch list.
Finally got around to watching it this morning.
Everything Javi and Nic say and express in this clip is true.
Okay, so I didn’t cry throughout the entire film, but I definitely teared up at the end. And I laughed a lot throughout.
Paddington 2 is a prime example of a kid oriented movie made for all ages; it’s heartfelt without being saccharine or maudlin or overbearing, it hits all the right and proper notes, it has puerile humor, but also sophisticated humor, it pays homage to cinema ranging from Wes Anderson to Charlie Chaplin, and most importantly it never panders to the audience.
Highly recommended!
I keep seeing this thread bumped so I guess I'll chime in with this pic:
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This is his tomb in New Orleans. I took this last year, it's in a graveyard you can only see by tour. The guide said NC had tax problems (owed 6 million) so the IRS confiscated 3 buildings of his in NO including a very expensive and famous haunted house, but by law they can't confiscate your burial plot. So this is all he has left in NO.
Most tombs in this graveyard looked nothing like this one and the majority were hundreds of years old. It stuck out as odd and misplaced.
I thought he was just sleeping.
Holy Crap, he’s Illuminati too? It’s all starting to make sense
This has got to be the most perfectly designed, er, vehicle ever for Nic Cage.
Right in his, er, wheelhouse!
https://youtu.be/HlHecqUoMmQ
Review: Nicolas Cage is a raving lunatic in ‘Sympathy for the Devil’
Latest Nic Cage cinematic vehicle to premiere on opening night of TIFF 2023:
https://deadline.com/2023/08/nicolas...ry-1235452914/
Quite understated based on the trailerQuote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
A good morality tale
I think NC has been averaging a movie a month this year...
He recently had two in the theaters, Sympathy For The Devil and The Retirement Plan,
has one dropping today (see trailer below), and another coming in Nov/Dec (Dream Scenario).
Whoa, that looks good! This is too - common subject matter...Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
https://youtu.be/U-Ot5leP3YU
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo/
Nic Cage says “I didn’t get into movies to become a meme…”
(Nevermind that memes as we know them today didn’t really exist when he started acting…) :D
https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...o-headed-snake
Enjoyed the article, wherein was mentioned "Butcher’s Crossing is out now on Amazon Prime Video". :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
https://variety.com/2023/film/global...gh-1235819624/
Lord of War sequel in the works
Nic Cage says he’s done?!
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...awards-insider
At the rate he pumps out films, that’s like he’s gonna retire next year…
YupQuote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
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P.S. 'Tis the season - bump for Trapped In Paradise
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Now streaming on Hoopla - https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16459089
"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
Nice think-piece/op-ed:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...s-2187780.html
I watched Dream Scenario recently on Max. It's an intense ride/Kafkaesque commentary on modern life that gets pretty ugly in the second half. (Did not surprise me to learn that Ari Aster had a hand in it.) It's a good film, and Cage was at his awesome best.
Also impossible (for me, anyway) not to think the opening was a nod to and a bit of intentional foreshadowing along the lines of the closing scene of 8mm, another very good, but very, very dark Nic Cage classic.
Hard to believe 8mm was made 25 years ago!
In fairness, I haven’t watched since it was in the theater, but that movie was fucking terrible. Acting wasn’t bad, but the rest tried so hard for edge and sucked so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
That’s the only movie where I think they were trying to get people to walk from the ultra-realism/ grim subject matter but I was in a theater where people walked out laughing about how cringe it was.
I recall not liking it when I saw it in the theater upon its initial release.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
And it pretty much got panned by critics, for what that’s worth.
However, Roger Ebert gave it 3 out of 4:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/8mm-1999
Ebert later posted a letter from a reader who questioned his reviews of A Clockwork Orange and 8mm:
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebe...s-as-evil-does
I haven't seen it since either, but the only thing I recall being over the top was the demise of Joaquin's character. (Schumacher started as a costume designer.) Otherwise I found the story well constructed and intense throughout, and the acting (and casting) much better than "wasn't bad". (Peter Stormare alone worth the price of admission. And he wasn't alone.)Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
I imagine anyone who stayed for the whole thing and walked out of the theater laughing probably didn't have children. ( Then. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
Regardless, a film either connects, or it don't. It's good, meh, or it sucks. We can change over time, as can our opinions on many things. Maybe another watch to see how it strikes a quarter century down the line?
Dropping 4/12:
ARCADIAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJEPX3WaD1k
I was pleasantly surprised by ARCADIAN.
Admittedly, I walked into the cinema with fairly low expectations.
The latest Nic Cage vehicle is an understated post-apocalyptic coming-of-age/sibling rivalry drama masquerading as a sci-if thriller.
Wonderful pacing, a nice low-key performance from Cage, and a few “oh shit” moments make for an entertaining yarn.
The less you know going in, the better the experience, imho.
RIYL
Z For Zachariah; Pitch Black; A Quiet Place
What a tease. I need to see him go nuke from orbit on those guys. A surfer version of Falling Down.
It’s helmed by the director of Vivarium, so I’m in!Quote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
PS
Premiered at Cannes on 5/17/24 and gets a 4/5 from The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/art...inity-thriller
After months, if not years of development, David O. Russell’s Madden looks to be nearing the end zone. Nicolas Cage is set to portray John Madden, the storied football coach and sports commentator, in a drama from Amazon MGM Studios to be directed by Russell, the filmmaker behind Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle.
But this is not a biopic of the man in the typical way, nor a sports drama, a genre Russell took on with boxing movie The Fighter. Rather, Madden is in part, according to sources, a video game movie. It’s the origin story of Madden NFL, one of the biggest video game franchises of all time.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...den-1235976155