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

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?