Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Full-On Unhinged Crazy-Cakes Nic Cage is Back!

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (26)

Today is one of the many days that I love my fucking job. I love it even more today, folks. We got an awesome days of posts planned and a review, later today, of one of the best movies of the year.

And we start with this: The trailer for Warner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, starring Nic Cage. It’s an update of the original directed by Abel Ferrara and starred Harvey Keitel, and a year ago, when Dan announced that they were making this movie, he wrote: “Who knows what direction Herzog will take the picture; maybe he’ll have Cage ride around L.A. on a grizzly bear.”

That wasn’t as far fetched a notion as you’d have thought. The preliminaries: The film follows a corrupt New Orleans police officer as he investigates the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. William Finkelstein wrote the script.

The awesome: It looks gloriously awful. It’s Nic Cage in full-on unhinged mode, which is the only Nic Cage I like. He’s bringing back a little of that H.I. McDunnough spirit and, as bad as campy-bad as it looks, I haven’t actually been as excited about a Nic Cage movie as I am about this one in a decade. I can’t explain it. The whole thing looks laughable, but this is the Nic Cage I fucking dig to death.

You gotta see it to believe it, folks. To the break of dawn, baby:

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AND Val Kilmer?

AND Xibit?

I am so, so there.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at May 28, 2009 9:52 AM

"Shoot him again, his soul's still dancing."

Hahahah.....hahahaha......hahahahah! Best Nic Cage movie ever!

Posted by: admin at May 28, 2009 9:58 AM

I just don't know how to process how I feel about that trailer. But I want that movie.

A lucky crack pipe might not hurt either.

Posted by: Vermillion at May 28, 2009 10:00 AM

It's hard to remember a time when The Cage used to make actual movies. He's his generations Al Pachino, in both the good and bad ways. If it weren't for his uncle Copollas paycheck directing (Jack) he'd feel ashamed of his new career.

But at least this one will actually be worth watching in that way.

Posted by: George at May 28, 2009 10:01 AM

But is it "Mic Cage Punches a Woman Whilst Wearing a Bear Suit" crazy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpsbAUEe90

THAT'S the kind of Nic Cage I love. Bear-suit-wearin', lady-punchin' crazy.

Posted by: Tammy at May 28, 2009 10:05 AM

"NIC" Cage. Damnit. I get so excited about the bear suit I forget to spellcheck.

Posted by: Tammy at May 28, 2009 10:06 AM

It's exactly how I imagined it would be.

/ambiguous

Posted by: emotionalpedant at May 28, 2009 10:06 AM

HAHAHAHAHA. Despite the horrible name, I am sooooOOO there.

Posted by: jamiepants at May 28, 2009 10:08 AM

Please tell me this features the disappearing-reappearing Cage Southern accent?

"Put the crack pipe back in the box"

Posted by: branded at May 28, 2009 10:21 AM

Ah, the picture is from an actually GREAT movie the Cage once made. Sadly, those likes will never be seen again....

"What? Are you kidding me? We got us a goddamn family here!"

"I'll take these Huggies and whatevers in the drawer."

"If not Arizona, maybe...Utah."

Posted by: dammitjanet at May 28, 2009 10:25 AM

Ooooo, yay! I can't wait to see out-of-context clips on Yotube! Glee!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at May 28, 2009 10:29 AM

damn you pajiba for (today's) drug relapse.

Posted by: gp at May 28, 2009 10:35 AM

Hee! I loved the name captions. That's, "Academy Award Winner Nic Cage" muthafuckas!

He may not be a bear-suit wearing Nic Cage, but he is an iguana hallucinating, old-lady torturing Nic Cage. And like C for Cookie, that's good enough for me.

Posted by: ShinyKate at May 28, 2009 10:40 AM

OK, so just watched that with the sound off (because I'm dicking off on Pajiba at work, as usual), and I think I may have blacked out there. Even on mute, that is one colossal mindfuck of a preview.

Also, Nic's hairpiece is my new frontrunner for next year's Best Supporting Actor.

Posted by: Tammy at May 28, 2009 10:51 AM

Now I know why I've avoided almost all Nic Cage movies for almost a decade -- so that I don't hate him so much that I won't be able to enjoy this gloriousity!

Posted by: sansho1 at May 28, 2009 11:01 AM

With any Cage film I find myself thinking how great it could be with a different actor.
This one... This one kinda suits him. But only in as much as it will suck.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 28, 2009 11:13 AM

WHY CAN'T HE GROW SIDEBURNS?! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO HIM?!

Posted by: Skitz at May 28, 2009 11:39 AM

Oh my God...I shouldn't have watched that without my "lucky crack pipe" nearby!

Posted by: SugarKane at May 28, 2009 12:38 PM

Oh no. After Wicker Man I made a vow to never watch another Nic Cage movie in my life...and now THIS? What? Bastard! you fucker, you're gonna make me watch this, aren't you? In all it's craptacular glory? FUCK YOU NICOLAS CAGE. YOU'RE LIKE A DRUG. A nasty bug-eyed drug with bad hair that I CAN'T LET GO OF. FUCK YOU!

Posted by: figgy at May 28, 2009 1:32 PM

"You don't have a lucky crack pipe?"

I think we can safely say that the this movie's one flaw is the lack of bizarre nic cage hair. And the lack of bear suits.

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at May 28, 2009 1:54 PM

"What the fuck are those iguanas doing on my coffee table?" - Priceless!

Posted by: Odnon at May 28, 2009 2:01 PM

BEARSUIT! That is all.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at May 28, 2009 2:58 PM

Wow....this looks...completely fucking awesome. When does it come out again?

Posted by: s. pisaster at May 28, 2009 5:34 PM

Weird... Port of Call is the name of the BEST Burger place ever. It's in New Orleans of course, but at first I thought maybe it was gonna be a comedy about this burger joint.

Posted by: Michelle at May 28, 2009 8:34 PM

That doesn't really interest me. I think the crazy magic sorcerer movie he's doing right now should be a hell of a show.

Bade Lieutenant 2? Did that really need to be made?

Posted by: annoyingmouse at May 29, 2009 12:18 AM

Why will nobody talk about A Vampire's Kiss.

Posted by: AM at May 29, 2009 2:16 PM

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