Pajiba

That picture of Nic Cage at the top says it all: "Hope you weren't planning on using that anytime soon...BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE IT'S GOING!"

Aw, fuck it, I'll probably see it just so I can watch something with my brain completely shut off. I haven't seen a movie in weeks, my town has a theater with four screens, and nothing decent has been shown. Compared to the films that have been shown their in the past few weeks, this film looks like a masterpiece.

Also, Dustin, can you take down the fucking PETA ad's! If you don't, I will post a comment that will completely debunk the animal rights movement so long and scathing, the comment zone will explode. I'm just sick of having intelligent people like yourself advertise for those shitheads.

I really don't understand how Nic Cage keeps employyed; sure, he's got a biological in, but he delivers every part as the same character. Same inflections, same mannerisms, same suck. I can't understand why he isn't poorly impersonating Elvis in some dive in Vegas by now, as he was born to do.

It's the only thing that would really make him happy, anyway.

It's the only thing that would really make him happy, anyway.

It might, but how would we be able to tell?

Why, twenty seconds in to the preview, do they put the names of the companies involved in the production? It's not as though anyone is going to see a movie just because something called "Summit Entertainment" was involved. And why, at the start of the film, are there always about five of these companies whose names come up. What happened to the good old days when you just got a lion roaring, or the 20th Century Fox cavalcade?

I watched Adaptation the other night on sundance... and sure, it has streep and cooper... but i have to say, he's pretty good in it. I know he can do it, dammit, i've seen it. Somewhere along the line, we have to blame the directors, don't we? I mean, he's had a few (albeit very few) good performances that actually made the movies they occurred in better. Directors deserve credit for squishing out good performances, they also deserve blame for not giving a shit.

Ok world, I just got pulled out of my finals all-night coma and I'm at work and I was going to watch that trailer and say something snarky because I was in a hilariously great mood...

But then I saw that PETA bunny ad. Dustin, I know you need to make money and all, but that almost made me vomit. I'm not squeamish at all, but that just threw me way, way, way off.

And once I'm done dealing with my nausea I'm going to eat some meat. Just to piss off PETA.

I would like to know what the rest of you think about this image from the movie. Does that just look...wrong to anyone else?

The cockpit is only slightly wider than the cars on the road? The plane is slightly longer than the width of a four-lane highway?! Can professional filmmakers with a multi-million-dollar budget actually be that fucking sloppy?

This just looks like shiiiiiit...

This movie looks like the worst drunk food I ever whipped up after stumbling home late one night at 3 am. Mac n cheese plus leftover breakfast sausage plus tabasco plus bacon plus parmesan, poured over scrambled eggs.

The Number 23 plus Day After Tomorrow plus Sixth Sense plus War of the Worlds plus Generic Nic Cage Movie plus Independence Day, all poured over an inscrutable episode of Lost.

You know, with the string of cinematic stool Cage has been in over the past few years, it might actually be a good idea to cast him in a remake of the Superman re-imagining. Except have it be a musical.

It'd be a cult classic almost immediately, allowing Cap'n Cage to slowly fade into obscurity until he's in his mid-seventies and goes on a killing spree with his Kryptonian son...

Just delurking to say thanks, Se7en2! Just bought it, and with free shipping! Weeee! That's something a broke person can afford!

Also, as much as I don't care for good ol' Nic, I actually would have watched this movie had they stuck with the first minute or so. I'm a sucker for those kinds of movies. Alas, my interest faded as soon as the "action" sequence started.

Eddie, just reading the ingredients in your concoction makes my stomach churn...

Damn, Eddie, that's a meal made in heaven.

Nic Cage movies make me blackout in rage, and I'm very mild mannered! Except for Raising Arizona. By the time he did Adaptation the hate was too strong.

"Put the bunneh back in the box"

Looks like one of those novel ideas that probably was really interesting, edgy, and different at first that got watered down by the studio system until it became a really awful film idea not worth being made. By that point, so much money was tossed at it that they had to finish it to even have a chance at recovering some of their losses.

put the bunny back in the box!

Why you gotta do this to us, Alex Proyas?

Um, he is NEVER going to let his son die? What a crappy thing to promise a kid, especially when you teach some bullshit "theory of randomness." If they can't make sense of a single damned thing in the trailer, there's no doubt the movie will be a dog's breakfast - given back in a pile on the floor with "random" grass clippings.

Yeah... but I'll still gonna watch this.
I have a penchant for catastrophe movies and can't help it, even knowing it's going to be baaaad!

Ok, look, I'm a bit tired of the totally irrational Nic Cage hate-on. I am well aware that Cage has done an awful lot of bad films, but I find the intense contempt and scorn that any mention of him produces to be bordering on the pathological. I don't wish to attempt to defend Cage's career as a whole, largely because that would be a) idiotic and b) impossible, but I think we have to cut him the same slack that we do for other prolific Hollywood actors who regularly make shitty movies. Consider, for example, John Cusack; everyone loves Cusack, heck, even I love Cusack, but I think it is only fair to say that this love comes from a handfull of outstanding roles and not for his body of work as a whole. Where Cage can do no right, Cusack can do no wrong.

In the past decade, Cage has done Bringing Out the Dead, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, Lord of War, and the Weather Man; he has also forced us to endure 8mm, Gone in 60 Seconds, the Family Man, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Windtalkers, World Trade Center, the Wicker Man (!), Ghost Rider, and Next. I think Bringing Out the Dead and Matchstick Men are both badly underrated, and that Cage was intentionally hamming it up for Ghost Rider, but I think it is fair to say that there is more bad than good. But not everything is at the Wicker Man end of the spectrum. And I do mean "end" ...

At the same time, Cusack gave us Cradle Will Rock, Being John Malkovitch, High Fidelity, and the Ice Harvest; on the other hand he also gave us Pushing Tin, America's Sweethearts, Serendipity, Runaway Jury, Must Love Dogs, and 1408. There are a few others in there that could go either way, and frankly I haven't seen (Grace is Gone, War Inc, etc), but that alone implies that they are mediocre at best, and certainly not something that I must see.

Now, I'm not saying that we all need to start hating Lloyd Dobler. All I'm getting at is that both actors have made a lot of crap for each quality film that he has done, but it is Cage who is regularly assaulted by the contributors and commenters. It's about fairness, Pajibans. Let's all try to hate everyone equally, and not just save it for the easy targets like Cage.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled commenters.