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Hey Everybody! Look! Look! It's New Nic Cage Hair Day!

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (56)



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You know, this trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice doesn’t look terrible. It even looks like it might be somewhat entertaining.

Of course, that’s also what I said after I saw the trailer for National Treasure, also directed by John Turtletaub. That movie ended up having some neat-o set pieces, some entertaining action sequences, and Sean Bean, but can best be described overall as “inoffensive.” Which is hardly a ringing endorsement. That’s like the time I was described as “not ugly.”

Anyway, here’s the trailer. Sure, it’s got Jay Baruchel in it, who I truly do hope is destined for great things. And Alfred Molina plays the evil wizard, and Alfred Molina fucking rocks. And Monica Bellucci, who I think is bacon fried on the surface of the sun, although she was in The Matrix Reloaded, so we know she isn’t always making good decisions. So, you know, there’s that.

But the star is of course Nicolas Cage, who plays said sorcerer, and while he doesn’t appear to be completely hamming it up, it’s just a trailer. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like the movie to be great — shit, it’s got dragons and sports cars and giant metal birds and some cute blonde girl and fireballs and shit. What’s not to love?

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Comments

I'm slightly upset that they are not using my favorite musical piece of all time, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, as the musical score to this. I have an LP with Sterling Holloway narrating the story and the music playing in the background. I fell in love with it at the age of 3 and didn't even realize it was a real piece of music until I got to college and bought a decent version of the music.

Oh, and where is Mickey and the ears? Under Cage's wig?

Posted by: BWeaves at December 9, 2009 11:39 AM

I'm hoping Cage will bring a little crazy to the table. He usually does. And his hair doesn't look quite as bad as I'd feared.

However, I can see how putting someone else with less douche/smarm factor and more weight like... oh, I dunno, Christopher Eccleston or Jeremy Irons (where the hell has he gotten himself to recently?)in as the lead magician would make for a better film in my honest opinion. Hell, if you're gonna go for a slightly unbalanced weird dude, why not tap into the good crazy that is Steve Buscemi or Billy Bob Thornton?

Posted by: linny at December 9, 2009 11:39 AM

Looks like a bad movie cut together into a decent trailer. Without those musical cues, not a whole lot is going on that I haven't seen before.

Posted by: twig at December 9, 2009 11:41 AM

Christopher Eccleston needs to be in better movies than this will be.

Jeremy Irons was already a horrible wizard in a horrible movie.

Posted by: twig at December 9, 2009 11:42 AM

Naah, I'm done falling for Nic Cage movies that look like they might be interesting...they never really are. This one will keep until it's available to watch while I'm laying on my sofa trying not to use my brain some sunday.

Posted by: JenVegas at December 9, 2009 11:45 AM

Next up:

The Proctologist's Novitiate

Tom Hank's hair from DaVinci Code is attached.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 9, 2009 11:47 AM

Nicholas Cage is already his eras Christopher Walken, but with less discriminating tastes in scripts. Where Christopher Walken makes a Robin Williams family dramedy, Nicholas Cage voices a talking rodent in a movie about super soldier guinea pigs. When Christopher Walken does a Stepford Wives remake, Nicholas Cage stars in a Wicker Man Remake.

Posted by: George at December 9, 2009 11:51 AM

I don't think I saw Monica Bellucci there.

Posted by: arrrghzi at December 9, 2009 11:51 AM

Meh. I have zippola love for the Mouse, so I will manage to live without seeing this one. Glad they found Nic a hairstyle that isn't utterly "what th-?"

Posted by: Ducky at December 9, 2009 11:59 AM

You take that back, George. You take it back!
You do NOT compare the two. Walken brings an offbeat charm to his pieces of crap. Cage is just crap. He's crap in crap.
A more appropriate comparison would be Samuel L. Jackson. He elevates the material.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at December 9, 2009 11:59 AM

I have to say that I think this might be the best Cage hair in any film he's been in recently. That's kind of sad.

Posted by: Snath at December 9, 2009 12:01 PM

Did... someone......................

Just compare Nic Cage................. and........

Christopher Walken? OR EVEN MENTION THEM IN THE SAME POST?!

What the holy living fuck?

Posted by: Samwise at December 9, 2009 12:13 PM

I only require one filmed version of anything called The Sorcerer's Apprentice. It starred somebody called Mickey Mouse and was totally badass. Unless Nic Cage starts punching out Disney animated characters and gets a live scorpion enema at the end to bring in the harvest, I'm out.

Posted by: Robert at December 9, 2009 12:19 PM

La-la... Nic Cage... Great, yet another movie in which his hair and southern drawl take center stage...

Blah-blah... Sorcerer's Apprentice? Isn't there already a Sorcerer's Apprentice movie? Isn't it called "Sorcerer's Apprentice"? Is this another remake?

Ho-hum... Jay Bruchel, Al Molina... Monica Bel-OMFGBBQ!!! DID YOU SAY MONICA BELLUCI IS IN THIS?!?

WHEN DOES IT COME OUT?!? WHEN CAN I BUY TICKETS?!? WHERE ARE YOU, MONICAAAAAAAAA?!?!?

Posted by: malikvlc at December 9, 2009 12:21 PM

Two things...

One. I like this hair. Not as stringy as usual, and somehow, lowers the douchebag level of The Cage.

Two. I have an extremely bad feeling about this. A feeling that I'm going to regret the good thoughts I had during that trailer, the ones almost destroyed by the final moments of the clip, in which The Cage, wearing that utterly ridiculous hat, and walks away all supposedly badass. Yeah. No.

Just. No.

Posted by: Smokin at December 9, 2009 12:31 PM

The Vampire's Assistant.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
The Proctologist's Finger.

Personally, I waiting for The Human Centipede's Next Segment. Sew 'er on.

Posted by: BWeaves at December 9, 2009 12:36 PM

Eh. It'll be good for pizza-and-beer night at the end of a mentally exhausting week. Sit down on the couch, turn off your mind, and cram your tummy and brain full of junk.

Posted by: stardust at December 9, 2009 12:41 PM

Does anyone remember back in the day when Nick Cage was a promising actor. Leaving Las Vegas absolutely gutted me, and Face/Off was awesome squared. What the fuck happened to him? So sad.

Posted by: Morgan LaFai at December 9, 2009 12:54 PM

Did you just say Face/Off was awesome squared, Morgan?

You are dead to me.

Posted by: Smokin at December 9, 2009 12:59 PM

You are DEAD!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 9, 2009 1:03 PM

Wait, me for dissing Face/Off, or Morgan for liking it?

Posted by: Smokin at December 9, 2009 1:18 PM

You know I was just following your lead and jumping on the kill Morgan bandwagon but now I might just want you dead just for the hell of it.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 9, 2009 1:20 PM

Shit, why did nobody tell me Sean Bean was in National Treasure/ Oh, maybe so I wouldn't add it to my Netflix queue for sheer Bean-itude. Damn you people, I don't need to know these things!

Also, I can't even address the topic of this post. I need to go watch Fantasia now instead, thanks.

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at December 9, 2009 1:30 PM

Come on, I was a teenager when that movie came out, and yeah, it was fucking awesome. The ending annoyed me, cause getting another kid isn't that great of a solution, but the rest of the movie. The action scenes, the prison scenes, the scenes where they are talking to each other but wearing each others faces. "It's like looking in a mirror, only not." Fucking awesome. Perhaps it should have been mentioned under the guilty pleasure section, but I don't care. Then again, I haven't seen it in 10 years, so maybe it won't hold up.

Posted by: Morgan LaFai at December 9, 2009 1:39 PM

People that don't like Face/Off deserve to have John Woo shoot their nipples off while surrounded by a flock of doves.

Posted by: Snath at December 9, 2009 1:45 PM

Face/Off was boring as hell. Shooting in a prison. Shooting in a room made of glass for some reason. Shooting on a boat. Shooting from cars. It was one big gun orgy, and it was dull beyond belief.

This looks like it might be OK, but most trailers manage to give that impression anyway, and I've been fooled before. Cage looks like he fits the role anyway.

And now I want my own pet gargoyle.

Posted by: DeadBessie at December 9, 2009 1:58 PM

Nicholas Cage has talent, Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, and Bad Lieutenet prove that, but the man is a total whore.

And as much talent as Christopher Walken has, only Nicholas Cage takes more paycheck roles than him. He's not off the hook for Kangaroo Jack, or Balls of Fury.

Posted by: George at December 9, 2009 2:30 PM

While in the trailer Nicolas Cage may not have appeared to be a total ham, he still managed to bring the hot ham water.

It’s so watery. And yet there’s a smack of ham to it.

Posted by: kellsbells at December 9, 2009 2:36 PM

It was one big gun orgy

It was a JOHN WOO MOVIE. What did you expect, tea and crumpets?

And yes, Face/Off was awesome. Hell, Travolta and Cage trying to out-ham each other so horribly was part of its charm.

Plus, any movie with twin gold-plated Colt 1911s with dragons on the them deserves a nod.

Posted by: The Hands Team (formerly Vermillion) at December 9, 2009 2:55 PM

No, sorry, no, even my insane stalker level crush on Monica Belluci cant drag me to this, just, no way, Nic Cage, for me, has burned every bridge, he's shit on everything good he ever did and I cant take the hair.
I CANT TAKE THE HAIR. I CANT HANDLE IT ANY MORE.I JUST CANT LOOK AT HIS STUPID HEAD COVERED IN WHAT EVER STYLE OF COVERING ITS COVERED IN AND PRETEND TO MYSELF THAT ITS OKAY.
ITS NOT OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Nadine at December 9, 2009 3:33 PM

I know it was a John Woo movie. I went there expecting entertainment and action and stuff involving guns. I didn't expect that I would be bored stiff, tapping my toes and looking at my watch every five minutes during an incessant barrage of gunfire.

And the wife sleeps with the bad guy because the face switch fools her into somehow not noticing he has a totally different fucking body? Lame.

Posted by: DeadBessie at December 9, 2009 3:45 PM

Thank you, DeadBessie. I've been voicing this obvious faux-pas for ages whenever someone brings up how awesome Face/Off is. Two different body types. Swapping faces is alright with me, the technology and skill and wherewithall to accomplish that is in the realm of believable.

But they started with two guys that have totally different bodies. Listen, if Stephen King couldn't trick the world when he wrote those books as Richard Bachman - then there is no way I can come home with Usain Bolt's body and not expect my wife to make a "Shit, Baby! You've been working out!" comment.

At the very least, she'd notice the lack of meat popsicle that night...

Posted by: malikvlc at December 9, 2009 3:57 PM

I never thought of that, DeadBessie.

Suddenly your husband's saggy man-boobs are replaced by a thinner, fitter man, and yet she never notices. Hmph.

Posted by: Snath at December 9, 2009 4:42 PM

And the wife sleeps with the bad guy because the face switch fools her into somehow not noticing he has a totally different fucking body? Lame.

Actually, they do explain in the movie how they surgically altered his body shape (like removing the tell-tale scar), while things like weight and height were mostly negligible. Yeah, it was technobabble, but it was there.

Again, this is the same director who based a movie around eye transplants. In the '80s.

It amazes me what people latch onto in films, but whatever.

Posted by: The Hands Team (formerly Vermillion) at December 9, 2009 5:10 PM

Nic Cage brings a certain panache to his movies. I don't think anyone could bring forth the high camp so effectively. Unless it's Samuel L. Jackson.

Nevertheless, I'll wait until it's released on DVD. Better to waste a Netflix spot than my money.

Posted by: bonnie at December 9, 2009 5:34 PM

I think what people are forgetting is that the movie was called Face/Off because that's a common term for a high-stakes confrontation, but also because THEY HAD THEIR FACES TAKEN OFF.

Genius.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at December 9, 2009 5:42 PM

Wow. I had no idea that one little comment about Face/Off would be so dividing. All I meant to do was point out that Nic Cage used to be great, and now he just isn't. His agent should be hanged, shot, drowned, and then shot into the sun.

Posted by: Morgan LaFai at December 9, 2009 6:00 PM

Best Cage hair in years, this is Fuckheimer so it could be awful, but hey that little metal dragon is wicked awesome, so it the big scary dragon. I love all the magic sequences.
I hate Cage 99% of the time, but this looks fun at least.

Posted by: Mebe at December 9, 2009 6:11 PM

That subway station is my 7th Ave subway station in Brooklyn. It is every bit as dingy as Cage's hair. That is all.

Posted by: v.darkbloom at December 9, 2009 7:58 PM

Face Off is simply a good time.

Posted by: Mick J at December 9, 2009 8:30 PM

2 thoughts came to my mind as I looked at the trailer. Is it just me or are they trying to give Cage the Harry Dresden vibe with the trench coat and hat?
Also, why did I think for a second that Cage looked more like Paul Reubens than Cage?
I think Reubens would be a better sorcerer so maybe that's why.

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