Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I clicked on this thread solely to offer up Freejack and see it was pretty much first out of the chute. Nice - goddamn that movie is deliciously awful.
Virtuosity is of similar mind and similarly god-awful and rewatchable.
Broken Arrow and Face Off - both just awful movies that I've seen a half dozen times each.
Really, Nicholas Cage's entire catalogue could fall here. I mean lord, Ghostrider and Ghostrider 2 are maybe the most appallingly shitty movies ever made and I sat through both of them laughing at the absurdity. Seriously, did Sam Elliott lose a fucking bet?
Jean Claude Vandamme movies and Arnold movies are in the same vein; solidly entertaining but obviously terrible. Most of Sly's stuff is in the same boat, as are the F&F franchise.
Then there are some movies with such an interesting concept that I have to give them some credit even if said concept just failed. Sucker Punch qualifies, as does Scott Pilgrim.
Originally Posted by Frazod:
In looking through Nicolas Cage's list of films, he has been in one movie that I absolutely loved (Lord of War), a couple that I've liked (Knowing and Guarding Tess), and one silly ass guilty pleasure movie (the first National Treasure). Of the rest, I've either not seen them or thought they were shit.
Lord of War was phenomenal, though. That's one of my all time favorites, and he's brilliant in it.
My first thought every time I watch National Treasure is "well this movie is harmless and kinda decent..."
My second thought, every time, is "Man, Diane Kruger has great tits..."
Originally Posted by Frazod:
In looking through Nicolas Cage's list of films, he has been in one movie that I absolutely loved (Lord of War), a couple that I've liked (Knowing and Guarding Tess), and one silly ass guilty pleasure movie (the first National Treasure). Of the rest, I've either not seen them or thought they were shit.
Lord of War was phenomenal, though. That's one of my all time favorites, and he's brilliant in it.
If you haven't watched Leaving Las Vegas you NEED to
Originally Posted by Frazod:
In looking through Nicolas Cage's list of films, he has been in one movie that I absolutely loved (Lord of War), a couple that I've liked (Knowing and Guarding Tess), and one silly ass guilty pleasure movie (the first National Treasure). Of the rest, I've either not seen them or thought they were shit.
Lord of War was phenomenal, though. That's one of my all time favorites, and he's brilliant in it.
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Yeah, you gotta be in the right mood for it
But it definitely does have its light hearted moments, IMO it's Cages best work ever
There should be a spinoff of the spinoff thread.
"Why does Nicolas Cage make so many shitty movies?"
I mean Arnold, Sly, JCVD - so many other purveyors of cheese have easy explanations - they're just shitty actors.
But on rare occasions you see that Cage can play a role pretty straight and do it well.
So why is he so damn prone to A) selecting bad scripts and/or B) Overacting? I think A is probably one of those 'anything for a paycheck' stories but that doesn't explain B. You would think him more capable of occasionally lifting up spotty source material.
Just a weird actor. I wonder if he hasn't trapped himself in that Johnny Depp universe where everything Depp does now is Depp playing Jack Sparrow so he just has Jack Sparrow as a baseline. Maybe the time of Nicolas Cage actually being a decent actor is gone and he's stuck in a loop where his baseline is actually the overacting Castor Troy version of himself that really seemed to hit overdrive after Face Off. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
One of those movies with zero re-watchability, IMO. I don't regret having watched it, but I have no need to see it again.
I was that way with Blackhawk down - I am glad to have seen it but man there is pretty much a zero percent chance I watch it again.
Less Than Zero pretty much ruined me when it comes to depressing movies about addicts. I just have no interest in watching that shit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Less Than Zero pretty much ruined me when it comes to depressing movies about addicts. I just have no interest in watching that shit.
MEMORY JOG!!!
Zero Effect. Man what a piece of trash that was...I'll still watch at least a half hour of it if I run across it on cable.
Bill Pullman plays some sort of tortured genius/mildly autistic detective savant with Ben Stiller as his secretary/assistant/Watson to his Sherlock.
You can see they were really trying to create a franchise there and it just didn't work. I still enjoyed it. [Reply]
