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Post by oppy all along on Nov 7, 2019 5:31:57 GMT -5
In which I begin my latest film project, watching Nic Cage movies backwards from 2019. He's a very prolific actor who has seemingly dedicated himself to making every questionable low-budget B-movie possible while elevating it with his quintessential Cage-ness, so we'll see how far we get.
Coming up this weekend,
PRIMAL (2019)
A big-game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar – along with a political assassin being extradited to the U.S in secret. Two days into the journey, the assassin escapes and releases the captive animals, throwing the ship into chaos.
KILL CHAIN (2019)
A shootout between two hitmen begins an evening of murder, betrayal and revenge amongst a crooked gang of police, gangsters, assassins, and mercenaries.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 10, 2019 0:49:03 GMT -5
PRIMAL (2019)A big-game hunter for zoos has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar - along with a political assassin being extradited to the U.S in secret. Two days into the journey, the assassin escapes and releases the captive animals, throwing the ship into chaos.We open this Nic Cageology with Nic Cage in an increasingly dwindling group of soldiers and civilians being hunted down by a political assassin and deadly CGI animals. There's a gang of weirdly aggressive monkeys, a couple of weirdly aggressive snakes, and the star of the show - a snow white jaguar that is exactly as aggressive as you'd expect a jaguar stuck on a boat to be. As for the movie itself... eh... I mean it's a great premise. It's in that classic middle ground of being too wacky to be serious but played too serious to be properly wacky. The Many Faces of Cage
 "I'm not a good man... I can hunt though" Nicolas Cage is Frank Walsh. A big game hunter, and a self-centred and arrogant jerk. He is nonetheless hinted to have a heart of gold under all that bluster. Frank Walsh is burned out former Air Force and has some choice things to say about American foreign and military policy. As the situation on the ship worsens he goes from being solely invested in the market value of his animals to protecting the various civilians caught in the middle between the political assassin and the G-men bent on extraditing him alive to America. In the end he resolves to sell the snow white jaguar to a jaguar sanctuary in Kenya rather than the highest bidder. He also has a pet parrot.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 10, 2019 1:47:34 GMT -5
KILL CHAIN (2019)
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.Second feature is Nic Cage in a noir... ish... movie. There are a lot of killers running around shooting at each other, and then in a frankly hamfisted monologue it's explained who everyone is and why they ended up at a shitty hotel. Hint: It could have something to do with the nice man with the glasses on the movie poster. I mean it's pretty good. A solid 3 out of 5. The Many Faces of Cage
 "You only have two customers."
"Slow season."
"How do you make a living?"
"Low overhead... occasional opportunity."Spoiler territory, if you were planning to watch this and be sincerely engaged in the mystery. I mean you could do that. It's on Amazon Prime. Nic Cage is Araña, a clerk/bartender/security guard/owner. One night, his shitty hotel ends up as the climactic location for a lot of crime happening. He is mild mannered, helpful, and using all of his guile to try and not get shot in the face. He also possesses a mysterious past. By the end of the movie we learn that he is an ex-mercenary who has been masterminding all of the night's events as a convoluted way to get revenge on a lot of people. By the end of the evening quite a few of the criminals in this particular South American slum have been shot in the face, and Araña has a new mission.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 10, 2019 1:53:15 GMT -5
Next week in Cageography
RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL (2019)
A SCORE TO SETTLE (2019)
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 10, 2019 11:22:47 GMT -5
Oppyu, it seems very plausible that you would enjoy the bad movie podcast The Flophouse, who for one month (Cagemas) out of the year review only bad Nic Cage films. Anyway, this is a very good premise for a review thread, and I’m looking forward to it. I watched half a scene of Cage losing his shit while trying to start a car in Gone in 60 Seconds last week, and it reminded me what a bizarre actor he is.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 10, 2019 11:30:15 GMT -5
KILL CHAIN (2019)
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.Second feature is Nic Cage in a noir... ish... movie. There are a lot of killers running around shooting at each other, and then in a frankly hamfisted monologue it's explained who everyone is and why they ended up at a shitty hotel. Hint: It could have something to do with the nice man with the glasses on the movie poster. I mean it's pretty good. A solid 3 out of 5. The Many Faces of Cage
"You only have two customers."
"Slow season."
"How do you make a living?"
"Low overhead... occasional opportunity." Spoiler territory, if you were planning to watch this and be sincerely engaged in the mystery. I mean you could do that. It's on Amazon Prime. Nic Cage is Araña, a clerk/bartender/security guard/owner. One night, his shitty hotel ends up as the climactic location for a lot of crime happening. He is mild mannered, helpful, and using all of his guile to try and not get shot in the face. He also possesses a mysterious past. By the end of the movie we learn that he is an ex-mercenary who has been masterminding all of the night's events as a convoluted way to get revenge on a lot of people. By the end of the evening quite a few of the criminals in this particular South American slum have been shot in the face, and Araña has a new mission. Seems like this one is not so much of a mystery for anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish vocabulary. |
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Post by Hachiman on Nov 10, 2019 21:46:04 GMT -5
Damn, Cage stays busy! I remember reading a few years back that he was making these movies because of financial troubles, but at this point I am thinking he either really like making movies or owes way, way more money than that article made it sound like.
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Post by Tellyfier on Nov 18, 2019 8:07:04 GMT -5
Any chance of including Nic Cage vs. Eldritch horrors, also from this year?
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