Nicolas Cage is at it again!!!!!!!
awesome.
honestly looks like a middle ground nic cage movie. i don’t think it’ll be all bad, but it most likely won’t be any good. He looks less crazy cage in this and more wants to be badass cage, like ghost rider and Bangkok dangerous cage.
i hateeeee him.
Where to begin. Deep trash, good for watching him do his patented…..whatever it is called.
It begs the question: has Cage given up completely on the idea of being an actor anyone respects anymore?
Is he fine with being a highly-paid camp queen?
His “Bad Lieutenant” was crazy fun, but that was in the hands of Herzog.
I keep waiting for the next “Nooooo, not the beees!” moment in his career…..
@Claus
Nicolas Cage has financial problems from buying overpriced houses. He’s pretty much right now going to be relegated to doing anything that will give him a paycheque. If he can get a good movie in between then he will otherwise no.
Indeed. Nicolas Cage’s latest films have the subtext of a man desperately in debt. Sometimes with appropriate taglines:
This looks shitty…SUPER SHITTY…yet, entertaining at the same time. The trailer definitely gives off that old school, trashy grindhouse feel. Which I can actually appreciate since that looks like what they were going for.
Another thing, I thought the narrator was being tongue-in-cheek about the “devil’s right hand man” thing but…is that actually supposed to be real?
I reckon it looks pretty good.
He was funny in Kick Ass
This is going to be amazing.
Joks, you’ll see a Nicolas Cage film when you’ve already made up your mind it’s shitty, but you complain about the Astor Theatre?
Double irony: you’re topping up the “Save Nicolas” fund everytime you pay to see one of his films—and you’re complaining about him?
Thus demonstrating the value of a university education.
Cage’s taste has always been this way and I feel that his financial problems have little to do with these choices. He made flicks like Bangkok Dangerous way before he would up in this “Snipes” still situation. I think what it really boils down to is the fact that he is making the films that he wants to make. Right now it feels like it might mainly being genre films like action, thrillers and satires but it wasn’t to long ago that Cage was in World Trade Center. If you have ever read an interview with him from the early days to the present you would find that he is interested in making a serious drama with just the same about of passions as something like the above “Drive Angry”. The difference between Cage before “Leaving Las Vegas” was that he never had the clout to get some of these big budget genre films made. If you pop on imdb he has a stack of flicks coming out that look like good popcorn flicks.
I’m just really bored of people constantly saying the “what happened to Nic Cage?” speech. I feel those people never like Cage in anything but some of his 90s mainstream work.
ps I don’t know what some people were expecting from a movie called “Drive Angry” but that is more or less sorta what I had in mind based on a title like that. LOL
“Joks, you’ll see a Nicolas Cage film when you’ve already made up your mind it’s shitty, but you complain about the Astor Theatre?
Double irony: you’re topping up the “Save Nicolas” fund everytime you pay to see one of his films—and you’re complaining about him?"
The ‘irony’ is part of the enjoyment and overall viewing experience, so your point is redundant. ;-)
and besides, who said i’d pay to watch it in the theatre? I’ll rent it for 2 dollars on dvd.
This film looks exquisite. Muscle car mayhem, Billy Burke, 3D and the Cager – Who could ask for more?
That’s still two dollars that could save a seal.
Don’t you care about wildlife?
Wait a minute, you do! After all, YOU were the one who inadvertently recommended “On Deadly Ground” with Steven Seagull.
I’d best stay well clear of these shitty types of cinema…if one can call them “cinema”. Then again, as long as “Drive Angry” doesn’t turn out to be an ironic plea for road safety…now that’s ALL we need. Nic Cage destroys half a city with his mean machine, before briefing a town hall full of concerned-looking, nod-happy extras about good driving.
I’m with Mark on this one. Why would anyone enjoy watching someone humiliate themselves like this? It’s obvious from the trailer that he doesn’t want to be there.
“I feel those people never like Cage in anything but some of his 90s mainstream work.”
Vampire’s Kiss, 1988, the only worthwhile Nicolas Cage performance.
The end.
Cage has had a lot of success mixing critical films with box office films; at this point, he (like Tom Cruise) needs hits. Sadly, needing hits to sustain your lifestyle is a losing battle. That being said, his Ghost Rider sequel from the directors of the Crank films, sounds kinda cool.
It’s not much different from Michael Caine’s mid 70s to late 80s output. I mean the guy appeared in such films as the Swarm (with Henry Fonda), Silver Bears, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Water and the ever-terrific Jaws the Revenge. Now, he’s regarded as a quality actor.
@Dennis Brian – this could be good. If they allow the directors to keep the meth-addled style of the Crank films, it will be interesting. Otherwise, you’ll get Gamer, which wasn’t even worth the free coupon from a Redbox rental unit.
“Vampire’s Kiss, 1988, the only worthwhile Nicolas Cage performance.”
obviously you haven’t seen him in Leaving Las Vegas then ;-)
I like Cage’s lugubrious face… I’ve found him quite fascinating to watch over the years from Raising Arizona to Bad Lieutenant – I almost physiclly ran into him on Spring Street during the shooting of the ghastly Knowing, he looked quite small and ordinary, I got a shock to be so close to him, I stayed then & watched for the whole afternoon, at the extras racing backwards and forwards through Parliament Station. It was the last of the scenes, the chaos scenes, it all looked so ordinary too and then to see it on the screen and what they turned it into was astounding to me, and to put together my image of him walking along there with a styrofoam coffee looking kind of dopey AND BORED to the screen persona created. What an artform is cinema!
“obviously you haven’t seen him in Leaving Las Vegas then ;-)”
I have….do you really like pseudo-seriousness Joks than actual camp fun? Cage is a useless actor but in Vampire’s Kiss, his uselessness comes in handy. Th real flaw of Leaving Las Vegas is Cage himself.
DOWN WITH THE COPPOLA EMPIRE!
Cage is best in movies where his over-the-top acting style suits the material. Red Rock West is probably my favorite Cage movie, but I think he fits well in films like Raising Arizona and Bringing Out the Dead, too. More recently, he hasn’t done anything too interesting.
“That being said, his Ghost Rider sequel from the directors of the Crank films, sounds kinda cool.”
Let’s hope that it ends up being as over-the-top as it should be. Somewhere between DARKMAN and CRANK 2 should do nicely.
Raising Arizona
Wild at Heart
Vampire’s Kiss
Bringing out the Dead
Adaptation
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Kick-Ass
all great or at least very entertaining cage performances in my book.
honorable mention to Con Air
I love cage, and I personally wouldn’t feel bad at all if I had his career.
DIMITRIS: Nicholas Cage’s performance in L.L.V was damn good in 1996. maybe it’s not as great now, but that’s because he is much harder to take seriously, and when that film came out, you were still getting around in a skata filled diaper ;-)
Coincidentally, a friend sent me this one a few days ago. It isn’t that funny but it is pretty spot on. Sorry if I’m late to the game and everyone has already seen it.
William Fichner playing the Devil’s right hand man? Sign me up.
Joks
^^^His agent is paid to be on shitty script watch 24/7! hahaah.
i’ll see it though, for sure. it looks too bad to pass up.