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Nic Cage Sees The Future In NEXT!!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I’m not sure what I think of this one. PK Dick was the king of the mindbending high concepts, and inevitably, Hollywood turns his idea-based short stories into explosion-driven movies. Lee Tamahori’s capable of good solid mainstream action, and he’s capable of total train crash as well. Let’s see which Tamahori showed up for this one:
Check out the trailer here.
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looks good to me
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jessica beil looks almost as hot in a dress as lee tamahori does!!you know someone was gonna make a joke...it's one thing to cross dress, it's another to get arrested in a prostitution sting by the cops while cross dressing, and presumable a LOT more...hell, more power to him. whatever floats your boat. I'd rather he go batshit britney spears crazy rather than direct another movie. die another day AND along came a spider? blech...
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it was mediocre, and David Mamet wrote it...
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another mumblefest from Cage's quirky "action-guy" tethered to yet another Phillip Dick adaptation all under the worst rug since test shots for Superman. PS: If Cage can see and change the future why didn't he stop himself from doing the Wickerman?
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...got that Tom Hanks hair going.
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that rug looked like a beaver pelt stapled to his noggin. If they keep wanting to give him more hair in his movies, why doesnt he just get it "fixed"?
TomBodet- "Dick's stuff usually gets screwed onsceenr" huh huh... -
It's all jumpers with pretend T-Shirts sown into the necklines! If that's your future, you can bloody well keep it.
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Why would someone like The Beil go out with The Cage in real life when The Cage's character is poor and unattractive? There goes your plausibility (because shes also a lebo in real life) so sit back and enjoy the dumb action flick that looks to have some dodgy FX. What was Julian Moore thinking?
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And it looks like he has taken his banner making skills to a new level by doing the CGI for this movie, from the trailer it looks like the effects have been knocked up on an original mac, the old grey ones with the disc hole in the front, looks fucking rubbish
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to the 60's and persuade his mum to have an abortion
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Cage should make the "Adventures of Stanley Goodspeed" rescuing Sean Connery from Alex Trebek .... "knock knock" "who's there?" "you're mothers a whore"
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So about two years ago I had the opportunity to read the script for this. And it was good. Really good. As in, if they can translate the third act to the screen in the way it was represented in the script it'll be one of the coolest things Nic Cage has ever done. But it could also suck. Could only tell that the film seems to be pretty much the same as the script, but couldn't really tell if it's not going to suck or not. Isn't that always the way?
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Must see! I'm not kidding! The world needs more Peter Falk!
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...debris hit the camera! Again!
I really wish they'd stop fucking doing that. Just in case you hadn't noticed it was all CG anyway.... whoosh! Something hits the camera dead-on. Sigh.
What a messy trailer too. Looks shit. -
These retarded CG crapfests are all his fault. And Nic Cage has become a cartoon version of himself.
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Why do they keep "improving" on good work? The original story wasn't some idiotic ESP thriller. It was a suggestion that our assumptions about human superiority are flawed: humans are defeated by a "more advanced" person who lacks personality, emotion and abstract reasoning skills. The Golden Man can see potential futures and simply reacts by instinct like an animal with a highly developed sense of smell or hearing. I just hate to see another interesting idea from PKD wasted by the entertainment industry.
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He wants his pelt back. Apparently, Nic Cage has been wearing it around on his head, pretending it's hair.
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...this looks more like Paycheck than Minority Report, or a poor mans Deja Vu (and Deja Vu wasn't really that good, although it was entertaining). Nicolas Cage was unstoppable for a few years in the 90s, he had The Rock and Face/Off (two of my all time favourite action films). I think when he's on form he is one of the most watchable actors in Hollywood. Lord of War was good, where he managed to make a complete cunt of a character likable in a twisted way. I haven't seen Ghost Rider but I will (I watch all comic book movies, haha, yes I'm sad). God knows how wrong he would have been for Superman. But, yeah, it may just be a bad trailer but this film looks intensely generic and shite.
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Another stupid one is phony CG rain splashing on the lens. Why do these film makers want to remind us we're watching a film? If they really have to do this, wouldn't it be cheaper to just lower the boom into frame or catch a shot of the guy who brings the director his Evian?
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Everything Cage touches dies. he hasn't had a decent film in years. His attachment to Dresden Files sucked the soul out of it ( Drumstick, Hockey stick, female detective with a daughter, jeep and no fucking cat!)
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I still have hope that Nicolas Cage will turn things around. This is Sailor Ripley we're talking about here - I just can't bring myself to give up on him. Besides Wild At Heart, he was great in Adaptation, Red Rock West, Leaving Las Vegas, and Lord Of War. I even liked him in Matchstick Men (it was not his fault the writers kicked me in the balls).There's still good in him, I can feel it.
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And the future is the "Wicker Man 2: Porch Furniture."
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For crying out loud, not only did XXX: STATE OF THE UNION cost $90 million to make and only earn back 26 to qualify as a super dud, but it was literally an unwatchable piece of shit. Thankfully I didn't pay full price to see it in the theater, I only caught it on cable. But even there the movie was so horrible, I STILL wanted that teeny tiny part of my DirecTV bill refunded back to me! So I figured Hollywood's golden rule of "Don't cost us money OR ELSE" would have kept his ass off the lots. But I suppose he'll always be able to point to the receipts of DIE ANOTHER DAY to justify some kind of work, all while blaming XXX: UNION on everyone else, right down to the caterer.But even the money issue aside, I just thought his truly fucked-up drag bust on Hollywood Blvd would be the kind of career killing incident where studio execs would call in all their staff the next morning and say, "Hmm...out walking around at midnight in full drag and make-up AND caught offering LA cops cash to go down on him. Oh...kay. Tell you what, boys and girls, why don't we all just go back to our desks now and make sure we all have his number on block, all right?"Then again, the person who got Tamahori off -- no pun intended -- was Mark Geragos, which only makes the story more laughable. Because, boy, there's another work of art. Nice to know the lawyer defending Tamahori's honor is the same class act who gets paid top dollar to shield Michael Jackson, that is when he's not out molesting kids or fleeing the country to avoid further prosecution, and Scott Peterson who actually DID kill his wife and unborn child and was a true piece of scum. Oh well, I suppose it will all make for some lively question and answer sessions on the NEXT press tour!
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Just another Hollywood hype machine being spewed out for general consumption. Not excited.
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Feb 23, 2007 10:54:01 AM CST
Everytime Nic Cage multiplies, somewhere a PKD fan dies
by jimfromthefuture
In the Hollywood Dictionary, "high concept" must be listed as a synonym for "gimmick."
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$52 million opening weekend!
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I worry about him .... take a rest man, you deserve it!
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Have I missed any hair jokes?
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Is the funniest thing I've since since his "not the bees!" scene in Wickerman.
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"Minority Report" wrung all the life from the man-on-the-run-can-see-the-future-but-can-he-outrun-it scenario. Next!
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I hope he has a huge part! But even if not, I will watch it anyway. Because of Columbo.
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Those effects were crap but that's as it should be, Dick wouldn't have wanted a big splooge of effects for his films beyond narrative demands. (Man that lens flare on the train was evern worse than the Last Starfighter-esque climactic explosion.) More to the heart of the matter, this is material where Cage works well, as Ford did, as a bridge between the Hollywood insertion of a shiznitkicker that would never be a hero in Dick's worlds, and the sorry sacks of shiznit he did write.
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Heros.
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We have to stand up and say "Nick this has to stop, or the wedding's off" Intervention is the key to stopping him from career pathing to a SCI-FI Original Movie.
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This is hilarious. I just found it today. Someone edited the best scenes from the Wicker Man remake. Now I really want to see it. Looks to be funnier than Borat!
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They make this film yet the trailer/advert that had Benicio Del Toro as the luckies man alive or something along thoese lines was and i bet better than the whole of NEXT.
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I don't know what I'd do if a month were to pass without a new Nic Cage film.
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What are you talking about Moriarity? He directed a shitty James Bond flick and an even shittier Triple X flick. Plus his use of CGI looks so cartoony that I feel like I'm watching Looney Toons: Back in Action.
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of Minority Report. "Dude!" I said, "Some hack just ripped off your movie!" I don't know why, but he hung up on me.
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His car turns into thousands of mercury droplets.
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If you don't like it, don't go see it. STFU and contibute something other than baseless bitching. You comlainers sound like a bunch of spoiled babies.
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Yeah right. Get someone his own age please.
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It wants to be mounted on a wall.
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I like Cage. I think he has something great hidden inside of him that on rare occasions shows itself. Very rare occasions though. Bringing Out the Dead is one of my favorite films. Wild at Heart was great and he really delivers in those, but he keeps staring in these shit films like Wicker Man and Ghost Rider I just have no faith in the man anymore and I hate this shit.
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My special gift of being able to see the future tells me I should SPEED UP so I beat it!
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I can see something its a film thats made of the left over bits of Minority Report, The Butterfly Effect, and Payback. But shitter.
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Would Nicholas Wig really need psychic superpowers to know when a trains gonna arrive? I could do that with the incredible power of a teimtable. The rest is obviusly very believable.
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Comes from the magic sheeps fleece on his head that discoverd in National Treasure 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Brits, is it just me or is Nic looking more and more (starting in The Wicker Man) like a slightly better looking version og the King of the Diddy Men...?
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I recognize some bad vibrations for Nic lately. Filming 4 pics in one year is risky (Wicker Man) but he`s a great actor and i can say that eventhough i just watched the Ghost Rider with his strange hair.
"Next" looks good to me and the CGI will look better in the movie...or so i hope -
I feel like one of those vapid teens on MTV's Next. I just NEXTed Nic Cage's hairpiece out of here.
Fuck just looking at the word 'next' has made it lose all meaning.
Tom Hanks Hair=Flames on Optimus...
Damn You Michael Bay...
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Tamahori's Once Were Warriors is an excellent film though, i must admit
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Corwainer Smith is way more "high concept" and just a better writer than PKD. Phil is overrated.
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