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Quint packs up his lucky crackpipe and gets high with BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS at Telluride!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here writing from up in the mountains of Colorado. I’ve seen some great films so far, but the hectic schedule has had me neglecting immediate write-ups. I’m in catch-up mode, writing between movies, but no matter how hard I tried to start with some movies from the last two days I just couldn’t… I just got out of THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and that’s what I have to talk about.
I’ve already posted the trailer, but I have to embed it again.
If you haven’t already, watch that trailer. I’ll wait.
Welcome back! That above montage of clips is a rarity in the film publicity world. That trailer is the movie without giving everything away. If you watched that trailer and, like me, think you’re going to get some enjoyment out of a movie like that then I’m here to state that’s exactly what you get. Yep, iguanas, lucky crackpipes, dancing souls… it’s all there under the sketchy leadership of a crazed Nicolas Cage and the watchful, twisted eye of Werner Herzog.
Now, up front… It’s been at least 15 years since I saw Abel Ferrara’s BAD LIEUTENANT and hazy doesn’t even begin to describe my recollection of that film. So I can’t compare the two, but from what I understand there isn’t a comparison to be made. This is a different cop, different story, different city, but in the same fucked up universe.
There are going to be people who mistake this for a bad movie, a “so bad it’s good” type film. I’m preemptively saying those guys are full of shit. For a movie to be a so bad it’s good type it has to be unintentionally funny, the filmmaker utterly failing at trying to make the movie he or she set out to. There is no doubt in my mind, coming from Millennium Films and Werner Herzog, that this movie isn’t exactly what they set out to make.
Nicolas Cage is crazy over-the-top as Lt. Terence McDonagh, but that’s the character. It’s a perfect match of actor and material. Terry’s a gambling man, a drug-addicted boyfriend of a hot hooker… a gentleman he is not. When a family of African immigrants are brutally murdered he and his even crazier partner, played by Val Kilmer, are tasked to solve the crime.
But it’s not really about that. Terry doesn’t come to some deep realization through his pursuit of the killers. The movie’s more about his lifestyle causing a deep spiral into insanity, putting the few things he enjoys in life (his job, his hooker girl, played by Eva Mendes, his steady supply of drugs from the police locker) in jeopardy.
The flick opens following a snake gliding through the floodwaters as Katrina rages. That snake leads us to the flooded police station where Cage and Kilmer are picking up a bundle of nudie pictures a colleague left in his locker. The visual hand-off between the snake and Terry wasn’t lost on me.
While securing their buddy’s embarrassing photos they also discover one of the suspects in holding wasn’t relocated and his cell is about 2/3rds flooded. The man begs and pleads to both Kilmer and Cage who just laugh and start betting on when the flood waters will overtake him… gambling on the hour this man will drown.
However, for all the show, Terry still shows a little humanity here. Kilmer is ready to walk out and let the coroner’s report show the time of death to settle the bet when Cage says fuck it and jumps into the water to save the guy.
In doing this he hurts his back and that’s what really sends him down the rabbit hole. He’ll have constant back pain for the rest of his life and the prescription drugs aren’t enough for him, so he turns to coke and harder drugs.
Terry’s a fascinating character. He’s strong, he doesn’t take any shit, he’s smart… but he’s such a fucking loser. He owes thousands to his bookie (Brad Dourif) and seems to get on everybody’s bad side. Pretty soon those pile up to an amount he can’t keep up with and the second half of the movie is a free for all scramble for Cage.
But even though he’s a loser, he’s a lucky loser and his luck is a continuing theme throughout the movie.
I went into this movie hoping for something as fucked up and crazy as the trailer… something that delivered on the entertainment promise that trailer made and I got it.
I’m loving Millennium Films now. This movie shouldn’t exist and wouldn’t exist in a sane, safe studio environment, but Millennium are proving themselves to be a new house of fun. They gave us RAMBO, they’re giving us EXPENDABLES… sure, there’s some trash in there, but the point is they’re making crazy weird exploitation movies, getting real directors and real actors to make it even more bizarre.
If they stay the course and keep on pumping these kinds of movies out I can see them being the bigger budget modern day equivalent of Roger Corman’s AIP.
As it is this movie is so fun, so entertainingly wrong and filled with fucking weird tangents that it made a fast fan out of me. There's literally a 2 1/2 minute sequence set to music of different shots of Nic Cage giving a pair of iguanas the stink eye. It's like macro photography, close up on the iguanas doing what iguanas do with Cage starring them down in the background. So awesome!
Cage came out after the movie to do a little Q&A. I just bought a Flip Ultra HD camera and I recorded it from my seat. I’m going to test the footage out tonight, see if it turned out at all, if the sound is okay… if it is I’ll throw it up and embed it to the site.
Alright, one review down. More to come… Gonna try to knock out my thoughts on Jason Reitman’s UP IN THE AIR, which is the talk of the festival so far, tonight before crashing. Tomorrow’s the final day of the fest and a good catch-up day for movies I missed out on the last couple of days… I know I’m seeing THE ROAD then. So keep an eye out!
-Quint
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Not familiar with the original one from 15 years back...but now i'm a little lost and confused. Ahh well, I could've just paid attention while reading the article, but how do you expect me to do that while i'm trying to crank one out at the same time???
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I might have to watch this
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leave poor Eva Mendes alone
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...so he can blow your mind while you blow your mind.
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Couldn't tell in the trailer what Cage and Kilmer were trying to do. What's the score, Quint?
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...makes this look like a fun, fucked up film. More like FEAR AND LOATHING IN NEW ORLEANS than a reimagining of the Keitel film.
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but that trailer makes this film look like some ridiculous fun, + Herzog + Cage + Kilmer, I think I'm in.
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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I hate this fucking trend pervading reviews these days. Rather than giving us a coherent analysis discussing the artistic merits of the film (or lack thereof) reviewers (and AICN is especially guilty of this) just summarize the film and throw in a couple of thoughts. It's bullshit. Yes I'm aware this is a "one minute review" but still...
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I hate this fucking trend pervading reviews these days. Rather than giving us a coherent analysis discussing the artistic merits of the film (or lack thereof) reviewers (and AICN is especially guilty of this) just summarize the film and throw in a couple of thoughts. It's bullshit. Yes I'm aware this is a "one minute review" but still...
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Sep 06, 2009 6:38:39 PM CDT
In this case give Quint a break - he's busy. Harry - no breaks.
by juansanchez
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Sep 06, 2009 6:40:06 PM CDT
I'm more interested to see what the Flip UltraHD camera is like
by bbbbeeeennnn
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H.I. MCDONAUGH?
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I'm very interested in seeing Nic and Val playing whacked out parts. Good to see Cage not playing it safe with this one. He gets praise when he's doing work like Vegas, Adaptation, And Matchstick men, not for studio safe movies like Ghost, Book of Tresure and Knowing. Cage needs to stay dark and gritty.
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...that came up with this one?
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And that's 'bout all I have to say about that, Jennayyy.
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http://tinyurl.com/mrs6os
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Does anybody know if this is getting the wide release treatment? Also, it's really fuckin' cool to see Brad Dourif getting so much work as of late.
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I just knew I should have gone to Telluride this year dammit
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That would be the best movie ever made. Nic Cage in Rasing Arizona has t obe THE prime example of how great an actor that guy is. I know people give him shit for his bad movie choices and supposed hair pieces, but you gotta respect H.I . Lastly, having lived in a city that took an almost direct hit from Katrina and being an avid vistior of New Orleans and a Saints season ticket holder, I wonder if any movie or tv show will ever get it right. No one in that city talks like Dennis Quaid in Big Easy. There is no one living in Louisianna that reffers to the city as Nawlin's or trys to work in the words Gumbo, bayou,or the Neville brothers into every conversation.
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Doesn't make bad movies, the man is brilliant.
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Sep 06, 2009 8:47:33 PM CDT
I love they way they actually expect this to become a franchise.
by freebeer
Hoe quaint
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sniff sniff bang bang
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Sucks. This sounds awesome.
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That's an odd thing for a trailer these days.
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Can't wait. YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
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Looks like lots of weird fun...
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was not a lot of fun. i liked it, but it's not one you just toss in the player on a whim. this one looks fun
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who is getting into deeper and deeper shit with his bookies, is trying to solve a case to 'redeem' himself.I guess it's a remake, just without the heavy catholic slant. I guess he felt he had to call it "Bad Lt." to excuse himself for lifting the entire premise. But, I still think it's a little goofy...An aside, Cocaine would really do nothing for back pain, heroin on the other hand would do a lot. Say what you want about Ferrara, but he'd at least get that right, as the man seems to know his drugs.
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If so, then I am there.
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She also fingered herself to late-80s pop.
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This looks to be a big hit...and I thought I would scoop Quint ---
The tale of an aloof, high-flying exec whose millions of frequent-flyer miles can't keep him permanently above the emotional turbulence he seeks to avoid, “Up in the Air” is a slickly engaging piece of lightweight existentialism highlighted by winning turns from George Clooney and Vera Farmiga. Just as “Thank You for Smoking” and “Juno” did in their own ways, Jason Reitman's third film cleverly taps into specific cultural aspects of the contemporary zeitgeist, although in a somewhat less comically convulsive manner. Unlike many of the characters onscreen, nobody is going to lose any jobs on the basis of their work here, as a buoyant commercial flight lies ahead.
Clooney has scarcely ever been more magnetic onscreen than he is here as Ryan Bingham, a gun-for-hire who specializes in the dirty work some corporate bosses don't like to do themselves, firing employees. He's great at his job, expert at suggesting to devastated workers that new horizons in life can now be explored, and he loves the lifestyle of spending most of his time in business class seats and upscale hotels; given that, at last count, he's on the move 322 days per year, his modest apartment in Omaha resembles an undecorated motel room.
Having adapted Walter Kirn's novel with Sheldon Turner, Reitman generates much merriment in the way he lays out the particulars of Ryan's m.o. Ryan delivers occasional motivation speeches on how you should be able to fit all that's important to you into a backpack, and he practices what he preaches by traveling with just one carry-on bag. He receives top-level, members-only treatment at airports, car rental desks and hotels and, picking up a like-minded woman, Alex (Farmiga), in a lounge one night, impresses her by revealing he's very close to achieving 10 million-mile frequent-flyer status.
Even though the central plot doesn't involve Alex, her easy-come, easy-go relationship with Ryan represents the heart of the movie, simply because the rapport between the two characters — and, causally, between the actors — is so terrific. It's not the hardest thing to write a seduction dance, but Reitman and the thesps keep the sex and keen sense of play between these two birds of a feather sparking through the entire running time, as the two keep working out ways to make their complicated schedules coincide. They're simply one of the most fun couples seen onscreen in many a moon.
But there's got to be a fly in the ointment, a bird in the engine, and her name is Natalie (Anna Kendrick), a grad-school know-it-all and high-tech whiz who convinces Ryan's boss, Craig (Jason Bateman), he can slash expenditures by firing people via video conferencing. Faced with a drastic lifestyle change at best and his own walking papers at worst, Ryan is ultimately obliged to accompany the humorless, pursed-lips hotshot on a tour to show her how he does it, and then attempt the changeover.
Reitman peppers the picture with montages of workers reacting to their sudden professional irrelevance; the incomprehension, fury, bewilderment, sense of injustice, hopelessness and despair with which these people express themselves is touching, honest and true, even if it is punched up for rhythmic and sometimes comic impact. These interludes obviously speak to modern times in a particularly pointed way, as does the fact that someone as accomplished, together and unimpeachable as Ryan could suddenly be perceived as a dinosaur due to a dubious technological advance.
The generational divide also gets a workout in the way the film humorously addresses the way the twentysomething Natalie sees the world, as opposed to the more seasoned perspectives of Ryan and Alex. Natalie thinks she has it all figured out, with career, relationship and life path all configured onto a timeline. For his part, Ryan believes he's got it all worked out as well, and he does, as long as he doesn't mind the lack of much human connection, not to even mention marriage or family, which he scoffs at as not for him. And perhaps they're not.
All the same, he's forced into an unanticipated degree of personal engagement when he attends the northern Wisconsin winter wedding of his younger sister, Julie (Melanie Lynskey), to regular guy Jim (Danny McBride). Bringing Alex along for fun, and just maybe because he feels something special for her, Ryan suffers the scorn of older sis Kara (Amy Morton) for having escaped the family ordinariness but also uses his mediating skills to put some difficulties right. But some final twists provoke a Peggy Lee is-that-all-there-is questioning that pretty much come with the territory of spending much of one's life alone.
Impeccably groomed and with a ready answer to almost any remark anyone can throw at him, Clooney owns his role in the way first-rate film stars can, so infusing the character with his own persona that everything he does seems natural and right. The timing in the Clooney-Farmiga scenes is like splendid tennis, with each player surprising the other with shots but keeping the rally going to breathtaking duration.
Kendrick has the difficult task of playing the spoilsport; you can't wait for her comeuppance, which is humorous when it does arrive. Complicating the animosity of Ryan and the viewer is the fact that Natalie is actually good at what she does, if still in need of life experience, which she begins to collect. Bateman's role could have used some layering to at least clarify his relationship with Ryan, as to whether it's personal or strictly professional.
Stunning overhead shots of numerous American cities provide sharp transitions as the characters zip around the country, although much of the action is played out on interchangeable airport-area locations. Production values are sparkling.
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That THE ROAD evidently sucks. Looks like all those delays were for a very good reason. The Variety reviewer even says that you can see the movie has been "futzed with" for months to try and make it more commercial. Bummer.
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for 20 million. He then turned around and gave Herzog 10 million to make it. He gave Herzog total creative control because he had already doubled his money before the first day of shooting.
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because that gave the producer a pre-existing property to help the presales. He knew that Cage wanted to work with Herzog and would do so for a cut rate. The trifecta of Herzog, Cage, and a somewhat known quantity was enough to sell off the international rights for a sizable chunk of change (Cage is a big draw overseas). The existence of this movie makes perfect sense. It was a savvy business deal from a seasoned producer that got a great art house director his biggest budget in a decade.
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Sep 06, 2009 11:22:50 PM CDT
"because that gave the producer a pre-existing property to help
by cheyne_stoking_dms
In other words: the producer's a fucking leech. Abel Ferrara has wished death on everyone involved in the making of this picture. Rightfully so.
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One negative review doesn't outweigh the loads of positive reviews it has received:
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That is what its there for.
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Make me like the whole thing even lessUp Next up, "Godfather: Corleone's Take Portland" and "Taxi Driver: Hacking in Miami"
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Off the ground, yet it's so awesome that Herzog got 10 million off his property.Even Ebert, who's Herzog's long-time friend, called bullshit on this.
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Sep 07, 2009 12:03:03 AM CDT
YOU WANT NAKED EVA MENDES? GO TO VINTAGE EROTICA AND REGISTER...
by carlthormark1978
It's the best fucking porn site on the web!!!FACT!!!
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Nothing beats an over-the-top Nick Cage a la Face Off. He's been pumping out shit in massive quantities. About time he does something great. And cheers to Millenium Films for having the balls to greenlight this Rambo, and The Expendables.
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Welcome back my darling
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Herzog is a REAL DIRECTOR. If ever a list of True Directors is made, his name will be in the top 20, at the very least. The man is cinematic brillance personified. I'd rather watch a bad Herzog movie then a "good" Jar Jar Abrams movie any day of the week.Herzog is so brillant, he doesn't need to budget to make an epic. All it took was he and his cinematophrapher friend travel to the antartic to meet their polar scuba-diver/musician friend, armed with a HD video camera, with Herzog as the sound recorder man, and they came out of there with a cinematic masterpiece called Encounters At The End Of The World, a movie unjustly not not awared an oscar for best documentary. No matter, the movie is a masterpiece and it's all there for us to see. This is how brillant Werner Herzog is, the man can do great movie with almost nothing but determination, intelligence, and sheer talent.This new movie of his, the trailer was brillant. Can't wait to watch it. I'm certain that i and my pals will have a blast watching it. A year with a new Herzog movie is always good nes, to help wash away the bad taste left by this year's shit blockbusters, specially that shiity one that is supposed to be this major commercial hit that isn't.Werner Herzog, welcome back, we missed you.
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Sep 07, 2009 5:42:45 AM CDT
They could've easily left out "Bad Lieutenant" from the title...
by cheyne_stoking_dms
Abel Ferrara is one of my favorite directors. He's got every right to be pissed.
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he won't give 1/8th the performance Keitel gave. Mark my words. "Nooooo! Not the bees! My eyesssss!"...
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He and his cinematographer friend armed with a HD video camera (Herzog himself serving as the sound recorder) went to visit their polar scuba-diver/musician friend, and out came with a cinematic masterpice, the documentary Encounters At The End Of The World, which deservedly got an oscar nomination, and unjustly didn't won. This is the quality of Herzog, he doesn't need a budget, all he needs is his unending determination, intelligence, talent and good talented friends to go with him on an adventure. This is real filmmaking. Herzog never made a bad movie. He never made a banal movie. All his movies are interesting, many of them great movies, some of them pure masterpieces. Herzog is the man. Can't wait to watch his latest, i'm certain me and my pals will have a blast.
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And does he wear a bear suit? These are the questions that we need answers to.In all seriousness, this is either going to be complete genius, or a car crash of a film. I can't help but think the second option is more likely.
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http://tinyurl.com/nh4l24
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I understand your frustration perfectly. It was also puzzling for me then i heard of this project. Had it been anybody else but Werner Herzog and i would be crying fool and hack-job as lound as you do. But it's Herzog.
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You are seeing this from the wrong angle. Like many americans, you see the movie as being the star's movie. But you need to see this movie as being a director's movie, which happens to have a big star in it. This movie is Werner Herzog's, not Nick Cage. The director IS the star.
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All his movies are, at the very least, interesting and challenging. But the guy is also completly fucked up. He's crazy, no doubt about it. Brillant filmmaker but a crazy human being. He's also quite a patsy, he swallowed line, hook and sinker that Saddam Hussein was pals and co-participant with Bin Laden on the 9/11 attacks, and he was totally onboard the insavion on Iraq for those motives. For such an enlgihted and intelligent filmmaker, Ferrara can be quite an easy to fool and dumb individual. The man is a living contradiction.
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I'm English. And its going to some serious directorial magic to keep this from being soley about Nic Cage and his hairpiece chewing the scenery.
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in bringing Ferrara's personal beliefs into this, man. From watching his films you can tell he's alittle bit of a screw loose. I'm sure most of the great directors of cinema are. Just take Stanley Kubrick for example. He'd shoot hundreds of takes of actors doing the most simple things he could ask of them.
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That---looks like it COULD be a fun ride, but equally as possible, kin yew say "Trainwreck"?! I know I can.
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Might i remind you that Werner Herzog is THE ONLY DIRECTOR who worked with Klaus Kinski more then once? In fact, he worked with him 5 TIMES! And nobody ever chewed scenery as much as Kinski. and worst, Kinski was a bona fide unhinged lunatic, while Cage is, from all accounts, quite a nice, pontual and well behaved guy. It will be a walk in the park for Herzog to work with Nick Cage. If Cage is wild man in the movie, it's because Herzog wanted him so.Friend, i can't stress this enough, it's Werner Herzog. And trust me, i'm, no Nick Cage groupie, quite the contrary, idecided to never again watch any of his movies since i had the displeasure to watch The Wicker Man remake. Yet, this new movie is Werner Herzog. That is what matters.
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Sep 07, 2009 6:57:58 AM CDT
Passing on a Werner Herzog movie is to show contempt for cinema
by asimovlives
Sall wonder so many people liked that piece of retard bullshit Jar jar Abrams's Shit Trek. When people turn their backs on the proper good filmamkers and their movies, this is what hapens, easy mass acceptance for the worst mediocrity ever created. Thank goodness that directors like Werner Herzog are still around to remind me why i fell inlove with cinema.
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You gotta be kidding me. Trek Rebooted has made over $256M here in the States alone. Even idiots like yourself in Oporto can figure this out-many many people LIKE it, and Approve of it. And what's more, Mammaries of Mommy--THEY'RE GONNA MAKE MORE. Yer gonna Love it, Zipperhead. As for this--this thing looks like a Cinematic ABORTION. Certainly you're familiar w/ that term-
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TICKET SOLD
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ticket not sold. Brad Dourif's the man though. "Do you want me to pour it Frank? No I want you to fuck it. Shit, yes, pour the fuckin' beer!"
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If you have a problem, stick a broom up your ass and go cry in a corner.
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Good Nic Cage and Good Val Kilmer can make for entertaining viewing. When they're mailing it in for a check, stay far away. Fairuza Balk resurfaces? Hmmm. Mendes has too many "is she a tranny?" moments to be appealing.
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"Show me with your mowf"
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This is one of the reasons why i like coming here. To see fellow geeks who love the same underrated cool actors like Brad Dourif, who are over-looked by the vast majority of the audiences. but to find much love for actors of the lieks of him in here, it makes me feel justified and vindicated in my appreciation of them. Make sme also realise i'm in the right place to talk about all things movies.
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Sep 07, 2009 9:02:10 AM CDT
Nick Cage and Val Kilmer going insane in a movie together
by asimovlives
And directed by Werner Herzog? What's not to like about that?
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http://tinyurl.com/a7nkkx
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Dourif's got the greatest laugh in cinematic history.
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Sep 07, 2009 9:08:28 AM CDT
He would've been an outstanding Joker back in the day.
by cheyne_stoking_dms
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you son of a bitch! I'm gonna get you, and I'm gonna get Eddy, No matter what!"
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"For a movie to be a so bad it’s good type it has to be unintentionally funny, the filmmaker utterly failing at trying to make the movie he or she set out to."
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Cage. Dourif. Kilmer. Herzog.
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Mostly different in tone. The first one, while wildly amusing and shocking, I wouldn't exactly describe as "fun". It definitely featured a monumental performance from Harvey Keitel, a career best actually. This version looks very tongue-in-cheek, though it doesn't look bad. I'd check it out but I don't expect it to have the emotional impact of Abel Ferrara's original.
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He's right about it. "So bad it's good" movies are all unintentional. When filmmakers fuck up and the final result is not what was intented, and it's so dumb and goofy it becames funny, because of it's own fail. I rate it as a sort of schadenfreude.
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This movie is a total must see. I pity the fools who can't understand why.
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Herzog has my respect always. He could make a film with Jack Black, Ben Stiller and any of the Wilson brothers and I would still give it a look. Yeah, all of the above-mentioned "actors" are bags of shit in case you were wondering...
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you are utterly incapable of enjoying those films, because you always need to justify them. I'm going home, drinking a beer and watching Basket Case, which I shall thoroughly enjoy. I bet you an awful amount of money that Basket Case is as intended. You cunt. It's about FUN- not intention, but you're incapable of enjoying a film such as lifeforce vicerally so I don't know why I'm bothering with this.
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I loved Trek, it was a fantastic movie, probably 3rd favorite of the summer, but man Herzog has never made a bad film and this one is no different, To trash Herzog is to show what little taste someone has in film.
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So bad it's good movies (which is a bullshit justification for cunts like you that can't own up to just enjoying something that doesn't reach an imaginary and nebulous level of "quality")include- Leprechaun in da Hood (all the Lep films, actually, apart from the last one, which is arse), Lifeforce, Return of The Living Dead, Dark Angel, Deep Blue Sea, almost anything with Dolph, almost anything by Troma, a lot of stuff with DTV legends in it.
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Goatfucker. Congrats on Portugal finally getting electricity past 5 PM.
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Sep 07, 2009 12:19:09 PM CDT
Lost Jarv, and insult from you i take it as a compliment
by asimovlives
If i insult an asshole like you, it means i'm doing something right. I measure my worth also by assholes like you that oppose me. In that regard, I thank you.
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Sep 07, 2009 2:41:00 PM CDT
Werner Herzog passing on Abel Ferrara's concept shows contempt f
by duanejones
...it's hackery, pure and simple. Herzog has made brilliant films but no matter what international "package" had to be assembled in order to get this film made, to take another brilliant filmmaker's title and primary conceit is simply contemptible, period: as business, aesthetics, honor amongst thieves, you name it. For fuck's sake he even gets the "bad" part wrong!!! The whole point of Ferrara/Keitel's BL was to show the downward spiral of a condemned man wrestling with his innumerable demons as far as his way-freakin' lapsed Catholic soul will permit. Oh, but now (spoiler alert!) teenage girls are supposed to show Nic their asses because our bad lieutenant has CHRONIC BACK PAIN???
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No, I'm not. Fuck bullshit "remakes" like _Bad Lieutenant -- Bad to the Bone in the Bayou_ and bravo Abel Ferrara, making some of the best films of his life right now for peanuts and not, as it turns out, for the edification of wide audiences. He should put together an international "package" & make a film about felching smackheads terrorists and call it _Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes_...
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What about if we first watch the movie before we can say for certain if Werner Herzog pulled an hack job on Bad Lieutenant? In case you haven't noticed yet, we are talking about Werner Herzog here, not Jar Jar Fucking Abrams or Michael Fucking Bay.Fuck's sake, i can't believe some people that they can be so easy to trash on Herzog, of all people, of all filmmakers. I mean, hasn't Herzog, like, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt his worth and his integrity as a filmmaker? Fuck's sake, man! If you guys have to piss on anybody, any filmmaker, there's many, many others out there who deserve the pissing on. There's no respect anymore!
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-Director. But I DO enjoy the casting of Mssrs George Brett, Hal McRae and George Hendrick in his 'middle Period' career--certainly those stand the test of time- Mammaries of Mommy: You are a pile of shit. You hatred of the new Trek is simply verbal masturbation. And we know you Still haven't figgered out how many 'M's' it takes to spell 'Moron' in Manaus.
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Fuck's sake, i can't believe some people that they can be so easy to trash on Abrams, of all people, of all filmmakers. I mean, hasn't Abrams, like, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt his worth and his integrity as a filmmaker? Fuck's sake, man! If you guys have to piss on anybody, any filmmaker, there's many, many others out there who deserve the pissing on. There's no respect anymore!
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Never mind - I'm using that title now.
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Looks like a man's movie. I'm not a Cage fan, but he was undeniably awesome in Lord of War. He's best in quirky, fucked up roles. Can't wait.
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We get it. You hated Star Trek. The majority of audiences and critics loved it, and your bile isn't going to change that. Get over it.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/04/directors-clash-film-remake-venice
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at an advance screening way back when & my recollections of it aren't hazy at all: It muthafuckin' sucked so badly I wanted to shoot everyone involved with it's production. Twice. In the face.
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remind me again how you were "booking a ticket for Mr. Alien, Mr. Predator and lots and lots of Mr. and Mrs. Dead People" based on the shitty trailer for AvP:Rectum. They breed them dumb in the asshole of Iberia, don't they?
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...so basically like every movie he's done in the last 20 years?
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Talk about crazy over the top Nick Cage. Nothing is stupider than Acid Yellow in Sonny and that's set in New Orleans too. Maybe they can have Cage's character meet Acid Yellow and do some wacky split screen shit.
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that is all
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