Hopefully my local big-screener will make good on its tease that it'll rock up there, even if it's just a perfunctory one screening a day and gone after a week - window enough, surely. Just looked on imdb to see what my last cinematic Cager would've been - answer: LORD OF WAR in - bloody hell - 2005.
Despite being a big Cage guy, I am hesitant to see this in theaters, due to audience response.
I saw FaceOff last week in the theater and people were constantly laughing at EVERYTHING. Sure some of the stuff Cage does is hilarious, but often it was people just finding things to laugh at, and much out of some sense of irony.
I had the same experience a few years back seeing Blue Velvet in the theater and it was a horrible experience. (Legit have no idea why people were laughing, that movie is horrifying)
I just finished the book this morning, and it was wonderful. Thanks for inspiring a week of revisiting some of my favorite Cage performances, some of which I hadn't seen in 15 or 20 years.
When I first heard about this movie, I was happy Cage was trying to take control of the exhausting ironic internet meme aspect of his career, but had no expectation the movie would be any good. When I saw the trailer, I was surprised to find it looked pretty solid. Your recommendation pushes it to the top of my list when it opens next week.
This is *exactly* the content we've all been waiting for. I'm glad the movie didn't let you down. I'm really looking forward to it!
Hopefully my local big-screener will make good on its tease that it'll rock up there, even if it's just a perfunctory one screening a day and gone after a week - window enough, surely. Just looked on imdb to see what my last cinematic Cager would've been - answer: LORD OF WAR in - bloody hell - 2005.
Despite being a big Cage guy, I am hesitant to see this in theaters, due to audience response.
I saw FaceOff last week in the theater and people were constantly laughing at EVERYTHING. Sure some of the stuff Cage does is hilarious, but often it was people just finding things to laugh at, and much out of some sense of irony.
I had the same experience a few years back seeing Blue Velvet in the theater and it was a horrible experience. (Legit have no idea why people were laughing, that movie is horrifying)
I just finished the book this morning, and it was wonderful. Thanks for inspiring a week of revisiting some of my favorite Cage performances, some of which I hadn't seen in 15 or 20 years.
When I first heard about this movie, I was happy Cage was trying to take control of the exhausting ironic internet meme aspect of his career, but had no expectation the movie would be any good. When I saw the trailer, I was surprised to find it looked pretty solid. Your recommendation pushes it to the top of my list when it opens next week.