Deja-P.U. All Over Again...

I think I might go out and rent some crap movies today whilst nursing yon hangover... Might actually check out Next, and then maybe Ecks vs Sever or I Know Who Killed Me.
Here's the first reason I know that Next is bad though: IT HAS NIC CAGE IN IT. THE GUY MARRIED LISA MARIE PRESLEY TO GET AT HER DEAD DAD'S STUFF. HE WAS IN BANGKOK DANGEROUS. Defending his work, to me, is mindblowing. I like the premise for Next, but I that doesn't mean it was executed properly. Here's my question... It SOUNDS as if they way they ended the movie was by not ending it... Is it one of those things where the movie actually ENDS, or they just figured they'd made us watch long enough?

I know there is a debate going on with this and NEXT, but I am going to shift things for now.

First of all, what causes people like Cage to turn from Oscar winners to perennial Razzie candidates?  Nowadays, if there are 100 Nicholas Cage movies, there are 100 Razzie candidates.

Second, the future looks bleak: more Nicolas Cage.  The first is a CGI Astro Boy movie (another Americanized anime), where Cage voices Dr. Tenma.  The second is G-Force (not based on the 80s cartoon), which involves guinea pigs trying to save the world from an evil billionaire.  Cage voices Speckles the Mole.

What happened to Nicolas Cage?

Originally posted by moviewizguy I mean, "Minority Report" was utterly superb and a masterpiece. I love time movies.

See, this is a statement I can mostly agree with. I found Minority Report to be a decent enough movie (even if it had Tom Cruise). Never read the original story, so I don't know about the quality of the adaptation, but as straight entertainment, it was fun.

You may never win me over as a convert to loving "Next", but I want you to know, I can agree with you on at least one point.

 

So I made myself watch Next today... And I did it JUST for you, MWG, you little scamp you... And I felt it was mediocre, at least... I mean, I still like the premise, but half of the movie is him trying to get with Jessica Biel, which... Just MAN is that idea creepy... Nic Cage still sporting that Bangkok Dangerous haircut with Jessica Biel? That's like Gilbert Gottfried dating Rebecca Romijn. Anyway, it has that other half with the action which was... OKish... But finally... the ending? Come on, man... It's not unique, it's just not DONE. I mean, if you wanted to make a movie with every possible permutation to get the desired result, you really should go the Lola Rennt way and keep em fairly brief. To have the movie build up to the whole, "Let's show the way where she dies, and leave you to assume there's a happy ending"... Why not just have an unhappy ending? I mean, I figure that the find the whole cop-out loophole where he can only see 2 minutes into the future, except when he sees her... But I mean, that's a SERIOUS problem. If the movie wasn't convoluted up until that point, that's just SUCH a convenient trick... And it makes that whole love story thing that much more corny. Sooooo... yea, mediocre.
Also, I DID torture myself through I Know Who Killed Me, and as bad as that was, that wasn't as bad as I think people made it out to be. I give them credit for TRYING to be artsy in it. That's one of those movies I was talking about during this year's Worst Picture Razzie... It wasn't bad because they weren't trying, it was just bad. So it gets a couple of points in my book.

There was some thing on Hollywood dot com I saw the other day... Apparently the record in age difference in a movie is 43 years... Ben Kingley with Mary Kate Olsen in The Wackness. I believe that refers to the character's age.

"Back in MY day, an iPod was something that an alien came out of to take over your body... well, I mean... I was 30 at the time that movie came out... ok, 40... Err.... This Depression has nothing on the last one... er... D'oh!"

Originally posted by dEd Grimley So I made myself watch Next today... And I did it JUST for you, MWG, you little scamp you... And I felt it was mediocre, at least... I mean, I still like the premise, but half of the movie is him trying to get with Jessica Biel, which... Just MAN is that idea creepy... Nic Cage still sporting that Bangkok Dangerous haircut with Jessica Biel? That's like Gilbert Gottfried dating Rebecca Romijn. Anyway, it has that other half with the action which was... OKish... But finally... the ending? Come on, man... It's not unique, it's just not DONE. I mean, if you wanted to make a movie with every possible permutation to get the desired result, you really should go the Lola Rennt way and keep em fairly brief. To have the movie build up to the whole, "Let's show the way where she dies, and leave you to assume there's a happy ending"... Why not just have an unhappy ending? I mean, I figure that the find the whole cop-out loophole where he can only see 2 minutes into the future, except when he sees her... But I mean, that's a SERIOUS problem. If the movie wasn't convoluted up until that point, that's just SUCH a convenient trick... And it makes that whole love story thing that much more corny. Sooooo... yea, mediocre.

Fine.

Also, I DID torture myself through I Know Who Killed Me, and as bad as that was, that wasn't as bad as I think people made it out to be. I give them credit for TRYING to be artsy in it. That's one of those movies I was talking about during this year's Worst Picture Razzie... It wasn't bad because they weren't trying, it was just bad. So it gets a couple of points in my book.

Thank God, there's a sane person here. I've never tried to express my opinions on that film because I didn't really care for it. However, it wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. It looked really artsy, much alike "Blue Velvet." The filmmakers actually tried to make a film compared to other bad movies. The premise was interesting too. I just hated the sex.

Well, from what I remembered, I fast-forwarded, and it still took, like, some time to get past the sex scene...