The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
 

Oh my God:

https://twitter.com/HeatVisionBlog/s...43320807231488
The thread title is actually what it's called.

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Hell of a title to live up too. Particularly when it’s not true.

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If he's on acid Imma have to write a different movie lol

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So Nicolas Cage is making a movie about Nicolas Cage starring Nicolas Cage as Nicolas Cage.

I hope it's like Being John Malkovich and all his character says is "Nicholas Cage."

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The movie should be about the Superman movie that never was!
(Sure, we have a documentary made about it, but why not a dramatic feature recounting it? Like that Pearl Harbor movie... "Based" on a true story!) ;)

It's going to be Nic Cage's version of Joker... about a desperate actor slowly losing his mind. ;)

Well it's Nic Cage so it's already better lol

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This movie could turn out to be groundbreaking. You never know, it could end up being to Cage what Birdman was to Michael Keaton.

Imagine Cage getting an Oscar nomination for playing himself.

Giving the amount of movies Nicolas Cage is been doing, most with unknown directors, solely based on his personal correlation with the script, some of which are terrible, others are a good surprise, the only thing we couldn’t expect would be exactly this, that’s why it’s happening.

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What if for the past 15 years Cage deliberately acted in terrible films, so that he could make this meta-film later?!

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Sounds rather a lot like Birdman which you could argue mirrors cage's career even moreso than Keaton's.

Cage has been pretty obviously poking fun at his own persona in interviews for awhile, referring to himself in the 3rd person and the like.

I mean, he already got one for playing the screenwriter of the movie he was in. :eek:

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He’s not making it (credit where credit’s due)

It's funnier

It sounds like a Nic Cage version of the comedy JCVD, where Van Damme played a comical sort of version of himself and that film was did very well. Will it work for Cage? That remains to be seen.

Oh Damn its Baby Yoda!! We were talking about you at work today!!!

Mr. Pancakes, I agree. Nic was horrible in "The Wicker Man" remake. Sorry, I know you love him but they "*****" on the original The Wicker Man and that makes me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krotxywU2Es

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I'm mostly waiting for his film with Sion Sono.

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I have a feeling this will be the movie everybody will be talking about this time next year.

Here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8VuWhvk87o

I’ll be waiting for this. I watched his three latest films from this year all in a row a few weekends ago and he was entertaining in all three, but Pig was his best and quite possibly one of the best films of the year. I am not kidding here.

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I just saw Pig a few days ago and yeah, really affecting film. Cage has always been interesting, and obviously frequently ridiculous, but there's real talent there, too. No one quite like him.

Anyway, kinda looking forward to this, though I suspect it's a little too self-aware to be great and will probably be more silly than profound, even though on paper it should/could have the potential to be both.

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Finally a thread I can relate to!

I'll show myself out.... ;)

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I think this looks a lot of fun, love the wall bit at the end.

I'll spend $20 for a digital download of this.

Looks like it could be a good comedy. Glad to see Cage back on track. I'd about closed the door on him after Pig.

When I went to see West Side Story, there was a preview of this movie...it looks really interesting.

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Saw this earlier, found it extremely wanting. Definitely amused at a) how old this thread is and b) that any of us ever thought this had the potential to be an Oscar contender just because it had some superficial similarities to Birdman.

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Interesting/surprising, friend of mine thought it was great, though I don't have a great sense of his tastes.

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It shouldn't be too surprising. There was always going to be a decent chance that it would settle for coasting on Cage's status as a living meme at the expense of all other considerations (and the Adaptation comparisons are unavoidable, especially since this film is much more up-front about how it's aware that it's ditching character-driven drama for thrills and excitement).

I am 00:45:56 through a 1:46:51 runtime and I'm loving this. It is all so ridiculous! I'm actually now considering watching Paddington 2. On LSD.

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Can’t wait to see this. Nic cage is always awesome