[quote=Powdered Water][quote=Iroquois]
This would mean a lot more coming from someone who didn't have [i]The Crow[/i] as their #2 favourite movie (never mind [i]Braveheart[/i], but I guess that's technically not a B-movie).[/quote]

Why's that? I take it you'd agree then that [i]The Crow[/i] is a far superior revenge flick  then? I completely agree with you.

Better soundtrack. Better version of the story. Better sets and acting by the big bad in the film. And it didn't even find it necessary to  murder his love interest right on screen in front of us. 

All that aside tho... I thought most people hated Nic Cage so it kinda surprises me that its getting a following in the first place. Interesting how an apparent no talent hack like Cage seems to have just the right chops to capture cult audiences from a few different genres. [i]Raising Arizona, Moonstruck[/i] and now [i]Mandy[/i] (It seems) as well, to name a few.[/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]Another thing to get shot down. 

I know it's 83' , but why not call the general casting bad guys. Guess we just brush over the Abraxas thing cuz it's a nonsense movie. One speck of some other sort of meaning. Naw. They didn't spell out any other meaning so its B-movie schlockfest.[/font][/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][quote=Powdered Water] 
Also: I've seen a little talk about Mandy being supernatural or godlike or something? Nonsense. She gets burned alive. At the end of the day this is a b-movie with a horrific act of violence towards a woman that we are supposed to feel ok about watching because the hero cleans house and by the end, all the big bads are dead. Hooray![/quote]

[font=century gothic]Yeah, opinions.

There are a lot of references from the imagery that could lead one to believe there is something more at work here. There is also the King Crimson song and how bluntly hammered home the importance of it is.

One of the few things Cosmatos has admitted to about this movie is how "paraphrasing" men sicken him. 

That's what I love about movies. People can say one movie is abstract and full of meaning while denying another movie any merit. 

What do I know. I've got a little Deborah Burgundy avatar replying to a guy named after crack.[/font][/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Yep. I too wish [i]Basic Instinct[/i] had just the interrogation scene (that turns into an orgy that lasts for the entire film).[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]And also to be so sexy to boot. /s[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Damn it. It's so exasperating to be so cool. You know nobody will ever reach your level of coolness, so in a way you're lonely up there in your ivory tower. :cool:[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]And, once again, whoever dislikes [i]Mandy[/i] is a Reptilian agent.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio][i]Vampire's Kiss[/i] is a masterpiece and Cage's favourite of his own films.  Am I getting [i]through[/i] to you, IROQUOIS?![/quote]

[quote=Iroquois]Cage or no Cage, [i]Vampire's Kiss[/i] kind of sucks. Can't dig the poor man's [i]American Psycho[/i] just because he eats a cockroach. At least [i]Mandy[/i] tries to ground his craziness.

[quote=Powdered Water]Also: I've seen a little talk about Mandy being supernatural or godlike or something? Nonsense. She gets burned alive. At the end of the day this is [b]a b-movie with a horrific act of violence towards a woman that we are supposed to feel ok about watching because the hero cleans house and by the end, all the big bads are dead.[/b] Hooray![/quote]

This would mean a lot more coming from someone who didn't have [i]The Crow[/i] as their #2 favourite movie (never mind [i]Braveheart[/i], but I guess that's technically not a B-movie).[/quote]

[quote=Powdered Water]Joel's review of [i]Mandy[/i] sums it up nicely. I particularly agree with this bit...

[quote]The first half hour was very promising with tasteful visuals and a great music score by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. The set up for the love story was almost perfect with both lovers sharing a fascination with fantasy astronomy. So far we are off to a great start. But once the "plot" kicks in everything goes to complete brown town. You take someone like Nic Cage and put him in a b movie like Mandy, and people are going to expect him to live up to the "performance of a lifetime" tag that this film's promotion wears as a false badge of honor. BS. Total BS. Cage has eaten cockroaches in real life on film before in Vampire's Kiss. This Mandy business is a walk in the park for him. He's tragically underused here. We have amazing visuals, but after about 40 mins of constant purple double exposures and lens flares I think the audience is just about tapped out on that and is waiting for some sustenance. We never get it.[/quote]

Some movies can pull this off because they are trying to pay homage to movies that have come before them. [i]Mandy[/i] adds some color and a droning soundtrack and tries to come off as something new. It isn't.

 Also: I've seen a little talk about Mandy being supernatural or godlike or something? Nonsense. She gets burned alive. At the end of the day this is a b-movie with a horrific act of violence towards a woman that we are supposed to feel ok about watching because the hero cleans house and by the end, all the big bads are dead. Hooray![/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][quote=Yoda]Aren't boots the one kind of footwear it'd be kind of okay to piss on?[/quote]

[font=century gothic]I learned a while ago about wearing flip-flops to stadium events.[/font][/quote]