Why I Saw This Movie
My friend the Cinephile invited me over to watch this movie,
and my philosophy is that if anyone takes the trouble to invite me over for a
movie, I’ll watch anything (—a policy I’m now beginning to rethink, by the way,
because this movie represents 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back.)
As for the
Cinephile, he wanted to watch this movie because it had achieved a kind of cult
status on the Internet as the most bizarre Nicholas Cage film ever made.
The Review
So, if a film has a reputation for
being terrible, and you watch it anyway, I suppose you can’t really be too hard
on it for living up to its reputation.
The film’s
a bizarre black comedy that largely relies on Nicholas Cage’s ability to
overact in every scene. And to the film’s
credit, Nicholas Cage delivers on this perfectly. So the film achieves what it
set out to achieve.
I can’t
hate it entirely—there are moments of brilliance in the film—but it overstays
its welcome by going on too long.
Rating :
2 out of 10 Stars (Although granted these movies that
boarder on the so-bad-that-they’re-good territory are hard to stick an objective
rating on.)
Links
From Uproxx.com 10 Reasons Why “Vampire’s Kiss” Is Nicolas Cage’s Most Insane Movie Ever. This is the article that
convinced my Cinephile friend that he had to see this movie in the first place.
And if you haven’t seen the film yet, a bit of the Nicholas
Cage craziness can be seen on youtube clips like this.
Link(s) of the Day
Noam Chomsky (2013) "What is Anarchism?"
From Cracked.com: 23 Outrageous Marketing Lies You See Every Day
From Dailykos.com A Pipeline runs through it
And, I generally try and make it a policy not to link to book reviews of books I haven't read, but I'm going to make an exception for this review here.
Link(s) of the Day
Noam Chomsky (2013) "What is Anarchism?"
From Cracked.com: 23 Outrageous Marketing Lies You See Every Day
From Dailykos.com A Pipeline runs through it
And, I generally try and make it a policy not to link to book reviews of books I haven't read, but I'm going to make an exception for this review here.
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