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Bunnyman:
Still...Nicholas Cage?  Have these people not seen Raising Arizona?

Lord of War was a lot more satiric and clever than I expected it to be.  Quite amusing.

Artiste Extraordinaire:
You people seem to underestimate the awesomeness of Jared Leto, in this film and in others. Shame on you.

sunniegreen:
Wow, I'm astonished.  I thought that was one of the most painful movies I have ever seen.  Cage just does not pull off anything but sleazy or neurotic very well.  To watch him try and be suave or heroic was pitiful.  It could have been a good movie, if differently executed, I suppose.  The positive responses confuse me.  Maybe I was unknowingly under some kind of drug while watching it, since I would not like to consider a world in which I am the only pillar of sanity.  Still, I think it was rotten.

Kana:

--- Quote from: sunniegreen ---Wow, I'm astonished.  I thought that was one of the most painful movies I have ever seen.  Cage just does not pull off anything but sleazy or neurotic very well.  To watch him try and be suave or heroic was pitiful.  It could have been a good movie, if differently executed, I suppose.  The positive responses confuse me.  Maybe I was unknowingly under some kind of drug while watching it, since I would not like to consider a world in which I am the only pillar of sanity.  Still, I think it was rotten.
--- End quote ---


Did we watch the same movie?  Cage is the farthest thing from trying to be or being a hero in LoW.  He's playing a self-serving role and let everything next to him go away just to keep at doing his sleazy job.  I don't rate the movie as 5 stars in my book, but I thought it was a good 3.5 or so.  Cage manipulates everyone in the movie and thrives off of it, he seemed to fit the role perfectly, least in my opinion - which I'm sure isn't much, but I wonder if you are thinking of LoW when you say he was trying to be heroic and what not.  Suave, well he could be seen that way when he kept screwing Interpol at every little turn, but eh...

sunniegreen:
Obviously my theatre had the outtakes version or something, because I thought his performance was atrocious.  I regret using the word "hero" though, since I didn't mean that he was a "good" guy.  To me, his character came off as very weak and transparent.  The only character that I really thought was interesting was his brother.  His brother showed far more emotion and was much more interesting.  The family was believeable, but seemed so unlike him that it was hard to imagine them as his relations.

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