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[The Cosmic Fool]

I was vastly impressed with this movie. I thought by the previews, it was another cheesy action flick. I was so very, very wrong. Very real, and very harsh look at what goes on in the world. Unfathomably scary.

I would recommend this movie to everyone. Brilliant ending.

Anyone else watch this already?

[Garcin]

Yep.  Enjoyed the hell out of it; particularly the ending which I did not see coming.  Most of my friends in meatspace avoided this movie because of a seething hatred for Nicholas Cage.

Favorite part: Cage telling the Interpol agent how and why he was going free.  Most hilarious part: any portion of the movie implying that Interpol could do things like get jets to shoot at planes carrying contraband.

[IntermittentEvil]

I saw it a while back, and thought it was great.  And somewhat amusing.  But maybe I just have a strange sense of humour.  Yeah, I think that's it.

By the way, why do your meatspace friends hate Nicholas Cage?  As a matter of fact, my local newspaper chose him as the actor most likely to be remembered widely in the future due to the variety of movies he's done and done well (though that's a stretch, it was funny to think of Nickie Cage being better remembered than, say, Harrison Ford or someone like that).  If nothing else he's a great actor.

[IntermittentEvil]

I saw it a while back, and thought it was great.  And somewhat amusing.  But maybe I just have a strange sense of humour.  Yeah, I think that's it.

By the way, why do your meatspace friends hate Nicholas Cage?  As a matter of fact, my local newspaper chose him as the actor most likely to be remembered widely in the future due to the variety of movies he's done and done well (though that's a stretch, it was funny to think of Nickie Cage being better remembered than, say, Harrison Ford or someone like that).  If nothing else he's a great actor.

[Garcin]

Long ago, I have given up trying to understand the basis for the likes and dislikes of my meatspace friends.

Long ago, I have given up trying to understand the basis for the likes and dislikes of my meatspace friends.

[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]

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.

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.

[mrhemisphere]

I saw this movie in theaters and was seriously impressed by it's harsh realism.

Great performance by Cage as well.