yeah, the national treasure movies weren't amazing or anything. since i'm not american, i can watch them more objectively, because the patriotism doesn't apply. :P

still, they are very fun movies that move along quickly and deliver action with more than just guns and explosions, but a sense of adventure. in a lot of ways they remind me of indiana jones which is still a favourite of mine. :) 

Vaguely-Interesting-Facttruth of the day;

Nicholas Cage is Francis Ford Copolla's nephew. It makes his entire career make sense. Like the fact he has one... 

...not that I'm arguing he hasn't been in some pretty iffy movies, but he's been in some good ones too. Wild At Heart is one of my faves. 

stop being so generous, we all know it's a 1.009 and the squeal is a .000000000001 

saw that a few weeks ago and I really disliked it. Being a Lynch fan, I was up for some good fucked up stuff, but my reaction to it was similar to Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me, the only other Lynch film I have really disliked.

But it had enough qualities to make me keep it and try it again some day. 

I'm not saying he hasn't been in some good films. It's just they tend to be good despite him. I can't really think of any that are good because of having nicholas cage in (or at least that wouldn't be improved by replacing him with another actor). 

is the only one I can think of where he made the movie. Otherwise I generally agree about Cage. 

He was good in that one, too I think - his style of acting fits the role there. And there is one scene in tricks (the pharmacy scene) where he redeems the whole stupid movie by playing a guy with lots of ticks who finds out that the medication he received from his doctor for weeks was in fact supplements. Too bad I can't find it on youtube. 

The movie is called Matchstick Men and there scene is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM6X_wdZJaE 

Matchstick Men is good too, as is something like Bringing out the Dead but I think Adaptation's the only time I couldnt imagine anyone but Cage in the role. 

I thought it was predictable and contrived... but then it has the above scene and Sam Rockwell, who is pretty much always great. 

My fave Cage flick though is Raising Arizona. He fits that style perfectly.

TBH he is a bit of an enigma - how his career is still intact after that movie Ghost Rider, and stuff like The Sorcerers Apprentice, I will never unhderstand. I guess it's cause Fun Family Blockbusters sell well. 

Is HILARIOUS. Just watching Sly Stallone running around with all of that eye make-up on, spurting loads of macho one-liners and trying to act all macho when he obviously has a self-induced hormone imbalance - priceless. And the cheesiest monologue of all time at the end, which Statham recites. But the action scenes aren't bad to watch, atleast the first time round. 

Mr Deeds goes to town (the new one with Adam Sandler)

A disgusting slut that not very convincingly changes. The usual annoying music. Some great laughs. Bit of a mixture between comedy, drama and very surreal sequences that sometimes just did not fit in my opinion. Overall a feel good movie but because of that weird uncertainty what it tries to be I would not consider it too good. 

I dislike Nicholas Cage a lot but I thought he was perfectly cast in Lord of War. 

You choose to watch some real classics! 

yeah, lord of war was great. :) 

actually I totally forgot about the last good Nic Cage film I watched, Bad Lieutenant. If you like that part from Matchstick Men, you should check it out, it's like Werner Herzog wanted to do a Nic Cage movie and married the tone to his acting style.

Wait, there's people that like Lord of War? 

 

thanks, I'll watch that. I can't imagine it being better than the original though. But then, it doesn't have to be as long as it's entertaining.

I watched 2012 yesterday (a strange series of events led me there), and that was the worst movie I have seen ever. There is nothing redeeming about it - it's just all bad. Unbelievable. 

completely different movie, in fact I have no idea why they share the same title. Black comedy abounds though :)

saw Kick Ass, was entertaining enough but nowhere near as outrageous (or satisfying) as I was expecting. I actually wanted more Nic Cage (and his Adam West impersonation). 

So I was watching through this season and I noticed a familiar name in the starting credits, "Merle Dandridge". Couldn't quite place it at first..

Its the actor who voices Alyx in HL2+episodes. It was so bizarre seeing her on the screen and hearing her talk =) I half expected barney to run in at any point to protect her from headhumpers.

As for 24, Im not really feeling season 8 so far, too many changes and new people introduced. Overall though its a great show, really really enjoyed a few seasons of it! 

died at the end of season 4 IMHO. Or at least had a steady continuous decline since then. 

is that the one with Audrey Reins british husband in it? That was an amazing season purely for that scene (SPOILER------) where Jack has to chose between sacrificing the british guy or saving his informant (or whoever he was). Such fantastic drama there.

I agree the later seasons have not been as good, but I did enjoy season 7 purely for the character of that fbi woman who slowly gets corrupted by jack, I thought was quite interesting to see. 

good lord, that lasted 8 seasons? i could barely stand the first. -_-