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Terrible low budget movie better done in someone else's hands

posted 8 years ago by polexia
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The filmmakers showed their hand in the very first scene of the nude woman. It was just inexplicable and low rent. This is your establishing shot for the feel of the whole film. Then we have goofy music, cat turds, a bloated Nick Cage thinking he's being "checked out" (the delusion of every old fat guy), more goofy music, some pointless reference to a hand job (why where they there? There was no logical point to that location at all.) I hate things that are illogical, and the filmmakers handled this like they just got out of their frat house with too much of their daddy's money (but not enough to do anything classy.) It is so hard to watch Elijah Wood trying to adult with that baby face and baby body and baby voice. The scene in the beginning is cringeworthy because you're watching a hairless baby have sex. Disgusting.

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[–] TheBeardedWonder 8 years ago

The whole things was trying for a quirky type of ironic/weird funny, but it fell short every single time. The scene of them meeting at the restaurant that you mentioned is a good example. Why does he point out there's a guy getting a handie under the table? Why does everyone ignore Nic Cage? Why does he eat the lemon and hot sauce, convince Frodo to do the same, then say he actually doesn't like the taste?

It was a series of surreal type gags and lines that kept making me scratch my head wondering what the hell was going on. A cop just randomly plays Russian roulette in the evidence warehouse and walks away like nothing happened. Cage will suddenly change his voice and use words like dude. They get jobs inside the hotel, adding a 2nd shift to their day in order to see if *maybe someone* has some money hidden because somebody posted bail in cash. Cage's character apparently lives at home at age 60 still too.

It was like someone high on something thought they would write Ocean's 2 starring Cage and Wood. Nothing made sense and the whole thing was like a fuzzy dream where you wonder if you made up what you saw or if it was real.