Full disclosure: I haven’t seen Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant but if it’s anything like this, I’m going to have to check it out.
In a few hours time the thing will disappear and we’ll be slapping our knees that some poor schmuck with too much time on his hands took a bunch of Nicholas Cage movies and cut together a trailer. But then there’s the fact that we haven’t heard these lines before. And wait, isn’t that Val Kilmer? They’ve never been in a movie together…
Yes, it’s here and it’s glorious. I mean glorious. This trailer is so cheesy and over the top that it reaches proportions of awesomeness. Werner Herzog is going all out parody here and it’s the greatest thing I’ve seen this year. When’s this movie coming out?
Written by William M. Finkelstein, whose previous writing credits include a number of TV cop dramas, has put together this script which features Cage as a crack addicted cop. If that’s not good enough, how about instantly quotable lines like “You don’t have a lucky crack pipe?” (I’m not kidding) and gems like “What’s this fucking iguana doing on my coffee table?”
Aside from Kilmer and Cage Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans also stars Fairuza Balk, Eva Mendes, Jennifer Coolidge and Xzibit. At the moment, it has no US distributor but I’m assuming that may change soon.
Enough words. Check it out: (Update: YouTube trailer is no longer available. Here is a replacement)
Kudos to Drew McWeeny for the find.
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My head just exploded. Look out Wickerman remake, you’ve met your match in quotable stupidity.
Herzog obviously has a lucky crack-pipe.
How ’bout this one: “Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing!”
Yes, I shamelessly reposted this at Twitch, and that is in the Title of the Post.
This is comedy gold of the Wicker Man, Freddie Got Fingered variety. Wow. Simply Wow.
This is as quotable as a Coen Brothers movie. and will be a very strange experience in the cinema. Yea, I’ll be first in line.
“We Don’t hit women down south”
“A Man without a Gun is not a Man”
Funnier than that DeNiro/Pacino movie from last year, anyway.
Beautifully insane. I love Cage’s delivery, bout time I’d say, reminds me of Vampires Kiss. Kilmer doesnt look like he’s about to explode and Balk is back. I’m excited.
“Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing!” Classic.
Talking of returns to form ‘Drag me to hell’ again and again.
THIS… is why I love Nic Cage.
That last line had me peeing on my monitor.
I don’t get it…is it supposed to be intentionally stupid? A comedy? Or is Herzog just out of his mind?
Out of respect for the people running this site, I can’t post the comment I just typed.
Watch it again, and again, untill you understand.
How ’bout this one: “Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing!”
This may be my new favorite line of all time. But yeah, I can’t take Nicolas Cage for that long at a whack anymore. And by “that long” I mean more then four minutes. So I’ll likely make do with the trailer.
I’m loving the reactions to this trailer, check this one out from justpressplay.com,
“A remake written by a TV writer from Law & Order, with a terrible cast, directed by Werner Herzog. I suppose it just begs to be seen. Meanwhile, Abel Ferrara is not happy. After the film was announced last year at Cannes, Ferrara immediately wished for the people involved to board an exploding streetcar and go to hell. Judging from this trailer, they went already, and brought something back.”
Y’all really don’t get it? This is going to be GREAT.
Jonathan B. This will be great as a performance art piece more than an actual film. But I love a well conceived parody and this one is definitely going to hit the spot!
I wont believe this is a parody until I actually see it. There’s no trusting Cage anymore. I’m not saying he’s incapable of a good performance, he’s just random and chaotic and does things that just don’t fit.
He can be funny when he has a good script and is reining himself in (Weather Man, Adaptation) with only occasional freakouts, but otherwise he’s unhinged and more creepy. I think he thinks he’s some improvisational actor. He’s not.
more importantly I cannot see Herzog doing a parody… in his interviews he insists he has no concept of irony, and when you hear him talk and you see his movies you can entirely see he is not making that up. There has never been a more sincere and earnest director.
I don’t know what to make of this at all.
Well here is the thing, the great ‘bad parody’ movies have always been made by directors being completely earnest. Maybe Herzog is doing something way outside his comfort zone with money from a production company known for making absolutely shit films getting by on the bankability of the lead actors (88 Minutes, War Inc. Edison, Righteous Kill).
Hell the The Wicker Man remake was directed by NEIL LABUTE!
And check out this little gem: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282045/
@goon. That was a chuckle for the day. Only would Mr. Cage be able to say that something like his performance “Adaptation” was ‘reigning it in”
But he has done so much good work as well. He is as you said, simply unpredictable in his methods.
The Wicker Man is as much LaBute’s fault as it is Cage’s, if not more. LaBute never reined him in, he let that shot of him diving stay in, he used those hilarious cutaways on the ferry boat, he used footage of a guy in a bear suit hitting a woman, he used those great “Goddammit!” clips on the pier, and that double fake out in the same scene.
I just like rot, don’t believe you can bank on Herzog to the degree you seem to be doing, that there’s no evidence to me to give him the benefit out the doubt, at least not yet.
Its as naive as when I first saw the cast list and director of the Stepford Wives and believed it was going to be a musical, and got so excited. Now that’s a letdown