He's alive? Should act that way.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,048
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 5th June 2019, 5:02 PMHe's alive? Should act that way.
That's true only up to a point.
Nicolas has died in at least 15 films and, had he followed your advice, I am very sure his career would not have progressed as it has.
DIRECTOR: Nic! Nic! What the f**k are you doing? You're supposed to be dead! Stop moving around!
NICOLAS: I'm from the Paul Wimsett school of acting!
DIRECTOR: F**k Paul Wimsett and especially f**k his f**king school of mother-f**king acting! Stay still!
NICOLAS: Okay, okay! You're the boss!
END.
You've also been following me around!
He's good in Raising Arizona but his action film characters are mostly the same.
I always enjoy Con Air, which appears on TV with great regularity.
Sorry but he's not for me Beaky as I think he over acts like Pacino . I like the film with Syrus the virus and the rest of it, as its pure escapism (pardon the pun) but for me Cage isn't really the star they claim he is, he sort of falls just that bit short. IMHO.
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 5th June 2019, 8:34 PMPacino
I usually love Al Pacino movies but he didn't really seem himself in "The Wolf of Wall Street".
Oh no, wait a minute - that was Leonardo DiCaprio pretending to be Al Pacino.
Quote: Definitely Tarby @ 5th June 2019, 8:05 PMHe's good in Raising Arizona but his action film characters are mostly the same.
I don't know, in Face/Off you get two Nic Cage's for the price of one. And in Kick Ass you get him channeling Adam West and doing one of the funniest death scenes ever.
Con Air is a great film and one of my goto DVDs for a silver screen action fix but that's because of the big names in the cast rather than the lead. He's good but no John McClane.
I was in Covent Garden yesterday at midday for only the third opera in my life. The other two were also this year as I'm going through a phase. Beforehand I walked over Hungerford Bridge to Embankment station and onto the Strand. I was very, very close to Trafalgar Square then but I only saw one anti-Trump protestor. Just one. A woman carrying a Dump Trump banner. She looked like a retired librarian. So, yes, it was very well contained or actually no one was there.
Some who go to these things - Extinction Rebellion etc - believe in their causes but it's all basically a social meet up, much like church used to be when it was full of lonely atheists. I will end it almost here as it's all politics, politics, politics with me. And Tosca. But not before I bring you the man who is in charge of the NHS and is hoping to be the next PM. Think the very opposite of Churchill and then travel a few million miles on in that direction. Emigrating is beginning to appeal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktZ9R5XZas 
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Quote: Definitely Tarby @ 5th June 2019, 9:19 PMCon Air is a great film and one of my goto DVDs for a silver screen action fix but that's because of the big names in the cast rather than the lead. He's good but no John McClane.
Die Hard's great, although what I'm about to say will be considered sacrilege. I think John McClane is a bit too smug and self satisfied. The real hero is Hans Gruber.
I've never seen a "Die Hard" film, although I did watch a little of the very first one before turning it off in disgust.
There was John Maclane, all alone, pulling himself along some sort of horizontal ventilation shaft and suddenly he decides to make a witty remark.
For whose benefit was that remark made? For the benefit of an audience that, in the world of John Maclane, couldn't possibly exist and who were, in fact, a real-life audience whose pleasure in watching the film is largely dependent upon their ability to forget that they are a cinema or TV audience and that John Maclane is a figment of their imagination. The last thing they want to see is Bruce Willis coming out of character and being a smart arse.
That sort of thing works in a Woody Allen comedy: it doesn't work in a serious action/adventure movie.
Bad writing!
Quote: Rood Eye @ 6th June 2019, 9:28 AMI've never seen a "Die Hard" film, although I did watch a little of the very first one before turning it off in disgust.
There was John Maclane, all alone, pulling himself along some sort of horizontal ventilation shaft and suddenly he decides to make a witty remark.
For whose benefit was that remark made? !
Himself. He's not breaking the fourth wall, he's talking to himself. We all talk to ourselves at times. Even you. Like in that thread you started about Critique. 
Quote: chipolata @ 6th June 2019, 11:49 AMWe all talk to ourselves at times. Even you. Like in that thread you started about Critique.
I see what you did there. 
The greatest scriptwriters / directors / producers in the USA... A whole day to eke out one minute of final film... And Nic's still shit.