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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 18, 2023 18:51:49 GMT
It is going to be shown at the Fantasia film festival here in Montreal. I have tickets for it. Nic Cage was going to be there for the occasion, but he just announced that he will not come, because of his support for the actors' strike. Bummer!
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Post by Nora on Jul 18, 2023 19:18:22 GMT
aaw that is a bummer. but i bet the movie and the festival is going to be fun regardless. Enjoy and report back!  |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 24, 2023 20:58:40 GMT
aaw that is a bummer. but i bet the movie and the festival is going to be fun regardless. Enjoy and report back! Saw it during the weekend. It was in fact the World Premiere of the movie. Really too bad that Nicolas Cage couldn’t be there. The director, the producer and the screenwriter were all there. Joel Kinnaman plays a Vegas family man who is forced at gunpoint by Nicolas Cage (doing an awesome deranged Nicolas Cage) to drive him somewhere for some questionable purpose. Pretty good thriller with a certain Tarantino vibe at times. |
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Post by forca85 on Aug 10, 2023 20:19:36 GMT
I'm a fan... I get that not everyone likes him. I have several of his movies. To be honest I thought "Mandy" was not very good. Not much of a payoff for that much of a Slow Burn. Too Artsy Fartsy.
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Post by staggerstag on Jan 16, 2024 0:45:56 GMT
Saw it during the weekend. It was in fact the World Premiere of the movie. Really too bad that Nicolas Cage couldn’t be there. The director, the producer and the screenwriter were all there. Joel Kinnaman plays a Vegas family man who is forced at gunpoint by Nicolas Cage (doing an awesome deranged Nicolas Cage) to drive him somewhere for some questionable purpose. Pretty good thriller with a certain Tarantino vibe at times. I'm about to watch this. |
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Post by staggerstag on Jan 16, 2024 6:06:47 GMT
A few good Cage freak-out moments and not much more. I'm a fan of his but this movie dragged its heels and I'm afraid was pretty tiresome.
The music fit well with the sometimes atmospheric vibe and I get the Tarantino references as well as the film credits featuring nameless characters ('The Passenger'. 'The Driver', 'Waitress', 'Cop' etc) which reminded me of similar credits in the movie The Driver (1978) with Ryan O'Neal as 'The Driver', Bruce Dern as 'The Detective', Isabelle Adjani as 'The Player' etc, and what The Driver had in prolonged tension Sympathy paled in comparison with short bursts of it.
I like some of the role names in these kind of credits : The Driver features characters such as 'Glasses', 'The Kid', 'Teeth', 'Fingers'.
There's a belief among some people that the fewer the producers of a movie the more worthwhile the movie is*. The Driver had two, a producer and a co-producer. Sympathy For The Devil had 21 : 4 producers, 2 co-producers (1 of them doubling up as line producer) 13 executive producers and 2 co- executive producers.
*There may just be something to that.
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Post by staggerstag on Jan 27, 2024 0:40:29 GMT
An interesting article appears in The Guardian about executive producers and such. It goes someway towards dispelling my assumption, held for many years, that EPs pour funds into a film and earn their credits that way. It seems that films can be good earners for EPs who are "paid well" for their name and time. Some executive producers are given credit after the film is made. That's a new one on me, I have to say. Then there is the example of an EP having nothing to do with a film at all - except fondly give their name to it. There are the real positive sides of post production EPs I suppose this is a good and worthy example of an EP. I don't know - I guess. Nicolas Cage ( which other actor could derail a thread about one film into a chitter-chatter about executive producers?) as EP? I could see only two films, A Score To Settle and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. That can't be right, can it? www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/26/credits-due-what-is-behind-a-listers-queueing-up-to-become-executive-producers |
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