Post by moviemouth on Jul 20, 2021 4:13:47 GMT
Yup. Nicolas Cage is a big part of why the movie works as well as it does.
It is sort of a Tarantino inspired superhero movie.
I need to emphasize how great I think the Big Daddy death scene is. The way it shows hit-girl as a video game character to going to her seeing her father being burned alive. This isn't a game and he has raised her with the idea that it is. This is one of the greatest moments of Nicolas Cage going as OTT as possible. It is funny, but frightening at the same time. All set perfectly to John Murphy's Surface of the Sun. It is a beautiful, visceral, disturbing and very sad scene. What makes it even more brilliant is how unexpected the scene in is in the context of everything that came before.
Also inspired by Tarantino and another great scene from the same director. Maybe the greatest scene of the entire X-Men franchise.