Oct 9 2009 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' Trailer: Nic Cage is the Worst Lt. in This Port of Call
Nicolas Cage gets a lot of guff these days, and not without reason. Look at some of his recent catalog: Knowing? Bangkok Dangerous? National Treasure? National Treasure: Book of Secrets? Next? Ghost Rider? Just reading those titles makes my braintongue feel like it's licked a postage stamp. But those are just poor decisions; they don't necessarily reflect acting ability. I mean, who else can a director seemingly give only the instructions, "act crazy, like how Travolta would" and get whatever this is:
Jul 9 2009 The 'Spartan'-Obama Conspiracy! (Not Really a Conspiracy)
Did Obama base his entire campaign around a single shot in Spartan? Probably not--unless we later find out the guy is secretly a huge David Mamet fan--but IWS reader Juan J. Arroyo sent in the above still from the 2004 film, and the similarities are indeed striking.
Probably just a coincidence, and I'm sure Obama won't continue following the Spartan storyline by having a daughter murdered (Spartan spoiler), but it is also pretty weird how, if you piece together all of Val Kilmer's dialogue, it ends up being Obama's entire inauguration speech backwards.
(If you want to see it yourself, it's around the 1:05 mark on your home video player.)
May 28 2009 The Nicolas Cage Version of 'Bad Lieutenant' Has a Trailer, Favorite Crack Pipe
Calling this Werner Herzog-directed Bad Lieutenant a "remake" of the 1992 Abel Ferrara, Harvey Keitel-starring film isn't an entirely accurate description of what you're going to see in this trailer. This is more like someone dug up a lost promo for an "edgy" USA original series that stars Nicolas Cage as "a cop who breaks ALL the rules" and Val Kilmer as his straight-laced bayou partner, and is a terrible show that needs to be canceled:
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Oct 29 2008 'Delgo' Trailer Finds New Level of CGI Creepiness
When computer-animated characters border on reality but don't quite reach it, a point is reached called the "uncanny valley", making the slightly-off characters "fucking creepy." Delgo, the Romeo & Juliet romance meets the stilted comedy and battles of The Phantom Menace animated movie, never comes anywhere near reaching that, but it does necessitate the creation of a new term of CGI discomfort. What should we call the intersection point of animated simian, fairy, and V's lizard-aliens? Besides horrible to look at.
Here's the trailer for Delgo, which vocally reunites the Freddie Prinze Jr./Jennifer Love Hewitt romance of I Know What You Did Last Summer (you wanted that, right?):
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Feb 7 2008 Why Val Kilmer is a Bad Car Voice for 'Knight Rider'
Val Kilmer has signed on to replace Will Arnett as the voice of KITT in NBC's veiled Ford Mustang commercial, Knight Rider. Problems with Arnett came about when GMC--whom the Arrested Development star has worked with as the less-literal voice of their trucks--realized he would be schilling Ford products through a weak action plot.
So why is Val Kilmer such a poor replacement? Do you not remember his work in Batman Forever? (It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to embed this, so please listen.)
Dreth? Thircuth? Thircuth?!
Val Kilmer voices 'Knight Rider' [Variety]
