Bad Lieutenant maybe really bad in a good way or vice-versa
November 21, 2009 at 12:28 pm by Wyatt Williams in Sheer Awesomeness, movies & tv, wtfIs anyone else salivating at the chance to see Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans? The improbable pairing of German auteur Werner Herzog and financially troubled space cadet Nicolas Cage is causing critics to spew all sorts of qualified, conflicted, and adoring statements. Christian Science Monitor is calling the Herzog-Cage pairing a “match made in looney-tunes heaven” and The Washington Post is calling the film a “freaky-deaky home run.” Yeah, whatever that means.
Salon.com is totally owning the ambivalence. Thursday’s review called the movie “so bad it’s good.” In an interview published the next day, Herzog claims, among other things, that he hasn’t seen Taxi Driver, doesn’t remember Chinatown, and never got around to watching the 1992 movie that Port of Call New Orleans remakes. Amazing. The post-Katrina, coke-addict cop drama doesn’t open in Atlanta until December 11.
November 21st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
RESPECT THE CAGE! Oh yeah. I will be seeing this.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:17 am
It’s totally crazy and highly entertaining.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Nicolas Cage is like that last drink you take before heading home from a night on the town. You know you shouldn’t, but you do it anyway. Then you beat yourself up about a potential DUI all the way home. Once you make it home, you always say never again – until the next party.