Monday, November 26, 2007

History in the Making

Welcome, Nick Cage followers. It's me, THE Nicolas Cage.

I know, I know. This site is long past due. Fans have been coming up to me for years and telling me things like, "You were great in Con-Air!" or "You were okay in The Rock!" or "I just watched Guarding Tess on TBS! You owe me two hours of my life, Cage!". Normally I just give these die-hard fans a condescending smirk and have my bodyguard shoo them away with a cattle prod to the throat, but about a week ago a fan gave me a great idea. This fan drove past me, threw a coffee straight at my face (clearly a fan of me in The Weatherman), and yelled, "Hey Cage! You look like Gene Siskel after he got all dead and bloated." That's when it hit me. I should review movies!


A True Moment of Inspiration

Now, every critic has his own rating scale (i.e. 5 stars, two thumbs up, etc.), but I wanted something new, fresh, original, and, most importantly, pertaining to me. That's when I decided to weigh a movie's greatness using a scale of 0 to 8 millimeters. 8mm's means that a movie is as good as my 1999 movie 8MM (which is arguably the best movie of the 90's, if not ever), and 0mm's means that a movie is infinitely worse than my '99 snuff-blockbuster. However, if you think I'm doing this simply out of the goodness of my heart, you're wrong. As history will show, I'll do anything if the price is right.

Money in the Bank, Bitch!

Movie reviews will be coming soon. At this point, you may be wondering what I'm doing career-wise at the moment. Well, I'm currently filming roughly eight movies: G-Force, Electric God, Time Share, and.... uh, I forget the rest. Chances are if you string two cool sounding words together, you'll get the name of one of my new movies. Hmmm.... Is Cactus Inferno the name of a real movie? No!? Well it should be. Get me Micheal Bay on the phone, STAT!

I guess I could be coming off as a snob. I mean, c'mon, I'm Nick Cage. What do you expect? It's Hollywood, baby! I don't even bother reading the scripts anymore. Hell, I don't even read contracts, but if I see another 7-figure number go into my bank account, I'll sign anything. Ghostrider 2 for 16 million? Fuck yeah, Why not? Where do I sign for that bitch!? 16 million may seem high, but where else will you get acting like this? (In case you've been living under a rock, these are clips from my 2006 smash hit The Wicker Man about which one critic said "The plot is nonsensical but the cast (a.k.a. me!) and setting is worth a look")

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nick,

I just viewed "8mm".
It was a disturbing expose of violence/decadence.
Porn is rarely questioned.

Decadence has stubbornly followed Hollywood. The book, 'Hollywood Babylon' is a profile of this
veiled underside.


The cradle days of Hollywood and its elusive past might make a decent movie.
It recalls "Satyricon"
by Petronius, the classic Roman satirist. Fellini did a bold production of "Satyricon" which was popular in the 60's. Decadence and social turbulence were proliferant then.

Let me know if you would like some research material for a Hollywood/Babylon proto-script. I am a free-lance writer, without screen experience, yet.
Your uncle [Martin] deeply
admired Fellini, I understand.

Best,
Brant

ps. My dad was a career-editor. He would smuggle me into Paramount
as a tiny child. I remember the numerous sound stages, which were laden with nostalgia. I can begin to imagine what transpired on that lot throughout the heralded 'Golden Age.'

email- brantcloyd@yahoo.com