39 Replies to “You Live Your Life For Them, And They Don’t Even See You”

  1. Oh no not the PIGS!, or should that be not the BEES! Such a great actor! /sarc

  2. Perhaps one of the most overrated actors of his day. This clip doesn’t inspire me to think otherwise.

    1. I don’t think Nick cage is renowned for good acting. He’s barely a b list guy.

    2. He wouldn’t have had a career in Hollywood if he wasn’t related to Francis Ford Coppola. He’s an atrocious actor.

      1. He made a lot of fun movies in the 90’s, and would have more of a career today if he hadn’t blown most of his money. Money still equals power, and you can’t be “A” level without it. His lack of funds meant he had to take some pretty awful projects in the 2000’s, and then over acted his way through them.

        This looks like a prescient plot, I hope it turns out to be a good pic.

    3. Worked on A Score To Settle with him in Kelowna. Of all the big names I’ve worked with he was one of the best. Humble and funny as hell. At one point he and the director were arguing about him driving the stunt car or not and he went over and jumped in took it out for a rip anyway. I’m not necessarily a fan of his acting but I do think he’s a great actor/person.

      1. Raising Arizona has given more pleasure than almost any other I can think of. He was perfect in that.

    4. Perhaps, but he did have a few movies I enjoyed. He was good in mindless, fun, action flicks like : Face Off, Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air, Snake Eyes. It is when he tried to go beyond that he immediately hit his limit, hard.

      1. Funny, because he had the chance to make fun action movies because he won an Oscar for over acting in Leaving Las Vegas.

        He’s a rare actor who learned the hard way not to take himself too seriously, and kept chugging. I have respect for him because of that.

        And Raising Arizona is a masterpiece. But like Van Gogh or Picasso, it’s not everyone’s taste.

  4. I thought Nicolas Cage did a decent job of his role in 1995’s “Leaving Las Vegas”, along side the lovely Elizabeth Shue !

    1. Cage was one of the reasons I switched that movie off after about an hour. I couldn’t stand his constant whining. The background music was a constant irritation.

  5. Let me guess … Master Chefs and truffle hunters have been deemed … “essential” workers. Otherwise, there’d be no French Laundry to serve the self-titled “elites”

    1. If Canadians don’t Rebel … you might just get to the 14th year. Thankfully, America has several States that told the National (unelected) Health Officials to kindly Fkcu-off and went about business as usual.

      1. Kenji, Canada has been fvcked for a long time now. What little respect I ever had for my fellow man is long gone.

  8. It reminded me of John Wick but with a pig. I’m sure it’s quite allegorical but I’d rather watch PIG than the latest Marvel installment or whatever won the Oscar for best picture this round.

    I’m no movie critic, but I know what I like. Con Air, Raising Arizona, The Rock, Face Off, National Treasure, Leaving Las Vegas.

    1. I admit that I like Nick Cage a LOT more than Keifer Sutherland … two actors cut from the same cloth. And you left Cage’s BEST film ever off your list … Valley Girl! I know what I like too … esp. sarcastic humorous films.

    2. Remake of Man and His Dog?

      Well, at least it wasn’t something titled, “The Kilt and Ewe”….

  9. What, nobodies ever dreamed of leaving the world behind and disappearing into the bush to spend their days hunting truffles with a pig?

    1. I’m planning my escape from the State of Cali-Gomorrah… and I was thinking in the range of 30-50 acres of blissful isolation … and I do love pork and pork byproducts … but I never thought of truffle hunting … or ginseng collecting …

    2. Delete “truffles with a” and insert “wild” and that dream could go on my list.

    1. I am SO over superhero movies. The most unimaginative franchises in Hollywood history. Stories that needed to stay on the pages of comic books written by social and cultural dropouts.

      No … I will NOT be seeing ‘Black Widow” … and don’t give a shit about ‘female’ superheroines “showing girls that girls can be strong too”. Puhleeze. I’ve been married for 39 years to a woman who has proven her worth in this world for all that time.

      I did kind of enjoy Deadpool and Iron Man as they essentially MOCK the whole superhero genre.

      1. Yes, Dedpool, Iron Man also Guardians were kinda fun and Antman. It is when they start saving the world in grand cosmic battles that I tune out.

  11. That’s some pig.
    And Nick, again, sucks, as always. He couldn’t deliver a line unless it was snorted up his crooked nose.
    Consummate Hollywood Boy.
    Just rewatch Moonlight to confirm.
    Oh, Cher, too.
    Piss on the ashes of Hollywood already!
    Read a good book. It requires effort, but is worth the while. I will now return to the Screwtape Letters.
    Have a nice day.

    1. “Screw-tape Letters” is sensational! Clive Staples truly understood how EVIL works. I can only imagine what he would think of our Marxist march of today.

      But my favorite is still “The Great Divorce”. CS posited that God doesn’t bar people from Heaven … but they bar themselves. Their minds are so corrupted into disbelief that they don’t even recognize Heaven when they’re given the opportunity to choose it

  12. On second thought, I can only watch every episode of Bosch so many times so maybe by the 5th year of lockdowns.

  13. Such harsh critics! What, isn’t anyone going to shit on Cage’s portrayal of Al Columbato in Birdy? Or how about Terence McDonagh in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans? Nobody liked the line “Shoot him again. His soul is still dancing.”?

    1. Or ‘Randy’ in “Valley Girl” … “That techno-rock you guys listen to is gutless”. Brilliant acting!

  14. Every time a new movie has been promoted in the last ten years I instead just get out my DVD set of Deadwood.

    1. That is a MARVELOUS clip! Thank you!

      ps – have you ever seen the musical version of “Three Little Pigs” redone by Warner Brother’s cartoon department in 1937, “Three Little Bops”?

    2. Dang! That was funny … and HOW does someone memorize a soliloquy so detailed and complex. That man’s brain is 10x the size of mine

    3. Before I click on your link, it’s Christopher Walken telling it, isn’t it?

  16. Wiki says: “Pig is an upcoming American drama film, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski. It stars Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin. It follows a truffle forager whose beloved truffle-finding pig goes missing.”

    That’s it. A simple story for a simple actor with simple skill.

    I’ve watched and enjoyed a number of Nicolas Cage movies, but this one I will skip. 🙂

    1. I’ve seen it described as John Wick meets Babe.

      I have to say, the premise seems timely. A poor rural guy who makes a meager living finding and selling truffles for rich a**holes in Portland. His beloved pig is stolen, robbing him of his friend and his livelihood. He decides to fight back.

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