How Did This Get Made? Another movie I watched for the podcast. It really wasn’t godawful terrible like some of them are, but there were just so many ridiculous plot points and characters that you need to sit back and really wonder, how is this a 35 MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE. $35 million. Most of that is probably salary for Nic and Nicole, but still, the whole thing takes place in like one house. There are next to no special effects, and if this thing took more than a month to shoot then someone needs to be fired. It took in…..$20,000 at the box office. Not $20 million. $20 THOUSAND. And it took just 11 days to get pooped out onto DVD.
The podcast covers a lot of my thoughts, but some of my favorite:
-Crackhead girl from My Boys. WTF. The idea is for them to bust in, steal cash and/or diamonds, and get out. So the first thing she does is start trying on dresses, watching home movies, and smoking crack in the bedroom. THIS IS MADNESS.
-Nic cage had a few awesome freak out moments. For the most part he was chill, but there were times, oh my goodness, true Cage shines through.
-The audience is never let in on the secret. We are simply told things that we really have no choice but to believe are ture, and every 10 mintues, SURPRISE, everything you know is wrong and here is the truth. Except 10 minutes later, SURPRISE, that was a lie too. This continues until about 5 mintues before it’s over, you really never have any idea what’s actually going on.
-The daughter is a terrible actress. She’s young, maybe she’ll get better, or maybe Joel is not good with kids, or maybe the script was so bad she couldn’t do anything with it. I’d wager it’s more those last two things than her being a bad actress.
-I said this before but I’ll say it again, it was actually not an awful movie, and at times was quite entertaining just because you have no idea where they’re going and at any moment there could be a Nic Cage Craziness Explosion. That’s the kind of suspense I love.
