You know, for an Oscar-winning
, Nicolas Cage perhaps isn't given the credit he deserves in the modern movie landscape. While the likes of
and Tom Hardy gurn, grunt and grumble their way into our collective hearts, the 53-year-old remains a source of ridicule online. Why is that, I wonder?
Oh yeah, of course:
has clearly lost his mind.
Sure, he won the Academy Award in 1995 for Leaving Las Vegas, while his star turn as Charlie (and Donald) Kaufman helps to make Adaptation. one of my favourite films of all time. But in between that and spending thousands of dollars buying stolen Mongolian dinosaur skulls, Nicolas Cage seems to spend most his time convincing his agent to let him feature in some of the craziest movies of all time.
Sometimes, such as with Face/Off, Kick Ass or Con Air, that pays off, and you get a glorious display of overacting in an entertaining film. Other times, like Ghost Rider, The Wicker Man or Next (where he played a Las Vegas musician who can see into the future and... uses his powers to stop nuclear war), Nicolas Cage forgoes any dramatic craft, and uses his incredible ham to beat his own credibility as an actor to death.
I wonder what kind of film his latest movie is going to be.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Nicolas Cage's newest project: titled affectionately as Mom and Dad, but he apparently spends most of the film trying to kill his own kids. Why don't you watch the trailer, and see what you think?
Oh. Oh my.
Let's try to... understand what we just saw in those two minutes of trailer, shall we?
We've all been there. You've got a big presentation in the morning, your mother won't get off your back about something or other, your back is playing up, and all the while, your children are driving you up the wall. Yeah, I know you love them, but don't you sometimes feel like just
killing
them? No?
Well in this trailer, there's a nefarious trend going around, where the parents of an idyllic suburban town have grown increasingly homicidal, and the subject of their ire is their own offspring. With Selma Blair playing his partner in infanticide, Nicolas Cage is given free rein to completely lose his mind.
Looks pretty wild, doesn't it? The image of Cage singing the Hokey Cokey in a blind rage while swinging a sledgehammer in particular will stay at the forefront of my mind as I sleep. But I have no idea whether that would be as a nightmare, or as a glorious dream.
While the reviews flashed through the trailer seem pretty positive (describing this movie as "Home Alone on bath salts" is particularly inspired), let's see what the internet at large thinks of the trailer for Mom and Dad:
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Well, there you have it, folks? Do
you
want to snort Nicolas Cage? I'm pretty sure I do. As of yet, there's no official confirmation as to when it'll be released, but you can bet I'll be in the very first screening possible.
