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< author: g booker >
This post is all about repeating things that have been previously successful. One time I posted a dismissive blog of a major motion picture I had not yet seen (and still haven’t…take that, “Freedom Writers”). I’m going to do the same thing again. Nicholas Cage was once a great actor who routinely surprised us with unique performances in films like “Wild At Heart” and “Raising Arizona”. Occasionally he drops an “Adaptation” and hints that he might return to his former glory. Too often, however, he seems to be on a terrible zoetrope of perpetual hacksterism with diminishing returns. Recently I was watching television with two friends. As one seized a commercial break to go to the kitchen, a preview for a new movie starring Nicholas Cage appeared. The remaining friend and I pondered existential questions: Is that last awful Nicholas Cage movie even out of first run yet? Does Nicholas Cage even know when he’s making a movie anymore? If he does, does he differentiate between them, or does he just careen from one to the other in a haze of blood money and diminished ambition? As my friend returned to enter the conversation, she was confused. Finally, she caught enough to wonder aloud, “Wait…that wasn’t for ‘Ghost Rider’? But he had the same stupid hair…in a car…with an unrealisticly attractive but unmemorable woman…wasn’t his head a flaming skull in this one as well?” As if to acknowledge the modern confusion in keeping up to Nicholas Cage vehicles, the new feature is actually called “Next”. That is all. I will return to blogging about music when Nicholas Cage’s career trajectory stops vexing me. My life remains conspicuously empty.
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