He really gives it his all. Full throttle, that Nic Cage- no matter how preposterously poor the dialogue or ridiculous and convoluted the plot- he'll give you 100%.
People dismiss this film wrongly. It is written by Joseph Minion who wrote Scorsese's brilliant After Hours. The film is meant to be satire, comedy and horror and ticks all those boxes effectively. Nic Cage delivers probably the best comedic performance of all time.
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The premise of Vampire's Kiss is an interesting one - a man's nascent bat fetish gives him the delusion that he's been bitten by a vampire and is becoming one, and just how much of this is a delusion and how much of it is real, the audience has to parse out. After all, the story works whether he's fabricating the whole thing or it's part of a vampire's mind-clouding allure as she feeds on him night after night. Unfortunately, this man is played by Nicholas Cage, which is famously a 50/50 proposition. In this case, while the camp performance will have its fans, I could only bring myself to like it in the most ironic way, and indeed, DON'T. He's doing a weird accent from the beginning, well before the supposed bite, that's very distracting. As a vamp, he's playing it for arch comedy, which is at odds with much of the material (a rape, for example, and lots of sexual harassment - his suffering secretary, played by María Conchita Alonso, is the heart of the picture, and I wish she were given more respect by having the world around her played straight). If Cage's character had been a good guy who tragically becomes a monster, we'd be more attuned to him, but he's a creep and a jerk from jump, and is using his delusion to behave even more badly. I'm afraid everything interesting kind of gets lost in that crazy performance, but even if it had been played closer to the ground, it probably would still have been a tonal mess.
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I wonder what the comments on this film will b-I'M A VAMPIRE
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This gif so effectively summarizes the movie that you get the check just by seeing it.
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He really gives it his all. Full throttle, that Nic Cage- no matter how preposterously poor the dialogue or ridiculous and convoluted the plot- he'll give you 100%.pimpmaster spaceman
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People dismiss this film wrongly. It is written by Joseph Minion who wrote Scorsese's brilliant After Hours. The film is meant to be satire, comedy and horror and ticks all those boxes effectively. Nic Cage delivers probably the best comedic performance of all time.I'M A VAMPIRE
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jesus christ this is amazing.Mercator
So cool. One of the best Cage's performancesSiskoid
The premise of Vampire's Kiss is an interesting one - a man's nascent bat fetish gives him the delusion that he's been bitten by a vampire and is becoming one, and just how much of this is a delusion and how much of it is real, the audience has to parse out. After all, the story works whether he's fabricating the whole thing or it's part of a vampire's mind-clouding allure as she feeds on him night after night. Unfortunately, this man is played by Nicholas Cage, which is famously a 50/50 proposition. In this case, while the camp performance will have its fans, I could only bring myself to like it in the most ironic way, and indeed, DON'T. He's doing a weird accent from the beginning, well before the supposed bite, that's very distracting. As a vamp, he's playing it for arch comedy, which is at odds with much of the material (a rape, for example, and lots of sexual harassment - his suffering secretary, played by María Conchita Alonso, is the heart of the picture, and I wish she were given more respect by having the world around her played straight). If Cage's character had been a good guy who tragically becomes a monster, we'd be more attuned to him, but he's a creep and a jerk from jump, and is using his delusion to behave even more badly. I'm afraid everything interesting kind of gets lost in that crazy performance, but even if it had been played closer to the ground, it probably would still have been a tonal mess.justwannaboogie
Is this a good film? I don't know.Do I understand it? I don't know.
Did it have me in a hysterical laughing fit 90% of the time? Yup.
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I NEVER MISFILED ANYTHING. NOT ONCE, NOT ONE TIME!dchauvin
It's testimony to Nic Cage's greatness that he was willing to eat a live cockroach for a movie as piss poor as this.C-3PO
When you see a movie purely because you are curious to see where all those Nicolas Cage memes and gifs come from... yep, that's me.george4mon
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