Crazy Promo for Werner Herzog's 'Bad Lieutenant'
Okay, I can get on board with this brand of insanity
Werner Herzog's self-proclaimed-non-remake Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans starring Nicolas Cage has just received an online burst of coverage thanks to a promo reel that has just arrived online.
The film is described as an updated version of 1992's The Bad Lieutenant, but Herzog has said he has never seen the original which received an NC-17 rating with the depraved title character (Harvey Keitel) heavily involved in drugs, gambling, sex and stealing while a New York police officer. Well, whether Herzog never saw the original or not it appears he has tapped into that description to excess.
Along with Cage the film features Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Xzibit, Shea Whigham, Brad Dourif and Denzel Whitaker and is expected to hit theaters at the end of this year. My assumption is the promo below was made for Cannes as sale material considering the film was actually part of an early list of films that had the potential of being shown at the fest.
Give the craziness a peek below and see what you think.
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My reaction to the first 59 seconds: "Eh, looks like another lame 'Let Nic Cage over-act horribly for two hours' vehicle."
My reaction to the next minute and 33 seconds: "Can we give this 11 Oscars now and just save everybody the time and money? I feel like we should just go ahead and pencil this in somewhere between 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Godfather' in terms of greatest films of all time."
I agree with you Trevor. This looks amazingly awesomely over-the-top bats*** crazy.
I cant wait.
Brad Dourif, Imaginary Lizards and dancing souls. That is all you need in a movie and then some.
Ok dude, I thought they were kidding when they said they mentioned that there was going to be a remake/sequel (reboot?) to "Bad Lieutenant". I actually just watched (and enjoyed) that Harvey Keitel film, it was gritty and had a powerful message.
This film looks not at all like a remake of that film, this film looks like nothing Herzog would put his hands on, and this looks like yet another film where Nic "Not the Bees" Cage will chew the f***ing scenery during every minute of the film.
I cannot wait, it looks amazingly, unbelievably awesome.
Comeback role for Nicolas Cage? Possibility of an Oscar nomination?
Nice!
My first thought was, "Not another Nic Cage disaster." But the old Nic Cage is back, the edgy, no holds barred, bug eating actor of old. He's even added that slump that a man seriously suffering from back pain naturally assumes. This looks like a complex story, with almost pornographic violence and a some graphic sex.
Okay, I can get on board with this brand of insanity too. Hope this isn't a case of the previews being better than the movie.
Hoo boy, it's "Academy Award winner Nicholas Cage" again, is it? Well, he and Eva Mendes are going to come out from this film much better off than their last collaboration in "Ghost Rider."
I guess they'll go for an R-rating instead of an NC-17 like the original. And I suppose Nicholas Cage WON'T be wobbling around drunk with his bits swinging in full view. Though he may wobble around drunk.
This movie looks promising. I won't be surprised if it's better than the first. Though to be truthful, I wasn't too impressed with the first. It was a good character study with some disturbing scenes in it, but beyond that it didn't have much merit.
really? am i not in on some joke? i thought the trailer looked rubbish… and to think that Werner Herzog is one of the most respected film makers and ducumentarians… this looks nothing like he would do… i have hated nic cage in every single on of his movies… dont know why he still gets work… crap actor.
I think this is going to be a quality Cage performance, unlike the brain dead stuff he's done over the past few years. He's usually only as good as the directors he has to work with. That's why Adaptation, Matchstick Men, Bringing Out The Dead, World Trade Center, Leaving Las Vegas, etc are really good and a lot of the other stuff is just plain embarassing.
Agreed that this does NOT look like the work of Herzog, though he has moved from some
early films of arty incomprehensibility to more accessible works. This looks more like de Palma doing Cronenberg (not necessarily a bad thing, I love both of those directors.) And why do
some folks persist in giving Cage a drubbing for over-the-top performances? Those same folks probably cheer when Pacino or deNiro chew the scenery. Give him a break. By the way, wasn't first-poster Trevor's tongue firmly and obviously in cheek (Oscar bait? Citizen Kane?)–this sarcasm was lost on several posters. Anyway, a trailer can be and often is pretty misleading. The movie could be violent and disturbing art or violent and disturbing rubbish.
I watched the movie one hour ago here in Venice.
Jeez, guy. I think the worst one from the creativeness of Mr. Herzog.
A junk policeman (Nicholas Cage) modeled with a rarefied, unshaped psychology, with showered violence rented from some cheap "B" movies and an overall, final message "catholethical" and old-fashioned, anti-Yankees flavored.
Despite the tons of prescript-ed medicines citations (Vicodin, Oxycontin, Dilaudid….) and assumptions plus the not legal meds (Heroin, Cocaine, hydrochloride and basified) taken orally, by nose, smoked, the Bad Lieutenant, talking and behaving like any street junk, become socially stronger and successful, yearly rewarded with career advancement….
An annoying junkies drama with no thrill and no message.
Neither a minimum effort to embrace this "second choice plot" with a clear, social commitment as a real attach to prohibition and its social putrefactive actions or the need to put on top of emergence priorities the drugs law reform and definitively send the DEAs and the Reagans/Dubya philosophy to the horrors cellar….
So sad to see Herzog turn to dust, I recently watched "Strozek" and as a former midwesterner it gave me goosebumps. The orignal film with Keitel was legendary.
The movie about Antarctica was bad enough, this is a joke. Cage always was and always will be a zero. They should have remade Strozek as Blowzek…..
I guess its hell to be old, thanks for your early work Werner R.I.P.
A cheap fantasy for the dregs of society. Way to go.