Dave started the day by introducing Slog to the trailer for Marmaduke. I am now bookending things with bad movie trailers by introducing Slog to the trailer for the upcoming Nicholas Cage film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice:

You know, I had rediscovered my Vampire’s Kiss-era reservoir of goodwill for Nicholas Cage after watching Bad Lieutenant and reading interviews like this one with Ain’t It Cool News:

But with audiences, there has been a core group that got it from the get go and they have been with me ever since. It does take some time. It does take some time with certain movies with the benefit of hindsight when they can see it in addition to BAD LIEUTENANT they might go “Oh, well maybe he actually did think WICKER MAN was funny…” …You don’t karate chop Leelee Sobieski in the throat and not know how absurd that is, but it’s just not something I would like to talk about. I would rather let them discover it on their own, but I think I learned a lot of that kind of off the wall kind of stuff watching Stanley Kubrick because his movies were incredibly funny, but you never really knew how much was planned or accident you know?

But then he makes something like Ghost Rider or (based on this trailer, I’m gonna go ahead and assume) The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and I’m all like, “Oh, yeah. I remember why I hated you, again.”

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  5. He may have had fun with Wicker Man, but no one else did. It very well may have been the worst remake ever made.
    But yeah, I’m torn on his films. He has some great ones, but he does so many, the sucky ones tend to be over-represented.

  8. Funny- over on io9 the commenters are all treating this steaming turd like it’s going to be a fucking masterpiece… good to see some sanity once I returned to Slog.

    I checked out as soon as I heard the names of the main characters: “Balthazar Blake” and “Maxim Horvath”? SERIOUSLY?! Yeah… it’s *maybe* ok if they live in Middle Earth, but these guys live in modern day New York fer chrissakes!

  9. Between Cage’s evident pleasure at his own overbright dentures, my fascination over the fortune he squandered on fancy houses around the world, the resemblance between the “apprentice” and my sophomore-year needle-dicked squeaky-assed sweetheart, and the tantalizing horror that is Bruckheimer, I’m sure to see it.

  10. The rule in making bad film/games/books is to never remind the consumer of better things.

    Now I have the Sorcerer’s Apprentice (the music piece) in my head, and gleeful images of marching brooms. So this movie instantly failed.

  11. Earlier today there was a part of me that said, “Oh, fuck all. You don’t need to watch this, it’ll just be a frakin’ waste of your time”. Later, after some food, and several drinks, I ignored my better self and watched it anyway.

    Meh, it’s not the worst Joseph Campbell “Heroes Journey” rip-off I’ve ever seen the trailer for, but despite the gratuitous “Rolls Royce transforms into Mazeratti or whatever” bit, I can imagine it’ll do a couple of decent weekends before descending into the depths of a Blockbuster sell-off table.

    Which is better than you can say of most of what passes for cinema these days…

  13. So, the kid is supposed to be Mickey, I guess…? And Cage is the old man with the pointy hat and beard? At what point are the broomsticks introduced? I mean, this is a Disney movie, and this is a remake, right?

  14. Hello!

    How’s about “Adaptation” “Con Air” “Leaving Las Vegas” “Wild at Heart” “Vampire’s Kiss”????

    Those films more than makeup for his other poor film choices over the years.

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