With this new NSFGrandma clip from the Bangkok Dangerous remake, Nic Cage has come down with a serious case of next levs. His amazing hat inexplicably disappears halfway through, cue amazing hairline. We can only hope that the entire movie is plagued with such conundrums/magic. Moreover, the Pang Twins (The Eye trilogy) have apparently remade their own film into a videogame that plays like an incorrigible 6-year-old tapping jump, shoot and kick with a hammer. But what earns the clip Pam-like giggles and replay action is the glorious arm chopping scene, followed by a requisite gunshot. Are we supposed to laugh or be shocked/impressed?
Cage stars as a hitman “who’s in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.” Bond on. Unlike the original 1999 film, Cage’s assassin is not a deaf-mute, thereby limiting this film’s potential to make the world blush. It opens on September 5th. Click here to view the first trailer/poster from March (note: free of beheadings etc).
Discuss: The arm.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:53 am
The missing hat is funnier than the missing arm.
And, yeah, this movie looks horrible.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Because it’s so unintentionally bad, this movie looks really unintentionally good.
Hat + Arm = Only good N. Cage film?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
lol
June 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
This is so bad it’s fantastic on a Wicker Man level and I’m soooooooo excited. oh my gosh oh my gosh.
I don’t think, though, that the hat disappearing is a mistake. I just don’t think this clip shows the whole scene. It’s like 2 parts of the boat chase scene spliced together. Ya know?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Clearly his hat had been shot off, which is why he responded in kind. A hat for a hat. Thems the rules.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Maybe they should go back to reshoots for the hat getting shot off.
That still won’t fix the problems with this movie.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Wow, that was pretty bad. But it looks like it could be the Wicker Man kind of fun.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
“And that’s why you always leave a note’
June 20th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
this will be great. its obviously doing it for the lulz
motor canoe chase/shootout scene with slowmotion jumps, explosions, AND AMPUTATIONS
EPIC WIN.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
The arm cut off doesn’t fix Cage’s hair.
But the movie looks alright.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Awesome. Could that little propeller take an arm off? Maybe a finger, but a whole arm? Who cares, what’s up with Nic’s hair, AGAIN? I can only hope he’ll be wearing a series of bad wigs from scene to scene.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Yes. Very silly indeed.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I thought that he was shooting at Thai Hunter S Thompson for most of that. I love the arm cutting off. What a lucky Dangerous Nic Cage is. He lost his hat, jumped off an exploding motorbike onto the guy’s boat, cut his arm off with the long tail propeller with one giant swoop and then shot the guy with his own gun. In the end, doesn’t it look like he put a couple of holes in the bottom of the boat? I’ve been to Bangkok and there is raw sewage floating in those canals. I would not just start shooting holes in the boat no matter how bad ass my hair looked while doing it.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
The bike part was stupid too. The bike was not even moving that fast.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Well I can see that this isn’t the entire scene , but regardless its pretty bad. I don’t know whats up with Cage. Why is he making these bad films lately? I know he’s a hustle, but damn take some pride in your work.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
this looks suitably awful for Nic Cage’s rampage of awful movies.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
It looked more like Episode 6 of Italian Spiderman.
Please… before he acts again…someone kill N.Cage quietly in is sleep with a massive drug overdose to his face… and by drug overdose I mean ” claw hammer”.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I lol’ed so hard I had to watch it twice :)
June 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
He need to stop doing all this action stuff and take anything that Tom Hanks doesn’t do.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
more put off by the lousy shot composition and editting. It’s not a good looking action sequence.
The boat to bike to boat thing is a “decent” stunt idea, but everything about that shot is just poorly executed. Seriously, for the “bike to boat” there are like 8 cuts for that one stunt. 8 film cuts in 3 seconds. If that is the filmmaker’s only solution, it’s time to get the board artists and stunt team working on something different.
Never mind the bike exploding on impact. That would be great in an Andy Sidaris film. Come to think of it, this film title sounds like an Andy Sidaris film. Sweet. They just need this all to lead to a drug lord’s lair lined with ex-playmates in their film debut.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I’m one of the few that actually likes Cage. I really do wonder why he takes on these crappy films. Give him the right role and he has talent. I thought he was great in Matchstick Men and Lord of War, and always pretty good when he’s allowed to be a little quirky. I’m sure he’s not hurting for offeres and/or money. So, what gives? Is he being blackmailed for something? I’m slightly serious.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
It is so goofy that I actually want to see this stupid movie. I am one
of the rare who like Cage and think that most of his movies are
just fun.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
SO much better than a spike lee film (that’s for you, cap).
June 20th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
yes, that was b-tastic!
June 20th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Nevermind, the happening WAS good. Just don’t make me watch that.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
agree with charles.
doesn’t look like this is the entire scene - some bits have been cut out which would probably explain the missing hat.
nevertheless, horrible so far.
tropic thunder’s viral video was better cut.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I didn’t think that would be as funny as it was. Was it edited by a bunch of students who have been let on iMovie for the first time…?
June 21st, 2008 at 6:56 am
That was horrible…
looked like a bad 80’s B movie. Not not in a Kitsch cool kind of way…
June 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
@ fat dave / Hat Contrarians
Do not demystify the Legend of the Hat. Thx.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
1st off: the woman who says “hey you want to buy…..” yada yada is not speaking with a Thai accent.
2nd: the leap into the boat…. pure Hollywood. Oh wait. My apologies na Khrup
June 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
HAHAHAHA…This movie looks TERRIBLE in every way. Holy Crap…HAHAHAHA
June 21st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
wait, the original came out in 1999? WHY WOULD YOU REMAKE THAT??? That’s like remaking Fight Club or American Beauty or The Matrix… what’s the POINT? Are we seeing a Finding Nemo redo in a couple of years?
September 4th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
His boating skills are reminiscent of The Boy in Blue; his motorcycling prowess reminiscent of Ghostrider. If it weren’t for the elephant he befriends in this movie, it would be completely unoriginal.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Yo this clip was the fukin shit. Holy fokin cakkkk!