I have a theory that Nick Cage is actually a genius. Somewhere during his earlier career he realized that he could be a great actor, and people would maybe remember him for a while, or he could become “Nick Cage!” and people would remember him forever. Gotta say it’s an effective strategy.
@@MrCmon113 Like who? Shatner has a somewhat similar legacy and we all know him... Wait, hang on a second! How many could there possibly be with only ~100 years of filmmaking??
You know, I'm 129% convinced that Cage doesn't act. They just kidnap him while he sleeps, put him In a set with actors and let the camera roll as he wakes up. Now that I think about it... I WANNA SEE A TRUMAN SHOW STARRING CAGE!
@@HopePapernacky Coraline would be genuinely be way more creepy in live action though. Real people with button eyes? Yikes. In other words, if they do it right with good CGI I really don't see an issue. If they don't, well, we don't really have to watch it to know it's bad these days, so no big deal, we'll always have the original. That's kind of my attitude with the Disney remakes too- most of them suck so I just ignore them. I get the joke btw just thought this was a good chance for a little rant, hope you don't mind! :)
Beth the Dark Mage fun fact: coralline was actually gonna be a live action movie but they were concerned about how bad the cgi would look so they changed it to stop motion.
@@rhodopisdenile8977 plus (i think anyway) its fantastic as a stop motion animation, it makes it feel a lot more grounded in reality when everything is little physical props and having special effects to make them synergize. it makes it feel more alive and tangible somehow i'd personally be ok with a live action adaptation of the book, but i think the animated film does the book enough justice already to not really warrant another stab at it yknow?
I like the implication that the Color wasn't even necessarily a hostile force. It just wanted fuel to go home. Unfortunately, it's so alien to us that it pays no mind to the fact it's using living beings as fuel.
I like to think the colour doesnt even comprehend the idea of hostile and non hostile or uman ideas in general jsut doing what it does. jsut how a bear doesnt have a concept of empathy when eating a baby deer alive.
Nic Cage's entire acting career has been practice for depicting the protagonist in an HP Lovecraft story descending into madness on being confronted with an incomprehensible otherworldly horror.
What are you talking about. Nic Cage is the otherworldly lovecraftian horror. After the Color saw Nic snogging his wife/son-spider it noped the hell outta there.
Which is funny 'cus Lovecraft's protagonists are usually well educated, gentlemanly scholars whereas Nathan is more of a simple man, so a bit of an antithesis to Lovecraft protagonists.
I really like the detail you added about magenta; it added some insight about their choice in using it. I always thought they chose it because that particular shade is kind of eerie and aggressive, but it makes way more sense and is more effective when you know that magenta "doesn't exist" and is consequently the only way the characters and the audience can perceive the "Color" in the movie.
I realy enjoy how wholesome Elvis sounds when he talks about a movie he likes. also nice to have someone saying positive stuff about Cage instead of just memeing on the guy!
I don't want to be overly patronizing of Nic Cage, but he was seriously, unironically awesome in this movie. I'd never liked him in anything until this movie.
Yeah, Nick Cage is actually a pretty good actor when he’s given proper direction. He needs guidance as to when he should release the crazy, and keep it subdued. It’s rare to find a director that understands this, it’s even rarer to find one who can do it properly.
During the scene at night with Ward at his tent reading a book, he hears a noise in the woods and goes to investigate. He shines his flashlight and catches a glimpse of the color, when suddenly his jeep starts by itself. The headlights of his jeep illuminate the book he was reading which is none other than "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood, considered by H.P. Lovecraft to be the best supernatural tale in English literature.
I can appreciate the fact that the color “unlike any seen on earth” is magenta (Yes, I know that magenta isn’t technically a real color, that’s why I can appreciate it)
Despite reading the book at 13, Stanley‘s mother read it to him when he was eight or sick, she got cancer so he came out of a 20 year retirement to make this film for her, best son ever.
@@maxtaetle420 H.P Lovecraft would never commit domestic violence, because he would never be able to convince anyone to actually start a relationship with him.
_“It was just a colour out of space-a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.”_ *~ H.P. Lovecraft*
I really agree with Lovecraft on the "not liking humanoid aliens" thing, since the odds are that aliens will end up looking little to nothing like humans.
@@tungsten-726 shit dude... That's gotta suck really bad Edit: i just re-read my comment and I'm sorry if it seemed like i was being an ass about it... Didn't mean it
Nathan shooting the monster that was his wife and son then exclaiming "they're not my family" feels like a moment of clarity in his corrupted mind to me. Like he snapped put of it just long enough to realize his family was suffering and he had to put them down.
You know a lot of people see Nathan’s freak out in the car as only another glorious Nick Cage moment (and don’t get me wrong; it totally is), but I think what made this freak out work so well is the true feeling of impotent helplessness that he expresses with it. You KNOW WHY he’s mad; he’s supposed to be the breadwinner, the man of the house, and yet with every passing moment more and more of his control over the things he knows crumbles into dust. I UNDERSTAND why he freaks out because, in all complete fairness, I’d probably do the exact same thing if I were in his position. It’s a freak out with REAL WEIGHT behind it, and in my opinion that’s what makes it all the more enjoyable and powerful.
I’ve been in a situation like that before. The helplessness really drove me to petulant rage. Lots of screaming, hitting the dash…not one of my prouder moments lol
I'm loving the whole idea of making a trilogy out of these stories, and it sounds like Stanley picked the perfect way to do it. G-spot. Because its a pussycat.
Honestly, I've seen so many failed film and fan film attempts at making an even half decent adaptation of Lovecraftian stories. This was legitimately not a bad re-imagining of the Colour out of Space. It ended up being a really good Lovecraft film, even if the budget clearly set up some limitations. I'd be OK to see more adaptations of those stories to this level.
I felt like Annihilation, while not directly an adaptation, but clearly pulls some inspiration from Color Out Of Space, was a more subdued and better executed horror. I feel like Color Out of Space (the movie) could have been better...without Nic Cage. I couldn’t take him seriously for even one second.
I was also super happy with this adaptation. Nick Cage has his quirks, the story has its quirks, this adaptation isn't 100% perfect, but everything came together in a way that captured the feel and enough enjoyment. I couldn't ask for much more.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” - H. P. Lovecraft “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.” - H. P. Lovecraft The few recordings of him show him stuttering sometimes, having a somewhat nervous tone and fiddling with his hands A man who seems almost scared of what his own mind has created from the depths of his imagination, that “thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.” - Edgar Allan Poe He was a man who was able to destroy the mind with nothing but a typewriter and his own fear
@@user-wy5rs2zj6u I think people don't talk nearly enough about Lovecraft's growth over the course of his tragically short life. In one of his letters, he basically says that he was embarrassed at the views he held when he was younger. He was disappointed with The Shadow Over Innsmouth, thinking that its themes were a return to views he no longer held. He started out heavily xenophobic and racist, but that isn't how he was at the end.
@@impartialthrone2097 A lot of it was also, as with most fucked up people, caused or at least helped along by his mother. She I think wished he had been a girl and made him keep his hair long, and constantly told him he was hideous so shouldn't go outside as people would be scared of his disgusting face. He was very xenophobic and racist, but he was just generally scared of people as well, he didn't really like to go outside. But there was a lot of contradiction about him as well, for example his wife was Jewish, and 1 of his cousins I think it was that he was very close with was gay, which he knew about but still was his friend. Theres also the fact though that his fear of others is what helped him write these stories, as they are essentially his fears basically everything outside his home, and more so things further afield he knew nothing of. Yes it doesn't in any way excuse how racist he was, like racist to the point that even people of the times thought he was extreme, but without being fucked up like he was we likely wouldn't have gotten these stories.
@@Barnesofthenorth sadly these days we as a society get to choose who gets a pass for what they done. And seeing Lovecraft was a white male it means he needs to be cancelled even thoguh he is dead lol. I have seen people boycott lovecrafts work after finding out he was racist. They went from lovecraft is my fav author too its all ramblings of a racist. You could tell me he was a pedophile rapist racist and i would still read his shit lmao, somehow in society we have decided that ones character has to be reflected on the art they make and said art has to be punished as if it is the person itself.
When he said “indie horror”, all I could think was Outlast, and now I want an outlast movie where Nick Cage plays either Dr. Traeger, Chris Walker, or Miles, or all three. Or the priest. I don’t really care, I just need Nick Cage to appear in an Outlast movie.
They bought a hydrologist cause hydrologists also have some working and studying experience regarding the wider subject of geology. Given that they live in a remote area, it's obvious the police would take him instead of wasting time waiting for an actual geologist to come by.
He has brought back his character from "Vampires Kiss". His accent & antics in that movie brightens my day. Vampires kiss is his most eccentric role. I model my own character design and catch phrases off of him. He's a grand jester full of endless outlandish charms.
For those who haven't read the story, I'd like to elaborate a bit more. 1. The name Nahum is pronounced as far as i know like "mayhem" but with an n instead of m. So Nathan is pretty close. 2. Lavinia the witchy girl is the daughter of Old Guy Watley in that Yogsothoth story, the dunwich horror. This was a nod to that Lavinia. Also the Necronomicon, a fictional lovecraftian book of supernatural power, plays a big role in that particular story. As does the Miskatonic university in most lovecraftian stories, including Re-animator. 3. In the story they were looking for a place to build a water reservoir and the blasted heath was a possible spot, but after hearing the story the protagonist vows to never drink water from that reservoir.
The Lama abomination and the Daughter and son abomination was very The Thing reminiscent. And The Thing is very Lovecraft inspired so weve gone full circle.
Lieutenant BaconWaffles wasn’t Christopher walken in that awful transformers movie that was shot in like. 3 different framing styles and pieced all together by a manic crack addict
The monster mass in the back of the hunters truck was not the alpacas. It was a random assortment of animals in the forest near the farm that the hunter had found. Obviously it was not normal so he brought it to the sheriff. I’m pretty sure the hippie dudes cat was also apart of the mass. So the color was not just affecting the farm but the entire forested region around it doing its crazy mutation thing to every animal in the area that was infected from drinking any water or eating any vegetation that was contaminated.
idk if it’s actually his cat or some stray but Im pretty sure the hunter guy says there is a cat corpse in there as well. I just figured it was the hippies cat and when they see the cat on the way back from the hospital I just figured it was the color messing with time. Idk not really important just wanted to point out that one of the only disappointments Elvis had with film was not what he thought it was so he doesn’t have to be disappointed any more ;)
@@alegendarydude2967 The cat was in the mass: they show the bell on the collar. The car scene came before, around 50 min in. The scene with the animal mass in the back of the pickup truck is toward the end of the movie.
Ward (or at least the character Movie Ward stands in for) wasn't a random guy in the book, he was a land surveyor. He was checking the area to see if it would be okay to convert the blasted heath into a reservoir. As this goes on, I think I can see why they changed it. Having him be a guy who does water tests lets them make him the character who tests the water for them so they don't have to cast a new character. Okay, I'll let that one go.
Regarding the hydrologist: I'm studying geology and I was also thinking about starting my career as a hydrogeologist. A theory why I got asked by the police would be, that he may happens to be a PHD in geology with a specialisation in hydrogeology and he was around the city for researches for his PHD which the police got informed of, because he maybe needs access to watersupplies of the city. It makes sense that they asked him since he probably also got some knowledge about rocks from space, since thats also part of your studies.
I think this is the first and only review I've seen that points out how Nicolas Cage's character starts to embody the father he hates. It's a great detail that really informs the character that so few people seem to notice because "Lol, he a meme." While he is a goofy actor and a funny person, I think he's a way better actor than most folks give him credit.
Honestly, he is a great actor. It's just that he's usually in mediocre movies. Partly it's because Nic is hurting for cash, having made some crazy purchases in his day, and also because he just likes keeping himself working. He has an odd view of acting, but I feel like it's in the same way some painters view their own art. In short, he is definitely an oddity, but I respect him.
Joseph Perez we were waking in the French quarter and they were filming a movie of his (that apparently never ended up getting released). After they finished the scene he was eating lunch and then waved to him when he looked up. If that helps clarify
Elvis: Magenta is a type of color that humans can only perceive on a specific frequency and does not technically exist on a light spectrum. Also Elvis: He’s a hydrologist, he does water stuff
That's only half-correct. Magenta isn't on the colour spectrum. It is not a frequency of light. It exists only in the mind, as a result of seeing blue and red together. Computer-generated yellow is the same.
Yeah, he went in a quite a long rant (at least it felt like that) talking about the hydrologist being there for the water, and it felt like... yes, Elvis? This is what a hydrologist does? That's literally his job???
I mean he's not wrong? The color magenta itself doesn't exist on the spectrum blue and red are on opposite ends of the spectrum meaning they won't mix on the Spectrum to make magenta its just how our minds interpret seeing red and blue together he likely didn't know what a hydrologist is because it didn't interest him so he didn't bother looking too deep into it
Was 17 during face off, 40 now. People younger and older than me appreciate nic’s eccentricity and talent plus he’s been in so many different roles it’s contagious.
“In the year 2056, all films must have a Nick Cage. Failure to do so is an TRAITOROUS ACT. A small band of rogue filmmakers and bandits rebel by making anti-Cage movies... They failed.” 🎩 🐍 no step on SNEK! 🇺🇸🇭🇰
28:11 they WERE on their way to the farm by the time the horse ran away. They found a bunch of random animals fused together, and Ward saw G-spot's collar, so he knew something wrong was going on. Seeing the horse just made them more worried.
The most Nic Cage moment actually happened to Nic Cage: A random naked guy just happily eating a popcicle in front of him not even realizing he was there.
This whole movie just reminds me of resident evil 7, with the family going bonkers and mutating, the stuff around them mutating and the whole god damn land around them becoming cursed, except that it's the aliens and not bioweapon-grandma-girl doing it.
_"Now, Ezekiel was this weird hippie, conspiracy-type guy kinda like Alex Jones"_ Hmmm... I DON'T LIKE 'EM PUTTING THE COLORS FROM SPACE, THAT TURN FRIGGIN' EVERYBODY CRAZY!
I was fortune enough to once work with Nick Cage, on a film up in Vancouver. I was just an extra, but myself and two others were selected to sit with him at a poker table at a casino scene for just a quick scene. Quick but it took like 5 hours to film it and Nick Cage was on set the whole time. Despite his reputation as being a bit crazy, he's seriously down to Earth and such a nice guy. He really was far more ordinary and approachable than I ever expected and was talking to everyone, extras included with no pretentious attitude at all while there were dull moments when they were doing lighting or something. Nick Cage = Nice guy!
Of all the actors to cast for a lovecraftian madman... Nick Cage feels like hes practiced all his career for that role and I loved every minute of his insanity
Nick Cage seems like such a great guy. How sweet to try and keep everyone's spirits up on set /o\ I mean, he must be exhausted himself, yet he puts out more energy just to help the people around him. Too sweet!!! 💜
I find it more exciting, and endearing hearing someone talk about something they love/appreciate. I always feel the passion and joy pouring out. Especially when they're fully aware of the flaws, aren't afraid to point them out, but still love it none the less. Sure it's fun to hear someone roasting something, but hearing someone talk about something they love is special.
Holy shit. I just realised "bart vs the space mutants " on the NES took influence from this. I always wondered why in the first level you have to go around and change any item thats purple to a different color. Never made sense to me till now.
I think Lavinia is meant to reference the character Lavinia Whateley from “The Dunwich Horror” that was known to be involved with weird pagan rituals -leading to her being impregnated by Yogsothoth- which is a neat reference imo.
That's true. It does raise the question what Stanley intends to do when he adapts The Dunwhich Horror, which is his next project. EDIT - Maybe... You think she isn't dead? Maybe she will be back in Dunwich, with a couple buns in the oven?
@@ShootMeMovieReviews Well, she kinda got incinerated by the Color, so unless her consciousness is floating out there in the LC Cinematic Universe, I don't think we will see her. They'll just swap out a new name like they did with the Nic Cage character. :/
@@sigmacademy Did she though? If what we saw was her being in some way transported to some 'other' space where Yog Sothoth resides, I'm not sure it would look different. She did perform a ritual to be taken away... I'm fairly convinced she'll be back to mother The Dunwhich Horror.
i just watched that movie with my parents, and damn my dad and me were fucking hysterically laughing at some moments, it's like half horror half so weird it's hilarious
The mother/son hybrid monster was so tragic and disturbing that I couldn’t bring myself to finish the rest of the movie, and honestly, that’s A+ Horror to me
Agents of shield, which takes place in the MCU, features the Robbie Reyes of ghost rider, so I’m not sure whether Feige would want to introduce another ghost rider.
@@zherean42069 Ghost Rider is from Marvel, and if don't know he side with Thanos as his right hand after using his Penance Stare on him and having no effect...
The ending of the short story send chills down my spine, since I was 13 there were moments that were hard for me to comprehend because of the way it was written.
Main protagonist of the short story was actually there to assess the grounds for building a new Arkham water reservoir. And while he agrees to build it there to bury what's left under the water, he vows to never drink tap water in the city.
It's such a good quote too, but people really overuse it or will JUST post that quote in anything Lovecraft or Lovecraftion related with nothing else to add. It's as repetitive as "haha Lovecraft cat".
This is a late comment but I think the whole "smell" thing is because the meteor always affects one of the five senses. Ward and Lavinia hallucinate (vision), Theresa cuts off her fingers (touch), Jack and his brother are affected by noise (hearing), and Nathan and the animals are sensitive to smell. Also, what Cage meant by "I borrowed inspiration from playing Loew in Vampire's Kiss" is that Loew's weird accent and mannerisms are strongly based on Cage's on father, who was a very posh publisher and not exactly a great dad. Cage had always been a "punk rocker" type and hadn't received any support from his dad, who divorced his mother when he was a kid. Apparently his dad is something of a sensitive topic for him, but if he's asked to channel an abusive father and his first thought is to emulate his father, then it sounds like his father had been plain abusive, and the outbursts from this film and in Vampire's Kiss may be an imitation of his dad's violent outbursts. At any rate, I'm glad I eventually got around to watching this review of yours -- I had no idea it's a Lovecraftian adaptation, and it looks awesome! I'm defs going to look into it! Also, I agree that Cage's forte lies in indie (horror) films. His off-beat and indie films have always been my favorite ones -- Vampire's Kiss and Birdy first and foremost. Glad to see him return to form with the genre!
I'm starting to feel like Annihilation was a low key attempt at adapting this short story as well, which just makes me both like Annihilation that much more, and makes me want to see this movie way more as well! (Yes, I know Annihilation is based on it's own book trilogy, but I've also been told the movie is crazy removed from the actual books)
I thought that as well since the first time I saw Annihilation. I think it's one of the best on-screen depictions of cosmic horror ever. I love that movie.
The movie was apparently not meant to be an adaptation of the book, so much as an attempt to convey the basic feeling the director got from reading it. He started working on the script before the first book's sequels came out, and deliberately avoided reading them until the script was finished.
I'm strangely okay with that method actually, though mostly because I really like the movie that came from it, but I feel like...... well the feel, is what most adaptations lose, so I appreciate that part being given the focus. Also as a somewhat unrelated side note, I finally saw the movie this video is about, was also fantastic!
@@ZimothydaAlien wait, the blasted heath is super dry ash, I'd expect wetness from a Taco Bell restroom. I can't even begin to wrap my brain around that concept, it's enough to drive a man mad.
I'm pretty damn sure the short story was also the inspiration for Darkest Dungeon's Colour of Madness DLC, it has fairly similar points. A meteor hits a farmstead outside of the hub area and eldritch shenanigans and time fuckery ensue.
It wasn’t just an inspiration lol, the whole dlc is based completely off of the book. The unusual color, the poisoned earth, afflicted farmers and animals, twisted time flow and the sleeper. The entirety of Darkest Dungeon is basically a collection of Loverctaft’s books references
I thought the smell affectived him because it smelled like a hospital, since his wife had cancer and it reminded him of the time he spent there visiting her
@@ShootMeMovieReviews Could be that he smelled death. The Color was literally death in the end, for everyone. He could also have been smelling the dog's rotting remains, as the Color's rock twists time and space, and we know the dog somehow jumped down in the well. :/
I love watching you talk about the stuff you are passionate about,whenever I rewatch this I feel the joy you radiate and this vid is my go to when Im in a bad mood
Nic cage is an awesome actor exactly because he has starred in so many different roles and in so many different films, from Hollywood AAA movies to small indie films. He has done it all and owns every role he was in. This by itself shows how much he loves his craft and the art of cinema. The guy has a passion for films that few moviemakers have. Also, Richard Stanley is a great and very original filmmaker, he should be given a lot more projects and a huge creative freedom with them.
One of my fave HPL stories since I was a kid, closest to classic sci-fi. The movie is faithful enough overall and as you say, stands on its own pretty well too
I’m glad this didn’t turn out to be terrible. Theory: Ward will be the central character. He will be in the next one as the hardened hero familiar with the cosmos’s touch and probably die and then tie off with whatever the third one is that is more loosely tied to it, like say From Beyond where, becuz of what happened in the first two a Miskatonic professor investigates the color and the oddities of the Dunwhich Horror that leads to lifting the veil and essentially just rebooting the original From Beyond movie but even better. Plus it’s just a neat touch that both From Beyond and Color out of Space used a similar color to accent the cosmic horror. Granted From Beyond might work better as a prequel.
Could be, but I think the Miskatonic University is going to the overall binding element of this cinematic universe. They can have any number of "academics/professors", as well as explore various areas and places around the town itself by linking it back somehow to the university, like thefts of artifacts, research expeditions, visitors to/from the town/university/external location, journals and writings recovered or received from other parts of the world, interviews, etc.
I love how crazy Nic Cage gets in his movies and is it just me or in most of his films does he look like he's just one step away from going on a crazy murder spree? Edited: Also when Nathan mocks his fathers words it sounds like everyone else's trump impression.
@@generalobiwankenobi8265 there's basically two options: It's a great movie and Nick makes it 10000 times better, or it's an awful movie and Nick cage makes it worse but is hilarious while doing it.
2:38 I must say, Lovecraft is actually very correct about this! It is, in fact, very, very implausible that a being from outer space, with a completely different evolutionary path, adapted to a completely different atmosphere from ours, would look anything like something we have here on earth, much less like a human being. If y'all are interested, I suggest You watch Trey the Explainer's video on scientifically plausible aliens. He talks about the origin of the Gray Aliens, like how they were actually supposed to represent humans from the future and not aliens at all, and what an actual alien would look like. And then shows examples of scientifically plausible aliens in mainstream culture, like the Xenomorphs, Lovecraftian monsters of course, and all the creatures seen in the Avatar movie (except for the Navi, obviously) It's very interesting :) (Sorry if my english is kinda wonky, my native language is Spanish)
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Imagine being this guy's neighbor and seeing bright magenta blaring out this guy's window following up with a cardboard cutout of Nicolas Cage.
*Looks out the window* "Hey guy's! He's at it again!"
Sounds like my entire neighborhood honestly
Well. Elvis is that desperate huh?
Im quite sure they saw worse action between Elvis and Cutout. 😅 Just saying that toung edit and thats just the stuff on screen...
"I'm gonna tell him"
"I'm sure it's nothing"
Nic Cage feels like that one substitute teacher in middle school that would talk to the class about his divorce
Or the one teacher rambling on about stupid shit
Or the guy who closes the car door with his hips
He had a four day Marrige once, So I wouldn’t even be surprised.
Just watch leaving Las Vegas, boom there you go
Is this a rare insult or a rare compliment?
Little did we know that Nic Cage is actually one of Lovecraft's creations brought to life.
No we can understand the way he looks sure we cant understand anything he does
No one could watch the Wicker Man remake and see Nic Cage as anything other than Nyarlathotep in the flesh.
I have a theory that Nick Cage is actually a genius. Somewhere during his earlier career he realized that he could be a great actor, and people would maybe remember him for a while, or he could become “Nick Cage!” and people would remember him forever. Gotta say it’s an effective strategy.
There were plenty of characters like that throughout history, whom you don't remember. They are only relevant to contemporaries.
Its like the rock, you look at a character he's playing and dont think "hey thats a cool character" you think "yo thats the Rock"
@@An_Entire_Lime now all I wish is that Nic Cage got into wrestling when he was younger😂 he would have been a great heel imo
@That Guy I seriously doubt if Nick Cage works because he "has" to. He looks like he's having the time of his life in every movie.
@@MrCmon113 Like who? Shatner has a somewhat similar legacy and we all know him... Wait, hang on a second! How many could there possibly be with only ~100 years of filmmaking??
You know, I'm 129% convinced that Cage doesn't act.
They just kidnap him while he sleeps, put him In a set with actors and let the camera roll as he wakes up.
Now that I think about it... I WANNA SEE A TRUMAN SHOW STARRING CAGE!
Truman show with Cage most awesome idea ever !
It’s a Cage show
He’d murder everyone before the cameras would even roll lmfao
Yes please.
Yes please.
Nick would be great as the dad in a live-action Coraline, he looks and acts just like him.
Omg I absolutely totally agree!!!💯👌🏾💯
Please don’t give film makers ideas
@@HopePapernacky Coraline would be genuinely be way more creepy in live action though. Real people with button eyes? Yikes.
In other words, if they do it right with good CGI I really don't see an issue. If they don't, well, we don't really have to watch it to know it's bad these days, so no big deal, we'll always have the original.
That's kind of my attitude with the Disney remakes too- most of them suck so I just ignore them.
I get the joke btw just thought this was a good chance for a little rant, hope you don't mind! :)
Beth the Dark Mage fun fact: coralline was actually gonna be a live action movie but they were concerned about how bad the cgi would look so they changed it to stop motion.
@@rhodopisdenile8977 plus (i think anyway) its fantastic as a stop motion animation, it makes it feel a lot more grounded in reality when everything is little physical props and having special effects to make them synergize. it makes it feel more alive and tangible somehow
i'd personally be ok with a live action adaptation of the book, but i think the animated film does the book enough justice already to not really warrant another stab at it yknow?
I couldn’t stop laughing when nick was milking the alpacas and his son smirked and said “nice one dad”
I couldn't help but feel he was jerking off some male alpacas...
"I'm a farmer daddy!"
That sounded dirty but I couldn't help but laugh, too 😂
press 4 for a nice one
That scene was sooo weird
I like the implication that the Color wasn't even necessarily a hostile force. It just wanted fuel to go home.
Unfortunately, it's so alien to us that it pays no mind to the fact it's using living beings as fuel.
I like to think the colour doesnt even comprehend the idea of hostile and non hostile or uman ideas in general jsut doing what it does. jsut how a bear doesnt have a concept of empathy when eating a baby deer alive.
Sounds true, but that mother-son spiderish abomination looked _pretty_ hostile
Nic Cage's entire acting career has been practice for depicting the protagonist in an HP Lovecraft story descending into madness on being confronted with an incomprehensible otherworldly horror.
What are you talking about. Nic Cage is the otherworldly lovecraftian horror. After the Color saw Nic snogging his wife/son-spider it noped the hell outta there.
Which is funny 'cus Lovecraft's protagonists are usually well educated, gentlemanly scholars whereas Nathan is more of a simple man, so a bit of an antithesis to Lovecraft protagonists.
this film was an experience in the cinema, the soundtrack is actually really really good
Wow I did not expect you.
Hi
I noticed this comment before Elvis did. I just didn’t comment because I don’t really care about thafnine
@@yukkuri9144 ouch ^
yaboilogan ok
Watch the movie: VelociPastor it’s about a pastor who can turn into a velociraptor and fights ninja with a prostitute
Sounds like Steel Ball Rin
That sounds like the best movie ever
I second that
I thought that was a joke but that sounds hilarious
Mmyr8ad O. Pretty much
I really like the detail you added about magenta; it added some insight about their choice in using it. I always thought they chose it because that particular shade is kind of eerie and aggressive, but it makes way more sense and is more effective when you know that magenta "doesn't exist" and is consequently the only way the characters and the audience can perceive the "Color" in the movie.
apparently in some countries the movie was released in all black and white except magenta, which i think is a cool concept (not sure if its true tho)
@@jupiterzombies you might be thinking of an older adaptation?
@@jupiterzombiesI'm pretty sure that was the older one he talked about! He said it's more faithful to the bool but not as entertaining 😊
"Destroy the child. Corrupt them all," is the plot of this movie.
That is... surprisingly accurate.
Alex Jones?
LOOL
@@luwubert3251 "Alex Jones?" no, darude - sandstorm
What's your profile pic
I love how excited Elvis gets when talking about a movie he genuinely enjoys rather than torturing himself with movies like Swamp Ape
I realy enjoy how wholesome Elvis sounds when he talks about a movie he likes.
also nice to have someone saying positive stuff about Cage instead of just memeing on the guy!
agree ! i love this video.
Watch wisecracks video on him
I don't want to be overly patronizing of Nic Cage, but he was seriously, unironically awesome in this movie. I'd never liked him in anything until this movie.
Yeah, Nick Cage is actually a pretty good actor when he’s given proper direction.
He needs guidance as to when he should release the crazy, and keep it subdued. It’s rare to find a director that understands this, it’s even rarer to find one who can do it properly.
@@jacklandismusic He’s great in Mandy.
During the scene at night with Ward at his tent reading a book, he hears a noise in the woods and goes to investigate. He shines his flashlight and catches a glimpse of the color, when suddenly his jeep starts by itself. The headlights of his jeep illuminate the book he was reading which is none other than "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood, considered by H.P. Lovecraft to be the best supernatural tale in English literature.
I can appreciate the fact that the color “unlike any seen on earth” is magenta
(Yes, I know that magenta isn’t technically a real color, that’s why I can appreciate it)
Well Magenta doesn't exist on the light spectrum. It's our brain trying to connect purple to red on the color wheel.
@@rosenoel that’s cool af. Thanks for that cool fact
@@rosenoel this is why magenta was chosen for the film
Magenta... is a fucked color... and thats amazing
@@rosenoel Same with brown, but, well, brown is kinda boring.
Despite reading the book at 13, Stanley‘s mother read it to him when he was eight or sick, she got cancer so he came out of a 20 year retirement to make this film for her, best son ever.
Oof
I’m pretty sure 1 year after this movie he got some sexual harassment allegedly
@@calmgoodfire4662 not sexual harassment but domestic violence like really really bad domestic violence
@@lizzystar5346 no wonder he loves lovecraft
@@maxtaetle420 lmao
@@maxtaetle420 H.P Lovecraft would never commit domestic violence, because he would never be able to convince anyone to actually start a relationship with him.
_“It was just a colour out of space-a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.”_
*~ H.P. Lovecraft*
Much more creative than when he named his cat
Sounds like he's describing Nic Cage
Mr. Friendship Im concerned about your pfp
MarkyMo it was a family cat, it’s more than likely that Lovecraft’s father named the cat
...Not to mention, the abominable and forbidden Necronomicon.
I really agree with Lovecraft on the "not liking humanoid aliens" thing, since the odds are that aliens will end up looking little to nothing like humans.
Unless they are the one’s who made us.
@@jdgustofwinddance.7748 Prometheus?
@@alivingcoralreef609 that turd and covenant are just bad fanfiction to me. Noncanon trash.
Aliens either look nothing like us or disturbingly like us
According to evolution they’re more likely to look like crabs
"An insane Nic Cage film" - you'll have to narrow it down a bit I'm afraid.
Who are you?
An insane nic cage film
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Xx_MEGAMATE _xX you took the words right out of my mouth.
g i v e t h e m b a c k.
@@veggiestraws2081 no >:(
Xx_MEGAMATE _xX dang it
On a scale from "Con Air" to "Mandy" where are we here?
Imagine if Nick Cage played Jack Torrence in The Shining
I think he would've played that great, if not for Nicholson I could 100% see him in that role
Imagine if Keanu Reaves played Jack Torrence in The Shining.
it would either be great or the worst movie ever probly the worst ever
OmegaShibe that would be awsome
I would love to see that! But he could never be better than Nicholson.
And his name is Torrance.
I'm colorblind and seeing everything being magenta just made my eyes bleed
Is it really that bad?
@@HighGuy69 not really but it's hard to understand what's what
@@tungsten-726 shit dude... That's gotta suck really bad
Edit: i just re-read my comment and I'm sorry if it seemed like i was being an ass about it... Didn't mean it
At least we can confirm it's accurate then
@@HighGuy69 nah man it's fine I didn't see it like that
Nathan shooting the monster that was his wife and son then exclaiming "they're not my family" feels like a moment of clarity in his corrupted mind to me. Like he snapped put of it just long enough to realize his family was suffering and he had to put them down.
Also surprised you didn't mention Tommy Chong considering you like weed. I felt like he was a cool addition to the film
That is a good theory. I thought of it being the opposite, with him starting to lose his grip on himself and his reality, but I like yours better.
"This movie is set back-in-the-day."
**proceeds to show footage of Arthur Morgan falling off a horse**
Hold up.
God damn it, dutch. The TH-cam recommendations are drunk again!
i did a review on this too but this is much better
@@eldritchmess7818 *cough* *cough* I'm dying of cringe Dutch *cough* *cough*
13:32
You know a lot of people see Nathan’s freak out in the car as only another glorious Nick Cage moment (and don’t get me wrong; it totally is), but I think what made this freak out work so well is the true feeling of impotent helplessness that he expresses with it. You KNOW WHY he’s mad; he’s supposed to be the breadwinner, the man of the house, and yet with every passing moment more and more of his control over the things he knows crumbles into dust. I UNDERSTAND why he freaks out because, in all complete fairness, I’d probably do the exact same thing if I were in his position. It’s a freak out with REAL WEIGHT behind it, and in my opinion that’s what makes it all the more enjoyable and powerful.
His freak out in Mandy is at first glance another Nic Cage freakout, but it matches the movie perfectly!!
I'm pretty sure that most drivers can relate to the car freakout... cars bring out the worst in people haha
I’ve been in a situation like that before. The helplessness really drove me to petulant rage. Lots of screaming, hitting the dash…not one of my prouder moments lol
The uh, car, is not happening
And that's why we have powerbank jumper cables 😸
“Put him in more indie horror”
*cries and laughs in wally’s wonderland*
Jay the SmallMellow five nights at nick cage’s
Za Warudo ...no
EDIT: wait is THAT A JOJO REFERENCE
Steven Diamond yare yare
Za Warudo Ok, masta! Let’s kill de ho!
*BEEEEEEEEETCH*
@@CrowCrojoINTJ lol
I'm loving the whole idea of making a trilogy out of these stories, and it sounds like Stanley picked the perfect way to do it.
G-spot. Because its a pussycat.
What’s new, pussycat?
I swear Nicolas Cage gets more crazier when he’s in these type of movies
Nicholas Cage is step daddy.
Aaron Knox if he was your real step papi then you’d know how to spell his name >~>
"more crazier"
He excels in these movies lmfao
Maui Caui sorry it’s that English isn’t my first language
Subtitle for this movie
“This time magenta’s back and it’s pissed.”
Lmao
Title: the font behind the slaughter
@@cla_6 Lol
Magenta is a she, not an it.
@@rickc2102 ? Why is Magenta a she?
Honestly, I've seen so many failed film and fan film attempts at making an even half decent adaptation of Lovecraftian stories. This was legitimately not a bad re-imagining of the Colour out of Space. It ended up being a really good Lovecraft film, even if the budget clearly set up some limitations. I'd be OK to see more adaptations of those stories to this level.
The fact they even slightly pulled it off, and with so much style, is very impressive.
I felt like Annihilation, while not directly an adaptation, but clearly pulls some inspiration from Color Out Of Space, was a more subdued and better executed horror. I feel like Color Out of Space (the movie) could have been better...without Nic Cage. I couldn’t take him seriously for even one second.
I was also super happy with this adaptation. Nick Cage has his quirks, the story has its quirks, this adaptation isn't 100% perfect, but everything came together in a way that captured the feel and enough enjoyment. I couldn't ask for much more.
I think they're doing one of the Dunwich Horror next, Stanley has said he plans to do a trilogy
Yes! Thank you! Best lovecraft film adaptation tho: Call of Cthulhu (2005 version). I actually saw it when it was a student film release at UCSB
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
- H. P. Lovecraft
“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
- H. P. Lovecraft
The few recordings of him show him stuttering sometimes, having a somewhat nervous tone and fiddling with his hands
A man who seems almost scared of what his own mind has created from the depths of his imagination, that
“thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
He was a man who was able to destroy the mind with nothing but a typewriter and his own fear
“The n-word”-H.P. lovercraft
@@user-wy5rs2zj6u I think people don't talk nearly enough about Lovecraft's growth over the course of his tragically short life. In one of his letters, he basically says that he was embarrassed at the views he held when he was younger. He was disappointed with The Shadow Over Innsmouth, thinking that its themes were a return to views he no longer held. He started out heavily xenophobic and racist, but that isn't how he was at the end.
@@impartialthrone2097 those were mainly abt people like the Irish or Jews, he still viewed black people has inferior
@@impartialthrone2097 A lot of it was also, as with most fucked up people, caused or at least helped along by his mother. She I think wished he had been a girl and made him keep his hair long, and constantly told him he was hideous so shouldn't go outside as people would be scared of his disgusting face. He was very xenophobic and racist, but he was just generally scared of people as well, he didn't really like to go outside.
But there was a lot of contradiction about him as well, for example his wife was Jewish, and 1 of his cousins I think it was that he was very close with was gay, which he knew about but still was his friend. Theres also the fact though that his fear of others is what helped him write these stories, as they are essentially his fears basically everything outside his home, and more so things further afield he knew nothing of.
Yes it doesn't in any way excuse how racist he was, like racist to the point that even people of the times thought he was extreme, but without being fucked up like he was we likely wouldn't have gotten these stories.
@@Barnesofthenorth sadly these days we as a society get to choose who gets a pass for what they done. And seeing Lovecraft was a white male it means he needs to be cancelled even thoguh he is dead lol. I have seen people boycott lovecrafts work after finding out he was racist. They went from lovecraft is my fav author too its all ramblings of a racist.
You could tell me he was a pedophile rapist racist and i would still read his shit lmao, somehow in society we have decided that ones character has to be reflected on the art they make and said art has to be punished as if it is the person itself.
When he said “indie horror”, all I could think was Outlast, and now I want an outlast movie where Nick Cage plays either Dr. Traeger, Chris Walker, or Miles, or all three. Or the priest.
I don’t really care, I just need Nick Cage to appear in an Outlast movie.
"Or all three"
This.
i want him as the dude from the prequel who cuts off people's penises to make them beautiful i don't remember the name
@@juliashirokova8374 Ed Gluskin. Nic Cage would be a great actor for Gluskin as well.
Nicolas Cage should be the Wallrider
@@darrelsam419 oh thanks
They bought a hydrologist cause hydrologists also have some working and studying experience regarding the wider subject of geology. Given that they live in a remote area, it's obvious the police would take him instead of wasting time waiting for an actual geologist to come by.
That jacket nic was wearing looked like a skin Johnny Cage would have in MK11
Matus lmao
it looks like the Ghost Rider's jacket, which is ironic
Yes
He reminded me of Negan.
He has brought back his character from "Vampires Kiss". His accent & antics in that movie brightens my day. Vampires kiss is his most eccentric role. I model my own character design and catch phrases off of him. He's a grand jester full of endless outlandish charms.
I love how the color in your room changed depending on what was happening in the movie. Good touch.
Ah crap, no I have to rewatch it just to see this happen.
Nic Cage singing to the exhausted cast after a long day of filming is the so pure and sweet
4:59 the alien are poisoning our water and turning the freaking frog gay
So the alien is the government
@@caleblewis8169 😳
For those who haven't read the story, I'd like to elaborate a bit more.
1. The name Nahum is pronounced as far as i know like "mayhem" but with an n instead of m. So Nathan is pretty close.
2. Lavinia the witchy girl is the daughter of Old Guy Watley in that Yogsothoth story, the dunwich horror. This was a nod to that Lavinia. Also the Necronomicon, a fictional lovecraftian book of supernatural power, plays a big role in that particular story. As does the Miskatonic university in most lovecraftian stories, including Re-animator.
3. In the story they were looking for a place to build a water reservoir and the blasted heath was a possible spot, but after hearing the story the protagonist vows to never drink water from that reservoir.
The Lama abomination and the Daughter and son abomination was very The Thing reminiscent. And The Thing is very Lovecraft inspired so weve gone full circle.
It's all coming together
I straight up rewatched The Thing after seeing this film. Both awesome movies
The Thing is Lovecraftian Horror, you mongoloid.
Actors who can save bad or mediocre movies just by having a big role in them:
1)Nicholas Cage.
2)Christopher Walken.
3)Vincent Price.
This movie wasnt bad, Richard Stanley is a genius
Lieutenant BaconWaffles wasn’t Christopher walken in that awful transformers movie that was shot in like. 3 different framing styles and pieced all together by a manic crack addict
@@kyloren1301 I think you meant Jon Voight
@@nivor9 oh no shit. looked it up it was Anthony Hopkins
@@kyloren1301 Oh shit, I didn't even know he was in one. A waste of a terrific actor.
The monster mass in the back of the hunters truck was not the alpacas. It was a random assortment of animals in the forest near the farm that the hunter had found. Obviously it was not normal so he brought it to the sheriff. I’m pretty sure the hippie dudes cat was also apart of the mass. So the color was not just affecting the farm but the entire forested region around it doing its crazy mutation thing to every animal in the area that was infected from drinking any water or eating any vegetation that was contaminated.
The cat was not apart of the mass. You see the hippie's mutated cat when they are driving back from the hospital.
idk if it’s actually his cat or some stray but Im pretty sure the hunter guy says there is a cat corpse in there as well. I just figured it was the hippies cat and when they see the cat on the way back from the hospital I just figured it was the color messing with time. Idk not really important just wanted to point out that one of the only disappointments Elvis had with film was not what he thought it was so he doesn’t have to be disappointed any more ;)
@@alegendarydude2967 The cat was in the mass: they show the bell on the collar. The car scene came before, around 50 min in. The scene with the animal mass in the back of the pickup truck is toward the end of the movie.
@@AtariLunatic Ah my mistake, I stand corrected. Regardless great movie and review!
Ward (or at least the character Movie Ward stands in for) wasn't a random guy in the book, he was a land surveyor. He was checking the area to see if it would be okay to convert the blasted heath into a reservoir.
As this goes on, I think I can see why they changed it. Having him be a guy who does water tests lets them make him the character who tests the water for them so they don't have to cast a new character. Okay, I'll let that one go.
Regarding the hydrologist: I'm studying geology and I was also thinking about starting my career as a hydrogeologist. A theory why I got asked by the police would be, that he may happens to be a PHD in geology with a specialisation in hydrogeology and he was around the city for researches for his PHD which the police got informed of, because he maybe needs access to watersupplies of the city. It makes sense that they asked him since he probably also got some knowledge about rocks from space, since thats also part of your studies.
They just asked him because he's the most educated person present. They're hicks.
Tldr Nick Cage is a good scientist if there is no one else free
god i love movies where Nic cage is insane
So u love nic cage movies
Crash Schwarzenegger so all of them?
My favorite Nicolas cage movie is when he goes really crazy is either the wicker man or face/off either one of those movies
Sure, only in movies
Bad liuetenant was great.
I think this is the first and only review I've seen that points out how Nicolas Cage's character starts to embody the father he hates. It's a great detail that really informs the character that so few people seem to notice because "Lol, he a meme." While he is a goofy actor and a funny person, I think he's a way better actor than most folks give him credit.
Honestly, he is a great actor. It's just that he's usually in mediocre movies. Partly it's because Nic is hurting for cash, having made some crazy purchases in his day, and also because he just likes keeping himself working. He has an odd view of acting, but I feel like it's in the same way some painters view their own art.
In short, he is definitely an oddity, but I respect him.
He does have an Oscar for best actor
Weird movie: *EXIST*
Nicolas Cage: now this looks like a job for me
No it's
Nic Cage: Oh ho ho ho~
Now everybody just follow me, cause we need a little controversy. Cause it'd feel so empty without me
I waved to Nic Cage when he was filming a movie in New Orleans years ago and he’s definitely one of the cooler celebrities I’ve ever met
Joseph Perez we were waking in the French quarter and they were filming a movie of his (that apparently never ended up getting released). After they finished the scene he was eating lunch and then waved to him when he looked up. If that helps clarify
Hana Phelps i wasn’t. I was on a field trip in the French Quarter where they were filming
I love how Nic Cage as just dressed exactly like the director for some of the press hahah channeling the man's passion
Wasn't that jacket something like the jacket of Ghost Rider 1, when he was in the daredevil persona?
_"Bloodborne is my favourite game of all time."_
*_Aah, a kindred spirit._*
social wizard *Aah, well met Ashen One.*
We are made men by the blood
So he's aware of the many dangers of the old blood.
@@fernandosegovia8806 Kos
Or some say K O S M
@@wesleygaray2666 Undone, by the blood.
Our eyes are yet to open.
Fear the old blood.
Elvis: Magenta is a type of color that humans can only perceive on a specific frequency and does not technically exist on a light spectrum.
Also Elvis: He’s a hydrologist, he does water stuff
That's only half-correct. Magenta isn't on the colour spectrum. It is not a frequency of light. It exists only in the mind, as a result of seeing blue and red together. Computer-generated yellow is the same.
Yeah, he went in a quite a long rant (at least it felt like that) talking about the hydrologist being there for the water, and it felt like... yes, Elvis? This is what a hydrologist does? That's literally his job???
Like modern Action movies with their science Nonsense just for worldbuilding whilst just ignoring basic facts of life.
I mean he's not wrong? The color magenta itself doesn't exist on the spectrum blue and red are on opposite ends of the spectrum meaning they won't mix on the Spectrum to make magenta its just how our minds interpret seeing red and blue together he likely didn't know what a hydrologist is because it didn't interest him so he didn't bother looking too deep into it
That's cool that magenta is just a made up color in our mind.
Was 17 during face off, 40 now. People younger and older than me appreciate nic’s eccentricity and talent plus he’s been in so many different roles it’s contagious.
“In the year 2056, all films must have a Nick Cage. Failure to do so is an TRAITOROUS ACT.
A small band of rogue filmmakers and bandits rebel by making anti-Cage movies...
They failed.”
🎩
🐍 no step on SNEK! 🇺🇸🇭🇰
Is he immortal? Bc with normal aging he'd be fckn old
Madenique van Wyk when I hear that I thought that he was talking about a clone
rogue*
Madenique van Wyk
Within strange aeons even death may die
😎
Every year, every movie, Nic Cage makes me believe more and more that he is in fact an SCP
SCP C4G3
Holy shit maybe he is
Most likely a sapient cognito hazzard with unfathomable memetic effects on the population of earth
Futurama anyone
SCP-[REDACTED]- the bad but good actor
28:11 they WERE on their way to the farm by the time the horse ran away.
They found a bunch of random animals fused together, and Ward saw G-spot's collar, so he knew something wrong was going on.
Seeing the horse just made them more worried.
The most Nic Cage moment actually happened to Nic Cage: A random naked guy just happily eating a popcicle in front of him not even realizing he was there.
This whole movie just reminds me of resident evil 7, with the family going bonkers and mutating, the stuff around them mutating and the whole god damn land around them becoming cursed, except that it's the aliens and not bioweapon-grandma-girl doing it.
_"Now, Ezekiel was this weird hippie, conspiracy-type guy kinda like Alex Jones"_
Hmmm... I DON'T LIKE 'EM PUTTING THE COLORS FROM SPACE, THAT TURN FRIGGIN' EVERYBODY CRAZY!
*GAY
I DON'T LIKE THEM PUTTING THE COLORS FROM SPACE IN THE WELL, TURNIN' THE LLAMAS *_GAY!_*
Ik it’s a mere and all, but atrosine is a real thing, and it actually turns frogs gay. There was a study that proved it to be true.
I was fortune enough to once work with Nick Cage, on a film up in Vancouver. I was just an extra, but myself and two others were selected to sit with him at a poker table at a casino scene for just a quick scene. Quick but it took like 5 hours to film it and Nick Cage was on set the whole time. Despite his reputation as being a bit crazy, he's seriously down to Earth and such a nice guy. He really was far more ordinary and approachable than I ever expected and was talking to everyone, extras included with no pretentious attitude at all while there were dull moments when they were doing lighting or something.
Nick Cage = Nice guy!
What kind of wacko would accuse Cage of being "pretentious"?? His acting is about the furthest from pretentious there is
"Some hippie dude"?! Sir that is Tommy Chong AKA THE Hippie dude
Bro THANK YOU!!! I was like wtf elvis?!?!
As in Cheech and Chong?
@@conlooka9356 Correct sir
Exactly what im thinking. He said he smoked weed and doesnt even acknowledge who hippie guy is. What a shame.
Shame, Elvis. Shame.
The little boy in the movie is also in the haunting of hill house lol his parents found him a genre apparently
"Mysterious Color Unlike Any Seen On Earth" the movie
bout time some OSP started to show up
Ohhhh yeah gimme that RED.
Thank you
Thank you,,,
@@rozmarinideas5340 it's actually Magenta but go on I guess
“the color has taken over, 100%”
*corruption music starts playing*
He’s gonna be in a FNAF rip-off film. That’s gonna be fun
Honestly, he'll probably make it better
If they are making a fnaf movie, might as well have nick cage in it
He better be singing hokey pokey while beating the shit out of the animatronics
@@legobrik I can already vividly see that playing out in my head already
What is the movie named doe
Of all the actors to cast for a lovecraftian madman... Nick Cage feels like hes practiced all his career for that role and I loved every minute of his insanity
I honestly hope they re-use the whole cast for the next movie. They all played their roles well.
Nick Cage seems like such a great guy. How sweet to try and keep everyone's spirits up on set /o\ I mean, he must be exhausted himself, yet he puts out more energy just to help the people around him. Too sweet!!! 💜
I just watched a video a out how segal would full on punch people on the set. I’ll take Mr. Cage pls.
Elvis is like one of the cutest living organisms. His laugh is so adorable
Tf?
@@NichtNameee its true lmao
Low Budget Movie: We need a crazy main character.
Nic Cage: *appears from thin air* You called me?
I find it more exciting, and endearing hearing someone talk about something they love/appreciate. I always feel the passion and joy pouring out. Especially when they're fully aware of the flaws, aren't afraid to point them out, but still love it none the less. Sure it's fun to hear someone roasting something, but hearing someone talk about something they love is special.
Holy shit. I just realised "bart vs the space mutants " on the NES took influence from this. I always wondered why in the first level you have to go around and change any item thats purple to a different color. Never made sense to me till now.
I think Lavinia is meant to reference the character Lavinia Whateley from “The Dunwich Horror” that was known to be involved with weird pagan rituals -leading to her being impregnated by Yogsothoth- which is a neat reference imo.
That's true. It does raise the question what Stanley intends to do when he adapts The Dunwhich Horror, which is his next project.
EDIT - Maybe... You think she isn't dead? Maybe she will be back in Dunwich, with a couple buns in the oven?
Also thought that.
@@ShootMeMovieReviews Well, she kinda got incinerated by the Color, so unless her consciousness is floating out there in the LC Cinematic Universe, I don't think we will see her. They'll just swap out a new name like they did with the Nic Cage character. :/
@@sigmacademy Did she though? If what we saw was her being in some way transported to some 'other' space where Yog Sothoth resides, I'm not sure it would look different. She did perform a ritual to be taken away... I'm fairly convinced she'll be back to mother The Dunwhich Horror.
YogsoTHOTh
i just watched that movie with my parents, and damn my dad and me were fucking hysterically laughing at some moments, it's like half horror half so weird it's hilarious
"My dad and me were fucking hysterically"
Freyjinn-2020
@@jeffyman780 o h n o
@@jeffyman780 Gotta do whatcha gotta do.
@@jeffyman780 ""My dad and me were fucking hysterically""
-Jeffy Man
@@ohitsrusher842 not how that works😂😂
If only Stanley had the budget to do At the mountains of madness adaptation...
Guillermo del Turo has wanted to make that adaptation for years, but companies just tell him "NO" unfortunately.
The mother/son hybrid monster was so tragic and disturbing that I couldn’t bring myself to finish the rest of the movie, and honestly, that’s A+ Horror to me
Same.. I literally turned my wife down for a quickie because I was so distraught (I was watching it alone when she came home).
Reject wife. Focus on nick cage. Life good...
I think Nic Cage should return as Ghost Rider for the MCU.
HIGHly cool, i remember the old ghost rider movie, it was GROUNDbreaking !
Ok im out
Agents of shield, which takes place in the MCU, features the Robbie Reyes of ghost rider, so I’m not sure whether Feige would want to introduce another ghost rider.
wait ghost rider on mcu
Hello there
@@zherean42069 Ghost Rider is from Marvel, and if don't know he side with Thanos as his right hand after using his Penance Stare on him and having no effect...
The ending of the short story send chills down my spine, since I was 13 there were moments that were hard for me to comprehend because of the way it was written.
Even as a grown ass man I find I have to reread some sentences from Lovecraft's work. The man definitely had a peculiar form of writing.
I got a horrible movie for you: the assignment. Its hilariously bad
legobrik 78 and Game Over Man is god awful
@@johnross5098 I'll be sure to check that out. Does it feature instructions on how to tie a noose?
It’s a hilarocity
It's just on Netflix, not really a Netflix movie
@@riotbreaker3506 ah
Main protagonist of the short story was actually there to assess the grounds for building a new Arkham water reservoir. And while he agrees to build it there to bury what's left under the water, he vows to never drink tap water in the city.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the most overused quote is this one"
Also the shortest route is the detour. It was the detour that was our shortest path.
It's such a good quote too, but people really overuse it or will JUST post that quote in anything Lovecraft or Lovecraftion related with nothing else to add. It's as repetitive as "haha Lovecraft cat".
This is a late comment but I think the whole "smell" thing is because the meteor always affects one of the five senses. Ward and Lavinia hallucinate (vision), Theresa cuts off her fingers (touch), Jack and his brother are affected by noise (hearing), and Nathan and the animals are sensitive to smell.
Also, what Cage meant by "I borrowed inspiration from playing Loew in Vampire's Kiss" is that Loew's weird accent and mannerisms are strongly based on Cage's on father, who was a very posh publisher and not exactly a great dad. Cage had always been a "punk rocker" type and hadn't received any support from his dad, who divorced his mother when he was a kid. Apparently his dad is something of a sensitive topic for him, but if he's asked to channel an abusive father and his first thought is to emulate his father, then it sounds like his father had been plain abusive, and the outbursts from this film and in Vampire's Kiss may be an imitation of his dad's violent outbursts.
At any rate, I'm glad I eventually got around to watching this review of yours -- I had no idea it's a Lovecraftian adaptation, and it looks awesome! I'm defs going to look into it! Also, I agree that Cage's forte lies in indie (horror) films. His off-beat and indie films have always been my favorite ones -- Vampire's Kiss and Birdy first and foremost. Glad to see him return to form with the genre!
I'm starting to feel like Annihilation was a low key attempt at adapting this short story as well, which just makes me both like Annihilation that much more, and makes me want to see this movie way more as well!
(Yes, I know Annihilation is based on it's own book trilogy, but I've also been told the movie is crazy removed from the actual books)
i rly liked annihilation
To me this film felt like annihilation crossed with the mist crossed with hereditary
I thought that as well since the first time I saw Annihilation. I think it's one of the best on-screen depictions of cosmic horror ever. I love that movie.
The movie was apparently not meant to be an adaptation of the book, so much as an attempt to convey the basic feeling the director got from reading it. He started working on the script before the first book's sequels came out, and deliberately avoided reading them until the script was finished.
I'm strangely okay with that method actually, though mostly because I really like the movie that came from it, but I feel like...... well the feel, is what most adaptations lose, so I appreciate that part being given the focus.
Also as a somewhat unrelated side note, I finally saw the movie this video is about, was also fantastic!
I'm surprised there was no shoutout or even acknowledgment of Tommy Chong playing Ezra, I thought it was great to see him.
I was waiting for it too
I loved this movie, just watched it the other day and was just so impressed. And the creature effects were legit some of the best in such a long time.
Idk of i love it or hate it......I'm just horrified
Lovecraft: colors that you can’t comprehend
Me: that’s an unique...
Me: hold on wait a minute
I dont understand
Hüllo
i yeet my meat colors be more people he probably didn’t like
i yeet my meat just try to recall the name of his cat (or thats what i think he meant)
There are colors the human eye cannot pick up.
dude colin stetson is an amazing composer, he did Hereditary and RDR2. he's also doing the new Uzumaki anime this year.
Do you mean Naruto/Boruto or Junji Ito's "Uzumaki"
low-effort idiot junji itos Uzumaki obviously, but it sadly comes out next year instead of this year. Its obvious why
Hereditary was amazing!
''Blasted heath'' sounds like something you would find in Dark souls
It’s what I call Taco Bell restrooms
@@ZimothydaAlien wait, the blasted heath is super dry ash, I'd expect wetness from a Taco Bell restroom. I can't even begin to wrap my brain around that concept, it's enough to drive a man mad.
"Mysterious colors unlike anything seen on earth" ~Overly Sarcastic Productions
Yassssss I was looking in the comments for an OSP reference!
i didn't know youtube comments can have sound
I'm pretty damn sure the short story was also the inspiration for Darkest Dungeon's Colour of Madness DLC, it has fairly similar points. A meteor hits a farmstead outside of the hub area and eldritch shenanigans and time fuckery ensue.
It wasn’t just an inspiration lol, the whole dlc is based completely off of the book. The unusual color, the poisoned earth, afflicted farmers and animals, twisted time flow and the sleeper. The entirety of Darkest Dungeon is basically a collection of Loverctaft’s books references
I thought the smell affectived
him because it smelled like a hospital, since his wife had cancer and it reminded him of the time he spent there visiting her
It reminded him more of his father dying of cancer. But that's only one occasion. On another he said it smelled like the dog.
@@ShootMeMovieReviews Could be that he smelled death. The Color was literally death in the end, for everyone. He could also have been smelling the dog's rotting remains, as the Color's rock twists time and space, and we know the dog somehow jumped down in the well. :/
I love watching you talk about the stuff you are passionate about,whenever I rewatch this I feel the joy you radiate and this vid is my go to when Im in a bad mood
The sequel: Color Outside the Lines (2020 dir. by Nicolas Cage)
Nic cage is an awesome actor exactly because he has starred in so many different roles and in so many different films, from Hollywood AAA movies to small indie films. He has done it all and owns every role he was in. This by itself shows how much he loves his craft and the art of cinema. The guy has a passion for films that few moviemakers have.
Also, Richard Stanley is a great and very original filmmaker, he should be given a lot more projects and a huge creative freedom with them.
Nicolas Cage in an H.P. Lovecraft film: A match made in Heaven.
Amen
Correction: a match made in r'lyeh
@@lazarus9165 Nice one
Nah. There is too many comedic takes already. They should have made this one serious.
One of my fave HPL stories since I was a kid, closest to classic sci-fi. The movie is faithful enough overall and as you say, stands on its own pretty well too
I’m glad this didn’t turn out to be terrible.
Theory: Ward will be the central character. He will be in the next one as the hardened hero familiar with the cosmos’s touch and probably die and then tie off with whatever the third one is that is more loosely tied to it, like say From Beyond where, becuz of what happened in the first two a Miskatonic professor investigates the color and the oddities of the Dunwhich Horror that leads to lifting the veil and essentially just rebooting the original From Beyond movie but even better. Plus it’s just a neat touch that both From Beyond and Color out of Space used a similar color to accent the cosmic horror. Granted From Beyond might work better as a prequel.
Could be, but I think the Miskatonic University is going to the overall binding element of this cinematic universe. They can have any number of "academics/professors", as well as explore various areas and places around the town itself by linking it back somehow to the university, like thefts of artifacts, research expeditions, visitors to/from the town/university/external location, journals and writings recovered or received from other parts of the world, interviews, etc.
I love how crazy Nic Cage gets in his movies and is it just me or in most of his films does he look like he's just one step away from going on a crazy murder spree?
Edited: Also when Nathan mocks his fathers words it sounds like everyone else's trump impression.
I love Nic Cage in Ghost Rider. I just think Cage can make any movie great.
@@generalobiwankenobi8265 there's basically two options: It's a great movie and Nick makes it 10000 times better, or it's an awful movie and Nick cage makes it worse but is hilarious while doing it.
Looks like elvis is expressing his homeworlds culture.
Again
Just thought I’d say something about the COTW diamond crest that is your pfp. A man of culture I see
@@zepfan9993 just thought I would say something about the beautiful man as your icon, a fellow man of culture I see.
some A.I with internet access ah. I see you also know of Shrek Rick Harrison.
2:38 I must say, Lovecraft is actually very correct about this!
It is, in fact, very, very implausible that a being from outer space, with a completely different evolutionary path, adapted to a completely different atmosphere from ours, would look anything like something we have here on earth, much less like a human being.
If y'all are interested, I suggest You watch Trey the Explainer's video on scientifically plausible aliens.
He talks about the origin of the Gray Aliens, like how they were actually supposed to represent humans from the future and not aliens at all, and what an actual alien would look like.
And then shows examples of scientifically plausible aliens in mainstream culture, like the Xenomorphs, Lovecraftian monsters of course, and all the creatures seen in the Avatar movie (except for the Navi, obviously)
It's very interesting :)
(Sorry if my english is kinda wonky, my native language is Spanish)