I love both American Psycho and this movie for different reasons. American Psycho is an intelligent, sarcastic social critique on 80s yuppie culture buoyed by great performances. Vampire's Kiss is a similarly-themed movie that is none of those things, but manages to be the funniest movie I've ever seen. Cage's performance is so hilarious that you can't help but watch.
@@MatthewC33199 Yeah lmao I love this film because it is the pinnacle of “we got American Psycho at home” It’s so satirical but at the same time so unique inside it’s own sub genre, American Psycho and Vampire’s Kiss operates at opposites sides of a spectrum, but I can’t really tell which spectrum it is.
Apparently Nic Cage was once interviewed about his overacting and what he said was basically, "movies are fiction, they're fake, why do we put so much effort and praise towards people acting 'realistically' in a work of fiction?" Whether that's true or not, I feel like it perfectly explains everything wrong (and right) with Nic Cage's entire career.
It's like when people say "Why this game doesn't have realistic graphics?". Bro relax, it's a videogame, if you want to Experience real life go outside
I mean its pretty clear that you dont have to be realistic when acting based on the fact that hes still so well known and still in movies. Maybe not as A-list as he once was, but he's made a career out of being a meme.
I’ve heard rumors that the actress who played Alva was genuinely terrified of Nicolas Cage on set. Can’t confirm but after seeing this movie, I believe it.
this is before nick cage was mega well known in hollywood so his overthetop acting style probably would freak other actors out at first cause they cant tell "is this dude crazy or is this just his acting style?"
The year before, Maria Conchita Alonso (Alva) had starred in Colours opposite the formidable Sean Penn, and was also in Predator 2 in 1990, so she seems to be able to hold her own. But this was Nic Cage in his full-on Method period. And let's face it, there's nothing worse than a psychotic boss - even one who brings you soup when you have a "bad cold"...
That is a popular story that has been going around. Supposedly the director was trying to curtail Nic, but Nic kept on adlibbing and the director just gave up and let him run with it. So Alva really had no idea what is going on. Supposedly a lot of her reactions are genuine.
Any other actor would've made the character just like any other forgettable character in a movie. Cage made the character ICONIC. THAT'S MASTERCLASS ACTING. Nicolas Cage is WITHOUT QUESTION one of the greatest method actors of ALL TIME.
He's the opposite of a method actor but I agree that he has a way of making his characters very memorable. I can't imagine any other performer being able to play Loew so perfectly. And to think that he did the film RIGHT AFTER he did Moonstruck, too!
>Any other actor would've made this character just like anh other forgettable character in a movie *Looks at Christian Bale's acting as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho* Me : "Are you sure about that?" Don't get me wrong, I love this movie just because it's Nic Cage and I sometimes need to have a good laugh. But what I'm saying is you can achieve legendary meme status even with good acting like Christian Bale did
An unbelievably entertaining movie. This movie is mesmerizing and has no business being as fun to watch as it is. It’s trash. It’s potato chips and pizza. It’s everything you know is wrong but you don’t care because it doesn’t -feel- wrong. You’re not going in expecting an Oscar winning performance but you could argue the energy he puts into his performance is worthy of an award. Great breakdown.
HELP MY!!! My muscles are too big! I am a big tall man and my muscles are even BIGGER! I use them to get views but they HURT so much!!! Because they are heavy. Do you have any advice, dear opt
I give it a 5/10 because it is kinda solid as far as the insanity goes but it is rather exaggerated, but that's how fiction usually works. Anyways I just like Nic Cage's character and his arc.
Well, this movie should be about a case of rabies. You know, the hallucinations, the bat in his room and the photophobia. But no, the lack of "love" and other "mysterious things" had made him insane.
I think the real mistake of this movie wasn't Cage's acting, it was someone deciding the movie where someone thinks they are turning into a vampire so they buy $1 fake vampire teeth should be written as a serious movie instead of a comedy
They probably thought it was gonna flop and were too entertained with Nick's suggestions that they just decided that his vision was better than anything that they could think up.
its mostly his unique acting style but when he gets serious with a serious director he can make even his goffy acting very complelling MANDY is a great example of that.
You have no idea how many times I've seen those Nic Cage memes and wondered what kind of crazy movie they were from. Surprise surprise, the actual movie is more insane than anything I could have thought of.
Fun fact: That dinosaur skull he bought (actually Tarbosaurus bataar, a close cousin of T. rex), had been smuggled out of Mongolia. Nic Cage returned the skull to its country of origin upon learning of its illegality, but the whole situation is often used as a case example of what goes on in the palaeontological black market. A lot of news sources reported the skull as belonging to "Tyrannosaurus bataar", probably because "Tyrannosaurus" gets more clicks than "Tarbosaurus", but that use of the name is outdated and, in my esteem, scientifically misleading.
It is misleading. Also, Tarbosaurus while being a tyrannosaurid still had lots of differences between him and T. rex. The skull may almost look the same at the start, but if you look at it for some time you will see that T.rexes one is more robust/ feels a lot more heavy and big
A lot of people here say that this movie reminds them of American Psycho. That's because Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman was partially modeled after the character of Peter Loew.
Nick's ridiculousness is what makes a lot of movies he's in so great. I would not have enjoyed the movie "Mom and Dad" without him in it. He's absolutely bonkers as an actor and I live for it!
I'd check out Valley Girl. Nic Cage was younger in that movie and was being pushed as a new "teen heartthrob" kinda actor at the time. It's so surreal seeing it.
Nic Cage is a gifted actor, cause he'll make a fool of himself and keep it together in the scene - it's only when you hear him talking about the craft of acting that you realise he's impulsive, not insane!
Some of his behaviour in the club is obviously inspired by the style of the vampire in Nosferatu. 13:38 The way he stands tall with his arms down at their side. 13:41 When he turns around he even holds his arm as if he is a clawed/long-fingered being. Very cool actually.
I always assumed that he didn't just go crazy from isolation: the bat that bit him early in the movie gave him rabies, which slowly caused him to lose his sanity.
He deliberately made a career were he's unique. And he is very unique. He decided to make a acting style only he has. He realized that most actors have a unique style and it makes you stand out.
I was always told this was a movie about Nic Cage turning into a vampire. I was never told it was about Nic Cage going completely insane and thinking he is a vampire. It is a meme movie, but secretly brilliant and well written.
It's a deliberate horror comedy, and anybody who thinks that it's an unintentionally funny serious horror film is actually really fucking stupid. This whole video is the worst case of bad faith criticism I've seen outside of Cinema Sins. At this point I could get a more nuanced take from a kindergartner. Absolutely embarrassing.
@@hermionestranger4964 If it helps any, I dont think he's being harsh if you listen close. This guy is like a Nick Cage fanclub owner and we love him for it.
I watched some movie essays about him and some critics say that Nic loves to experiment with his acting method. So, we can't really say what's his acting method is, is it realism or what? Instead, some says his method is Nicolism, a method he made on his own experiments.
There was this swedish actor named Per Oscarsson who delivered lines like a madman. He was an amazing and beloved actor but by god it is fun to hear him act. Kinda the swedish Nic cage
I seriously hope some random lady or dude out there is like "i swear that dude with a pigeon in his suit jacket looked EXACTLY like Nicholas cage with cheap ass vampire teeth in...." and never came around this film and has no closure or understanding of what they stumbled upon.
I feel like this movie is a slight, poorly executed metaphor for rabies in a person. The bat? Bats are the number one cause of rabies infections in people. Hallucinations? One of the first symptoms of rabies. Manic behavior? Another symptom of rabies. Nick Cage’s character was just a guy who caught rabies by a bat.
yeah... when I saw the ad, i said where has this been all the times i was looking for something interesting to watch... i click the link, not in your region..
Nics apparently pretty generous too. He supports 14 different causes and donates to 6 different charities. There was a con he was at once and a lady told him she was his biggest fan and owned all his movies and missed her flight just to see him and he offered to buy her a plane ticket because of how touched he was. Genuinely love this guy.
Ignore it man, the biological drive to mate is a strong one and your brain will punish you if you don't keep on top of it. Relationships are overrated and the psychological damage a bad one can do is well worth giving a swift fucking miss
The thing with all the critics is that they saw this before Nic Cage was a meme. Like they’re definitely fair criticisms. Like, imagine a critic going to The Room for the first time- they aren’t going to look at it from a cult perspective, they’re going to look from a narrative and technical perspective
I was really hoping this would shine a light on an underappreciated gem. There's so much genuine passion and love behind this movie. Peter is a genuinely scary villain, obviously he's an idiot and completely incompetent but it's the power he's managed to obtain and how he wields it combined with the spiral he's falling down mentally. The darker moments are all the more effective because of the goofiness we see everywhere else. His accent is faked in the context of the movie. Peter is so insecure and self conscious that he fakes a fancy accent to sound more distinguished, and you can hear when it's stronger or weaker depending on who he's talking to, who he's trying to impress. I'm not gonna act like it's a masterpiece or anything but too many people overlook the love and care that went into every inch of this production.
Absolutely. It's a Dracula story as told from the deranged perspective of the Renfield character-that's such a brilliant and unique idea and nobody ever talks about it other than "haha funny Nic Cage U DON'T SAY face lulul".
@@DistractedGlobeGuy exactly. Another thing that feels super obvious but I'm surprised is still memed really hard is how he behaves in the nightclub scene. It's very obviously a spoof on Nosferatu and Nick said so himself. The raised shoulders, wide eyes, stiff movement, hands directly at the hips and a weird creepy glide. He's not just being weird for the sake of being weird, it's a very deliberate jab at a famous depiction of a vampire.
It shoul be known that Christian Bale based his perfomance on this movie when he played Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho movie. It makes sense when you realize how similar the movies are.
There are literally trillions upon trillions of cockroaches in the world. What kind of fucked up individual would get mad about a cockroach dying? We couldn't kill all the cockroaches on the planet even if we wanted to. We could LITERALLY nuke the entire planet, and cockroaches would STILL survive.
Okay dud anyone else hear the way buddy was like "oh the birds were drugged like what you thought I was a good enough actor to catch a bird" idk why but I died laughing lol
I rewatched it with my Dad yesterday and we drank a little bit of vodka before and I hadn't laugh this hard in a long time. This is the kind of movie to just have a drink and enjoy Nick Cage being Nick Cage.
I thought this would be a supernatural romance movie, not a sad movie ;-; He got rabies and slowly starts going insane, it’s a tale of the decay of a mind from a fatal disease. Also vampires
It's a horror comedy, I don't know why people are going ape-shit over it like it's an unintentionally bad film or a vampire romance or something. Like jfc, do you guys also watch "Happiness" because you think it's going to be about a meet-cute, or "Funny Games" because you think it's going to be about a family get-away?
In his GQ career retrospective he called this role his science lab for all his future roles. I can see why, I don't think he's ever had more energy in any role since. Legit one of my favorite performances in a movie, any genre any era
To be honest I could totally see this movie being remade to the point to where it becomes an actual horror Thriller. Where it has its plot twists and psychological moments where you are a bit confused. But I could totally see this being remade I would actually go see it too
Fun fact the way Peter treats his secretary is pretty much how almost every lowly grunt worker is treated like on a daily basis by both customers and their boss
When he moved into that haunted house, the ghosts left. When they tried to read his mind to see what scares him the most, they got one glimpse of the depths of his innermost self, and got scared sheetless. They were happy they were already dead, because that would have killed them.
In The Crow, the leading actor Brandon Lee, was shot with blanks and died. And he was shot from atleast 1 meter away in the chest. I think theres an interview with the actor who shot him talking about how it affected him and how sorry he was
Not gonna lie, it was you mentioning Vampire’s Kiss being on Shutter that finally gets me to check it out. Hear that, Shutter? Dozens of TH-camrs you sponsor have promoted you to me, but Elvis is who *sold* you to me!
I wouldn't say "complicated", it's pretty clear that with his performance he's just presenting a character that goes nuts over the course of the film and not much else, but it definetly is great and clearly taken out of context by some reviewers
Wow, Nick Cage talking about his thought process during these scenes makes me take him much more seriously. Like I'm not saying they were GOOD decisions, but at least it was conscious effort.
That music that was playing when Cage was trying to kick open the cellar was the theme for the library from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Nice touch.
This movie not just a treasure, it's also incredibly seriously self aware 🤣🤣 The dvd commentary is just priceless in my opinion. I have it in my collection just for the commentary alone 😂
![ILLSLICK - KILLSHOT REMIX [FULL VERSION]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RIK8RrqIAzE/mqdefault.jpg)
This is like American Psycho if everyone was in even more coke
Yes.
I love both American Psycho and this movie for different reasons. American Psycho is an intelligent, sarcastic social critique on 80s yuppie culture buoyed by great performances. Vampire's Kiss is a similarly-themed movie that is none of those things, but manages to be the funniest movie I've ever seen. Cage's performance is so hilarious that you can't help but watch.
@@MatthewC33199 Yeah lmao I love this film because it is the pinnacle of “we got American Psycho at home”
It’s so satirical but at the same time so unique inside it’s own sub genre, American Psycho and Vampire’s Kiss operates at opposites sides of a spectrum, but I can’t really tell which spectrum it is.
YES
Apparently Christian Bale said he took inspiration from Cage’s performance in this movie for his character in American Psycho.
This movie was both a curse and a virtue to Nic Cage's career.
Can't agree more
Ever since he started fighting his bankruptcy, his portfolio turned into one of the most amusing ones in hollywood
Apparently Nic Cage was once interviewed about his overacting and what he said was basically, "movies are fiction, they're fake, why do we put so much effort and praise towards people acting 'realistically' in a work of fiction?"
Whether that's true or not, I feel like it perfectly explains everything wrong (and right) with Nic Cage's entire career.
Love that
He do got a point
Film is a medium of art, why not just go all the way 😂
I mean he is not wrong,not the greatest actor but I like that response
It's like when people say "Why this game doesn't have realistic graphics?". Bro relax, it's a videogame, if you want to Experience real life go outside
I mean its pretty clear that you dont have to be realistic when acting based on the fact that hes still so well known and still in movies. Maybe not as A-list as he once was, but he's made a career out of being a meme.
I’ve heard rumors that the actress who played Alva was genuinely terrified of Nicolas Cage on set. Can’t confirm but after seeing this movie, I believe it.
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY YET SAD AT THE SAME 😭😂
I would be too 💀
this is before nick cage was mega well known in hollywood so his overthetop acting style probably would freak other actors out at first cause they cant tell "is this dude crazy or is this just his acting style?"
The year before, Maria Conchita Alonso (Alva) had starred in Colours opposite the formidable Sean Penn, and was also in Predator 2 in 1990, so she seems to be able to hold her own. But this was Nic Cage in his full-on Method period. And let's face it, there's nothing worse than a psychotic boss - even one who brings you soup when you have a "bad cold"...
That is a popular story that has been going around. Supposedly the director was trying to curtail Nic, but Nic kept on adlibbing and the director just gave up and let him run with it. So Alva really had no idea what is going on. Supposedly a lot of her reactions are genuine.
Any other actor would've made the character just like any other forgettable character in a movie. Cage made the character ICONIC. THAT'S MASTERCLASS ACTING. Nicolas Cage is WITHOUT QUESTION one of the greatest method actors of ALL TIME.
“Method actor”
That is not nic cage
He's the opposite of a method actor but I agree that he has a way of making his characters very memorable. I can't imagine any other performer being able to play Loew so perfectly. And to think that he did the film RIGHT AFTER he did Moonstruck, too!
@@hermionestranger4964 “CHRISSY BRING ME THE BIG KNIFE!”
He's not method actor. He overact roles on purpose to highlight it's fiction.
>Any other actor would've made this character just like anh other forgettable character in a movie
*Looks at Christian Bale's acting as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho*
Me : "Are you sure about that?"
Don't get me wrong, I love this movie just because it's Nic Cage and I sometimes need to have a good laugh. But what I'm saying is you can achieve legendary meme status even with good acting like Christian Bale did
Nick Cage is the oldest looking 24 year old I've ever seen, he looks 40. Fortunately enough he still looks 40 now.
Turns out he's actually a vampire.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
40 is just that age that hits different for each person
He's a vampire, He's a vampire, He's a vampire, He'a a vampire!
This gives hope to many men that looks 40 in their 20s
Check out his both 40 and 18 performance in Peggy Sue Got Married when he was like 22. He's completely unbelievable as the teen.
An unbelievably entertaining movie. This movie is mesmerizing and has no business being as fun to watch as it is. It’s trash. It’s potato chips and pizza. It’s everything you know is wrong but you don’t care because it doesn’t -feel- wrong.
You’re not going in expecting an Oscar winning performance but you could argue the energy he puts into his performance is worthy of an award.
Great breakdown.
HELP MY!!! My muscles are too big! I am a big tall man and my muscles are even BIGGER! I use them to get views but they HURT so much!!! Because they are heavy. Do you have any advice, dear opt
@@AxxLAfriku ah the self promoter again
And if theyre too heavy, go to the hospital and get it checked up lol.
I give it a 5/10 because it is kinda solid as far as the insanity goes but it is rather exaggerated, but that's how fiction usually works. Anyways I just like Nic Cage's character and his arc.
AxxL ah yes, the annoying guy in every comments section. The Impostor from Amogus.
This movie can be summed up like
“Once a upon a time, there was a guy who went insane....then died the end”
Basically every Shakespearean play in existence
I'll riot if this isn't in Cage's tombstone when he passes, which better not be for a long ass time.
Or did he? Vampire's Kiss Part 2!
Saying that he 'went' insane implies that he was sane to begin with.
Well, this movie should be about a case of rabies. You know, the hallucinations, the bat in his room and the photophobia. But no, the lack of "love" and other "mysterious things" had made him insane.
The cat part is sweet. He seriously took his cat on location with him. And practised his moves in front of them.
You just can't hate Nicolas Cage, he has this special something that makes you want to watch his movies.
Vampiric aura
Trust me, I can, i cannot stand his acting and it is beyond me that any director would want him in any of their movies
@@pollitorsiones lame
@@pollitorsiones ok, I respect your opinion, but “CHRISSY BRING ME THE BIG KNIFE!” Is pretty good.
His energy and power are probably my favorite thing about Nicolas Cage... he makes the characters so CRAZY, and I love it!!!
Fun fact: they just filmed a regular day in the life of Nick Cage.
bruh
Bruh
Good work at calling him a sex offender
He just progressively gets more and more insane until he dies and then gets reborn the next day as sane as Nicholas cage can be
Best fan theory I've heard all week.
"Have you seen Vampire's Kiss? It's insane."
"Oh, so it's good?"
"No, I mean a crazy person wrote it."
And an even crazier person acted it
Goated comment 🤣
I think the real mistake of this movie wasn't Cage's acting, it was someone deciding the movie where someone thinks they are turning into a vampire so they buy $1 fake vampire teeth should be written as a serious movie instead of a comedy
They probably thought it was gonna flop and were too entertained with Nick's suggestions that they just decided that his vision was better than anything that they could think up.
Idk a dude going insane and making up this vampire delusion from work stress sounds like a nice idea
It isnt a comedy??
Its literally a Horror/Comedy though lmao.
@@reallyriley123 I think that's only because of Cage and probably put as a tag after the fact. Other than Cage it tries to be serious
I'll never understand if directors actually ask Nicolas Cage to act like that or if he's became so iconic that no-one can tell him how to act on set.
I think its somewhere in the middle. If you hire cage you are expecting this
its mostly his unique acting style but when he gets serious with a serious director he can make even his goffy acting very complelling MANDY is a great example of that.
You have no idea how many times I've seen those Nic Cage memes and wondered what kind of crazy movie they were from. Surprise surprise, the actual movie is more insane than anything I could have thought of.
I mean it is Nic Cage. It's go crazy or go home.
Fun fact: That dinosaur skull he bought (actually Tarbosaurus bataar, a close cousin of T. rex), had been smuggled out of Mongolia. Nic Cage returned the skull to its country of origin upon learning of its illegality, but the whole situation is often used as a case example of what goes on in the palaeontological black market.
A lot of news sources reported the skull as belonging to "Tyrannosaurus bataar", probably because "Tyrannosaurus" gets more clicks than "Tarbosaurus", but that use of the name is outdated and, in my esteem, scientifically misleading.
It is misleading. Also, Tarbosaurus while being a tyrannosaurid still had lots of differences between him and T. rex. The skull may almost look the same at the start, but if you look at it for some time you will see that T.rexes one is more robust/ feels a lot more heavy and big
whoa interesting!
@@jan7996 yeah T. rex really is a unique animal, even among its fellow tyrannosaurids.
based cage
NERD
Nic legitimately ate two cockroaches just for this role. Even if you don't like this classic, you gotta give Nic the respect he deserves.
Damn...
yes
The chosen
@@Aniware okay old fashion
Talk about commitment
Bruh, how did the incomparable & immensely talented Mr.Cage keep a straight face & not bust out laughing during the making of This film?
And eat a cockroach without flinching
I love how he says soup outside of her window while waving the soup package
Cage jumping on the desk and screaming "There you are!" looks like something straight out of JOJO
I doubt that there's a movie that turned him into a meme considering that he was born as one
U
The fact that his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola is still shocking to me. And that his aunt to Adrian from the Rocky series.
Say hi to mom for me
True very true
Nicolas Cage is a Meme that god placed in this world
A lot of people here say that this movie reminds them of American Psycho. That's because Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman was partially modeled after the character of Peter Loew.
Mostly off of Tom cruise though, I believe. I feel like Patrick Bateman is just a spiritual successor of every nick cage character tbh tho
@@harrisonw6065 No. Bateman was explicitly inspired by Loew.
To be Fair both are stories about Yuppies Going Insane and Maybe not everything we are seeing is happening
WHAT?!.
"Nic Cage inspired American Psycho" is now my favorite fun fact
Nick's ridiculousness is what makes a lot of movies he's in so great. I would not have enjoyed the movie "Mom and Dad" without him in it. He's absolutely bonkers as an actor and I live for it!
It really SAWS ALL.
@@mr.dr.kaiser4912
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂😂
He snaps off in the Las Vegas movie with Elijah Wood that's like a Dollar Store Training Day. 👮🏼♂️
Christian Bale said that he got inspiration from this film when acting on American Psycho.
proves my theory right, that this movie inspired American Psycho.
He doesn't look much different now. He looked in his 20s to 30s, even 40s, when he was in his 20s and he still looks 40.
I love nic cage but he somehow managed to age really poorly and great at the same time
@@lildominator2953 I think it's because he had a older face when he was young. But he never aged much after.
I had to google young Nicolas cage
Just to see if he’s ever looked young
I'd check out Valley Girl. Nic Cage was younger in that movie and was being pushed as a new "teen heartthrob" kinda actor at the time. It's so surreal seeing it.
Nic Cage is a gifted actor, cause he'll make a fool of himself and keep it together in the scene - it's only when you hear him talking about the craft of acting that you realise he's impulsive, not insane!
Nick Cage is a gift. Hollywood needs more actors who’ll go the extra mile lmao
This how I imagine if Nic Cage was casted to player Joker instead of Joaquin
Kill me im a joker kill me im a joker
He should have
He should play the Joker! He's perfect for him! He'd probabely make him likeable but terrifying.
a joker movie where nic cage is just playing himself with a joker make up on sounds hilarious
Some of his behaviour in the club is obviously inspired by the style of the vampire in Nosferatu.
13:38 The way he stands tall with his arms down at their side.
13:41 When he turns around he even holds his arm as if he is a clawed/long-fingered being.
Very cool actually.
69th like nice
I always assumed that he didn't just go crazy from isolation: the bat that bit him early in the movie gave him rabies, which slowly caused him to lose his sanity.
Nick cage is seriously his own thing in Hollywood. Theres no one like him out there. Im glad to be alive for this guy right now 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He deliberately made a career were he's unique. And he is very unique. He decided to make a acting style only he has. He realized that most actors have a unique style and it makes you stand out.
I salute you Nic Cage
I was always told this was a movie about Nic Cage turning into a vampire. I was never told it was about Nic Cage going completely insane and thinking he is a vampire. It is a meme movie, but secretly brilliant and well written.
I’M A VAMPIRE I’M A VAMPIRE.
It's a deliberate horror comedy, and anybody who thinks that it's an unintentionally funny serious horror film is actually really fucking stupid. This whole video is the worst case of bad faith criticism I've seen outside of Cinema Sins. At this point I could get a more nuanced take from a kindergartner. Absolutely embarrassing.
@@hermionestranger4964 If it helps any, I dont think he's being harsh if you listen close. This guy is like a Nick Cage fanclub owner and we love him for it.
Honestly it seems like his overacting is part of his character in the movie, I actually think its supposed to be hilarious
No shit
Yeah, someone who is losing his mind starts to act eccentric. I thing his acting his perfect for the character he is playing.
I watched some movie essays about him and some critics say that Nic loves to experiment with his acting method. So, we can't really say what's his acting method is, is it realism or what? Instead, some says his method is Nicolism, a method he made on his own experiments.
Yeh for real
He is actually a very good actor
Is it good?
It's incredibly entertaining.
But is it good?
It is incredibly entertaining.
There was this swedish actor named Per Oscarsson who delivered lines like a madman. He was an amazing and beloved actor but by god it is fun to hear him act. Kinda the swedish Nic cage
"To bully the Nicholas Cage of the present, we first must jump back and bully the Nicholas Cage of the past"
One cannot bully Nic Cage
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wait. He was in his 20's?
Dude looks like he has been 40 for 40 years
He looks forever in his 40s
He looks like he did in Willy Wonderland
He's the vampire
How dare you
@@marioquinoz7199 pls 4giv
Well he is a vampire
I seriously hope some random lady or dude out there is like "i swear that dude with a pigeon in his suit jacket looked EXACTLY like Nicholas cage with cheap ass vampire teeth in...." and never came around this film and has no closure or understanding of what they stumbled upon.
Everybody who is around when movie is made is paid extra or other person working on a movie
Nicholas cage: buys random, expensive shit.
Ah, so THAT'S why he went bankrupt...
His whole life is a meme 😂😂😭
That Superman 1 purchase makes him look like a genius right about now
He can sell that.
Honestly every nic cage movie is a meme
Nah lord of war wasnt meme
Neither was Ghost Rider
If ANYONE comes for “Wild at Heart” ... run and hide.
Hahaha ghost rider was most definitely a meme
Into the Spider-verse was a meme?
I feel like this movie is a slight, poorly executed metaphor for rabies in a person.
The bat? Bats are the number one cause of rabies infections in people. Hallucinations? One of the first symptoms of rabies. Manic behavior? Another symptom of rabies.
Nick Cage’s character was just a guy who caught rabies by a bat.
Actually he’s just your average Florida tweaker
@Ethan McLaughlin
And cut....
Yea that seems more realistic.
but does it cause nick cage syndrome? where everything you do is overacted?
especially the photophobia
This is genuinely a really cool movie concept, a crazy man convincing himself he's turning into a vampire
This is unironically my favorite nic cage movie
The fact that other people have never heard of it makes me like it even more
Me: "Oooooh a horror streaming service"
Shudder: "Not for your region it's not!"
yeah... when I saw the ad, i said where has this been all the times i was looking for something interesting to watch... i click the link, not in your region..
Nic Cage is the literal living definition of chaos.
I love that for him.
Nics apparently pretty generous too. He supports 14 different causes and donates to 6 different charities. There was a con he was at once and a lady told him she was his biggest fan and owned all his movies and missed her flight just to see him and he offered to buy her a plane ticket because of how touched he was.
Genuinely love this guy.
Vampire’s Kiss walk, so American Psycho and Joker could run.
Facts, this movie reminds me of American psycho so much
Agreed never forget.
Elvis: Never experiencing love takes its toll
Me, a 31 year old who's never been on one date: oh shit...
Yep, you and all the decent catholic priests (i.e. those who don't diddle kiddies) will pretty soon rise up and murder everyone.
You cant be serious?
bro...same
Ignore it man, the biological drive to mate is a strong one and your brain will punish you if you don't keep on top of it. Relationships are overrated and the psychological damage a bad one can do is well worth giving a swift fucking miss
Aromatics there like?? Though maybe if someone reeeally craves love
Peta: You ate a roach!!!!
Director: Those birds are drugged.
LMFAO
Me: Reads title
Also Me: *You Don't Say?*
Haha see what you did there
This is Nicolas Cage's favorite movie he ever made. He calls it "his laboratory".
No it's not.
I love the scene where he's just like "Soup"
I love that this came full circle and he became, not just a vampire, but THE vampire in 2023
When he put in the fake vampire teeth I immediately got an ad for Invisalign
Lmao
The thing with all the critics is that they saw this before Nic Cage was a meme. Like they’re definitely fair criticisms. Like, imagine a critic going to The Room for the first time- they aren’t going to look at it from a cult perspective, they’re going to look from a narrative and technical perspective
I was really hoping this would shine a light on an underappreciated gem. There's so much genuine passion and love behind this movie. Peter is a genuinely scary villain, obviously he's an idiot and completely incompetent but it's the power he's managed to obtain and how he wields it combined with the spiral he's falling down mentally. The darker moments are all the more effective because of the goofiness we see everywhere else.
His accent is faked in the context of the movie. Peter is so insecure and self conscious that he fakes a fancy accent to sound more distinguished, and you can hear when it's stronger or weaker depending on who he's talking to, who he's trying to impress.
I'm not gonna act like it's a masterpiece or anything but too many people overlook the love and care that went into every inch of this production.
Absolutely. It's a Dracula story as told from the deranged perspective of the Renfield character-that's such a brilliant and unique idea and nobody ever talks about it other than "haha funny Nic Cage U DON'T SAY face lulul".
@@DistractedGlobeGuy exactly. Another thing that feels super obvious but I'm surprised is still memed really hard is how he behaves in the nightclub scene. It's very obviously a spoof on Nosferatu and Nick said so himself. The raised shoulders, wide eyes, stiff movement, hands directly at the hips and a weird creepy glide. He's not just being weird for the sake of being weird, it's a very deliberate jab at a famous depiction of a vampire.
@@sonicbelmont300 Shit, didn't he watch _Nosferatu_ like ONE SCENE before that?
@@DistractedGlobeGuy I'm almost certain. It's been a couple months since I've last rewatched but I'd be willing to put money on it that they did.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy he did, in his apartment with “Rachel”
this movie from Alva's perspective is terrifying. genuinely scary stuff
It shoul be known that Christian Bale based his perfomance on this movie when he played Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho movie. It makes sense when you realize how similar the movies are.
Apparently he’s going to play Joe Exotic in a fictional version of Tiger King. I don’t know about anyone else but I think that is fantastic casting!
It’s going to be amazing
so this is kinda like a vampire version of American Psycho lmao nice
Exactly what I thought
But is way too much on crack
Looks like the Joaquin Phoenix's Joker was based off this character lol
Cage would make a great joker
@@Raccon_Detective. I think he'd be more like a Caesar Romero kind of Joker.
Nope joker inspired by Martin Scorsese's Taxi driver and the King of the comedy..
@@whysoserious652 he was joking bro. everyone knows it was based off taxi driver/king of comedy.
Gawd I love that lunatic.... he earned every gd vial of anti-venom, albino cobra, island, castle, croc and car that he owns. 🤣❤️
I've seen this movie many times, but mow I need the DVD with the commentary. The clips you played make it sound awesome.
this is like if the wolf of wallstreet was about a werewolf
THIS IS SUCH AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION
Its hilarious how animal activist freaked out over a roach but not the drugged pigeons? lol
There are literally trillions upon trillions of cockroaches in the world. What kind of fucked up individual would get mad about a cockroach dying? We couldn't kill all the cockroaches on the planet even if we wanted to. We could LITERALLY nuke the entire planet, and cockroaches would STILL survive.
@@DeadlyDanDaMan Ok I have a theory...
Cockroaches are little Jesuses in disguise.
@@DeadlyDanDaMan your logic is kinda stupid
Probably because the Cockroaches ended up dead and the Pigieons did not
@@lunaris5054 but.. there cockroaches. They suck.
This movie is like a tales from the crypt episode with some extra nick cage madness
Okay dud anyone else hear the way buddy was like "oh the birds were drugged like what you thought I was a good enough actor to catch a bird" idk why but I died laughing lol
Holy shit.. I didn't know Nick Cage acted as himself this early on his career..
Dude I saw this movie in the 90's and it turned me into a Nic Cage fan for LIFE!!
Same!! I'd already seen Valley Girl & Peggy Sue Got Married, & knew I already loved him- but renting this just cemented that Nic Cage is everything.
I can't wait to watch this movie.
Big Nic needs to have a cameraman filming his every move.
We must not waste his raw talent, there's only so many more movies he can make 😭
Nic cage: screams at cat.
Cat: what the...
I like to think the cat wasn't phased bc it had already seen EVERYTHING living as Nicolas Cage's cat.
@@julesrules7297 yea you are right
13:21 I love using the couch as a coffin... that's brilliant.
I rewatched it with my Dad yesterday and we drank a little bit of vodka before and I hadn't laugh this hard in a long time. This is the kind of movie to just have a drink and enjoy Nick Cage being Nick Cage.
I thought this would be a supernatural romance movie, not a sad movie ;-;
He got rabies and slowly starts going insane, it’s a tale of the decay of a mind from a fatal disease. Also vampires
It's a horror comedy, I don't know why people are going ape-shit over it like it's an unintentionally bad film or a vampire romance or something.
Like jfc, do you guys also watch "Happiness" because you think it's going to be about a meet-cute, or "Funny Games" because you think it's going to be about a family get-away?
He was probably crazy from the beginning, the bat just probably made it worse
@@hermionestranger4964
I can’t tell if you’re insulting me, but if you are, I probably deserve it.
rabies doesn't cause delusions or psychosis
no he doesnt get rabies he just goes more and more off the rails nuts.
In my financial analysis class, the teacher just talked about nick cage less than a week ago as an example of how not to use your money
Just what I needed.
I love that song.
In his GQ career retrospective he called this role his science lab for all his future roles. I can see why, I don't think he's ever had more energy in any role since. Legit one of my favorite performances in a movie, any genre any era
With the commentary it just seemed like he was having fun with it.
Ur timing of releasing this and me turning off my pc was flawless
"The Movie That Turned Nic Cage Into A Meme."
Did you mean? *Every Nic Cage role in a movie?*
I don't think Nic Cage is this insane in "Windtalker." His acting as a WW2 soldier was fine, without his usual goofiness.
he has the level of empathy most people in his position have so he played the character very well.
I love how in the beginning of the movie Nicolas Cage is talking about the Fantastic Four
Every time elvis uploads im lighting a blunt its a tradition now lmao😂😂
To be honest I could totally see this movie being remade to the point to where it becomes an actual horror Thriller. Where it has its plot twists and psychological moments where you are a bit confused. But I could totally see this being remade I would actually go see it too
Fun fact the way Peter treats his secretary is pretty much how almost every lowly grunt worker is treated like on a daily basis by both customers and their boss
Can confirm.
This cured my nic cage anxiety depression.
NCAD disorder
When he moved into that haunted house, the ghosts left. When they tried to read his mind to see what scares him the most, they got one glimpse of the depths of his innermost self, and got scared sheetless. They were happy they were already dead, because that would have killed them.
Amazing. He was equally eccentric in life with his purchases, as in movies
Ngl, I wouldn’t mind being kissed by a vampire if it were Nic Cage.
I mean a light bite doesn't sound uhhhhh so bad...
@@espurrthestupididiot2405 bruh
In The Crow, the leading actor Brandon Lee, was shot with blanks and died. And he was shot from atleast 1 meter away in the chest. I think theres an interview with the actor who shot him talking about how it affected him and how sorry he was
If I remember right, the gun was supposed to have a blank but it had real bullets. I loved The Crow, still one of my favorite movies.
Not gonna lie, it was you mentioning Vampire’s Kiss being on Shutter that finally gets me to check it out. Hear that, Shutter? Dozens of TH-camrs you sponsor have promoted you to me, but Elvis is who *sold* you to me!
Same!! Finally a streaming platform for Horror!!
I just love the part where he stands in front of the lady’s window and goes SOUP! 😂😂
Okay, the only ad I'm happy to watch cause Shudder is a way underrated streaming service. I personally found this out a couple months ago
I think Cage is an awesome actor who had the misfortune of having to deal with too many „normal“ roles
the can of raid joke had me in tears
VAMPIRE'S KISS IS A MASTERPIECE NIC CAGE PERFORMANCE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOST COMPLICATED EVER.
I wouldn't say "complicated", it's pretty clear that with his performance he's just presenting a character that goes nuts over the course of the film and not much else, but it definetly is great and clearly taken out of context by some reviewers
@@jackmesrel4933 idk if this guy is serious or not, but it seems like they're sarcastic with the full caps
Wow, Nick Cage talking about his thought process during these scenes makes me take him much more seriously. Like I'm not saying they were GOOD decisions, but at least it was conscious effort.
That music that was playing when Cage was trying to kick open the cellar was the theme for the library from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Nice touch.
This movie not just a treasure, it's also incredibly seriously self aware 🤣🤣
The dvd commentary is just priceless in my opinion. I have it in my collection just for the commentary alone 😂