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Author Topic: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-06-2009 10:07 PM                     Every once and a while Nicolas Cage gets a script that he says yes to, that is actually a great choice. This is one of those movies. It really is amazing at how great of an actor Cage is, if he just showed some discretion when deciding what to make he could be huge. Werner Herzog brings a documentary style feel to this film about the murder of 5 Senegalese Immigrants in post Katrina New Orleans. The movie opens on Cage's character making a bet over a mans life, he ultimately save's the mans life. Not before screwing up his back in the process which leads him down a very dark path of addiction and bad choices. Very solid cast her playing the supporting characters to Cage's character. I can't say enough how good this movie is. If its any where near you please go see it. 4.5/5  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-06-2009 10:16 PM                     What relation does this movie have to the original Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel and directed by Abel Ferrara? Is this a sequel only in name or what? Pretty freaking strange. It seems like the marketing department needs a drop kick in their collective face for reusing a movie title from what seems like a totally unrelated film. It's like rap music that samples sounds from Van Halen albums. Lame. Hopefully only the name is lame. But someone needs a drop kick in the face for this nonsense.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-06-2009 10:35 PM                        It's neither a sequel nor remake. It's Werner Herzog, notorious but talented nutcase, taking the same idea and doing it his way. Herzog and Ferrara seem to be carrying out a pseudo feud over it.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-07-2009 04:44 PM                     Like Martin said, has nothing to do with the first one. Herzog wanted to just call it Port of Call - New Orleans but the studios put Bad Lieutenant on the front. Word out of the studio is they want to make it a "franchise" but not with Herzog involved.  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-08-2009 12:31 AM                     Kurt thanks for spoiling the whole movie in two lines! I am not quoting the lines in case someone is lucky enough to omiss  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-08-2009 06:09 PM                     Demetris I don't really think I spoiled anything Said incident is just a stepping stone for all the things that happen.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-05-2010 12:47 AM                    Does anyone know why this movie did not have a wide release? It was pretty good. It has a big name, Mendes co-stars. I was shocked to find out that it only made 1.5 mil in North America  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 11-05-2010 01:47 AM                     Movie Gross  |  IP: Logged

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