Nicolas Cage is badass, balding & cheesy in Drive Angry 3D trailer

I’m kind of overdosing on fashion at the moment, so I took a break to watch the new trailer for Nicolas Cage’s latest movie, Drive Angry 3D. Um… it’s no secret that Nick is hurting for money right now, and that he – much like John Malkovich – is basically saying “yes” to every script that gets sent his way. I get that. But I also get that Nick probably would have said “yes” to this junk even if he didn’t need the money, just because Nick has surprisingly horrible taste in scripts. This one looks absolutely hideous. It goes beyond violence porn. This is an orgy of dumb destruction just for the hell of it. And Nick is bringing down two solid character actors with him: William Fichtner and Billy Burke. Sigh… this sucks so hard, it’s almost funny:

Was Nicolas Cage’s turn as a homicidal, drug-addled, lizard-imagining crooked cop with a heart of gold in Bad Lieutenant just a touch too realistic for you? Well, here comes Drive Angry 3D, and what may be the batshit craziest Nicolas Cage character in a long, proud history of batsh-t crazy Nicolas Cage characters. Our hero plays a muscle-car enthusiast who has to escape hell (literally!) in order to save his infant granddaughter from a villainous cult, and the movie’s new trailer is just chock-full of explosions, creative murders, terrible-on-purpose one-liners, wobbly Matrix-like supernatural visual effects, and all other manners of WTF moments. Does it feel really contrived, like a couple of well-connected producers — after staying up all night drinking soju and watching Wild at Heart over and over again — decided they absolutely had to make a movie where Nicolas Cage pushes his nutso persona to its absolute breaking point, and then worked backward from there? Absolutely! But is that so wrong?

[From New York Magazine]

Seriously, who thinks of this sh-t? What is the pitch? “A man leaves hell to save his granddaughter only to be trailed by one of Satan’s minions, all whilst uttering cheese-tastic lines? Oh, Nick. How the not-so-mighty have fallen even further.

Cage at Comic-Con in July, promoting this film. Credit: WENN.

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