July Movies - Week 3

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

Yup, HOT busy week after HOT BUSIER week... but I was able to squeeze in a few movies...

July 13 – Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
 
Have you ever seen Indecent Proposal? Well… it’s basically this movie but with less intentional comedy & more drama. Nic Cage & Sarah Jessica Parker are a young couple who go to Vegas to get married because… you know contrivance of Nic’s mom’s deathbed warning to never get married and whatever… but when they get there, within a few hours they fall pray to a professional gambler (definitely not the Mafia don) James Caan who’s wife bore a striking resemblance to SJP… and hijinx ensue when Nic needs to pay off a $65,000 debt by offering his wife as company for the weekend. Honestly though, this is more realistic than Indecent Proposal… even with the overflowing of Elvis impersonators of the Elvis impersonators convention in good ol’ 90s Las Vegas… but yeah, it’s a rough movie at times just for the contrivances…
 
Rating – ???/10 – I PAID $15 FOR THIS, so listen to the podcast so that you don’t have to… or maybe you decide to later on…
 
July 15 – Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
 
That’s right… it’s all the Nic Cage Vegas movies coming up… and this one was my LEAST favorite Nic Cage movie for a looooong time (until watching Amos & Andrew). It’s the story of a writer (Nic Cage) whose wife has left him… and he’s going DEEP into an alcoholic depression… and gets fired… so he decides to go to Las Vegas to drink himself to death… but along the way he meets a hooker with a heart of gold (Elizabeth Shue) who, for whatever reason, falls for him… and they just… kind of be miserable near each other for two hours of movie as hijinx ensue. Yes, I know THIS is somehow the movie that Nic Cage won an Academy Award for (AND SHUE WAS F**KING ROBBED!!!). You can say that it’s a deep, introspective look at broken people in horrible lives that they’ve chosen for themselves & the consequences of their actions… sure… but overall, the movie is just so… f**king unbelievable in many ways… and having lived through a few loved ones deal with alcoholism, this movie just ended up infuriating me when I originally watched it about 15 years ago (IN MY 20S!!!). Has it aged well?
 
Rating - ???/10 – Find out on Everything I Learned From Movies in August!!!
 
July 17 – Zandalee (1991)
 
Okay… if you’ve never seen this movie… it’s an erotic thriller set in New Orleans… where Southern gentleman Judge Reinhold has his beautiful wife (straight outta Red Shoe Diaries) but he’s losing his lust for life (and basically impotent) so she hooks up with hubby’s old buddy artist Nicolas Cage, who looks like Johnny Deep with a mullet and hijinx ensue. There’s also cameos from prisoner garbage man Steve Buscemi, Joe Pants in a dress, Marisa Tomei for a cup of coffee & a plot that makes negative sense… intrigued?
 
Rating – 9/10 – This movie is so crazy it makes me want to go back to New Orleans again very soon!!!

I'M LIKE A PRICKLY PEAR!!! Have a great day everybody!!! Watch Zandalee... lemme know what you think!

Steve