The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

[Dr. Whom]

I just watched it, with a broad grin on my face all the time. Silly, but fun.

[Rev. Powell]

It's a lot of fun. I think the ending is meant to be a nod to ADAPTATION, but that interpretation leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

[Dr. Whom]

It's a lot of fun. I think the ending is meant to be a nod to ADAPTATION, but that interpretation leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

Almost any aspect of the movie raises a lot of unanswered questions once you start thinking about it.

[bob]

this was everything I was hoping for and more

[indianasmith]

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it seemed to me that Nick Cage was having fun the whole time.

[M.10rda]

I appreciate seeing such generally positive response to this film, which I watched a couple weeks ago and enjoyed a good deal. I got excited by the trailer in the beginning of the year and have been baffled recently about how the film seems to have entirely disappeared from the public consciousness. Apparently it didn't even break even.

I'm not exactly surprised that Cage only has a $30 million theatrical box office in him at this point, particularly during these fraught times for theaters, but what I don't get is how I haven't seen nor heard anyone discussing UWOMT in the past 8+ months - this thread notwithstanding. Cage still has a sizeable enough cult following which has kept MANDY, PIG, and even MOM AND DAD alive in online conversation, but this, possibly the most Cagey of all Cage movies, just seems to have quickly faded into the ether. Any ideas about why it failed to make more of an impression on what I presume was its target audience.......?

[ralfy]

The title reminds me of Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being. There was a film version of that, too.

[ER]

The title reminds me of Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being. There was a film version of that, too.

I saw that in a 300-level Film and Philosophy course, and it was a peculiar feeling watching some of those scenes at a desk, in a classroom. 

[ralfy]

I haven't seen the movie, but I think the first part of the novel refers to Nietzche's eternal recurrence of the same.

[M.10rda]

For what it's worth, I liked UNBEARABLE WEIGHT more than Kaufman's UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS. 

[ralfy]

Andy Kaufman? Naishe.

[Rev. Powell]

Andy Kaufman? Naishe.

Movie was directed by Philip Kaufman.

Don't look up "Naishe" on Urban Dictionary. 

[bob]

I appreciate seeing such generally positive response to this film, which I watched a couple weeks ago and enjoyed a good deal. I got excited by the trailer in the beginning of the year and have been baffled recently about how the film seems to have entirely disappeared from the public consciousness. Apparently it didn't even break even.

I'm not exactly surprised that Cage only has a $30 million theatrical box office in him at this point, particularly during these fraught times for theaters, but what I don't get is how I haven't seen nor heard anyone discussing UWOMT in the past 8+ months - this thread notwithstanding. Cage still has a sizeable enough cult following which has kept MANDY, PIG, and even MOM AND DAD alive in online conversation, but this, possibly the most Cagey of all Cage movies, just seems to have quickly faded into the ether. Any ideas about why it failed to make more of an impression on what I presume was its target audience.......?

I attiribute the box office disappointment on the pandemic because people have stopped going to the movies as much since it started for health ans safety reasons. That's why I waited to get it on bluray.

[Alex]

It is a film I really, really wanted to see, but to be honest the thought of going to the cinema to see it never even crossed my mind. I was waiting to get to see it at home.

[ER]

Andy Kaufman? Naishe.

Don't look up "Naishe" on Urban Dictionary. 

Why didn't I listen to the Rev....?