Abel Ferrara's 1992 Bad Lieutenant was a gritty portrait of corruption best remembered for the expert way it conveyed the grim inevitably of its desperate protagonist's destruction. Also it was one of the first movies where Harvey Keitel whipped out his wienie. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, the Werner Herzog-helmed "remake" whose trailer you see above, will probably be remembered for the sheer comedy that is sure to result from bringing a bad idea to its logical conclusion. Hopefully Nicolas Cage keeps it in his pants.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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I can't believe this is real.
if it is real (I too have my suspicions) then it looks like it is going to be the shit. The trailer alone is making me gassy. In my world I will not be able to see the movie alone...at night...or in that part of town that comes alive after the bars close.
This seems kind of like "Airplane" for people who can only afford to fly on Colgin Air.
AS I recall, Port of Call is a bar that serves some of the best hamburgers in NOLA. With baked potatoes. I could see a movie about that.
Yes, wonderful hamburgers at Port of Call.
Stop changing the subject! This is about Nick Cage's cock -- oh, wait. Did you say baked potatoes with those burgers? Sounds heavenly.
Warner Herzog and the best burger place in New Orleans? How did this happen in one movie? Where do I need to be opening night.
I gained 10 lbs in 1 week in NOLA because I ate at Port of Call every day.
Have a good time, all. Can't eat oysters and crayfish everyday.
http://www.portofcallneworleans.com/history.html
My god that looks bad. Why would you remake Bad Lieutenant with Nic Cage, in New Orleans, with bright shiny coloring (or whatever fancy movie people call it)? I will def rent it though.
It sounds like the name of a video game, which is what I thought it was initially.
Blah blah blah - WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS SIDEBURNS???
It's mildly entertaining, but the original was funnier.
Having David Caruso trying to out-act a bunch of stiffs, though, that is fucking GOLD.
Why are people giving Val Kilmer work?
THIS! IS! MY! MECCA! Ahahahaha!
I wish I'd been in the pitch session: "You're gonna love it, Werner: it's BOOGIE NIGHTS meets RUBIN AND ED. Plus Jennifer Coolidge and harmonicas."
Also @Sarah: yes, Port of Call burgers. Yes, please.
Allegedly Herzog got the title for "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" from the Harvey Keitel Penis Scene in the original
Both missing the point of the original while at the same time being unintentionally transcendent as a commentary on the ridiculous lengths to which Hollywood tries to create sequel-tastic franchiseable heroes. Blade, Marty McFly, John Connor, Dirty Harry, John McClain, Rocky, Axl Foley, Robocop, Spiderman, Iron Man, Superman, Wolverine, Indiana, Neo, Rambo. And now "The Lieutenant."
Completing the necessary trilogy, Bad Lieutenant v. Travis Bickle: Back in New York.
Also: This movie looks like Hertzog took True Romance added Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and then threw in Nic Cage from Bringing Out the Dead and Clint Eastwood's gun from Dirty Harry.
Werner was channeling Macbeth: "Is this a paycheck I see before me?"
Bad Lieutenant came out when I was in college. The scene with the girls I had to leave the theater.
"I believe the true nature of the universe is not love and harmony, but chaos and murder"...Herzog in Grizzly Man.
Those do sound like the words of a man who'd be all over a new Bad Lieutenant film, but I sure as hell hope this isn't it.
This looks more like Bad Fletch than Bad Lieutenant.
(The excerpts from Herzog's Fitzcaraldo diaries in this month's Harper's... so excellent)
A high-school friend of mine is in this movie.