The only thing missing from this thread was a proper “bitch, get out the room!” line from you. You should make this a thing, where you watch movies you haven’t seen before and review them live on here.
For whatever reason, the only part of the plot that’s stuck with me besides the premise is Nic-Cage-As-Travolta telling his daughter to knife a guy if a date goes sideways and giving her a switch blade.
Script originally was written to be set in the future. They decided to move it to the present but kept the magnet boots jail as the one other sci-fi touch besides, you know, the movie’s concept.
I just watched it for the first time recently too. Travolta has the fun part, channeling Cage, but poor NC...where's the fun in impersonating the blandness of Travolta?
Funnily, the 'technology' isn't what made me lose the ability to suspend disbelief, it was Travolta being married to Joan Allen!
face/off is a movie that doesn't need context, because that would actually ruin it. It's nothing more than telling an audience that they'll see two rizzy celebs duke it out, and edging them for an hour and a half until until a ruined climax occurs.
But John Woo's HK action movies are so much better - I recommend A Better Tomorrow (which led to a surge in trench coat sales courtesy of the MC wearing one), Hard Boiled, and The Killer (with it's incredibly high on-screen body count)
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Funnily, the 'technology' isn't what made me lose the ability to suspend disbelief, it was Travolta being married to Joan Allen!
But John Woo's HK action movies are so much better - I recommend A Better Tomorrow (which led to a surge in trench coat sales courtesy of the MC wearing one), Hard Boiled, and The Killer (with it's incredibly high on-screen body count)
What I wouldn’t give to rediscover face waterfalls all over again ❤️