Comments on: The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans

By: Loudabagel

Loudabagel — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:54:02 +0000

Hey, it’s catching on.
http://happygerbaloon.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/death-at-a-funeral-2-port-of-call-new-orleans/

By: Harker

Harker — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:45:07 +0000

A friend turned me onto this video of Cage’s Japanese pachinko commercials the other day and I cannot stop watching it. Absolutely goddamn fucking amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkw-5htPw0

By: Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:21:58 +0000

Jaws: Port of Call New Orleans.

By: Gwai Lo

Gwai Lo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:35:36 +0000

Rusty James – thanks bud I will check that out

frankbooth – thanks for reminding me of the electric shaver. Amazing.

AsimovLives – great take on Herzog, even though it seems like you’re typing on a foreign keyboard, or maybe PCP?

Zeez – great take on the reptiles.

By: Zeez

Zeez — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:19:42 +0000

Just saw this a few days ago. A lot of spoilers here.
Vern says there is no Jesus in it and the lieutenant doesn’t call him a rat fucker. But is it far fetched to say that the scene with the iguana’s is serving the same purpose? When the Abel Ferrara lieutenant sees Jesus he’s seeing the essence of his existence, his maker (Ferrara is catholic), that which gives him the power to do a redemptive sacrifice in the last act of the movie. Herzog is more of a heart of darkness kind of guy. So for him (and his character) the core of human being is the reptilian brain, the instinct. This Lieutenant solves all his problems by relying on his instinct
; when he is busy solving his problems he goes about it as coolly as a reptile. His is a kind of voodoo religion (it’s New Orleans after all) like the priest in the funeral. The price he pays of course is that his heart of darkness that solves his problems also keeps him tied to that darkness as can be seen in the brilliant closing scenes. That’s the price you pay for using the Iguana-istic superpowers.
Brilliant movie.
As much as i like the original bad Lieutenant, I like this one more. Ferrara’s was a Mean Streets revisited with some additional gothic. I have never seen a cop movie like Herzog’s. The interrogation scene with the old ladies is a classic.

By: AsimovLives

AsimovLives — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:32:16 +0000

We were talking about Herzxog’s documentatirs, sna di have to say, maybe my favorire of his that i have seen is Encounters At The End Of The World. The flick is just mesmerising. Herzog isa true genious.

As for the cometnaries in his movies, i do believe that Normal Hill plays more dumb then he is with the comentary. Like most comentary hosts, he feign some ignorance so that the filmmaker talks about the movie. It’s a sort of interview technique, where the questions are done for the sake of the audience. I think Hill is quite prepared and he’s quite deliberate in what questions to ask, because many times they refer to all this myths and stories about Herzog, and allows Herzog to debunk or confirm them. His questions also revel that while many times Herzog gets exactly what he wants for the movie, many other times some of the good stuff was just Herzog being at the right place at the right time, and him being wise and fast on his feet enough to realise the potential of this inexpected accident and use it to the benefit of the movie. Which also shows his quality as a filmmaker.

There are times one feels that even Herzog himself is amazed of what is shown in his movies, and the extent and efforts he and his cast and crew went to just make a movie. And funny enough, Herzog believes there’s no select audiences, he thinks everybody shoudl watch his movies, he makes movies for the whole people, not just “some” art-house crowd people. But he doesn’t compromise. But i’d venture to say that Herzog’s greatest happiness in his professional life would be if one of his movies would be the year’s box office record breaker. He doesn’t believe in movies as art for some, he believes movies are the ultimate democratic form of art and entertaiment. Movies, every movies, every kind are for everybody. And his latest movies like Rescue Down and Port Of Call New Orleans are, in my mind, atemps at just that. He’s not selling out, he’s putting his money where his mouth is.

By: Mr. Subtlety

Mr. Subtlety — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:41:22 +0000

Hey, you know who else has done his share of mega-acting? Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson. His work in SOUTHLAND TALES and DOOM gives Cage a run for his money. I wouldn’t mention it except that, like Cage, he can also be pretty solid. Put those two together in something weird and watch the world explode.

By: frankbooth

frankbooth — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:31:01 +0000

I just saw this today, along with four other people. And by that I don’t mean that I brought my gang with me — though one guy in the movie looked just like my pal Raymond, but older — I mean there were five of us at the matinee. That’s a shame.

This movies is fun stuff. I disagree with those who say it’s not Herzogian enough. Sure, there are no five-minute landscape shots accompanied by weird yodeling. It’s an American cop movie. But c’mon — dead alligator at a car accident scene…”his soul’s still dancing” …hookers lit by spotlight along the side of the road…and those iguanas! There’s even a gratuitous little person, and Sonny Terry harmonica music after a shootout. Plus Cage’s entire performance.

He’s definitely in Vampire’s Kiss mode. Not sure what was up with the voice (Peggy Sue reprise?) and that haircut — oh the humanity, that haircut! What the fuck is that? Does it have a name?

I absolutely loved the pharmacy scene. It played as wish-fulfillment fantasy for me, because of recent events in my life involving pharmacists being evil bastards. I sincerely wish I could do what he did without getting arrested. When a man needs his pain relief, a man needs his fuckin’ pain relief! And since the human condition is pain, this means always.

One final thought: hiding behind the door with an electric shaver. Bravo.

By: The Limey

The Limey — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:27:36 +0000

It’s lame, but The Passion of the Christ 2: Port of Call New Orleans

And while I’m at it, Braveheart 2: Port of Call New Orleans and Alien: Port of Call New Orleans

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:40:02 +0000

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