I had the television on the other night and Face/Off came on. I caught this movie years ago and never thought much about it. This time around I watched a few scenes as I read SDMB and Slashdot. I was blown away by how stupid this movie really is.
First, the acting sucks. I think in some movies Nick Case can carry himself well enough. That said this is the third of his triple whammy bad movie run (The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off) so by now he’s had a crash course in crap acting - crapting?. How about I just say Nick Cage is hit or miss when it comes to movies.
This movie is hard to watch because of his bad acting/overacting. Half the time he just seems out of place. Travolta pulled off the part of Troy better then Cage did - and Cage was supposed to be Troy.
Second, when is this movie supposed to take place? The present? The future? Most of the movie seems to take place in the present. The cars, houses, guns; most style seems to be current. Then they throw in the future jail scenes and the medical room of the future complete with lasers that grow ears in a Pyrex dish. Let’s not forget the lasers that heal wounds. Granted they have to create some of these elements to explain how they pull a face off one guy and stick it on another.
I do like the one line a doctor says about face transplants. He credits the “advances in anti-inflammatories”. Forget about anti-rejection medication. It’s all about inflamation. :smack:
There’s also the scene where the FBI got a data disk with bomb blueprints on it (or something like that). It’s a zip disk. A ZIP DISK? Even 1990’s The Adventures of Ford Fairlane knew to put data on a CD. But in 1997’s Face/Off, where you can grow ears in cookware, a 100mb zip disk is good enough for all your data needs.
Third, the super creepy face wipe thing John Travolta likes to do to people. Who does this ever?
You know, I could go on all night.
I nominate Face/Off for the Overacting, Sci-Fi movie too lazy to be proper Sci-Fi, SDMB Stupid, Stupid Movie Award.
What is your pick for the SDMB Stupid, Stupid Movie Award? Why?