I just got back from seeing this one and enjoyed it quite a bit. I have to say, the TV ads have been a bit misleading, in that they show only Nic Cage getting hit with flying food and drinks. This is a part of the movie and it happens to him on a regular basis, but it’s really more of a bittersweet drama than a comedy, despite some other funny business. The pervasive Chicago rain, ice and snow also contribute to the streak of melancholy that runs through much of the film.
I liked the portrayal of this weatherman as a fellow who makes a good chunk of $ but has plenty of problems: a father who isdying of lymphoma, an overweight daughter who smokes and isn’t easy to please, a son in drug counseling whose counseloris a pedophile, an ex-wife with a boyfriend that the weatherman can’t stand, and of course the aforementioned food attacks.
I enjoyed the dialogue as well, along with the soundtrack.
Yeah, man. It was great. Though it did seem like they retooled some of it, which isn’t too surprising given the – I wish I had two dicks – massive gap between the release and trailer. And the whole thing was rather depressing. I mean, buddy acknowledged he had a problem but then didn’t do anything about it and it ends that way. His family isn’t coming back. His dad is dead and thinks he’s a silly fuck. At least people don’t throw things anymore.
I saw the coming attraction for it last year and it represented the movie pretty accurately. I haven’t seen the TV ads but I’m sure it was just him with his arrows and flying milkshakes and Michael Caine giving a lecture. I saw the actual movie today. I enjoyed it. It was a nice story and very pretty to look at. I like to look at Nicholas Cage having emotions, I have to admit it. It’s touching to watch him go through emotions. I was satisfied with that.
I saw it today and really liked it. In general I think yeah, the movie was somewhat depressing but
I do feel the general point of the film was that life is hard, deal with it. At the end of the film Cage basically realizes there isn’t going to be some magic moment, he isn’t going to turn everything around that’s gone bad. He realizes his marriage is ended and there isn’t anything he can do about that. All he can do is deal with what’s ahead, and enjoy the accomplishments he had. Hey, he is making over a million a year by the end of the movie. And as his dad said about writing, “That’s just what I do.” In a way his dad seemed to be telling him that there wasn’t anything wrong with being a weatherman, and there wasn’t anything inherently “better” about being a writer versus being anything else, being a writer is just what he did.
There really are some great humorous parts to the movie, that seems to be the focus of the trailers. And I did find myself laughing throughout the film, both at some of the ridiculous things that happened to Cage and at some of the forehead slapping boneheaded moves Cage makes.