Doesn't anyone else find this movie as gutwrenchingly hilarious as I do?
Cage's lines and expressions almost make me pee in my pants.
You should also watch it with Cage and the director's commentary after seeing it once.
Oh man, Cage is a SCREAM! Leaping atop his desk, scampering after a pigeon, flashing plastic fangs on the dancefloor...not to mention that show-stopping recital of the alphabet! Unforgettable. "Vampire's Kiss" will definitely be one of the first DVDs I buy after I finally get a player.
shareI am so there to the nth degree, he played the part of a psychopathic lunatic to a tea. Having a pychiatric meeting with a fence post was hilarious and I must say, this was Cage's first shining moment in cinema!!! If anyone else had starred in this film, I would've stopped, ejected and returned asking for a full refund!
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Even thinking about it cracks me up.
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the scenes where he's being horrible mean to alva are hysterical for some reason. the "THERE YOU ARE!!!!!!'' is great. but the one that makes me cackle every time is the scene in his office where alva asks him to get another secretary to help her find that file and he takes sunglasses off and opens his eyes really wide and looks creepy, then delivers that monologue about how she's the lowest on the totem pole at the office "it's terribleterrible job, alva and you HAVE to do it, u have to or i'll fire you" i don't why but it's SO FUNNY.
shareWhen i first saw this movie i hated it, but the next day i felt compelled to watch it again and i really enjoyed it more the second time.
my favorite part where cage is mean to Alva is when she's talking to her brother for a minute and cage is in the car and he looks up out of nowhere and says "Where is that *beep* *beep*
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"Doesn't anyone else find this movie as gut wrenchingly hilarious as I do? "
No, I didn't find this movie amusing at all. There is not funny about a boss who bullies a subordinate and makes that employee's employment a daily nightmare. I think this is why I couldn't bring myself the emphasize with the mental anguish the Nicholas Cage character was going through. He was abusing a subordinate coworker and actually was enjoying it. I think this is why Vampire's Kiss probably bombed in the box office. The protagonist has to be likable and that was not the case here.
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Yes, this is truly a very unique, hilarious and heart-breaking movie. Similar, in many ways, to After Hours, and written by the same screenwriter, Joe Minion. I wish he would write some more bold screenplays. He had another film called Motorama. I actually met the guy when I was in film school and I believe it was he that gave me the Motorama screenplay, which was AMAZING!!!! But the film was horribly directed.
shareActually Alva was so close to Alvin as in Alvin and the chipmunks, I wondered if they spoofed the chipmunk manager Dave screaming "Alvin!" over and over again.
shareI have to say it teetered on hilarity and horror, as did most of the film. There were some parts where his treatment of Alva is just dreadful and then there are other parts where it is, yes dreadful, but also very funny. Specifically jumping on the desk and the amazingly dickish "Am I getting THROOUGH To you, Alva!?" complete with a cigarette in his mouth.
In response to filmbuff1974, I think you might've misinterpreted the movie slightly. I think it plays out in the same way American Psycho does; the central character is not to really be pitied much but at best laughed at. Everything about him is dislikeable; he's a pompous ass that affects a strange accent, a yuppie bar hopper and generally speaking kind of pathetic. He bullies Alva because he can, and his male employer environment allows him to (they see it as a joke while he seems to be forcing himself to laugh extra so they don't notice how crazy he is). It seemed to me part of it was he was trying to goad her into killing him, at least part of it.
Though another aspect seemed to be that he did geniunely seem obsessed with the copy of the contract for whatever reason (maybe other people have an opinion on that). He even flips out as his psychiatrist over it, which was of course hilarious too.
Another great bit is towards the end when he's imagining talking to his psychiatrist, and he goes "aaauuuuugggghhhhh."
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