what were they thinking

hillbillycavewoman

I really like Nick Cage, so I ran out and rented "Wild At heart" as soon as I realized he was in it.

What a mistake. This movie is one of the worst I have ever seen, hands down. So just how bad is it? Well....

Thinking perhaps I was hasty in hating it, I rented it again, years later.

What a huh-YOODGE waste of time! You know how sometimes you keep watching an awful movie, hoping in the end it will somehow get a skosche better, or that at least something will be explained/justified, so that your time has not been wasted? Only then it never does, and as the credits roll you wonder out loud why you watched the thing? Well "Wild At Heart" is that kind of movie.

Again thinking I must be wrong; no Nick Cage movie could be that ridiculously bad, I rented it again, and this time instructed my teenage kids to watch it, and tell me what they thought of it. I did this WITHOUT FIRST TELLING THEM< OR INDICATING IN ANY WAY, WHAT I ALREADY THOUGHT OF THE MOVIE. Well guess what. My daughter came back with eyes wide and lips wrinkled in disgusted amazement, proclaiming, "That's the worst movie I've ever seen!" Her older brother demanded of me why I made him watch such a terrible movie.

There, see? no spoilers. Just rank opinion.

Okay, here's one, or a few: The staring-at-the-vomit scene..we, the audience, are the ones made to do the staring... and returning to it again as the days go by and it gathers flies..now there's a treat. Oh, but it's an artsy movie! It's got a vomit-staring scene in it! It has references to the Wizard of Oz! It has a lady with an untweezed mono-brow in it! Yep, sure is artsy. How avant-garde. What a meaningful film.

What a load of manure.

Look, if you don't enjoy staring and staring at a splat of vomit, you won't like this movie.

'Nuff said.

score 1/10

hillbillycavewoman 25 April 2008

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1863401/