David Spritz (Cage) is a successful TV weatherman, but has less success in his personal life.
There are several actors I really enjoy watching and Nicolas Cage is one of them. To me he is a natural as are the others I like to watch. Here he is a TV Weatherman who can sometimes get a forecast wrong and still keep his job and I guess we all understand that. But to get things wrong in life is another matter. Yet he continues to try to make things right. Well, it's one thing to get things wrong in life if all make an effort to correct things, but it's another thing when there is no forgiveness because there is no love. He is divorced from his wife (Davis),who shows no love at all and neither do his children. His father (Caine) barely puts up with him. Where did all this go wrong? The movie never really gives us an answer. David seems to be an okay, knowing, and hip kind of guy, but somewhere in the marriage something went very wrong. Maybe it was a long series of his not focusing in on family matters when he had the opportunity. Maybe.
This could have been funnier but it wasn't although it did have a few snickers like when David throws a snowball at his wife to lighten things up and hits her square in the face. Of course, she says: what the hell are you doing? And, he replies: you turned into it.
There is a lot of dirty talk by the children, and adults. Some of the sexual imagery and language were way too crude for the movie which calls itself a Comedy. I haven't heard some of those words for years and they will not be repeated here. Now to get rid of those images
Michael Caine plays a part I am not used to seeing and it was excellent. But, my focus was on Cage and he can do no wrong in my eyes despite the script and director. But, somewhere there was a comedy in here, but it was never given a chance to come out to play, and I saw many possibilities. Still, this is an entertaining movie even though it keeps leading you on thinking the life forecast could be sunny with fair skies ahead.
Oh, the other actors I like to watch: Sean Connery, Jack Palance and Patrick McGoohan, of course.
There are several actors I really enjoy watching and Nicolas Cage is one of them. To me he is a natural as are the others I like to watch. Here he is a TV Weatherman who can sometimes get a forecast wrong and still keep his job and I guess we all understand that. But to get things wrong in life is another matter. Yet he continues to try to make things right. Well, it's one thing to get things wrong in life if all make an effort to correct things, but it's another thing when there is no forgiveness because there is no love. He is divorced from his wife (Davis),who shows no love at all and neither do his children. His father (Caine) barely puts up with him. Where did all this go wrong? The movie never really gives us an answer. David seems to be an okay, knowing, and hip kind of guy, but somewhere in the marriage something went very wrong. Maybe it was a long series of his not focusing in on family matters when he had the opportunity. Maybe.
This could have been funnier but it wasn't although it did have a few snickers like when David throws a snowball at his wife to lighten things up and hits her square in the face. Of course, she says: what the hell are you doing? And, he replies: you turned into it.
There is a lot of dirty talk by the children, and adults. Some of the sexual imagery and language were way too crude for the movie which calls itself a Comedy. I haven't heard some of those words for years and they will not be repeated here. Now to get rid of those images
Michael Caine plays a part I am not used to seeing and it was excellent. But, my focus was on Cage and he can do no wrong in my eyes despite the script and director. But, somewhere there was a comedy in here, but it was never given a chance to come out to play, and I saw many possibilities. Still, this is an entertaining movie even though it keeps leading you on thinking the life forecast could be sunny with fair skies ahead.
Oh, the other actors I like to watch: Sean Connery, Jack Palance and Patrick McGoohan, of course.