Probably did, I’ve just cooked a gram and I’m smoking it now, only do it once a twice a month though and can understand why people get addicted to the stuff
I remember reading an interview of him about this movie. He did not do any kind of drugs but not for a lack of trying. He actually asked Werner Herzog if he could get some for real but Herzog said no lol (or at least that's how I remember it).
Lol back again it’s Barry Smith and just scored a nice couple of rocks to chill with for a few hours on my day off, again this popped into my head and I’m smoking along with cage n 50 😭 so do worry about me 🤪😆😆😆
Smoking crack really isnt that big of a deal. One of my best memories was smoking crack for the first time with my brother. We sat in my garage for 7 hours passing the pipe and just TALKING TALKING TALKING it was nice.
The thing about Cage is that he doesn't hold back for better or worse. He goes full Nick Cage. This man raises the bar for the absurd, and because of that I can honestly say that I 've never seen a boring performance from him.
""He (Cage) is the only actor since Marlon Brando that's actually done anything new with the art of acting; he's successfully taken us away from an obsession with naturalism into a kind of presentation style of acting that I imagine was popular with the old troubadours. If I could erase [Cage's] bottom half bad movies, and only keep his top half movies, he would blow everyone else out of the water" - Ethan Hawke
Funny thing is that if he didn't have all those money\debt issues in the late 90's startup, he'd really wouldn't Have a whole catalogue of "bad" B movies. But when a broke A-lister needs money asap... any paying role is a good one. I've also heard that Cage's acting style was based on avant garde or German film styles when they really worked with their post Great War ptsd acceptance.
@@HingleCringle I think it's just artistic license. A big hit of really pure crack may give you a bell ringer, might puke. It's not funny to watch in a movie though. I hate crack, it feels gross. I've shot really pure coke - you definitely get a bell ringer and usually puke
Herzog really let Cage go on this one. Despite that, shooting on location in areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina had a documentary like impact on the movie. I always champion this. It’s a perfect marriage of Herzog’s humanism (and absurdity) and Cage’s absurdity as an actor. I laughed more times in this scene than most comedies.
The great thing about Herzog is that he won't make a movie "about" Hurricane Katrina. Instead the movie is PART of Hurricane Katrina-- like an extension of it.
I smoked crack one night waaaay back in 2002 and this is exactly how i behaved immediately after blowing out the smoke. It's like going from 0 to 100 in about 8 seconds.
@@fupamongoopa640 I never drank alcohol (except when bartender misunderstod i wanted a virgin mojito) nor smoked either cigarettes or drug but i really want to learn from others what they experience....so thank u for sharing. I still wished u would seen leguanas😅
The part of loved most is that it was all strategy too, “the lucky pipe” thing was to get the guys dna and prints as well as get away from the sawed off under the table.
4:35 - This was the moment Bad Lieutenant 2 finally clicked with me. And it’s pretty far along in the movie too. I deeply respect Herzog as a filmmaker but up until this scene I wasn’t impressed. I just couldn’t get a handle on it. What the hell was Herzog going for? What compelled him to make this film in the first place? It’s obvious from the beginning that Cage’s character is completely tapped. But realizing he really can “see” that dead guy’s breakdancing soul is a great reveal. And then insisting it also needs to be shot is f-ing gold. He’s even more tweaked than we thought. This scene was the key that unlocked the movie for me. Albeit for reasons even I have trouble understanding lol.
i mean maybe its one of those things where you need to be really high on crack to understand it. I can take it at face value that crack does some weird shit. Don't really care to find out the fine details lol. Want a story about crack? I heard this one, where some rescue personnel broke down a door in a apartment fire. Some guy was high on crack in a room to hot to go into whacking it over a couch fire. Someone hit him down and then dragged him out. there is better things to try to understand
@@cdrom1070 Don't believe that nonsense. I smoked a lot of rocks with a lot of people over a long time. None of this is what happens. Cage's character is over the top theatrical. The other characters were more in line with reality. But Nick was supposed to be over the top.
Other person: "But what do the iguanas mean?" Herzog: "The igwannas stand far the invisible truuth that iss all arownd us at all timess. We do not wish to see but it iss there. Crawl-ink. Stare-ink. Think-ink. What you see in the eye of an igwanna is the reflection of who you truly arr, not the illoosion of who you've dreamed." 1st Assistant Director (into walkie-talkie): "Can we just get the fuckin' iguana on stand-by? Thank you."
Genuinely one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. I’ve had it on repeat for the last day. Herzog’s direction of Cage represents complete trust in his actor’s abilities. Paid off wonderfully.
@@markkuker3801 then you should know that the way nick cage is acting is completely BS. Not sure if you've ever had very pure coke/crack, but it calmly focuses your mind and doesn't make you geek out like he is from one hit.
The guy who played the old gangster also wrote the script. Lord knows what he was thinking as he watched what Cage and Herzog were doing with it. Maybe his soul danced!
People say that because 1. They hop in the internet hate 2. They haven't seen his good films, the ones that make him justice because they're not popular
Utter bullshit , Nic Cage underrated , like the comment above people jump on the bandwagon with him , watch leaving Las Vegas and tell me he's a bad actor.
+Dominik Przybysiak Most of them must have only seen The Wicker Man and think he is a bad actor. To me, Cage is an awesome actor - Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off, Lord Of War, Matchstick Men, Kick-Ass, Joe.... I can go on and on.
This is the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen but also a pretty accurate depiction of amphetamine psychosis having experienced it myself with smoking “bath salts” aka MDPV. That stare when he sees the guy dancing...lol.
Heard from a lot of people that MDPV actually wasnt nearly as bad as it was made out to be and definitely nowhere near meth, however just what I heard as stims were never my thing. For me dissociatives and opiates just blew everything else out of the damn water.
@@truedmer4941 thats true for the most part if you do it once and leave it alone after that. But like any upper, if you keep going and dont sleep youre gonna go bonkers and yeah hallucinate hardcore
A totally unhinged sequence (like much of this movie). But it also totally hangs together. Credit to Cage, credit to Herzog, this whole thing is an unlikely masterpiece.
I agree its a masterpiece, but the scene in the parking lot at the beginning of the movie is way more memorable to me, especially since he basically does the same thing again at the end of the movie at the same parking lot, thats how the movie ends, if you pay attention youll see its the same spot, but they dont show him doing it again, just him following some drunk club guests and then roll credits.
@@NickVS707 nah he plays a different flavor of absurdity every movie. I don't think they're are very many good actors left, they all play themselves now or talk to much to convey anything. Some of that is talentless directors and shitty scripts but cage at least brings a different energy to most of his movies.
Well, the thing is that most people don't really understand that acting is a philosophy with many different schools of thought attached to it. Nic Cage engages in a kind of absurdist theatre style which he can really sell in an endearing way.
@@NickVS707 Something tells me you've never seen anything more than some very recent movies. Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, etc, are all entirely different performances and are all great.
My theory is that when Nic Cage takes a role, he has a lot of say in the movie, not just how he portrays the character but in the wild shit that happens in the movie haha
first time i watched this movie was the first time i did acid, still today it remains one of the funniest movies i've ever watched still have very fond memories of that night.
Haha this movie was practically made for Nicolas Cage. A real oddball from the legendary Werner Herzog who's mainly making beautifully intimate documentaries these days!
This was so entertaining and insane I know he is over the top but that's part of what makes the movies he has been in what they are, pure entertainment.
Is there a more misunderstood and under appreciated movie in the last 20 years? I love this god damn movie. It is...and I don’t use this world loosely...hysterical.
Depends on the size of the rock and purity, it will start to bubble before the flame even touches it if it good stuff, and you will get two or 3 lung films out of a good rock. It put it out then keep my thumb over the bowl so the smoke rehardens 🤘 that’s about a 100mg/200mg rock that sends your lips and throat numb whilst rushing pretty good, OK not as good as mainlined Cocaine but it’s a lot safer and will last longer than shooting up every ten mins. Used to cook some H (brown) and a Rock up for injection (speedball) but rarely do that now due to a few OD’s. Just bought a nice £20 rock with half a G of smack, rocks are gone smoked them with cage and gonna sort the B out now. Stay safe kids 🤘
Also you're not gonna puff on it like you're enjoying a cigar haha, they inhaling every last molecule of that shit. Also the first pipe looks like a metal weed pipe from a bong shop which *could* work but not well. And the lucky pipe, I guess looks closer to a crack pipe but still looks like a weed one-hitter.
