Leaving Las Vegas
Description
Best Actor OscarÂ(r) winner* Nicolas Cage and Best Actress nominee* Elisabeth Shue set the screen ablaze in this profoundly moving love story. Nominated* for two additional Academy AwardsÂ(r)Director and Adapted Screenplaythis emotionally charged powerhouse of a film graced over 100 10 Best Lists including Roger Ebert’s #1 Movie of the Year. Ben Sanderson (Cage) is a career alcoholic who has hit rock bottom. Trashing all personal and professional ties to his L.A. exist… More >>
If you like pointless tear jerker sob stories without any real plot and a incredibly depressing ending you can see coming while you’re getting your twizzlers and $3 tea cup of soda then you’ll love this movie or just the extra push to keep you from commiting suicide cause your life can’t be as pathertic as this. If you want a story with plot, character development, or even the possibility of feeling for the lead character spend your money elsewhere, stop reading and find another movie.
Many of the casino shots were in a former employee of mine, Sam’s Town in Laughlin, NV. Since most of the moving scenery were locals a good cross section of the communites were in the film, so the showings were sold out for the first few days. Then is it was dead and gone. During the showing I attended no less than half of the audience was in the movie and if it wasn’t for that fact every single one of us would have walked out. Half way through popcorn was flying at the screen to cries of ‘someone just #@^%#ing shoot him already’.
I could not sympathize, empathize, feel remorse or even disgust with Cage’s character, I was simply angry cause this movie made me feel like a unpaid social worker. Watching Cage pointlessly crawled from one bottle to the next without meeting a end to rhetorical whines of suicidal intent, oh yippie sign me up for another go. You think he could have at least wandered into traffic at some point and spared us. To a town full people who knew exactly how easy it was to A) drink yourself to death B) find yourself dead in one of the sleazier areas of Vegas or any city for that matter C) get drunk and wander into a bad sitiuation there by solving all your problems permanantly this movie was insulting. For all the money this coward wasted on booze he could have just gave it to one of the ‘colorful characters’ and said make sure I don’t see it coming and spared a jerkwater town 2 hours of their already pathetic enough lives.
Even that my mother is in this movie will NEVER have me watching it again.
Rating: 1 / 5
I couldn’t stomach this movie for long. I kept waiting, hoping for some redeeming quality to emerge but the language, nudity, and explicit sexual content was too much for me so I turned it off and never saw the entire film. If there was any poignant, brilliant story with any depth, it was buried in filth and raunch. I would not recommend film this to anyone. Nicholas Cage or not, it was disgusting.
Rating: 1 / 5
I thought it would be interesting to see LEAVING LAS VEGAS while in Las Vegas on a trip. A friend kept looking over to ask, “Can we leave yet?”
I said, “Maybe they’ll play that Michael McDonald song again since they’ve already played it a couple of times.”
That thin hope, as well as a grim determination to see if any frame to this clueless mess could result in “entertainment,” kept me there. No luck.
I went looking for the theatre manager to demand my money back, but could only find teenagers cleaning up popcorn in other theatres (it was after midnight and management had split).
Leaving me in Las Vegas to try and salvage that night.
I hated this movie. This little review trashing it has more plot than could be found in the movie.
Come on, people, dry yourselves out and get to your AA meeting: there’s nothing interesting or heroic about idiots killing themselves through liquor.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a piece of junk that smells like TYPICAl hollywood from its very first few seconds. I can’t stand watching movies so set out to impress, and so devoid of any emotionality as this. But, what completely shatters whatever hope you have left of the film, is the acting. Cage displays some of the most blatant, and pathetic overacting I have seen in my entire life.At times, watching his overacting was almost funny, but at times it was just gruesome. Shue just seems detached. See, the problem with all these so-called actors, is that I can actually see them acting. The plot is also riduculous. How completely gone do you have to be to agree to let a man you supposedly have feelings for “drink himself to death”??
Rating: 1 / 5
Movies are an escape for most of us. We enjoy the exhillaration of relating to the characters and blowing stuff up like Arnold or getting the girl like James Bond. Movie character get to do the things we fantasize about doing. I don’t fantasize about dying a slow and wretched death while humiliating myself in the process. Perhaps there’s some deeper meaning here I’m missing. Not! This movie is worse than boring. It is hours of painfull, torturous, insipid, doleful agony.
Rating: 1 / 5