Author: Ed Jefferson
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#12: Never on Tuesday (1989)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. The problem with trying to predict lottery numbers by watching every Nicolas Cage film in order is that you have to watch every Nicolas Cage film in order, even if they are films so bad that they…
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#11: Moonstruck (1987)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. Last week made a refreshing change — one film was quite good, the other was fantastic. But neither won me the lottery. And so, I continue, hoping each time that my next leap will be the leap…
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#10: Raising Arizona (1987)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. I know not why I must do this, but a spirit came to me in a dream and told me I must do it, so I do. This time, Nicolas Cage is actually married to someone named…
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#9: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. What would you do if had the chance to travel back in time and fix your mistakes? Would you be able to fix it so you’d have something more fulfilling to do with your existence than watch…
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#8: The Boy In Blue (1986)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. You know how famously popular film Star Wars has that whole writing bit at the beginning where it goes: “It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first…
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#7: Birdy (1984)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films, because I believe that Nicolas Cage is magic and has the power to distort the laws of probability, or at least I am willing to pretend to believe that for the sake of a thin conceit. (If…
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#6: The Cotton Club (1984)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. This time, it’s a family business, because a) it’s another film directed by his uncle Francis Ford Coppola, and b) it’s about gangsters and people call them a family even though they shoot each in the face…
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#5: Racing With The Moon (1984)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. Medium recommended the tags “Personal Development” and “Mental Health” for this post and I don’t know what it is trying to say. [2020 note: I originally published these on confusing ‘content platform’ Medium] So far, trying to…
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#4: Valley Girl (1983)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films, for reasons discussed here! A few hundred years ago, a bloke named William Shakespeare wrote a play called Romeo and Juliet about a man and lady from slightly different backgrounds who want to have a kiss. It does…
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#3: Rumble Fish (1983)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films, for reasons discussed here! So far in trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films, I have watched 2 Nicolas Cage films, and won the lottery 0 times. But the films were both quite bad. What…