Category: Film
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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…
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#2: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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 1 Nicolas Cage film, and won the lottery 0 times. But maybe failed TV pilot The Best of Times doesn’t…