Adaptation R
Spike Jonze does a tout and pretentious as anything Nick Cage movie (yes he's yet another Coppola), where he imagines himself as a twin brother muse, helping his writer's block while he tries to adapt a book about growing orchids. Meryl Streep struggles through her very, very bad script. You can tell it just hurts. This movie was anxiety forming, nauseatingly bad on every level, and since seeing it and other Cage movies, his worst performance, as himself, ever. If you can't even play yourself, that's bad. Ad no, orchid are not like opium. You can't just make them into drugs. You freaking spazasaurs!
Review by Adam Browne
Agreed: This flick was clearly trying to be clever when it falls flat, and ridiculous when it should pull back and just be about a guy with writer's block. The idea could have worked, but because Cage can't really play anyone other than himself, and Streep looked like she was in pain, the only interesting character was the hick drug dealer, of which critics thought was amazing because they did not ever watch Dennis Leary or Larry the Cable Guy.
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