The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by Tom Gormican, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kevin Etten. It stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself, along with a supporting cast including Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish and Caroline Boulton. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2022, and was released in the United States on April 22, 2022, by Lionsgate. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances and chemistry of Cage and Pascal, but performed poorly at the box office, grossing only $29.1 million against its $30 million budget.
"It takes 13 milliseconds for the human brain" "to send a message to the body." "So, by the time your bullets hit me," "my cerebral cortex will be transmittin' a signal" "to the 17 healthy muscles" "that operate my trigger finger." "And before your asshole has a chance to pucker up," "your medulla oblongata will be splattered" "all over the fucking wall behind ya!" "And if that's the last thing I accomplish" "on this beautiful green earth," "well, then, ha, I say, ha..." "What a way to fucking go."
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent