20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2022

20. Nicolas Cage Makes Out With Himself - The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent

Delirious meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is really one giant, 107-minute WTF moment, with Nicolas Cage playing a fictionalised version of himself who gets caught between the FBI and a dangerous arms dealer.

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But the oddest flourish of all is the periodic appearance of "Nicky" - a younger version of Cage, based on his likeness in the David Lynch film Wild at Heart, who shows up as a figment of Cage's imagination.

The VFX are certainly impressive for the price point, if just uncanny enough to be appropriately unsettling. It all reaches a bizarre apex during a restaurant confrontation, where Nicky plants a big smooch on his older self.

Best of all, Cage actually seems to enjoy it and leans into the kiss, before Nicky exclaims "Nic Cage smooches good!"

There's cinematic narcissism, and then there's... whatever the hell this was.

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