Has there ever been any other actor so prolific and so batshit in so many roles? I mean Klaus Kinski did some crap stuff as he hated not working and admitted he’d do any piece of crap rather than stay at home but Cage does the crap and overacts the bejesus out of it. I’ve seen a lot of his recent stuff over lockdown (jiu jitsu was monumentally bad) but the new one looks even more up his street.
Can’t beat Cage. He’s fantastically bad in loads of films and actually good in a small number. I suppose that’s what happens when you spend all your money on castles and dinosaur bones without paying any taxes. Love the guys commitment. He’ll take on any old shite to pay the bills, but goddamn he’ll give it his all.
The history of swear words on Netflix is a particular low point yet he manages to do all the acting it’s possible to do in the first ten seconds of the opening episode.
He’s one of those actors that seems to have been really prolific, and yet, I can only think of two (great) films he’s been in – ‘Wild At Heart’ and ‘Adaptation’.
Watched Knowing with NC last week. Quite possibly the most silly film I’ve ever seen. Thought it was some badly done horror but turned into a preposterous ‘aliens save humanity’ plot about 5 mins from the end. I’m sure they thought it was a great twist, but it was on a par with the Colbys.
Does anyone know how many times he’s said the line “I jus’ wanna get hone to my wife and kids” in terrible films?
In our house we always utter those words, said in a NC voice, as shorthand for something that’s so bad that it’s utterly unwatchable, just before it gets turned off
He needs to watch himself though. He’s getting some serious competition for the shite film top spot from Liam Neeson and Gerard Butler
Of all the actors in the business, he’s definitely not one I’d start a thread about. Kick Ass is great in spite of him… I do like a couple of his early films, but he’s a bad parody of himself these days.
He is a bit like some Australian musicians who have been around for ages and are generaly mediochre but with a few highlights and then you realise after 30 years there are more highlights than you remember.
BTW if you are a Nicholas Cage fan you NEED this Gone in 60 Seconds art work almost as soon as I finish it next weekend.
Someone I worked with had/has a profound hatred of Nicolas Cage. At one point we printed out sheets and sheets of tiny pictures of his face and sellotaped them to everything we could find. Those tiny reminders of Cage were still popping up well over a year later.
Anyway, I for one cannot wait for the release of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Sounds epic.
I’m a fan of NC movies. Mostly because Mrs.10 hates him and doesn’t understand why I like his movies. It’s because for the most part you know what you’re going to get. And it’ll probably be entertaining in one way or an other. He’s got more Oscars than a lot of actors too.