I SEE IT!!!

they talkin that shit about my dogg, like he ain't one of the best actors of his generation. just because he collecting them checks and lovin' elvis, that don't take away his oscar and his impeccable comedic timing, something his peers like sean penn and viggo (who i ride for and love with much gayness) severely lack.

i seen the washington post attack...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032004513.html

i see them hipsters at EW...

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/nicolas-cage-ar.html

i seen that hate from the onion...

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/lets_go_see_the_new_nicolas

oh, there's more, but those are the biggies.

why are these animals hating on such a genius? anyone can appease the gay mafia and play gay for critical acclaim, but not many can be action stars and figure of them puzzles in dat natty trez...that's difficult!!! them puzzles hard and he figure it out, all the while conveying the emotional gravity of every scene.

whatever. all i know is you hip bitches bet not furthur that bullshit anti-cage agenda here, because them 'sags done peeped it.

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This new anti-Nic movement has been gaining steam over the past 12 months, and it's still "cool".

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but it all fairness, I still like Nic.

"The Rock", and "Con Air" are like the twin towers.

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That's fucked up. Body of work should mean something.

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They showed that shit two times in a row. I watched a little of both. Reminded me of a time when Nic Cage being in a movie was pretty much a guarantee that you were going to have a good time watching it. This might still hold true for all I know, but I don't think I've seen anything of his post-National Treasure, which my loyalty to Dr Jones will not allow me to appreciate.

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but there's been a few Cage flicks he's made since those that I liked to varying degrees:
Face/Off
Bringing Out The Dead
Matchstick Men
The Weather Man
Lord of War

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Con Air is the one I remember truly sucking.

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Hence why I haven't seen a Nic Cage movie in like 4 years

Con Air came on tv and she left the room

I think she deletes Nic Cage movies off our Netflix queue while I'm asleep

It's not "hate", I think his face genuinely scares her.

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People can be stupid. Nic Cage is definitely a good actor... he's got more variety than most leading men nowadays. How many actors could do these action joints and balance them with stuff like Adaptation, Matchstick Men, Bringing Out The Dead?

Glad to have you on board. Now there'll certainly be lots of people talking about it at bare minimum, lol.

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Lord of War, Weather Man, Adaptation, ConAir, Face/Off. I am cool with Nic Cage, yeah he might miss on a few movies but no one bats 100 and if TNT is showing a Nic Cage movie before or after NBA I will leave it on to watch.

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>not many can be action stars and figure of them puzzles in dat
>natty trez...that's difficult!!! them puzzles hard and he
>figure it out, all the while conveying the emotional gravity
>of every scene.

But now that you mention it, this is trend is a little bothersome. Mostly for the retroactive aspect to it... Is the hipster community/anti-Bags media trying to tell us Cage *never* made good movies? Last time I checked he had a fairly strong catalogue. Shit, I grant the man a lifetime pass for 'Tiny Elvis' alone.

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Look at the articles in the OP:

"Cage is like an actor who might have been Marlon Brando and decided instead to go the route of Wesley Snipes."

"The answer, in part, is that Cage -- whose latest, "Knowing," opened Friday -- won an Oscar in 1996 for playing a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas," a gritty, brutal, honest movie, wonderfully acted (by both Cage and Elisabeth Shue) and which confirmed what a lot of people had long believed: that Cage was the most interesting actor in American movies."

People loved him in quirky roles and then he wanted to become an action star and they hated it. They were calling him a sell-out for doing The Rock and Face/Off and those are great action films.

Bruce Willis can be in a bunch of stinkers because nobody ever thought he was the greatest actor in the world. But the critics/hipsters LOVED Nic Cage and he's basically turned his back on the quirky indie world for the most part so they bash him.

A similar thing is about to happen to David Gordon Green. People are already harping on him for following up Pineapple Express with another comedy.

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>People loved him in quirky roles and then he wanted to become
>an action star and they hated it. They were calling him a
>sell-out for doing The Rock and Face/Off and those are great
>action films.

Although Id say if he was doing action movies at that level, there wouldn't be as much hate.

He tried to to the transition, and he's failed miserably. Even in his 'bad' movies, he usually players interesting characters, but its kind of depressing watch him act in a string of movies that would have been direct to video if his name wasn't in it.

he's put out so many shit movies. the last one i sorta liked was National Treasure which i can't stand to watch anymore.

that movie was shit and he was shit in it

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as if you thought a Nick Cage running scene couldn't get any better.

plus lots of Biel flesh.

yeah, that shit doesn't make up for it, but the scene where he dodges the bullet and the rolling tree are hilarous.

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yeah, they've been making bad movies for a while

but cage has NEVER been on their level.

as for the hate for cage?

i don't know, maybe it's because of the amount of shitty movies cage has made and his shitty acting in said movies? maybe it is his supposed fall from grace mentioned above.

i don't know. i used to really like him, but for a while now it has seemed that nic's presence in a movie guarantees taht it will be a shitty movie.

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under their belts

you really gonna compare con air to taxi driver or dog day afternoon?

name nic's best movies.

nic cage is a great actor with a big ass oscar to prove it. he's still making hit movies and those fuckin codgers make awful bombs and no one has started a bullshit movement against them.

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by picking shitty role after shitty role after shitty role.

and i agreed with you, pacino and deniro have been doing the same of late

but as cage has never ever been in the same league as them, i don't quite understand the relevance.

>you really gonna compare con air to taxi driver or dog day
>afternoon?
>
>name nic's best movies.

con air? really?

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Sorta wooden too... I almost wish he'd just do stand-up or start doing talks. His acting and role choices are screaming that he's talking about something else.

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But he basically said that instead of looking for crazy scripts, Hollywood likes to take fairly generic scripts and cast them with people that will bring all of the quirky interesting stuff with them to the role. Like Depp with Pirates. Anyway, I've only seen a few of Cage's 'paycheck' movies, but he seems like he's one of those dudes. He's in movies that aren't so good, but probably would have been worse, or at least less interesting, if he wasn't in them. Would Wicker Man even be a so-bad-it's-awesome cult classic without Cage?

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Nick the Actor, who is very subtle, human, vulnerable and really funny. He puts in really good work and can compete with just about anyone out there.

Then there's Movie Star Nick. Apparently, this Nick is never convincing nor does he seem to be in on the joke. He tries to come off as tough and effortlessly cool but always seems so manufactured and self-conscious. Not to mention, the movies he's in are usually terrible.


I'm a huge fan of Nick the Actor but I fucking hate the other guy.


Besides, if anyone spends enough time in the spotlight, people are gonna make fun. Do you think Nick Cage gives a fuck? He's gettin paid ridiculous money and got to work with Coen Bros., Scorcese, Jonze and Kaufman, etc. and won an OSCAR! Does he really need a crusader? The man is successful beyond most people's wildest dreams.

Nic killed it.


From him being fucking nuts as Caster Troy, to the more serious role as Sean Archer.

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it is great action and fun. Nic does kill it as Caster Troy, I wish we could have seen more of Nics Caster than Travolta's.

>it is great action and fun. Nic does kill it as Caster Troy,
>I wish we could have seen more of Nics Caster than
>Travolta's.

I know. The first half hour or whatever when Cage was just running around all nuts squeezing asses and shooting cops was awesome.

Travolta was over the top for most of the time when it came time for him to be Castor.

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if you can swallow the premise, i think you're good to go. i don't think a lot of people could get past it. i mean, travolta and cage don't look alike at all, even if you accept that their faces could be switched, their body types are different. LOL. but yeah, just like folk accept no one knows clark kent is superman because he wears glasses, i don't know why they couldn't roll with the premise...
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I mean personally speaking I can buy into the concept but there's tons of other films that are just as over the top that I can't buy into like the Transformers film (How can a awkward 17 y/o kid help fight a intergalactic battle?)

Nic's okay. I wouldn't see anything for him, but it wouldn't be a deterrant.

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I'm gonna go with The Family Man, directed by (yes) Brett Ratner. While it's completely unoriginal, it's filled with good performances (Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle, and Jeremy Piven), and Cage does a charming job as the lead.

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is underrated.

That's one of the best pieces of film acting I've ever seen. I've seen so many actors playing "drunk" and all that, and playing "miserable" or "depressed" or "dark" or whatever else you want to call it, NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY I've ever seen got it like Nic Cage got it.

Watching that movie through the years, I've realized there's a few problems with it (story moves a little weird, the pseudo-documentary bits with Elizabeth Shue make no sense because they have no context whatsoever, and no matter what you think of Shue's performance, Cage still acts her right off the screen), but the Nic Cage performance is TIMELESS. I watch that like I watch A Streetcar Named Desire -- JUST to see the performance of him and Brando.

oh but besides that, I'll throw Fast Times at Ridgemont High in there, too, where a young Nic Coppola gets about 30 seconds of screen time or something. Don't sleep -- he be making them hits even BEFORE he was Nic Cage.

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Generally speaking, I don't know how you can rated it any higher than "Oscar Winning performance"

I don't care about the award. That performance is one of the GREATEST SCREEN PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME.

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It means that most people disagree with you.

I'm not exactly disagreeing with you, playa. I think Nicholas Cage was great in Leaving Las Vegas.

All I'm saying is, you'd have a stronger argument if you said that Nicholas Cage in HONEYMOON IN VEGAS was an underrated performance...

Forget it. I'm being picky. I guess it can be underrated if you say it is. The important thing is that we both agree that he was great in Leaving Las Vegas. On a board where Basaglia and Orbit_Established are screwing with people just to do it, it seems pretty dumb to argue an opinion that essentially I share.

Although as a side note, I was never able to look at that performance the same way after reading an interview with Gary Oldman. He was like 'I'm a recovering alcoholic. Leaving Las Vegas was bullshit. Nicholas Cage was all smooth and cool. When you're an alcoholic, you're not smooth, you don't get the girl, you're vomiting and bleeding out of your asshole.' I'm paraphrasing but he definitely ripped into the movie and used the 'bleeding out of your asshole' line. It was hilarious. I still love the movie and think Nicholas Cage was great, but yeah, if I was an alcoholic I'd probably give this movie two thumbs waay down.

It's my understanding that it's quite faithful to the book by John O'Brien, who was a real suicidal alcoholic that killed himself while the film was in pre-production.

Maybe he heard Cage was being cast. Yowza!

But seriously. By the time someone is that far into being a drunk, it's how they operate. It's incredibly frightening.

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pity the movie falls apart by the end.

Each time I watch that movie, I love it more and more.

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and to top it off, it's absolutely an amazing acting performance. There are like 2-3 working actors in Hollywood I would have any confidence in coming close to that performance, and I doubt anyone could seriously eclipse.

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one brother for the other, even though they're played by the exact same guy. He was that good at creating separate presences for both of them.

I still have problems with the ending of that movie. Yeah, I get it. I know what Kauffman did and why. Still, it's less than satisfying for me.

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the studio didn't do a great job of promoting it so I wasn't expecting much and then it was in and out of theaters really fast.

Finally got it on a rainy day for 10 bucks and was very pleasantly surprised.

Frank I do agree about Family Man.

didn't care much for Cage's acting in the rest of the movie, but he really pulled off that scene.

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I would qualify that as underrated. It quietly went from theater to DVD. I don't remember any critic praising it, but I don't recall it being panned either.

Jared Letto went a bit overboard, but overall I thought it was a good, smart flick.

Cage was pretty badass as mob boss' son Little Junior.

although the most bad-ass scene in that movie is Sam Jack telling David Caruso that if he fucks with him he will personally beat him to death.

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And was very much the best part of it. The scene in the garage with Michael Rappaport? Fucking gangsta.

Yeah, and that Sam Jackson scene was dope too.

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he made almost immediately after getting the Oscar to 'action star' Nic Cage.

But I got the feeling he decided he'd mined all the quirky/supporting roles throughout the 80s/early 90s & then eventually was rewarded with an Oscar for a tortured lead role, so what next left to conquer but bringing his unorthodox brand to mainstream action films?

Him juiced-up and cut as Little Junior Brown (it was damn near shocking to see Cage like that for the first time) I think gave him the notion and studios a visual for how he might actually be able to pull it off, plus have the 'Oscar Winner' tag preceeding his name.

The movie is/was probably better known as the role Caruso basically quit NYPD Blue to roll the dice on but the Cage effect cannot be overstated to me.

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but there were some other elements I liked as well.

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because it falls into that same "great directors' third-tier films" category as stuff like 'the man who wasn't there', 'barry lyndon', etc etc. when the fact is those films are actually >>> a lot of lesser filmmakers' top-tier stuff.

an obvious riff on the 'taxi driver' theme but still some good stuff there.

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and for some reason, i was instantly drawn into it. completely engulffed in what they filmmakers were selling me. he played both the protagonist and an absolutely reprehensible human being. come to think of it, everyone in that movie is villainous.

The kids call his overweight daughter "camel toe" and she decides to smoke cigarettes, and take up archery...why? who knows?

i dont know what it is about that movie, but i watch it everytime it comes on demand or hbo.

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how bout Peggy Sue Got Married or Moonstruck

That's gotta be my favorite Christmas-season movie. They usually play that on TV around Thanksgiving and it just sets the tone for the holidays. Love that movie.

Nic Cage is my boy but he is definitely hit and miss lately. Still have mostly fond memories so I'm not gonna hate.

Cause I've been trashing every piece of shit film he's put out for years now. Now, I'm not gonna claim he lacks acting skills, because he doesn't. My problem with him is that he often chooses not to use them and ends up with movies that are about as watchable as a home movie of your own birth.

He's honestly the only actor that, if I see his name attached to a film, I assume the film to be shit. If, and only if, it gets glowing praise, then I'll consider watching it.

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