# Is Nicholas Cage dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754 "2008-11-21T00:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/21 "2008-11-21T17:01:10Z")
Shirley Ujest: > [@](#): > > If you had Nicolas Cage as a dad and piles of money, you’d be weird, too. Not to mention that being named after Superman’s got to get a kid picked on a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/22 "2008-11-21T18:38:34Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Nick’s not dead…but his son might be: [http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg](http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg) > > I saw him on a news piece (TMZ, I think) and he’s just a growling goth dude who spews hilarious platitudes. What in the HELL is that? ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/23 "2008-11-21T18:42:01Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > I have checked his [IMDb profile](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/), and it turns out Nic Cage has made exactly six decent movies in a 28-year career: > > _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ > _Valley Girl_ > _Peggy Sue Got Married_ (which was decent _in spite of_ Cage, not because of him) > _Raising Arizona_ (plainly his high water mark) > _It Could Happen to You_ > _Leaving Las Vegas_ > > (Now, _Moonstruck_ **might** be decent, which would give him seven. I’ve never seen it, so I can’t say.) > > Everything else, as far as I can tell, is crap. I enjoyed Lord of War. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/24 "2008-11-21T22:49:41Z")
_ **Adaptation** _ is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/25 "2008-11-22T00:06:04Z")
What, no love for Honeymoon in Vegas? _“Would you please stop CRUCIFYING me with that!?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/26 "2008-11-22T00:16:46Z")
Adaptation was fun as hell. Weather Man was pretty good. Were his other movies so spectacularly awful? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/27 "2008-11-22T00:20:09Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > _ **Adaptation** _ is awesome. Right you are. Forgot about that one. Still gives Cage only 7 or 8 good movies (in my book) over the course of a long career. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/28 "2008-11-22T01:22:07Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Nick’s not dead…but his son might be: [http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg](http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg) > > I saw him on a news piece (TMZ, I think) and he’s just a growling goth dude who spews hilarious platitudes. > [@Kolga](#): > > What in the HELL is that? I think it’s someone well on his way to becoming a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/29 "2008-11-22T02:46:39Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Nick’s not dead…but his son might be: [http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg](http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg) > > I saw him on a news piece (TMZ, I think) and he’s just a growling goth dude who spews hilarious platitudes. Damn. I didn’t realize that he had a son other than the famous Kal-El Coppola, so I looked up that one ([Weston Coppola Cage](http://images.google.com/images?q=weston%20cage&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-38,GGGL:en&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi)). I thought he must have been born from a youthful indiscretion because the guy in that picture looks easily in his late 20s- if he said he was in his 30s you probably wouldn’t bat a kohl gobbed eyelash. [That kid is 17](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2000606/)! What’s funny- [same kid a couple of years ago](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/premiere_photo/20050906/03/1260535740.jpg). Someone should explain the difference between a look/a style and a costume. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/30 "2008-11-22T02:57:06Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Right you are. Forgot about that one. Still gives Cage only 7 or 8 good movies (in my book) over the course of a long career. Red Rock West was pretty good too, although perhaps for the wrong reasons. Still a decent neo-noir/remake. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/31 "2008-11-22T10:41:52Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > What’s funny- [same kid a couple of years ago](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/premiere_photo/20050906/03/1260535740.jpg). But… but… but… he looks completely hot in that photo! How could something so beautiful be so utterly destroyed so quickly??? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/32 "2008-11-22T11:14:23Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Damn. > > I didn’t realize that he had a son other than the famous Kal-El Coppola, so I looked up that one ([Weston Coppola Cage](http://images.google.com/images?q=weston%20cage&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-38,GGGL:en&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi)). I thought he must have been born from a youthful indiscretion because the guy in that picture looks easily in his late 20s- if he said he was in his 30s you probably wouldn’t bat a kohl gobbed eyelash. [That kid is 17](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2000606/)! > > What’s funny- [same kid a couple of years ago](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/premiere_photo/20050906/03/1260535740.jpg). Someone should explain the difference between a look/a style and a costume. Seriously. And didn’t the goth thing pretty much fizzle out a long time ago? I know all the kids were doing it way back when, but I thought it was kinda passe these days. I wasn’t aware an act like that would even draw an audience! [http://hollywood.premiere.com/photos/gallery/dimmu\_borgir\_170408/](http://hollywood.premiere.com/photos/gallery/dimmu_borgir_170408/) These are pics from his band. And I think he’s dating a MILF! ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/33 "2008-11-22T22:34:52Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > I think he’s got whatever it is that [Tom Hanks](http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Tom+Hanks+Da+Vinci&spell=1) contracted a couple of years ago. Actually, I was gonna say he looked like they grafted Nick Cage’s face on Hank’s Robert Langdon. And not grafted very well. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/34 "2008-11-22T22:43:52Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Seriously. And didn’t the goth thing pretty much fizzle out a long time ago? I know all the kids were doing it way back when, but I thought it was kinda passe these days. I wasn’t aware an act like that would even draw an audience! > > [http://hollywood.premiere.com/photos/gallery/dimmu\_borgir\_170408/](http://hollywood.premiere.com/photos/gallery/dimmu_borgir_170408/) These are pics from his band. And I think he’s dating a MILF! I hope not. Christina Fulton is his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/35 "2008-11-22T23:05:11Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I think it’s someone well on his way to becoming a woman. He looks kinda like that plastic surgery catwoman. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/36 "2008-11-23T01:00:35Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Actually, I was gonna say he looked like they grafted Nick Cage’s face on Hank’s Robert Langdon. > > And not grafted very well. …I thought it was Travolta’s body which received Cage’s face, and Cage’s body that got Travolta’s face? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/37 "2008-11-23T06:08:07Z")
I don’t see anything particularly strange about his looks. To me, he just looks the way most celebrities look without makeup. Ugly. It could be [worse](http://www.aww-kittah-aww.com/up/files/794/hairisabird.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/38 "2008-11-23T18:54:06Z")
Pardon my dumb, but what did Cage play on Fast Times? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/39 "2008-11-23T18:57:27Z")
He played “Brad’s Bud,” one of two such characters. Eric Stolz and Anthony Edwards played “Stoner Buds” 1 & 2. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/40 "2008-11-23T19:23:58Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Dude, get a comb-over or shave your head. Trying to deny the receding hairline like that is just _wrong_. > > Otherwise he looks about the same as normal. I don’t get this. What is he doing that he shouldn’t? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754.md?page=3)