SNL had Nic Cage… and Nic Cage! Get in the Cage! Just hilarious: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-get-in-the-cage/1384659
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It helps if you are related is Francis Ford Coppola…cough cough nepotism cough cough.
How else would you explain “The Cotton Club” :eek:?
I came in to post that I love Lord of War, which came out in 2005 and features him.
Then I realized, I did mention Lord of War 3 years ago when this thread was new!
I’d also say that he is really good in Knowing and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, both which are more recent.
And, I’ll be the only one to say it, but I liked him a ton in Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an underrated movie.
Since last we checked in, we’ve had Drive Angry in which Nicolas Cage did a great parody of a terrible Nicolas Cage performance. I can’t figure out if he came ahead or behind on that one.
They’re pretty bad articles. The writer just listed the bad movies Cage has made and pointed out that they were bad movies.
Hey I liked Sorcerer’s Apprentice too!
Isn’t his Uncle Francis the reason he changed his name to Cage??
Though he’s one of the worst businessmen in Hollywood. He’s earned tens of millions and tens of millions and tens of millions of dollars in his career and yet his houses were being foreclosed on all over the globe and he had tax debts in several countries all through a ridiculous lifestyle and poor management. (At one point he owned about two dozen mansions, very few of them income producing.)
Didn’t his Goth hair band frontman son get into some legal trouble as well? Things like that can be expensive.
Cage & Sean Penn started out at the same time and in a few films together and were very close friends. When Cage started to really ‘go Hollywood’ and take awful roles just for the money Penn trashed the hell out of him in some magazine interview. Don’t know if they’ve spoken since. Of course, as great of an actor as Penn is, he’s also an incredibly pretentious, insufferable asshole IMO.
I don’t fault truly great actors for wanting to occasionally ‘pay the bills’ as it were (and living the good life ensues *major *bills). Michael Caine, Bruce Willis, Kevin Kline, Edward Norton, Samuel Jackson (and Penn) etc. have all done their share of popcorn-stinkers, but once Cage became bankable and joined the $20 million club his ratio of good to bad became way too low (and it included too many very, inexcusably, bad stuff).
True, but it’s hard to say if that’s due to greed or stupidity in recognizing decent scripts. Surely at some point he had his pick of projects, and he clearly made a lot of bad picks.
Or maybe not. Maybe he sucks so bad that his performance turns what might have been a decent film into crap.
I can’t believe that throughout this entire thread, FGIE was the only one to bring up this movie. Bringing Out The Dead is one of my favorites of all time. Love it.
He’s got the same philosophy as Michael Caine: “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” Fair enough.
I think the rest of us are still waiting for it to end.
Huh? No comprende mi amigo. (I don’t speak spanish)
He needs the money. Wikipedia:
More alleged debts are discussed on the page.
Sorry, it was a joke that wasn’t too clear. What I meant was that I liked Bringing Out The Dead enough, but I felt like it had four or five endings, so I was getting pretty exhausted by the end of the movie. I can’t remember where the best ending was, but I think if they chopped 15-20 minutes off the end, it would have been a much better movie.
‘Of course, I had to sell it because I spend money faster than I make it, but I’m sure the new owners love it.’
But, yeah, even without the money problems, can’t fault the guy for working, especially in films that let him geek out.
Sorry, I had to laugh out loud at that. Cage can’t act. He plays the same character in every movie - Cage - and that’s all.
I agree. His range is from wooden to woodener.
It’s his agent’s fault. NSFW Youtube clip.