I’m a fan of fun popcorn movies. I know they aren’t great cinema but I enjoy National Treasure,The Rock and ConAir. But Raising Arizona is just a great film. One of my favorite comedies of all time. The trajectory of the early career of the Coen Brothers is bizarre and wonderful. Blood Simple to Raising Arizona to Miller’s Crossing. I think they could have made Raising Arizona with someone else but I think Cage was the perfect choice.
Spider-Noir isn’t a movie. It will be an eight episode series.
I watched National Treasure many times with my kids, and as a result have a real fondness for it. It’s good fun, plus every once in a while that other, crazier Nic Cage pops out briefly when he’s yelling…he can never fully contain it.
Oh also… it’s a helluva stretch but I’d probably go with Flash. I actually really enjoyed it one of the best superhero movies I’ve seen in a while.
Calling it a Nicholas Cave movie on the other hand, a leeeetle bit of a stretch to say the least, what with his part being a non speaking momentary cameo
Being a lifelong comic-book nerd, I enjoyed the Ghost Rider movies more than they probably deserved.
I have mixed feelings about Season of the Witch. The writers wanted to make a much better movie than the director delivered. You could see what they were trying to do. Unfortunately, the opening scene gives away the ending.
I immediately thought of Con Air, and it took several minutes to come up with Adaptation; but I reckon that’s because I love it so much, it’s in a different mental category for me, rather than ‘Nicholas Cage films’.
I also really liked Raising Arizona (and similarly like other lighter, more comic Coen brothers films) but another one I really liked was Peggy Sue Got Married, though he’s not the lead in that.
How about my (least) favorite movie that Nic Cage isn’t in: let me explain. Up thread there are a few mentions of his early role in Valley Girl, which I’ve come to appreciate lately after I recently rewatched it.
I noticed that the 2019 “remake” is airing on Prime, so I thought it’d be fun to watch. It was excruciating! They made it into a musical with lots of lip-synching, mob style dancing, and utter cluelessness as to what the 1980’s was all about. (They eliminated some of the best, if minor, scenes in the original: the “Fred!” “Stacy!” chase around the car; the friend whose mother think she’s in The Graduate; Laryn shamefully sneaking around after canoodling with Tommy; the hippie parents; and worst, losing the original music). Deborah Foreman and EG (Elizabeth) Daley have brief cameos, but that goodness Nic Cage skipped this mess.
Paramount and Perkins are keeping details in the basement but sources stress that this new Longlegs is not a sequel but something “set in the Longlegs universe.”
Nonsense-speak, I’ll bet they don’t even have a script. But Paramount bought the rights from Neon and then signed both Cage and Oz Perkins, so I’ll see it regardless.
I hate Cage. You look in my window and I will NOT be watching!
I’m kidding, just seeing how far I could go saying this in an appreciation thread. I like Cage well enough..the stuff he does with his face is kinda amazing.
Moonstruck and the one where he was a drunk and the prostitute falls in love with him are the ones I like)
While I would probably miss Raising Arizona the most, if it was erased from the world, let me be the first to name Red Rock West. Delightful little film noir.
