I'm not sure if this 1998 interview from the New York Times Magazine is what I was thinking of, but in it Penn makes this comment: If that was his opinion ten years ago, imagine how Penn feels about Cage these days!

i think the weird receding hairline he's got going on is more of a trademark for him.

My favorite was from 8mm

"I'm TRYING TO UNDERSTAND!!!"

The only film I honestly like him in is Adaptation...well not him..but his acting. Spike Jonze rocks....

For every The Weather Man, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, and Leaving Las Vegas; we get Knowing, Bangkok Dangerous, National Treasure, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Next, Ghost Rider, World Trade Center, The Wicker Man, Windtalkers, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and Gone in Sixty Seconds (for starters).

It boggles my mind that the man has acted in some great films, but also has acted in a good chunk of the shittiest films this decade has brought us.

My friends and I like to have a drinking game to Nic Cage movies where you take a drink every time Cage makes a stupid face. Everyone ends up drunk about an hour in.

Wouldn't suprise me... Penn should take a page from Cage and lighten up a bit...

In terms of the talking calmly and then OUTBURST thing, they just did a bit about this on SNL a couple weeks ago. Only the actor in that skit was John Malkovich.

...no. I like Penn as he is...heaven forbid he eases it up and goes the Cage route.

Because the Three Stooges are serious cinematic business.

Based on the thread title, I thought that Cage had "went Bale-astic" or something. I'm copyrighting the previous phrase, btw

Shit I forgot about that....ugh...is it really official?

Not really. Mann and Pacino had envisioned Pacino's character as mild coke user. That's why he had the ocassional outbursts and erratic behaviour.

The Wicker Man remake is a hilariously perfect example of his raging outbursts. Plus you get to see him running around in a bear suit.

Al Pacino has played a lot of closet cokeheads over the last two decades then.

I like The Rock

Actually that's half true...Yes, they envisioned him as a coke user of sorts but that take was totally improvised...Hank Azaria's reaction is real..he didn't know how to react to that.


Also about The Rock...I like the cool action scene in the shower room..and any scene with Ed Harris. Cage sucks throughout...hate his character.

I've never liked Nick Cage. He really isn't that great or even good of an actor.

He did fine in Adaptation and Matchstick Men...

Wild at Heart
Leaving Las Vegas
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck
Adaptation
Bringing Out the Dead
Birdy

Other than these films

Fuck...I never got to see Bringing Out The Dead...seems like the DVD was discontinued..hrm..wonder if there will be a new and better one? Though..it is $5.83 + $2.98 shipping from a seller on Amazon...so that's a good deal for the flick too. Any special features on the DVD?

Cast and Crew Interviews - 11 minutes
2 theatrical trailers

Nicolas Cage is so money.

grrrr...hurm...what are the chances of this film getting a rerelease on DVD? It's not a big Scorsese film for sure...so I dunno. Guess $9 is a good deal for that...eh..it's mine now.

Con-Air was outburst free.

Cage has done more crap obviously. But I think his career stacks up pretty well against Sean Penn's. I started a thread on that very subject years ago.