Jack Straw

I liked him in:

Leaving Las Vegas
Honeymoon In Vegas
The Family Man
Adaptation

hanshotfirst1138

I think he works best when either a director is cracking the whip over him and telling him to do acting rather than his usual shtick like Figgis did, or if he's in a movie which is already in a hyper-realistic world like Kick-Ass or Face/Off where his manic style can better suit the film. He's kind of long lapsed into self parody at this point. Most of his work is a step away from being DTV stuff now. But as his uncle directed Apocalypse Now, I'd imagine it gives him considerable sway. I've met Christopher Coppola, and he really looks like him. I didn't have the guts to say that to him though .

Thrush

Thats my issue with him. When hes bad, hes reeeeeaaaaaaallllly bad. And of late hes been bad in the majority of the roles Ive seen him in.

PhantomStranger

He'll appear in anything for a paycheck. Rage was an utterly generic crime thriller, but the producers must have been paying very well for big names in its cast. Cage remains a talented actor but he's not getting offered the premier scripts anymore.

http://www.doblu.com/2014/08/12/rage-blu-ray-review/

William Fuld

My Other Self

Agreed on all of these. I'd add Raising Arizona, Bringing Out the Dead, Joe, Peggy Sue Got Married, Kick-Ass, and Lord of War.

As guilty pleasures, definitely Con Air, The Rock, Gone in Sixty Seconds, National Treasure Treasure 1 & 2, Ghost Rider 1 & 2, and Face/Off.

For all the shit he's done, he's really been in a lot of decent stuff.

DaveyJoe

Nic Cage is more entertaining than Sean Connery in The Rock, he carried that movie, which is the only great movie Michael Bay made.

brayzie

Yeah, I think that Cage would have made the character come across as more cartoonish. DiCaprio was perfect and it was his features and portrayal that made the Candie unique.

After finding out that Nicolas Cage is related to Francis Ford Coppola I wondered how much nepotism was involved in his career and how much of it was based on his talent.
That said, I think he's done some great movies, like Vampire's Kiss, Kick-Ass, Face-Off, and Peggy Sue Got Married. I also like that he produced Shadow of the Vampire, a favorite of mine, and for giving the director of Begotten a chance.

Jaymole

I've posted this numerous times before, but it deserves to be posted as many times possible. The film is trying to be serious modern Noir, except for the scenes with Cage whose incredibly bad overacting turns this into a comedy classic:

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inri222

That's you get when casting a relative in one of your films. Sofia must avoid him like the plague. Watching that also made me feel bad for the under appreciated Michael Biehn.

DaveyJoe

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inri222

Never even heard of this :



Blu ray is coming out next month. From what I have read the film was taken away from Paul Schrader by the studio and was re-cut & re-edited without him. The results along with Cage's performance of a CIA agent with dementia who yells a lot, seem like they're a disaster.

Ash Ketchum

At a Christmas gathering we were all talking about movies and my ex-wife was groping for the name of an actor and came up with "the Coppola who doesn't go by the name of Coppola" to describe Nicolas Cage. That was the first time I've heard him identified that way.

inri222

Maybe she was referring to Talia Shire.

cungar

The Outcast, coming next month should change all this



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EddieMoney

Cage + Christensen = magic.

inri222

Wow was that hilariously bad. The only thing missing to make that cast gold is Tommy Wiseau.
What the hell are Crusaders doing in China? Another white guy saves the ethnic people movie.

Jaymole

"I am the White Ghost"

God, he is such an awful actor

Hazel Motes

He's also a great actor. Go figure.

AaronHernandez

If Roger Federer skips Australian Open to play a Dusseldoorf Challenges Tournament he is still an A grade talent. Same goes for Cage,sure he does a lot of crap studio films but when he is in good films he elevates them to great films every time. Very few actors can do that. He is still an A level talent

Jaymole

I never saw him as a great actor...he can be good at times, but that is the exception to the rule.

JeffTheAlpaca

His latest a Redbox exclusive.

JeffTheAlpaca

Now we need a John Cusack when did he become a B actor thread.

JimRochester

When you spend $2 million on a dinosaur skull that turns out to be stolen and owe millions of dollars in taxes you'll do anything for a paycheck. What's Cusack's excuse? Cage just trusted too many of the wrong people and had Johnny Depp style spending. There were a few of his I liked. Who can forget the flying Elvis', or "paper or plastic?" So much was just plain bad.

Ash Ketchum

When I visited a video store in Osaka two years ago, they had a Nicolas Cage section. Anyone know what these films are?