Nicolas Cage is *probably* my favorite actor. Even when he's "awful", he's perfect.

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Only because he's perfectly himself and otherwise given massive amounts of screen time through association-Otherwise, he acts like he lives. Privileged. Hack-actor post #2, yer batting a thousand.

go watch "leaving las vegas" and tell me cage wasnt brilliant in that flick.

I loved the scene where he's on the dirt road and the plane gets dismantled.

I'm partial to Trapped in Paradise myself.

I never understood this scene to be honest. If I was Ethan Hawke and someone told me I had to let the guy I've been hunting all this time, I'd just kill him. They're not putting one of their own away for killing an arms dealer. The point is Ethan played this role like he had a singular purpose, like he wasn't wise to the game when the guys in his position always are or they're marginalized way ahead of time.

So if you happen to have spent your life hunting someone who is just the personification of evil and your told to let them go. Just blow their brains out please, take the moral hit for the rest of us.

You'd be treating the symptom, not the cause.

Besides, he already had the opportunity to do that out in the desert, and he chose his path. Unless of course you think that necessary evil is better than the gun runners' necessary evil.

middling screenwriting, but professional acting.

I used to jerk off pretending I was him when he goes in that choir and graphically hits on the choir girl. Does that make me a bad person? My wife thinks I'm a good person -- because I'm rational and I admit my faults. Even more so with my internet persona. But I have everything to live for and enjoy my moral compass, albeit living out heinous activity in my brain. This is my all time favorite Nick Cage!

Lord of War or Dr. Strangelove... who would I trade places with? Strangelove. Better deal.

Raising Arizona

H.I.: Wake up, Son.

[aims gun at the clerk]

H.I.: I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash ya got.

Ed McDonnough: [sees H.I. from the car] That son' bitch. That son of a bitch! You son of a bitch!

H.I.: Better hurry it up, I'm in dutch with the wife.

He plays super cheesy roles for the money and then you've got: Wild at Heart, Raising Arizona, Bad Lieutenant, 8MM, Leaving Las Vegas, ...

Watched it once, never to return-One of those once is enough flicks....Don't dig that 'window into slow demise' kinna flick(didn't LLV kinna put him on the map....Best Actor)?

He takes on roles as cage playing cage-I place him in the Keanu Reeves category of hactors as in, where are they now?
But you really can say that about any A-lister from the 80's-90's, Hollywoods' drying up on her corner and vine-Cage got roles and was handed prominence because of the Godfather, FFC.

Brian Cranstons' got more talent in his little finger, and he's done how many feature films???

Liked 'Next', but because of Jessica Beale and Julianne Moore, plus.....Philip K Dick story-and I'm about the PhilDick.

Can't watch Raising Arizona anymore-can't get a giggle from it-my chucklers' maybe broke....

(watching Lord of War now, revisiting it to try and prove myself wrong)

Me thinks you didnt understand the message of that movie. Or people.
Only very few people will turn into a murderer even in such a situation.