Oh God. That's worse than Cage as Superman.
It pains me to say that I like Adaptation despite Cage.
He used to be immensely appealing. Not so much lately -- he hasn't matured well -- but I could sit and watch a young Nicholas Cage all day.
Cage has had some horrendous plastic surgery, from the looks of things. But I didn't understand his appeal even in the old days.
the idea of Cage screaming, "VEEENGEEEAAANCEE!" is a riot, however.
What is it about Cage that's so annoying? It's hard to place. I did like Bringing out the Dead.
He used to have a fetchingly naive sort of thing going. Think of him in Moonstruck or Raising Arizona; not stupid, but somehow innocently loopy.
Cage has had some horrendous plastic surgery, from the looks of things.
Is that it? He's certainly weird looking these days.
When did Cage go from doing comedies to more angsty movies. For me I think Snake Eyes followed by 8mm marked Cage consciously trying to play a different type of role.
I just can't see him as a leather-clad outlaw motorcycle racer. Even if Ghost Rider was a pretty clean cut motorcyle racer back in the early 80s.
[I tried to google for a picture of Ghost Rider back in the days when he was hanging out with Team America but this doesn't show much]
I thought the accepted theory is that Nicholas Cage is still a talented actor who simply has unimaginably poor taste in roles most of the time. Kriston, you thought he detracted from Adaptation? That's shocking.
Here we are -- older Ghost Rider.
I don't think that looks any more like Nicholas Cage than the modern GR.
(not sure what happened to this comment the first time I tried to post it.)
What was that Indiana Jones knockoff he was in? I saw the last twenty or fifteen minutes of that in happier times and man, it was terrible.
National Treas—
(vomits)
Movies I think Cage was good in:
Peggy Sue got Married
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck
It Could Happen to You (aka Cop Gives Waitress $2 Million Tip) (also, the movie is terrible)
Leaving Las Vegas (a rare moment of agreement between me and the academy)
Face/off
Adaptation
and Matchstick Men (despite the twitchiness)
I've heard he was quite good in:
Vampire's Kiss
Red Rock West
Wild at Heart
but to my great shame, I have not seen any of those.
I liked Snake Eyes. Red Rock West was pretty good but The Last Seduction was better (same director, same spirit; also, Linda Fiorentino.... rrrowr.)
Totally agreed on Fiorentino and Last Seduction (except the part about it being better than a movie I have never seen). I was going to say it also features Bill Pullman's best ever performance, but I could see arguments for Zero Effect. Or nostalgia for Spaceballs.
I saw Snake Eyes in theatres and thought it was so bad that I have purposefully avoided seeing it again. And I like a lot of De Palma's work.
Jeez, I read that plot summary for Ghost Rider; Scientology makes more sense.
You know, I never understood the appeal of the "extra violent" marvel books, such as Punisher or Ghost Rider.
FL,
You've intimated that you saw Batman...at the end, did there seem to be any, hrm, "loose threads" to you? I'm trying to ask without giving away spoilers. Basically, either I missed it or the gas trouble wasn't resolved. In brief looks around the web, I haven't any other people complaining about it, so maybe it's me. On the other hand, I went with 2 other people, and none of us saw the issue resolved. I need confirmation.
re the gas problem—there's a scene towards the end where he buys some beano.
the idea of batman sneaking up on a villian but being given away by a loud fart is quite humorous.
Michael- I saw it last night, I hadn't thought about that. Now that I do, you're pretty clearly correct. Batman only managed to reduce the scale of the problem.
OMG this ju5t occured to me!!1! Batman is so strong because he is a NINJA, right? And NINJAS have POWER that is REAL and ULTIMATE! So when BATMAN fights RA'S AL GHUL neither can win bec4use they're both NINJAS and they both have ULTIMATE POWER mean1ng they are NECESSARILY EQUAL. But, think if you have 500 NINJAS fighting 1 NINJA. You would th1nk that the 500 NINJAS would win, but they wouldn't (you stupid dumbass!)! 500 x ULTIMATE is still ULTIMATE! Isn't that AWESOME!
Michael, that was sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.
Basically, either I missed it or the gas trouble wasn't resolved. In brief looks around the web, I haven't any other people complaining about it, so maybe it's me.
Batman only managed to reduce the scale of the problem.
Once it's contained, they can go back and take care of the people in the affected area, no? Though there does seem to be a time issue that doesn't get addressed.
But isn't that a lot of people, including all of the police? And the time issue is two weeks, right?
I was trying to be vague; don't think I was vague enough. Sorry.
Two weeks? But there was all that rushing to get her,/i> to safety.
two weeks is what Morgan Freeman needed? I couldn't quite remember, but I knew it wasn't immediate.
Nick Cage was at the same show in Vegas as i was a couple of years back. It turns out that either he bought his house from Tom Jones or vice versa, (it was a Tom Jones show in Vegas, its not unusual for those of us who go to these things with a certain sense of irony to be pretty drunk when they start). This scored him major points in my book.
Wild at Heart, Red Rock West, Moonstruck and Raising Arizona all rate. Saw that codetalker thing while in hotel not too long ago. Ugh. Not as bad as harrison Ford, who has now reduced acting to a continuous pained expression, mostly because Cage is more mobile in his now uniformly bad acting. Con Air was on cable last night. And the cast was amazing, although there was a lot of phoning it in going on.
And there are good tamales in Reno, not far from the Hilton.
I had the same thought re: Batman. I figured all those people were goners. And would be rationalized away Buck Turginson-style.
Indeed, I cannot deny that my mother has a turgid son, videlicet, my own self, both physiologically, as any member of the fairer sex to have encountered my intumescent member can vouch, and figuratively too, as I challenge even Góngora in the use of ornate ποικιλια.
