Burn, Nic Cage, Burn!

how come it's not like FAMOUS bad like GIGLI, SWEPT AWAY, etc?

Who says it isn't?!?

How Nicolas Cage Spent His Way To The Poorhouse

Daily Beast broke this a couple of weeks back:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-03/nicolas-cage-compulsive-spender/

Shadenfreude

Oops, I can neither spell nor c.

i liked the manohla dargis piece:

What makes Mr. Cage such an unusual screen presence and an even more atypical movie star is that he’s habitually very good and very bad from movie to movie, and sometimes scene to scene in a single film. Unlike most movie stars, whose stardom is partly predicated on a recognizable, coherent, stable persona and the ability to deliver a similarly coherent, stable performance — George Clooney almost always delivers a George Clooney-worthy turn, no matter how goofy the mustache — Mr. Cage is reliably unreliable.

which ILXor bought his $1.6 M comics collection?

you iirc

On a sadder note, his dad died a few weeks back. He sounds like a pretty good character, actually -- a comp lit/cinema professor in the Cal State system for much of his career. But I admit to being amazed at his photo provided in the obit in terms of 'so that's how Nic will end up looking like':

http://mi-cache.legacy.com/legacy/images/Cobrands/OrangeCounty/Photos/0009166658-01-1_093152.jpg

But that also meant that Nic's had to look into selling the house his dad lived in -- which isn't far from here, just over in Newport Beach -- and this OC Weekly post has this story along with talking about how he's having trouble unloading the property:

We'll end with a personal (OK, second-hand) Nic Cage anecdote: He made no secret of his residency down here, as someone very near and dear to me recalled when he spotted the actor sunning himself in front of the abode on the Pen. No friends, no handlers, no studio goons, just an Oscar winner catching rays all by himself. But when a third friend tried to make small talk out of this to Cage (on a red carpet or in a movie junket cattle-call interview line, can't recall which)--in the spirit of "Hey, Nic, I understand you were just sunning yourself outside your house in Newport Beach"--the actor turned stone-faced, essentially denied ever having been there and explained a lot of people look like him.

Really? Like that?

It's absolutely believable to me because a couple months ago, sitting in a hotel room in the Midwest, I saw a repeat of a late-night talk show where the host (Conan, if memory serves) mentioned something very normal the actor had just been observed doing in public. Cage flatly denied it, explaining a lot of people look like him.

Bet he wishes those other guys owned that cottage on the Pen right now.

We have Sorcerer's Apprentice trailer

...

so can I just....

"A Pain That I'm Used To"???????????

what happened, I am confused

also does he just reflexively do every Jerry Bruckheimer movie regardless of what it is

I'm kinda wrestling with the fact that ten year old me would really want to see this, and is in fact still alive and kicking inside me someplace.

http://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0f7Muu8izqA/S0TR-9jKvEI/AAAAAAAABOc/l7QEik5sgEc/s400/DYLANREEVETheFonz.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0f7Muu8izqA/S0TQgQ8sTdI/AAAAAAAABNs/Qpzu0E_PB2Y/s400/BRYONMIDDLETONSho%27Nuff.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0f7Muu8izqA/S0Pj6vW59vI/AAAAAAAABM8/dwKSiDyDpH4/s400/COLINBRIDGEMANGandalf.jpg

wait one more

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0f7Muu8izqA/S0D17MRKn5I/AAAAAAAABI0/E2QNBWBpKKI/s400/DwightSchrute.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0f7Muu8izqA/SzZOsRHlHhI/AAAAAAAABEE/fNDJjDYWQw4/s400/Alvin.jpg

Oh well:

The fate of the sprawling Tudor mansion owned by the actor, who won an Oscar for his role in "Leaving Las Vegas," was decided Wednesday far from the baronial estate.

It was up for auction Wednesday morning -- along with a handful of other foreclosed properties -- on the steps of the county courthouse in Pomona.

After a rapid-fire spiel by the auctioneer, the bidding was opened at $10.4 million, far less than the $35 million that Cage had tried unsuccessfully to sell the house for.

To put it mildly, the house, though impressive, was not to everyone's taste. Real estate agent Bret Parsons, who toured it most recently in October, described the interiors as "fascinating and bizarre."

"The design was 'frat house bordello,' " Parsons said. "There must have been 300 comic book covers elaborately framed and hanging on the walls."

Model train sets on raised tracks a couple feet below the ceiling circled the inside of the breakfast room and two bedrooms.

That sounds more like hiring me at age 10 to do interior design. If it truly is "frat house bordello", I want pictures.

Here you go.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-04/53165264.jpg

coincidentally finally saw Leaving Las Vegas last night. really starting to feel like he's the same and every movie and it's just what's around him that decides whether its hailed/camp/crap.

same in every movie

love that the guy couldn't settle for just ONE graceland.

Did I miss an anouncement where Nic Cage announced he was legally blind or something? holy hell

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-04/53165311.jpg

much obliged for the pix

http://wonder-tonic.com/cageflix/

What is Cageflix?

Cageflix is the internet's leading Nicolas-Cage-centric, batch queue management tool for Netflix. It adds all availalable DVDs of Nicolas Cage movies to your Netflix queue.

Well then:

http://insanitypeninsula.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/world-you-just-got-caged/

His personal motto is "maximum violence immediately."

I wish Nic Cage was on Twitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-hiHUh4UQ

i mean... just... what?

explosion explosion explosion explosion magic car explosion satan

"what the hell kind of gun is that?!?" = my thoughts at about nine different points in this trailer

that chipmunks one has me crying.

What makes Mr. Cage such an unusual screen presence and an even more atypical movie star is that he’s habitually very good and very bad from movie to movie, and sometimes scene to scene in a single film. Unlike most movie stars, whose stardom is partly predicated on a recognizable, coherent, stable persona and the ability to deliver a similarly coherent, stable performance — George Clooney almost always delivers a George Clooney-worthy turn, no matter how goofy the mustache — Mr. Cage is reliably unreliable.

I'm actually starting to believe Cage is basically the same in every movie, and it's just up to the director to shape the work around this freak

it's not like he's brando trying on eight different accents because he has total contempt for the director. His sadface characters are of a piece, his coked-up loons are of a piece, etc. Whether one "manic cage" movie is better than the other really has little to do with him.

d'oh, I apparently wrote all this 6 months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otyP039Kbis

RIP or something:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/11/bel-air-estate-nicolas-cage-lost-to-foreclosure-sells-for-105-million-.html

"No! Not the witches!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR53RvUXhPg

In the Deadline Hollywood story on this they go:

In the Dominic Sena-directed film, Cage plays a 14th Century knight charged with transporting a suspected witch whose powers are suspected to have caused the Black Plague. Nice visuals, but is it a good Cage film or one of those he does for the payday?

Uh...

nic cage is nic cage

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nic-cage-birdhair.jpg

well this made my day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1-oquwoL8

movie theater near work has posters for Drive Angry and Season Of the Witch right across from each other, both with the word "hell" in the tagline ("All Hell Breaks Loose" and "This January Raise Some Hell" respectively).

"we're gonna need more holy water" in the Witch trailer is shameless

Hah, you could tell it was a paycheck film as soon as you saw the PG-13 rating in the trailer. That trailer doesn't hold a candle to "Your Highness."

about 40% of that clip is either Vampire's Kiss or Deadfall. Vampire's Kiss is kind of a masterpiece and Deadfall, I'd spared myself the memories -- until I saw these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhciDUvnlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1fEnhawu_k

Yeah that video made me wonder about Deadfall. Looks, uhhhh, "awesome". is it?

I have to watch that movie.

It's nearly unwatchable, except for every scene with cage.

The punchline to the director's bio = the author of the bio: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178876/bio