OPO: Nicolas Cage's Worst Movie

Oh yeah, Peter O'Toole, he's another one

The one in which he won a lottery, what was that named?

Jaws 4 no question

The Wicker Man might be my favorite movie of his since Snake Eyes, even if that opinion is smothered in irony sauce.

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Nicolas Cage wasn't in "Jaws 4" was he?

leaving las vegas. i haven't seen most of the undoubtedly awful movies on this list, but even the smidgen of matchstick men i saw was better than leaving las vegas.

oh man, i forgot about FIRE BIRDS

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008L3UF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Yeah, it's hard to hate someone when you don't actually see the movies he's in that are supposed hateworthy.

These are the only Nic Cage films I've seen:

World Trade Center (2006)
Adaptation (2002)
Face/Off (1997)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Moonstruck (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)

also, Lord of War is the best movie no one's ever seen.

ts: Leaving Las Vegas vs. Honeymoon in Vegas

I've seen 7 of these, I think. I haven't seen Ghost Rider but I voted for it on GP.

lol I think the only person who likes National Treasure

i liked it ok! i don't understand the vitriolic reactions around here to such a harmless, fluffy movie.

as for my vote, i'd go with "Gone in 60 seconds"

the weatherman is REALLY good. and lord of war is pretty decent! and i still think Adaptation is way, way better than Eternal Sunshine

waht

8mm is the worst film ever made so it walks this.

I really do not get the love for Adaptation, such a cop-out of a film

Cage IS decent in it - he pulls off the twin thing well - but I remember feeling the film didn't take advantage of its best ideas.

His accent in Peggie Sue Got Married is something to hear.

Adaptation = Eternal Sunshine without the twee emo crap and narcissism (ok, less narcissism)

but... they're completely different movies about completely different things! And Adaptation has an even shittier twee-Hollywood-happy ending!

Adaptation is a great movie.

Eternal Sunshine = Adaptation without the meta crap and narcissism.

you people are crazy.

STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE

I don't understand why anyone would think its so great to make a shitty film that tries to explain away its shittiness with a completely transparent "I MEANT to do that, because I'm rebelling against Hollywood" subtext. Its way more smug and self-serving and boring than anything in Eternal Sunshine - which is probably the most moving, genuinely emotional "romantic comedy" I've seen in at least 20 years.

Eternal Sunshine = Adaptation without the meta crap and narcissism.

that's funny!

i think i find the characters in Adaptation more interesting. more adult anyway...i think the subjects of grief and love in that film are more subtle, and definitely less sunk into the detritus of a failed relationship that isn't that interesting to begin with.

i think, however, that a lot of the problems with Sunshine are more due to Gondry and the performances than the script as written. it required a more detached eye, for my taste.

I don't want to get into this Adaptation v. Eternal Sunshine zero-sum game. I don't think Adaptation's "smug" at all, though. it's fucking weird and awesome.

so i guess im saying Jonze/Cage >>> Gondry/Carey

(and Kate Winselt is the onlyl reason Eternal Sunshine is even watchable as the sad sack bullshit it is!)

I guess its safe to say Adaptation won't be winning this poll

I think part of the problem with Cage is that he's been making movies really often for so long without much obvious aging or physical change, and the marketing of like 70% of those movies has made them indistinguishable from each other, even once you've seen them. One called The Family Man and one called The Weather Man and another called The Wicker Man (plus Matchstick Men!), at least 3 movies that take place in Las Vegas, and I don't really know the difference between Windtalkers and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I like The Rock and 8mm in a kind of campy way, I like Raising Arizona and a few others more sincerely (Lord Of War looks promising), but really they all kind of blur together and his character/performance is only really unique or distinct in a handful.

and I don't really know the difference between Windtalkers and Captain Corelli's Mandolin

one's set in the European theater the other's in the Pacific theater

i don't think adaptation is smug at all. it's worried about smugness, it contemplates smugness, but if anything it's anti-smug. and i think the ending is funny and smart and coherent with the rest of the film.

I like him more than Morbius does, and yet somehow have seen way fewer of his films

I like Adaptation a lot, I just like Eternal Sunshine better.

i don't think adaptation is smug at all. it's worried about smugness, it contemplates smugness, but if anything it's anti-smug

this holds true for two thirds of the film, then it collapses in on itself. The problem: criticizing the ending means you're not "in" on the joke.

what joke?

"It's only a movie, written by a guy who can't think of an ending."

is Birdy the only film for which he shaved his chest? (and even at 20, that was a lotta work)

a question for the ages

vs the question of why ppl wanna rehash goddamn Charlie Kaufman fights that are 3 years old

he's terrific in Wild At Heart and Red Rock West.

seriously it'd be great if some journalist asked Cage the chest-shaving question in an interview for whatever shit he's working on now

no one is terrific bearable in Wild At Heart

He's also got the biggest toes of any major Hollywood actor.

FACT

PRINT IT

I kind of want to see National Treasure 2 - never saw the first one, but this one looks goofy and not at all serious.

Good sometimes, but seems to act a lot for paychecks - always easy to spot the ones that are going to be crap (like the one where he walks around Manhattan w/ bow and arrow??!) and avoid them. Doesn't really deserve kudos (fuck an Adaptation) or hatred.

He shaved his chest for Valley Girl.

I enjoyed both Lord of War and Matchstick Men.

I also like the Rock and Con Air for what they were.

8mm and Gone in Sixty Seconds are two of the worst movies I've ever seen.

He shaved his chest for Valley Girl.

nope. I thought so too, and looked it up, and his chest hair is right there on the poster.

http://videodetective.com/photos/053/002239_26.jpg

Ouch. "A Score To Settle" (2019). OUCH!
Has a death scene to rival that of Peter Sellers' bugler in "The Party". Not kidding.

Still doin it:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6372694/

Whether that's gonna be good or not probably depends on how much one would want to see Boomtown Festival: The Movie

Impressed that there's barely any mention of Deadfall itt. But it may actually be the greatest of all his performances so maybe it has no place here.