OPO: Nicolas Cage's Worst Movie

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

not only does he have chest hair, she can't stop staring at it!

There is a horrible touch of the David Schwimmers about that picture.

(like that's the worst thing about it)

do only non-brits rate michael caine these days?

in the uk the flatness of his accent was like being elbowed in the nose back in the day, more upsettingly potent than the ugliest stones song blah blah -- but non-posh accents on tv and film have shifted way towards the operaticly expressive in the britain (in my lifetime) (in fact in most of your lifetimes) and today it reads like overdone comedy shtick, a humorous straight-man character actor do-less tic even in his really strong early er "britpop" films (ipcress file, italian job, get carter blah blah)

wait, are you saying you like Caine or not, mark s?

accent nuances are lost on me, but I love him. he made me sob and sob in Children of Men

I most definitely remember the chest hair in Valley Girl.

Wanted to see The Weather Man but figured with NC's recent track record I could wait.

(also, Caine has given 2 of his best performances in the last few years in The Quiet American and Children of Men)

Now Michael Caine's Worst Movie - where would you start?!??!

The Hand. Demonstrably worse than Jaws 4

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

It was OK, but hardly great. Not fault of Cage, but it was Ethan Hawke that dragged it down

He trimmed his chest hair into a V for Valley Girl. There was definite shaving going on, just not the entire chest.

i'm not a huge fan, no* -- i guess i was just putting up the possibility tht brits had soured on him more for reasons beyond his control than non-brits, bcz accent has been mobile in complex ways (incomprehensible to non-brits and rightly so no doubt), and he kinda hasn't mobile along with this

the souring isn't actually to do with his qualities as an actor, more to do with the effect of social fashion on the style of his acting (so he could pop right back in again, easy)

*the ipcress file is great but it's partly because it's so hyper-dour it's funny

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

but no! (sorry morbs, i didn't get to have this fight 3 yrs ago.) the ending is the "adaptation" part -- the unfilmable Susan Orlean book evolving and adapting to fisurvive in a new environment (big-budget hollywood). just like the orchids do, etc. the whole thing is a riff on biology. or biological processes as an analog to artistic/creative processes.

survive, i mean. "fisurvive" is not a word.

yeah, that's correct. i think the reading that adaptation's all injokey and emptily "meta" is a pre-reaction to the movie--it's not actually like that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082497/

whoa. That looks JJ and Fluffy Bear caliber!

note to self: nobody calls it "the britain" any more

the unfilmable Susan Orlean book evolving and adapting to fisurvive in a new environment (big-budget hollywood). just like the orchids do, etc. the whole thing is a riff on biology. or biological processes as an analog to artistic/creative processes.

-- tipsy mothra,

this is all jolly well true, and i never want to see it again

i vote the Wicker Man, only because... THE BEES. god, that shit makes me die laughing.

anyway, LLV is really good, and certainly among his top 3 best films, if we're talking acting.

(ps-- i also liked national treasure, but only because it was just so stupid)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE

I remembered the bees, but I had forgotten how hilarious the rest of that montage is

I'm voting captain corelli's mandolin based on the name alone. how can that film be any good?

at least ghost rider and wicker man have some campy so-bad-it's-memeworthy value.

I see where shakey's coming from when it comes to cage's spent potential - the guy was never the 2nd coming of marlon brando, but during the 80s he did a lot of quirky little films and was generally well thought of, as least in my household (cf eric roberts).

now he's the guy talking about the craft he applied in his interpretation of the role of ghost rider.

he tried to REALLY get inside the MIND of a guy with a FLAMING skull

In Spain he is known phonetically as NEE-ko-la KAH-hay.

I kind of want to see "The Wicker Man" if only because he spends part of it in a bear suit punching out women.

Also: "HOW'D IT GET BURNED? HOW'D IT GET BURNED? HOW'D IT GET BURNED?"

I kind of want to see "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" if only because he spends part of it in a bear suit punching out women.

QED

omg

I wish I could find his method acting quote on ghost rider - something about drinking lemonade and listening to linda ronstadt albums and watching youtube clips of monkeys? think it was over on teh sandbox.

I totally remember that, dunno where it is though

here it is... it works best if you imagine james lipton asking the question...

What was something you really wanted in this character, considering how involved you were in the production?

Nicolas Cage: “It’s a deeply personal character and I was trying to find a new way of presenting how he would keep dark spirits at bay. I didn’t want him being a heavy drinker or a chain smoker. I wanted him eating jellybeans so he wouldn’t invite the devils in. I wanted him listening to Karen Carpenter to help him relax so he wouldn’t allow the devil with satanic Goth rock or something. Or, he’s watching chimpanzees do karate instead of The Exorcist. And, all three of those things I was doing in my own life. I was eating jellybeans out of a martini glass and listening to Karen Carpenter and on the Internet watching chimps do karate. And I thought, ‘Well this is funny, let’s put it in the movie.’ But it’s also true.”

more like methadone acting amirite

brando is turning in his piano right now

ho snap

that quote's kind of awesome. i'm using it.

just be careful in the wrong hands that quote could be dangerous

"With great megaroffles comes great responsibility."

I kind of want to see "The Wicker Man" if only because he spends part of it in a bear suit punching out women.

You kind of NEED to see the Wicker Man, but make sure you watch the unrated side of the disc. The BEES are not on the PG13-rated cut.

the minute he held up the girl at gunpoint and stole her bike i knew i was witnessing something special

Cage could easily turn his career around just by picking better movies. I think his acting chops are generally pretty well respected; he's certainly not someone who makes me cringe.

His movie selection perplexes me. You can't completely call him a sell out because he occasionally does offbeat things like The Wicker Man or The Weather Man. Yet neither can you label him as one of those actors who does a big budget film every once in a while so that they can sustain their supposed true love of more independent films; he just does way too many of those crap films.

One way for me to rationalize it is that maybe he's just a complete professional, meaning he no longer cares about a legacy or fame or defining himself. He just gets a role, does it (and does it well), and then moves on.

My gut feeling was face/off