OPO: Nicolas Cage's Worst Movie

think The Weather Man was one of the best movies I've seen this decade, and lot of it was due to Cage and Michael Caine

Two of my least favourite actors in one film - thank Buddha I've never seen it

how can anybody hate Michael Caine

All these movies you guys are mentioning are worse than _Ghost Rider_?

Like I told Shakey on another poll yesterday, Nicolas Cage was BORN to sell out, so there's no need to rend our garments over a talent betrayed. The burden of proof is to show otherwise.

I voted for "Wicker Man", based on the clips I've seen on "YouTube". If there's a worse one than that, I don't want to even know about it.

how can anybody hate Michael Caine

Ha ha, I don't hate him, I just don't think he's a very good actor - though he has occasionally been good.

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

you are talking a pile of poo re: Michael Caine.

But the answer to that poll is Jaws 4: The Revenge.

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

Bad Lieutenant may be may favorite Cageflick, it seemed to have sank like a stone but if you like Nic Cage as much as I do you should enjoy it; it's basically Nic Cage flipping out on random people for a good hour and a half. Very much like The Vampire's Kiss (another A+ flick in my book). I don't think he's ever made a bad movie. Even the terrible stuff like Season of the Witch or Ghost Rider is at least funny because he's in it. Also, keep in mind that these are my favorite things that Nic Cage has ever done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkw-5htPw0

"I don't think he's ever made a bad movie."

I believe it when people say he's totally without self-awareness because NEXT would have been saved if
Cage was at all aware about what it is people want to see him for, instead of playing a corpse the entire movie.
Even worse than Affleck's stab at PKD.

I admire Cage as an actor because he seemingly does not give a shit about what roles he takes and whether it's good for his actorly "reputation". Of course this means that he'll appear in lots of shitty movies but 9/10 times they're watchable because of him.

I think my personal Nick Cage turning point was Wicker Man, because no other actor could pull that kind of ridiculousness off. Wicker Man would just be a bad remake of a classic horror flick instead of a hilariously batshit bad remake of a horror classic.

I was down on Cage for a while then saw him in Kick-Ass, where he was gold through and through--he knew exactly what to do with that role. Very disappointed that the makers of the Green Hornet flick didn't let him do his jamaican-accented bad guy.

I think my personal Nick Cage turning point was Wicker Man, because no other actor could pull that kind of ridiculousness off.

That's basically why I like the man so much. Lots of his roles - The Vampire's Kiss, The Weather Man, Bad Lieutenant, Kick-Ass, etc. etc. just could not be done by anyone else. I mean the guy acts like a lunatic in every movie (and his off-screen persona backs this up) and plays every role 110%. The scene where he eats a cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss" wasn't even in the script!! He just suggested, "I think it would be better if I ate a cockroach here", so he did it. Daaamn

yeah idg how anyone can hate on someone this batshit - he's game for anything. Nothing's beneath this guy. If Tommy Wiseau wanted him to play a dog he'd probably do it. you gotta avoid half his films like the plague but I can't imagine a cinema without him. Also would love to see a super-insider doc about him blowing his millions.

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.