First off - HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAMS!!!!! My #1 fan is my grandmother in Nebraska who turns the big "21" today!! Or so:) Hope you have a wonderful day Grams!
This weekend was productive, but I also renewed my hatred for Nick Cage. I realize that there are movies that he's been in that aren't half bad - but I propose you take a second to consider how much better these movies would be if they had someone in them that could actually act!! My defense is as follows:
Exhibit #1: City of Angels - one of the worst movies ever. Only movie worse than this is:
Exhibit #2 - Ghost Rider - THE worst movie I've ever seen. It's been 2 weeks or so and I'm still not over the pain.
Exhibit #3 - Raising Arizona - this is a case of a movie that had potential, only to be shot down by Cage and his lack of being able to act.
Exhibit #4 - Leaving Las Vegas - Only reason to see this movie is for the attractive Elisabeth Shue.... don't try to follow it, it'll depress you (both for the plot and for Nick's acting)
Exhibit #5 - A "plethora" of movies that involve a cop/FBI type person who tries to be funny borderline psychotic but in actuality plays the EXACT SAME CHARACTER in each of the movies.... Con Air, The Rock, Face Off, Snake Eyes.... seriously - they all run together. I did see The Rock this weekend which is how this all started. Yes, it's a good movie (worth a B rating, maybe B+) but think how much better that movie could be with a REAL actor?!?!?! Only good part of that movie is when the guy says "I'd take pleasure in guttin' you boy" but then Cage repeats it over and over and pretty much kills all that is funny about it. Again - in these movies he is out acted by someone else be it Travolta, Connery, Malkovich (never try to out act John Malkovich), and in Snake Eyes a dog has better acting moments than Cage does.
Exhibit #6 - Bringing Out The Dead - probably the only movie where he was NOT the worst actor in the movie.... John Goodman was pretty crappy as well. Too bad as it was directed by Martin Scorsese who we'd all expect something better from him.
Exhibit #7 - Forgettable movies that you know you've seen but couldn't say a dang thing about: 8MM, The Family Man, Matchstick Men, Lord of War.....
Exhibit #8 - The Weather Man - a ton of hype on this one but it really sucked. Realize that Michael Caine pulled this movie out of the trenches from being a "worst ever" nomination.
Exhibit #9 - Gone in 60 Seconds and World Trade Center - I call it the "bad timing" theory where both movies came out and were over shadowed by better movies on the same topic. Fast and the Furious was much better as was United 93.
Exhibit #10 - Ok, so there is one movie that he's done that is respectable - National Treasure. It's also my mom's "favorite movie of the month" (yes, it seems to change monthly depending on what she's watched on HBO in the past month). I enjoyed this movie (and still do from time to time since it's on HBO every other hour it seems) but I see they are coming out with a sequel..... not so sure on that one. This is one exception to his "sucking" rule.
That's it for today - have a great MONDAY!!!!
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3 comments:
City of Angels wasn't that bad. I'd put it 3rd or 4th on my list of Cage movies.
I rather enjoyed City of Angels. I've never been caught so off-guard by a plot twist as I was in that movie. A great tragedy movie.
FYI - Gone in Sixty Seconds was out a year before The Fast and the Furious.
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