nicolas cage, the greatest entertainer of our - or perhaps any - generation (a POLL)

oh and i finally remembered to post one of these, of which i will be posting 4 more in the future.

the five to come at some point (incl. this):
- Top Ten Nicolas Cage Performances
- Top Ten NICOLAS CAGE Performances (you get the difference I assume)
- Ten Worst Nicolas Cage Movies
- Ten Worst Nicolas Cage Movies, But Like, Also Somehow Good
- Ten Best Nicolas Cage Movies

I already have my lists, just need to edit the photos and write the blurbs.

i love what you wrote about his performance in mandy there

In which Martin Short meets Nicolas Cage on an airplane pic.twitter.com/eTG4lBZkJ8

— Music Box Theatre (@musicboxtheatre) April 23, 2017

adorable tbh

clifford is a very odd movie.

i am no Nic cultist, but there was a NYT Mag interview this week w/ many quotable quotes.

not gonna waste one of my free article links posting, so one of you richies will have to.

My fave part (cant remember the exact quotes) was when he was talking about buying properties around the world as part of a search for the holy grail, and the interviewer asked what he meant by that metaphor and he was like "searching for the actual holy grail."

also, major influence on his acting method: Stockhausen

Did being a young man who was insecure about money color your attitude about buying things and what success looks like?

You have good investments and bad investments. The good investments came from personal interest and my honest enjoyment of the history. For example, Action Comics No. 1: I bought that for $150,000. Then it was stolen. I got it back and sold it for $2 million. But that was a good thing to have, because I had an interest that was sincere. The funny thing is, my real estate buying spree was what the real problem was. It wasn’t these other things like shrunken heads that the media liked to talk about.

Or that dinosaur skull?

Or an octopus. What is an octopus, $80? You’re not going to go into dire straits buying an octopus. The dinosaur skull was an unfortunate thing, because I did spend $276,000 on that. I bought it at a legitimate auction and found out it was abducted from Mongolia illegally, and then I had to give it back. Of course it should be awarded to its country of origin. But who knew? Plus, I never got my money back. So that stank. But I went years where all I was doing was meditating three times a day and reading books on philosophy, not drinking whatsoever. That was the time when I almost went on — you might call it a grail quest. I started following mythology, and I was finding properties that aligned with that. It was almost like “National Treasure.” Of course, that didn’t sustain. On top of which, I said, “I’m going to get off philosophy,” because I became like a kite with a string but no anchor. No one could understand what I was talking about. And I thought people would rather see me as an orangutan than as an eagle meditating on the mountaintop anyway.

Wait, what did you mean when you said you were on a grail quest and finding properties that aligned with that?

One thing would lead to another. It’s like when you build a library. You read a book, and in it there’s a reference to another book, and then you buy that book, and then you attach the references. For me it was all about where was the grail? Was it here? Was it there? Is it at Glastonbury? Does it exist?

Oh, O.K. I thought you were being metaphorical about going on a grail quest.

Yeah, if you go to Glastonbury and go to the Chalice Well, there’s a spring that does taste like blood. I guess it’s really because there’s a lot of iron in the water. But legend had it that in that place was a grail chalice, or two cruets rather, one of blood and one of sweat. But that led to there being talk that people had come to Rhode Island, and they were looking for something as well.

That’s why you bought property in Rhode Island?

I don’t know if I’m going to say that’s why I bought the Rhode Island property. But I will say that is why I went to Rhode Island, and I happened to find the place beautiful. But yes, this had put me on a search around different areas, mostly in England, but also some places in the States. What I ultimately found is: What is the Grail but Earth itself?

I find that grail quests tend to be more fulfilling when they’re metaphorical.

Well, I knew that, and the metaphor for me is the earth. The divine object is Earth.

He's so fantastic in Moonstruck. The hysteria of the earlier scenes sure but then following them with the scene at the dinner table (which took so many retakes diretor Jewison refused to let them break for lunch) where he does the best 'observing' routine you can imagine, he's almost motionless, just smiling and watching.. aw it breaks my heart it does.

This is great, bit disappointing to hear the Coens were kinda dicks to him, possibly an embellished tale though

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

(and the Alec Baldwin one of those is hilarious too.. )

that nyt interview is fantastic

nic cage is the real national treasure

I'm just glad he's out there, being Nice Cage. he's one of a kind. like, do you think Matt Damon or Leo or Brad Pitt or Matt Damon has ever said anything truly interesting?

Matt Damon's so forgettable you forgot you typed his name once before.

looking suspiciously like jimmy hart, the mouth of the south

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/08/11/magazine/11mag-talk/11mag-talk-threeByTwoSmallAt2X.jpg https://ringthedamnbell.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/mi.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Out_of_Space_(film)

Matt Damon's so forgettable you forgot you typed his name once before.

― omar little, Thursday, August 15, 2019 4:08 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao i meant to say affleck

mookie, i had that same thought; glad to hear it's not just me.

When Frank Walsh (Nicolas Cage), a hunter and collector of rare and exotic animals, bags a priceless white jaguar for a zoo, he figures it’ll be smooth sailing to a big payday. But the ship bearing Frank’s precious cargo has two predators caged in its hold: the cat, and a political assassin being extradited to the U.S. After the assassin breaks free – and then frees the jaguar – Frank feverishly stalks the ship’s cramped corridors in hot pursuit of his prey, right up until the thrilling, unpredictable climax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7UF9BMgKts

TAKE IT EASY WITH MY CAAAAT

gettin a Weinstein look

I've had it with this motherfuckin cat on this motherfuckin boat

hold on a second isn't this just Con Air with zoo animals

what's your point?

"just"

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so beautiful, truly elegant

cage is at risk of - if he has not already - being baconed

yeah I think that happened about 6-7 years ago

still think the entire essence of Nic Cage is perfectly captured in those 30 second Pachinko commercials he did for Japan

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

cage is at risk of - if he has not already - being baconed

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:42 (yesterday) link

Nah, he’s not Chuck Norris. He can’t be reduced to a bunch of dumb memes.

Cage cannot be caged

Color Out of Space was dope. visually similar to Annhilation (though obv Lovecraft predates the book that inspired that film).

Cage gets old-school Cage at times, there's laughs, but it's a visceral experience.

wish I'd gotten baked beforehand.

lmao is this the one with Tommy Chong in it

i wanna see this movie so bad!!!!

seeing it tomorrow; will pack goodies

and yes, chong is in it

He rules in it

how scary are we talking? i desperately want to watch this but my wife does not like anything too horror-adjacent.

not v scary but it gets pretty gory

when I'm down I love to revisit the pachinko ad where everyone is having bad luck but Cage, it cheers me up every time

it's disorienting but yeah not outright terrifying, outside of uhhh....well let's just say, what are your opinion on fingers

Muttered this on FB last night about it:

The basic framework of the story is pretty much the Lovecraft; Stanley’s dark humor is absolutely in full effect in many ways. The changes to make the story more immediately dramatic are a mix — couple of obvious moves here and there I wasn’t completely on board with, and it there’s a key change it’s that the alien presence is more active at various points instead of it being a slow, steady degrading (but again, drama for the story). Cage doesn’t start fully Caging until about an hour in — one particular moment garnered a spontaneous round of applause, which I didn’t expect, but then again, wasn’t sure how many people are just there to see Cage do Cage. Gorgeous looking film at many points, and Colin Stetson once again has an amazing score. In the Q&A from last week’s premiere they showed, Cage and Stanley talked about how _Ordinary People_ was a reference in ways on the family drama front, and I can see it. Lots of fun references here and there and there is one key reference that gets a specific visual echo right at the end which I enjoyed — suffice to say I want to hear Nathan Carson’s reaction to it (great adaptation BTW). Oh one big thing I did NOT like was that in the end credits one of the featured songs was some track by fucking Burzum. Whoever’s idea that was, it was shit, and if either Stanley or Stetson picked it, I’m gravely disappointed if so.

triple-bill this in between Fast Color and Annihilation, yeah

in terms of Cage-iness, it's very fun that he's a normal calm dad until he gets infected with an alien brain virus that turns him into ~Nicolas Cage~

although tbf this is to some degree also the premise of Mom & Dad (2018)

when I'm down I love to revisit the pachinko ad where everyone is having bad luck but Cage, it cheers me up every time

I love these commercials so much. There's a compilation on YouTube of all five which I have probably watched over a hundred times. They capture the essence of Cage so perfectly, there are a couple which basically encapsulate an entire Nic Cage movie in 30 seconds

so this is kinda "Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets The Shining as directed by Jodorowsky, starring Nic Cage and a team of alpacas". If that doesn't sell you, you're not gonna enjoy it.

About a half hour too long, the fx is occasionally corny as fuck and i found the sound design really annoying (quit it with the whistling already!) but it's generally a blast visually, especially for the last ten minutes or so, plus lots of lovecraft jokes if that's your thing.

Beyond that, my audience was roaring at every Cage-ism and I mostly was too. You'll definitely want to pregame.

absolutely awesome and p much as good as Mandy

v funny, v hyperaccelerated, v surreal and v v eldritch

Watched Deadfall over the holidays, to which that series of descriptors also roughly applies.