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| ehle64 |
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marantzo wrote: I haven't seen Arizona Rising in an awful long time.
I never have, although, sometimes I feel like my Mercury retrograde is in Nevada. . . |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:06 am |
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Ghulam wrote: Entire career, as Ehle said.
Did you see Adaptation? Leaving Las Vegas?
It's been a while since I've seen Raising Arizona and I like that movie a lot, but as far as acting goes - based on Cage's entire career, I was more impressed with his roles in the first two films I mentioned above.
As far Cage's action roles, very few of them impress me. The Rock and Face/Off are a couple that I liked him in. |
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| unohoo |
| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:13 am |
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Ghulam wrote: Fifteen years later, a fourth or fifth visit to Coens' Raising Arizona yields as many belly laughs as ever before. It is absolutely on par with Fargo. Nicolas Cage has never been better.
I'm having this same experience with The Big Lebowski. I remember seeing it in theaters and liking it, but wasn't really overwhelmed by it. I watched it yesterday twice, and even though I know most of the lines it still cracks me up. The quotables alone would be a nice second income in t-shirts sales if done right. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:55 am |
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| Chilly, he was very good in the two movies you mentioned, but Raising Arizona was IMO his tour de force. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:59 am |
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| Sounds like I need to re-watch RA again. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:33 pm |
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| The 1999 Bollywood film Godmother is based on a true story of a widow of a murdered mob boss, who takes up his position and gets her revenge. Somewhat better than most Bollywood fare, it suffers from poor editing. especially during the first half of the movie. It stars the venerable Shabana Azmi. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:03 am |
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Nicolas Cage is brilliant in several movies--way beyond brilliant IMO--and simply terrible in some others. Leaving Las Vegas to me is unquestionably the high point of his career. It's one of my top five film performances of all time.
But Raising Arizona is also a great performance, as are Vampire's Kiss (not too well known but just as amazing a tour de force), Valley Girl, Matchstick Men, Adaptation, The Weather Man, the opening of Snake Eyes, and the woefully underappreciated Guarding Tess (Shirley MacLaine and Cage are a team made in heaven).
Cage can be very mannered at his worst--and sometimes at his best. Two of the worst performances for me are Peggy Sue Got Married and, strangely enough, Moonstruck, which most people seem to like him in. The genre/action movies (with the exception of The Rock and isolated moments in 8mm) are pretty much a washout.
An unknown movie called Deadfall, directed by Cage's brother Christopher Coppola, affords Cage-bashers a field day. It is arguably the worst performance of all time. I know nothing about Cage's relationship with Christopher, but this fascinatingly horrible performance, sabotaging whatever is left of the dull movie, speaks to sibling conflict. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:56 am |
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My son and I were talking about Cage this weekend, and he was saying that he liked Cage in all his many "Man" movies -- i.e. Matchstick Men, The Weather Man, The Wicker Man, The Family Man. So I replied, "And, of course, Capt. Corelli's MANdolin!"
I just do my best to overlook Windtalkers. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:59 am |
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| Saw An Inconvenient Truth last weekend. Gore is quite the showman and it's very well done. Much less polemic, and far more factual, than I expected. Gore is a class act. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:02 am |
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| I thought Cage was good in RUMBLEFISH, RACING WITH THE MOON and BIRDY. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:05 am |
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| and Cage was great in VAMPIRE'S KISS and WILD AT HEART. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:17 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Vampire's Kiss (not too well known but just as amazing a tour de force)
I agree with you (and Marc) about this movie. I think it is not so well known because it was hacked apart by the studio. Apparently, the director's cut is almost an entirely different movie. So there was a cloud over the picture from the start, and it was never really given a chance. But Cage is still great in it. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:21 pm |
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| I liked the very young Cage (and thought he was pretty hot). I think he started wearing thin on me after the "Elvis" impersonations. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:41 pm |
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| The other Cage movie I liked was Honeymoon In Vegas. Of course, Sarah Jessica Parker helped make it a fun film to watch. But she acted well alongside Cage. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:37 pm |
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| Oh dear heavens, two of my least favorite actors working today. I think I musta missed that one. |
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