Easily ‘The Rock’. Nick Cage AND the final (non canon) 007 story all in one? YES PLEASE!
Finally!! This movie NEVER comes up but I absolutely love Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). Fucking classic and he’s great in it.
Okay he’s not the lead but he’s like the main co-star.
Love love love this movie
8mm. So gritty and seems like it could really happen
Lord of War
Here’s the intro to Lord of War. I love the little smirk he pulls off at about 45s.
by far the best movie he’s ever been involved with. Good performance too. Leaving Las Vegas is another good performance.
Wow. I never watched because the premise didn’t look interesting, but that’s quite an intro
The movie is quite good to be honest.
I guess I’ll add it to the list then. Thanks
Bath of blood
Shame about the real world parts. Ruins it for me these days.
The Rock and Con Air are tied for me. Con Air’s cast is star studded and Nic Cage with a southern accent is fantastic.
“Put the Bunny back in the box.”
Raising Arizona
The Rock. I’ll be taking no further questions.
Carla was the prom queen
“The color from outer space”
His slow descent into madness is great. It’s like him turning the Cage knob very slowly from 0 to 11.
Also imo the best Lovecraft adaption.
Edit: “Color out of Space” is the correct title. Thanks to the commenter below.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/
You might have misremembered the title there.
Absolutely, yes. Thank you for the correction!
No problem, just wanted to make sure people can find it because it’s a good one.
This movie is so fucking good because of him! I honestly want him to do more lovecraft stuff.
I don’t know how that film only has a 6.1 on IMDB. very surreal and I loved seeing him slowly turn up the Cageism lol
Raising Arizona by miles for me
Face/Off. Golden desert eagles, Nic Cage at his cagiest, John Travolta and Nic Cage swapping bodies, legitimately great action scenes, and Nic Cage grabbing a woman’s ass while wearing a priest costume. Just an incredible movie.
Pig, amazing film with a very subtle performance. The scene at the restaurant is absolutely brutal yet without any violence.
Pig is a masterclass in not telling the audience more than they absolutely need to know. I’ve gotten so sick of movies where the dialog repeats itself for the benefit of people who weren’t paying attention thirty seconds ago, or else it constantly spells out stuff that rightly ought to be conveyed by the actions of the characters. Pig is the antithesis of that. Characters hardly say anything that they don’t need to say, and everything else is left to the viewer to figure out. I fucking love it.
I loved the bait and switch where all the marketing suggested it would be a John Wick rip off but the movie turned out to be a lot more original
The Color Out of Space, I think he does really well in that and it’s scary as fuck.
The Wicker Man, because of the scene with the bees is priceless.
And of course, Mandy. I will not elaborate further, just watch it.
The Color Out of Space is one of the only films that left me feeling genuinely unsettled for days after I watched it. The other film that did this was Bird Box
Superman.
Wait…
I love “Matchstick Men.” Great plot. Fun characters. Chef’s kiss Cage freak-out towards the end.
This is the one I was looking for.
Kickass is the best surprise nic cage film.
Lord of war is the best serious cage.
Bangkok dangerous is the most cage being cage film.Best surprise for me was Linglegs. Took a while to figure out who that actor was.
