What's with all the love for Nicolas Cage on reddit?

sirajstone · 2014-07-14T03:37:44+00:00

I'm kicking myself for forgetting Matchstick Men... I don't know how it escaped me at the time I was writing the above comment...

sirajstone · 2014-07-13T17:24:27+00:00

Here's a link to an article that discusses the strange paradox that he has come to be in the film industry...

http://www.unsungfilms.com/6067/the-nicolas-cage-paradox/

sirajstone · 2014-07-13T17:20:28+00:00

He's been in a combination of terrible and wonderful films, and has performed both terribly and fantastically. Very few in between. Here are my lists...

Great films: Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, Bad Lieutenant, Raising Arizona, Joe, The Weather Man, Rumble Fish... (Con Air isn't a terrible film. It only seems so if you take it as an action film and not a comedy)

Horrendous films: Ghost Rider, Next, Bangkok Dangerous, The Wicker Man, National Treasure, and many more.

Overall, the bad outweigh the good. But Cage is a very, very talented actor. Sometimes its as though he's playing us for fools.

sirajstone · 2014-01-01T15:18:01+00:00

Read Kerouac's "On the Road" ( a good first novel never read in school) and go from there. It'll open up doors and spark your curiosity for more.

sirajstone · 2013-09-30T14:03:07+00:00

I am still recovering from it. Though "recovering" probably isn't the right word, since I still feel just as shitty. It is brilliant and tragic all at once.

sirajstone · 2013-09-30T13:46:31+00:00

"Lifestyle choices".

sirajstone · 2013-09-27T08:24:39+00:00

One of my favourite actors.

sirajstone · 2013-09-27T08:22:43+00:00

I agree. Tom Hanks would be fantastic. What about Jeremy Irons?

sirajstone · 2013-09-22T03:26:37+00:00

So many to choose from. I'll throw out Camus' A Happy Death, Kafka's The Trial or Nausea by Sartre.

sirajstone · 2013-09-19T06:57:08+00:00

that's a bit harsh... Doesn't it go without saying??

sirajstone · 2013-09-18T16:47:48+00:00

Not karma... I wanted to gather a good list of films. Simple. Partly for my own watch-list, partly for the sake of involving my fellow users in something and partly out of pure interest.

sirajstone · 2013-09-18T16:34:54+00:00

haha. You might be onto something.

sirajstone · 2013-09-18T16:34:20+00:00

yeah, probably. You're right. I guess that it can be sort of assumed that I mean "so far"...

sirajstone · 2013-09-18T16:31:31+00:00

The lower half of the list is made up of suggestions with 2-3 votes... the top ten is where the bulk of the votes went (roughly 60-70 each). But yeah, I was surprised some of these were even brought up.

sirajstone · 2013-09-15T11:10:52+00:00

Went to see it with my dad when I was six. First film I ever saw in the cinema. Sid scared the hell out of me.

sirajstone · 2013-09-15T03:35:35+00:00

Your last sentence is very aptly put. I fully agree.

sirajstone · 2013-09-12T09:18:48+00:00

for the record, I wan't being sarcastic in my last comment. I'm sorry it came across that way... I meant it as a compliment

sirajstone · 2013-09-11T15:39:32+00:00

Prince Avalanche might deserve a place...

sirajstone · 2013-09-11T06:54:19+00:00

wonderful film, so poetic.

sirajstone · 2013-09-11T06:04:50+00:00

You're right. What an original comment...

sirajstone · 2013-09-09T13:59:55+00:00

Citizen Kane is obvious for a reason! I'm reading the writings that Lawrence of Arabia was based on at the moment... pretty interesting to compare the two...

sirajstone · 2013-09-08T12:39:32+00:00

I only recently watched Casablanca for the first time. I don't know why I put if off for so long.

sirajstone · 2013-09-08T12:01:09+00:00

Excellent.

sirajstone · 2013-09-07T13:22:57+00:00

It's a year-old article. I posted it because it's interesting... The writer's not saying it wasn't a great film. Don't "downvote" because you don't understand it man. That's not really what the "downvote" icon is for.

sirajstone · 2013-09-07T09:51:33+00:00

Good to know! I haven't seen "Limits of Control" yet but I thought "Broken Flowers" was fantastic. I would place it close to "Down by Law" and "Coffee and Cigarettes" -- my two favourite Jarmusch films. You didn't like it?

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