Nicolas Cage is the best (not the bees)

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Hi, do you have time to talk about our Lord and Saviour His Excellency, Messiah for Life, Field Marshal Sir Doctor Nicolas Cage, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of Cinema in America in General and Hollywood in Particular?

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Nicolas Cage AMA on reddit.

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lorcan_nagle

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lorcan_nagle

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lorcan_nagle

Okay, what are your favourite Nicolas Cage movies?

I’m not 100% settled on this one, because I haven’t seen all of Nicolas Cages movies yet, but my top 5 is probably:

Pig, Face/Off, The Rock, Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas

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lorcan_nagle, Dave

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lorcan_nagle

I thought the was pretty great in Adaptation.

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Bringing Out The Dead earns its rep.

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Todd

I’m going to claim Teen Titans Go To The Movies as one of his finest.

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Uncle Retrospective, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

I enjoyed him in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Rocket, Christian, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Dave wrote:

I’m going to claim Teen Titans Go To The Movies as one of his finest.

NICOLAS CAGE WAS IN TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES????

AND HE PLAYS SUPERMAN!?!??!!?!?!?

I’m watching that TONIGHT.

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Ben wrote:

Bringing Out The Dead earns its rep.

I forgot about this one.

Raising Arizona out – Bringing Out The Dead in!

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Andrew, lorcan_nagle

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Arjan Dirkse, Todd, lorcan_nagle

BRB, starting a topic called Nicholas Cage (the bees)

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Todd, Bruce, Dave

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Dave wrote:

I’m going to claim Teen Titans Go To The Movies as one of his finest.

NICOLAS CAGE WAS IN TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES????

AND HE PLAYS SUPERMAN!?!??!!?!?!?

I’m watching that TONIGHT.

It is genuinely one of the best superhero movies I’ve ever seen.

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Tom Cat, lorcan_nagle

We have friends who recently moved into a new house. Their first home decor purchase was a framed version of this, a2 (a1?) sized.

Pride of place at the top of their stairs, and pretty much the first thing your eye falls on when you come in their front door.

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Bruce wrote:

We have friends who recently moved into a new house. Their first home decor purchase was a framed version of this, a2 (a1?) sized.

Pride of place at the top of their stairs, and pretty much the first thing your eye falls on when you come in their front door.

This is the best thing I’ve read all day. Tell your friends I love them, will ya Bruce? They seem like FANTASTIC people.

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lorcan_nagle

Oh, and where can I buy one?

If I was 20 years older, I’d be Nicolas age.

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Oh, and where can I buy one?

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/800892841/nicolas-cage-portrait-poster-print?ref=share_v4_lx

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Bruce, Tom Cat

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The one-two of Con-Air and Face/Off coming shortly after his Best Actor Oscar is just an all time King move. I’ve long been a huge fan of his work, and for a top 5 would have Face/Off, Adaptation, Snake Eyes, Leaving Las Vegas, and I guess Wicker Man (it’s a bad movie but he’s good in it!).

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Anonymous wrote:

Okay, what are your favourite Nicolas Cage movies?

I haven’t seen Pig, Mandy and Colour of Space yet, and I fully expect to love all of those.
But I also don’t think it’ll make a difference where my all-time favorite is concerned:
Wild at Heart all the way, man.
Sailor’s reaction here is as cool as Cage ever got:

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Sean Robinson, Uncle Retrospective, Todd

By the way, great as Cage’s performance in Leaving Las Vegas was (and beautiful as Shue was in it), I couldn’t stand the movie. Figgis’ intrusive direction annoyed the fuck out of me.

Also, I stumbled across a Nick Cage movie I had never seen on TV the night before last: Bangkok Dangerous. I didn’t see much of it – it seemd pretty cliché and boring. But there was a scene in which he was doing actual Chi Sao and it looked somewhat authentic, which surprised me.

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Christian wrote:

I didn’t see much of it – it seemd pretty cliché and boring.

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Todd

lets see how strong @totallynotanders ‘s faith is

sucky Cage movies: Zandalee, Spirit of vengeance, Weather man, Rage, G-Force, Kill Chain, Primal, 211, Grand Isle, Between Worlds, 8mm, Family Man

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Rocket wrote:

sucky Cage movies: Zandalee, Spirit of vengeance, Weather man, Rage, G-Force, Kill Chain, Primal, 211, Grand Isle, Between Worlds, 8mm, Family Man

I’ve only seen one of those. So you better take back what you said about Spirit of Vengeance now, uncle Rocket!

I’ll get back to you about the others when I’ve seen them. They’ve been added to my list (which fairly soon will be replaced with Nicolas Cages IMDb-page in its entirety).

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Rocket

But on a serious note, I am quite aware Nicolas Cage has done more than a few downright awful movies. That doesn’t mean he’s a bad actor – He’s a great actor! I’ve rarely, if ever, seen something where I didn’t appreciate his work. And if I have I would probably re-evaluate my positon as I work my way through my suddenly very long list of (Nicolas Cages) movies I need to watch.

Bias?

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Anonymous wrote:

But on a serious note, I am quite aware Nicolas Cage has done more than a few downright awful movies. That doesn’t mean he’s a bad actor – He’s a great actor! I’ve rarely, if ever, seen something where I didn’t appreciate his work. And if I have I would probably re-evaluate my positon as I work my way through my suddenly very long list of (Nicolas Cages) movies I need to watch.

Bias?

He’s a very good actor, we all know he lost all his money, so he’ll sign up for any old shit, with the good stuff probably happening by fluke nowadays.

I think similarly Kevin Bacon put all his investments into Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme so he now does a lot of shitty adverts on British TV.

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Todd

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I think similarly Kevin Bacon put all his investments into Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme so he now does a lot of shitty adverts on British TV.

Whereas Cage put all of his money into buying castles and dinosaur skulls, like a fucking boss.

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Christian wrote:

Whereas Cage put all of his money into buying castles and dinosaur skulls, like a fucking boss.

This is the reason we have a Nicolas Cage thread but no Kevin Bacon thread.

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Christian, Todd

This popped up in one of my socials feeds:

Nicolas Cage explains his love of Cornish pasties: “They are perfect”

The headline says everything the article has to say so no need to click really.

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Christian, Todd

From my dear friends at cracked.com: 15 Roles That Were Almost Played by Nicolas Cage

We truly live in the Darkest Timeline.

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I liked this interview with Nicolas Cage on the upcoming “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”.

“MIKE, WHAT DO YOU CALL THOSE GROUPS!?” – Nicolas Cage, keeping it real.

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Todd

I was less than five seconds in to that clip and I knew he was talking about Werner Herzog. If you’ve seen Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans I think you’ll know why. If you havent watch that movie, I suggest you remedy that. Herzog + an unusually unhinged Cage.

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lorcan_nagle

Nicolas Cage’s Healing Hands Saved A Shooting Victim

In 1999, a resident of Los Angeles was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting. Actually, around 2,000 residents of Los Angeles were hit by bullets in drive-by shootings, but we’re talking today about one of them. We don’t know his name, but we do know that around half of these shooting victims were innocent bystanders, and like over half of victims, this one was shot in the leg, so you can use that info when picturing him in your mind.

The ambulance came, and EMTs moved him into the vehicle, assisted by someone who wasn’t actually a paramedic. This someone did blend in with them though because, like them, he wore a bulletproof vest. Before they strapped an oxygen mask on him, the teenage shooting victim said, “Can somebody take the gum out of my mouth?” The not-paramedic did so, then applied the mask. The guy looked like Nicolas Cage, so much that the shooting victim thought this was a hallucination.

He wasn’t hallucinating. Nicolas Cage was riding with the emergency medical team in preparation for his role as an EMT in Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead. You might say that, were Cage not in the ambulance, an actual paramedic would have removed the gum, so the victim would have been saved from choking either way. But we have our doubts about whether the victim would have survived without Cage—indeed, we doubt any of us would have survived without Cage.

Cage spent several days rising with crews in both Los Angeles and New York to get a feel for his character. Some sights during those days were harrowing, like the eight-month-old baby who couldn’t breathe, or a motorcycle accident that briefly put Cage off riding his own bike. Others were weird in a very different way.

While he was touring a hospital, a doctor recognized him and wanted to show off. He beckoned Cage into the OR and performed a resuscitative thoracotomy. That’s when the doctor cracks open a patient’s chest to expose the heart. “Pretty good, huh?” said the doctor, as blood spilled everywhere. “What do you think of that, Nic?” Nic started laughing, in an attempt to stop fainting.

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The 15 Awesomest Ways Nicolas Cage Spent His Money

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Todd wrote:

Nicolas Cage’s Healing Hands Saved A Shooting Victim

In 1999, a resident of Los Angeles was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting. Actually, around 2,000 residents of Los Angeles were hit by bullets in drive-by shootings, but we’re talking today about one of them. We don’t know his name, but we do know that around half of these shooting victims were innocent bystanders, and like over half of victims, this one was shot in the leg, so you can use that info when picturing him in your mind.

The ambulance came, and EMTs moved him into the vehicle, assisted by someone who wasn’t actually a paramedic. This someone did blend in with them though because, like them, he wore a bulletproof vest. Before they strapped an oxygen mask on him, the teenage shooting victim said, “Can somebody take the gum out of my mouth?” The not-paramedic did so, then applied the mask. The guy looked like Nicolas Cage, so much that the shooting victim thought this was a hallucination.

He wasn’t hallucinating. Nicolas Cage was riding with the emergency medical team in preparation for his role as an EMT in Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead. You might say that, were Cage not in the ambulance, an actual paramedic would have removed the gum, so the victim would have been saved from choking either way. But we have our doubts about whether the victim would have survived without Cage—indeed, we doubt any of us would have survived without Cage.

Cage spent several days rising with crews in both Los Angeles and New York to get a feel for his character. Some sights during those days were harrowing, like the eight-month-old baby who couldn’t breathe, or a motorcycle accident that briefly put Cage off riding his own bike. Others were weird in a very different way.

While he was touring a hospital, a doctor recognized him and wanted to show off. He beckoned Cage into the OR and performed a resuscitative thoracotomy. That’s when the doctor cracks open a patient’s chest to expose the heart. “Pretty good, huh?” said the doctor, as blood spilled everywhere. “What do you think of that, Nic?” Nic started laughing, in an attempt to stop fainting.

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Todd

Cage’s entrance to his Wogan interview popped up on my Instagram feed this morning. It is magnificent.

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Dave

If you have not seen this, add it to your watchlist:
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81305757?s=i&trkid=13747225&vlang=en&clip=81406754

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Todd wrote:

If you have not seen this, add it to your watchlist:

I’ve watched all the important parts. Meaning, of course, the Nicolas Cage bits. I didn’t care for the rest.

There are a ridiculous amounts of good gifs of him presenting that show, with various levels of creativity behind them.

 

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

I was less than five seconds in to that clip and I knew he was talking about Werner Herzog. If you’ve seen Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans I think you’ll know why. If you havent watch that movie, I suggest you remedy that. Herzog + an unusually unhinged Cage.

Very cool. However, this clip is missing what is clearly Cage’s MOST iconic character, the fantastic Sailor from Wild at Heart.

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Every time I see this thread title come up, I read it as “Nicolas Cage (not the best)”, as though it’s a passive-aggressive dig at him.

Unconscionable. I have edited the title to reflect better on the nature of this thread, and the universe.

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Rocket

Making a database of Nicolas Cage Facts and Nicolas Cage Quotes.

Sourcing from interviews and IMDb and the like.

On the subject of IMDb, it’s very unfortunate that they’ve decided to display these two Nicolas Cage quotes together, in this specific order.

Anonymous wrote:

Making a database of Nicolas Cage Facts and Nicolas Cage Quotes.

Sourcing from interviews and IMDb and the like.

On the subject of IMDb, it’s very unfortunate that they’ve decided to display these two Nicolas Cage quotes together, in this specific order.

It has been Nicholas Cage week over at cracked.com.

Todd wrote:

It has been Nicholas Cage week over at cracked.com.

Thank you, I’ll have a look!

It’s Nicolas Cage week practically everywhere, IMDb has had two featured articles on him in the last few days. It’s fairly evident it’s part of some marketing tool for the Massive Talent movie.

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Todd

HE HAS ARRIVED

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Your discord server needs the Nicolas Cage bot!

https://github.com/jakebrehm/cage-discord-bot