Comments on: Nicolas Cage: Artist or hack? The choice is his http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/ Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:23:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ PopWatchhttp://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/logoEW.gifhttp://popwatch.ew.com20877Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch Blog By: Mike http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-1674769 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:30:22 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-1674769 I just can’t hate the guy. I like almost everything he’s in. I also think that he has one of the most interesting careers in film history.

]]> By: gina http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-1370054 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:02:21 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-1370054 Just watched Moonstruck again and remembered why I liked Nick Cage. Like all of us he’s not perfect but when he is good it’s great.

]]> By: Kyle http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-988805 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:45:48 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-988805 Lisa,

You are either 1. In college and just took film 101. or 2. you’re older than time. Either you should be studying harder or knitting me a sweater.

]]> By: Gummibehrs http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-716585 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:06:16 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-716585 Nicolas Cage SUCKS. His receding hairline, depressing hangdog face, jowls, watery emotionless eyes, and monotone voice make me nauseous. He’s ruined movies that had the potential to be decent had there been another actor in his place. His “acting” is lackluster and his sickening “woe is me” greasy face looks like it’s melting. He is absolutely appalling.

]]> By: LL http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-144546 Sat, 23 May 2009 01:12:36 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-144546 To be fair, not many great actors make many good films after their great, critical breakthrough. Tommy Lee Jones, Pacino, DeNiro, Harrison Ford, all lost their star power after awhile and now only star in middling comedies or dramas. Cage seems to be embracing genre films more than usual these past 4 or 5 years. I recall him saying in an interview that it’s he’s fine with action/horror/sci-fi/ or whatever. I used to be a huge fan, but now his films feel disconnected from anything real.
On the other hand he’s given us some truly inventive, effective performances…….I can’t imagine a “serious” actor like Sean Penn or Daniel Day Lewis or Leo DiCaprio doing something like Adaptation or Matchstick Men. At least Cage has a sense of humor; I’m hoping he’ll at least do a comedy of some sort or star in an ensemble piece where he’s not carrying the picture

]]> By: monica http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-144545 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:00:26 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-144545 I actually prefer the badass action Cage, but only when it’s good action, as in Gone in Sixty Seconds, Con Air, and National Treasure. Each one of those characters was in a high anxiety environment, but they weren’t the same person, and that’s what I appreciate from him. It isn’t a generic personality, like Vin Deisel’s characters in Fast and Furious and XXX.

]]> By: Tina http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-9/#comment-144544 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:18:03 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-144544 I really believe that Nicolas Cage is still more of an artist than merely an actor for hire. He just needs to believe himself more in control of a movie’s outcome even when he’s only an onscreen talent. Maybe he should direct himself in his next movie so that he’ll feel more in control, maybe a remake of, say, Manhattan Melodrama, a pretty good but not great classic which starred Clark Gable as a gangster who gets caught and then sentenced to death despite the efforts of his best friend, a top defense lawyer (played by William Powell), to save him. That movie was part a gangster movie, part buddy movie, part love story (since the best buddies loved the same woman), but it didn’t come out great because Gable’s presence overshadowed everyone and everything else, I guess because the film’s director and producers wanted it that way, and, anyway, Powell was simply no match for him. I think that movie deserves to be remade, starring Cage and, maybe, his buddy Sean Penn.

]]> By: A4DDL http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-8/#comment-144543 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:46:18 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-144543 That’s the problem with some of Hollywood and TV these days they want $$$$$ rather than substance actors. CGI and special effects over true acting capacity.
These two actors are pole opposites in their works yes…and in my personal opinion Nicholas Cage is a good actor. He has made descent stuff in the past, however I think he’s sold out to Hollywood just to remain a working actor rather than wait for a real good part to come along, even if it’s low budget or indie!!! so he chooses crap that even with effects, etc flops at the theatres. Daniel has ABSOLUTELY made more money at the box office than this idiot claims… but I guess much like Nicholas Cage, this Owen has to write crap to stay working, rather than use his platform and possible talent writting something of substance. OK I’m done ranting and raving!!!! it just makes me so mad to read such ignorance.

]]> By: Tina http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-8/#comment-144542 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:49:24 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-144542 I agree somewhat with Owen, but I think he should have mentioned that it’s Nicolas Cage’s obvious laziness in his “paycheck” movies that comes through. I mean, no matter the role, Nic Cage could be compelling if he really worked to create that character. For instance, his role in his “National Treasure” movies could have been a really good acting role for him despite the way that was written if only Nic, with his great gifts as an actor, had come up with an intriguing persona suited for someone extremely passionate about American history and also about hunting for treasures. But he got lazy in that role as in many others and basically just walked through it, which he really has no right to do because he gets paid a lot of money for his laziness and we deserve much better than to have to watch a lazy performance.

]]> By: Tina http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar/comment-page-8/#comment-144541 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:44:55 +0000 http://ewpopwatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/nicolas-cage-ar#comment-144541 I agree somewhat with Owen, but I think he should have mentioned that it’s Nicolas Cage’s obvious laziness in his “paycheck” movies that comes through. I mean, no matter the role, Nic Cage could be compelling if he really worked to create that character. For instance, his role in his “National Treasure” movies could have been a really good acting role for him despite the way that was written if only Nic, with his great gifts as an actor, had come up with an intriguing persona suited for someone extremely passionate about American history and also about hunting for treasures. But he got lazy in that role as in many others and basically just walked through it, which he really has no right to do because he gets paid a lot of money for his laziness and we deserve much better than to have to watch a lazy performance.

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