In a recent interview, Nicolas Cage spoke these words: "If I can give the director two good scenes in a movie, I feel like I've done my job."
Two good scenes...in an hour-and-a-half movie where there are several dozen scenes per movie...
And this is why Nicolas Cage is the single greatest actor known to Man! His two good scenes per movie put most actors' entire filmographies to shame. This is a man who has an Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas and also starred in one of the worst pieces of shit ever to splatter across the screen in The Wicker Man. Talk about versatility! He's been in artsy movies, he had a run of cheesy action flicks in the 90s, then he started starring in five movies a year so he could pay off his tremendous debts from owning several dinosaur skulls. Is there a more interesting actor on the face of the planet? He even has a face named after him. When you flair your nostrils, throw your eyes open wide, and mentally make your forehead expand in size, that's "Nic Cage Face."
For these reasons and countless others, I've decided to watch every Nicolas Cage movie ever made starting with Valley Girl (He was credited as Nicolas Coppola in Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and ending with National Treasure 5: The Quest for Herbert Hoover's Leather Chaps. It will basically be the equivalent of traveling across the Universe on the back of a comet that eventually crosses the barrier into Heaven where you witness God's true form that will result in your face melting off like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark...claymation style!
But what a ride it shall be...
THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE CAGE!
