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."
Nobody move or the bunny gets it!
You're god damn right with that opinion
Lord of War
Here's the intro to Lord of War. I love the little smirk he pulls off at about 45s.
Lord of War is a work of art
by far the best movie he's ever been involved with. Good performance too. Leaving Las Vegas is another good performance.
Bath of blood
Fantastic movie.
Shame about the real world parts. Ruins it for me these days.
"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.
The Rock. I'll be taking no further questions.
Carla was the prom queen
Raising Arizona
Con Air ... why? No clue, I would have thought I'd go with Lord of War, but Con Air immediately popped into my head when I read the question, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Put. The bunny. Back."
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.
overactors trying to out-overact each other. Love it!
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 love "Matchstick Men." Great plot. Fun characters. Chef's kiss Cage freak-out towards the end.
This is the one I was looking for.
Superman.
Wait...
Raising Arizona by miles for me
Another vote for Raising Arizona, although it is a close tie with Wild at Heart.
Let's go dancin' peanut!
Mandy. It’s a balls to the wall thrill ride of psychedelic mayhem. Oh and amazing soundtrack.
Seconded. I show this movie to all of my friends that haven’t seen it and they’re always blown away by his performance in that. The bathroom scene is the best.
“Eric Estrada from CHIIIIIPS” might be one of his best-delivered lines.
Edit: spoilers I guess
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.
Does Kickass count?
Yes
Plenty of The Rock and Con Air mentions, so I’m going to toss one out for Gone in 60 Seconds.
Yes the writing is terrible and it has its fair share of cringe moments, but damnit I still like it. Perhaps it was the cast, or the weird 90’s/00’s aesthetic, or maybe because I was still in my formative teen years, pre 9/11, aka the before times, but it holds a special place in my heart.
+1 but for the Moby Soundtrack.
Which: Moonstruck
Why: Mostly this scene.
My wife and I watched Moonstruck for the first time and when she saw Cage her reaction was: “that’s Nic Cage? Wtf he’s so hot!” If you were Cher which brother would you choose? We all know it’s Cage
Not one single mention for Gone in Sixty Seconds?
Lemmings... do I have bad taste?
If you lived near me we could have a few beers and watch it. Sad that they destroyed so many Mustangs though.
Con Air and Con Air
I laughed my arse off at 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'. A classic farce like you don't get much these days.
This is actually the only Nic Cage movie I like because I can't stand him, but my love for Pedro outweighs my dislike for Nic Cage.
The Rock and National Treasure
Yeah, National Treasure was so good.
Adaptation.
It's got twice as many Nick's, and the Tiger King getting Maryl Streep addicted to drugs
Leaving Las Vegas.
…just kidding. That movie was depressing as fuck.
Raising Arizona was his best movie.
Next (2007) was quite good actually.
Matchstick Men anyone, or just me?
Raising Arizona, why? Just watch it!
Raising Arizona or Wild At Heart
Leaving Las Vegas. It's beautiful and heartbreaking.
Raising Arizona. It's just a wild ride start to finish. Also like Con Air.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(film)
It was weird and sometimes I like a good weird
Ghost rider, for the mayhem and lots of fire everywhere!
Adaptation, because it’s more Nic Cage!
Honorable mention for 8mm. It isn't a good movie, unless you go for the very 1999 aesthetics. But I'll give a shout-out to that quote delivered by Joaquin Phoenix: "If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you."
Moonstruck
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was pretty damn good.
Pig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.
I liked it but I thought it was a little up its own ass. The underground fight club scene was a bit much
Con Air, hooray for the sounds of fucking silence!
Fire Birds
“Shoot ‘em, blast ‘em, nab ‘em, grab em, dang gum, bang em, cook em, clean em, hose em, boil em, kick em, nab em, twist em, fry em, ALL GONE BYE BYE!”
Bringing out the Dead, because I feel his tortured quest for sleep
Yes.
Birdie
I've seen this one long time ago and only remember it was quite a sad movie.
Wallys wonderland
He did not speak a single word, but cage beat the living crap out of some robots.
Imagine, my first introduction to this movie was that I passed out on the couch one night and woke up at 3 am to a scene of him slaughtering one of those fucking animatronic nightmares.
Easily 'The Rock'. Nick Cage AND the final (non canon) 007 story all in one? YES PLEASE!
Depends on my mood. Either Color Out of Space, or The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
It's a toss up between Con Air's bonkers accent and Drive Angry's William Fitchner.
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
Dunno about favourite but I recently watched the surfer and it kinda hit a weird spot I didn't know I have. Was pretty good.
Valley Girls because Dottie's boobs.
Deadfall holds that place for me. His role is absolutely insane.
Red Rock West a delicious film noir with Dennis Hopper
8mm. So gritty and seems like it could really happen
