Month: June 2008

Nicolas Cage 50/50 ratio

I’ll give Nicolas Cage this – he’s possibly the hardest working actor in Hollywood. Hell at the time of this post he has 8 movies he’s working on, yet to be released. Unfortunately, he’s all about quantity and not quality. It seems he’ll act in just about any movie he’s offered and that makes for a questionable track record. I’d say his movie choices are about 50% bad and about 50% good, with a 10% margin of error. šŸ˜‰ Keep in mind that the following list are the movies I’VE SEEN. (80’s movies get let off easy for nostalgia’s sake.)

Good Movies :

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Valley Girl
Peggy Sue Got Married
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck (Last movie with his narly teeth)
Honeymoon in Vegas (Flying Elvises)
Guarding Tess
The Rock (Come on, Sean Connery’s in it.)
8MM
Gone in 60 Seconds (Arguably one of the best Neo-Cage movies)
Matchstick Men
National Treasure 1 and 2 (They are what they are.)
Lord or War (Surprisingly good film)
The Weatherman
Grindhouse

Crappy Movies:

Firebirds (This movie began Cage’s ill-advised action hero career.)
Wild at Heart (Ok, I just hate David Lynch)
Amos and Andrew
It Could Happen to You (Rosy Perez is REALLY annoying.)
Leaving Las Vegas (Depressing-as-hell movie, sorry – hated it.)
Con Air (“Put the bunnay down”)
Face Off (Living in Bizarro-world couldn’t suspend my disbelief enough for this movie.)
City of Angels (Pointlesssss!)
WindTalkers (Poor attempt at a serious WWII movie)
Adaptation (Whiney)
The Wicker Man (2 hours of my life I’ll never get back)
Ghost Rider (Is there a plot here? How about consistency? Maybe even a threatening villian? No? Damn.)

Borderline:

Snake Eyes
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Fun at the Office

Me and a buddy of mine at work, hung up whiteboards for our boss in his office. Before we put the second one up however, we decided to have some fun with him. Ah, the things you can do with electrical tape. It actually took him a couple seconds to realize it wasn’t real. “Oh cool! They hung up the other….oh.”