As a moustache-adorned father, Macready was utterly sympathetic in his devotion to his daughter, despite Mark Millar’s twisting of the dynamic in the relationship.Īs an introduction to both Damon and Mindy Macready (aka Hit-Girl), there was no finer example than their opening moment in the film, where Mindy uses her youthful stature to bargain her way to some ice cream, only in return, having to take a couple of slugs in the chest from a gun her father has pointed at her. In Kick-Ass he may not have played the young lead hero, but ended up with a far more interesting character in Big Daddy/Damon Macready, though it’s the latter that I loved. Imagine Cage’s patience then, as time and time again he was linked to a stream of comic book movies that never happened. Just try and name an actor that hasn’t made a few mistakes and be grateful that at least Cage didn’t just stick to romcoms when he had the chance, or to pure action after Jerry Bruckheimer started him on that path.īearing in mind that the former Nicholas Coppola, took his screen surname from comic book character, Luke Cage, it was gratifying to see the comic geek in Nic Cage finally get to appear in an adaptation that was so critically acclaimed, especially after the mixed reception that Ghost Rider received.īack in the nineties, I was so close to getting a comic book film that would have potentially embraced a holy trinity of Cage, Tim Burton and Pierce Brosnan, under the guise of a Superman film, and I’ve never forgotten about it. Bad Lieutenant, Lord Of War, Matchstick Men, Adaptation, even the National Treasure films were solid fun. To be honest, I thought the remake of Bangkok Dangerous was awful and just recently wrote a tear-filled review of Season of The Witch, so I’m not oblivious to the missteps, but thought that Next and Knowing were perfectly watchable, if flawed, entertainment.īut look at what surrounded those films. I’ve been itching to defend his work for a while now, as the majority of negative comments about him tend to be centred on the misconception that all he does is make ‘bad’ movies, without people taking the time to look at his career as a whole.

Though don’t get me wrong, there’s always room for some of that too.

I am well aware that the Internet is full to brimming with a variety of Nicolas Cage compilations, with titles such as ‘Cage Rage’ and ‘Cage losing his shit’ becoming part of the web vernacular, but the idea behind this list is to try and reflect the various emotional effects that his films and performances are capable of, not just to list his onscreen outbursts.

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