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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
There should be a spinoff of the spinoff thread.
"Why does Nicolas Cage make so many shitty movies?"
I mean Arnold, Sly, JCVD - so many other purveyors of cheese have easy explanations - they're just shitty actors.
But on rare occasions you see that Cage can play a role pretty straight and do it well.
So why is he so damn prone to A) selecting bad scripts and/or B) Overacting? I think A is probably one of those 'anything for a paycheck' stories but that doesn't explain B. You would think him more capable of occasionally lifting up spotty source material.
Just a weird actor. I wonder if he hasn't trapped himself in that Johnny Depp universe where everything Depp does now is Depp playing Jack Sparrow so he just has Jack Sparrow as a baseline. Maybe the time of Nicolas Cage actually being a decent actor is gone and he's stuck in a loop where his baseline is actually the overacting Castor Troy version of himself that really seemed to hit overdrive after Face Off.
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It's basically a combo of A and B, IMO
At one point early in his career he was a critical darling, widely lauded for his Method Acting prowess... then he started choosing bad scripts and tried to elevate them by going way over the top, then just kept repeating those mistakes in a futile attempt to break the cycle