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Nicolas Cage

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Posted by mikenyc on August 11, 2002 at 01:52:24

In Reply to: Just saw Windtalkers - what a steaming pile of crap. posted by Doug Flynn on August 10, 2002 at 00:10:04:

For me, his stand-out performances are "Wild at Heart", "Moonstruck",
"Raising Arizona", "The Rock", "Peggy Sue Got Married", "It Could Happen To You" and "Gone In 60 Seconds".

He's a pretty good actor, with a respectable film career, so far. Not pretentious or, seemingly, overblown with his celebrity. He held his own with Sean Connery, and that's a big accomplishment in itself, for any actor to claim. "Raising Arizona" was a major acting chore, too, in terms of consistency of his comic performance, in the face of actors with supposed minor Coen Bros. Company, co-starring roles, that rivaled his. To be put in a film with so many good actors, with a one-off performance, is hard. Keeping up with Holly Hunter is tough too, as she is a very cerebral actor, of some accomplishment, that fails to show her "acting", actually working...but "the wheels" are constantly grinding there.

I was pretty put off by the seemingly syrupy "The Family Man", at first, but it took a few viewings to "get it", and it's quite a "little" film.

Cage has this winning "look", that he puts on, at some point in ALL of his performances, that is so empathetic, you just want to go out of your way to make any allowances for a sub-standard flaws in the story.

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