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Kevin Smith also directed some episodes of some of the CW DC superhero shows, I believe.
Also, seriously, the story about him writing a Superman movie that never got made is hilarious. Hell, I kinda wish they would've made it, if only for one reason: Nicolas Cage was gonna play Superman.
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I'm gonna take the high road and not make a Man of Steel joke.
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I'm going to take the low road and say that Nicholas Cage as Superman would have been an unbelievable debacle
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Not gonna lie, I'd probably enjoy a Nic-Cage-As-Superman trainwreck more than the things we're currently getting.
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Well, Ben Affleck as Batman worked. Kinda.
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He did a good job of acting, but he needed a better script.
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Honestly? I'm not so sure that Nicholas Cage would have been all that bad. I'll take hilariously awful over just plain boring any day.
edited 28th Nov '16 6:15:45 PM by LordVatek
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Well I guess that sentence sums up why I prefer Batman and Robin to that godawful dreck that is Batman v. Superman.
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My point exactly. The current movies aren't great, but they aren't awful enough to be entertaining in that direction either. They're just sort of there.
Nine thousand nine hundred eighty-two reasons.
Nick Cage isn't even really a bad actor, or only capable of ham, is he?
I don't know, maybe I missed something, or need to watch more of his stuff, but it seems more like there's a ton of content by him that you can pull out of their proper place and have them seem hammy as fuck, that aren't bad or silly in context, in addition to the actually hamtastic hamfests that he's probably actually been in.
And, really, a good (or at least decent) actor hamming it up in a bad script can be one of the best things ever, yeah?
(I know nothing of this once proposed movie other than Nick Cage.)
Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.
I've heard it said that Nic Cage appears to be a good actor with a terrible agent.
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Cage is a good actor, but I think he works better with Ham than anything else. Ghost Rider had good points in it, but it wasn't that great honestly, and part of it was that Cage was only ok.
Affleck and Cavill both play a good Batman and Superman, more so the former, but they've both got pretty weak direction and scripts.
edited 28th Nov '16 11:46:45 PM by DrPsyche
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According to Roger Ebert, Cage is a good actor in great movies and an absolutely indispensable one in bad movies.
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That's a pretty good summation of Cage.
Though, from what I've heard, his performance in Left Behind was disappointing. That movie really called for some Cage.
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I think Cage didn't want to do that movie at all. Even he has limits.
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I thought he did all those movies because he needed the money.
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He did do Left Behind because he needed the money. I just wish he hammed it up. Sad.
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Cage apparently has a big passion for movies in general (hell, keep in mind that he's related to Francis Ford Coppola). He's been in a ton of indie movies that have gotten rave reviews from my understanding. With Left Behind...well, when you're only doing it for money and it's based off a shitty series like that, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't give a damn about acting good in it either. At least you could probably excuse The Wicker Man by how it was a remake of a cult classic and Cage probably didn't know it would suck until he got the script. You know a movie based off of Left Behind is gonna suck.
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There's also a theory that Cage only takes the absolute best and absolute worst scripts offered to him.
Basically he's definitely a good actor in the right context. Thing is there are a lot of movies where it's just weird to have him in there and he goes overboard on the ham. Which is by no means a bad thing.
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My favorite panel from cool and new webcomic so far
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its just "cool and new webcomic"
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thats what i said
yup
"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Yeah, he had such a great quiet dignity to his performance. and his death in the movie felt more a waste than anything else. Wash's death was a great use of Dropped a Bridge on Him with a quick, shocking and brutal use of death, while Book's felt too choreographed, too obvious, and shut off what could have been interesting stories.
I'll miss him, and the way his einstein hair popped up like it did.