Give the man a break....

Ok. I know and harp on all the time about the negatives I see in the human race. I believe you can at least agree with me that there are some vile and fucked up things we as a human species do on a collective whole. I mean there is war, government sponsored bombings, public relations departments, famine and all sort of ugly primeval notions and abstract ideas that fill our collective heads throughout the day. But what makes us as a species tolerable and even gets me to root for our continued existence and survival is that we can sometimes come to agreements on some tiny aspects of life. Something that most of the general public agrees on is that Nicholas Cage is a shrill, not so good looking over actor who's career turned into some joke. Well I am here to set the record straight.

First on looks. Sure he doesn't have the rugged good looks of a Goerge Clooney or Joe Piscipo or isn't young anymore but dude looks all right in a non conventional way. I think its some of his hair decisions he makes in some of his movies. I will admit that he looks really goofy occasionally.

And sure Nicholas Cage overacts in almost any of his movies but unlike the critical darling and I must say overrated Johnny Depp have you ever been bored by a Cage performance? Usually he's balls to the wall in most movies I see him in which at least makes some of the more offensively bad movies in his repertoire semi-tolerable.

And sure he has been in a lot of bad movies. I'm sure you could name some of them and I know I could but its much easier to name the movies he was in that were good: Wild At Heart, Raising Arizona, Face Off, The Weather Man, Adaptation, The Rock, Leaving Los Vegas, Lord of War, and those are just the ones I can recall from memory.

I don't care what you say those are some good fucking movies and most actors don't have this number of good movies in their resumes. But if you ask me there is nothing better then watching his performance in the movie the Wicker Man. God was it a horrible movie but it has so many Cage freak out scenes and the what the fuck moment where he is running around punching out woman while dressed as a bear. It's some crazy shit as you can see.



You know I could make the same argument about another guy, Kevin Costner who gets shit on a lot but who has been in some pretty good movies. I won't but I could.