What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

Easily 'The Rock'. Nick Cage AND the final (non canon) 007 story all in one? YES PLEASE!

Finally!! This movie NEVER comes up but I absolutely love Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). Fucking classic and he's great in it.

Okay he's not the lead but he's like the main co-star.

Love love love this movie

Raising Arizona by miles for me

Dunno about favourite but I recently watched the surfer and it kinda hit a weird spot I didn't know I have. Was pretty good.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was pretty damn good.

8mm. So gritty and seems like it could really happen

Next (2007) was quite good actually.

I also remember it fondly but I'm not sure it would hold up nowadays.. Have you watched it recently?
- Not that recently I'm afraid. But I remember that I was really curious how the story plays out and while it wasn't groundbreaking it was a satisfying twist end.
  Not your regular Hollywood happy end.

Not one single mention for Gone in Sixty Seconds?

Lemmings... do I have bad taste?

If you lived near me we could have a few beers and watch it. Sad that they destroyed so many Mustangs though.

Face/Off. Golden desert eagles, Nic Cage at his cagiest, John Travolta and Nic Cage swapping bodies, legitimately great action scenes, and Nic Cage grabbing a woman's ass while wearing a priest costume. Just an incredible movie.

overactors trying to out-overact each other. Love it!

Lord of War

Here's the intro to Lord of War. I love the little smirk he pulls off at about 45s.

Lord of War is a work of art
Shame about the real world parts. Ruins it for me these days.
by far the best movie he's ever been involved with. Good performance too. Leaving Las Vegas is another good performance.
Bath of blood
Wow. I never watched because the premise didn’t look interesting, but that’s quite an intro
- The movie is quite good to be honest.
Fantastic movie.

Kickass is the best surprise nic cage film.
Lord of war is the best serious cage.
Bangkok dangerous is the most cage being cage film.

Best surprise for me was Linglegs. Took a while to figure out who that actor was.

How in the actual fuck has no one said Face/Off?

That was Travolta playing both roles
- Haha lore-wise very true.
Classic, but I'm more of a Con Air man myself
- Tie a yellow ribbon yall

The Rock. I'll be taking no further questions.

Carla was the prom queen

The Rock and Con Air are tied for me. Con Air's cast is star studded and Nic Cage with a southern accent is fantastic.

"Put the Bunny back in the box."

Nobody move or the bunny gets it!
You're god damn right with that opinion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(film)

It was weird and sometimes I like a good weird

Con Air ... why? No clue, I would have thought I'd go with Lord of War, but Con Air immediately popped into my head when I read the question, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

"Put. The bunny. Back."

The Color Out of Space, I think he does really well in that and it's scary as fuck.

The Wicker Man, because of the scene with the bees is priceless.

And of course, Mandy. I will not elaborate further, just watch it.

The Color Out of Space is one of the only films that left me feeling genuinely unsettled for days after I watched it. The other film that did this was Bird Box

Wild at Heart

"The color from outer space"

His slow descent into madness is great. It's like him turning the Cage knob very slowly from 0 to 11.

Also imo the best Lovecraft adaption.

Edit: "Color out of Space" is the correct title. Thanks to the commenter below.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/
You might have misremembered the title there.
- Absolutely, yes. Thank you for the correction!
This movie is so fucking good because of him! I honestly want him to do more lovecraft stuff.
- I don't know how that film only has a 6.1 on IMDB. very surreal and I loved seeing him slowly turn up the Cageism lol

Pig, amazing film with a very subtle performance. The scene at the restaurant is absolutely brutal yet without any violence.

Pig is a masterclass in not telling the audience more than they absolutely need to know. I've gotten so sick of movies where the dialog repeats itself for the benefit of people who weren't paying attention thirty seconds ago, or else it constantly spells out stuff that rightly ought to be conveyed by the actions of the characters. Pig is the antithesis of that. Characters hardly say anything that they don't need to say, and everything else is left to the viewer to figure out. I fucking love it.
I loved the bait and switch where all the marketing suggested it would be a John Wick rip off but the movie turned out to be a lot more original

Honorable mention for 8mm. It isn't a good movie, unless you go for the very 1999 aesthetics. But I'll give a shout-out to that quote delivered by Joaquin Phoenix: "If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you."

Raising Arizona

Deadfall holds that place for me. His role is absolutely insane.

Another vote for Raising Arizona, although it is a close tie with Wild at Heart.

Let's go dancin' peanut!

Superman.

Wait...

Adaptation.

It's got twice as many Nick's, and the Tiger King getting Maryl Streep addicted to drugs

I laughed my arse off at 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'. A classic farce like you don't get much these days.

This is actually the only Nic Cage movie I like because I can't stand him, but my love for Pedro outweighs my dislike for Nic Cage.
- It's weird how polarising he is. I wouldn't say I'm a 'fan' as such, but I do think he's one of the most remarkable and fun to watch actors ever. Every role he puts in 1000%.

I love "Matchstick Men." Great plot. Fun characters. Chef's kiss Cage freak-out towards the end.

This is the one I was looking for.

It's a toss up between Con Air's bonkers accent and Drive Angry's William Fitchner.

Mandy. It’s a balls to the wall thrill ride of psychedelic mayhem. Oh and amazing soundtrack.

Seconded. I show this movie to all of my friends that haven’t seen it and they’re always blown away by his performance in that. The bathroom scene is the best.
“Eric Estrada from CHIIIIIPS” might be one of his best-delivered lines.
Edit: spoilers I guess
https://youtu.be/tRGKbBRXCZY

Plenty of The Rock and Con Air mentions, so I’m going to toss one out for Gone in 60 Seconds.

Yes the writing is terrible and it has its fair share of cringe moments, but damnit I still like it. Perhaps it was the cast, or the weird 90’s/00’s aesthetic, or maybe because I was still in my formative teen years, pre 9/11, aka the before times, but it holds a special place in my heart.

+1 but for the Moby Soundtrack.

Con Air, hooray for the sounds of fucking silence!

Raising Arizona, why? Just watch it!

Does Kickass count?

Yes

Matchstick Men anyone, or just me?

Bringing out the Dead, because I feel his tortured quest for sleep

Which: Moonstruck

Why: Mostly this scene.

My wife and I watched Moonstruck for the first time and when she saw Cage her reaction was: “that’s Nic Cage? Wtf he’s so hot!” If you were Cher which brother would you choose? We all know it’s Cage

Con Air and Con Air

The Rock and National Treasure

Yeah, National Treasure was so good.

Definitely Raising Arizona and Con Air!

I feel like these are the kinds of conversations that should be happening in the movie communities instead of just corporate greed post after corporate greed post.

Vampire’s Kiss

The Rock. Peak cage, Connery being great, and an amazing setting.

Leaving Las Vegas. It's beautiful and heartbreaking.

Best movie I'll never watch again

Wallys wonderland

He did not speak a single word, but cage beat the living crap out of some robots.

Imagine, my first introduction to this movie was that I passed out on the couch one night and woke up at 3 am to a scene of him slaughtering one of those fucking animatronic nightmares.

Leaving Las Vegas.

…just kidding. That movie was depressing as fuck.

Raising Arizona was his best movie.

Raising Arizona. It's just a wild ride start to finish. Also like Con Air.

Pig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.

I liked it but I thought it was a little up its own ass. The underground fight club scene was a bit much

Raising Arizona or Wild At Heart

Pig! It's just a great movie.

I really need to watch that.
- I might have weird taste but it was so good.

Adaptation, because it’s more Nic Cage!

Ghost rider, for the mayhem and lots of fire everywhere!

Depends on my mood. Either Color Out of Space, or The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Moonstruck

Fire Birds

“Shoot ‘em, blast ‘em, nab ‘em, grab em, dang gum, bang em, cook em, clean em, hose em, boil em, kick em, nab em, twist em, fry em, ALL GONE BYE BYE!”

Yes.

Birdie

I've seen this one long time ago and only remember it was quite a sad movie.

Valley Girls because Dottie's boobs.

Red Rock West a delicious film noir with Dennis Hopper