When did you lose faith in Nicolas Cage?

When I saw this:
 

Nicholas Cage is a great actor, end of.

" Nicholas Cage is a great actor, end of. "

ah lol Nicholas has always sucked dude, end of story, I mean seriously I can't even watch Con Air without laughing my ass off.

When he started playing roles that were too young for him.
 
I mean he seems so old and yet they cast him in these roles that 20 year olds should be playing.
 
He was great in National Treasure, when he fits the part.
 But no one wants to see a 50 year old Ghost Rider. That doesn't really describe "badass".

" ah lol Nicholas has always sucked dude, end of story, I mean seriously I can't even watch Con Air without laughing my ass off. "

" When he started playing roles that were too young for him.  I mean he seems so old and yet they cast him in these roles that 20 year olds should be playing.  He was great in National Treasure, when he fits the part. "

Nick Cage is good at only one type of role. The type where he plays the guy who is in way over his head and can't do any shit about it. Point - Raising Arizona, his only good role.

" @CL60:  I've seen plenty of them, The Rock, Ghost Rider, Lord of War, Bangkok Dangerous, that one movie where he could see like 10 seconds into the future, Gone in 60 Seconds, etc. "

From memory

• City of Angels
• Con Air
• Face/Off
• Gone in Sixty Seconds
• Knowing
• Lord of War
• National Treasure
• National Treaure 2
• Raising Arizona
• The Rock
• Snake Eyes

When I saw his hair in Con Air... (I like to end my posts with "...", it makes every post mysterious...)

I do have to say, Nicholas Cage is a good actor. He's usually the saving grace of a lot of movies. Well, except for G-Force..

He was fuckin' badass in Wild at Heart.

• Knowing
• National Treasure
• Snake Eyes

Hey man, knowing sucks, but he's good in it. National treasure is a good film, I enjoyed it, haha. Snake eyes, great acting.

Raising Arizona, the Weather Man, and Matchstick men are great, and I haven't really seen a role in which I really, really hated him 
 
EDIT: Adaptation was awesome as well, but I admire Spike Jonze for that film rather than Cage 

I really liked Lord of War. But yeah, Nick Cage has made some really shitty movies. Maybe he likes to get paid too much? Whatever the case, I heard some excellent impressions on his performance in the movie Kick-Ass.

No matter what role he takes, his hair is always atrocious.

Found the trailer, too bad the quality is bad, but you get the idea.
 

I never had any faith to lose.

He better off in the more intellectual roles, ie. Yuri in Lord of War, when he is off doing Hellboy and stuff, it just doesn't work, suffice to say, he is better off not doing action movies.

Nicholas Cage is pretty rad. I like him. He's had some really great quotes throughout the years. Some of which I like to use as often as possible. Con Air is probably filled with the best of them.

" @CL60:  I've seen plenty of them, The Rock, Ghost Rider, Lord of War, Bangkok Dangerous, that one movie where he could see like 10 seconds into the future, Gone in 60 Seconds, etc. "

" No matter what role he takes, his hair is always atrocious. "

 
I lose faith in the general public's taste in movies whenever I read about films in the GiantBomb forums...does that count for anything?  Those who hate him have only seen the big movies and those who love him keep listing really shitty action flicks(for the most part).  He has a few gems, but you got to know where to look, despite what Hollywood might think Cage does not perform best while in an action role.  He is a better "everymen" an "average joe", something like that is where he excells.  Adaptation is a great film, The Weather Man is good also, Raising Arizona is also damn good, notice something though none of these are action films.  Nicolas Cage has been type-cast into a role he just isn't very great at performing...also action movie directors are a dime a dozen and finding a talented one is more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

man, moonstruck was his best performance. 
The End.

He is a good actor... ...that's in terrible movies.

"From memory

• City of Angels
• Con Air
• Face/Off
• Gone in Sixty Seconds
• Knowing
• Lord of War
• National Treasure
• National Treaure 2
• Raising Arizona
• The Rock
• Snake Eyes

  Great in every role. "

" @JJWeatherman: it worked i was very curious of what you did when you saw his hair in con air (last part rhymed, unintentional)  "

If Nick Cage's Oscar was made out of chocolate and he was forced to take a bite out of it for every terrible movie he's made since Leaving Las Vegas, there would be nothing left of it at this point except the base.

 
His best work is the Japanese commercials.
 
PACHINKO!

I never had any faith in him... Granted, he has starred in some kinda cool flicks (The Rock really isn't that great, guys), but he has ALWAYS sucked in them.
 
I hate that guy, so much!

I''ve never lost faith in Mr. Cage, granted I don't see every thing he does, but I think he's a good actor, albeit cast in a slightly too narrow frame.

...why does everyone hate him?  He does the best he can in his movies...the problem is that he's in shitty movies.  >_>
 
He does the best he can with the crap he gets.  So I think he's very noble.  Although...his hair does suck.

Since the 90's

" @Hailinel said:

" No matter what role he takes, his hair is always atrocious. "

That's part of what makes him look so old. "

The last Nick Cage performance I liked was in Adaptation, one of my favorite movies. 
 
Unfortunately, he then went on to make The Weather Man, The Wicker Man, Next, Ghost Rider, Bangkok Dangerous... all absolutely atrocious performances in absolutely atrocious movies.

I think that Nicolas Cage is good actor. He has been in some great movies. When National Treasure 2 and his new movie coming out is when I started questioning his career. The new movie looks like deja vu of National Treasure.