Nicolas Cage must stop. His last, what, 5 years, have been awful. Let's run down some highlights from the list, with some comments from Rotten Tomatoes thrown in there.
2011 Drive Angry. Saw the preview, looks mind numbingly bad. However..."In one astonishing scene Cage has sex with a naked cocktail waitress while swigging from the bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and killing six assailants with the gun he's holding in the other. Now that's real multitasking." Maybe Cage has turned the corner.
2011 Season of the Witch. "You've seen more convincing medieval performances from guys at Ye Olde Pancake House after a LARP scrimmage. With all the dead birds and fish, this might seem like a timely piece of apocalyptic fiction. But such pestilence is annual par for Nicolas Cage."
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice. "Lo and behold and WTF, here's adorkable Jay Baruchel... getting molested by dancing mops as... the literal replication of a 70-year-old cartoon... forces its way into a movie where it clashes tonally, interrupts the plot, and just plain makes no sense."
2009 Knowing. "A ticking-clock thriller turned full-blown horror, Alex Proyas's film isn't the first to feature Cage wandering about bewilderedly. At least I Am Legend had a dog."
2008 Bangkok Dangerous. "You now that your movie has major problems when a bad wig is the most memorable part of the film."
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets. He made a sequel to that movie?
2007 Next. "Next features Nicolas Cage as a clairvoyant who can see events before they occur. If anyone on the production team had similar abilities, they could have foreseen that the film was a folly in the making."
2007 Ghost Rider. "Cage needs to produce something special next to make up for crimes against cinema."
2006 The Wicker Man. "In the final act of The Wicker Man, when Nicolas Cage has donned a bear suit, you have to wonder just what it is you're watching."
Oh by the way, Cage is making a sequel to Ghost Rider. Because once wasn't enough I guess.
