Oh. Nic COPPOLA Cage tries for "2 good scenes in every movie" and job done!1

[UTUSN]

They included the part of being somebody famous's relative as part of the formula for success. He's being interviewed/profiled on CBS in case anybody cares. It's over.

Well, the Cher quote was funny. She told him she picked him for Moonstruck because watching him in Peggy Sue was like watching a train wreck for two hours, which would work for this.

[brooklynboy49]

1. You're being too hard on Nic

OK, you're not lol.

He was very bad in Peggy Sue. But that was Oscar caliber compared to Moonstruck.

I can count his good performances on one hand and have a few fingers left over.

Having an uncle named Francis Ford Coppola explains his start. What explains his staying power? It's a question I ponder every time I see a Nic Coppola film. Which isn't often these days. His last (only?) good performance was in Matchstick Men in 2003. Quite a resume for a guy who's made 50 movies. One. One good movie. I'll grudgingly throw in Leaving Las Vegas.

I've never understood why he keeps getting cast. He's just a flat out shitty actor. Period. Exclamation point.

[UTUSN]

2. You started by spooking me that I was showing my ignorance (which I often do), but then

you did good, really really good!1 Thanks.

[lame54]

7. he was great in Birdy

[Generic Brad]

14. Shitty actor with an Oscar

So he must do something right every now and then.

[cui bono]

16. You must not have seen Leaving Las Vegas.

He was fantastic in that.

I haven't seen Moonstruck in a long time but I loved it and wasn't not bothered by him at all. Birdy...

His choice to do so many action flicks is questionable imo.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I tend to like his movies

They're not deep, meaningful explorations into the meaning of life. But I find them entertaining. It's probably not so much his acting that I like as his choice of films and subject matter. I like the two National Treasure movies, however fanciful and improbable they are. I like Knowing, Next, the Sorceror's Apprentice, Lord Of War, Con Air, quite a few others and even The Wicker Man although I find it much inferior to the original and I usually hate remakes. I'm not a fan of the Ghost Rider films but I don't like the concept. Roger Ebert during his life seemed to usually have nice things to say about Cage. He was quite good in my opinion in Valley Girl and in Leaving Las Vegas. Again, I don't think he's a great actor but then there aren't many great actors around these days compared to the Hollywood of old. I kind of see Cage in the same category with Keanu Reeves and Kevin Costner as a 'so-so' actor who usually picks pretty entertaining films that I like to see when I want to get away.

[UTUSN]

4. I'm not a movie buff & certainly haven't seen anything you named, including his Oscar film

I like either true "big" ("masterpiece" - NOT special effects) movies or off the wall niche movies like (the one behind the scenes of GILBERT & SULLIVAN, will insert here when I Google the name: ) "Topsy-Turvy"

Iow, for me it's more about visceral personal dislike of him, will never see any movie he's in, well barely saw parts of Moonstruck.



[font size=5]Topsy-Turvy (1999)[/font]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151568/
"After Gilbert and Sullivan's latest play is critically panned, the frustrated team threatens to disband until it is inspired to write the masterpiece 'The Mikado'.

"Director:Mike Leigh
"Writer:Mike Leigh
"Stars:Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Well I agree with you on Moonstruck

I didn't like that film or anyone in it. I also understand how the personalities of some actors can get under your skin. With me in Moonstruck, it was especially Cher that I didn't like. I think Cher can be wonderful. She was terrific in the Robert Altman film Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But there's something about her that gets under my skin. I wish I could explain it in a rational way. I can't stand to see her on the screen.

[UTUSN]

6. Whoa, you don't like *Cher*?!1 I always used to have a semi soft spot for her while not taking her

seriously. Uh, don't look to ME for (my) explaining things "in a rational way" - haha.

[mimi85]

15. I admire Cher

because I consider her a survivor. I wouldn't put many people in that category, in acting or in politics.

[UTUSN]

19. Well, I still have the soft spot for her, but she used to have me totally won over when she divorced

Sonny and made the rounds for years telling every talk show how she had freed herself from him, and then when Dave hosted the two of them together and made them sing *that* song, fine. But imagine my astonishment when he died that she declared how she had never stopped loving him or some other thing along those lines.

O.K., I get it that you love forever somebody whom you have ever loved and that somebody who had such an impact on your life is an impact forever, but she had made the case against him so much for so many years... then whammo.

That said, I'm really not this superficial!1

[Aristus]

10. I can explain it; at least, to my own satisfaction.

Cher built a singing career on a cheesy, overripe singing voice that grates on my ears like fingernails on a blackboard. And it was that singing career that was her springboard to an acting career; fruit from the poisoned tree...

[lame54]

8. Lord of War was a great movie

[Brigid]

9. Yeah, I was just going to mention that one.

But other than that, Cage is mediocre at best.

[KamaAina]

11. And none of them have his rug blowing off in a high wind

or getting yanked off by a jealous husband or something.

[frogmarch]

12. C'mon now. He was wonderful in

Raising Arizona!

[Raine1967]

13. perfect casting.

When he is cast to play a certain character...

he's awesome.

Moonstruck.

Peggy Sue Got Married.

Raising Arizona.



The rest, meh.

Well maybe that mandolin movie is an exception. He's a Coppola. That saids, so is Jason Schwartzman -- and he's been amazing in pretty much EVERY Wes Anderson film.

[cui bono]

17. Leaving Las Vegas.

Wait a sec... Schwartzman is a Coppola? Weird. I really like him. He does a lot of quirky things that I love. I Heart Huckabees, Bored to Death (HBO series). And I just saw him in a Parks and Rec episode from S5 yesterday.

[Raine1967]

21. YES, I forgot that movie.

And yes, Schwartzman is a Coppola. He's a cool guy had a chance to meet him about 12 years ago.

[Lucinda]

18. Seems logical if the quote is legit. In my experience, actors are never fully happy with their work

so shooting for two that he feels good about means a lot of hard work.
I have never had a full stage performance that I felt I couldn't improve on.

[UTUSN]

22. "if the quote is legit" - I'll just say I have no reason to make up a quote n /t

[Ron Obvious]

20. I think he blamed the director for his Peggy Sue performance.

Apparently he was directed to mug like that. I agree that it didn't work, and ruined what otherwise would have been a great movie.