10 Awesome Actors Who Automatically Improve Any Movie By Their Presence
2. A Liberal Serving Of Lunacy - Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage has become synonymous with go for broke over-acting to the extreme but what separates Nick Cage from other hammy thespians is the fact that everyone knows he is a legitimately talented performer. Cages turns in Leaving Las Vegas (for which he won an Academy Award) and Adaptation prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he can deliver top tier performances in important films.
Cage's ability to not only chew the scenery but chew through the very screen itself and into audiences hearts is what made him the people's champion of bad movies. Even in mediocre offerings like Ghost Rider or Next, Cage's verve and ever-changing hairpieces batter the viewer into submission until they are forced to sit in awed silence as Cage at his full Cagiest washes over them in a deluge of manic energy.
Whether he's wearing a bear suit and punching out a cult of pagan women a la The Wicker Man, or, reciting the alphabet with the volume cranked to 11 a la Vampire's Kiss, you must watch the typhoon of awesome that is Nick Cage as it barrels across the screen shattering everything in its path.