If you want bad cinema, you could do a lot worse than looking back over Nicolas Cage's portfolio from the past 10 years. Though there have been one or two sparks amidst all the turgidity (Kick-Ass, Bad Lieutenant, Joe), Cage has for the most part been churning out nothing but crap for a good decades now. Not that he's been one to acknowledge it - Cage's quality barometer is generally off (he recently called Hayden Christensen in the Star Wars prequels "edgy, dark and soulful", which is historically Christensen's first good Star Wars review), and he told Flickering Myth in 2014 that he has regretted nothing in his career. Still, that was before The Dying Of The Light, the 2015 Paul Schrader film that got butchered by the studio and was subsequently boycotted by Schrader, producer Nicolas Winding Refn and, yes, Nicolas Cage, a man who didn't even regret The Wicker Man. In a very public silent demonstration, Cage protested the release of Light, which he felt had been fatally compromised by cut-happy execs - meaning everyone, taking into account Cage's previous leniency, now knows to avoid it like the plague. Which other actors do you know that publicly hated their own movies? Let us know in the comments below.
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