10. Nicolas Cage
Before I launch into the tirade that we've all read a million times before I'd like to set one thing straight and give some context. I adore Nicolas Cage. He is an utterly baffling, otherworldly creature capable of such fully transformative performances that when he pulls it off (as he has done many times over his incredibly weird screen career) he is almost without parallel. "Leaving Las Vegas", "Bad Lieutenant" and "Adaptation" all stand as a testament to what happens when he applies his full throttle batshittery to the right project. However, this unencumbered capacity to tear through scenery with such Spartan ferocity combined with an apparent inability to discern good from bad alongside a personality trait that's clinically described as "total insanity", Nicolas Cages...shall we say...spirited approach to performing has many, many a time backfired. In short, he makes god-awful films choices "The Wicker Man", "Season of The Witch", "Knowing", "Next", "Bangkok Dangerous", "Justice".... the list of awful films is as long as his hair is disturbingly strange. But as a result of his necessity to star in ever project he's offered to buy another castle in Bath (it's a lovely town Nic, we'll give you that) rubbing against all that unfettered lunatic energy he just winds up being terrible most of the time. He's like an ultra powerful laser that if calibrated correctly and delicately could be used to cure cancer, but instead you just fart on it, spin it in a circle and use it to superheat a meatball sub....or something. Audible sigh.
Nostalgia Rating We can still work it out baby! One more chance! Come on!