Nic Cage as Everyone

Above, as Gandalf. niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com: a blog "founded on the belief that everything in life would be better with a little more Nic Cage, the most unique and versatile actor of his generation." (image in this post p-shopped by Colin Bridgeman, blog via George Ruiz)

• [Signal30]

  He’s pretty much the new millennium John Carradine, but with much more money thrown at him. Pretty sad, actually. Although if they ever get around to making a big screen version of The Andy Griffith Show, he’d be perfect as Barney Fife.

  • [Rich Keller]

    Nic as Barney Fife? I think there may be a better choice for that.

    If Steve Buscemi ever needs to reinvent himself the way Eddy Murphy did by becoming the new Bill Cosby, he could re-do the entire work of Don Knotts. Hopefully he’d begin with the Incredible Mr. Limpet.

• [jerwin]

  Eh. Some of of them are halfway decent, (such as Gandalf), but too many are just bad cut and paste jobs. They wouldn’t even bear mentioning on http://www.worth1000.com.

• [Anonymous]

  Versatile? Please! This must be some parody. The guy has one expression and the acting skills of a log of wood. Wouldn’t be in the business to begin with if it wasn’t for his Coppola family.

• [greggman]

  Wow, I can’t believe all the negative comments. What other leading actor has been so flexible?

  Raising Arizona
  Vampire’s Kiss
  Leaving Las Vegas
  Bringing Out the Dead
  The Weather Man
  Adaptation
  Honeymoon in Vegas
  Wild at Heart
  Moonstruck
  Guarding Tess

  Everyone of those he plays a completely different character. Sure, he plays the same character in his action blockbusters like The Rock or National Treasure but he’s done way more outstanding and unique rolls than just about any other actor in the last 30 years.

• [thecha]

  Proof of Nic Cage’s “Unique and Versatile” style…

  http://vimeo.com/8571570

  • [SamSam]

    Huh?

    I failed to understand that clip.

• [Talia]

  LEAVE NIC CAGE ALONE!!11!!!1!

  But in all seriousness, I like him in general, though I agree with misterfricative’s assessment that he always looks worried. :)

  These pictures are hilarious, particularly the Gandalf one. :)

  @ jtropp1 – if it makes you feel better, I don’t think you look that much like him. Just the shape of your head, mainly.

• [franko]

  sorry, nic cage and be whoever he wants, but ian mckellen IS gandalf. period.

• [Anonymous]

  Oh, Please… I might buy unique, and not in a positive way, but versatile? NOT. Sure, he’s appeared in a bunch of way bad flicks but that’s not the same as versatile. And what about that face? And those lips? And the perpetual “caught in the headlights” look? Plus, he mumbles. I don’t think so…

• [Anonymous]

  I don’t dispute that he’s unique, but frankly, my world would be a lot better with less Nic Cage. C’mon, ‘Bankok Dangerous’…

• [DarwinSurvivor]

  Versatile? He’s constantly critiqued for playing the same exact character in all his movies. His character may be in a slightly different situation, or need to do different things, but the characters themselves are all pretty much the same.

• [Anonymous]

  my favorites so far are sarah palin and george washington.

  • [abstract_reg]

    “Knowing” was either an amazing movie or I’ve been duped. Did anyone else watch it? Most critics hated it, Ebert put it in his Top Ten for the year.

    • [Talia]

      I saw it. I’m not sure how I felt about it. I had that Beethoven symphony (7th? 9th? 7th, I think) stuck in my head for months afterwards though.

      The subject matter by nature is rather emotionally manipulative. I’m not sure how much of my response was just to the subject matter and not the crafting of the movie itself, so I can’t really judge clearly.

• [misterfricative]

  This is so perfect! Dear old Nic Cage always looks so worried and earnest. Every one of these is hilarious.

  Thanks interwebs. Thanks photoshop.

• [Felton]

  I have nothing against the man, but he still hasn’t come close to topping this.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  He showed so much promise in Valley Girl.

• [Itsumishi]

  In response to the first 3 comments.

  • [Halloween Jack]

    I think that some of the commenters still haven’t grasped the lesson behind all the “just look at it” banana posts.

• [Anonymous]

  And with the creation of this photoblog, the truth has finally become apparent:

  Humanity must be nuked from orbit. For our own good.

• [jtropp1]

  Oh lord, it’s like every famous face in the world now gets to face what my face faces everyday!
  > This is me: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3458/3224062525_5d152c792e_b.jpg
  At the bank, in the park, on the interwebs: “Dude, you know who you really look like?!”
  ..sigh..
  I got “Don Draper” once. That was a good day.

• [Anonymous]

  Good in Raising Arizona.
  Crap in everything since.
  Period.

  • [IamInnocent]

    Himself in raising Arizona.
    Himself in everything else.

  • [dculberson]

    +1. Awesome in Raising Arizona. Needs to do more screwball stuff. His earnest worried look plays well there, but comes off as douchebaggery in National Treasure, et al.

    I’m gonna agree with Antinous, though, that he wasn’t TOO bad in Lord of War. He was still the same character, but it worked okay. At least there was no “OH GOD NOT BEES” scene.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    He had a mini-renaissance in Adaptation, Matchstick Men and Lord of War. Then straight back to the crap-a-thon.

• [Phrosty]

  Cage couldn’t act his way out of a cardboard box.

  • [greggman]

    Cage won an Academy Award for best actor as well as being nominated twice.

  • [Felton]

    I don’t know, his acting style is pretty convulsive. :-)

• [Anonymous]

  *whispers* I think it’s supposed to be sarcasm.