Nicolas Cage is the man. Unfortunately for him, because he has had quite a few terrible movies, and even more psychotic characters, his fine work gets lost in the hoopla. Thankfully though, the fine folks over at TheShiznit made a lovely little matrix to remind you of some of his masterpieces. I'd highly recommend clicking through that picture to see if full size, because you wouldn't want to get caught up saying he's a horrible actor when that clearly isn't the case. What is horrible is some of his hairdos.
Here is how they developed the matrix:
This was a mammoth task to undertake: perhaps an adventure worthy of one of Nicolas Cage's heroic characters (either that or someone with far, far too much time on their hands). First, we separated the wheat from the chaff, so no animation voiceovers (bye bye Ant Bully, G-Force and Astro Boy) and no bit-parts or cameos (hasta la vista Grindhouse and Sonny). Then we dropped the Cage films that barely registered on the radar - any fans of Amos & Andrew or Guarding Tess should probably start writing to their MPs now. That left us with 39 of the finest Cage films to categorise, pre-Drive Angry.
Then, we considered the factors. Like most actors, Nicolas Cage has made his fair share of stinkers as well as some unforgettable classics, so the vertical axis would have to be based on quality. As for horizontal - my favourite axis - well, that's easy. Cage more than anyone has two distinct types of movie: serious, po-faced, issue movies and balls-out, crack-piped, bug-eyed brainwrongs. Then it was simply a case of plotting the graph...
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