I love Nic and there’s still a good chunk of his movies that I haven’t seen.
Face Off, just for the weird idea to steal your enemy’s face
I love everything after Cage and Travolta swap faces. Watching the two of them impersonate each other is top notch. The cream on top of some high quality John Woo action cake.
Wild at Heart is the clear favorite for me. I’m a big David Lynch fan, and that movie is just deliciously bizarre.
As far as hidden gems, I don’t know. I haven’t seen a large portion of his filmography, and I’d guess that what I’ve seen is probably his better known stuff. Not much help there, sorry.
My favourite hidden gem is Red Rock West One of those times I first cought on TV showing at 11pm and I’ve got to get up at 5:30 am. Started watching and had to see the end
Favorite - Wild at Heart. Best acting - Leaving las Vegas. Unique Gems - Raising Arizona, Red Rock West, Knowing, Moonstruck, Adaptation, Bringing out the dead, Mandy.
Bringing out the Dead is a goddamned underrated masterpiece. It’s Nicholas Cage in his perfect unhinged element, playing perfectly to his strengths in a movie where they can really shine.
Knowing is an amazing movie that has been lost to time. I was flying from Philly to Ireland and can’t sleep on planes, so I watched that, and it was so mind blowing that I had to wake my wife up to make her watch it.
