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NICOLAS CAGE MOVIE SUPERLATIVES

Nicolas Cage Movie Superlatives: Welcome

ROUND 2 MOVIES

Movies watched in 2021

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BEST SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Smoking crack in front of Xzibit, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Runners Up:

  • Scheduled beer breaks during animatronic murder, Willy's Wonderland

  • Getting high and wandering the streets of Pakistan, Army Of One

  • Pill-popping paramedic, Bringing Out The Dead

CREEPIEST MOMENT

Nic Cage dirty talking to a woman while trying to shake down a couple in a parking lot, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Runners Up:

  • Willem Dafoe telling Laura Dern he wants to "jump all around that hole," Wild At Heart

  • Nic Cage hiding in the shower at a house party while people use the bathroom, Valley Girl

  • Nic Cage ranting about anal beads to his children, Mom And Dad

  • The entire premise of Nic Cage's character having a romance with Wendi McLendon-Covey, Army of One

BEST KIDNAPPING

Kidnapping the president of the United States, National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Runners Up:

  • Kidnapping a baby, Raising Arizona

  • Kidnapping a former first lady, Guarding Tess

BEST NIC CAGE SIDEKICK

Elijah Wood, The Trust

Runners Up:

  • Gary Sinise, Snake Eyes

  • Ving Rhames, Bringing Out The Dead

  • John Goodman, Raising Arizona

  • Incel Boy, The Sorcerer's Apprentice

MOST HAREBRAINED SCHEME

Committing numerous felonies to prove your ancestors weren't involved in the Lincoln assassination, National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Runners Up:

  • Assassinating Osama Bin Laden, Army of One

  • Burglarizing the cartel, The Trust

  • Kidnapping a baby, Raising Arizona

BEST LOVE INTEREST

Bad haircut Carla Gugino, Snake Eyes

Runners Up:

  • The pinball machine in Willy's Wonderland

  • Prostitute Eva Mendes, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  • Murdering mommy Selma Blair, Mom And Dad

BEST NIC CAGE VIOLENCE

Chasing his son around the house with a Sawzall while making dog noises, Mom And Dad

Runners Up:

  • Threatening to murder an old lady via oxygen tank deprivation, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  • Killing animatronic characters, Willy's Wonderland

  • Fighting Osama Bin Laden in a cave with a samurai sword, Army of One

  • Setting degenerates on fire, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

LEAST LIKABLE CHARACTER

We have a two-way tie!

  • Tess, Guarding Tess

  • Everyone, Valley Girl

Runners Up:

  • Patricia Arquette, Bringing Out The Dead

  • Willem Dafoe, Wild At Heart

  • Everyone, Willy's Wonderland

MOST INSANE NIC CAGE CHARACTER

Gary Faulkner, Army Of One

Runners Up:

  • The bad lieutenant, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  • Murder dad, Mom And Dad

  • The janitor, Willy's Wonderland

MOST CONFUSING MOMENT

We have a two-way tie!

  • Lizard Cam, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  • Laura Dern's mom covering her entire face and body with red lipstick, Wild At Heart

Runners Up:

  • Peanut butter sushi and guacamole pie, Valley Girl

  • Pinball dance montage, Willy's Wonderland

  • Nic Cage's hairstyle noticeably changing in between every scene, The Sorcerer's Apprentice

MOST UNCOMFORTABLE ROMANCE

Nic Cage and Wendi McLendon-Covey, Army Of One

Runners Up:

  • Nic Cage and Laura Dern, Wild At Heart

  • Nic Cage and a pinball machine, Willy's Wonderland

  • Nic Cage and Patricia Arquette, Bringing Out The Dead

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ROUND 1 MOVIES

Movies watched in 2020

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BEST MISOGYNY

Drive Angry

Runners Up:

  • Season Of The Witch

  • The Wicker Man

  • Bangkok Dangerous

MOST UNREALISTIC NIC CAGE LOVE INTEREST

We have a two-way tie!

  • Diane Kruger, National Treasure

  • Eva Mendes, Ghost Rider

Runners Up:

  • Jessica Biel, Next

  • Angelina Jolie, Gone In 60 Seconds

  • Tea Leoni, The Family Man

BEST NIC CAGE QUOTE

"I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!" ~ Vampire's Kiss

Runners Up:​

  • ​"Suck my tongue!" ~ Face/Off

  • "The bees! Not the bees!" ~ The Wicker Man

  • "Bring me the big knife! I want to cut my throat!" ~ Moonstruck

  • On his dad wardrobe: "This is...this is...sub-par." ~ The Family Man

BEST NIC CAGE SIDEKICK

Sean Connery, The Rock

Runners Up:

  • Samuel L. Jackson, Amos & Andrew

  • Hayden Christensen, Outcast

  • Ron Perlman, Season Of The Witch

  • Amber Heard, Drive Angry

BEST NIC CAGE FOE

John Travolta, Face/Off

Runners Up:

  • John Malkovich, Con Air

  • Ed Harris, The Rock

  • Don Cheadle, The Family Man

  • Sean Bean, National Treasure

BEST NIC CAGE FREAKOUT

Apartment trashing, Vampire's Kiss

Runners Up:

  • Bathroom vodka chugging, Mandy

  • Yelling in a manic voice and thrashing around in a hotel room after learning his boss wanted him dead, Deadfall

  • "Not the bees!" freakout, The Wicker Man

  • "Bring me the big knife!" suicide threats, Moonstruck

  • Unloading on his wife about how awful his life is in the middle of a department store, The Family Man

MOST BAFFLING PLOT

Jiu Jitsu

Runners Up:

  • Deadfall

  • Mandy

  • Next

  • Bangkok Dangerous

BEST FIGHT SCENE

Mid-coitus shootout, Drive Angry

Runners Up:

  • Chainsaw battle, Mandy

  • Cage as Travolta vs. Travolta as Cage (including self facial mutilation and death by spear gun), Face/Off

  • Nic Cage's face vs. a deep fryer, Deadfall

  • Fighting a jiu jitsu-wielding alien, Jiu Jitsu

BEST WANTON DESTRUCTION

Fire truck wreaking havoc on the Vegas strip, Con Air

Runners Up:

  • Destroying half of downtown San Francisco during a car chase, The Rock

  • Nic Cage. vs. his apartment furniture, Vampire's Kiss

  • Caramelizing the Declaration of Independence, National Treasure

BEST/WORST COSTUMING CHOICE

We have a two-way tie!

  • Eye squint + topknot, Outcast

  • ​Inexplicable prosthetic nose + horrible wig, Deadfall and Arsenal

Runners Up:

  • Tiger shirt + manties, Mandy

  • Plastic vampire teeth + 80's business suit, Vampire's Kiss

BEST/WORST CHOICE OF ACCENT

Donald Trump meets Valley Girl, Vampire's Kiss

Runners Up:

  • Speaking without opening his mouth, Deadfall and Arsenal

  • Country-fried goodness, Con Air

  • Gruff, bastardized British, Outcast

BEST/WORST LOVE SCENE

Mid-coitus gun battle, Drive Angry

Runners Up:

  • Nic Cage fetishizing a deaf Asian woman during the most awkward dinner ever, Bangkok Dangerous

  • Nic and Angelina getting down in a car while being voyeurs, Gone In 60 Seconds

  • Banging his brother's fiancee all the live-long day, Moonstruck

  • Predatory lovemaking with Jessica Biel, Next

BEST DRUG AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

We have a two-way tie!

  • Whole cast is drunk during filming, Ghost Rider

  • ​Nic Cage is likely ON cocaine, Vampire's Kiss

Runners Up:

  • Nic Cage chugging half a bottle of vodka on the toilet, Mandy

  • Nic Cage snorting cocaine off a knife, Mandy

HOTTEST ITERATION OF NIC CAGE

Butterface tank top + acid washed jeans, Con Air

​Runners Up:

  • Thicc thighs in manties, Mandy

  • Baking that bread with one hand, Moonstruck

  • Potentially CGI'd old man abs, Ghost Rider

  • Singing opera in manties, The Family Man

  • I refuse.

BEST NIC CAGE HAIRSTYLE

"My hair is a bird" meme source material, Next

Runners Up:

  • Grease mullet, Con Air

  • Top knot, Outcast

  • Dollar store bob wig, Deadfall and Arsenal

  • Bedhead/electrocution hair, Moonstruck

MOVIE WITH MOST MISGUIDED PREMISE

We have a tie!

  • Being a suburban dad in a dead-end tire sales job with a bipolar wife and creepy children is better than being a Wall Street executive with a penthouse apartment having lots of casual sex ~ The Family Man

  • The audience being asked to root for an exotic animals trader as he's up against an assassin and the loose animals that are killing a bunch of characters we don't care about ~ Primal

Runners Up:

  • A bunch of personality disordered people are unfaithful to each other, but it all works out in the end ~ Moonstruck

  • Drug-addled, cultural appropriating white saviors defeat a cruel Chinese emperor ~ Outcast

  • The entire concept of the rapture ~ Left Behind

WORST SUPPORTING CAST

We have a two-way tie!

  • Protagonists you couldn't care less about, Arsenal

  • Racist white people neighborhood ~Amos & Andrew

Runners Up:

  • Personality disordered, stereotypical NYC Italians ~ Moonstruck

  • Creepy wife and creepy cult members ~Mandy

  • Who are these people and what are they trying to accomplish again? ~ Jiu Jitsu

DEADLIEST NIC CAGE CHARACTER

Milton, Drive Angry

Runners Up:

  • Castor Troy, Face/Off

  • Red Miller, Mandy

  • Joe, Bangkok Dangerous

  • Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider

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