The Dark Knight Rises Nicolas Cage ‘Would Love To Play A Supervillain’ In ‘Batman 3’

[YsoSerious]

Who WOULDN'T want to play a villian in Batman 3?

 

[Crook]

You'd be surprised. I bet many Hollywood actors wouldn't want to be the direct villain successor to Heath's Joker. The bar has been set quite high.

 

[Matt]

No, he does a good job when he has a good, interesting role. He is perfect as those kooky, slightly unhinged characters. And when he was the actual bad guy for a while in Face/Off he was brilliantly disturbed. There is just something about him that makes me think he could be a brilliant comic book villain.

But granted, I dunno bout a Bat-villain.

Cage gets a bad wrap, but I agree...when he is playing to his strengths he is one of the best in Hollywood. He has tried too hard to become an action hero in recent years, and it doesn't work, but when he gets a good, character driven role...or an unhinged psychotic role, he is one of the best in Hollywood.

 

[Matt]

By the way, look at Heath Ledger's resume...10 Things I Hate About You? A Knights Tale? Prior to Brokeback (in which he wasn't really that good)...he was a teenbopper actor. I know this will be blasphemy to many of you...but Ledger has given plenty of downright **** performances. All actors do.

 

[Crook]

Crap movies, yes, but I separate that from the individual performance. I thought he was fine in all of them.

Brokeback, Dogtown, and Candy, is where he really got to flex his acting muscles.

 

[The Mighty Wind]

Cage makes awful, phone-in performances in awful, schlocky movies, but when he makes a movie he cares about, his performances are top notch (See: Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas, Matchstick Men). He'd be an excellent choice for a number of roles, providing he's willing to try and not just milk a paycheck out of the movie.

 

[jmc]

The problem with Cage is that it's like he just doesn't care anymore, he just turns up, says his lines, get's the pay check and goes home, and on top of that he continuously chooses crap roles, either that or that's all he's being offered. His name is unfortunately now synonymous with bad films, and he doesn't seems to want to do anything about it. To me, he comes across as someone who's lost the desire to act, and frankly as good as he can be (or was), a person like that needs to stay as far away from this series as possible.

 

[namtaB]

The problem with Cage is that it's like he just doesn't care anymore, he just turns up, says his lines, get's the pay check and goes home, and on top of that he continuously chooses crap roles, either that or that's all he's being offered. His name is unfortunately now synonymous with bad films, and he doesn't seems to want to do anything about it. To me, he comes across as someone who's lost the desire to act, and frankly as good as he can be (or was), a person like that needs to stay as far away from this series as possible.

Or Batman 3 can be to Nick Cage what Wrestler was to Mickey Rourke. You guys act all tough but you don't fool me. You're a mercurial bunch. Fickle and emotional. I bet if Cage was cast many of you would sing a different tune.

 

[jmc]

Or Batman 3 can be to Nick Cage what Wrestler was to Mickey Rourke. You guys act all tough but you don't fool me. You're a mercurial bunch. Fickle and emotional. I bet if Cage was cast many of you would sing a different tune.

Looks like you caught us out then. Yep the jig is up, we will love Cage if he's cast in Batman 3.

 

[CJ]

I concur.

 

[Crook]

Or Batman 3 can be to Nick Cage what Wrestler was to Mickey Rourke.

Wrestler was what it was to Rourke, because it was a personal story that reflected his own career. Rourke had a lot to prove, and he was dead-set on correcting things. It was bound to be a career-high performance.

Not really seeing how that translates with Nic and Batman...

 

[namtaB]

Wrestler was what it was to Rourke, because it was a personal story that reflected his own career. Rourke had a lot to prove, and he was dead-set on correcting things. It was bound to be a career-high performance.

Not really seeing how that translates with Nic and Batman...

The comparison I was going for was a written off tired actor's career being resurrected by a stellar performance in the right film. I thought that would have been easy to pick up. Don't know where you're getting the notion that it had anything to do with a personal story as a reflection of one's career. That quite a bit of a stretch there hoss. But you gotta boost up that post count right?

 

[Crook]

If you had simply read the first 7 words, you would know I wasn't talking about personal reflection as a comparison. I see I have to settle for layman's terms; drive. Rourke gave that performance because he had everything to gain and nothing to lose. He gave it his all, because he came from the bottom.

Cage is settled. He's sitting pretty comfy. Doesn't matter if it's Nolan, because what exactly is going to incite him to give a performance of a lifetime? Certainly not because of his love for comics, as Ghost Rider proved.

See how reading comprehension works?

 

[Episode29]

Cage is settled. He's sitting pretty comfy. Doesn't matter if it's Nolan, because what exactly is going to incite him to give a performance of a lifetime? Certainly not because of his love for comics, as Ghost Rider proved.

See how reading comprehension works?

I would argue that he was the only one actually attempting to do work in Ghost Rider. He made some really interesting, quirky choices with his character which made the horribly written dialogue feel a little more lively. Too bad the script and direction was so unbearably wretched.

 

[BatmanForNever]

No thanks for two reasons:

He sucks.

And anyone using the term "supervillain" and claiming to be a comic nerd should be shot.

 

[SuperFerret]

Looks like you caught us out then. Yep the jig is up, we will love Cage if he's cast in Batman 3.

I remember a lot of resistance when Ledger was cast, you know, since he was the "gay cowboy guy" and a teenybopper actor before that.

And anyone using the term "supervillain" and claiming to be a comic nerd should be shot.

For ****s and giggles: why do you say that?

 

[rogue trooper]

I think Nic Cage could be a splendid Hugo Strange. I also think that with a very talented director like Christopher Nolan, Cage could be guided to give a very bravado performance like in Face/Off and Kiss of Death.

 

[jmc]

I remember a lot of resistance when Ledger was cast, you know, since he was the ''gay cowboy guy'' and a teenybopper actor before that.

People who only saw Ledger as a teeny bopper actor and a gay cowboy were just ignorant, the guy was a good actor and loved the job. Cage on the other hand doesn't seem to give a rats arse anymore and it's been showing in the last few years, he's just turns up, does his stuff and collects the cash, I don't know about others but my resistance to Cage lies not in his acting ability, it's that he doesn't have his heart in it anymore. It's kinda sad, the guy's probably gonna be remembered more for his bad movies than his acting.

 

[Deaths Head II]

Ledger was unproven to a lot of people. Cage on the other hand is considered to have lost it.

 

[Ledlunar]

Nicolas Cage IS a good actor, Heath was too, they both had roles they were great in Nicolas Cage was recently great in The Weatherman, so I dont think he lost it but just takes some roles almost as a paycheck yes, you can't really bash Ledger for taking roles like 10 things I hate about you.. I mean it was like his first American film role, and honestly as far as "teen" movies go it was actually one of the better ones for modern day (at the time) [Fast Times, Dazed & Confused, and the 80's John Hughes ones are better] then he boycotted a ton of teen films.. even the role of spiderman and anakin skywalker to take roles he was more serious about... But I think as actors grow older like Nicolas Cage they start taking more films because they probably regret not taking some roles when they were younger and don't want to let one get by...

If Nicolas Cage wants to be in a Nolan film Im sure its not to coast through it and get a paycheck and be in what will most undoubtingly be a great film, Im sure he really enjoyed these films and how all the actors are pretty serious in there roles in these films (excluding the guy in TDK who says "thats not good, OKAY thats not GOOD")

But I still dont want him in the next one... the only person I could see him playing is that pathetic quality in the Riddler not cause I think Nicolas Cage IS pathetic but because he has these qualities portrayed "to the T" in The Weatherman & Matchstick Men...

BUT I still wouldn't want him as even The Riddler, Many other actor would be way more inspiring, original and just far better in the role

 

[Batmania]

I heard this while listening to a film review podcast this morning:

"What's the worst tagline of all time?"

Starring: Nicolas Cage

That about sums it up for me. If I see Cage's face in a trailer these days, I try to avoid watching that film because it's almost guaranteed to be bad.

 

[RockyBatboa]

Bale has never done performances as bad as Cage has done in films like the Wicker Man and Ghost Rider. Ever. I'm pretty sure very few actors actually have. And even if they have, Cage is even worse for it because he has shown he can act which makes what he does now basically purposeful torture of the audience.

To be fair here, "Ghost Rider" was a pretty **** film all around: script, directing, hell, GR as a character is pretty low-rent anyways. I think Cage was just going for the whole "so bad, it's good performance." In fact, it was that performance, and that performance alone, that kept me from falling asleep. So let's not get too adept at the i hate cage, bad performances routing, cause it's pretty darn exaggeration.

Think about it-any other actor in that movie, and it would have been even worse.

And Brando did indeed go downhill later in his career. That expression applies for current casting though. I wouldn't have been as excited for a Brando film in the 90s as I would had in previous decades. Thats a fact. Now that his career is finished its easy to look at his entire career but when it comes to being cast in a film now there is such a thing as going down the tubes/jumping the shark/whatever. Cage is currently down the tubes so I am really not excited at the idea of him being in this film just like I wouldn't have been that excited at 90s Brando being in a film.

So i take it you didnt like "lord of war" and the "national treasure"flicks then. Cage is actually in his box office glory days the last few years. That started in 97 with "Con-Air" and since then he's alternated between big blockbuster and quirky smaller film.

Besides, I don't think an actor that NEEDS a good movie/good director in order to give a good performance is probably that great anyway. Like I said, if Cage is in a bad movie he is often the worst part of that movie.

I dont think so. As noted above, "Ghost Rider" sucked all around, and cage was the best part of that. Even at sucking, Cage somehow rises above. How many other actors can you say that about??

 

[Deaths Head II]

I really doubt Cage's acting being "so bad it's good" was intentional.

 

[TLH]

Too big a name and recognizable face for it to work.

 

[Doc Samson]

Y'know, I used to pull for Cage to get into a Superhero flick because of his love for the artform. But then he made Ghostrider....and for someone with so much admiration for comics, I question how he could get involved with a film such as that?