And that's to see a squalling, moaning, weeping, whining Nicholas Cage get BURNED ALIVE. You have to sit through the entire awful movie to get your money's worth.
I can think of only two Cage performances that were solid: Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. Forget that Las Vegas Hangover movie he won an Oscar for (or did he?).
In both Raising Arizona and Moonstruck he was satirizing an earnest man, a gentle parody of Gary Cooperish manliness. When he tries for earnest, he flops every time. He plays either sickly sentimental (Family Man) in trouble or slick sophisticate in trouble (Snake Eyes), and neither well.
I can think of only two Cage performances that were solid: Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. Forget that Las Vegas Hangover movie he won an Oscar for (or did he?).
In both Raising Arizona and Moonstruck he was satirizing an earnest man, a gentle parody of Gary Cooperish manliness. When he tries for earnest, he flops every time. He plays either sickly sentimental (Family Man) in trouble or slick sophisticate in trouble (Snake Eyes), and neither well.