Sunday, February 13, 2011

Is "Drive Angry" a Nicholas Cage movie or a line from Groundhogs Day?

When you think of Nicholas Cage, what comes to mind. He is been acting from 1981 to date and according to IMDB has appeared in 66 different movies.

Starting with fast times at Ridgemont High, Valley Girl, Birdy,  Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona and Moonstruck did look like his career was destined for greatness. It was almost as if, he didn't need to be related to Francis Ford Coppola to be successful.

He did small films for a while, to prove he was artistic, then performed a his best work to date in the incredibly depressing and accurate Leaving Las Vegas,  in 1995. Four years later he worked with Tony Soprano and Joaquin Phoenix in a very creepy 8mm.   Thus concluded the interesting part of his career.

He tried tying his name to a franchise “National Treasure" which lasted for two films. In 2012 is attempting to re-franchise himself with Ghost Rider II.   Ghost Rider is Xoxian  Indian  for  released straight to video.

Is Nicholas Cage's problem a lack of quality scripts? The answer is, no; a lack of quality scripts is all of Hollywood's problem.

Is Nicholas Cage's problem having poor representation and the worst decision-making ever? The answer  is, no; these problems dog everyone in sports and entertainment.

In fact, Nicholas Cage is a metaphor for the FDA. There are more FDA agents and there are farmers and doctors combined. As a result, there is more than 1 to 1 supervision of all people that produce food and prescribe medicine for the people in this country.

Despite having overwhelming force and a really cool name, (FDA should have been a power trio in the early1970s, kind of  vacuum filler after the Beatles broke up) this seemingly important agency has allowed  children to become obese.

The FDA has been so derelict in their duties that important family members of formerly popular people, like Michelle Obama and Michael Bloomberg have had to declare a war on salt and sugar.

If the agency had testicular fortitude, they would wail and moan and demand these modern-day superheroes of health to shut up and go back to doing the important work they were previously… Okay bad example; They weren't one doing anything… These superheroes should go on vacation, read the New York Times and attend openings... the exhausting things celebrities used to fill their day timers and provide excuses to shop.

In the meantime, Nicholas Cage and Johnny Depp should team up and make the ultimate independent/destined for obscurity art flick.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/#Actor

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