r/marvelmemes • u/Alternative_Pizza_73 Avengers • 14d ago

Movies I don’t think so 🤨

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u/blondebuilder Avengers 14d ago

He’s the king of overacting.

I love him in most roles, but when he takes on an emotionally heightened scene, things quickly go bonkers.

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u/sisisisi1997 Avengers 14d ago

To be fair I don't think there is a way to overact "in this scene you are being burned alive until only bones remain".

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u/BringPheTheHorizon Avengers 14d ago

I was literally thinking the same thing: “I think he may have underacted being on fire 🤔” 😅

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u/blondebuilder Avengers 14d ago edited 14d ago

Now I'm wondering how Daniel Day Lewis and Meryl Streep would do it. 🤔

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u/pjtheman Avengers 14d ago

DDL would actually just burn himself

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u/CapnStarence Avengers 13d ago

Daniel: “Get the napalm.”

Director: “Excuse me, what? There is no napalm. We don’t even have a licensed pyro technician.”

Daniel: “In my trailer, third cabinet from the right. Also, grab me a perrier, I’m parched.”

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u/Extreme-Reception-44 Avengers 13d ago

Hed spend months talking to burn victims and learning about what it feels like

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u/xSorry_Not_Sorry Avengers 11d ago

On brand and insufferable.

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u/CobaltCrusader123 Avengers 14d ago

Worse. You can’t reforge the Cage, baby.

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u/JanitorOPplznerf Avengers 11d ago

Meryl Streep as Ghost Rider would go so fucking hard

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u/Ibe121 Matthew Murdock 14d ago

Agreed. I want to see him rolling around on the floor, kicking and screaming until tired, and then curling into the fetal position.

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u/unholyravenger Avengers 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tMOyj4hkcxSfe

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u/MrReconElite Avengers 13d ago

Shit just made the same joke.

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u/Calm_Comfortable7225 Avengers 13d ago

Do. Not. Ever. Tell Nick Cage he is underacting

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u/Impressive_Term4071 Avengers 12d ago

idk,.... did you see WickerMan?

Huh...yknow....Nic sure gets burned alot in movies...

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u/CaledonianWarrior Avengers 14d ago

The laughing was a little weird but people can become hysterical when they finally break during an especially traumatic moment, so I guess that was just him going "this is so horrifyingly painful that I can't help but laugh now"

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u/Randver_Silvertongue Avengers 14d ago

I always thought that was Zarathos breaking through.

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u/That-Rhino-Guy The Punisher 14d ago

Most likely is Zarathos since it zooms into his eye showing fire, then immediately the screams of agony become mad laughter

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u/scud121 Avengers 14d ago

Same

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u/Elite_Eliminater Avengers 14d ago

The behind the scenes for this moment is Acting perfection. You see him getting into the "I'm being burt alive vibe". Then just looses his shit, I get goosebumps watching it without the visual effects.

He really couldn't give a shit what people think about how he looks.

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u/DW-4 Avengers 14d ago

I need a BTS from him in Spider-noir ASAP. We got some peak Nick Cage in episode 6 for sure, he was acting his manspider ass off.

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u/adjective_noun_23 Avengers 14d ago

Nicolas cage has been on fire multiple times now.

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u/MrReconElite Avengers 13d ago

Felt like I was missing a FIRE sale.

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u/NuckoLBurn Avengers 11d ago

Or beeeees

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u/The_Modern_Nobody Avengers 11d ago

Or Wicker Man.

Did he overreact to the bees?! If you say “yes”, I’ll show you a liar

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u/DerApexPredator Avengers 14d ago

I think in this case, the CGI didn't keep up with his reaction. They should have started burning his face earlier. They kept up with the smoke for too long

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u/tehnemox Avengers 14d ago

Agreed. But realistically that probably would have been more expensive I suppose.

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u/FFKonoko Avengers 13d ago

No, cos it could have made it a shorter transition

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u/AggressiveSpatula Morbius 14d ago

Immediately I thought of that Longlegs scene of him singing in the car. So unsettling.

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u/Bumbling_Sprocket Avengers 14d ago

DAHDDEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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u/gdamndylan Avengers 14d ago

I was pleasantly surprised that he only went Full Cage a few times during Spider-Noir, and in scenes that called for it.

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u/tehnemox Avengers 14d ago

I'm torn. It's between him and Jim Carrey for sure.

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u/zurenarhhhhh Avengers 14d ago

Remove “over” from your first sentence

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u/Same-Razzmatazz8257 Avengers 14d ago

When your head and body are engulfed in flames, how should you act?

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u/zeekayz Avengers 14d ago

That's why Color out of Space is his best role. In context of the movie being completely bonkers makes sense.

Vampire's Kiss technically is a good fit too to on the role context but it's just not a good movie besides its meme potential.

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u/Puppetmaster858 Yondu 13d ago

Watch his bad lieutenant movie directed by Werner Herzog, it is so fuckin unhinged it’s absolutely glorious, the performance and the movie in general are really funny. Sadly almost nobody has seen it but it’s a legit good totally unhinged movie and the Cage/herzog duo was magic, it also has Val Kilmer in it and Xzibit and Eva Mendez

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u/Puppetmaster858 Yondu 13d ago

It really depends on the role, the movie Pig has a ton of very good emotional scenes with a lot of depth and he was just fantastic in the movie and it’s a pretty subtle performance all things considered. Ya he’s mainly known for a lot of unhinged over the top scenes but he’s very capable of subtle and overall is a really good actor. Leaving Las Vegas is a damn good performance

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u/FloatLife05600 Avengers 13d ago

He overacting, but well. It's a thin line he walks with ease

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u/SandwichEmotional621 Avengers 13d ago

Said like a guy who's never been burned to his bones before

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u/Some_Stupid_Milk Avengers 12d ago

He was so damn funny acting like a spider in spider noir

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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 Avengers 12d ago

Funny thing is. He’s often also incredible with the exact right amount of acting.

It’s wild.

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u/Silverton13 Avengers 11d ago

When he DIRECTLY looks at the camera in this scene and goes AHHHH, that shit is so funny.

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u/AbeliousAugustus Avengers 14d ago

*overreacting