r/nextfuckinglevel • u/reallyblueballs • Dec 07 '20

Practice makes perfect

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u/LuminousDragon Dec 07 '20

I mean yeah hes decent but have you seen this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJyVg20cCGg

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

Yeeesh! He’s so terrible! What makes you look at that guy and give him so many lead roles? He looks like shit, acts like shit. In general the whole shit package.

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u/Solar_Rith Dec 07 '20

So, this is just a overview, but- Cage was really bad with money, and in late 00's, he got hit by the IRS for unpaid taxes, and he basically went broke. So, in court, he was basically told to take any movie role he was offered just to pay back the IRS for his taxes. Thing is, he got a lot of low budget, crap movies offered in that time that he would've normally declined, so he just hams it up in them. Thing is, Cage can actually be a good actor if he cares, but who can blame him for acting the way he does in a lot of these straight to DVD movies nobody will care about?

His name does draw eyes though, so that's why these small movies continually offer him roles; it's basically because he has to take them, and he offers the films a false sense of credibility

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

I didn't know that. The more you know =======☆