Nearly ruins every scene he's in with his cartoon, ego-centric performance. Kathleen saves him time after time. I think this movie would be remembered much more highly if someone else had been cast in his role.
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Nicolas Cage is the reason why I rated this movie a 1. He's probably one of the most self-indulgent actors of all time next to Rod Steiger, and he singlehandedly ruins otherwise good movies when a director doesn't have the guts to put a tight leash on him. Besides PSGM, another movie he ruined was Vampire's Kiss, a drama about a high powered executive who becomes schizophrenic.
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Forrest Wittaker is a ham too.
I agree with both of you. FFC, his uncle (?) should have reigned him in. He is just terrible. He plays it so over the top.
Kathleen saves him when it's them. The scene with the father in the living room is painful. Did Cage have a cold or was he just acting out like a jerk?
I disagree. Although I'm not a Nicholas Cage fan, I think his performance was clearly meant to be a caricature of the teen culture of the late 50s and early 60s. And the other performances are also exaggerated in this way as well: Peggy Sue and Michael...It's essentially a comedy movie with depth, and the performances are a bit silly and exaggerated to reflect that. There's satire here, and that's why Cage acts like that and makes his voice like that, because it reinforces the "late-50s/early 60s vulnerable tough-guy wannabe crooner" archetype he's conveying.
shareWere you around in the 50s when teenagers or young men spoke like that? I was and they didn't, nor did any of the other actors in the film. Nicholas Cage was terrible imo. Marmite.
shareWere you around in the 50s when teenagers or young men spoke like that?
I liked Cage in PSGM my favorite is when mature Peggy wants to let out the thrill hammer and Cage gets that high shrill pitched voice. It reminded me of an early performance in Valley Girl.
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