He originally was cast as Jedge Rheinhold's role. I can't remember why but they did keep him in the movie.

I'm going to vote for Raising Arizona.

"Fast Times" was his film debut...He played Judge Reinhold's friend (Brad's Bud)

I seen the Xtra features everyone was ad libbing like crazy but he tried to they mainly kept him in a non speaking role.

Some good trivia here

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

I still love that movie. Saw it at the dollar theater* down the street from my house a hundred times at least. My buddies and I were big fans of Spicoli.


*Midnight movies for a dollar - they alternated between FTaRH, Led Zep's The Song Remains The Same and Rocky Horror Picture show. Some of the best times in my life.

He was great in The Big Lebowski and also in several episodes of The Sopranos, where he played Tony Soprano's cousin.
(My favorite Steve Buschemi movie has to be Fargo)

Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite actors...Dennis Farina, who was an NYPD detective before he became an actor (He was outstanding as Ray "Bones" in Get Shorty)

["Sweet Home Alabama" plays in background, to Poe and Baby-O]

Garland Greene: Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

Which one did you vote for?

Of that list, I guess I like "Raising Arizona" the best.

The poll seems to be a bit heavy on the action movie genre.

So many good ones it is hard to pick just 1.

And a close 3rd is World Trade Center he was amazing in that movie.

You're right - He was "amazing in that movie"

It's one of the best films Oliver Stone has ever directed, imo.

I don't rate it too high though.

I

obsessive-compulsive disorder......Haven't seen it, but it sounds good
(Let's see if it gets any more votes)

He plays the perfect dork trying to be a cool guy. The scene where Peggy Sue and him were getting pretty heavy and he says....You mean sex? All nervous like, funny.


Peace

It's a ludicrous and lousy film.

I vote for "Moonstruck."

When my son was young, he made us watch "National Treasure" a dozen times. Keep it off your poll!

I voted for Raising Arizona because I love that film. He has been good in quite a few movies but nothing he has done in a very long time has interested me and quite frankly he just makes me itchy.

The bear suit scene is to die for.

Valley Girl, despite his bad teeth in that movie.

Leaving Las Vegas was disturbing but he was excellent in it.

Don't have one...

Cage is just a weirdo...

I consider him to be a MUCH better actor than Keanu Reeves.

Besides "The Replacements," what other good movies has Keanu Reeves made?

but he has made some good action pictures. Besides that he is a drunk and not so good to his wife from what I have heard.
Was recently in New Orleans he isn't well thought of there.

I agree overall Cage has been in better movies but that isn't saying a lot. It was a very anti union and didn't portray the owners as underhanded as the were.

ESPN 30 for 30 Year of the Scab documentary is much better.

I've seen it about 10 times...(mostly because Gene Hackman is in it)

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I'm sorry, but for me, the combination of Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves almost automatically consigns a move to the scrap heap. If they had found a way to jam Nicholas Cage in there too, that would have been a trifecta of awfulness.

Gene Hackman has been in a string of these formulaic movies where he has to go back to 'Nam to rescue his old buddies who were left behind. I mean, really, he makes Chuck Norris look like Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.

Getting back to Keanu Reeves, there's always My Own Private Idaho.

In a goofy way, one of the Bill and Ted movies, maybe, but....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves

He was born in Lebanon? He was in Youngblood? That's pretty much unwatchable, unless you're into slo-mo hockey porn.

I have Point Break on DVD. I watched it about two months ago. I have to say that Keanu looks mighty, mighty good in a wetsuit:



Where was I? Oh, yeah.... I have Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on DVD too, but I haven't watched that one yet. I've seen snippets of it on TV.

I know I have My Own Private Idaho on tape, and I might have picked up a DVD of it at a yard sale or rummage sale. I'll have to check.

Come to think of it, he looks mighty, mighty good on a Norton too:







Per a comment at the Internet Movie Cars Database, that is a modified 1971 Norton 750 Commando Hi-Rider, and it's owned by Gus Van Sant, the movie's director.

Other than being eye candy, he's been in some pretty dreadful stuff.

Back to My Own Private Idaho. In the summer of 1994, I saw that in a movie theater in downtown Portland located just a few blocks from this monument:



This will help you locate scenes from the movie:

Movie Tourist, My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Here's the old Henry Weinhard's brewery:

And it has a great soundtrack.

Valley Girl is now an option

(It's one of the poll options now)

Full stop.

A guy who has “everything”

Finds out

What having “everything” REALLY means

But then again I do have a thing for Tea Leoni

so it's now an option

(I always thought Con Air was a little corny anyway)

For some reason, that movie moved me.

("I'm going to have to see that movie)

Worthy of Chuck Jones

Although I miss the part at the end where he scoops the Huggies back up out of the street from the car.

I'll watch anything with Cage or Reeves in it. It's a guilty pleasure.

Yeah, the Huggies grab shouldn't have been cut. It capped the silliness.

And Matchstick Men

I thought he was absolutely perfect. I've seen it countless times, and I can't think of anyone else who would have nailed that role the way he did.

His stuffed up nose voice was hilarious.

His non-appearance in that movie is one of his great performances.

I liked the one where he could see, like, one minute into the future.

The lottery...and moonstruck

can't believe that was in there

I liked it...(so did Roger Ebert, he gave it 4 & 1/2 stars)

A "very loosely based remake of the 1947 film noir classic that starred Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy and Richard Widmark."

The 1995 version starred David Caruso, with Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Helen Hunt and Stanley Tucci.

Cage played Little Junior Brown, an asthmatic psychopath.

Those people who say "Nicholas Cage always plays the same character" obviously have never seen "Kiss of Death"

Little Junior Brown is probably the most "intense" character Nicholas Cage ever played

The Washington Post wrote that Cage:
"dominates the camera, stealing scenes by the sheer intensity of his inimitable strangeness" and makes the film "worth seeing."

"Variety" described Kiss of Death as " a very loose remake" and "crackling thriller" that is most notable for Cage's performance.

That's why many appear to play the same character because they are limited in roles offered to them. One thing I hate about Hollywood is there are still way too many stereotypes & character types. I want to see something that defies labels & perceptions.