My only problem with Cage is that he hasn't played anyone but Nicholas Cage since "Leaving Las Vegas" (not since "Raising Arizona," some could argue). He doesn't have the ability to separate himself from the role enough that you're looking at a character and not an actor. Some stars can transcend their own fame in roles. He can't.

You can say that about Adaptation or Con Air. You can't say it about both.

You can say that about Adaptation or Con Air. You can't say it about both.

I haven't seen Adaptation, so I'm needing clarification -- are you saying that the portrayals are sufficiently different that he's not playing the same him?

Yeah. Adaptation is utterly unlike any other Cage role I've seen, and the one time he's pushed himself in recent years.

Interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon

The best part is at the very end:

NG: Last time I was at Comicom, there were like 5,000 people there, and the audience was going to try and cut me off with stuff to sign. They had to figure out how to get me off the stage. All of a sudden, I'm getting to the end of the conversation. Dave McKean and I were doing a Mirrormask thing and we're ready to leave the stage. I look up and they have a bodyguard line of 30 Klingons. They're six-foot six and four-feet wide and they have the foreheads and they had linked arms. We were being lead off behind a human wall —a Klingon wall—of Klingon warriors. And I thought, how good does it get?

Yeah, but could the Klingon bodygaurds take on ita's security team?

could the Klingon bodygaurds take on ita's security team?

I don't know, but I'd love to see the video if they decided to find out.

I suppose it depends if the Klingons actually know how to user their Batleths....

I watched Preston Sturges's Unfaithfully Yours last night and would highly recommend this to the Buffistas. The movie is about a conductor, played as a stiff upper Brit by Rex Harrison, who, through the machinations of his brother-in-law (played by the unlucky rich guy from The Palm Beach Story), believes that his young wife is having an affair. The first amazing thing about this movie is the way that it makes the performance of an orchestral work into pure drama. Sturges films at least four full performances (that's all I recall) of works by Rossini, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky, the first a rehearsal and the other three part of a concert. During the concert, as Harrison conducts, he imagines three possible ways to deal with his wife's infidelity, all pitch-black funny with the others in the cast a few hairs over the top (because this is in his imagination, see?). After the performance, he decides to implement his plans, with a hilarious sequence of errors, possibly the funniest scenes involving a man plotting to murder his lovely wife to ever hit the screen. Sturges is always great, and this one's as good as Sullivan's Travels and The Lady Eve. My praise doesn't get any higher.

Remade with Dudley Moore, IIRC.

Well, I bet that wasn't nearly as funny.