...Oh that's easy... He pretty much specialized in it...
- The Rock
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Face Off
- Con Air
- National Treasure 1 and 2
- Lord of War
- Kick Ass
- Raising Arizona
- Wild At Heart
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Matchstick Men
- Ghost Rider
- Valley Girl
- Fast Time at Ridgemont High
- Red Rock West
- Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans
- Snake Eyes
- Drive Angry
- Vampires Kiss
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Fire Birds
- Honeymoon in Vegas
- Guarding Tess
- Bangkok Dangerous
- The Sorcerers Apprentice
- Mandy
- Running with the Devil
Now, my friend specifically asked for delightfully trashy... that's the delightfully trashy part of his filmography... This includes both good and bad movies... Roughly the first 15 are actually GOOD movies, and the last 12 or so are not actually good, but they're all at least fun, or interesting, or entertaining, or amazing to watch because of the Cageness.
There's also just BAD trashy like the wicker man remake, which some consider so bad its good... I am not one of those people.
And there's the good, but depressing part of his filmography like "Leaving Las Vegas", or trashy but very much NOT delightful like "8mm"... Both categories of which I left off... And of course there's the great but not trashy bits of his filmography I also left off.
There's a surprising number of oscar winners involved in the movies in that list.
Honestly... Nobody has ever done "Delightfully Trashy" as well as Nic Cage... as an actor.
I just wish he had done something great with John Waters, who is the ultimate "Delightfully Trashy" director.
