I think Raising Arizona is one of the greatest movies ever made.

I think people started shatting on Cage after he came out with a slew of mediocre movies in the late 00s

 

I don't think it was all that

 

I agree

But as far as Nicholas Coppola is concerned. He is like Michael Cain. He will do any movie. Leaving Las Vegas was a oscar gift to him to legitimize him. He didn't deserve that oscar imso

 

You sumbitch. I think you're a damn fool, VHB. I said so - H.I. McDonnough. If you want to discuss it, you know where to find me: in the Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility For Men State Farm, Road Number 31, Tempe, Arizona! I'LL BE WAITIN'! I'll be waitin'.

 

One of my all-time favorite comedies.

"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash ya got."

 

nicolas cage? why do people hate on the man who gave us this greatness?

 

That Buford, he's a sly one...already knows his ABC's. Watch this. Hit the deck, boy!

 

I disagree on Cage not deserving the win. 96' was a weak year for male performances and of those nominated only Hopkins in Nixon was the only legit challenger but he'd just one a few years back for Silence of the Lambs. Sean Penn's 'Dead Man Walking' was total Oscar bait and people just hated him in general. Hanks (Apallo) or Gibson (Braveheart) might have posed a challenge but they weren't nominated.

Before cage started taking the money jobs in Jerry Bruckheimer films he was a really great actor with considerable range. Could give you manic performances and nuanced ones like Peggy Sue Got Married, Moonstruck and Raising Arizona. Bad Lieutenant was vintage Cage.

 

it was one of my all time favorite films since I watched it as a kid growing up.

you got a panty on your head.

 

Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking was a vastly superior performance to playing a drunk for 2 hours

Don't get me started. The Hollywood industry wanted to give the Coppola boy a win to legitimize him

 

After he won an Oscar, he stopped caring but his work prior to that was mostly gold. It's hard for anyone under 40 to believe that there was a time when Cage was considered one of the best actors of his generation, but it's true.

Note that he is the same age as the other brat pack actors yet managed to avoid working with any of them (smart move). He (along with Penn) were on another level. They were the cream of the crop, but then he won an academy award and decided he'd prefer to be a movie star instead of an actor and spent the rest of the 90s becoming a cliche.

Actually, looking at his filmography, he started going downhill after Vampire's Kiss, but he owned the 80s.

 

I told you all, don't get me started on this.

You say Sean Penn and Nicholas Coppola were the only brat packs on the same level. That's not correct

In the defining brat pack movie, Fast Times at Richmont High, there was three future male Oscar winners. Can you name the third? Here's a hint. He didn't speak in fast times

Nicholas Coppola was not even the 3rd best actor in Fast Times

 

Uh...Fast Times at Ridgemont High didn't have any of the brat pack in it so I am not sure how it was their defining movie.

 

Agreed, "Raising" is a gem that HARDLY gets it's due.


How often do you even see it replayed on cable? FU HBO. FU.

 

Forest Whitaker, but he did have some lines in the movie.

 

I always thought the defining brat pack movie was "St. Elmo's Fire"?

A boola boola boola oh oh oh.

lol. Hated that movie.

 

"You got those Earth, Wind and Fire tickets?"

 

Abortions, drug deals, prominent black characters and not based in suburban Chicago. Fast Times was a reboot and merging of the stoner/surfer memes and fairly pointed social satire, not a re-validation of white flight.