Nic Cage as a vampire, a spider, and a lord of war

Vampire’s Kiss This actually happened to a buddy of mine. Anyway, this is a one or two star movie with a five star Nic Cage performance in it. Every so often I try to make it through a series of Nic Cage films just because the completionist in me can’t help it and because you never know when the next Pig or Joe could be lurking in the shadows. This viewing of Last Kiss was prompted by the latest wild interview Cage gave to The New York Times. I don’t want to give anything away but there is a reason I think he’s one of our finest actors and perhaps one of the greatest bullshit artists of all time. I don’t think he’s lying to us or the interviewers or the world at large. I think he’s lying to himself because he has to in order to justify himself. He has to convince himself that he’s doing art and not just cashing a check even when he is starring in what most of us would recognize as 0 star dreck. There was an interview with Bill Murray where he said he took the Garfield movie because he…