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[Zakalwe]

Cage strikes again.

Cage singled out his co-star Christensen's work in the "Star Wars" prequels while sporting the greatest hair ever. “And so, I watched George’s movies, and the work Hayden did with George, and I was very impressed with Hayden’s sort of edgy, dangerous, dark and still soulful performance," Cage explained to IGN. "I thought it was superb. And so I really connected with him.”

Cage also really likes Hayden's sad eyes.

 

[Cheebo]

Cage strikes again.

I highly doubt even Christensen would agree with him.

 

[AxelFoley]

Damn, Elvis' daughter really did a number on him. Boy ain't been right ever since.

 

[Rymuth]

Hayden had sad eyes? .

He looked angry all the time...

 

[Siegcram]

 

[Shaanyboi]

i wonder how Hayden feels about this...

He's probably just happy someone is acknowledging him in 2015

 

[Jigorath]

His performance gets too much flak in my opinion. He had an awful script and non-existent direction. In Revenge of the Sith at least I think he did fine.

 

[danm999]

Good acting is a point of view Anakin.

 

[The perfect Dark]

This has to be irony.

 

[Jackpot]

"My powers have doubled since our last encounter"

A speaking clock would be more soulful.

 

[Zakalwe]

His performance gets too much flak in my opinion. He had an awful script and non-existent direction. In Revenge of the Sith at least I think he did fine.

I need to watch them again. I just remember feeling like my childhood was being ripped out as I watched them the first time.

Maybe I was being too harsh, expectations etc... I only watched them the one time.

 

[TimorousPanda]

I love Nicolas Cage.

 

[Zakalwe]

I love Nicolas Cage.

He is such a peculiar and fantastic man.

 

[hidys]

I love Nicolas Cage.

.

 

[Tertullian]

He must not like sand.

 

[Winterfang]

His stares where pretty good, you could feel his anger. The dialog was terrible but not his fault.

 

[hammertomb]

Hayden was pretty good in episode III.

 

[Sorcerer]

Its very difficult for an actor to survive George's bad directing and awful dialogue.

What should have been dream roles for Loyd and Hayden turned out to be laughable.

Pretty much any actor of high regard has nothing good to say about George's direction.

We know Ford, Nesson, and McGregor all have spoken out about about negative experiences about Star Wars and George.

I am sure all actors in the prequels just wanted to be in involved something of Empire caliber and never got that chance.

Hayden gets a lot of shit but he was great in Shattered Glass. He can act.

Loyd gets a lot of shit, but he was just an innocent kid under George's direction.

 

[Catdaddy]

Did he see the same movie as I did?

Nic Cage - the new Gary Busey

 

[Sanjuro]

And so, I watched George’s movies, and the work Hayden did with George, and I was very impressed with Hayden’s sort of edgy, dangerous, dark and still soulful performance, I thought it was superb. And so I really connected with him. It vicariously made me feel like a lone warrior Gungan. Disarming a nuclear bomb and saving the entire race of my people against all odds. The Gungan princess, a true southern bell, showing her appreciation by making sweet space love to me, exploding all over her voluptuous Boss Nass.

 

[Higgins113]

He forgot to mention that he was a good friend

 

[Jaeger]

His performance gets too much flak in my opinion. He had an awful script and non-existent direction. In Revenge of the Sith at least I think he did fine.

Hayden was pretty good in episode III.

I actually agree.

 

[tanooki27]

Nic cage would have been a far better Anakin, no question. the pathos

 

[kmax]

...and that is way Cage is doing B movies today.

 

[Red Liquorice]

Pretty sure this is code for empty, bland and laughable.

 

[Loomba]

He wasn't the worst actor, not his fault George give him the shittest script ever written.

 

[Joni]

Hayden wasn't the problem with Anakin, but he was the biggest victim. Guy deserved better.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Nick Cage: Entertainer.

 

[Regulus Tera]

"My powers have doubled since our last encounter"

A speaking clock would be more soulful.

He did great considering the god awful script.

 

[lazygecko]

Now I realized those films would have been watchable with Cage as a crazy sith.

 

[Catdaddy]

Cage knows acting

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

And so, I watched George’s movies, and the work Hayden did with George, and I was very impressed with Hayden’s sort of edgy, dangerous, dark and still soulful performance, I thought it was superb. And so I really connected with him. It vicariously made me feel like a lone warrior Gungan. Disarming a nuclear bomb and saving the entire race of my people against all odds. The Gungan princess, a true southern bell, showing her appreciation by making sweet space love to me, exploding all over her voluptuous Boss Nass.

 

[jstripes]

His performance gets too much flak in my opinion. He had an awful script and non-existent direction. In Revenge of the Sith at least I think he did fine.

That's my opinion, too.

If he'd been given a decent script and they had a competent director, Hayden could have really nailed the role.

 

[Ridley327]

Hayden wasn't the problem with Anakin, but he was the biggest victim. Guy deserved better.

With the roles he's been in since, he hasn't given the most convincing argument about it being solely on Lucas' hands that his performance was so bad in those films. I know, I know: blah blah blah Shattered Glass, but that struck me as more of a well-casted part than a well-acted one, since it played to his limitations.

 

[Boem]

Hayden had sad eyes? .

He looked angry all the time...

Almost everyone had sad eyes in those movies. Ewan McGregor is a great actor, and he'd actually be a great choice for a young Obi Wan under a different director/a better script, and you could tell he at least tried to bring the spontaneity of the classics back a bit in the second and third movie, but it just didn't work.

Hayden Christensen was terrible in those movies, but it's hard to tell if that's because he's a bad actor or just because the production of those movies was fucked. Almost none of the actors came of well in those movies.

 

[Roussow]

I think most of the poor acting in the prequels is primarily at fault of the weak script and possibly the direction. Considering that normally incredible actors like Natalie Portman, Christopher Lee, and Samuel L. Jackson delivered uncharacteristically poor or dull performances, this seems like a reasonable assumption. The only memorable series-new actors in these movies was Ewan McGregor (he was genuinely good), and Ian McDiarmid (for embracing the campiness of the script and chewing the scenery). I would even argue that Christensen did a decent job in non-speaking scenes, his expressions and presence in some of the later scenes of Episode III is pretty imposing.

 

[massoluk]

This explains Nick Cage's acting if he perceived Christensen's acting as great in those film.

 

[liquidtmd]

From my point of view Nic Cage is evil

 

[Tesseract]

faster, more intense

slower

no, slower

good, cut

action

fast, faster

cut

good

 

[Masquerader]

"My powers have doubled since our last encounter"

A speaking clock would be more soulful.

Mhm, agreed. Thank God that we had Christopher Lee to singlehandedly salvage the dialogue.

 

[Tesseract]

you underestimate my power level

*checks scouter*

 

[Liamario]

No Nic, it wasn't. While I think George Lucas's direction and script take most of the responsibility, Hayden has done little to prove himself as a competent actor.

Ignoring all of that, Nicolas Cage's opinion holds little value for me.

 

[Savitar]

What does Cage know about acting?

 

[Alienous]

Nicholas Cage is his own parody at this point. He knows he's just fucking with people, I'm sure.

 

[Goodstyle]

He can't be serious.

 

[leakey]

And so, I watched George’s movies, and the work Hayden did with George, and I was very impressed with Hayden’s sort of edgy, dangerous, dark and still soulful performance, I thought it was superb. And so I really connected with him. It vicariously made me feel like a lone warrior Gungan. Disarming a nuclear bomb and saving the entire race of my people against all odds. The Gungan princess, a true southern bell, showing her appreciation by making sweet space love to me, exploding all over her voluptuous Boss Nass.

My first thought on reading the OP was that this must be an SNL skit.

 

[Akahige]

I guess this dude can get weirder and I thought he peaked with having a funeral for his dinosaur skull when it got broken.

Christensen in the Star Wars films is legit the worst acting I've ever seen outside Portman in the Star Wars films.

 

[djplaeskool]

From my point of view Nic Cage is evil

THEN YOU ARE LOST.

 

[Amir0x]

Hayden Chrisensen's role as Stephen Glass in the movie Shattered Glass is still his best work, and it's telling he's most effective when he's "pretending" to be a whining, shrill and pathetic manchild who ruins a lucrative career for the quick satisfaction of being the center of attention for his peers.

 

[KingHenrik30]

The women. The children. ALL OF THEM.