its extremely hard to narrow down a top 5 with a guy like Nic when it seems like hes n at least 2 great movies every year! Anyway, I just made a list and wanted to know if anybody disagrees and wat your favorites are. He plays a lot of different type of characters so im sure you guys could have completely different opinions.
I have never been able to narrow it down to even a top twenty! Because Nicolas Cage is a diverse actor with films traversing the genres, it is almost impossible as you are not comparing like with like. For me, i also go through phases on a particular film and favourites shift with my mood.
Truthfully i love them all and get very excited about Nics' different choices!
A couple of discussions you may be intersted to peruse:
I knew there would be a big difference in opinions. None of those were on my list at all, not that they aren't GREAT movies. You don have Con Air OR Face/Off in there tho?
Maybe we should put the Top 5 in each decade he has worked in: 80s, 90s, 00s and present decade. Or we could put them in categories according to genre.