Post by mslo79 on Apr 22, 2018 6:35:29 GMT
People seem to say he had money issues which is why he started taking on many roles that I suspect he otherwise would not have had his money situation been solid.
but as far as when his general career started to take a hit... in my estimations I would say roughly in the last 5-10 years. even being generous in his favor, not much into the current decade before he was clearly on the downside of things. so basically if your generous in his favor I would say the bulk of the current decade had been crap but I would say even trying to go against Cage probably no more than about a decade ago (say 2008-ish). even on the very high end working against Cage, I would say the OP's The Wicker Man (2006) would be THE furthest one could claim was the beginning of his down-slide.
but I guess looking through his general filmography... on a more mainstream level I would estimate he had a solid decade-ish of fame (say about 1996-2005 or so). but some might consider 1996-1997 his peak which I think would be true in terms of 'action' with The Rock/Con Air/Face Off (for the record... only Face/Off (1997) still holds up for me personally). but just in terms of his overall volume of movies you can see he was much more consistent in that mid-1990's til the mid-2000's.
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for me personally, here are the only movies of his of any real worth for me at this point in time...
1.Lord of War (2005) - 10/10 (within my Top 9 movies)
2.Drive Angry (2011) - 7/10 (underrated. within my Top 187 movies)
3.Face/Off (1997) - 6.5-7/10 (within my Top 187 movies)
4.Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - 6-6.5/10 (within my Top 236 movies)
-.The Family Man (2000)
but as far as when his general career started to take a hit... in my estimations I would say roughly in the last 5-10 years. even being generous in his favor, not much into the current decade before he was clearly on the downside of things. so basically if your generous in his favor I would say the bulk of the current decade had been crap but I would say even trying to go against Cage probably no more than about a decade ago (say 2008-ish). even on the very high end working against Cage, I would say the OP's The Wicker Man (2006) would be THE furthest one could claim was the beginning of his down-slide.
but I guess looking through his general filmography... on a more mainstream level I would estimate he had a solid decade-ish of fame (say about 1996-2005 or so). but some might consider 1996-1997 his peak which I think would be true in terms of 'action' with The Rock/Con Air/Face Off (for the record... only Face/Off (1997) still holds up for me personally). but just in terms of his overall volume of movies you can see he was much more consistent in that mid-1990's til the mid-2000's.
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for me personally, here are the only movies of his of any real worth for me at this point in time...
1.Lord of War (2005) - 10/10 (within my Top 9 movies)
2.Drive Angry (2011) - 7/10 (underrated. within my Top 187 movies)
3.Face/Off (1997) - 6.5-7/10 (within my Top 187 movies)
4.Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - 6-6.5/10 (within my Top 236 movies)
-.The Family Man (2000)