Nicolas Cage

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Russell strutting his stuff as the coolest Santa ever in those Netflix “Christmas Chronicles” films is a hoot, and so is Cage brandishing the nifty gold “Face/Off” guns in his new movie. Over just two summers, Cage starred in three of his best flicks: “The Rock,” “Con Air” and “Face/Off.” There are some dudes keeping the tradition alive, though, most notably the one-man franchise called Tom Cruise. He’ll stay a legend as long as he keeps doing insane “Mission: Impossible” stunts, Jason Statham is definitely a throwback to Van Damme and Norris, and Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson both sport a certain high-profile plug-and-play value. The potential is certainly there for actors to take the ball and run with it. And “Over the Top,” starring Sylvester Stallone as a competitive arm-wrestling trucker dad, is so silly it shouldn’t work but does anyway. The same is true for Bruce Willis, whose recent aphasia diagnosis means we may never see the “Die Hard” icon onscreen again after the release of his already-completed films (including "Fortress: Sniper's Eye," out April 29). And with one infamous Oscar slap, Will Smith pretty much took himself off the board for the foreseeable future.

NICOLAS Cage has revealed that he is having a baby girl with his fifth wife Riko Shibat.The actor, 58, announced he is "going to have a little girl" a.

the actor's rep said. Nicolas tied the knot with Riko on on February 16, 2021 in a "very small and intimate wedding at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas," according to a rep for Cage. The star said is was his "favourite song ever written" and went on to explain that the track meant a great deal to him. The Con Air actor said The Beatles hold a special place in his heart and revealed that he felt "frozen, paralysed by the music" the first time he heard Across The Universe on the radio. The star explained it will be a tribute to the late John Lennon and his late father August 'Augie' Coppola. The actor, 58, announced he is "going to have a little girl" as he appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday.

After playing countless iconic characters, Nicolas Cage takes on his most challenging role yet: Nicolas Cage. The Academy Award winner plays a fictionalized ...

It was a wild ride. To watch Cage embrace some of his past roles — including Face/Off and Vampire's Kiss — you'll have to go see The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent when it hits theaters April 22 (streaming details will come much later). And once you've done that, check out our list of every movie name-dropped in the film. The Academy Award winner plays a fictionalized version of himself in director Tom Gormican's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which sees him befriend a wealthy superfan (Pedro Pascal) and get recruited for a C.I.A. mission.

A little more than three months after Nicolas Cage and his wife Riko Shibata announced they were expecting their first child together, the actor revealed ...

"Her favorite color is black, so she wanted the black gold, and the black diamond," he explained. "Her name, because of ‘Across the Universe,' is gonna be Lennon Augie—Augie for my father," Nicolas told host Kelly Clarkson. "I'll call her Lenny for short." "I am going to have a little girl," he shared in the clip, released April 21.

Nicolas Cage announced he will be welcoming a daughter with his wife Riko Shibata in a latest interview.In an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, ...

“I’m looking forward to getting back to that.” The Prince’s office also shared his speech he made in September 2000 to pay tribute to Stephen. In an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Pig actor made the big announcement as he shared he will be naming his little one after late John Lennon and his father August 'Augie' Coppola.

National Treasure actor Nicolas Cage has announced that he and his wife Riko Shibata,27, are expecting a baby girl together.

But Riko and Nicolas’ wedding was his fifth walk down the aisle. Nicholas told the news source, “I’m extremely excited. He went on to say that it is his “all-time favourite song.”

Without spoiling the fun, it involves Cage elongating his As and dropping his Rs to deliver a monologue that could jump straight out of a clichéd Beantown crime ...

There’s a recreation of Cage’s famous pool scene from “Leaving Las Vegas,” where the actor is drinking a beer at the bottom of the deep end. Much of the humor assumes you’re well-versed in Cage’s movie history: Hollywood royalty — he’s a Coppola — who squandered his fortune and had to work A LOT to get right with the IRS. “Massive Talent” cleverly taps into that mythology. The script is flush with self-referential quips and shenanigans riffing on Cage’s filmography. This Nick (with a “k”) is a burst of self-pity and self-loathing; divorced and in debt up to his bugged-out eyeballs. Soon enough, Cage is informed by two CIA agents (Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz) that the kidnapped daughter of the Catalonian president is being held captive on the estate. It’s a hoot — just like the movie, which somehow manages to be both satirical and sincere.

It's time to unleash the Cage. Nicolas Cage is back - and this time he is playing himself. Yes. Really.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent has already had its premiere at the popular SXSW Film Festival on March 12 and received rave reviews. What is the cast of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent When is Nicolas Cage’s latest movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent released in the UK?

Flanked by a very funny Pedro Pascal, the movie nearly buckles under its own weight at times but possesses enough goofy charm to validate this breezy exercise ...

Cage thus gets a chance to live out the espionage-type roles he's played for real, a scenario he approaches with method zeal and no small amount of terror. But said fan, Javi (Pascal), brings plenty of baggage to the situation as the known head of a crime cartel, with a pair of US government agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz Directed and co-written by Tom Gormican (who has one other feature to his credit), the film requires Cage to be an extremely good sport, introducing him as a nearly washed-up star missing what he keeps describing as the possible role of a lifetime.

Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten talked to THR about how they got Nicolas Cage to star in 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' as himself.

Etten One of the most powerful moments on set where I got kind of emotional was I think Tom had COVID. So, I was talking to Nick and Tom was on an iPad directing that way but I was there. Gormican What we found very instructive for us in the creation of this movie was to watch a lot of interviews and read a lot of interviews. And then, eventually, they would turn around and hit the glass of the cage that they were in and it would scare the hell out of him. And Nick is like, “I find that guy so obnoxious, I want to play him again and make him the villain in the movie.” He’s the same guy, but it was a suggestion of the versatility of Nicholas Cage as an actor. Gormican He said he would go into a room and there was a big chair in it and he would drink a giant glass of red wine and watch his cobras dance for him. Etten We did think if there was anybody out there who would kind of have the courage and be wild enough to like do this, Nick is one of those five or whatever people. You start to get closer to the core of who Nicholas Cage is and the way he speaks [in order] to try to inject both the things that he says and the way that he talks into the script, all in the hopes that when he’s reading it he [thinks], “Oh, they talk about [The Cabinet of] Dr. Caligari and I’d mentioned in an interview it is one of my favorite films of all time. Tom Gormican I think deep down in the core of our being we felt that there was no fucking way to do this project. Ahead of the film’s nationwide release, Gormican and Etten talked to THR about how they got Cage to star in their movie as himself, what draws fans to the actor and why Paddington 2 plays such an important role in their film. “We were writing the movie that we wanted to see,” explains Gormican. He approached writer-director Gormican and writer Etten prior to filming a scene where, in an existential fever dream, he was set to act opposite a younger, more bombastic version of himself (think Wild at Heart).

Nicolas Cage revealed he and wife Riko Shibata are having a baby girl, and they are naming her Lennon Augie after John Lennon and the actor's father, ...

It’s going to be the biggest adventure of my life.” “The parents-to-be are elated!” his publicist told People at the time. “I’m thrilled.

The much meme-d actor takes a meta satire just seriously enough.

Too often in Massive Talent, Gormican tries to pull Cage toward the bit, doing things like saddling Cage with an imaginary friend who is just the actor at a younger age, made to bray and howl like a Nicolas Cage windup toy sold by some bro version of Super Yaki. It’s almost as if the director can’t see the wonderful little thing actually happening in the film: Cage is transcending the joke while gently acknowledging it. The Cage mega-stan who orchestrated this whole thing is Javi (Pedro Pascal), who seems like a nice, if strange, guy who just wants to make a movie with his hero. Facing an existential crisis (and a heap of debt), Cage accepts the birthday party offer and heads to Spain. As the film rambles along, it does, on enough occasion, remind us not of the Cage caricature who has plagued film discourse throughout the 2000s, but of Cage’s real, unique appeal. Such questions swirl in one’s mind when watching the new film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (in theaters now), in which Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage, a parody of a parody that is sweet and sensitive at the center. Directed by Tom Gormican and written by Gormican and Kevin Etten, the film is an opportunity to address Cage’s acolytes and sycophants entirely on his own terms—as if their assessment of him ever wasn’t. One hopes that the film, equal parts winsome and dull, will finally put an end to this chapter in the Cage saga.

Movie review: In 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,' Nicolas Cage plays himself as a has-been actor who is invited by a superfan arms dealer (Pedro ...

In its broad strokes, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a fairly by-the-numbers action comedy, one that sometimes wears Cage’s presence like a talisman against the bad juju of slipshod storytelling. The young girl he needs to save happens to be around the same age as his daughter (played by Lily Sheen, who is not actually Nicolas Cage’s daughter but is in fact Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen’s daughter), whom he loves but has alienated through his self-absorption. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent presents us with a Cage who’s reached a dead end personally and professionally, but it also poignantly suggests that the dead end in question came a long, long time ago. Meanwhile, Javi is being staked out by two CIA agents (Ike Barinholtz and Tiffany Haddish), who believe he’s responsible for the recent kidnapping of the Catalan president’s daughter. What makes Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent special, then, is not so much that Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage but that the film presents us with a Nicolas Cage who spends a lot of time aspiring to be more like, well, “Nicolas Cage” — or as the film puts it, “Nick fuckin’ yahow! His characters are often trying to emulate or live up to an ideal — whether that be Elvis in Wild at Heart and Honeymoon in Vegas, Humphrey Bogart in Dog Eat Dog, Fabian in Peggy Sue Got Married, or simply the concept of domestic, child-filled bliss in Raising Arizona. Aspiration is the ideology that underlies his whole star persona.

The Leaving Las Vegas star, 58, has two sons from previous relationships: Kal-El, 16, with ex-wife Alice Kim, and Weston, 31, with actress Christina Fulton.

He has previously been married to Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley, Kim and Erika Koike. Cage and Shibata, his fifth wife, married at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas last year. He also revealed her name will include tributes to Beatles musician John Lennon and his late father, August Coppola, who died in 2009.

Nicolas Cage claims that his plans to build a film studio in Las Vegas were thwarted when Elon Musk sought to expand Tesla into Sin City.

If you want to just go with the locals and go to the cool restaurants then you can." If you want to go to the strip and participate you can. Cage claimed that he invested $80 million to get the studio built, but his plans were actually thwarted by none other than notorious Tesla founder, Elon Musk. Cage claimed that Musk rolled into Las Vegas and the city decided to put his money towards Musk's Tesla corporation instead of the movie studio as the actor had originally intended.

Tom Gormican, the director of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” narrates a sequence featuring the star and Pedro Pascal.

Discussing the sequence, Gormican said that Pascal had a lot of weight on his shoulders. But Javi won’t allow that, creating a performance exercise with Nick that forces him to showcase his craft. In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies.

Nicolas Cage revealed the gender of the first baby that he and wife Riko Shibata are expecting together during an appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show."

Cage is about to become a father for the third time. They had a name ready if the baby ended up being a boy, too. Cage revealed that he and wife Riko Shibata, who announced they're having their first child together in January 2022, are expecting a baby girl.

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Considering the fact that he’s going up against an eccentric billionaire in Massive Talent, Cage will undoubtedly have to take advantage of some of the expensive and exotic cars in Javi’s collection. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent works far better as a buddy comedy than as a satire of Cage and his previous films. There are a plethora of movies that Nicolas Cage has starred in throughout the years. He teams up with “Sway” (Angelina Jolie), a mechanic, to complete the task in this high octane action-heist thriller. The bikers, known as “The Black Skulls,” are known to produce a highly potent liquid form of LSD, some of which Red (Cage) consumes after a bloody battle. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a mouthful of a title, and some of you may have noticed that the trailers for it are now just referring to it as Massive Talent to make it easier to talk about. But when Cage learns that Javi is a notorious arms dealer and his wife and daughter are now in danger, he is forced to channel some of the more Kick-Ass characters he’s played in the past. But The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent—even when it doesn’t entirely work—shows the dedication and greatness of Cage, the impressive breadth of his career, and proves that Cage is, indeed, back. On a quest to rescue his granddaughter, John Milton (Cage) steals Satan’s gun and escapes Hell. His granddaughter was taken by cult leader Jonah King (Billy Burke) after he murdered her parents. Cameron Poe (Cage) is an honorably-discharged Army Ranger spending a romantic evening with his pregnant wife when a group of drunken men attempt to assault her. Tiffany Haddish (Bad Trip) and Ike Barinholtz (Blockers) star as the CIA operatives who recruit Cage to help them take Javi down. The movie is set to star Nicolas Cage as a slightly exaggerated version of himself.

"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" stars Nicolas Cage playing a fictionalized version of himself who swears constantly.

“That’s really where my heart is with the film,” Cage told EW. “That’s not a direction I gave him,” writer-director Tom Gormican told Entertainment Weekly. “We call action on this thing, and we’re watching the scene go down. Cage as Nicky yells “I’m Nick f—iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing-ow-wow Cage!” when trying to psyche himself up.

In “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Nicolas Cage tackles one of his most out-there roles yet: a capital-A Actor named Nicolas Cage, who's adored ...

“See, ‘over the top’ is one of those things that doesn’t work with me, because I don’t believe in such a thing,” Cage says on the film’s commentary track. Playing off the “Satanic panic” that swept the U.S. in the ’80s, this psychotronic revenge epic represents the apogee of excess, finding Cage bathed in blood and brandishing a gnarly hand-forged sword as Red, a logger who takes on a sicko religious cult after they burn his girlfriend alive. (The movie is a clear model for Mary Harron’s “American Psycho,” in which Christian Bale’s character believes he’s a serial killer.) Cage’s Peter Loew is a despicable character, rendered all the more alienating by the actor’s arch mock-pompous accent and myriad tics, and yet, the actor succeeds in making him sympathetic even at his worst — and Peter does some pretty extreme things, from raping his assistant to swallowing a live cockroach. This demented and widely derided remake of the 1973 cult classic has more to it than its reputation suggests, although it’s no wonder people were so tough on it at the time: Cage is intentionally offputting as an alpha-male police officer who elbows his way in to a secluded island community, where women hold all the power — a dynamic borrowed from the bees they cultivate — and don’t take too kindly to his intrusive investigation. So he swung hard in the opposite direction with this biting social satire, in which Cage more than embodies an unstable New York yuppie who gets freaked out by a bat in his apartment and convinces himself that he’s becoming a vampire. In “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Nicolas Cage tackles one of his most out-there roles yet: a capital-A Actor named Nicolas Cage, who’s adored by fans all over the world for the intensity and eccentricity he brings to his work. In a way, playing dual roles in “Adaptation” — as screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his sell-out twin brother Donald — could be conceived as a dry run for Tom Gormican’s meta action comedy. Witness the scene where he snatches the oxygen tube from an old woman’s nose to force the information out of her caregiver, before whipping out his Magnum and going all “Dirty Harry” on them both. With a hooker for a girlfriend and a nasty habit of snorting his way through half the drugs his colleagues have confiscated — which accounts for the iguanas he keeps hallucinating — Cage’s Lt. McDonagh is as far from “by the book” as they come. The movie was co-produced by shlockbuster shingles Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Oasis, companies that bet on has-been movie stars and which have been feeding Cage bad material (like “Drive Angry” and “Stolen”) ever since. And yet, no matter how lousy the result (from “Season of the Witch” to “Dog Eat Dog,” the disappointments far outnumber the keepers), there’s no denying that Cage gives it 110%. When Cage is the star, that all-eyes-on-him quality can work wonders, forcing everyone else in the cast to adapt to his energy while Cage takes charge (as in the godawful “Army of One,” in which he upstages even Russell Brand as God). But when he appears in a supporting role, the rest of the ensemble had better watch out, as Cage makes off with the movie, as in this abysmal thriller directed by his brother, Christopher Coppola. Yes, the siblings are nephews to Francis, of “The Godfather” fame, though you’d never guess filmmaking ran in the family from the all-around amateurishness on display here.

Watch an interview with 'Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' star and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage for Deadline's video series The Film That Lit My Fuse.

It is one of the more introspective installments of Fuse that we’ve seen in a good long time. He is coming off an acclaimed turn as a truffle farmer in the indie film Pig and is getting strong notices for Massive Talent. Here, Cage describes the influences and breakthroughs that informed his long career. Every installment asks the same five questions.

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"I recommend a rocking chair, sing 'Three Blind Mice' and then just pat the back, and then the burp comes out." "It just brings it all back for us." "Have you tried burping?"

"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" star Nicolas Cage dished about Hollywood not offering him comedic roles anymore.

“People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that’s gone by that I haven’t done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one,” the Academy Award winner said. Per the Los Angeles Times, Cage pitched the idea of his Nick character making out with Nicky in “hopes that scenes like those remind people, including studio executives, of his unique comedy chops,” the reporter noted. “I’ve been scratching my head a little bit as to why Hollywood wasn’t offering me comedies anymore,” Cage said.

But filmmaker Tom Gormican also slipped in a few covert references, allusions to past films meant to tantalize only the most astute of Cage aficionados. Spoiler ...

So he is kind of becoming the character.” That is a direct reference to Face/Off.” This 1997 John Woo action shoot-'em-up gets a lot of attention in Unbearable Weight, including ranking as the No. 1 favorite movie of Pedro Pascal's suspected cartel kingpin.

From Con Air and The Rock, to Mandy and Face/Off, Empire counts down Nicolas Cage's top 10 greatest movies.

Marking Nicolas Cage's official rebirth as an action hero (it was the unlikely follow-up to his Leaving Las Vegas Oscar win months earlier), this is a hard-granite slab of pure action movie gold — not to mention, the rare Michael Bay film to earn a prestigious Criterion Collection release. Cage's odd-couple double-act with Sean Connery is glorious, his obsession with chemistry a delight ("I'm a chemical super-freak, actually"), and, by the time of his slow-motion, arms-aloft, flares-in-the-air finale, his status as a bona fide action movie icon confirmed. His mournful turn as porcine-loving chef-turned-hermit-truffle-hunter Robin Feld in Pig stands out as the very best of his understated roles, searching for justice after a brutal pig-napping, an exile reluctantly making his return from to the cut-throat world of Portland haute-cuisine. Criminally, Cage was the only one of the film's core cast not to be nominated for an Oscar – Cher and Olympia Dukakis both scored big on the night, while Vincent Gardenia was nominated for Best Supporting Actor – but he shines regardless in one of his most romantic roles to date. As soon-to-be ex-con Cameron Poe, desperate to get home to his wife and kid after being banged up for years and now stuck on a plane with the world's most unhinged criminals, he is the everyman and the wild man, putting his principles first, agog at the chaos swirling around him, risking it all to do the right thing – over and over again. Like a lot of great films, sometimes it takes a little while for everything to come into focus. Concealed in an obscure corner of Cage's vast, prolific filmography is this hidden gem, Red Rock West, which stands as strong as any of his work. Where do you start with Con Air? It's a film that knows how ridiculous it is, how insane it is, how – frankly – fucking awesome it is, every gloriously stupid action sequence one-upping the last. There’s nobody like Nicolas Cage. The entity formerly known as Nicolas Kim Coppola is both one of the most recognisable screen actors in Hollywood, and also a total enigma – more myth than man, beloved for his wild, unpredictable choices and full-on Cage-rage freakouts. It's hilariously out-there, but also a disturbing outpouring of unabashed grief, a man pushed beyond the brink. To mark that occasion, Empire’s Cage scholars present an official ranking of his top 10 movies – ones that cover various facets of his performances and personas. Ben's existential dereliction gives him a believable sense of showy social abandon that makes his rapid decline kind of entertaining, in a profoundly uncomfortable way.

Nicolas Cage has announced he will be having a baby girl with wife Riko Shibata and even told people what she will be named.

"There's no version of Nic Cage that didn't put family first over career. A rep confirmed that "the parents-to-be are elated!" The Face/Off star explained that his father, August Coppola, who was a DJ, used to blast The Beatles' album Let It Be on the radio.

The Leaving Las Vegas star, 58, has two sons from previous relationships: Kal-El, 16, with ex-wife Alice Kim, and Weston, 31, with actress Christina Fulton.

He said: "Her name, because of Across The Universe (the song by The Beatles), is going to be Lennon Augie, Augie after my father, and I’ll call her Lenny for short." He also revealed her name will include tributes to Beatles musician John Lennon and his late father, August Coppola, who died in 2009. Appearing on US chat show The Kelly Clarkson Show, Cage said: "I'm going to announce some big news for everyone.

Nicolas Cage is an actor unlike any other, and we have the performances listed here to prove it.

From donning fake vampire teeth to eating a (real) cockroach, to running through the streets of New York screaming “I’m a Vampire,” Cage fully commits to the role and takes an expressionistic approach to portraying a man’s descent into madness. An unapologetic romantic, Ripley is the sensitive bad boy who seems like he’d write flowery poetry to his lover in the blood of his enemies. This mostly forgotten 1989 film about a bad boy literary agent who believes he’s been turned into vampire has roared back to life in the YouTube era, as film fans giddily shared scene after scene of Cage’s most unhinged acting to date. Donning a snakeskin leather jacket that’s as suited for power metal as it is to Elvis ballads, Nic Cage’s Sailor Ripley from David Lynch’s wickedly fun Wild at Heart is one of the most iconic characters of Cage’s career. Cage plays Ripley like a modern day James Dean, steely but sensitive, and it’s hoot to watch him thrash around or sincerely belt out “Love Me Tender” without a shred of irony. Playing real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Cage offers a masterclass in sweaty, worry-driven neuroses in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation. To make things even better, Cage also plays Charlie’s fictional, dim-witted, happy-go-lucky brother Donald as well, and watching Charlie react to Donald’s casual perusal of screenwriting is comedic gold. Cage’s cartoonish antics fit like a glove within the heightened reality of the movie, and his affable presence makes you root for a character who has stolen a baby, something that should be unforgivable. Watch Cage twitch and convulse as he tries to keep the spirit of vengeance from feeding on bad men. A modern day and winning vehicle for manic Cage, Mandy is a gnarly little psychedelic revenge flick that finds the actor going medieval on some acid casualty cultists that killed his girlfriend. Another comic book film featuring Cage, Kick-Ass expertly utilizes the actor as Big Daddy, a loving, dotting father who also trains his young daughter to be ruthless killing machine. What you may call a “crazy Cage performance” is just an expressionist interpretation inspired equally by Kabuki theater and Douglas Fairbanks, okay? Throughout it all, he’s remained dedicated to his craft, making interesting choices that may seem absurd to some but are always informed by his deep knowledge of cinema history.

Nicolas Cage's self-aware new comeback movie, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is a fantastic ride. No wonder Rotten Tomatoes (and reviewers) love ...

And to be fair, if there’s any actor who can pull off being both in a mindless action film and an indie darling simultaneously, it’s Nicolas Cage. It’s a rare movie star who can argue they’ve been an A-list hitmaker over the course of four decades, but the unbearable weight of his massive talent has never held Cage down. It’s great to see Pascal in a role that shows his face; like Cage, he’s been on the blockbuster circuit as the titular (albeit helmeted) Mandalorian. Also, like Cage, he’s known for his over-the-top moments and the memes that spring from them — google “Pascal Game of Thrones” to get a taste. Meanwhile, other characters argue whether his 1990s fare is superior to his 2000s fare or his more recent work, like “The Croods.” Famous props from his films turn up in unexpected places, and sometimes expected ones. But “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” believes disguising itself as an indie-esque, character-driven Oscar-bait film will appeal to both adults and the teenage crowds. Nicolas Cage’s extraordinarily self-aware comeback movie, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” isn’t quite meta enough to be titled “Nicolas Cage’s Extraordinarily Self-Aware Comeback Movie.” But it’s close.