Three Of The Very Best Nicolas Cage Movies Have Just Hit Stan, So That’s Your Weekend Sorted
Patented Cage freak-outs are a single click away.
Citizen Kane, regularly touted as one of the best films ever made, revolves around a dying billionaire and a sled. It is a dour, serious paean to the lost vestiges of youth. Kane is also completely lacking in scenes in which Nicolas Cage, a man who embodies everything that is transcendental about cinema, does a lot of drugs and talks about removing a human face, and it is thus immediately inferior to John Woo’s magnum opus Face/Off.
In fact, most life experiences are inferior to the sheer, giddy joy delivered by watching Face/Off. Getting married, seeing your child for the very first time, leaning back on your deathbed and realising that you achieved everything that you wanted to achieve out of your life — all of these moments can, quite frankly, eat shit, and I’d trade them all just to listen to thirty crackly seconds of Face/Off transmitted through a walky-talky.
Stan now has Con Air, The Rock and Face/Off – the perfect 90s Nic Cage action trilogy
— chris (@garflyf) February 26, 2019
Luckily, a walky-talky isn’t necessary: streaming giant Stan has just added three Nicolas Cage classics to its already stacked library, Face/Off amongst them.
Oh, and don’t worry, the other two are masterpieces as well: both Michael “King Of The Explosions” Bay’s The Rock, and the distinctly underrated Con Air have also been added.
For the uninitiated, The Rock sees Cage and Sean Connery alternately gurn and grumble their way through an Alcatraz breakout. It’s very silly, contains many explosions, and has a strong dashing of Ed Harris, who, unusually for the actor, plays a wise but mercurial member of the army, a role he’s only played in approximately 2,565 other films.
Con Air, meanwhile, features Nicolas Cage’s mullet. There is literally nothing more than needs to be said.
Again: the three films are all streamable right goddamn now, so whatever is going on your life — literally whatever — you are hereby commanded to block out the next six hours and head over to Stan.