One of the greatest ‘bad’ actors of all time, Nic Cage has been consistently bad, yet consistently draws in box office visitors.  He literally changed my life during the summer of my Sophmore year in High School when I worked at a movie theater and the two blockbuster movies were Con Air and Face/Off.   My role at the time was to “pick up” each theater after people left.  You’d be surprised at how lazy people are when it comes to leaving things behind in their chairs.  Since most movies get out at the same time, there was also a lot of down time on the job where I’d sneak in and watch parts of movies.  Due to timing, I’d always sneak in at the exact same part of each movie.  In the case of Con Air, I was in there long enough to hear two great Nic Cage lines in a horrible southern accent (he also had a hideous mullet in the movie):

“Cyrus, this is your bar-b-cue, and it tastes good”

“I’m gonna show you god doooess exxxissst” (he sounds exactly like Forrest Gump in this one)

Cage and Con Air are my favorite memories of working at that stupid Theater all summer.  When I found this video, it immediately reminded me of how “larger than life” Cage was at one time, and how he’s such a fantastically bad actor that it’s hard not to like him.  He tries so hard to be the coolest guy in the world.  Sometimes it works.  Most of the time it doesn’t.

This video features several commercials strung together and they really don’t make any sense to me.  I think he is advertising for a particular brand of Pachinko machine, but I’m not entirely sure.  For those of you who don’t know, Pachinko is a pretty crazy form of gambling that is popular in Japan (it was extremely popular when I was in Tokyo) where you enter balls into a machine and then the balls fall down into some kind of place where you gather more balls.  Since gambling is illegal in Tokyo, you take all of the balls that you have won and take them across the street to exchange them for money.  What Nicolas Cage has to do with this game, I have no idea!