Nicolas Cage: Can He Kick-Ass?

I just don't like Nicolas Cage that much. He hasn't been in a good movie for a long, long time, and I'll never forgive him for Ghost Rider ( The Wicker Man was bad too, but it's also one of the funniest movie's I've seen, although not intentionally). But if there's one thing we can all agree Cage is not, it's badass. Apparently he's trying to change this image, with his next movie being called Kick-Ass. Film School Rejects tells us:

Cage has signed on to the Matthew Vaughn adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book, focused on a high school nerd, Dave Lizewski, who wants to be a superhero in spite of the fact that he has no superhero powers or athletic ability whatsoever. Please God, let it be better than Blankman.

Cage will play “a former cop who wants to bring down a druglord and has trained his daughter (Chloe Moretz) to be a lethal weapon.”

I'm am tired of comic book adaptation! Just because comic book movies are popular doesn't mean you have to make every comic book a movie. I'm glad filmmakers are looking towards comics for movie ideas, but not all comic movies will be good or make a lot of money. We've been having a good year with comic book movies, what with The Dark Knight and Iron Man and whatnot, but remember both Fantastic Four movies, Spiderman 3, Ghost Rider, and others? Be wary of the superhero movie guys.

But this looks like it could be pretty good, if it's done well enough. And it reminds me of Unbreakable a little. Also, there are rumors that the kid who played McLovin may be in this movie too! Now that's kick-ass!