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Originally Posted by Charbore
John Travolta and Nick Cage are both past their acting prime. Time to retire.
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Neither are top tier actors in my opinion. Travolta had some talent, fucker can dance that's for sure. His best role was Vincent Vega IMO.
Cage had connections and he's a better actor than Travolta but he's pretty one dimensional.
Great actors are continually evolving and honing their craft. The Marlon Brando who played Stanley Kowalski was not the Marlon Brando who played Don Vito Corleon and that guy was different than the guy who played the rogue colonel in Apocalypse Now.
A short list of some of my favorite actors who have evolved as they've gotten older are
Gene Hackman
Tom Hanks
Kevin Costner
Denzel Washington.
All managed to rise above getting type-cast because they could play different styles and characters.
Hackman was the consummate character actor.
Robert de Niro evolved from dramatic roles into some pretty memorable comedic ones. That's something that is very difficult to do by all accounts and the reasoning I've heard makes sense.