To bring this back around to Stallone, Cage's movies have often been hits or at least made respectable profits. At the end of the day acting is a job and I can't fault him for doing movies his kids (does he have kids?) might want to see. Stallone on the other hand seems desperate to hang onto his 80's glory.
Fair enough. But my point wasn't that Cage was AT the same place as Stallone. It was that he seemed hellbent to get to that point by making a whole shitload of shitty movies in a short period of time and he should take a step back before he ends up a punchline.
As for Stallone, it's too bad that he didn't take a cue from Clint Eastwood and segue more gracefully into directing. For a while it looked like he might do that (he even directed the Saturday Night Fever sequel). Granted, his directed films were always critical or commercial successes but if he'd spent more time working on that side of the camera back then he might be considered a top tier director (or even a top tier action director) by now.
