The Weatherman

The Weatherman does more to show us the depressing reality that mostly resembles our shit lives than any recent tabloid pictures of Nicolas Cage ever could. There's a cold vacancy, a sort of blindness to The Weatherman's naivete that warrants nothing less than a broken family and fast food degradation. Nic Cage's David has a stream of consciousness that is more real than most of us Americans want to let on. Certainly we've all had our own tartar sauce moment at a crucial point in our lives and it makes us remember one thing: your mind is not your friend.

The Rock

This is the exception to the rule. No, Michael Bay does not make good movies. Nicolas Cage does not make good movies. Sean Connery hasn't made good action movies since his James Bond days and Ed Harris...wait. Ed Harris is in this movie? Hang on, this might not be as cancerous as we thought at first glance. Oh hey, IMDB, Michael Biehn plays the Navy SEAL CO? What, and Aaron Sorkin had a hand in the script? Ok, so think about The Rock this way: the best elements of the James Bond movies, Bad Boys without Martin Lawrence, if Ed Harris channeled George C. Scott's Patton, a Michael Mann-esque score, and The West Wing's Patriotism combined with The Social Network's quick, punchy dialogue.