These are all their big movies. (I'm not saying I liked them all. I'm just naming them for the benefit of others to consider when making their decisions.)
John Travolta
Welcome Back, Kotter (*)
Carrie (*)
Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Urban Cowboy
Stayin' Alive
Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking Too
Look Who's Talking Now
Pulp Fiction (*)
White Man's Burden
Get Shorty (*)
Broken Arrow (*)
Phenomenon
Michael
Face/Off (*)
Mad City
Primary Colors
The Thin Red Line (*)
A Civil Action
The General's Daughter
Battlefield:Earth
Lucky Numbers
Swordfish
Domestic Disturbance
Basic
The Punisher
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Ladder 49
Be Cool
Nicholas Cage
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (*)
Valley Girl
Rumble Fish
Peggy Sue got Married
Raising Arizona (*)
Vampire's Kiss
Wild at Heart
Red Rock West (*)
Honeymoon in Vegas
Amos and Andrew (*)
Guarding Tess
It Could Happen to You
Trapped in Paradise
Kiss of Death (*)
Leaving Las Vegas
The Rock (*)
Con Air
Face/Off (*)
City of Angels
Snake Eyes (*)
8mm (*)
Bringing Out the Dead (*)
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Family Man
Captain Corelli's Madolin
Windtalkers
Sonny
Adaptation
Matchstick Men
National Treasure
(*) = Movies that I liked.
Neither of them have done a good movie in a while. Cage has done more movies I liked in quantity, but the ones Travolta did that I like are so much cooler than Cage's best.
Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty > Adaptation and Raising Arizona
In my honest opinion, I think Cage's best movie is probably Face/Off. Although, I really enjoy that first continuous camera sequence in Snake Eyes and the multiple perspectives aspect of that movie....
Either way, I voted for Travolta. Pulp Fiction owns anything Cage has done and in my opinion, so does Get Shorty. (Plus I wrote a letter to Travolta after the first time I saw Pulp Fiction and he sent me an autographed picture in the mail. Nick Cage never sent me jack shit!)
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