1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,720 Oh God. Oh my God. 2 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,560 Nick, I think you have the better face for Ron Perlman. 3 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:17,800 Yeah, I do have a large head. 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,840 Well, also, you can do better faces than me. 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,240 I figured I could just do cage. 6 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:23,240 That's not a hard face. 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,280 Yeah, exactly. 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,280 Welcome to a special episode of Cage Match, 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,200 Colin Aron, about way of meeting Nicholas Cage, 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,800 Aron de Bout. 11 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:31,480 Aron de Bout. 12 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,680 Aron de Bout. 13 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:34,520 Way of meeting Nicholas Cage. 14 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,680 I am Sean here with Nick. 15 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,280 I'm Nick and Peter, producer Peter. 16 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,120 Hi. 17 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,120 And we are doing a quick little episode 18 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,520 about Nicholas Cage's new movie, The Retirement Plan, 19 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,400 which did come out a couple of weeks ago. 20 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,160 But I was in Portland. 21 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:51,720 Yeah. And you were in Florida. 22 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,240 It had a really weird release situation 23 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,760 where it was supposed to come out like a month earlier 24 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,400 and then didn't. Yeah, I got punted out 25 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,080 for the next month. Confusing reasons. 26 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:04,160 I who knows what happened. 27 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,560 I'll never understand what happened 28 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:06,720 with the release of that movie. 29 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:07,520 Yeah. And then it came out. 30 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,600 And did you see it opening night or opening day? 31 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,520 Yeah, I caught a matinee of it on opening day. 32 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,920 Croud of theater packed. 33 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,120 All by myself, which was great for taking notes and laughing. 34 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,480 But not great for box office numbers. 35 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,760 Yeah. And I saw it with one person. 36 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,080 So, yeah, I saw it with two people there. 37 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,280 But that was Nick and Josie. Yeah. 38 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,880 It's it's kind of a shame, I feel like. 39 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,960 I don't know if it was just a lack of marketing or something, but. 40 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,760 I mean, it's got no marketing, 41 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,160 but it got a theatrical release. 42 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,800 Like they put some clout behind it. 43 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,560 I mean, we have no this movie was coming out 44 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:44,760 if we didn't do this podcast. 45 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,120 No. All right, then. 46 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,480 Which is too bad, because honestly, 47 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:50,960 the premise of it is pretty funny. 48 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:57,360 Yeah, there's this couple who are trying to get out of like shitty gang life. 49 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,960 Like the husband's a driver for a mobster. 50 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,720 So he steals a thing and the hard drive. 51 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:05,360 Yeah, hard drive. It's a flash drive. 52 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,600 And or a desk. 53 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,000 So he steals a thing, a hard drive. 54 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,960 And in the process gets caught. 55 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,080 The wife ends up getting the hard drive 56 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,560 and their daughter out to her father's house, 57 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,760 which happens to be Nicholas Cage, villains pursue Nicholas Cage rebuffs. 58 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,200 And it becomes like this big action comedy. 59 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:33,200 Lots of just like humorous encounters with bad guys 60 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,960 such as Jackie Earl Haley and Ron Perlman. 61 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,360 Jackie Earl Haley in his most mumbly role since Rorschach. 62 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:46,760 Yeah, I enjoyed his just like very hot temper in this movie. 63 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,200 He was on edge the whole time, but also just like the shaved head 64 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,440 and the goatee with his sweet like crime jacket and club shirt. 65 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:57,240 Oh, my God. 66 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,760 Can we put this in the upper echelons of crime jackets like this? 67 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,920 This is one of the best crime jackets I've ever seen. 68 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:03,240 Like the alligator like jacket. 69 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,080 Yeah, it was resplendent. 70 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,640 Great performance by Jackie Earl Haley. 71 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,480 Ron Perlman, just the dopey. 72 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,200 That's Bobo. 73 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:11,840 Yeah. 74 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:13,640 Terrific. 75 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:14,880 I enjoyed him a lot. 76 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:19,640 His posture in this movie just made me feel like it was some kind of cartoon 77 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,160 the whole time. How big is Ron Perlman? 78 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:22,880 I don't know. 79 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:23,760 How boy-sized. 80 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,760 Oh, OK. 81 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,160 That's a measurement I know. 82 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,560 I did say this when you were watching it last night, though. 83 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,600 Ron Perlman looks so much weirder when he's not covered in prosthetic makeup. 84 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,280 He looks more like more of a muppet. 85 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,320 Yeah, he's an odd shape of person. 86 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,520 He's an odd cut of man. 87 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:43,040 Yeah. 88 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,040 So I've just found three different heights and weights for him, and I don't 89 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,280 think that any of them can possibly be accurate. 90 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,840 Oh, he's on the Donald Trump scale. 91 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,920 Yeah, he's anywhere from 511 to 611 and anywhere from, I don't know, 92 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,960 183 pounds to question mark. 93 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,600 183 seems light. 94 00:03:58,600 --> 00:03:59,600 It seems light. 95 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:00,600 That's my weight. 96 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:01,600 My weight. 97 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:02,120 Yeah. 98 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:09,000 So like Debbie putting on the short side, 30 pounds on me and I'm not Ron Perlman-esque. 99 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,160 So wait, I mean, that's mostly head though. 100 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,160 You got a maximum. 101 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,400 That's my height and your weight. 102 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:16,400 That's not right. 103 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:17,600 No, that chance. 104 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,600 No. 105 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,200 Who else was in the cast? 106 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,880 Oh, Ernie Hudson, Ashley, something, something. 107 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,320 Ashley Green from like the Twilight series plays Ashley. 108 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,200 Yeah, Ashley Ashley. 109 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,560 She was the weakest performance. 110 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,280 Do you think they just gave her character the same name as her because she kept 111 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:34,280 getting confused? 112 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:36,360 Who am I? 113 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,040 Her character also had the least like meaningful screen time. 114 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,400 Even Hector had better screen time moments or Christopher. 115 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:45,680 Which one was Christopher? 116 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,440 Christopher was the like final top tier backstabbing dude. 117 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,520 OK, the dude that comes in at the end and like they give him the thing. 118 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:56,040 Oh, sure. 119 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,160 This movie has about too, too many put betrayals in it. 120 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,360 Yeah, the chain of betrayal. 121 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:01,720 Yeah. 122 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,880 Everybody's like hooked on to somebody else. 123 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:09,360 But not in a compelling way, like Burn after reading her clue, where like the 124 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,840 absurdity of how many people are stabbing each other in the back is interesting. 125 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,440 No, this is just like presented very business as normal. 126 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,160 Yeah, it's a CIA thing. 127 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,040 Yeah, I really did like the and organized crime. 128 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,080 Like kid performances are usually pretty fucking mid overall. 129 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,480 But Talia Campbell as Sarah, I thought did a really good job. 130 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,880 Yeah, I liked her football shirt. 131 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,280 Just football. 132 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:33,320 Do you like football? 133 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:34,560 I like football. 134 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:35,880 I want to be a quarterback. 135 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:37,800 I wanted her to say I want to be a football. 136 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,600 I love some of those lines. 137 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,040 I love football. 138 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,360 I want to be football. 139 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,600 Her interactions with Ron Perlman are fucking great. 140 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,160 You've got to admit that they are. 141 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,040 Ron Perlman is a gem in this movie. 142 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,280 Watching Nick Cage get to just full on tackle like body. 143 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:55,240 Ron Perlman was a lot of fun to watch. 144 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,280 Like, oh, one of you probably broke a hip there. 145 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,360 Yeah, this is so old. 146 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,720 Still so much better than like an Expendables movie, though. 147 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,120 Yes. Yeah. 148 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,760 I don't think we got to the like actual premise because I kept 149 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,200 interrupting of Nick Cage being a retired assassin. 150 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,600 Right. That's kind of like the key key part of the entire thing. 151 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,920 They said he's able to kill motherfuckers real real well. 152 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,800 As long as the camera is shaking and not focusing on the action. 153 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,800 Don't worry about that. 154 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,960 You know, I've honestly seen worse fight scenes from younger people recently. 155 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,440 No, it's true. 156 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,560 People also die real easy in this movie. 157 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,560 I loved in the boat scene, the boat fight with Ernie Hudson, 158 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,040 just like how many bodies fall in the water. 159 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,640 Oh, yeah, there were 10 bad guys. 160 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,800 Yeah. 10 bad guys go down in that fight. 161 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,480 Oh, what was it in the hallway when they're like trying to get into the room? 162 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,960 You just have the wide range of like varying goons. 163 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,400 My favorite goon is definitely goon who can't put his arms down. 164 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,360 Because he's so so yoked. 165 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,920 Just so fucking beefed out. 166 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,880 He's just standing there like, oh. 167 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,440 He like to turn his head. 168 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,920 He kind of does the Michael Keaton Batman where he just turns his whole body 169 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:06,760 because his neck is just one big muscle. 170 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,440 Yep. As we all know, a strong boys. 171 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:10,720 Yeah. 172 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,560 Little buff boys over here. 173 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,840 OK, so what did you think of Cage's performance overall, though? 174 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,920 I thought it was a lot of fun. 175 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,000 I mean, it's goofy. 176 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,800 It's super lighthearted. 177 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:28,040 I did love when his granddaughter keeps asking him why he has two names. 178 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,480 His response is, I'll tell you over a beer some day. 179 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,760 The charitable way of reading that is when you're older, 180 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,400 but he probably means tomorrow. 181 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:35,920 Yeah, he was going to give her a beer for sure. 182 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,120 And then in the next scene when they're having breakfast, 183 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,200 she admonishes him for offering a child a beer. 184 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,880 Yeah, he wanted to tell the story. 185 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:44,760 He's a lot of fun on those. 186 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,040 He's he's wacky. 187 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,120 He's got the Gary look too. 188 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,800 Right. He's got the Gary look. 189 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,560 He's just a Cayman Island beach bum retired from the CIA. 190 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:59,320 And it the movie doesn't give us a whole lot of like 191 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,360 plot. I mean, the but it's enjoyed granddaughter's kind of the exposition machine. 192 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,560 She keeps it all like moving forward. 193 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,520 Yeah. I mean, I agree with Sean that I think there's a little too many like 194 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:13,280 Chris Cross, double cross, double, double cross, which is if it's a double, 195 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,320 double cross, it's just not across. 196 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,520 Yeah, two double like two double crosses. 197 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:18,920 It's an uncross. Yeah. 198 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,200 That's like two negative positive. 199 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:22,120 And parallel lines. 200 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:23,120 Which are not crossed at all. 201 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,680 No, not even sort of crossed. 202 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:25,840 And they never will be. 203 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,160 No, it could have done with just the one double the one mole. 204 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,360 You know, and actually, I think like Hector's character, 205 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:35,600 there's no real big reason for that other than the set piece, 206 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,240 the big fucking mansion to have a shootout. 207 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,640 Because she's supposed to be Jack Earl Haley's boss, but Jack 208 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,200 kills her. It gets messy at the end. 209 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,240 Jack Earl Haley didn't kill her. 210 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:47,240 Yeah, he shoots her. 211 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,240 He shoots her in the head. 212 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,880 And then he gets shot by Christopher, right? 213 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,640 Yeah. And then he gets shot. 214 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,800 Yeah. And then he gets shot by that. Like the whole thing was too muddy 215 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,960 at the end, even with two re like two watches. 216 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:02,000 It's like, oh, also spoilers. 217 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,320 I mean, whatever. Spoiler. 218 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:03,960 I watch. You know what? 219 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,200 If you wanted to if you wanted to know what the plot of this movie is, 220 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,800 you would have gone and seen it, you fucks. 221 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,720 Yeah, which no one did. 222 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:10,760 It was a great movie, though. 223 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:11,880 It was a lot of fun. 224 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,200 I do want to point out, I haven't seen Ernie Hudson in a while. 225 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,600 And him and Nick Cage are supposed to play like old army buddies. 226 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,440 You assume around the same age. 227 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,480 Ernie Hudson's 19 years older than Nicholas Cage. 228 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,720 And looks a lot better than Nicholas Cage. 229 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:25,960 Ernie Hudson looks good. 230 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,200 Well, they had an age up Nick Cage, and I'm sure they died. 231 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,600 Ernie Hudson's hair a little darker. 232 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,760 But we got to see the band from Nicholas Cage's wig when he's 233 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,120 coming out of the water. 234 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,680 You can see his wig band. 235 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,440 And also, there's a lot of shooting into and out of water in this. 236 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,560 And I've watched enough myth, myth busters now. 237 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:46,960 That's not how that works. 238 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,440 It's not the best way to have a gunfight. 239 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,240 Yeah. I mean, the whole thing, it's like it's fun. 240 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,440 It's popcorn like you have a good time watching it. 241 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,440 It's explosions, it's gunfights. 242 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:56,880 Every motherfucker gets killed. 243 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,000 The guy who gets a flare flare gun to the mouth. 244 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:00,000 Oh, yeah. No. 245 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,640 And there's lots of like entertainment. 246 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,200 It's very comical. Yeah. 247 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,600 That's the thing. It's a comedic action movie. 248 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,520 Nick Cage hiding with his daughter and Ron Perlman, 249 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:13,480 who is kidnapped, the granddaughter being in like the like hotel rooms next to each other. 250 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,600 Yeah, it's classic. 251 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,440 Oh, they're out on the balcony right now and switch. 252 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:18,760 Yeah. New phone call. 253 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,480 You also notice that no one ever pays the cab drivers in this movie. 254 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,880 They just get out of the cab. 255 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,480 That's how it works in Cayman Islands. 256 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,480 I don't know. It's directly tied to your Cayman Island checking account. 257 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:29,360 Yeah. 258 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,760 Oh, that actually makes a lot more sense. 259 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,280 I don't think that is. 260 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,240 I was confused because I didn't. 261 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,280 This is on me. 262 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,080 I didn't expect the Cayman Islands to have taxi technology 263 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,800 that included vans with self closing doors. 264 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,280 Because every time somebody got out of a taxi, 265 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,440 the taxi would just start backing away. 266 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,480 And I'd be like, nobody shut that door. 267 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,360 And then at one point I see self shutting door. 268 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,520 And like, many vans have come a long way. 269 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:56,480 Yeah, it's true. 270 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,360 Even the Cayman Islands have self shutting taxi doors. 271 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,640 Now, see what you have to do is you drive really fast and you slam on the brakes. 272 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:05,400 Oh, OK. Slides the door shut. 273 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,680 I've never owned a minivan. 274 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:08,360 So this is I can tell. 275 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,800 Well, OK, so overall, what do you guys think? 276 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:10,800 Venn diagram. 277 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,520 I think this is good cage, good movie. 278 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,080 I mean, I think it's mid across, but it's a lot of fun. 279 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:16,560 It's good for what it is. 280 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:18,120 It's exactly what I was hoping. 281 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,760 It is not my least favorite film of his this year. 282 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,640 It's a late summer fun movie because he needed something to carry us over 283 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,000 from one film to another. 284 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,840 He's only putting out five films this year. 285 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:29,560 I know, right? 286 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:31,760 Six films, six films, six films, right? 287 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,160 We've watched four already. 288 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:33,760 That's right. 289 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,480 Well, I keep forgetting Butcher's Crossing. 290 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:36,960 Yeah, that is coming out this year, right? 291 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:38,040 October 24th. 292 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,160 And then dream scenario. 293 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:40,360 What is that early November? 294 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,320 November, or 10th or something. 295 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:43,600 So good year for cage. 296 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,440 Well, I mean, not monetarily, but good for putting out. 297 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:48,920 Good news number. I mean, he got paid. 298 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:53,040 He got paid for these roles and he had some pretty well budgeted movies 299 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,480 like Renfield. I feel like that got a lot of love. 300 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,280 I still maintain that sympathy for the devil is an excellent film. 301 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:00,760 It's a really good movie. 302 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,160 I don't think enough people got a chance to see it. 303 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:04,600 It's a real power year. 304 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,320 And I saw somebody complaining online recently about how they thought 305 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,840 the dark days of Nicholas Cage doing shitty movies was over. 306 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,120 I was real close to just coming back with like, motherfuckers, 307 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,080 putting out six movies this year. 308 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,520 How high are your expectations when somebody puts out six movies in a year? 309 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,360 Literally every other month of the year 310 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,280 could have a Nicholas Cage film release. 311 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,760 Well, and then starring film. 312 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,640 Yeah. And what is the expectation of him? 313 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,200 He's not going to be a romantic comedy lead at this point. 314 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,280 It's like he is of an age that he has to play a different kind of character. 315 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,000 Like he's set into his own new bubble. 316 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,320 Yeah, like from 2024, he's had some really good movies. 317 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,440 A lot of like Art House and like Dark Horse movies. 318 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,960 If you're getting a theatrically released Nicholas Cage movie 319 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:58,000 expected to be like the studios know Nicholas Cage draws X amount of star appeal. 320 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,360 I look to his independent movies, I think more for his best performances. 321 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,080 Well, he would say the same thing, too. 322 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,080 I mean, he he's going to put something different on those. 323 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,200 And the reason he's doing them for I'm certain less money than he is worth 324 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,880 is because he gives a shit about it. 325 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,160 He thinks the script is good or the character is interesting. 326 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,040 Or, you know, you you're going to get something more out of it 327 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,520 because a person gives a shit more than a paycheck. 328 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,040 Yeah. And I mean, we're looking at he looks drastically different. 329 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,000 All six of these films. Definitely. 330 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,000 There is a transition from like he's not just playing. 331 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,280 He's not just Nick Cage in all these films. 332 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,520 Less thoughts or go watch it. It's fun. 333 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,320 You go watch it. Yeah. If you can. 334 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,800 Retirement plan or watch it when it comes on streaming. 335 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,320 But give it some love. I'm glad it exists. Me too. 336 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,040 Oh, super final spoiler. What happened to the husband? 337 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,240 Nobody knows. They probably killed Jeremy. 338 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,080 Jackie Earl. Haley did it. 339 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,080 All right. Cool. Thanks. 340 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,080 Yeah. Thanks for listening, everybody. Yeah. 341 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,200 You are interested in supporting us. 342 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,440 We are on Patreon at Cage Match. 343 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,920 And thank you to our sparkle buddies, Josh, Sean, Josie, Rico, Matt and Adam 344 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,880 and our cage dancers, Ira, John Freeman and Lance. 345 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,680 If you want to shoot the shit with us, we are on Reddit at Cage Match pod 346 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:13,200 and Instagram at Cage underscore match underscore pod. 347 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,840 Woohoo. I did it. Bye. Bye. 348 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,480 We'll put it. We'll put a picture of me, Nick and I side by side. 349 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:30,720 These are beautiful football stats. 350 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,000 You can understand what that means. 351 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,560 Yeah, well, it's going to be the rookie football photo, like shirtless in our drawers. 352 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,440 Or we're supposed to bring drawers today. No. 353 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,240 My first car was a minivan. 354 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,560 Nice. Did you get laid in it? No. 355 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,560 Disappointing. Even I got laid in a minivan. 356 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:49,560 Was it mine? 357 00:14:49,560 --> 00:15:10,560 Was it mine? Yes.