1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,760 Just as a heads up, four people listening. 2 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:03,300 Sorry if there's any extra background noise. 3 00:00:03,300 --> 00:00:05,420 There's some construction going on. 4 00:00:05,420 --> 00:00:09,600 We'll do our best to clean it up, but otherwise just enjoy the nice low hum. 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,020 I thought you were calling out our four listeners. 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,860 Just a heads up, four people listening. 7 00:00:17,260 --> 00:00:19,220 It's like, wow. 8 00:00:19,220 --> 00:00:20,420 We have more than that. 9 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:22,460 OK, at least we have some bots. 10 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,560 Yeah, I love the box. 11 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:30,600 Oh, God, oh my God. 12 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,100 Fuck. 13 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,360 I mean, it often is that Sean will intro the movie and then you will re-intro it. 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:44,640 Yeah, it's a great formula. 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,000 Yeah, I mean, the system works. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,700 It's a mansplaining podcast that I'm just practicing on, Sean. 17 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:53,560 Welcome back to Cage Match, starring Nick and Sean. 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,360 I am Sean and I'm Nick with our producer. 19 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:58,960 Peter, hello. 20 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,100 This is a roundabout way of meeting Nicolas Cage. 21 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,740 Yeah. So a little behind the curtains scene right now. 22 00:01:04,740 --> 00:01:07,540 We haven't recorded in a few weeks because of just scheduling things 23 00:01:07,540 --> 00:01:09,260 and me having to travel. 24 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:12,960 And it is currently almost nine in the morning, I think. 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Which is the wrong time for podcasting other than sexy voices. 26 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,640 Yeah. So welcome to a very special cage match in the morning. 27 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:22,700 Get your mimosa and your finest robe. 28 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:27,300 Sit back and listen to us debate the finer points of one of America's greatest actors. 29 00:01:27,940 --> 00:01:29,880 Definitely our snappiest intro. 30 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:35,080 So this is a podcast where we're going to put 64 Nicolas Cage movies 31 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,400 head to head against each other and we're going to figure out which one is the best. 32 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,100 I don't know if somebody said that before. 33 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,180 I was kind of staring at my beverage. 34 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:47,600 Peter, you said we have you did the math that we've done 20 movies so far. 35 00:01:47,980 --> 00:01:52,240 Yeah, this is we've watched 20 Nicolas Cage movies at least one time. 36 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,440 Well, I guess I haven't. 37 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,080 I've skipped a couple of the ones that I really thought were going to make me want to die. 38 00:01:57,940 --> 00:01:59,800 But you still watch dog eat dog. 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,540 I did. And Ghost Rider. I did. 40 00:02:02,780 --> 00:02:04,840 Yeah. And we're going to make you watch one of them again. 41 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,080 Your decision making skills suck. 42 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,040 Yeah, I'm bad at this. 43 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,800 So this week, our matchup is 1987 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,740 Coen Brothers Classic Raising Arizona versus 1994 45 00:02:19,740 --> 00:02:21,980 Thing Trapped in Paradise. 46 00:02:22,580 --> 00:02:24,480 Period comedy. Yeah. 47 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,980 Peter, as I said, it's been like three weeks. 48 00:02:25,980 --> 00:02:27,380 Do we usually just go into a film now? 49 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:28,520 Yeah, you basically just kind of start. 50 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,580 I mean, how about raising Arizona? 51 00:02:30,580 --> 00:02:34,580 All right. I can see why my friends back East think you should be a host. 52 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,340 So 19. They're wrong. We don't have the budget for that. 53 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:40,020 That's right. We we have one patron. 54 00:02:40,020 --> 00:02:42,640 Thank you, Josh. We we love you. 55 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:43,840 I sign up for a patron. 56 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,820 Yeah, it helps us be better. 57 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,520 It'll eventually pay for the mimosas. 58 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:50,940 They're part of a sparkle, buddy. 59 00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:53,080 I mean, we could just have the sparkle, but you tear. 60 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,220 Yeah, I like to call yourself a sparkle, buddy. 61 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,520 Oh, that's actually really good. All right. 62 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:58,620 Well done. Well thought. 63 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:00,280 No, you're welcome. All right. 64 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,540 So 1987 Raising Arizona directed by the Coen Brothers, 65 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:08,420 starring Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDonough, Holly Hunter as Ed 66 00:03:08,780 --> 00:03:11,480 and John Goodman as Gail. 67 00:03:11,980 --> 00:03:16,920 In brief, reprieve criminal H.I. McDonough falls in love with the local cop 68 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,480 Ed after his third parole. He proposes 69 00:03:21,020 --> 00:03:24,680 they get hitched, move into their nice starter home 70 00:03:25,380 --> 00:03:28,240 trailer and decide to start a family. 71 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,880 Things don't necessarily go as planned when Ed finds out she's barren. 72 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,380 So they steal the favorite child of local 73 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,080 unpainted furniture magnate Nathan, Arizona. 74 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,440 Hilarity ensues without getting into too much detail in the synopsis. 75 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,320 Those are the broad strokes of the film. 76 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,920 Ed's but Ed's best friends from prison break out and come and stay with them. 77 00:03:53,940 --> 00:03:55,320 Not Ed's best friends. 78 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,540 I suppose. Oh, yeah. Sorry. 79 00:03:57,540 --> 00:04:00,480 Hi. I kept throwing me off because I'm like, is his name Hyde? 80 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,040 I would tie it. 81 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,320 Robert I. McDonough. Yeah, that's it. 82 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,940 Yeah. Ed does not like them because she is former law enforcement and baby crazy. 83 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,140 I think is the only way to put it. 84 00:04:11,140 --> 00:04:13,280 She has her husband steal a baby. 85 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,220 I think her biggest reservation is that she was a cop 86 00:04:16,220 --> 00:04:18,440 and she knows they broke out of prison. 87 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,280 I mean, considering everything else they've done at this point, 88 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:24,080 I don't know if that's a big reservation for her. 89 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:29,740 Hey, a grand theft baby is not the same as tunneling out of prison. 90 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,920 And they had too many baby more babies than they could handle. 91 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,020 It said it was in the newspaper. 92 00:04:36,020 --> 00:04:38,640 No, no, man. I think they did them a favor. 93 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,220 So this is my first time watching this film. 94 00:04:40,220 --> 00:04:41,420 I'd never seen this film before. 95 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:44,080 I know it was. It's a second Coen Brothers second film. 96 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,280 I think they're funny, good writing boys. 97 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,020 This was my first time as well, I believe. 98 00:04:50,020 --> 00:04:52,480 I think I had maybe caught little bits of it 99 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,220 on when like Josie was watching it on TV. 100 00:04:55,220 --> 00:04:59,280 I don't know. It was a first sit down watch through for me. 101 00:04:59,980 --> 00:05:02,080 And I enjoyed it. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. 102 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,820 It was a it was a nice romp. 103 00:05:03,820 --> 00:05:08,420 There's a lot of great Coen Brothers aspects of the movie. 104 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,520 Yeah, it's got a nice clip. 105 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,820 The the dialogue is all great. 106 00:05:12,820 --> 00:05:16,520 It does move fairly rapidly, like in the first what? 107 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,120 Eight minutes we see H.I. 108 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:24,320 get arrested three times, paroled three times and get married. 109 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,980 Yeah, very truncated intro introduces all the main players. 110 00:05:27,980 --> 00:05:29,820 Yeah, they don't waste a lot of time. 111 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:33,180 What was a H.I.'s M.O. usually criminalize? 112 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,640 Are you quizzing me? I'm quizzing you. 113 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,020 No, he's robbed convenience stores. 114 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:42,080 That's his thing. He was this thing. Yeah. 115 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,740 Yeah, it was like his way will. 116 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:45,720 Yeah, convenience stores always. 117 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,740 Yeah, always with an unloaded gun. 118 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:49,420 Yeah, it's not armed robbery. 119 00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:52,120 It's not armed robbery if there's no. 120 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,620 Yeah, so he robbed convenience stores all the time. 121 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,480 It kind of had like a romanticized relationship with robbing convenience 122 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,780 stores, which just comes up throughout the movie. 123 00:06:04,180 --> 00:06:07,380 I mean, he also had a romanticized relationship with this cop 124 00:06:07,380 --> 00:06:09,920 who just took his mugshot every time he got dragged in there. 125 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,060 Well, she was like a beautiful desert flower. 126 00:06:14,220 --> 00:06:16,780 I mean, the lines in this movie are so good. 127 00:06:16,780 --> 00:06:17,820 Oh, it's so good. 128 00:06:17,820 --> 00:06:23,380 And Nicolas Cage is narration and his physical comedy. 129 00:06:23,380 --> 00:06:27,160 And this is a lot of fun to watch, like all the faces he makes. 130 00:06:28,420 --> 00:06:32,580 He's just like getting beat and he's got like just one eye open. 131 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:35,360 And according to the Cohen brothers, 132 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:38,660 he got really into his hair during shooting this film. 133 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:42,660 The more danger H.I. was in, the bigger the swoop would be, 134 00:06:42,860 --> 00:06:44,920 which I thought was a fun little detail. 135 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,380 Yeah, his hair is wild. 136 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:51,280 Yeah, I think it was by far the best comedic performance 137 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:52,580 I've seen from him. 138 00:06:52,580 --> 00:06:56,020 Intentionally comedic, because I've seen some funny Nick Cage. 139 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:00,620 I think this is just smoothly like the whole movie 140 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,120 has the same like his character is just well defined. 141 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,680 And this is credit to Joel and Ethan Cohen, but well written. 142 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,820 Everything just works throughout. 143 00:07:11,820 --> 00:07:15,780 Yeah. And his performance is so consistent. 144 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,280 He doesn't have bad scenes. 145 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:24,180 It's just now he everything that his character is in rocks. 146 00:07:24,180 --> 00:07:25,820 Yeah. And it's a short film. 147 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:27,020 It's only an hour 30. 148 00:07:27,020 --> 00:07:28,220 Yeah, it goes quick. 149 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:30,920 There's no wasted screen time in this film. 150 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,380 The cinematography, I love just them out in the desert. 151 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:37,580 Their little silver motorhome. 152 00:07:37,580 --> 00:07:39,680 When he's stealing the babies, 153 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,080 there's a very great babies day out scene where all the babies are like 154 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,280 getting out of their crib and trying to go downstairs 155 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,380 and you have to stop them while not getting caught. 156 00:07:48,380 --> 00:07:50,080 Yeah, his tiptoeing is great. 157 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,380 Yeah, his little leather like dance shoes or whatever he's wearing all the time. 158 00:07:54,380 --> 00:07:58,580 His old man shoes, as they would say in Sorcerer's Apprentice. 159 00:07:59,580 --> 00:08:00,880 So many callbacks. 160 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,380 Oh, man. All right. 161 00:08:02,380 --> 00:08:05,180 I remember what we do here. Yeah, I'm getting back. 162 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:07,680 I'm kind of amazed that we remember any of these. 163 00:08:08,380 --> 00:08:10,380 It's all I do with my free time. 164 00:08:10,380 --> 00:08:13,080 So it's it's my only hobby these days. 165 00:08:13,580 --> 00:08:16,380 So kind of getting more into some more that beats the film. 166 00:08:16,380 --> 00:08:17,680 So it is Baron. 167 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,080 They find out like they are very much trying to have kids. 168 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:26,080 I think H.I. talks about how they, you know, kind of plan her cycles 169 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,580 so they can have their best chance at and then they just do it 170 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:31,280 the rest of the time to just in case like you know, 171 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:36,580 in case like he gets tackled coming home from the machine shop one day. 172 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:39,580 I'm going to throw my quote in here right now, but I love this one. 173 00:08:39,580 --> 00:08:44,380 So it's high says that we know his insides were a rocky place 174 00:08:44,380 --> 00:08:46,180 where my seed could find no purchase. 175 00:08:46,180 --> 00:08:48,580 Yeah, that's a great. 176 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:53,380 That is probably the best written line in this film, at least for Nick Cage. 177 00:08:53,380 --> 00:08:56,380 There's a lot of great lines in this film and a lot of quotable ones. 178 00:08:57,180 --> 00:09:00,980 His note that he leaves her later in the movie is also pretty eloquent. 179 00:09:00,980 --> 00:09:05,480 So like high shows, like he's got some kind of like poetry inside of him 180 00:09:05,980 --> 00:09:11,280 for somebody who robs convenience stores in like panty hose on his head. 181 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,580 Son, you got panties on your head. 182 00:09:14,580 --> 00:09:17,180 He always sort of has like a vacant look on his face. 183 00:09:17,180 --> 00:09:19,680 Like I kind of imagine, you know, in cartoons where they like zoom 184 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:21,980 into someone's brain and it's just like another animal, like 185 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:23,580 bouncing their arms up and down. 186 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:26,080 Yeah, no, like he's a living cartoon. 187 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,080 This is a live action cartoon. Very much. 188 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:30,880 Even even to the point of the action. 189 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,580 So Edwino wants to have children. 190 00:09:33,580 --> 00:09:39,880 They can't decide to steal a baby because they they can't handle five babies. 191 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:40,980 Clearly. Yeah. 192 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:45,080 So makes him do it, which again, great physical comedy. 193 00:09:45,380 --> 00:09:48,180 One of the babies crawling under the crib and crawling after it. 194 00:09:48,580 --> 00:09:52,580 The tiptoeing at one point, he can't he just leaves and he's like 195 00:09:52,980 --> 00:09:55,280 feels bad about kidnapping someone's kid. 196 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,380 And she's just like, get get in there high and get me that baby. 197 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,180 Yeah, I want the baby. 198 00:10:02,180 --> 00:10:04,180 And then meet the baby. 199 00:10:04,180 --> 00:10:08,180 They get home and suddenly they're like, we're going to turn over a new leaf. 200 00:10:08,180 --> 00:10:09,380 We're going to be good parents. 201 00:10:09,380 --> 00:10:11,480 We're going to no more crime. 202 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,580 And she gets really mad whenever he never says it, like a hard swear 203 00:10:16,580 --> 00:10:19,680 around the baby, but damn, she gets like, don't swear around the baby. 204 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:21,580 And he's like, he he's a troublemaker. 205 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:23,080 It's like, no, he's perfect. 206 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:24,180 Like I can see it in his eyes. 207 00:10:24,180 --> 00:10:25,380 He's got that spark. 208 00:10:25,380 --> 00:10:29,180 Yeah, he's going to be a little outlaw or whatever they said. 209 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:34,980 And of course, as soon as like they have everything they want and life can be normal. 210 00:10:34,980 --> 00:10:39,580 High's friends break out of the clink in an amazing birth from the earth situation. 211 00:10:39,580 --> 00:10:45,180 I just I've seen that scene referenced in so many things 212 00:10:45,180 --> 00:10:48,080 and never known where it came from until now. 213 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:55,980 I just loved John Goodman, like holding his brother over his head and just yelling. 214 00:10:55,980 --> 00:10:59,380 John Goodman yells so good in this movie. 215 00:10:59,380 --> 00:11:01,180 I've got to say he stole it for me. 216 00:11:01,180 --> 00:11:02,380 He is so good. 217 00:11:02,380 --> 00:11:05,680 And I can understand why the Coen's ended up working with him a bunch of other times. 218 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:06,980 Yeah, he is. 219 00:11:06,980 --> 00:11:07,880 Yeah, he's amazing. 220 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,080 Best part of this film. 221 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,280 Like acting wise is the best part of this film. 222 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,380 I wouldn't go that far, but I mean, it's great. 223 00:11:14,380 --> 00:11:16,180 I just I think. 224 00:11:16,180 --> 00:11:17,180 Who's your best? 225 00:11:17,180 --> 00:11:17,980 Nicholas Cage. 226 00:11:17,980 --> 00:11:20,280 OK, yeah, I was like he's in one of the smalls. 227 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,680 Yeah, Leonard Smalls. 228 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:26,580 Leonard Smalls plays like a mercenary bounty hunter, 229 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:33,380 and he comes in and they just show him like destroying everything in this narration of him, 230 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:38,780 like which is a dream sequence being extra hard on all of the like good things 231 00:11:38,780 --> 00:11:43,080 and the smaller and the cuter it is, the like more aggressive he is towards it. 232 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,080 So he's like throwing grenades at rabbits. 233 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,580 He takes a shotgun and he shoots a little lizard off of a rock. 234 00:11:49,580 --> 00:11:52,380 So Nick, it's time for my favorite game. 235 00:11:52,380 --> 00:11:56,080 Let's see how big I can get that vein inside of Peter's head to swell. 236 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:57,480 Oh, OK. Thirsty. 237 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,380 Is it time for mouth noises? 238 00:12:00,380 --> 00:12:02,880 No, I just love. 239 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,480 I absolutely love that scene because Ghost Rider makes a callback to that scene 240 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,680 when they do the riding through the desert. 241 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,480 Yeah. And I want to reference 242 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,480 and I will use any chance I can to reference the cinematic masterpiece 243 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,480 that is Ghost Rider that we have to watch again with Peter. 244 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:18,680 And I'm just going to watch Peter. 245 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:22,180 I don't want to totally insert myself into this too much, but fuck Ghost Rider. 246 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:24,980 It's probably going all the way now. 247 00:12:24,980 --> 00:12:27,080 Yeah. Just out of spite. 248 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,580 Your vote is cast. 249 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:33,880 Right. We established last time that if you tell Nick to not do something, 250 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:34,680 he's going to do it. 251 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:36,480 So sorry, everyone. 252 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,380 Ghost Rider, when I have stopped listening to the rest of the episode. 253 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:41,880 But yes, things progress. 254 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,180 You know, things start to unravel. 255 00:12:44,180 --> 00:12:47,480 They find it difficult to hide the fact that they stole the baby. 256 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:50,080 People are starting to kind of figure things out. 257 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,880 Hi. Starting to come apart. 258 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,580 I'm going to give my quote now because it's what got the best. 259 00:12:54,580 --> 00:12:59,080 Just chuckle out of me is he's narrating how hard things are at home right now. 260 00:12:59,580 --> 00:13:04,080 I even caught myself driving by convenience stores that weren't on my way home. 261 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,680 Yeah, I might as well give my quote as well. 262 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:09,680 Since we're at this moment, 263 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:14,480 it's high saying I even caught myself driving by convenience stores 264 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,980 that weren't on the way home. 265 00:13:17,980 --> 00:13:19,880 I thought that really fucking slapped. 266 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,380 That was a good quote. 267 00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:23,280 Peter, do you have a quote that you want to share right now? 268 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,580 Yeah. The one about convenience stores is really good. 269 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,380 Nailed it. OK. Stuck the landing. 270 00:13:29,380 --> 00:13:30,980 Thanks, guys. But yeah. 271 00:13:30,980 --> 00:13:35,680 So eventually after he beats up his boss for suggesting they swap 272 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:38,180 on the drive home. 273 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:40,180 Let's be clear, swap wives, swap wives. 274 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,880 And maybe kids. 275 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,280 He had the worst kids. 276 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,280 Like one of the kids is just writing fart and crayon on their wall. 277 00:13:47,380 --> 00:13:50,780 One kid is just spraying Nick Cage's white pants with a squirt gun 278 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,480 and goes, Mr. McDonough beat himself. Mr. McDonough beat himself. 279 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:56,680 Yeah. This kid. 280 00:13:56,680 --> 00:14:02,480 One of the kids had an eye patch and was just throwing jello at high. 281 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:04,980 Yeah, it was a little girl. 282 00:14:04,980 --> 00:14:08,280 Just handfuls of jello, like green jello and berries. 283 00:14:09,180 --> 00:14:12,980 So do you count this as a movie with a good kid or a bad kid situation? 284 00:14:12,980 --> 00:14:14,280 Because those kids sucked. 285 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,980 But the baby was pretty rad. 286 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:17,680 Oh, Nathan Jr. Yeah. 287 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,180 He was just the sweetest little thing. 288 00:14:19,180 --> 00:14:21,580 Yeah. Just melts my heart. 289 00:14:21,580 --> 00:14:24,080 I would say this goes in the good kid category because everyone who meets Nathan 290 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,080 Jr. falls in love with that kid. Yeah. 291 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,280 And then I mean, even and Gail and Evel. 292 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:33,280 Yeah, Gail and Evel at the at the end, they kidnapped the baby 293 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:37,680 to turn it in for the reward, the reward, but then suddenly fall in love with it. 294 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,580 And they're like, this is our baby. 295 00:14:39,580 --> 00:14:42,280 Well, they also keep leaving the baby on the top of the car. 296 00:14:42,780 --> 00:14:46,480 And then they'll like drive away like they'll rob somebody drive away. 297 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:47,980 It's like, oh, where's that baby? 298 00:14:47,980 --> 00:14:50,680 And then they have to go back and twice. 299 00:14:50,780 --> 00:14:53,780 And then, yeah, but the baby always just lands perfectly OK on the floor. 300 00:14:53,780 --> 00:14:55,780 It's always fun. I've left things on the top of my car. 301 00:14:55,780 --> 00:14:57,380 That's not how that goes. 302 00:14:57,380 --> 00:14:59,780 Have you left a baby on top of your car? Not mine. 303 00:14:59,780 --> 00:15:08,480 Well, then wait. After Ed kind of completely curtailed his life, 304 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:13,480 he goes into a convenience store to buy some huggies and just while he's in there, 305 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,480 decides to stick up the place and sees him do this, you know, gets that car, 306 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,280 you know, fuck you, fuck you and like drives off as she's driving off. 307 00:15:21,580 --> 00:15:26,980 Hi turns back and the convenience store teenager has a giant gun. 308 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:30,980 I think they had like one gun for this movie and everyone just had this massive 309 00:15:30,980 --> 00:15:32,480 just fucking revolver. 310 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,480 But then the cops immediately show up and Hi is running through the street, 311 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,480 holds up a guy in a pickup truck, gets him to drive off. 312 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:40,980 Dogs start running after him. 313 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:44,480 But just the amount, the sheer amount of what's the word I'm thinking of? 314 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,480 Chaos. Chaos, but excessive force in this in this scene, 315 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,980 because there's a cop just literally sitting in the window of his car, 316 00:15:52,980 --> 00:15:55,980 just blasting away. Cops are the worst. 317 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:58,980 Yeah, no, I mean, that's bad cop. 318 00:15:58,980 --> 00:16:02,980 Yeah, there's no like Nicolas Cage cops in this movie. 319 00:16:02,980 --> 00:16:04,980 Yeah, there's no Nick Cage cops in these movies. 320 00:16:04,980 --> 00:16:07,480 But like the whole scene in the in the grocery store, 321 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,980 because he runs into a grocery store to try and get away from the cops. 322 00:16:09,980 --> 00:16:14,980 And the cop is just shooting like running down aisles, just letting go. 323 00:16:14,980 --> 00:16:19,480 And then everyone in the store joins in like the butcher pulls out a shotgun 324 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,480 and just starts shooting at Nick Cage. 325 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,980 And there's dogs running through like there's now a pack of dogs. 326 00:16:24,980 --> 00:16:28,480 It went from one dog in a backyard to just a pack of dogs 327 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,980 chasing this lady with a shopping cart. 328 00:16:31,980 --> 00:16:33,980 It's a great scene. 329 00:16:33,980 --> 00:16:38,480 Oh, it reminded me of Birdie to where like the little dogs have joined the pack. 330 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:39,480 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 331 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,980 There's another callback to another callback to another movie we watch. 332 00:16:42,980 --> 00:16:45,480 Nick Cage, like an adaptation, goes through a windshield. 333 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,480 Well, the windshield was blown out, but he goes out the front of a car when they when it crashes. 334 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,980 Yeah. This whole time, though, it's that like yodeling music, right? 335 00:16:53,980 --> 00:16:56,480 Oh, yeah. Again, this is this is a live action cartoon 336 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:02,480 and to the point where the bounty hunter that he dreams will find them one day is actually a real person. 337 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,480 Yeah. Leonard Smalls is there to find Gail and Evel. 338 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:11,480 He's there to find the two escaped prisoners and then finds out about this baby situation. 339 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,480 Solely by being atop a hill. Yeah. 340 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:15,980 Looking down at a trailer. Yeah. 341 00:17:15,980 --> 00:17:20,980 And then he extorts Nathan Arizona Senior for more money and it becomes a whole thing. 342 00:17:20,980 --> 00:17:23,480 Which turns into the climax of the film. 343 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,480 So that's how he gets roped into trying to find this baby. 344 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,480 Well, I mean, let's talk about Gail and Evel steal the baby. 345 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,980 What? Them taking the baby? No. OK. 346 00:17:32,980 --> 00:17:35,980 Them taking the baby, losing the baby, getting it back. 347 00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:37,980 And then they're going to go rob a bank. 348 00:17:37,980 --> 00:17:42,980 Can't leave the baby in the car because if they get if they get killed in the bank, no one will find the baby for days. 349 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:47,480 So they bring the baby into the bank robbery, which has one of my favorite just not Nick Cage lines. 350 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,480 The film's like, all right, everybody freeze. Get on the ground. 351 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,480 What is it? Do you want us to freeze? Get on the ground. 352 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,480 Because if we freeze, we can't move. We get on the ground. 353 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,480 We can't freeze on account of us moving to get on the ground. 354 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:07,480 Both these films had like really snarky. They had all of the in bank robbed. 355 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,480 Well, they had almost the same bank robbery scenes. 356 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,480 Yeah, that's true. That's really true. 357 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:19,480 Of course, blue dye is put in the bag of the money they steal, which when it goes off in the car, everything's blue. 358 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:28,480 And John Goodman is just screaming while trying to wipe paint off the windshield while careening out of control. 359 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:39,480 I was dying. But of course, this leads to and high trying to get the baby back and meeting the bounty hunter and Nick Cage getting the ever loving shit kicked out of it. 360 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,480 It was such an entertaining scene. 361 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:58,480 He's got the board like after he hits Leonard off the I'm just going to keep calling Leonard off the motorcycle and then throws a knife at him and he catches the knife in the board and he just gives us like this super just stony. 362 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:06,480 Him trying to climb under the car to get away and just get dragged back out by his ankles spits a spits a tooth in a text. 363 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,480 Cobb was the character's name Leonard. 364 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:21,480 It's a way better bounty hunter name. And of course, when he's pretty much being murdered crushed there, he's high as just grabbing at Leonard and when it's just got grenades on him. 365 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:35,480 So he like finally gets away, finally like gets dropped and shows the pin and Leonard just stands there dumbfounded for like a solid five seconds before attempting to take off his vest and then just a meaty chunks. 366 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:42,480 Yeah, he's got two shotguns in his hand so he can't like get them out of his hands fast enough to get the grenade away. 367 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,480 He gets gibbed. Yeah, it's a jibbed or gibbed. 368 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:53,480 I don't know. Put it in a comment. Tell me all about your vernacular baby. 369 00:19:53,480 --> 00:20:08,480 Um, so they get the baby back. They decide to return it and to be forgiven for doing the right thing. Well, he was going to give him money and then he was like, oh, these motherfuckers. 370 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:15,480 He doesn't say that. I mean, he's like, oh, you two stole the baby. And they're like, yeah, end of movie. Yeah, we couldn't have our own. 371 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:24,480 But we had to do this. We had to do this. We had to do this. And so, you know, it's just like a whole new world. 372 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:32,480 Yeah. And so I think it was a good idea to just keep him in mind for them. Not necessarily. 373 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:43,480 And then there's a dream extended dream sequence of them having a bunch of kids in the future, even though they say they're going to know they have a family and maybe things will work out. 374 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,480 imagines Florence, Arizona, discovering the missing baby. 375 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,540 And it's going through the fields 376 00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:53,940 in this low angled shot, shaky cam thing 377 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:56,720 that is very reminiscent of Evil Dead 2. 378 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,640 Well, they were such huge fans of Sam Raimi 379 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,480 that they wanted to do the up the building 380 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,480 in the window scene. 381 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,900 So one of the things that I think 382 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:06,140 is really fascinating about this, 383 00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:08,880 and anybody who listens to the Blank Check podcast 384 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:09,720 has heard all this, 385 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,360 but the Coens and Sam Raimi and Ted Raimi 386 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:16,720 and Frances McDormand and Holly Hunter 387 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,400 and fucking Kathy Bates were roommates. 388 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,300 Wow, weird. 389 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:22,140 Yeah. 390 00:21:22,140 --> 00:21:24,380 And one of the Coens is married to Frances McDormand. 391 00:21:24,380 --> 00:21:26,280 So it's like the start of it all was there. 392 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,000 So there was a lot of like collaboration. 393 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,080 And you think about like watching 394 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,960 the early Evil Dead movies and this, 395 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,600 and some of the fight scenes and stuff like that 396 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,840 felt so fucking similar. 397 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,320 Like there's a lot of love between those three. 398 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,640 That's a good segue to my next fun fact about collaboration. 399 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,520 Apparently Nick Cage and the Coens really clashed 400 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,360 on this one in terms of Nick Cage wanting to improvise more, 401 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:49,600 put more of himself into it, 402 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:50,960 like have more control over it. 403 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,360 And he wasn't used to directors having 404 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,440 a very tight focused idea. 405 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,200 And a lot of Nick Cage's improvised scenes 406 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:00,960 were cut from the film because it didn't, 407 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,840 it clashed with like the view of the film was. 408 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,000 Hmm, interesting. 409 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:05,820 Yeah. 410 00:22:05,820 --> 00:22:08,080 That's funny and not to dive 411 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,920 into the next movie too early or anything, 412 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,200 but the cast on Trapped in Paradise 413 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,640 also clashed with their director. 414 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,240 But to the point where Nicholas Cage 415 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:18,720 ended up directing a bunch of it. 416 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:19,560 Yeah. 417 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,240 And they had the opposite problem 418 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,040 where the director didn't want to direct it. 419 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:24,880 Yeah. 420 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,480 And the actors didn't want to be in it. 421 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,320 Yeah. 422 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,840 Apparently Kevin Costner auditioned for High three times. 423 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,520 That would not have been as good. 424 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:33,840 Probably the most interesting thing 425 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,560 just in terms of what I know about filmmaking. 426 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,640 The script was written in three and a half weeks 427 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,600 and it took 10 weeks to shoot. 428 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,600 I mean, this is early in the Cohen's career. 429 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,280 So that part kind of makes sense to me, 430 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,240 like a fairly short timeline, fairly tight budget. 431 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,080 Yeah. 432 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,560 I mean, they had one movie that had come out before that 433 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,000 that was weird. 434 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,880 And they like really pivoted from that to this. 435 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,540 Well, they wanted to do something completely different, 436 00:22:57,540 --> 00:22:58,440 something more lighthearted. 437 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,280 They wanted to do something funny. 438 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,880 And I think they succeeded. 439 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,080 Yeah, it's funny and lighthearted. 440 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,080 Well, and then I have just a quick question. 441 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,360 Do you guys like the Cohen brothers? 442 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:11,200 Yeah. 443 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,600 I like some of their films. 444 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,120 I feel like an idiot a lot of the times 445 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:17,280 when I watch their movies. 446 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,640 I think they are well-written. 447 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,440 I think they are good, but I'm often like, 448 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,240 why is this good? 449 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,760 Am I too dumb for this? 450 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,200 And I'm now just like posturing that I like them 451 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,160 because I'm stupid and everyone else does. 452 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,360 I really like their writing. 453 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:34,360 I love their dialogue. 454 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,040 I'm going to be honest in terms of the acting in this film, 455 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,840 I was not blown away. 456 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,120 It's just, it's meant to serve a purpose 457 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:44,880 and it's meant to, it works for what this movie is, 458 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,080 but none of it like wowed me. 459 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,480 Well, it's not a realistic performance film. 460 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,720 It's definitely a performance catered 461 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,720 to the overall artistic design of the movie. 462 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:00,800 I get that. 463 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,400 I just don't know that it necessarily worked for me. 464 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,360 But again, the writing is so snappy and so on point, 465 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,200 which is what I absolutely love about that. 466 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,360 The way they write dialogues. 467 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,920 Yeah, that's what I love the most about it. 468 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,040 And my favorite Coen Brothers film is still Fargo, 469 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,720 which is much more self-serious while still being a comedy 470 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,600 and much more, not so much of a cartoon. 471 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,200 And having never seen this film before, 472 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,280 I think on my initial watch, 473 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,360 that didn't click until too late in the film 474 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:29,160 for me to appreciate what was going on. 475 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,200 Definitely looking forward to watching it again, 476 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,520 be it for this or just on my own, 477 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,400 just to really kind of go in there with the right mindset. 478 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,840 Cause it wasn't until a little over halfway when, you know, 479 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,440 all the shooting starts where I realized, 480 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,000 I'm like, oh, I'm watching a cartoon. 481 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,880 I kind of feel like because this is a morning episode, 482 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,720 we need like morning radio sound effect board, 483 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,520 like a toilet flushing right now. 484 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:52,360 And then, 485 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:53,200 wah wah wah. 486 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,080 I can go flush the toilet. 487 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,000 We'll prank call somebody later. 488 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,120 Hell yeah, let's do it. 489 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:57,960 Okay. 490 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:58,800 Prank call Adam. 491 00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,640 You guys wanna prank Adam? 492 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,680 Yes. 493 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,400 We'll call him on my phone and he'll just have a call 494 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,400 right here. 495 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,360 Hey man, is your fridge running? 496 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,880 Wait, can you do that more like Dana Carvey in this movie? 497 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,600 Oh God, I fucking hated that laugh. 498 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:15,440 Oh man. 499 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:16,280 Oh yeah. 500 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,640 Okay, let's just get into it. 501 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,320 Dropped in Paradise, 1994. 502 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,080 Starring Nick Cage as Bill Furpo, 503 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,480 John Lovitz as Dave Furpo, 504 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,440 and Dana Carvey as Alvin Furpo. 505 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,760 I'm gonna give you a fun fact, 506 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,800 just because we were talking about that laugh. 507 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,400 Dana Carvey based his character, 508 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,840 or his voice for this movie, 509 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,840 on one of the producers and a young Mickey Rourke. 510 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,720 Somebody from 20th Century Fox had to fly out 511 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,320 and tell him to stop doing the voice, 512 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,640 and Nicolas Cage told him to keep doing it, 513 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,400 so he just kept doing it. 514 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,960 I mean, this movie had no rules. 515 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,080 There was no adult supervision. 516 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,560 Not at all, it's fantastic. 517 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,400 Yeah. 518 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,000 Oh yeah, there's so many great behind the scenes stories 519 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,680 of just these guys fucking off. 520 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,520 I'm sure. 521 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,560 So this is a movie about three brothers 522 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,560 who find themselves in Pennsylvania, 523 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,200 robbing a bank, and the robbery is foiled 524 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,440 through the kindness of the town. 525 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,240 Whomp, whomp. 526 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,600 But it gets better, so that's my brief synopsis. 527 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:19,840 That's about right. 528 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,160 Whomp, whomp, whomp, whomp. 529 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,920 Whomp, whomp, whomp, whomp. 530 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:24,760 Ah. 531 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,680 Good morning, Seattle. 532 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,520 Oh great. 533 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,280 The comedy police are us. 534 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,920 The cops. 535 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:37,760 Bad cop. 536 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,920 Man, we need to just start with the second half 537 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,320 of our podcast, because they're always funnier. 538 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,680 Yeah, so in this movie, 539 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,520 Nicolas Cage is playing Bill Furpo. 540 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:53,520 He's, I'm guessing, the middle child of the three brothers. 541 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,720 John Levitz and Dana Carvey are. 542 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:57,560 In jail. 543 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:58,960 In jail, they are on parole, 544 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,560 but they are lifelong criminals. 545 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,560 And I think early on, we're kind of led to believe 546 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,320 that Nic Cage, you know. 547 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,560 Well, he has a checkered past. 548 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,080 He has a checkered past, but not as bad. 549 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,520 Right, he's tried to atone for it. 550 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,560 He finds a wallet and ends up giving it back, 551 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,080 but he really struggled because it had 800 bucks in it. 552 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,160 He's a manager at some restaurant. 553 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,200 I do love the line when he goes to confession 554 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,560 about the wallet because he feels bad that he, 555 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,600 like he even had thoughts of keeping it. 556 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,280 It's like, forgive me, Father, if I have sinned, 557 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,760 it's been two weeks since my last confession. 558 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,440 And the priest just goes, is that Bill Furpo? 559 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,200 It's been five years since you've been in here. 560 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,680 Yeah, that was good. 561 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,400 Did you guys think that was fucking Paul Schrader? 562 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,280 Oh, is it a priest? 563 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,480 No, because I don't mentally project him 564 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,400 into anything I'm doing anymore. 565 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,800 It's like, anymore. 566 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,120 I used to, but not anymore. 567 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:48,960 Is this a Slenderman situation? 568 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,480 You just see Paul Schrader everywhere you go now. 569 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,800 It is a nightmare for me. 570 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,280 You're like, is this movie going to be funny? 571 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,760 Oh, is that Paul Schrader? No. 572 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,800 Yeah, so he's Bill Furpo. 573 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,640 Nicolas Cage is just trying to live a straight life. 574 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,920 Finds out his brothers are getting released early, early parole. 575 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,360 I love Dave's speech at the parole board 576 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:16,920 because he just starts in talking about dinosaurs and pterodactyls 577 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,720 and how they fly over their problems and all this. 578 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,640 And the parole board is just like, what are is there? 579 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:25,680 Is there a point to this? 580 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,800 Just skip to the end. And he's like, OK. 581 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,240 And he like mentally fast forwards for a second. 582 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,920 He's like, and like the mighty pterodactyl, 583 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,080 I will fly above all my problems. 584 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,160 It's like, oh, God. 585 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,000 Also, both these movies had great parole board scenes. 586 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,640 Yeah. Good parole board scenes. 587 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,200 Nice parallels again. 588 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,680 No, we can talk about this briefly at the end, 589 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,000 but there were a lot of weird parallels in these two films. 590 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,400 It's like we've been given 64 different versions of the same movie 591 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,680 just presented through different eyes. 592 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,800 The NCU. Yeah. 593 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,680 The New Cage universe. 594 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,320 Oh, man. 595 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,120 So they get paroled. 596 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,600 Yeah, he has to pick them up. 597 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,520 I like how one John Lovitz is leaving the prison. 598 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,280 He tips one of the guards. 599 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,320 Oh, yeah. He just treats it like he's leaving. 600 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,800 Yeah. You sell something nice. 601 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,600 John Lovitz is just like a chronic liar. 602 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,240 Like he never tells the truth. 603 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,720 And Dana Carvey plays a kleptomaniac. 604 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 I mean, he's just stealing something in every scene. 605 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,520 Like from the very beginning, he steals the parole board 606 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,280 officials like tie pin. 607 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,400 Yeah, I don't know. 608 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,760 I'm assuming he like shook his hand or like, oh, yeah. 609 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,640 Steals all the pen knowing Alvin. 610 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,920 He probably hugged him at the end. 611 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,160 I was going to say when you get paroled, you get to hug everybody. 612 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,440 So that's how it goes. 613 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,720 I also I do like when I'm still on the lam thing. 614 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,840 So I haven't. 615 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,880 Fortunately, we're going to record this in a new spot sensor. 616 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,480 Take that cops. Yeah. 617 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,400 You'll never take us alive. 618 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,960 Coppers. I don't like give them the option. 619 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,880 The out. It's like, no, no, please try to take us alive. 620 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,080 Well, if the cops in this movie are any indication, they fucking shoot 621 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,160 first like regular cops and the last movie, too. 622 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,040 Again. Oh, I loved when Alvin just being a kleptomaniac. 623 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,520 He tries to steal the toy out of a box of Captain Crunch. 624 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,720 Not the sear. It doesn't want to take the whole box. 625 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,520 He just wants the toy. 626 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,760 Yeah. And it must be terrible having a brother like that around 627 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,600 because they're in this town in Pennsylvania 628 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,800 and they're getting the materials they need to rob this bank, 629 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,640 like ski masks and stuff. 630 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,600 And he's just emptying out a box of cereal on the floor 631 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,200 just for a plastic piece of shit toy. 632 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,600 But then you get like a funny moment where you like takes the toy 633 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:46,840 and like steps to walk away. 634 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,840 And it's just like Captain Crunch under his feet. 635 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,240 And he sits there, looks at it and then slowly takes another step. 636 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,160 And it's like 1994. 637 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,480 Oh, yes. That very specific brand of comedy. It is. 638 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,200 So, yeah, the two boys are out on parole. 639 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:09,840 So John Lovitz told his mother and offer Bill that, you know, 640 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,000 he had this note and it was from another inmate. 641 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,560 And they were saying like, oh, check on my daughter. 642 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,800 So and so stop story. 643 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,080 So they while in town, there's 644 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,920 that scene where they make maferbo read the letter. 645 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,200 And what is it? If you and if you don't, I will get out of prison 646 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,920 and I will rip off your head and shit down. Yeah. 647 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,080 And she's crying at how beautiful this letter is. 648 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,760 So both very eloquent letter movies. 649 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,200 Again, another connection. Yeah. 650 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,320 The written word we what I'm saying is we watch the same movie twice. Yeah. 651 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,920 But this time with John Lovitz instead of John Goodman. 652 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,240 Yeah, we changed Jones. Yeah. 653 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,440 That's a John downgrade. Yeah. 654 00:31:54,440 --> 00:32:00,480 So, yeah, they go to Pennsylvania because they got this letter. 655 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,120 And then while out and about in town, 656 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,920 like an Alvin tries robbing someplace like he's taking the money 657 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,800 out of the register and then that was in New York. 658 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,680 Yeah. In New York. 659 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,760 And Bill is like, hey, stop it. 660 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,560 And then they get chased by the cops. 661 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,200 Nicholas Cage, you know, convinces the cop that he was an undercover cop 662 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,280 from the Bronx or something. 663 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,600 Lower Queens, lower Queens. 664 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,200 And thank you for being the detail guy today. Yeah. 665 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,160 Again, so I just between travel and work this week. 666 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,320 I just watched this movie at 10 o'clock last night. Yeah. 667 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,360 So it hasn't even been 12 hours. 668 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,360 Hot and fresh. Yeah, it's all in there. 669 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,600 Pretends to be a cop. Long story short, Dave convinces Bill 670 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,600 that he left his wallet at the crime scene and the cops are coming to get him. 671 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,120 So they run away and they run to Pennsylvania. 672 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,960 I'm sure that makes sense. Yeah, I followed. 673 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,880 Well, you've seen the movie. Yeah. 674 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,320 When does that matter for this podcast? 675 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,480 I'm fairly certain our entire audience does not watch these movies. 676 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,480 Except for Jiu Jitsu. 677 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,480 The number of people have told me they've watched Jiu Jitsu 678 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,640 because of our talking about Jiu Jitsu. 679 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,120 I think we should get a commission. 680 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,360 I think I have just more discerning friends 681 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,600 because they are not watching Jiu Jitsu based on what we said. 682 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,600 I have a hard time believing you have more discerning friends 683 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,880 considering your friends about us. 684 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,760 I thought you were going to say friends and I was like, Dick move. 685 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,640 So, yes, they go to Paradise, Pennsylvania. 686 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,040 Yeah. In pursuit of Sarah, the daughter of this guy, 687 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,360 they end up in this bank because there's a girl who works there named Sarah. 688 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,120 Sarah Connors. 689 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:37,760 So no, that's that's Terminator. 690 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,920 OK, Sarah. Sarah, see something. It's close. Yeah. 691 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,560 Connelly in concert. Yeah. Yeah. 692 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,080 But a different set, different name. 693 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,720 Yes, Sarah, but different last name. 694 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,800 They go in and it doesn't matter. 695 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,200 This character will never be developed. 696 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,640 Yeah. It's the girl from Twin Peaks. 697 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,520 A different one. A different girl. Yeah. 698 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,320 They're in there and then they just like see how fucking robbable 699 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:04,920 this bank is, because obviously this is what Dave brought them down there for. 700 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,680 The security guard is 100 years old and is asleep. 701 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,560 Yeah. And won't wake up for anything. 702 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,320 The cameras aren't plugged in. Yeah. 703 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,680 Like the wires are just hanging from the cameras. 704 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,840 It's ripe for the plundering. 705 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,000 And similar to the last movie, they get there right as like 706 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,720 there's a ton of money coming into the bank. Right. 707 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,320 Dave is just like, man, check this place out. 708 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,280 And Bill's like, it's like, doesn't matter. 709 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,480 There's no money in the vault. 710 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,880 And right as the door gets kicked in with giant bags of money with like 711 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,480 practically as dollar signs on them. 712 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,720 Yeah. Bank is re-upped. 713 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,120 They got that going for him. 714 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,120 So they decide they're going to rob this bank. 715 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,880 I do want to talk about that scene, though, because they're driving. 716 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,800 Well, Bill gets them out of there and they're driving away from the bank. 717 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,640 And Bill just says, if I had a gun, I'd rob that. 718 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,360 I'd go back in there and rob the bank right now. 719 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,320 And Dave's just like, so Bill, I told you, what if I told you 720 00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:58,000 there were some guns in the trunk? 721 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,560 And then, you know, because it got like he got the car from a gun runner. 722 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,680 So, I mean, there's a high likelihood that there's guns in the trunk. 723 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,440 The cage like balls over the side. 724 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:10,960 You're telling me there's guns that trunk. 725 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,440 I'm like, telling you where I got it from. 726 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,680 I'm like, but you haven't seen them now. 727 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,840 And then it opens it and Dana is like, hey, there's guns in the trunk. 728 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,120 This movie had its moments. 729 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,160 They did like it's not the same like writing style. 730 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:32,320 Also kind of funny that both movies are writer director combinations. 731 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,120 So this written by the. 732 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:38,640 Again, the director of this film direct wrote the first two bad boys films. 733 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,240 So we're fucking on top. Yeah. 734 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,240 They robbed the bank. 735 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:45,600 And we'll just get right through this. 736 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,240 They robbed the bank. 737 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:50,120 Then there's another great bank robbery scene where someone like 738 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,560 raises their hand and has something to say about how they're robbing the bank. 739 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,720 Yeah, for me, this movie, I felt pretty solid on this movie. 740 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,480 Then we get to the bank robbery scene and I'm like, 741 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,960 I just didn't like it so much. 742 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,920 I appreciate what they were doing because like they get in there. 743 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,280 They're robbing the bank. 744 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:14,840 But the bank vault is locked because the bank manager is at lunch across the street. 745 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:20,120 So the wife of the bank manager who has explained this to us is taken across. 746 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:25,120 Then Nicolas Cage and Dana Carvey are in the restaurant. 747 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,120 And then they have to re declare that it's a robbery, 748 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,920 but they have to specify it's a bank robbery. 749 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,400 So they take everybody from the restaurant back to the bank. 750 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,520 I loved that scene. They didn't want any witnesses. 751 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,600 Yeah, because Dana Carvey's like, well, if you leave him here, 752 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:41,960 any one of them call the cops. 753 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,840 Yeah. So they escort everyone across the street. 754 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,960 And now they just bring everybody into the bank. 755 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,640 And it's meanwhile, 756 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,560 oh, fucking John Lovitz is telling stories and like coaching people. 757 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,080 I'm like, like Lamaze and stuff. 758 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,080 I'm like, how did just get through it? 759 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,600 I don't understand what Lamaze is. 760 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,840 I'm going to say that right now because I'm not a childbearing human yet. 761 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,800 It's probably the most PC thing you've ever seen on this podcast. 762 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,880 But they bring everybody back to the bank and finally, 763 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,000 you know, get the vault open, get the money and leave. 764 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,400 As they're leaving town, a blizzard is rolling in. 765 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,000 And this is how we get the name trapped in paradise, 766 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,480 because now they can't get out. 767 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,120 I want to just throw this in here right now. 768 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaking of the blizzard, my favorite fun fact about this film 769 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:33,640 is because they needed the whole town to be covered in snow. 770 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,200 They used seventy five thousand pounds of custom 771 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,720 biodegradable potato flakes to add to the snow on the ground. 772 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,560 Yeah, it's like Idaho flakes. Yeah. 773 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,080 And they were from Idaho. Yeah. 774 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,040 When we were watching this, Josie was just like, how are they even trapped? 775 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,680 These roads are clear, like they're freshly plowed throughout all the movie. 776 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,200 Yeah, the criminals have no problem getting to paradise. 777 00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,360 Yeah, it's just like all these potato flakes are just the mounds of snow 778 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,520 that they've built up to make it look like there was a lot of snow, 779 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:04,360 but it's been plowed. 780 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,640 It's like anybody could drive out of there. 781 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,880 As Sean said, some criminals from New York whose original idea 782 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,600 was it was their idea to rob this bank. 783 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,800 John Lovitz and Dana Carvey just got out first and then robbed it. 784 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:24,720 And then when these criminals got out, they went on a little adventure. 785 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,480 That scene with the criminals in prison was fucking stupid. 786 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,040 Where it's like it's them talking about this whole situation. 787 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,160 And they're like, tell the story about your your daughter's bank again. 788 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,680 And he tells the story and it's like, hey, did you hear those furpos got out? 789 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,600 Well, also, the bank just got robbed. Convenient. 790 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,360 Yeah, like, fuck. It was bad. 791 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,760 That's absolutely true. It's a bad scene. 792 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,120 It's a terrible scene. So much of this is just like, 793 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,520 I mean, you get so many scenes in this movie where it's just presentational. 794 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,200 It's like, OK, there has to be this plot point. 795 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,240 We don't know how to like eloquently get through it. 796 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,800 So here is people giving you this story. 797 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,800 Yeah, I wrote him for you. 798 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,760 Oh, yeah. No, it's it's exposition, maybe. 799 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,720 Yeah. Then they went down. 800 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:14,800 Well, they kidnapped Ma Furpo and you get lots of good Ma Furpo 801 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,640 being a sassy old lady and annoying the robbers or the criminals. 802 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,800 And then they go down to paradise and hijinks. 803 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,080 Hijinks do ensue. 804 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,280 So after they robbed the bank, they try and get out of paradise, 805 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,680 because once you've done a crime, you generally don't want to stay around. 806 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,880 There's that scene where Dana Carvey like is just revving the engine 807 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,840 because he wants to see how high you can get the needle to go 808 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,040 and then just peels out right when they get to the car. 809 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,000 Does the classic like drives away when you get to the door? 810 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,760 Yeah, twice. So they have a stolen car, go back to their car. 811 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,800 But while driving out of town, cop sees them, starts chasing them. 812 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,040 They go over a bridge and they get picked up by a good Samaritan 813 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,280 going back to paradise, Wedwalk West Isle. 814 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,280 But it is the son of the bank manager. 815 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:02,200 Yeah. So then they end up having Christmas Eve dinner with the bank manager 816 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,360 and the bank manager's wife. 817 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,040 And this is where all the kindness keeps coming out. 818 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,040 And it's like they take care of them because they, you know, 819 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,840 don't have any luggage or clothing and they give them like clean clothes. 820 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,040 They give them their Christmas presents to each other, which are clothes. 821 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,040 This isn't my quote for the movie, but this has one of the most 822 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:24,040 just disjointed lines in the film, which is Sarah sees Nick Cage 823 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,320 in the living room because she rents a room upstairs. 824 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,040 You know, it's like, what are you doing here? 825 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,280 And he's just like, I've had a bad night that I'd rather not recount. 826 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,280 That dog has three legs. Yeah. 827 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,280 Which apparently the dog was just owned by someone in the town 828 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,280 who the director saw like spectating one day and they were like, 829 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,040 let's get a three legged dog in this movie. 830 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,040 So the kindness of the town keeps kind of warming their hearts. 831 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,280 Making them want to not take this money. 832 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:54,040 They try to they end up trying to like take the money back 833 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,040 and like return it to the bank because Nicholas Cage 834 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,040 sees that he still has the bank manager's keys. 835 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,040 They fuck up trying to put it back in, end up setting off the alarm 836 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:09,040 and they leave the money at the local pastor's front door 837 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,040 and tell him to get it back to the people. 838 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,040 And then they run off. 839 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,040 I think my favorite part of the end of the movie was just them escaping 840 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,040 in the horse and sleigh. 841 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,040 It was their third or fourth escaped attempt. 842 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,040 Yeah. But now they're as they steal the horse and sleigh 843 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:32,040 from the mentally handicapped person and son of the sheriff 844 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,040 who is a deputy. Yeah. 845 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,040 And I don't know, like they show him shooting later and he doesn't 846 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,040 hit somebody like shoot somebody. Yeah. 847 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:41,040 He saves the day. 848 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,040 He knocks the gun out of one of the criminals hands and then shoots 849 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,040 the other criminal through the window. 850 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:51,040 And so for somebody who's that cross-eyed being able to shoot straight, 851 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,040 that was impressive. 852 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:57,040 I mean, like he literally looked like one of the assholes from Spaceballs. 853 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,040 Eyes are crossed. Yeah. 854 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:00,040 I enjoyed it. 855 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,040 There's a pretty decent chase sequence where they're on the sleigh 856 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,040 and like they're the FBI is doing a low budget 857 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,040 Blues Brothers style like pile up behind them. 858 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,040 Yeah. Which is kind of fun. 859 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,040 I got to say I loved Richard Jenkins as the FBI agent. 860 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,040 He's so fucking good. He's a great. 861 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,040 What's his name? I tried looking at it. 862 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,040 He's a or something. Yeah. 863 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:23,040 What was his first name is like so so Bolba so Bolba. 864 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,040 Bolba, Pazer. That's my next D&D character. 865 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,040 So Bolba, Wado, you got all the good ones. Yeah. 866 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,040 So the town gets the money back. 867 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:36,040 The bad guys get re-arrested. 868 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,040 Nicolas Cage and his brothers kind of get off, you know, like the town. 869 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,040 Again, much like the last film, the town forgives them. 870 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,040 Yeah, it's a Christmas movie. Yeah. 871 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,040 Well, like the FBI agents there. 872 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,040 OK, there's no money. There's no hard evidence, 873 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,040 but there's a town full of people who saw them and they're like, yep, 874 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,040 not these guys. They saved the town. 875 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:59,040 The FBI agent also does point out that two of them have broken parole. 876 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:04,040 Well, parole violations is pretty below the FBI. 877 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,040 So just nobody seems to care. But again, Christmas movie. 878 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,040 Yeah, it's a Christmas movie. 879 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,040 I mean, this might be my new go to bad Christmas movie seen as I can't really 880 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,040 watch the ref anymore. Thanks to Kevin Spacey. 881 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,040 Fuck you, Spacey. I'll keep that in. 882 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,040 It's it's cool to say fuck Spacey. 883 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,040 That's the movie. Nick Cage. Nick Cage finds love at the end. 884 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,040 Yeah. Yeah. By the really boring person with a character who was never developed. 885 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,040 Nobody was developed. But again, we said the director had no interest in directing 886 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:34,040 this film without oversight. Nick Cage is wildly all over the place. 887 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,040 You see every instant of cageing out in this film. 888 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,040 I think this is the most cagey film that we've seen so far. 889 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:45,040 I know he has some other ones that are crazier, but like I made a note of it. 890 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:50,040 It was like, holy fuck. Every scene, every delivery, mid delivery, he will change 891 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,040 his candor. Like this is not a consistent character. 892 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,040 And he's the straight man. And he's the straight man. 893 00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,040 There's a scene that's very cagey and it's when they're waiting for the bank key 894 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:06,040 and he just goes key, key. Oh, when's he get back? 895 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,040 Or when he's just chasing the bank manager. 896 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,040 I've been coming, coming, coming. I do like. 897 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,040 The cop is coming after us. The cop is coming after us. 898 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,040 Most of my quotes involve him being mad at Dana Carvey. 899 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:22,040 Yeah, I didn't love to the point of remembering any Nicholas Cage stuff. 900 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,040 It's like, it was good for what it was. 901 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:28,040 And the performance he brought to the quotes was fine. 902 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:33,040 None of them, I think, made it into like a re quotable sentence for me. 903 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:40,040 For me, like the best quote of the movie is a Dana Carvey quote. 904 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:46,040 And it's just at the very end when Ma Ma Ferbo is like, oh, your brother's going to get hitched. 905 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,040 What are you two going to get hitched? 906 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,040 And Dana Carvey is just like hitched. 907 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:57,040 We're not even attracted to each other. It's a great line in reference to him and Dave. 908 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,040 There's also just another good little interaction when they first get out of prison 909 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,040 and you see Dana Carvey, who is clearly not all there. 910 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:10,040 They're driving away and Dana Carvey just in the back seat and ask if they can stop on the way home to get some ring dings and milk. 911 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,040 Yeah, and they can just go milk for the kids. Yeah. 912 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,040 Ring dings and milk. Oh, sure. 913 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,040 Then we'll get some balloons, go to a puppet show. 914 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,040 What are you two years old? 915 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,040 So my favorite quote came right after that, too. 916 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:30,040 So it's same car situation and then he he's explaining to them how because they're out on parole, he's in charge of them. 917 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:36,040 So he says, so quiet down, my little ones and call me dad. 918 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:40,040 Yeah. Yeah. His performance is very weird in this. 919 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:44,040 It's not super consistent. It's not in line. 920 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:52,040 I feel like with the I would I would say the tone of the movie, but it's all such a fucking mess. 921 00:45:52,040 --> 00:46:00,040 Yeah, I think because the director was so hands off on any of the performances, Cage just got to sort of do whatever he wanted. 922 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:07,040 Well, like, according to John Lovett, the director just didn't want to direct and he just kind of told him to do whatever they wanted, which is wild. 923 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:13,040 They're definitely trying to ride on that that high of Nicolas Cage throughout the year. 924 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:19,040 Well, also, this is like Dana Carvey and John Lovett's is like first, I think, first film after leaving SNL. 925 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:25,040 Yeah. And 1994 was a big year for Nick Cage. This is the fourth film, Nick Cage film to be released that year. 926 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:30,040 We had Red Rock West, which was filmed a couple of years earlier, but got released that year. 927 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,040 Guardian Test, which we haven't seen. And it could happen to you. 928 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:38,040 And two of those movies we will be discussing again later as they've already made their way to the second round. 929 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:44,040 But yeah, that was trapped in paradise. Yeah, it was a fun movie. I enjoyed watching it. 930 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:49,040 Two weird comedy of errors tying it and tying it to Red Rock West. 931 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:54,040 It's another thing where it's like, all right, a crime has happened. Now I'm going to leave town. Oh, wait, I'm not. 932 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:58,040 I'm trapped here. So, you know, fun times had by all. 933 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:09,040 I think on an initial watch, I think I enjoyed the stupidity of trapped in paradise more, not having grok on to what was going on with Raising Arizona immediately. 934 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,040 But I think Raising Arizona is going to be more fun to watch a second time. 935 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:17,040 I would say definitely Raising Arizona through both of my watches. 936 00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:22,040 And the Coens are just so they made it such a captivating movie. They did. 937 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:29,040 They got me from the very beginning. They they just hit you with such a great premise. 938 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:34,040 Walking Nicolas Cage in repeatedly, getting his mug shot done. 939 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:40,040 And you see his relationship. It's so big. Everything is so big. 940 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:44,040 It's like Ed is such a hard cop. She's like, turn to the left. 941 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:53,040 Turn left. No. Then next time it's like, you know, she's a little softer than she's crying because her finance broke up with her. 942 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,040 Obviously, it's the better movie. Yeah, it is. And I am look that one. 943 00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:03,040 I'm so much more looking forward to rewatching and having a more self aware view of it. 944 00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:14,040 Yeah. So next episode, we're back on to the serious bracket and we have leaving Las Vegas and the runner, which I don't remember. 945 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:20,040 I think it's a political never heard of her. But I'm kind of excited because I haven't seen leaving Las Vegas. 946 00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:25,040 Have you guys? No, I've not. I've never seen a Nicolas Cage movie. That's a lie. 947 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,040 You've seen 20. Yeah. How about a little sign off? 948 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:35,040 I love you, Peter. Oh, thank you. Yes. Do I have to say it back? 949 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:40,040 Goodbye, everybody. Good night. And God bless. 950 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:49,040 Hayden, jump down in the comments and tell us how bracket. Yeah. 951 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,040 Yeah. Do it in the comments and don't do it to me while I'm trying to sleep. Yeah. 952 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:59,040 Actually, whisper it to him in his sleep. Just that's how it gets in deep. Yeah. 953 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:28,040 Just sneak your way in. Please don't.