1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800 Hi everybody, this is producer Peter. This is a episode where we talk about the movie 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:11,280 Leaving Las Vegas and the movie The Runner. Leaving Las Vegas is about a man who has severe 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:18,720 alcoholism and drinks himself to death and is also very candid about talking about sex 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:23,800 work. So just be aware that those are topics that we are going to discuss. 5 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:34,800 Oh god. Oh my god. Fuuuuck. 6 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,800 So, we're cool if you're having an affair, people. 7 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,800 Affairs cool. Just don't be a dick about it. 8 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:50,800 I mean, if you're an alcoholic, I'm not going to treat you poorly. It's fine if you're an alcoholic, too. 9 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:51,800 Just don't be a dick. 10 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:52,800 Yeah. 11 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,800 That's the general policy. Don't be a dick. 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,800 Don't be a dick. 13 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,800 And with that, welcome back to Cage Match, colon, a roundabout way of meeting Nicolas Cage. 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,800 I am one of your three talking people here, Sean. 15 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,800 I am second talking person, Nick. 16 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:15,800 Hi, and I'm producer Peter, the third talking person, who will talk less. 17 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:25,800 This week we are we watched Leaving Las Vegas from 1995, I believe, and 2015? 18 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:26,800 Correct. 19 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,800 The Runner, a movie I'm sure you've never heard of. 20 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:35,800 Which is a shame, because you should always know what to avoid. I'm kidding. It's delightful. 21 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,800 I did get annoyed, though, trying to look it up on IMDb, because it would always bring up any other movie. 22 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:41,800 May's Runner. 23 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:42,800 Anything but The Runner. 24 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:43,800 Anything but this movie. 25 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,800 Which surely you didn't mean this movie. 26 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,800 Yeah. I was getting frustrated looking to find it, to watch it until I realized I owned it. 27 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,800 And then I was frustrated that I owned it. 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,800 Yeah. Well, I had to watch it on freebie. 29 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,800 The ads were shockingly the most entertaining part. 30 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,800 There'd be a real serious moment and it cut to like Cheetos. 31 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,800 So that was amazing. 32 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,800 Yeah. Snap into a Slim Jim or a fucking Surge ad. 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:13,800 Yeah. 34 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:19,800 Where people just start plowing through each other, like jumping over couches while playing street hockey. 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,800 Surge. 36 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,800 I miss Surge. 37 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,800 I used to sell Jolt Cola at my high school. 38 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:27,800 Yeah. 39 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:28,800 Like, under the bleachers? 40 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:29,800 I mean, kind of. 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,800 Was it like outlawed? 42 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,800 Well, it was like so heavily caffeinated that they didn't want it around on campus. 43 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,800 But I mean, that's absurd to say back. 44 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,800 Is this like is this how your fascination with trench coats started, Peter? 45 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,800 That and my love of flashing. 46 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:46,800 There we go. 47 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:47,800 We got there. 48 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,800 It's Weiner Wednesday, everybody. 49 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,800 Yeah, we're recording on a Wednesday, which is odd for us. 50 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,800 But, you know, our podcast, like our decision making in terms of what wins is Mercurial. 51 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,800 That's the word. And, you know, we kind of make up the rules as we go along. 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:09,800 And based on the way the wins go and the fickle decisions of our Lord and Savior, Thor, hail Thor. 53 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:15,800 We picked some weird winners in the past based on the caginess of the film. 54 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,800 I'm just going to say up front, I don't think anyone's going to be surprised by the winner this week. 55 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,800 No, they probably shouldn't be. 56 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,800 But we should talk about why we're doing this. 57 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:29,800 Through no science or metrics, we are going to determine out of 64. 58 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:30,800 The will of Thor. 59 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:40,800 And the will of Thor out of 64 Nicolas Cage movies, a mixture of good and bad, but mostly ranked from best to worst. 60 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,800 The cagiest or most enjoyable Nick Cage movie by the end of this March Madness bracket style. 61 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:53,800 So, yeah, we will come up with the ultimate Nick Cage flick definitively forever, which everyone will agree with. 62 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,800 Yeah. 63 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,800 The Internet will have no problem with our decision. 64 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,800 Well, and Nicolas Cage will confirm it for us to in person. 65 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,800 The ultimate goal is to meet Nicolas Cage. 66 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,800 I mean, I'm going to be straight up honest with you. 67 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:11,800 If we don't make it to the end, but we meet Nicolas Cage before that, I'm just fucking packing it in because we're never going to we're never going to match that high. 68 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,800 Well, if we meet Nicolas Cage, like mid run and we just stop. 69 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:18,800 I mean, the whole point of this is to meet Nick Cage. 70 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,800 Yeah. So I'm sorry. 71 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,800 Yeah. And our Patreon support of our fans. 72 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,800 Oh, yeah. They got like a whole nother Patreon support. 73 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,800 Well, did we? Well, he sent me some money over Venmo. 74 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,800 And I was like, do you want to join the Patreon? 75 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,800 Yeah, we got to we got to give. Is this someone you know? 76 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,800 Yeah, it's somebody I know. Give him a shout out. 77 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,800 That'd be weird. Yeah. He's now in the Sparkle Buddy tier. 78 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,800 This one's for you, Sean, who's not my co-host. Nailed it. 79 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,800 That would have been very confusing for me. 80 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,800 Somebody has to keep this thing afloat. 81 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,800 I'm just a talent. All right. 82 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,800 Enough jokes, enough jokes on our comedy podcast. 83 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,800 Let's talk Nick Cage films. 84 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,800 I think we should start with The Runner this week. 85 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,800 Yeah, we've already kind of given a little intro to it. 86 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:10,800 Yeah. The Runner is a film about takes place in 2010 right after the BP oil spill. 87 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,800 Local politician. 88 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,800 He's looking to run for the Senate when like most every politician, 89 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,800 he's got a dirty little secret and has had an affair and has to resign in disgrace. 90 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,800 The dirty secret is his penis. 91 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,800 Which can we just say I don't think that was a secret 92 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,800 because he seemed to be passing that around. 93 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,800 Oh, my God. 94 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,800 We have seen Nick Cage hump so much these last few months. 95 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,800 It's really inspiring. 96 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,800 I do. I have appreciated the wayward nature of his sternum bush. 97 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,800 Oh, man. Yeah. Topless Nick Cage is really something. 98 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,800 He's got just like quite the Brillo pad up there. 99 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,800 Or like it's Ghost Rider where it's silky smooth. 100 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,800 Oh, I mean, that was for aerodynamics. 101 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,800 I mean, he needed to drive fast. 102 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,800 One of my very few notes from this episode was Harry Cage returns. 103 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,800 Yes. Yep. 104 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,800 So this movie is going to star a bunch of people you've never heard of, 105 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,800 but three super cool people. 106 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,800 Nicholas Cage as Colin Price, Peter Fonda in here as Rain Price. 107 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:24,800 That's Nicholas Cage's alcoholic father and making his big return. 108 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,800 Wendell Pierce, Frank LeGrand. 109 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,800 Shit. 110 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,800 As Nick Cage is like political. 111 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:34,800 What are those things they do? 112 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,800 They he's a campaign guy. 113 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,800 He's a campaign manager. 114 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,800 Well, I mean, what's that thing that politicians do? 115 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:45,800 They campaign. So with that, I mean, we've already seen Peter Fonda 116 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,800 and Wendell Pierce and two other Nick Cage films. 117 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,800 We saw Peter Fonda play. 118 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,800 Well, in this film, he plays Nick Cage's father, whereas in Ghost Rider, 119 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,800 he played Ghost Rider's ghost daddy. 120 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,800 Ghost daddy. Ghost daddy. 121 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,800 Yeah. And Wendell Pierce played his partner in It Could Happen to You. 122 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,800 And we also there was also one other connection. 123 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,800 Like this was just a who's who of people who have been in the cage films. 124 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:16,800 Judd Lamand, I think was his name, who was in Rage, Left Behind 125 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,800 and USS Indianapolis, Colin Men of Courage. 126 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,800 Wow. So this guy's been in four other Nick Cage films. 127 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,800 So, I mean, this is really actually fueling the NCU theory, right? 128 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,800 I forgot about that theory. 129 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,800 So this movie was done, I feel, at a very specific time in Cage's career 130 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,800 when he was just taking literally anything. 131 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,800 It's not his best movie times for sure. 132 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,800 No, because I mean, I just watched this movie last night 133 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,800 and I can tell you very little about it. 134 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,800 It is not horrendously memorable. 135 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,800 Yeah, I mean, it's just Nicholas Cage is sober. 136 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,800 Like he's a non-drinker. He stopped drinking. 137 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 His father had an alcohol problem. 138 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:01,800 Continues to. 139 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,800 Yeah, continues to. He's probably just going to drink himself to death. 140 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Spoiler alert, he does. 141 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,800 Yeah. Like he gets into this sex scandal, kind of loses his political career because of it. 142 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,800 Ends up like picking up drinking when he and his wife split up. 143 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,800 I mean, she's a politician's wife and they were both lawyers. 144 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,800 And her whole stance is at first that this is worse for, 145 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,800 this is just bad for both their careers. 146 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,800 And then he just straight up tells him if he resigns, she will leave him. 147 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,800 Oh, yeah. And I mean, she was a terrible wife. 148 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,800 Like it was obviously a very politically based marriage. 149 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,800 She only wanted to be with him because it was going to propel her 150 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,800 as he climbed up into the Senate and stuff. 151 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,800 Well, and he, his character is supposed to be very kind of moral. 152 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,800 He's very anti-oil, wants new energy. 153 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,800 So he has a sit down with a CEO of. 154 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,800 Yeah, fictional. Yeah. I'm sure. 155 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:05,800 And, you know, this guy's trying to get Nick Cage in his back pocket for what he runs for the Senate. 156 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:11,800 And, you know, his wife set up the meeting and she's pissed that he's not kind of taking the money. 157 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:17,800 Yeah. So, yeah, he loses his, you know, loses all clout, resigns in shame. 158 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:23,800 We get a great little montage of him starting to drink again and seeing sex workers. 159 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,800 I did have a note for this scene, though. 160 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:34,800 I'm wondering if maybe Trojan paid for any of this movie because there's a very prominent displayed to Trojan condoms on the nightstand. 161 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,800 But you don't have your condoms just in like an artistic display. 162 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,800 I keep mine in a like jewel case with like a little glass bell over it. 163 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Like a cloche. Yeah. Yeah. Glass cloche. Yeah. Hey, what's for dinner tonight? 164 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:56,800 Weiner Wednesday. All right. This episode might be funnier than I thought it would be. 165 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,800 So long as we don't talk about the movies, we're fucking banging here. 166 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:06,800 He starts a nonprofit just kind of trying to help out all the fishermen and to get the water cleaned up. 167 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,800 Yeah. Make sure they get their insurance money, their money from BP. 168 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,800 But nobody wants to pay for any of this. Yeah. 169 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:19,800 Obviously, because it's expensive and Cage doesn't have any money. Yeah. 170 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:27,800 So he ends up like getting a large donation. Three. What is it? Three and a half million. Yeah. Something like that. 171 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,800 And so it's like, oh, hey, we're actually going to be able to move forward on some of this. 172 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:37,800 And then they get a bunch of new like clients show up and, you know, he can't afford it to cover everybody. 173 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:43,800 The money winds up. It comes from that fictional oil company again. Yeah. 174 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:51,800 And long story short, he ends up meeting with them, taking the deal, reigniting his career. 175 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,800 And yeah, it becomes a full shill for big oil. 176 00:10:53,800 --> 00:11:01,800 Like the movie starts with him talking about being there for the workers of Louisiana and the fishermen and how BP is ruined that. 177 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:10,800 And the last scene is him giving the exact same speech, but about how, you know, we have to rely on oil and how we can't put good, hardworking oil workers out of work. 178 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:20,800 Right. And then it zooms out to the shot of cartoonishly bad CG, like plumes of smoke and smokestacks, like just in fire. 179 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,800 Yeah, I don't know if they had an agenda. It's super heavy handed. 180 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Doesn't seem like they were trying to steer us away from oil at all. 181 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,800 Are you telling me that politicians are bad and corporate shills? 182 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:40,800 All the politicians I know are as a whole like Nick Cage's. 183 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,800 Nick Cage's performance in this is not bad. 184 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,800 I mean, it's Nick Cage. He's going to put in the work. 185 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,800 Yeah, I thought I thought by and large all the main actors did a fine job with the material. 186 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:59,800 It is a very dry sardonic political drama, like nothing really of consequence happens to anybody. 187 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,800 He has he winds up starting to date his publicist. 188 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,800 But she's separated from her husband and they end up getting back together. 189 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,800 And that just makes Cage drink more. 190 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,800 Yeah. And that's when he kind of goes over the deep end. 191 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,800 And that's the straw that broke the camel's back that made it makes him go back to his wife. 192 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,800 He really said, yeah, it's like, oh, I can't have my girlfriend. 193 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,800 I guess I better just have my political non-romantic relationship back. 194 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,800 And then just, you know, get my career back by like just being a complete hack. 195 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,800 And yeah, yeah. So it's like what? 196 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,800 Like pretty, pretty quick succession. 197 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:37,800 Like was it his dad died and then his lady gets back with her husband. 198 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,800 Yeah. And then he goes on a bender and tries to go back to his old house, 199 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,800 which up to this point, he could still like open the gate with the clicker. 200 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,800 And the wife like finally disconnected that. 201 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:57,800 So he wound up just careening, burning the gate, rammed the gate, and then crashed into his old garage. 202 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:05,800 And then is like later, like woken up in the car, bleeding from his head by his ex, his wife, because they never actually get divorced. 203 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,800 Right. The divorce papers never got signed. 204 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,800 And that's the runner. Yeah. 205 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:20,800 It's a banger. You know, this movie has kind of got me thinking that we need to put together like an audio book 206 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:26,800 or something that we can sell and just do the Nick Cage dialect like School of Dialects. 207 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,800 Holy shit. Oh, yeah. Let's talk about this. Let's talk about the accent. 208 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:36,800 I mean, it comes out hard with a Louisiana accent that most times sounds kind of Boston. 209 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,800 I think a lot of his accents come off very Massachusetts. 210 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,800 This one, it's got the occasional kind of I had in mind. 211 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,800 I had him written in my notes. Elmer Fuddish. Yeah. 212 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:55,800 He's barely very concerned about the people of Louisiana. 213 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,800 I thought Peter Fonda's was OK, but Nick Cage's was pretty bad. 214 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:05,800 I mean, Peter Fonda's accent was a lot better than his accent or whatever you would call his acting and ghostwriter 215 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,800 was his first line of ghostwriter again. Groovy. 216 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,800 Oh, I thought it was. Hey, that's my horse. 217 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:17,800 It's not. No, that was Sam Elliott's first line. My ghost horse. 218 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,800 But yeah, that was the accent was a bit much. 219 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,800 It was pretty rough. Kind of sidebar. 220 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,800 How many like great accents quotation marks have we had here? 221 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,800 He had his New York cop accent. Oh, yeah. New York cop. 222 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,800 His New York cop in 9-11 movie was so fucking bad. 223 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:41,800 Yeah, but his New York cop when he was pretending to be a cop in Sorcerer's Apprentice was pretty good. 224 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,800 Yeah. When I was in that was supposed to be more of a caricature. 225 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,800 Yeah. So Louisiana, New York. 226 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,800 I don't know. There's others. I didn't do any research on this. 227 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,800 So fuck it. Fuck you, too. OK, moving on. 228 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,800 Yeah, no, no, no. His his weird Texas accent. 229 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,800 His Texas accent and ghostwriter. That was bad. Yeah. 230 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,800 I know. I was looking at movies that came out around this time, 231 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,800 and it really does kind of go into my theory that this is him just trying to recoup his lost money 232 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,800 after he had all the tax problems. 233 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,800 And I think this is the narrative I'm sticking with, because there's a real specific window of time 234 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:19,800 where he makes each of these kinds of movies where they're like, he's making a couple million bucks. 235 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,800 They don't do very well. It doesn't matter. 236 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,800 He does a fine job acting, but like nobody gives a shit about these movies. 237 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,800 And every single poster is him slightly turned mouth, slightly agape. 238 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,800 Oh, man, that's well. 239 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:39,800 Also, one of the first things I noticed about this film, it's the same way that I'm what was that awful one we watched, 240 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,800 like literally the worst one we've watched left behind. 241 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,800 No, this one was worse than the behind. 242 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,800 Did we say something was worse than left behind? I think it was. 243 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,800 Oh, yeah. Dying of the light. Dying of the light. That was so bad. 244 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Like a lot of movies he did of that time. And Peter, you pointed out to me earlier. 245 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:04,800 This is just a product of that time. I forgot is just both those movies just kind of start an extreme close up of Nick Cage talking, 246 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:09,800 like giving a speech and a lot of shaky cam, like no, no steady cams on this, 247 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:18,800 which might be explained by the fact that the budget for this movie was only six million dollars and it made ninety three thousand gross. 248 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,800 Ninety three thousand gross ass dollars. 249 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,800 Yeah. Pulled from the sweaty bras of Louisiana sex workers. 250 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:35,800 You know, I like how you make sure to like slow down your speech and kind of change your cadence whenever you say that. 251 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,800 So it definitely sounds like we have to read up you. 252 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,800 It really does. Yeah, it sounds like I'm cutting these in. 253 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,800 It's like the quack sound. I'm just redubbing myself as I go. 254 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,800 It's like I really got to slow down on the fly. Live editing in your brain. 255 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:56,800 It's how I have to talk to people. This one was a hard one to do a deep dive on because there was literally no information about it. 256 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:03,800 I even looked up the director who has three feature films to his name and one of them is in pre-production, which usually a bad sign. 257 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,800 But then we look at Pig, which had basically the same pedigree. Yeah. 258 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,800 And that's my favorite film we've watched so far. 259 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:17,800 That was a really good movie. Except for Ghost Rider. Right. Which will go all the way until we hit Ghost Rider. 260 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:24,800 Spirit of Vengeance. That movie's a banger. Was there anything redeeming about the runner? 261 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,800 I thought the performances were good. I thought the acting for what it is is good. It's meant to be a very dry. 262 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:38,800 There's not a lot of emotion throughout the film. What little like scenes of emotion are when he's calling the woman he's seen at the end after his dad dies. 263 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,800 There's a genuinely good performance in there. 264 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:50,800 And I think you get some real honest, good scenes of regret and everything as Nick Cage is regressing back into alcoholism. 265 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:59,800 When he shows up at that bar, it just kind of felt like he knew that this was it. He's just not coming back from it. 266 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:08,800 I was expecting a worse performance from him. And the other film we're going to discuss, Leaving Las Vegas, the joke that everyone makes and kind of the joke that we started this podcast with was, 267 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:14,800 Oh, Nick Cage, he's in everything. But, you know, he is an astounding actor. 268 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:24,800 Even when the material isn't great, he can still put on a performance. I will say he's never forgettable. No, I will say like it's a very subtle role this time. 269 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:33,800 He's not. He doesn't really cage out in the movie at all, but it's a it's a really strong, which is funny, because underrated performance, we can just move right into it. 270 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:46,800 It's probably one of his cagey is meta cagey is performances because all of the drunk scenes and stuff he prepped for it by getting shit faced, filming himself and then watching the film. 271 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:51,800 Oh, now we're talking about leaving Las Vegas. Yeah, yeah. I'm just over the runner now. I'm getting right into. 272 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,800 Well, here we can just we can connect these two movies right now. Both movies are about alcoholics. 273 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,800 Yeah, I mean, we're really good at threading this accidentally. Yeah. Here you go. Two alcoholism movies. 274 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:09,800 Now, to actually good makeup jobs of the jaundice as the liver fails. 275 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:16,800 Mm hmm. Yeah, there was a lot of weird connections, but the deep dive on leaving Las Vegas was astounding. 276 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:22,800 And yeah, Nick, you pointed out one of the most interesting things were in peak method actor mode. 277 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:31,800 Like the way he studied for this role was by getting blitzed and filming himself so he could learn his own drunken speech patterns. Yeah. 278 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:45,800 And he spent time at hospitals with like dying career alcoholics so he could see like look at that thousand yard stare and like this is the shakes, you know, pulling out his own teeth for a role. 279 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Yeah, tough. Yeah. I mean, Elizabeth Shoe spent time on the strip with sex workers and interviewed sex workers for this role. 280 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,800 Like they both put in a lot of time and energy and commitment of their own to prepare for these performances. 281 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,800 And it shows. Yeah, they gave really, really good, honest performances. 282 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:14,800 And it really makes sense that both of them were nominated for best performer Oscars for nominations total in the Oscars. 283 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:23,800 The ninety six Oscars, Nick Cage, best performing actor, Elizabeth Shoe, best performing actress, best director and best screenplay. 284 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:30,800 Weirdly not best film because every other film that was nominated for best screenplay was also nominated for best film. 285 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:37,800 Yeah. And it's weird. This movie has been nominated for a lot of things. 286 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,800 Well, it's I mean, this is what Nicholas Cage won his Oscar for, rightfully so. 287 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:46,800 Yeah. And coming out of like a real banger of a year in 94. Yeah. 288 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Where we've already seen a couple of his movies and are not great. 289 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,800 So the movie, some of them are really good. Yes. 290 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:58,800 So the movie did directly before this was Trapped in Paradise. 291 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:07,800 And one of the one of his reasons for doing this film is because he hated that movie so much that he wanted to like go do something the complete opposite. 292 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,800 Like, well, good on him because he fucking crushed it. So just real quick. 293 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:27,800 This movie stars Nicholas Cage as alcoholic, disgraced screenwriter Ben Sanderson pretty much just tanks his career in L.A., burns all of his stuff, puts all of his clothes in trash bags, leaves him on the curb and decides he's going to go to Vegas and drink himself to death. 294 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Maxing out all of his cards, selling his car. He thinks he can do it in about four weeks. 295 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:41,800 That is his plan. Elizabeth Shoe plays a sex worker named Sarah, who meets Ben, like kind of first night there. 296 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:52,800 And they form a friendship, a love interest of types. It's very well, it was probably pretty cathartic for her because he wasn't interested in sex throughout. 297 00:21:52,800 --> 00:22:05,800 Like the majority of the movie sex wasn't his motivation, but that's really the only way she knows to show any affection. And he's not really providing her with that. 298 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:14,800 I'm trying to what's a good what's the word? It's a very codependent relationship. Very much like he's, you know, right up like she has a move in with him right away and right out the gate. 299 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:22,800 He's just like, you can never tell me to stop drinking. Like you have to let me do this. And that runs its course. Yeah. 300 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:34,800 And it's really not until she goes out working one night and he goes out gambling, gets drunk and then brings another sex worker back to her place where the wheels finally come off that relationship. 301 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:44,800 No, the making of the film, though. Amazing. Yeah. Like every story about this film is insane and good and bad reasons. 302 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:52,800 Like the making of this film also has a lot of sadness behind it. Like the author of the book Committed Suicide, I believe about two weeks into production. 303 00:22:52,800 --> 00:23:03,800 I rewatched that movie this morning. The last scene of the film is of Ben Sanderson and kind of a in memoriam type, just like freeze frame of him just on the strip, just smiling like after he's died in the movie. 304 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:12,800 Like that's a really weird way to end this film. And I'm kind of wondering if that's just a was more meant to be a nod to the author of the book. Yeah. 305 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:22,800 I think there were some nice little nods like that watch that he's wearing was the novel author's watch. Oh, that's interesting. 306 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:34,800 Yeah. The Rolex Daytona. Yeah. Yeah. The 93 Rolex Daytona, which did you look up the value? Yeah. $20,000 used 20 grand. Yeah. Yeah. And he sells it for $500 at a pawn shop. 307 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:45,800 I did love that after he sells that there's at least one, I think two other times where he goes and like looks at his watch just so naturally and it's just not there. 308 00:23:45,800 --> 00:24:03,800 And he's, you know, he's drunk and it's just like, oh, no, don't know what fucking time it is because I sold that there's only one other named re really named character in this film who has even a monochrome of screen time, which is Yuri played by Julian Sands, who is Sarah's pimp at the beginning of this film. 309 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:11,800 Who's running to some money problems with some Russian mobsters and they quickly take him out of the film. Yeah, he's not in it for too long. 310 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:22,800 I'm not sure there was even a necessary element to that. Like, why did they even bother with him? Just to show where Sarah's kind of starting out in her relationship with the like only other man in her life. 311 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:39,800 Yeah, and the abuse of being a sex worker because he used to like cut her butt and things like that. Like we see her get down with a few people in this film and it's always a performance and she talks about that and kind of one of her first talking head scenes. 312 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:47,800 She talks about like the performance of being a sex worker and the one scene we see of her having sex is not a performance with is with Yuri. 313 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:58,800 And it is you can just see interface just how awful it is for her just to go to that character again. Those talking head scenes are astounding. 314 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:04,800 They're really something weird because they were pre production hair, makeup and costuming. 315 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:11,800 Yeah, they were screen tests and then the director decided to put them in even though the producers were like, I don't know about that. 316 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:18,800 Yeah, fuck it. Do it. But like they really do kind of emphasize the scenes that they get paired up with. 317 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:29,800 It's also just for me it was kind of it took me out a little bit because it's so jarring. It goes to like at home hand cam kind of appearance. 318 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:38,800 Like, you know, it doesn't have professional lighting and sound and it's it's also kind of weird because it makes you think like, is she talking to a therapist? 319 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:46,800 Is she talking to a friend? Yeah, and it's never specified. But no, yet they show up pretty heavy in the first act and you don't see them throughout the second act. 320 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,800 And you only get one more at the very end of the film. I kind of forgot they were a thing until it shows up at the end. 321 00:25:51,800 --> 00:26:03,800 Yeah, it's they're fine as little like personal monologues, but it's also kind of weird because it's like, I don't feel like she's the lead and I don't know if you can give those to not leads. 322 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,800 I mean, she's the female lead of one. I mean, but notable females. 323 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,800 I mean, the movie is about Ben dying, but I would put Elizabeth the shoes care. 324 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:18,800 I would put Sarah as more of like the lead and the narrator of this film because she's the one witnessing it. 325 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,800 Like, she's who we're seeing this through. Well, she's certainly the more empathetic character. 326 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,800 I mean, it's hard to watch a guy who's just like kind of a sad sack drink himself to death. 327 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,800 We don't get any buildup of him as a character to give a shit about. 328 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,800 It's just sort of like, I am a drunk. Even there's certainly no satisfaction in his character. 329 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:43,800 Even the opening scene of him like dancing through the grocery store, just putting handles of liquor in the shopping cart. 330 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:52,800 That was meant to be a later scene when he's already decided to kill himself. But again, the director just like this sets us up perfectly for who this character is in one shot. 331 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,800 Yeah, I felt lied to because that scene opens up the movie or whatever. 332 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:05,800 And I'm like, all right, got ourselves a little fucking romp here. We're going to have a nice like pick me up movie. I'm going to enjoy this. 333 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:15,800 No, next scene, he's begging for money from like a producer friend of his from Richard Lewis from Richard Lewis, who's having dinner with Steven Webber from Wings. 334 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,800 Yeah, this movie had two nice ladies to definitely weren't sex workers. 335 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,800 This movie has such a weird cast. 336 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:32,800 There are so many fucking people in this movie who are just from out of nowhere and enrolls like French Stewart, businessman number two. 337 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,800 I rewatching it, I still couldn't see him in this film. 338 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,800 Oh, well, you didn't see him actually on screen. I don't think he had a line. 339 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,800 Was he just there squinting? Yeah, he was just there squinting. He is like a shave, like short. 340 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,800 I just missed him. I mean, I'm sure he had to be. 341 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,800 He probably had a line at one point, otherwise I wouldn't credit him for just being in the background. 342 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,800 Another weird one, the bartender in the biker bar. 343 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,800 I didn't like I recognize him and I was just staring at this guy's face the whole scene. 344 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,800 I'm like, who the fuck is that guy? It's Julian Lennon. 345 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:05,800 It's John Lennon's son. Yeah. So, yeah, there's just a lot of weird people in this movie. 346 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:12,800 The director, Mike Higgs, who's directed a bunch of stuff I've never heard of. 347 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,800 I mean, there were some things I think I'd heard of, like I'm just going to say words. 348 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,800 Cold Mountain Creek. Oh, Cold Creek Manor. I was pretty close. 349 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:30,800 Oh, so did you see that the way he kept putting his production company into the movie on the taxis, 350 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,800 where you'd see the little red mullet? Yeah. The like car tent or whatever the topper. 351 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,800 I didn't I didn't catch that was the production company. 352 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,800 I definitely saw that a bunch of times. I was like, it's some in-joke. That's the director. 353 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,800 Yeah, that's his production company. 354 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,800 And then it's just a photo of him next to it looking extra skeevy. 355 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,800 And it's like, Jesus. Well, OK, it comes up like two, two times. 356 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,800 Yeah, you see, I think you see it twice, but it stands out every time. 357 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,800 It's main. That's the focus of the shot. 358 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,800 This movie did a great job of depicting Vegas as it really looks. 359 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,800 And that's shitty as fuck. Yeah. Like, I mean, a lot of it takes a go in a month. 360 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,800 A lot of it takes place off the strip. It takes place in just Las Vegas, which is just a desert city. 361 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,800 But like, there's a lot of over the city shots during the day. 362 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:23,800 And I'm like, that is not a pretty town. Well, a lot of things in Las Vegas are prettier with the lights out. 363 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,800 That's a sex worker joke. Yeah, I got it. 364 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,800 One of my only other notes was that there are so many cleavage shots. Oh, yeah. 365 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,800 Yeah. Like they heavy on the cleavage. It was nice. 366 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,800 The slow, I don't know, salacious pans up and down. 367 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,800 Jesus Christ, how's that for me? Sex is not absent in this movie. 368 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,800 No. Again, you know, we've seen Nick Cage hump a lot. 369 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:55,800 And I just based on like the 22 films we've seen already, I'm assuming we're going to see him hump a lot more. 370 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:01,800 Just going back to the way this movie was filmed and like all the weird things they had to do to get it done. 371 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:07,800 Most of the shots on the strip are a single take, a single scene, because they were not permitted to film on the strip. 372 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,800 So they were all set up to just be kind of quick, one and done shots so they can get out of Dodge before the cop showed up. 373 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,800 So a bit of guerrilla filmmaking. I kind of love that. 374 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,800 I mean, because I also hate the cops. So yeah, yeah. 375 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,800 We need an obligatory fuck the police in all of these episodes. 376 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,800 Did we even have a cop in this film? Is there a cop? No, no cops. 377 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,800 I mean, no, no Nick Cage cops, certainly. Oh, yeah. 378 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,800 I don't think any cops. Oh, nice. That's refreshing. 379 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,800 Cop free episode. Too bad it couldn't have been more of a romp. 380 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,800 Oh, Mike Figgs composed the score for this film. I think it's Figgis. Figgis? Oh, sorry. 381 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:48,800 There's a second eye. Yeah, Figgis composed the score for this film and played trumpet on the soundtrack on the score. 382 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,800 Yeah. Oh, I forgot my I forgot my joke for how this movie starts. 383 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:57,800 There's an intro sting with Sting. There's too much sting. There's a lot of sting. 384 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,800 I fucking hate the song. 385 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,800 The music I thought actually was pretty shitty and it kind of took me out of the entire thing. 386 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,800 Yeah, I did not like the directing. 387 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:15,800 It's it's a decision. There's a lot of creative decisions. 388 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,800 Again, it's a very personal. I feel like it's a very personal and voyeuristic film. 389 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,800 And I feel the directing really does hammer that home. 390 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:29,800 Even his one big freak out. One of the few shots where we see them from afar is in the casino when he has his freak out. 391 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:40,800 And we kind of see like from a bird's eye view, almost from like security kind of view of him losing his shit and like like knocking over a waitress and toppling a card table. 392 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:49,800 But all the other shots are real personal and real close. And like, I don't know, I feel like it gets the it gets the voyeuristic view. 393 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:54,800 Right. I like the cinematography a lot. Yeah. Some fun Oscar facts about this film. 394 00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:03,800 So Nick Cage was the only person to win from this movie. One best Oscar beat out Sean Penn that year, who was in racing with the moon with him. 395 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:09,800 Also beat out Anthony Hopkins. Yeah, that was a stacked year. Yeah. Oh, it was a great year. 396 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:17,800 Three million six hundred dollars to film. Not a huge budget. Three million six hundred or three million six hundred thousand six hundred thousand. 397 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:24,800 OK, yeah. So that's weird to just throw in six hundred dollars at the end of three million. It's like here's three million. You're right. And cab fare. 398 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:38,800 It made it made thirty two million gross. So did I mean, especially at that time when you don't really have to consider for doubling budget nominated for Oscars, one best actor nominated best director. 399 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:49,800 Nicholas Cage on the director made no money from this. The studio was just like didn't make enough money for your for your back end. So the man's Oscar, he was not paid for his Oscar, his Oscar winning performance. 400 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:56,800 I mean, it wasn't even much that he was supposed to get paid. This came up recently on the Internet. 401 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:06,800 I think it was like, I'm probably way off, like a hundred grand or some shit like that. He was making dirt money for this movie and didn't even make that. Yeah. 402 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:17,800 Off a movie that made thirty six million. So all our griping at the beginning of this podcast didn't clue you in clearly. 403 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:24,800 The runner one. Yeah, I mean, it was easily the most watchable. We loved it. 404 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:42,800 No, I can't even tell that my joke doesn't have any legs. No, it's leaving Las Vegas. Yeah, it's I mean, it's a great film. I'm glad I finally saw because I did not see it before this, but it's not something I would seek out again anytime soon just because it is hard to watch. 405 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:55,800 There is brutal depictions of alcoholism. You can you really see the mania in his character, the ups, the downs, amazing performance from everyone, especially French Stewart. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 406 00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:04,800 He did his best squint. He brought his a squint. I couldn't get out of my head him as Charlie Kaufman. 407 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:20,800 Like, I felt that that character and this one were so similar. I mean, they both don't have hair plugs. Yeah, they were definitely both some of his most there is best character roles by far from an acting standpoint, from what we've seen. 408 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:36,800 I mean, he's just so confident all the time. Actually, he's so confident until like the very end. I feel like because he's always saying like how good he is in bed and how like you're going to love fucking me and things like that. 409 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:51,800 And he's like really laying it on. But then in the end, he's like just getting kind of morose and talking to Sarah and she was talking about like having sex and he just says he's not very good in bed. 410 00:34:51,800 --> 00:35:00,800 And it's just like so sad, dude. That's more than just the core of who you are. So the first scene we see him drinking, he's hitting on a woman at a bar. 411 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:11,800 And he was just like, let's go home, put on a movie. I'll make you like I'll make you a slushy frozen drink and we'll have sex. The bartender comes up and tells him to stop and he just gets real quiet and solemn. 412 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:27,800 Like you're so pretty and and I want to have sex with you and I'm really good at it. It gets like you see he does such a great job and turns on a dime of those people who drink that much and where that disassociated with everything like the highs, the lows. 413 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:36,800 Just such a good performance. Yeah. This has been a fucking laugh riot. You have to see me struggle say words like sex worker. You did. You made it though. 414 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:46,800 There's a sex worker in every movie. I'm sure. I mean, he does hump a lot in his movies. We have had very few other than the Disney ones that weren't hump city. 415 00:35:46,800 --> 00:36:01,800 Yeah. Oh, we did get a little bit of Nicolas Cage stroking in this room. This makes movie number three with Nick Cage masturbating. Also very, very Charlie Kaufman. Yeah. The most Charlie Kaufman thing he does mostly due to the subject matter. 416 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:08,800 We didn't really do quotes for this episode, but I did have one. Oh, God. No, I lost it. All right. Nick, Pat for a minute. 417 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:22,800 Wackety schmackety doo. Looking at quotes on IMDb. You didn't write shit down because you're not prepared like me. What's your quote, Nick? 418 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:32,800 Whoopsie. When he falls through a glass table. I'm a prickly pear. I'm a prickly pear. I'm sorry. I'm to be people who write these quotes. 419 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:43,800 I just found giving you money makes me want to come. They spelled it C-O-M-E. Yeah, they might have rules about not spelling it. 420 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:55,800 That seems weird. I mean, I've definitely read a fair amount of like, I don't know, late 70s, early 80s erotica and stuff. And it's it's been spelled both ways. 421 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:07,800 I do. OK, I did really like the line. So when he goes to move in with Sarah, he's packing up his apartment, is pouring whatever brown liquor he can into a pint glass into like a 20 ounce pint glass. 422 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:17,800 All the short bottles go into a glass. He like goes to pack all his clothes. Well, he packs all the bottles first and goes to pack his clothes and then he can't close it. 423 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:27,800 So when he shows up at Sarah's place, his suitcase is clinking and he says how the shirt she buys and will go really good with his suit, which is his only pair of clothing. 424 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:37,800 And she's like, what did you do with your clothes? I threw them out, which was perhaps immoral. But I wanted to come to you clean, so to speak. 425 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:45,800 Thought we'd go shopping, pick out a pair of jeans and 45 pairs of underwear. Just throw one out each day. 426 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:53,800 That's the goal. I do love the feel of unworn underwear just in my hands. I like to run it between my fingers. 427 00:37:53,800 --> 00:38:04,800 Oh, and then, of course, the quote when he's after getting in a bar fight, but he comes back to Sarah's place and he's you know, the landlords love him being there, but he's like covered in like his face is covered in dried blood. 428 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:18,800 His shirt's covered in dried blood. And as he's walking by the landlord, the woman, he just goes great ass. Yeah, she's bent over like doing some gardening. Lots of sexual harassment in this. Yeah. 429 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:30,800 Sometimes a great ass just has to be commented on. As a construction worker, I know this to be true. It's classic. Yeah. You know, I felt more connected to this character. 430 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:43,800 One of my favorite memories of when I lived in one of my one of my all time. One of my all time favorite memories is when I still lived in San Francisco when I was a wee lad, I was of 22. I was crossing the street in the mission. 431 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:53,800 And this sassy black construction worker was like directing traffic was just like, whoa, shake it, baby. I'm like, oh, you. 432 00:38:53,800 --> 00:39:01,800 Rachel Rachel likes getting catcalled. She's like, I do look good today. 433 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:08,800 Do you guys have anything else to kind of wrap this up? Put a bow on it or I see why you won the Oscar. Very well deserved. 434 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:14,800 I want to watch the movie that Susan Sarandon won the Oscar for just because I want to see the performance that beat Elizabeth. 435 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:23,800 It's a good movie. I can't remember Sarandon's. I believe she's a nun. So, yes, still stands. Yeah. Oh, OK. 436 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:41,800 I do have one. I do have a story to close this episode out on. So this movie ends with a dying Nicholas Cage jacking off, receiving a hand job, and then Elizabeth Shue finally mounting his dying body so she can finally have the sex with them that he's denied her this whole film. 437 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:53,800 It's the last three minutes of film. And at this point in the after watching this two hour film is when my roommate Hayden walks in the room like what comes back home, opens the door and is like, what are you doing? 438 00:39:53,800 --> 00:40:01,800 I'm like watching a Nick Cage movie for the podcast and proceeds to just loom behind me over me for this entire scene. 439 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:07,800 And I'm like, this is worse than if my parents walked in. You know, he was just trying to be supportive. 440 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:18,800 He was waiting in case he needed to like hug it out afterwards. I understand. After I watch Nick Cage kids as rocks off, I got it. I got to hug it out. I need body to body pressure. 441 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,800 Peter, how did you how did you say he died? We can make sure that jokes in here. 442 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:31,800 Oh, yeah, he definitely dies coming to death. And I feel like that freeze frame of him smiling on the strip should have just been him giving a thumbs up and look on his face. 443 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:37,800 I just had sex and now I'm dead. 444 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:46,800 I once after after seeing Shazam with a lady when we were back at her place, I climaxed and yelled Shazam and immediately got slapped. 445 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,800 Oh, man. Worth it. See, that was the wrong lady. 446 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,800 I've had a couple of really good end of sex. Sting. 447 00:40:53,800 --> 00:41:04,800 Even if I wasn't done, I was just like sex is over. We're not doing this anymore. Like one time I did the Final Fantasy seven like battle music like finishing. 448 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:12,800 Do do do do do do do do do. I just laid down going to do do do do. 449 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,800 Incredible. One time I gave her the Spider-Man. 450 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:24,800 I'm just like, all right. Thank you, everybody, for listening to. 451 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,800 Oh, what I'm hoping is a great episode. Yeah, we'll see how it all shakes out. 452 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,800 So next episode, we've got color out of space, which looks like a really wacky one. 453 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,800 I'm excited for that one. And looking glass, which I have already forgotten what it is. 454 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,800 And we talked about it like a week ago. Never heard of it. Yeah. 455 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,800 So except for all the times we've definitely talked about it. Yeah, it's in the fucking weird category. 456 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:48,800 So these are going to be pretty bizarre. Oh, all right. Well, thanks. 457 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,800 I would like to just one more shout out to all our patrons, which I will read out now. 458 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,800 Josh and other Sean. Oh, there, Sean. Is he actually on the patron? 459 00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,800 Well, he is. Is that going to be a monthly five bucks? 460 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,800 Hey, monthly five bucks. Schedule that shit. Yeah. 461 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,800 Come on, the Patreon. Then you'll get a shout out. Otherwise, fuck you. 462 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,800 Thanks, John. Non non working on this podcast. 463 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,800 Now, Sean, we love you. 464 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,800 Also, please like and share this because we don't pay for advertising. 465 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,800 And we would love to have more people hear our sultry tones. 466 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:25,800 Oh, and comment in the bottom. Your favorite movie boobs. 467 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,800 I want to hear about them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Movie boobs in the comments. 468 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,800 Also timestamps so we can. Yeah, we want this to be Mr. Skin. 469 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,800 Oh, man. You were wrong, Nick. This wasn't as bad as the 9-11 episode. 470 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,800 Yeah, 9-11 episode was a rougher. Good night, everybody. 471 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,800 We love you, Nick Cage. 472 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,800 Do you need more faces? At some point, you're just going to have a huge folder of our faces. 473 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,800 You'll never have to ask. Oh, man. 474 00:42:53,800 --> 00:43:00,800 If Nick and I ever wind up dead for any reason and your computer is ever checked, like this guy had a weird obsession with these two. 475 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:08,800 Yeah. If there's ever a deep fake of me on the Internet, I want the police to know that it was probably done by you. 476 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,800 Oh, yeah, absolutely. 477 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:21,800 I will tell you, any movie that has like a solid, tit sucking scene will always be ingrained in my brain, because the first time I ever saw anything like that was The Highlander. 478 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,800 And every theatrical Highlander movie has one of these scenes for some reason. 479 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:32,800 So if I ever see a tit sucking scene in an actual film, it's it just immediately goes in my brain is like, there's one of the first good movie. 480 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,800 Yeah. Also, I mean, Elizabeth Schew. Yeah. 481 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,800 Her boobs were a shoe in for the. 482 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,800 But she like she spent time that all this has to get cut out. 483 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,800 I really want that one in there. 484 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,800 You. It's still a comedy podcast. 485 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:54,800 We're allowed to make jokes. Yeah, but I don't think I should be sexualizing people like that. 486 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:59,800 I don't know. But Elizabeth, you spent time on my apology out. 487 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,800 Put the joke in. I'm not even sorry. 488 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,800 OK, that's our outro.