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Vengeance: A Love Story · Cage Match: A Roundabout Way of Meeting Nicolas Cage

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Oh, God. Oh, my God. And then some weird shit
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happened with this guy named Jose, which I'm
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not sure if you met. Different Jose? Not your
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host, not Josie. Different host. New guy. Newest
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member of the group. No longer with us in the
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group. That is because of death. For context,
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the Jose I knew his like pick up line move to
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talking to girls was telling the story about
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the one time he almost got chlamydia. Almost.
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Almost. Also, it proves you fuck. Yeah. And you're
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reckless. That was like we got it. That was his
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mindset. He was like, guys are totally going
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to think I'm experienced. I do anything. I do
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it all, baby. I fuck with that. That was before
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his time, like years in the future. I miss all
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of you. I got to come visit. Yeah, it's a mess.
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And we haven't really been cool ever since, basically.
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I do want to say, speaking of it's a mess, welcome
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back to Cage Magical and Roundabout. I'm your
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host, Sean, here with my... Now international
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co -host. Bathrobe Nick. I'm wearing a bathrobe.
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Nick is in a bathrobe. And our un -bathrobed
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producer. Peter, hello. I really feel like I
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should go get a bathrobe, but I would have to
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go to the store. I don't own a bathrobe. I can
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just take one from Pete's room. We can just charge
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Pete's room for a bath. Oh, absolutely. They
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probably charge you like $150 for those fucking
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things. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't even say it's
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that nice of a bathrobe, but it feels good on
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my bare flesh. Where do you get bare flesh? Welcoming...
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Where do you get bare flesh? Welcoming back to
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the podcast my oldest friend that we've recently
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rediscovered, Chris Fields. Hey, how's it going,
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everybody? I hope you guys are... I took notes
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on this thing, by the way. Oh, terrific. I'm
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sorry. He got you back for a doozy. Yeah, this
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movie. I was not prepared, bro. Okay, so this
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week on Cage Match, colon and roundabout, we're
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meeting Nicolas Cage. We are discussing the movie
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Vengeance, colon, A Love Story. And it is...
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Tongue in cheek. none of those things none of
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those things yes i mean i guess i mean it is
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it does have vengeance i suppose yeah it is a
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vengeance story there's a vengeance he's avenging
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someone he's not getting revenge himself you
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know that would be a revenge story all right
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so i introduced myself i am christopher fields
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like as sean said one of his oldest friends if
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not the oldest i guess we agreed on um that i
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still talk to you yeah you still talk to me so
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it's i i won the race you're my black friend
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you're the one that keeps me from getting canceled
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happy to be of service i'm known internationally
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as hell pockets um i actually just got back from
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japan a couple weeks ago doing a gig for a dragon
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ball z mobile game world esports tournament which
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fuck yeah yeah it was awesome you know i had
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a great time ben dinamco flew me out there and
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they you know took care of me and it's a great
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time and then i came home with gout because all
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they had to eat out there is pork and noodles
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That's so cool. The King's disease. Hey, what's
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your favorite? What's your favorite way to get
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gout? Like what? Well, what's the meal of choice
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for a guy? Pork and noodles might be it. I think
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that's it. Yeah. Ramen, dude. Like I just cannot.
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I have to avoid eating ramen because if I don't
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limit myself, I'll eat that every day. Right.
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Yeah. Especially out there. I'll go out there.
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I'll eat Mazatoba, which is like basically brothless
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ramen. And they just. put a bunch of oil on top
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of it to simulate wet noodles. Just to lube it
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up for you. Just really slick it in. They lubed
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up the noodles for me, bro. I had that for breakfast
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one day and my foot started hurting. I was like,
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oh shit, I totally deserve this. I'm a fighting
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game analyst slash commentator slash former competitor,
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retired and brand ambassador for SNK. as well
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as their number one commentator. And on the side,
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I work for San Francisco State University in
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the psychology department. That's right. I forgot
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like the dichotomy of your life is really interesting.
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I do a little bit of everything, you know. Well,
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right on. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you.
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Sorry. Sorry. It's not as good a movie as last
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time, because last time it was we watched Mandy
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with you, didn't we? Yes, we watched Mandy. And,
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you know, I'll actually say that there was. And
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it's probably because it's Nick Cage. But there
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was the subtle level of discomfort that exists
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in that movie kind of is present here as well.
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Yeah, you're not wrong. It's a pretty uncomfortable
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movie overall. Yeah, no, straight up. So you
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get the honor of giving us a quick rundown of
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the plot for this movie. Don't miss anything.
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Admittedly, I go into this. And I'm like, hey,
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you know, this is another Nick Cage straight
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to streaming platform or possibly just straight
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to DVD because I don't know how old this movie
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is. 2017. 2017. It was a direct release, though.
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Brought to us by our friends at Patriot Pictures.
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Patriot Pictures. Well, I got to give it to them
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because immediately out the gate, I think this
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is like, you know, we're going to Steven Seagal's
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here, you know, straight to DVD. We're like,
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he's just in a freaking bar. And some young hot
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chase just happens to sit next to them. And he's
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like, I've got no business being anywhere near
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you, but you are clearly about to make a move
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on me. And I'm like, Oh God, here we go. But
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they circumvented my expectations by nothing
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coming from that whatsoever. Yeah, it's true.
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It just serves to prove that she's the town.
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Other than that, he knows that she's a nice girl.
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Yeah. That's what she's known for. Her manners.
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I just want to like from from the word go him
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meeting her in the bar seven months before everything
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happens is somehow weirder than if he was just
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like a loose cop on the edge who was sick of
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crime in his city. Yeah. Like him having that
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like one previous like connection with her just
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makes it so much more like uncomfortable and
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insidious his like his role in this film. You
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have to think about what led up to that moment,
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too, because I did skip some stuff on purpose
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because what we're not talking about, we are
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now. But this guy's cop, the opening scene is
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him just doing gun practice. I expected him to
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do a behind the back shot at a certain point
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because Dool was hitting 100 percent in the market.
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I'm like, oh, God, like he's a marksman. He can't
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miss. He's going to kill everybody in the neighborhood.
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Everybody knows that the real elites are vets
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of the Gulf War. Gulf War vet. elite of the elite
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i guess that was supposed to be implied by the
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fact that he had excellent trigger control like
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he had great trigger uh discipline that's what
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they call it trigger discipline um because they
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did the thing where like the uh the target turns
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to the side and you're just like don't shoot
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at the target when it's turned sideways like
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if anybody's turned sideways don't shoot them
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my first three notes from the beginning of this
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film the copaganda is strong niagara falls the
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most dangerous city and big man bigger gun Huge
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gun has the dirty, hairy pistol. I do love in
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that scene where he's shooting the targets. He
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starts off with like a tiny little like snub
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nose and then immediately picks up the giant
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gun. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He goes through the whole
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gamut of guns. Why do you think Nick Cage likes
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being a cop so much? Because he doesn't like
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the consequences of his actions. I would say
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it's because he hasn't perfected the art of acting
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as a cop yet because he's done like the full
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gamut of. kind of cops you could be in a movie.
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He's been a lot of cops. He's been the meter
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maid. He's been a parking attendant, hasn't he?
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Nicolas Cage is the meter maid. Was he ever a
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parking attendant? Fuck. I swear he was a traffic
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cop in one of these movies. I think we're thinking
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of It Could Happen to You where he was just a
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beat cop. Maybe. Was that the one with the lottery
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ticket? Yeah, in Wicker Man he was a chips cop.
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Wicker Man. Then he was a Boston cop in Sorcerer's
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Apprentice. A couple of times. Yeah, a couple
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of times. A New Orleans cop in Bad Lieutenant,
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Port of Call, New Orleans. He was a fireman.
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That doesn't count in 9 -11. Because firemen
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are cool. A detective in the Frozen Ground. That
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came up just last night, I think, actually. In
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terms of cops he's played, I would argue this
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is the worst cop he's played. it's definitely
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the nothingness define define what yeah he basically
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isn't a cop he just gets to have a gun this is
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the worst cop he's played in that he openly ignores
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violent crime so he can later kill people that
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sounds pretty cool he sounds like a seattle cop
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one cat hanging and then when dude gets uh his
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head smashed through a car window just we'd have
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the excuse to shoot the guy a second later Yeah.
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So, OK, fair warning for anybody. This movie
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is about a this movie is about a brutal sexual
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assault witnessed by a 12 year old girl and also
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a animal murder and also a bunch of human murders.
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But they're bad guys, so it's OK. Right. It's
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got Don Johnson. Yeah, man, I just that. bro
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so i have a note i have a note on that where
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i'm like has don johnson ever played a character
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that wasn't a piece of shit oh i was thinking
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has don johnson ever played somebody who isn't
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hella cool johnny miami vice miami vice he was
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kind of like he's a he's a still a miami cop
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you know yeah which i mean let's be upfront cops
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are pieces of shit but with that sick ass oversized
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blazer You know he was definitely partaking of
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the freaking evidence though, right? There's
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no way they're cruising around like that 24 -7
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like, I can't live without my bump, bro. Come
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on. Let's go bust these bad guys. I got a real
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itch. We got to go. We got to thwart some crime
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today. I think that and like Nash Bridges were
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the only time he was like a good guy. I forgot
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about Nash Bridges. Nash Bridges, bro. There
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you go. OK, so let's see. So it starts off Nick
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Cage. He's driving with his buddy, his cop buddy,
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who makes the initial mistake of explaining that
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he's going to propose to his wife or his hopefully
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soon to be wife. You're dead. I just love how
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so much of this movie was taken in like initial
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shots, just like the guy pulling out the ring
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and he pulls it out upside down and like has
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to flip the box around. It's like, yeah, that's
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good enough for this take. We're not going to
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get back to this guy ever again. No, his partner
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definitely had I had two weeks to retirement
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vibes written all over him. Yeah. I don't understand
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why he was being so cold to him in the first
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20 seconds. He's like, hey, bro, do you want
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some of these snacks I'm eating? And he doesn't
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even verbally just respond to him. He doesn't
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even look at him. Like Nick Cage is like completely
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disgusted by his partner. I can't believe you
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eat that shit, bro. You deserve to die. So he
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dies. Oh, and Nicolas Cage, why does he die?
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But like the ring falls out of his pocket or
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whatever. And Nick Cage tucks it back in. Like
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what a fucking worthless thing to capture on
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film. This is so stupid. So Nick Cage and his
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partner are trying to track a criminal in a neighborhood.
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The guy's like walking to his car. They like
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just speed up on him. The guy gets in his van
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and I'm pretty sure they ram him. Like the thing
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guy pops out of, are you saying cops are bad?
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A hundred percent. He's playing the worst cop
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in his career. I did not realize, I didn't realize
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till later on in this film, what side of Niagara
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falls this took place on. So I'm like, this is
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a lot of like, this is a lot of guns for Canada.
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Oh yeah. No, straight up. Like I was like, damn,
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this is freaking dirty out there. I'm never going
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to Canada. They call this a door spotlight. All
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right. This is, this is going to paint me in
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a bad light, which is why I asked my, why I asked
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fields on this, uh, podcast, because we only
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get the partner in the beginning of the film.
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There's later another cop who is bald and has
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melanin. And because they're about an hour apart,
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I couldn't tell if they were the same person.
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no he's married now it's great great i'm glad
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he survived they just asked the actor to grow
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a beard and play a second role it's like i don't
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know we got you for like two weeks right nick
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cage kills a criminal next scene hero cop in
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a bar after three months of desk duty because
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he got shot meets the girl tina with the dumbest
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spelling ever The next so the next scene is seven
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months later with Tina at her new boyfriend.
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I didn't realize there was any shift in time
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in this movie. I was just watching it and I was
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like, this is just all happening immediately.
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They did not do a good job. Yeah. Was there was
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there any like last month and it was in like
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April or whatever? So that was it was in September.
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Like, yeah, that's right. The here thing was
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in September. It had been three months and then
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and then it was the 4th of July. This is not
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the kind of movie that I. They shouldn't be asking
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you to pay attention to the story. They should
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be spoon feeding these kind of things to you
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in this movie. There's no reason that I should
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have to look at a newspaper to figure out what
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day it is. Seven months later. Most of a pregnancy
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later. Let's go. I legit thought it was all the
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same day. I thought so too. like the way they
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played that like it was all the same day this
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dude's hard as fuck he just got shot and now
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he's gonna go out here and just the interaction
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the interaction that yeah exactly like the the
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interaction that he has with tina in the bar
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um i'll say i was surprised that it did not go
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in the direction that it was obviously leaning
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in and so i thought that was kind of nice and
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you know sweet of the um director or the writers
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to be like yeah you know we're not gonna make
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this it's not that kind of story you mean they
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weren't gonna shoehorn a backseat handy into
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this movie you'd assume based on the title that
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tina and nick cage's character would uh be the
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colon a love story of this movie it's not I think
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the love story is about shooting bad guys. After
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the 4th of July party, Tina walking her daughter
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home, trying to bond over their shared trauma
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over losing Tina's husband. What is the daughter's
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name? Bethy? Bethany? Bethel? Bethel? Her name
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is Bethel, but they call her Bethy. Bethy, there
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we go, yeah. Bethel. Bethel was the name of my
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first car. Really? That's a car's name, bro.
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I've never met a Bethel. It was a Nissan Quest.
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It was a minivan. You bet it was. That's a total
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Bethel. Absolutely. Bethel in the movie, totally
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not car size, though. That's why it made it more
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confusing that her mom was like, hey, let's take
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this shortcut. The mom wants to walk her through
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the park where she hung out as a teen. There
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happened to be some... unsavory characters there
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total shit bags yeah who who do a needless rape
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what's needless about this scene is how long
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it fucking goes on it is entirely it it verges
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on torture porn it is gross it's unnecessary
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it lingers on the maybe dead body of a pantsless
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bloodied woman for way too long I want to, I
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want to, I want to side note this by pointing
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out that I started watching this movie at work
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in the office. That's a weird flex. It's like,
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Hey guys, I'm going to watch this. No headphones.
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Nobody talked to me. No, I'm just saying like
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when it started happening, I was like, I was
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like, Oh man, they're really good. Oh, they're
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really, they're really, they're really, Oh my
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God, man. it's brutal i mean the girl she has
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to watch the whole thing happen and that one
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guy is like slamming on the the cage area that
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she climbs into it's fucking anything with kids
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in danger in particular always gets me like really
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fucking angry and stressed out you know when
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you started talking about slamming on the cage
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i just thought uh cyrus the virus that was that
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was not the energy that this scene brought at
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all it was not yeah no the them bringing tina
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into the boathouse by her hair they could have
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just slammed the door there and that would have
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been one a much more like powerful cinematic
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piece it together what happened but no they they
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go for it and they did not need to no it was
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a lot of grotesque uh whatnot my note at this
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point was man fuck this movie yeah i think the
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only thing i got from that scene was just like
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okay they're That's the kind of movie this is
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going to be, right? This is what the producer
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and director decided they would put on film.
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And the thing that bothered me about it was that
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then I tried to like, it's hard to say, right?
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Like you watch a lot of SVU and I felt like I
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was watching the extended episode of SVU after
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that. That's a great way of putting it. Yeah.
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It's got its court part. It's got its like crime
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part. It's got the cop shit. Yeah, it's. it feels
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like that, but way too long. It felt like they
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left the rape scene in because they needed to
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pad out the minutes on the film. They like, they're
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like, Oh, we promised we'd get it over an hour
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32. And here we are like an hour 30. Well, back
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when fields and I were, uh, when back when fields
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and I used to hang out with Kevin at my, uh,
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my place when I was 19. Yeah. 19 year old, give
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a 19 year old house. See how that, uh, winds
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up. But, uh, we used to be, uh, Kevin and I used
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to like, watch rescue me on dvd which had added
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sexual content which just meant more side boob
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um this feels like an episode of svu with added
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sexual content like they'd straight up we're
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just like well since we're on hbo guys let's
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go for it here's a little more side boob okay
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yeah so then um bethy you know identifies the
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creepos and they round them up uh then we get
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introduced to the creepos parents which uh one
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of my favorite characters from this movie is
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the dad who just he's a total piece of shit but
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also has some of the funniest lines to me and
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his reactions to everything are just like so
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perfect this guy looks just like the singer for
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iron maiden bro you're not wrong that's i was
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like what the hell he also was in a movie with
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uh he was in a movie with cage we just watched
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recently uh he played that guy sideburns um in
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uh seeking justice the guy pierce one oh really
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the guy who didn't have sideburns wasn't he like
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bald headed or something sideburns was bald and
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he was exactly he had no sideburns at all and
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he just had his nickname was sideburns um but
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yeah that dad there's the lawyer scene where
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they're talking to don johnson and He's like,
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OK, it's going to cost this much money. They
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got to put up their house, whatever. And the
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dad is like, OK, so wait, we pay you twice because
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it's two sons. But they're charged with the same
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crime. So one story, like a woman has two babies.
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They ain't twice as much work. She does the same
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thing for both. That's why she's got two tits,
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right? That was brilliant. I also want to say,
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like, they get the lawyer recommended to them
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through their priest. Yeah. Creepy priest, too.
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this lawyer is recommended by the priest because
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this is the lawyer the Vatican calls when they
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have trouble. Undertone, this is the lawyer they
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call for child rape. He seems like a bad guy.
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Yeah, they're all bad guys. There's a ton of
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good stuff going on here, right? Like a ton of
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people just making an honest living. Don Johnson's
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court scene is the most just like, one, he would
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have been kicked out immediately because like,
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he keeps walking behind the desk, behind the
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daughter, like when he's giving his open statement
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and like, the actual like prosecutor is like
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you know objecting to all this shit and the judge
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is like that's fine he's a good old boy he can
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like creep on the 12 year old during his opening
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statements oh my god man i was i was actually
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pissed about that but okay so you're right the
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courtroom stuff is so funny to me because also
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it's like they suddenly are in a trial like for
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no reason well because it was supposed to be
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just the arraignment where she identifies them
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but John Johnson like finagles it to be like
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the opening statements to try and get power.
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But he's also good old friends with the judge.
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So we're supposed to see we're supposed to see
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that every level of the process is corrupt. Like
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they paint Tina as a whore because she's a widow
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and, you know, has had some boyfriends over the
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years. The whole thing is disgusting. Like it
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really upset me. It is. And one of the things
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I was like, OK, so the rapist is sitting there
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like. on display and as tina's walking up to
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be put into the the stand he goes tina tina it's
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like what the fuck are you doing dude yeah is
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that not intimidating to witness like what are
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we talking about it's being a super ass creep
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yeah also so and the defense attorney says that
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there's no lack of dna evidence so the defense
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attorney's like yeah They all had sex with her,
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but she sold herself to them and then raised
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the price afterwards that attacked them. So they
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were defending themselves by beating her to near
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death. That's more than like self -defense. It's
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more than self -defense. And so they actually
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did something that was very subtle, but I like
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that they did it because even though it looked
22:44
like they had. the gallery on their side and
22:47
they were likely going to get the jury on their
22:49
side about the rape stuff the assault side was
22:52
indefensible they were probably going to eat
22:54
three years on that that's something that they
22:56
brought up later on when they were talking about
22:58
cutting a deal and avoiding the actual trial
23:01
portion because he was just like because don
23:03
johnson's character told them straight up like
23:05
look guys this goes to jury you're probably still
23:08
going to eat shit on this you know right there's
23:10
probably something like they did too much you
23:13
know they're roughed up a little too much Right.
23:15
And there's there's always the chance at a jury
23:17
trial that they're going to go the wrong way
23:19
for you. Exactly. Exactly. And I think he based
23:22
on the fact that, you know, she was a very sympathetic
23:25
witness. So I had to watch this movie and starts
23:28
and stops because the court scene, like the rape
23:31
scene was just gratuitous. The court scene just
23:33
upset me so much because the judge clearly doesn't
23:37
care about what's happened, like is just. outwardly
23:42
rude to tina and then when don johnson's giving
23:45
his big opening statement and the whole gallery
23:48
starts clapping and cheering and standing up
23:50
the judge doesn't call order and only calls order
23:52
when tina has a mental breakdown a mental breakdown
23:56
yeah that judge sucks so it's just like this
23:59
whole thing was just disgusting so we're supposed
24:01
to see how this like is flawed on every level
24:04
so it requires like nick cage take things into
24:08
his own hands but It doesn't ever build on that.
24:11
Like every, no, every 15 minutes, like the tone
24:14
of this film kind of changes. That's, that's
24:17
a good way to put it. And this is what I was
24:19
talking about post rape scene where the tone
24:22
dramatically tried to shift back to, well, this
24:25
is what we were dealing with earlier. You know?
24:26
I mean, the fact that after it's over, Nick Cage's
24:31
character just happens to be driving along the
24:33
road where this occurred. Right. Yeah. The circumstances
24:36
of that. Finds Bethel, right? Like, it's just
24:39
like, what are we doing? Like, what kind of movie
24:41
is this? Well, and then, so later, Tina gets
24:44
brought home, gets brought home, is recovering,
24:48
well, to her mom's place. Her mom's a piece of
24:50
shit. Yeah, she sucks. But Bethy gets home, is
24:54
looking for the cat. One of the criminals kills
24:57
the cat and hangs it on her front porch for Bethy
25:00
to see. Yeah, that was fucked up. Nick Cage drives
25:03
by, is a cop, drives by, sees the car, pull away.
25:07
There has to be a restraining order at this point.
25:09
Pull away, drives by, sees the hanging cat and
25:12
little girl doesn't stop. Doesn't pull that guy
25:16
over. This is why I say he's actively ignoring
25:19
their crime so he can murder them later. When
25:22
it was like, it's all, it's just, it's all uncomfortable.
25:26
It is. It's, it's weird. Am I tripping or was
25:30
that all the same day? Like he literally just
25:32
left the house after bringing. no because she's
25:36
coming home from a thing school the time the
25:38
time frame and it's very choppy it's jumped around
25:41
a lot it jumped around so but he just happened
25:43
to be there right and he's wearing like the freaking
25:45
leather jacket like staking the house out for
25:47
whatever reason and then sees the guy do that
25:51
I do like how he gets a crime jacket when he
25:53
decides to take the matters into his own hands.
25:55
I had a note where I said, how come he's dressed
25:57
like Ghost Rider now? Like, what the hell? For
26:00
vengeance. Vengeance, excuse me. Yeah, exactly.
26:03
Spirit of vengeance, dog. Okay, so Tina, in her
26:07
meltdown, like, is like, I'm gonna kill myself.
26:09
She just is standing on the edge of Niagara Falls.
26:11
Can people just stand on the fucking edge of
26:13
that thing? Can you just like guardrails? Right.
26:16
You would think there would be, if nothing else,
26:18
a little basic ass guardrail. Cause like, obviously
26:21
this comes into play later for the vengeance.
26:23
Um, but like, I just was looking at that. I was
26:26
like, that seems really unsafe. I jumped into
26:29
Niagara falls. You know what? I thought about
26:31
that. I was watching that scene and they did
26:33
the shot of her looking down into it. And I flashed
26:37
back to that Superman scene where the kid just
26:38
fucking falls into the waterfall. Yeah. Oh yeah.
26:41
I'm just like, yeah, that could happen. But Superman
26:44
took place in the 70s. Yeah, well, they didn't
26:47
care about seatbelts, right? Yeah. Makes sense.
26:51
Niagara Falls is hard like that, though. Hard
26:53
as hell, man. Like, I had no idea that it was
26:56
so hood in Niagara Falls, man. Oh, yeah, the
26:59
city? Man. Bro, Bethel gets ran up on in the
27:02
ice cream shop? Like, what the fuck? Dude, that
27:05
girl, like, fucking, what an asshole. Wow. Well,
27:08
during the opening credits, all, like, the, like,
27:11
gangs run amok, like. Of Niagara Falls, the most
27:14
dangerous city in America. That has taken over.
27:18
That's right. Thank God for cops, right? Okay,
27:22
so then we get introduced to my second favorite
27:24
character, one of the sleazeballs, which all
27:26
of them look like fucking, you know, close -up
27:28
magicians. One of them gets murked off real quick.
27:33
I don't think we have to talk about it that much.
27:34
Nick Cage immediately shoots him in the head.
27:36
He's dead, whatever. But then the other two brothers,
27:39
one of them's getting a tattoo. And he's my favorite.
27:42
He's got this little fucking braided... He's
27:44
played by Rocco Nugent. Great name, too. He's
27:47
got this braided, like, rat tail in the front
27:49
sort of thing. He's getting a tattoo of a piece
27:53
of pie. Well, he's getting words and he wants
27:56
pie over it. Right, because one year he had birthday
27:59
pie. Yeah, one year he had birthday pie. Which
28:02
isn't a sex thing. It's from his mom. Given that...
28:07
Given that boy is like everything might be might
28:11
be a sex thing. It might have been a sex thing.
28:13
Yeah. But he's the scene makes it really feel
28:18
like the tattoo artist is just freestyling the
28:22
tattoo on him, just like kind of hand drawing
28:24
with the tattoo machine. She definitely was because
28:27
he was describing the pie to her. She was like,
28:29
yeah, I dig that. Yeah, I know. I know how to
28:31
draw pie. Don't worry. I do like that. Like they're
28:34
really trying to like give the tattoo. uh parlor
28:37
like a real ambiance of like scuzzitude and like
28:40
seediness and even like the other tattoo artist
28:43
is walking through the room when the one brother
28:44
goes to like give him a fist pump oh yeah oh
28:47
yeah piece of shit we all know you did that shit
28:53
don't get out of here don't touch me i was like
28:55
yeah that old man's cool so then then older brother
28:58
marvin gets a call about like oh we got some
29:01
evidence on tina proving that she's a slut so
29:04
he brings other brother pie brother uh out to
29:09
niagara falls is his name lloyd yeah i also like
29:13
in that scene lloyd uh he's smoking a joint or
29:16
something he drops in his lap ah my dick i almost
29:19
burned my dick off burn my dick off like by the
29:23
way that was definitely meth glass piping so
29:27
they get there and uh and cage's truck is just
29:31
kind of sitting there but there's nobody in the
29:33
truck this scene this scene is it's interesting
29:38
right it's a good scene there there's there's
29:42
not a lot of places to hide out there like it's
29:45
just an open area and the waterfalls right yeah
29:49
and this fucking guy nick cage batman's and what
29:52
is way behind them where was he hiding what the
29:56
hell was he he wasn't in the truck he just He's
30:01
just behind you, surprised, motherfucker. Like,
30:03
what the hell? How? He, like, walks up. He blasts
30:06
Lloyd so fucking good. Yeah. Blast Lloyd. Lloyd
30:09
goes over the falls. Drops the gun he shoots
30:13
Lloyd with. Then shoots. Yeah. Then shoots Marvin
30:18
with. With Lloyd's gun? I get. That's what I
30:22
thought. Like, in the leg. And then when Marvin's
30:25
on the ground, shoots him twice in the chest
30:27
and once in the head. And my assumption was he
30:29
took. Lloyd's gun to like have them like make
30:34
it look like those two shot each other. But no,
30:36
he kicks them both over the falls. And the news
30:38
is reporting that they found the truck on the
30:42
falls and they fled into Canada. Yeah, right.
30:45
Which I mean, that that actually makes sense
30:47
as a storyline, you know. But this is what this
30:51
is where this breaks down for me. So he's doing
30:53
all these killings. The first killing he did,
30:55
he did in public and he did it as self -defense
30:58
as a cop because. the uh shithead brandished
31:01
a knife uh right and gets off on it which i like
31:05
how they actually explained that where he had
31:07
to like yeah go and talk to other cops and clear
31:09
him oh it's ib yeah internal affairs yeah yeah
31:12
he kills the other two guys and then we get to
31:17
the and then we get to the fourth guy he kills
31:20
all these people for these two women But they
31:24
don't know that. None of them know that, but
31:26
they're so grateful to him for all he's done
31:28
when he's done, as far as they're concerned,
31:31
absolutely nothing, except fine Tina initially.
31:35
Right. Fine Tina. I mean, the only one that they
31:38
can confirm they killed was obviously the first
31:40
guy you mentioned. Yeah. The other guys just
31:42
keep disappearing, essentially. And then one
31:45
kills himself. Kills himself. Because Nick Cage
31:50
has him write a suicide note. right and by the
31:52
end of the movie they seem to have figured that
31:54
out somehow or something right like accuses nick
31:58
cage of it and then walks out of the best exit
32:01
ever Which I just assumed was Don Johnson's actual
32:10
motorcycle, and he just left the set. He's like,
32:14
I'm done, and just drove away, and they caught
32:15
it on camera. Or it was in his rider. That is
32:20
one of the single best bits of comedy I've seen
32:22
in a long time, because comedy is defined as
32:25
subverting expectations. Yeah, no helmet, nothing.
32:28
I was on a Harley after leaving a courthouse.
32:31
And there's like, and the thing was, there was
32:33
no buildup to that. Like we didn't know if he
32:36
drove cars or rode Harleys and, you know, and
32:39
this is a theme and that's not the entirety of
32:40
the movie, but just. Yeah. Rocket man, go for
32:44
it. You know, the Harley and right off into the
32:45
sunset. You heard it, you know, like what? Like,
32:49
see you guys later. I got to go defend some more
32:52
child rapists. Hop on my heart. I legitimately
32:54
thought that there was going to be one more vengeance
32:56
situation. And I thought we were going to end
32:58
up seeing him like. I thought that Nick Cage
33:01
and his partner were going to go report to a
33:03
scene of an accident and it was going to end
33:05
like because they get called at the end. It's
33:07
like, oh, there's something we got to go do.
33:08
Oh, it's going to be he's going to be dead. His
33:10
motorcycle fucking blew up sugar in the tank.
33:12
You know, whatever. Nope. This movie does exactly
33:17
what it says it's going to do and then ends.
33:19
It's like Nick Cage gets vengeance movie over.
33:22
like no maybe maybe he finds love i don't know
33:25
no that's exactly what happens because the colon
33:27
a love story is the last tacked on scene of the
33:30
movie where they're saying goodbye to nick cage
33:33
through a chain link fence and the little girl
33:36
uh bethy says i love you and nick cage says if
33:41
i ever had a daughter i hope she grows up to
33:43
be like you that's the colon a love story in
33:47
this film turns out he loved the kid not the
33:49
mom i guess bethy and nick cage have five scenes
33:53
in this film uh tina and nick cage have four
33:57
or five scenes two of which tina is in a coma
33:59
they have no connection whatsoever like they
34:04
don't have a connection she threw pussy out of
34:05
my like in the first five yeah exactly that's
34:07
all you need he could have hit he could have
34:10
hit for sure he definitely could have hit that
34:11
which makes this So much creepier than it needs
34:14
to be. If they just had never met, if he only
34:16
like met the daughter first after the crime would
34:19
make so much more sense and be so much less weird,
34:23
man. I fucking hated that chain link fence scene
34:26
just because like from a, from a filming perspective,
34:29
it's like, this is a sensitive moment and you're
34:31
just like blocking one person's face, either
34:34
shot, like with a fucking tight cop chain link
34:37
fence, like fuck that. Most of this movie is
34:40
like fairly well filmed. Fairly well shot. Like
34:43
everything is pretty decent overall for like
34:45
a pretty low budget movie. That's one of those
34:48
where I was like, what is this DP doing? Like,
34:51
what the fuck were you thinking? That doesn't
34:52
make any sense. Is it just so they could have
34:55
that moment where you can put the fingers through
34:56
the fence and she can put her fingers through
34:58
the fence? Is that it? Probably. I would say
35:01
that was supposed to be a big payoff moment because
35:03
they actually filmed that little sequence very
35:06
well. And you could kind of catch the emotion
35:08
on that. The only problem was, was that it felt
35:11
undeserved as hell. yeah if somebody did a bunch
35:15
of like unrequested murders for you and then
35:18
like at the end of a long week you like catch
35:22
up with them how do you feel about that like
35:25
generally like like you personally would you
35:27
be like oh man that's that's so cool of steven
35:32
to just fucking knock off all those guys i'm
35:37
so glad steven murked off all those people exactly
35:40
the same situation one time you know somebody
35:42
messed with my haircut those motherfuckers you
35:46
take care of that same thing right also they're
35:51
moving to california that's the the the end of
35:55
their stories that they're just going to california
35:57
and they'll be happier here right which i'm like
36:03
why like what is in california For someone who
36:07
has gone through what Tina has gone through.
36:09
I mean, maybe better health care, better psychiatric
36:13
services. Sure. But I don't know what the population
36:16
of Niagara is. It's probably not that big. So
36:19
it might be nice to go someplace else. Possibly
36:21
it will be a little more anonymous because it's
36:24
clear it could not be anonymous in Niagara Falls.
36:27
Right. I'm pretty sure everybody knows everybody.
36:29
They all showed up to that hearing and they're
36:32
like, yeah, we all know that whore. Fuck that
36:34
bitch. I'm like, what the? Those boys are innocent.
36:38
They never raped anybody, at least unless they
36:40
didn't. You can't rape the willy, which is basically
36:42
the whole story. Totally normal faces. That judge
36:46
was a piece of work. Yeah, make that bitch take
36:48
off her sunglasses. He was a piece of shit. That
36:51
judge is one of the biggest villains. So this
36:56
is one of my biggest complaints about the movie
36:58
is that they keep presenting information to us
37:02
and then dropping it and then not setting up
37:06
further information. So the judge is probably
37:08
the most like the biggest offender in my opinion,
37:11
because you go into this whole courthouse scene
37:15
and everything throughout the movie has been
37:17
kind of presented as is, you know, like this
37:19
is just. Niagara Falls this is this person's
37:22
life going awry because she got raped and her
37:25
dealing with it which I will say for portraying
37:29
a rape survivor they did a pretty good job on
37:31
that like I think I did believe absolutely going
37:34
through it as a rape survivor and it sucked to
37:37
watch and it was actually pretty compelling so
37:39
going from nailing that portion to suddenly hey
37:44
we're in kangaroo court everybody's fucking corrupt
37:48
everybody's on the take we're not going to explain
37:49
it but both the lawyer the the defense lawyer
37:52
and the judge and you're not going to figure
37:56
that out until maybe this weird interaction maybe
38:00
20 minutes later yeah and this happens over and
38:04
over again where things just happen and then
38:06
was that supposed to mean something like was
38:09
i supposed to catch something from that that's
38:10
all the stuff that was cut for time the Just
38:12
remember, it was only the rape scene that was
38:14
added back in to flesh it out. Yeah, that was
38:17
the only thing not cut for time. Oh, my God.
38:20
I know this is probably the wrong place to insert
38:22
this exact thing that I absolutely hated about
38:25
this movie, but I know Peter had the exact same
38:28
thought with me. Grandma's kitchen, the giant
38:32
wall -sized portrait of Jim Morrison. What's
38:34
going on with that? Fuck the doors. Fuck the
38:38
doors is right. How is she so judgy? She's so
38:43
fucking judgy. I know. Your daughter just got
38:47
fucking raped and like be sensitive. Jesus Christ.
38:51
Oh, my God. They're like, what a fucking bull
38:54
in a china shop. Yeah, she was terrible. Fuck
38:56
that lady. Yeah. And then like, so, you know,
38:59
I feel bad. Also, the the boyfriend, I can't
39:01
remember his name, but he essentially. His only
39:05
crime was trying to get her to stay over later
39:08
than she probably needed to do. And then offering
39:11
to drive her home. Right. And that's it. She's
39:18
like, fuck you. You should never come near us
39:20
again. And he's like, what the hell? And for
39:22
his troubles, he gets a header through his window.
39:25
The other crime that Nick Cage outright ignores
39:29
so he can like murder somebody. Yeah, like I
39:31
don't get where this guy is. Like, is there any
39:33
just where's the vengeance for him? You know?
39:36
Oh, OK. This is way out of cycle for the entire
39:39
thing. But one of the things in the courtroom
39:43
that I just stuck in my craw is like, OK, so
39:45
they said that they were at this this Fourth
39:47
of July party and she was drunk. They had what
39:50
did they say it was? I actually wrote that down.
39:53
i wrote this down like 11 bottles between seven
39:56
people or some shit like that they drank they
40:00
drank five kegs of beer between 19 people which
40:04
is 43 beers each and i said when i heard that
40:09
out loud i had to write it down because i said
40:11
it out loud i was like only five kegs we should
40:13
put that down at the bob cave and it was like
40:16
five of us five kegs for five people yeah one
40:19
keg a piece there you go exactly Kevin's 21st
40:22
birthday, we got our first group keg in my kitchen.
40:27
That later gets moved into my bathroom because
40:31
I'm 19 and have a house and the parental units
40:36
come and check on me occasionally. The day after
40:39
the party, I get a knock on my door and it's
40:41
Fields and our friend Sal, both with their hands
40:44
behind their backs, being like, oh, just... Coming
40:47
to say you're doing just stopping by. Is that
40:49
keg still here? I'm like, yeah, you guys want
40:51
to come in? And they both pull out steins from
40:53
behind their back. We woke up the next day and
40:59
we were just like, you think he's still got the
41:00
keg? Of course he's still got the keg. I got
41:02
the keg. Those are good times. Oh, man. Well,
41:08
shit. Okay, so actually we have done. A surprising
41:11
amount of talking about this movie, which I did
41:13
not think we were going to do. But a new segment
41:16
that we've added in is called Sean in 60 seconds,
41:20
where we give Sean a soapbox to just talk. Voice
41:24
all the things that need to come out of Sean.
41:27
I have timed this and I'm going to see if I can
41:29
do it. I got it down to like one second to go.
41:32
Let me let me see if I can get my timer out.
41:34
You start talking and I will hit my timer. All
41:36
right, Donnie. Nick Cage sneers in the background
42:09
of another soulless revenge thriller, this time
42:12
playing loose cannon detective John Everyman,
42:14
whose only character trait is that he's a loose
42:16
cannon detective. After meeting local widow Tina
42:19
at a bar, immediately jump ahead seven months
42:22
to them having never spoken again. Tina survives
42:24
a horrific sexual assault in front of her 12
42:27
-year -old daughter, a scene that is so gratuitous
42:30
it verges on snuff porn. When the law fails these
42:32
women, John takes it upon himself to avenge them
42:34
by openly ignoring violent crimes that would
42:37
likely get the criminals put away for a long
42:38
time so he can play Timo Punisher. In 141 minutes,
42:42
the two leads have all of five scenes together.
42:45
two of which Tina has been beaten into a coma.
42:47
The movie itself swings wildly in plot and tone
42:49
throughout, so if you find yourself getting bored,
42:51
just give it 10 minutes. Every attempt at an
42:53
emotional beat is forced and completely unearned.
42:56
The only real emotional response this film got
42:58
out of me was the anger and disgust for the needless
43:01
prolonged rape scene, Don Johnson's sleazy lawyering,
43:04
and actor Rocco Nugent's terrible rat tail. So
43:07
unless you love wasting your precious life or
43:09
just hate women, I would steer clear of this
43:11
one. Failed. Five seconds too long, Sean. I'm
43:18
going to cut you dead at one minute. So right
43:21
at. So right at unless you unless you love wasting
43:26
your precious life or just hate women. Stop.
43:31
Yeah. Yep. You got it. I would say that was,
43:36
you know, that that was pretty close. That was
43:38
that's within. That's that's pretty good. Not
43:40
too bad. OK, Nick, final final thoughts on this
43:43
sucker. I ended up liking it a lot more than
43:46
I thought I was going to, mostly because it just
43:49
ends. It doesn't like belabor anything. It's
43:53
like, oh, this movie, it is what it is. And oh,
43:56
good. It's over. Like they didn't drag it out.
43:59
So I will say for myself, it is surprisingly
44:02
well shot, surprisingly well acted. The girl,
44:06
uh, Bethy is probably the best actor in this
44:08
movie. Good kid actor. Yeah. And she might be
44:10
the best in the movie. You're right. Yeah. It's
44:12
shockingly well shot. Um, despite how it treats
44:17
Tina from like the court side of things, like
44:20
they do actually handle, despite showing the
44:23
rape, they actually do handle it with some grace
44:25
and like show her as like more of a fully, like
44:28
as a tragic figure more than I thought they would.
44:31
So I will give them credit for that. It is. a
44:33
tight 141 like it's not it's not so bad it's
44:38
good and it's not so terrible it's blah but it
44:41
is a lot of it is unnecessary yeah and you know
44:45
uh to to speak to the tina of it all like um
44:49
you know we don't really know a lot about tina
44:52
we don't get a lot of that story and so like
44:54
for all we know tina could just be a hoe i think
44:57
that's possibly what the takeaway is from her
45:02
character And I think this movie is more about
45:04
her than it is about Nick Cage, despite the fact
45:07
that it kept trying to make it about Nick Cage.
45:09
Well, you know nothing about him. We learned.
45:12
He's a Gulf Storm vet. That's it. Yeah, we know.
45:15
They literally, they tell us in a quick 30 second
45:20
segment, oh, he got a purple heart, huh? Guy's
45:23
good. He's good at getting shot. When writing
45:25
that little ramble, I couldn't remember Nick
45:28
Cage's name, but I wanted to use the joke John
45:29
Everyman. I'm like, let me see what his actual
45:31
name is on IMDb to see if this joke works. And
45:35
he's only credited on IMDb as John. As John.
45:39
Because she's a prostitute. Because she's a prostitute.
45:45
Just another John. We're going to have to watch
45:51
this movie again now. With that in mind. I did.
45:56
I clearly was not watching it the correct way.
46:00
Next time watch it on a plane. Yeah. Absolutely.
46:03
That's how Nick likes to watch the most uncomfortable
46:05
of Nick Cage movies. Generally. Headphones off
46:07
on a plane. If you guys mind, I gotta watch this
46:10
scene real quick. I'm gonna get an IOC and I'm
46:11
just gonna watch this real quick. I would say
46:16
the biggest problem that happened to this movie
46:18
because it has a lot of good ideas. I think it
46:21
attempts some stuff that is all right. I don't
46:23
hate it for trying, but I feel like in the moments
46:26
where they wanted us to accept implied information,
46:30
they never actually implied anything. The fact
46:33
that Tina's the town whore was something I didn't
46:36
realize until the court scene, because there
46:38
had been no interactions with anybody in town
46:41
up until that point. Well, Fields, you see, she
46:43
was wearing a shirt with no bra. oh yeah look
46:46
at look at what she's wearing the bartender kind
46:49
of like sets the stage or whatever there's just
46:52
a lot of jesus christ i think i think in that
46:55
case i read that more as like oh she's a widow
46:57
and she's out here trying to rebuild her her
47:00
social life which is you know he wasn't it wasn't
47:03
colored with malice you know like the intent
47:05
wasn't ill when he was telling uh john uh about
47:10
tina he was just saying yeah that chick's probably
47:12
gonna you know go home with somebody the night
47:15
because she's always about having a good time
47:17
since her husband died right um i never really
47:20
got the vibe that the whole town fucking hates
47:23
tina like well by the end of the movie the court
47:26
scene where it's like oh shit the entirety of
47:28
niagara yeah i do like how the two brothers who
47:35
are clearly in their like 20s still share a bedroom
47:40
Yeah, that was pretty great. They didn't have
47:43
Jim Morrison on the wall, though. It didn't have
47:46
Jim Morrison on the wall. It ain't much of a
47:48
house, but it's all they got, okay? At least
47:50
they had. They had it. Dude, the fact that the
47:52
dad's like, bro, we sold our house for these
47:55
dumbasses. Come on. That dad was so sick of their
47:59
shit. He knew. He was him. He said three years,
48:01
I think that's all. He's like, three years is
48:03
pretty good considering. I will agree. I do want
48:06
to agree with Fields, though. This movie did
48:09
attempt a lot of things and it tried to attempt
48:11
them well. The problem isn't with the subject
48:13
matter as much as it is the execution. Yeah.
48:16
Yes. I think that sort of falls down a lot of
48:18
the play. This fell into that pocket of his movies
48:21
where he's just sort of like ham -faced and,
48:23
you know, it came out and he's a name on it,
48:25
but nobody went and saw it. Ham -faced. That
48:27
is the most amazing description of that level
48:31
of Nick K. Jackson. Just the half -lip sneer
48:33
that he has the entire time. so like this thing
48:37
it must have been a direct to streaming or close
48:40
to it because it's like box was $73 ,000 or something
48:43
like that it played in a couple theaters for
48:45
a couple people and that's it and it feels like
48:48
one of those it actually feels like a higher
48:50
quality version than that but you know it does
48:52
feel like that for sure But yeah, next up, we've
48:56
got inconceivable, which I read one review of
49:00
because, again, it's in the same pocket of like
49:02
not great Nick Cage movies. And the review was,
49:05
if you enjoy only very well written and directed
49:08
realistic movies with real twists, stay away
49:10
from this one. So, yeah, something good for us
49:14
to look forward to. Yeah, nice. Anyway, if you
49:18
are interested in supporting us, we are on Patreon.
49:21
Thank you to our Sparkle Buddies, Josh, Josie,
49:23
Matt, Adam, Bill, Stuart, and Willow. And to
49:25
our Cage Dancers, John, Freeman, Nathan, and
49:27
Cameron. And if you are in the Seattle area next
49:31
month, April 11th, we will be doing a showing
49:33
of Prisoners of the Ghost Land at a local theater
49:35
here. So come join us. It should be very fun.
49:38
It's a great, weird -ass movie from Patriot Pictures,
49:41
apparently. Yeah. Is that all the details? Like,
49:44
we're going to watch a movie at a local theater.
49:47
And we're not going to tell you which one. Also,
49:50
it's at the Beacon Cinema. This is no secret.
49:53
It's no secret where we're doing this. You don't
49:57
have to be in or cool. Yeah, we want people to
50:01
show up. You should show. You can find it. Just
50:05
knock down the doors of every local theater.
50:07
You need the cool judge handshake if you want
50:08
to come see this movie. Every low -budget, hole
50:09
-in -the -wall theater. Yeah. Ooh, I'll wear
50:12
it. This is an appropriate movie for me to wear
50:16
one of my jumpsuits. Oh, the one with the testicle
50:19
bombs on it? It feels very jumpsuit -y. Can we
50:21
put testicle bombs on the balls? I don't. Please
50:26
don't. All right. Thanks, Fields. Of course.
50:29
Anytime, guys. You got anything coming up, Fields?
50:31
You want to plug? Oh, yeah. Plug away. Well,
50:35
it is tournament season. If anybody that is listening
50:39
to this is an FGC aficionado and they're following
50:42
various events that are happening around the
50:45
world i'll be at texas showdown uh in houston
50:48
texas this march 25th till march 31st and then
50:54
i'll be in las vegas for vegas climax from april
50:56
2nd to april 6th i believe and then i'm gonna
51:01
be possibly in japan for evil japan and first
51:05
weekend of may i don't have a date for that yet
51:06
and then chicago at the end of may memorial day
51:10
weekend for a and then vegas again in the end
51:15
of june 25th for evo and i think i'm done after
51:18
that maybe hell yeah yeah cool thanks for being
51:22
here thanks for listening everybody and we'll
51:24
see you next time nick looking so damn cozy is
51:39
got is really throwing me off my game I'm kind
51:41
of jealous. You know what? That's it. Pants are
51:45
coming off. I'm going to drink all their coffee,
51:46
too. I'm going to drink all their coffee because
51:48
I don't have any alcohol in this room, weirdly
51:50
enough. But yeah, I'm just going to drink all
51:53
of it. How lame. Yeah, Pete's going to be real
51:55
upset in the morning. How's that Canadian coffee?
51:58
It's, you know, fine. It's not like a Keurig,
52:02
but it's, you know, a Keurig. It's cheap. It's
52:06
free in the room. A Keurig? No, that's nothing.
52:12
Boo. I appreciated the attempt, but...