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Starting point is 00:02:19 John, how are you feeling? Are you in a cage good mood. I am feeling quite lovely after that. That was a joy. Yes, it certainly was. Oh, is that, was that what's his name? Kate Beckinsale's

Starting point is 00:02:35 daughter than Nicholas Gage's? It just said Lily Sheen. So I'm assuming that was sorry, I didn't need to cut you off. You would know better than I do. I don't know, but I will look it up, but I could be wrong, but I think that was Kate Beckinsel and is it Michael Sheen? Is that the actor?

Starting point is 00:02:50 The one from... Did she and Michael Sheen get together? Is Michael Sheen, was he in the second Tron movie? Yeah. Yeah, I know they had... He's in the Underworld movies. Yeah, I know they had a child together. What?

Starting point is 00:03:00 I had no idea. I think that might be her. We will look that up when I go to the... But I'm so sorry. How are you feeling? Oh, no, I'm great. Like, I really enjoyed this and certainly, you know, this is like... Nicholas Cage has become over time, yeah, one of my very favorite performers.

Starting point is 00:03:20 Yes. And, oh, there was another Coppola credited it. in there too we'll have to pull up the cast list we arrive at this a little later you know the credits were going by pretty quick but yeah Nikki is credited as Nick Kim Coppola his actual you know birth name uh which is just really fun and cool you know like in the heat of like oh the reaction's ending we're adjusting the volume you know we're starting to do the commentary uh I was like oh there's a coppola but you know it's it's the coppola release in context of this so I don't know I was charmed by that onto the review uh yeah like I got big love

Starting point is 00:03:52 for Nicholas Cage, and that was something that kind of revealed itself to me over time, because, yeah, like, Moonstruck was absolutely a movie that was on in my house since I was a little, little kid, and Raising Arizona. Oh, I've got to see them both. Oh, those are freaking great movies. And then, you know, so many more. And then up to, you know, in the present time, you got, like, Mandy of recent is one of my very favorite movies.

Starting point is 00:04:17 And, yeah, there's been the up and down of Nicholas Cage, you know, throughout his career, obviously and you know i feel like we've had this you know transition from yeah like making films and on top of the world and then doing anything and everything to pay the bills and now he's sort of back in this fun mode where he works all the time and yeah some of that stuff is a little off the beaten path or maybe even like straight to video ish but then he'll do other stuff that's really interesting and and really great and it seems like at this point in his career he has this you know interesting and unique ability to exist in any space and uh i get a big kick out of both his general sensibilities his unique sensibilities as an actor but also yeah

Starting point is 00:05:05 for his taste in projects and whatnot and uh yeah this was just such a joy because obviously it plays to you if you're a nicholas cage fan of any uh degree and obviously it has various references and things like that but one thing i love about nicholas cage in general is the fact that he is so apt to take on things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit strange or a little bit wild and or maybe very wild in certain cases and he always throws himself completely into it in a way that nobody else quite does or at least that doesn't feel like anybody else and yeah it's like He always seems committed even if there's like some kind of knowledge that what is being committed to is broad or wild or anything like that. And yeah, this movie in particular was really fun because, I mean, yeah, obviously I'm not going to take this as like a completely biographical thing or anything like that.

Starting point is 00:06:08 But I did appreciate the blending of, yeah, actual pathos and actual reflection on his life and, you know, his career. And, you know, what that has meant to him both as a professional shamanic Thespian as well as, you know, as Nick, the person, you know, and as, you know, a guy who does have, you know, family and, you know, ex-loves and, you know, children and whatnot. And, yeah, you know, in leading up to this and when it came out, like, I didn't listen to a whole lot of in-depth reviews, but I know one thing that, you know, was sort of debated about this movie was, oh, you know, does it, you know, does it go that deep or, you know, could it have been deeper or whatever? But for my sensibility, I really enjoyed the blend that this was and the sort of meta way that it does both. You know, it manages to be, yeah, partly this, you know, mature adult drama about two guys who, you know, just really vibe and are getting to know each other and are kind of helping each other through their problems. and also it's this sort of blockbuster-esque

Starting point is 00:07:19 kidnapping cartel you know action story of sorts and I thought the way the movie blended those two was really fun and was like the right proportions for what the tone was so yeah while I could see a version of this that is way less

Starting point is 00:07:35 you know Hollywood kidnapping story and that might be great you know I did really like this version and I found this very charming and you know I liked the blending of tones and flavors and yeah this thing that is sort of looking back on a character, a figure that so many of us film fans know and love, Nick Cage, but also yeah, giving us a little bit of a glimpse into at least a fictionalized version of who the guy is and for what we know about his process. It's cool to imagine, it's weird. Like Nick Cage has such a, again, you know, you know him for being this over the top. you know, wild figure, but he's also a terrific actor, and I love the idea that you have him, you know, tapping into and getting into character as both these parts of himself, as well as this guy in a

Starting point is 00:08:30 heightened CIA situation. Like, I imagine the homework you do for a movie like this has to be kind of interesting, because you have to bring a certain level of emotional honesty to present day cage, as well as to Nikki. But also, there's, Clearly a lot of fun happening here. It's clearly a bit of a fantasy. So I liked the Razor's Edge that this existed on, even if I could understand how a different viewer might want it to go further in one direction or the other direction. I really was charmed by the blending of the directions they took here.

Starting point is 00:09:05 But what did you think? Yeah. Well, Nikki is my favorite character of all time played by Nicholas Cage, and that's saying something even more than Caster Troy. And it looked good. Like, that must have been mostly makeup. Like, that didn't look too CG, especially around the mouth. It looked really good, actually.

Starting point is 00:09:20 Like, they looked like they actually had him in prosthetics to look young, which worked pretty well from my days. Yeah, no, it did look pretty good. I feel great. That was very delightful. I liked all the blends of genre from the action to the drama. I thought there was some good suspense in it, too. Like, even when he was drugged up on the balcony, I'm like, I knew he wasn't going to fall. still in the moment like my heart was actually racing which is very funny because like he's drugged

Starting point is 00:09:49 up in that moment so I'm like I almost felt like I was drugged up in the moment too because my heart was racing so fast in that moment so um but yeah I would describe this film while being its own thing too like it's like three amigos galaxy quest and um tropic thunder uh bird man and um get shorty all meet each other and collide together I would say that that'd be my best description and then doing its own thing as well but i really enjoyed it i think the the film hinges on nicholas cage and pedro pascal i love watching every scene that they're in together like i yeah such a great pairing yeah they really were so good together and i i will say too like i was so glad that they chose not to have hobby uh because i remember they ended up doing

Starting point is 00:10:38 Lucas is the one who kidnapped the president's daughter I was glad that that wasn't hobby because I really had grown to like him. I felt like that would have been such a hit for me because I really love this character so much. Yeah, he's super charming. Yeah, it really is. And I like the way that they have you wondering like, oh, is the shoe going to drop? Is it going to turn out

Starting point is 00:11:02 that this is all a facade for something nicer? And like it does play toward the more fun fanciful. Hollywood side of the story that he is, you know, as far as this crime organization goes, pretty innocent. Yeah, I know for sure. But, I mean, the film was doing a good job subverting my expectations that I wasn't sure because he was able to scare you on a dime really quickly. And that's just the power of Pedro Pascal. He's such a talented actor. But I also like, too, like you could see like, again, the arc that Nick goes through throughout the film. And you could see how against how narcissistic and self-absorbed he is through the film, just indulge.

Starting point is 00:11:38 he is in himself and I get it like he's accomplished a lot in his illustrious career um and like you see him in the in the therapy session like even the therapist can see like it's all about you everything is always about you yeah um like he wouldn't even let his daughter complete the sentence first until the therapist got in the way but i like like it was a very cathartic experience too when he was with hobby before all the CIA stuff uh like started happening but even even so like just his experience with hobby because hobby is such a massive fan and also he realized too like that story that Javi um said to him about like hey it wasn't like my my father and i stopped speaking and then we watched a movie called guarding tests and that brought us

Starting point is 00:12:22 back together and it's like it just shows like the the power that you know entertainment and art can do like it can bring people together yeah and i thought that was just like i heard that really spoke to me i thought that was really uh endearing and sweet and um i thought that like I really appreciate that also too in terms of the relationship between those two characters that Nicholas Cage needed Havi as well as Havi needing Nick

Starting point is 00:12:48 but just like to see that he was being that he was yeah for sure but being selfish in terms of the way he was towards his family like everything was always about him and I appreciate that because once we got to that point later on in the premiere at the end of the film and he was like no hey you go take care of it

Starting point is 00:13:04 I'm going to go spend time with my family I thought that was really well earned and it felt organic and natural it didn't feel rushed in any way and I appreciated that so much and again I really loved all their interactions it was funny when it needed to be it was dramatic it was scary

Starting point is 00:13:20 and had tension when it needed to be so I thought they did a good job of blending all that together especially in those two interactions and just the rest of the film the action sequences the stunts all that really worked I just had such a ball with this film

Starting point is 00:13:33 I didn't know what to expect I knew there was going to be some meta stuff for sure just because he's playing himself in the film but um yeah just what a fun time and also too i i thought it was interesting too seeing the the dark side of the cage uh with nicky in there because we all i mean we i mean i don't speak for everyone but at least myself i mean there's there's a dark side there too that you know that that speaks to you that you have to like talk down a little bit so i thought that was fascinating like seeing the inner the inner side of nick like that and how he was trying to fight against it um well yes it's the young hungry side yeah i mean there is like a darkness

Starting point is 00:14:13 and it certainly is as presented in the movie a more volatile and to a degree antagonistic voice but at the same time it is part of him and it is something that feels like it makes present nick feel like yeah a more evolved and wiser version of himself or at least a more tempered version of himself, even if he is still self-absorbed and, you know, kind of always needing to be the center of the attention. Like, I liked as much as, you know, like, oh, I need to fix my relationship with my, you know, my daughter or ex-wife or whatever is like, you know, it's well-worn territory for any movie. I like the way they handled that here because I thought the, I don't know, just the qualities of the performances and the writing around that stuff felt pretty

Starting point is 00:15:07 natural. And again, felt like the kind of thing where, you know, you would have to, you know, I think Nicholas Cage has probably been married and divorced a number of times and, you know, probably has some kids who he probably hasn't been hugely in the lives of to one degree or another. I don't know. But, you know, I could imagine what struck me just kind of in the spiritual frequency of is, yeah, somebody who would have to kind of reflect on the ways in which, you know, again, the title is kind of well chosen, the unbearable weight of massive talent. He's constantly in this creative zone and he's always sort of inspired to, you know, do this next role, dive into this next mindset or headspace or whatever it could be,

Starting point is 00:15:52 lining up the next project. And I have to imagine that that does, you know, take you away from the people in your life and that whole thing he says at one point about, you know, about, you know, whether or not you would have wanted me to not follow my, you know, artistic dreams and whatnot. Like, I just believed in the quality of like, oh, yeah, you would really have to reflect on the shortcomings that you have encountered

Starting point is 00:16:16 in your rise to the status that you're at right now and the maybe unintended sacrifices that were made in terms of, yeah, the people in your life, the people that you love, and your inability to communicate with them even when you want to. Like I thought that was a beautiful theme and I thought that they often would take

Starting point is 00:16:35 the opportunity to make like a slightly more nuanced choice. Like when he gets drunk at the party early on, you're like, oh no, here we go. He's going to make a scene or something. But he doesn't. And he like, well, he does and he doesn't. He says something very,

Starting point is 00:16:51 what to us feels heartfelt. And then he plays this song and you can tell that he, yeah, really it's that thing he they talk about later it's that thing of like guy i know you're always trying it's like you're always trying to get it right and somehow you can never take your eyes off yourself for long enough to just get it right or to just see somebody else yeah it's a good point you're making because in that scene where he was uh playing the piano for his his daughter like he was trying to sing a song for but at the same time he was making it about

Starting point is 00:17:22 himself because he had just been turned yeah yeah sweet and sad yeah yeah yeah for sure like i I feel conflicted at the same time. Like, this is sad for the daughter and also I feel bad for him too. Yeah, yeah. Because you can feel how bad he wants to get it right and you can feel how torn he is between, again, his craft and his family.

Starting point is 00:17:42 And just, yeah, I have to imagine that comes from an honest place and it felt like it was inspired. Again, the work you have to do as an actor and what we know about Nicholas Cage's process, you know, to see him echo characters he's played. But also, yeah, to see him occupy. these two different modes of his own life and probably having to do some soul searching that is yeah

Starting point is 00:18:04 you just have to bring honest preparation to that and i thought you know the way that they tempered all of that with the supporting cast was really good like i really bought everybody around him especially you know olivia and addie i thought were great she she really pulled that one scene like i had and i know i get accused of uh i just cry to cry no a scene's got a really characters or a scene asked to pull me in. I'm not just going to cry to cry. And that scene where she was like... If you could cry to cry, is very impressive. I was going to say yes.

Starting point is 00:18:33 You should go be an actor. Yes, right? An actor. But no, seriously, that scene where Addy was... Shamanic, Thesbian. Yes, thank you. No, that scene where Addy was like saying just how selfish he's been, his whole life, everything's always been about you to her dad.

Starting point is 00:18:47 Like, that really, that I felt for her in that moment. I felt bad for her. Yeah. You know, she's, he's been there, but he hasn't been there. Yeah. And I felt so. bad for her in that but again it was the it was the i was just emotionally pulled in that scene and i felt so sad and so bad for her so um uh that that's why that that's what got me too and also just

Starting point is 00:19:09 witnessing and throughout the film like you know the the performance and and like actually viewing it at the same point got me but again credit to lily uh sheen in that scene she like she was working with heavyweights there in terms of nicholas cage and pedro pascal and she uh again i'm assuming kate beck and so Michael Schreiner probably but still a really good performance in that scene and just in general in the film but across the board. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, for sure

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Starting point is 00:22:49 really really delightful film and just in all different facets and things that I make me appreciate about movies in general it's well-rounded yeah and and I think for people a if you're a nicholas cage fan obviously is going to have a lot of fun stuff for you but I think as as people like you know called toward the passion and vocation of art and cinema and all that stuff I think it speaks on that level as well when they're geeking out over movies or they're disagreeing over movies And like that whole thing with Paddington too, I thought was really nicely placed because, you know, it's a moment like I do love the central relationship between Nick Cage and Pedro Pascal and the way that they open each other up. And yeah, you have Cage, you know, in this light where yeah, he doesn't really want to be here and he's kind of grumpy and he's, you know, jet lagged and hung over. And yet somehow this guy helps to awaken something in him. It's like it helps him to see this beautiful talent that he has that he's aware of and that he's always feeding. But I feel. like he helps him to see it in a different way and he also opens him up to accepting and engrossing himself in other people's expression and passions so when you have hobby show him padding to two and then that ties around at the end that was a really lovely thing and yeah the way he's watching it now like through somebody else's eyes instead of always trying to show people things through his eyes just yeah like this this was again there was so much i heard about it

Starting point is 00:24:14 and and debate about how deep or not and what the potential of this movie could have been but as it stands and again for the meta nature of what it's trying to do it's almost like the script is having a conversation with itself about like well i want this to be like you know this yeah dramatic mature movie about you know two guys really getting to know one another and opening each other's lives up but we also got to have something to get the butts in the seats and like i could almost imagine that even without the nick cage aspect that might have been what the writers and the and this director here who also uh wrote beverill hill's cop axel f which which we enjoyed which we enjoyed quite a bit

Starting point is 00:24:49 and yeah like this was and to do the movie reveal at the end like this there's a version of this that i could imagine being charming but more just sort of run of the miller generic and i thought this you know while a bit of a quirky sort of oddity and while not like you know the the biggest uh you know extravaganza you could imagine or the deepest rabbit hole you can imagine i thought this was like really really really nicely proportioned for my taste and again for my you know just enjoyment again like it's taken me a while to realize like how much i love nick cage and how he approaches the craft and how his performances are and there's like no one quite like him and there's no one i think you could make a movie like this about like these he's the

Starting point is 00:25:32 only person you could put at the center of a movie like this and have it be as like strange quirky meta and off the walls as it is but also as kind of sincere and you know bittersweet as it is And I really am, I just love what everybody brought to this as a cast. And, yeah, it was really lovely to look at. It was really well shot. The locations are great. The music I thought was really nicely done. Yeah, man, like, it's weird.

Starting point is 00:25:58 I can talk about this movie for, for, I'm excited to talk about this movie with people. And yeah, just big love to Nicholas Cage, man. I take huge inspiration from Nick Cage. And, and this is. What about Nikki Cage? Both of them. I just saw Wild at Heart recently, which. is a tremendous movie and and I adored that too and oh my god like he is so wonderful in that and

Starting point is 00:26:21 like there's so many great iterations of young kids like throughout every era of cage there is something great and something wonderful and something truly interesting and beautiful and unique and uh and you know by the way I just realized that actor who played Carlos Jacobs Scipio he was uh in the last two bad boys films will smithson I was gonna say yeah he looked he looked He looked more familiar there now when I saw him with facial here in a Zimbd. This is really cool, like looking back. Like, again, as a thing, as a piece of entertainment, but also as like a retrospective on one of that thing he says, you know, about being a part of the oldest tradition in human history. Like as much as you could say like, oh, you know, don't, don't be too pretentious or presumptuous.

Starting point is 00:27:09 I'm like, yeah, I kind of get that spirit from him, though. And I love that. I love that, you know. He is a true shamanic Thesbian. He really, really is, my friend. And clearly, yeah, willing to not to take it seriously, but not take himself too seriously. And I think that's beautiful. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:26 I love the cage. Not to. What do you think the budget was for this film? 20 million? 30 million. Okay, sure. Hey. Good for $30 million movies.

Starting point is 00:27:40 All right. Box office worldwide. 60 million 29 million damn it I know I wish this movie made more that really makes me sad domestic and made 20

Starting point is 00:27:52 and international made 8 that makes me sad I hope it's I hope it's performing on on streaming and video on demand and all that stuff and before we get into trivia really quick critics what do you think

Starting point is 00:28:05 oh did this get like a 68 or a 75 or something like that what do you think I'm going to go 75 87 Hey I like it Hell yeah

Starting point is 00:28:16 I'm glad to be I'm glad to be proven wrong with a highball Audience Uh Maybe low Maybe that's the 75 Is that your final answer

Starting point is 00:28:27 Sure 87 Hey wow Okay I'm happy to get this one wrong Yeah man Absolutely I'm glad It's a fun time

Starting point is 00:28:35 I'm glad that yeah I guess yeah Like that makes me happy Because I again I remember when this came out just a certain amount of debate about like, oh, how much does this live up to the prospect of what it could be? But I'm glad because, yeah, I definitely feel quite positive towards this.

Starting point is 00:28:50 And I thought what they came up with and how they balanced it out was really charming. So I'm glad the critics and audiences were for once in a lifetime aligned. We were in sync on this one. And also, too, I did look up. Lily Sheen is Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsill's daughter. I had no idea they had a kid together. Although now that I know she's Michael Sheen, I can see. see Michael Sheen especially, and I can also now see Kate Beckinsale.

Starting point is 00:29:15 And shouts out to Roxy. She's out there working with Kaye Beck and Sale right now. Can't wait to see it. We're excited. Congrats Roxy. Nicholas Cage, this is some trivia. Nicholas Cage thought Javi was the best written character in the film so much he even asked to trade parts. As he thought playing his own biggest fan was more meta than playing himself.

Starting point is 00:29:34 It wasn't until Pedro Pascal was cast that Cage eventually relented. Sure. I mean, yeah, like Pedro also shouts, I know we've talked mostly about Nick Cage, but like Pedro Pascal was the perfect foil and I loved watching them together. Yeah. I'm so glad they got Pedro and he's like in everything.

Starting point is 00:29:54 I want to see this in 30 years and the next unbearable weight of massive talent reboot, but with Pedro Pascal playing himself. There you go, there you go. A sequence involving Nicholas Cage reprising some of his most iconic roles like Face Off Conair, leaving Las Vegas and gone 60 seconds

Starting point is 00:30:11 in a long black and white fight sequence between him and his younger self and a surreal surrealist German expressionist set evoking the cabinet of Dr. Cagalligar Caligari, thank you, was cut from the film as the studio thought it didn't fit the third act. According to Cage,

Starting point is 00:30:27 the deleted scene will be released on home media. I hope so. Damn, I got to see that. According to Neil Patrick Harris, Nicholas Cage had body makeup to cover his tattoos. When he asked Cage, why Nick Cage, the character doesn't have the tattoos. Nicholas Cage, the real

Starting point is 00:30:43 person, has. Cage said the character didn't have as many wives as him. I love that too. Because again, that's so on the money. It's like, yes, he is playing a version of Nicholas Cage, but it's Nick and Nicky. It's not Nicholas. And so thus they are slightly

Starting point is 00:30:59 different characters. And I love that. It's beautiful. That's so great. At the end of principal photography, the whole cast was gifted a pillow with Nicholas Cage's face on it. Each one autographed by him. I would have so loved to have.

Starting point is 00:31:15 All right. What's loved to have that right now? It's not autograph, but I have a Nicholas Cage pillow. Oh, that's awesome. I think they sent it to us for this movie because it got him in the hat. Guys, doing the... Get some shouts out to mentioning to Nick Cage that we need to get that pillow signed for him.

Starting point is 00:31:28 I definitely. Oh my God. I would die. Yes. Get it done. People. Please. Power of the internet.

Starting point is 00:31:33 It works. Nicholas Cage said in an interview that he probably will never watch the movie because the idea of going meta and playing a quote unquote surrealistic version of myself and quote unquote surrealistic version or interpretation of a younger version of myself

Starting point is 00:31:49 going head to head might just be too psychologically invasive for one Nicholas Cage. I will go to the premiere but I'm probably not going to be sitting in the audience however due to a conflict between the director in the studio Cage had to watch the movie to decide whether some scenes should be cut or not. Damn

Starting point is 00:32:06 I hope he's okay. I hope I hope he's O'Cage. Hey. And props to Demi Moore, too. That's fun that they got her for us. Yeah. It reminded me, too, a little bit of, at the end of Goldmember, Hosten Powers, how they just got Tom Cruise and got some other stars.

Starting point is 00:32:23 I think Danny DeVito and some other ones. Pedro Pascal wrecked 14 prop cars during the acid trip running scene where he was required to bounce off the hood of a car. He was not injured during the stunt. Oh, good. Not bad, man. Well done. The original script had a plot point involving Nicholas Cage chasing down Quentin Tarantino to earn a role in his next movie,

Starting point is 00:32:44 but was changed to another scene featuring a cameo appearance from director David Gordon Green. I wonder how that happened. It's an interesting. I mean, it's more grounded, certainly. It's less quirky, and it's less distracting, I guess. If Tarantino, you'd be like, oh, it's frigate Tarantino, whereas, like, David Gordon Green, not everybody would clock, but people who film nerds will clock. I was going to say, I see, obviously I've seen, did he, did David Gordon Green do Pineapple Express? I think so, yeah. I've seen Pineapple Express. I've obviously seen the three new Halloween films, but for some reason, I never watched any behind the scenes of any of those four films. So I didn't even recognize him until you said, I knew who David Gordon Green is, obviously, but I'd never seen what he looked like until this movie.

Starting point is 00:33:24 Within the film, Nicholas Cage has a daughter. In actuality, when the movie was shot, he had two sons. Weston, age 30, and Calell. age 15 that's right call out and i did know he had a son named call out and his first daughter was born in september of 2022 i believe that's the year this movie came out dang yeah um interesting the shot of nicholas cage drinking beer at the bottom of hobby swimming pool is a nod to his leaving los bagis character okay yeah there there are probably a handful of uh visual references i might not a clock because there's still some of his movies i i need to see that are like

Starting point is 00:33:58 you know the big ones yeah first time since fast times at Regiment High in 1982, love that movie, that I didn't even know Nicholas Cage was in that. God, it's been a long time since I watched that. That Nicholas Cage is credited with his real name Nicholas Kim Coppola. Yeah, I saw that. Is that how they credited what may be Nicky at the beginning of the crowd? I saw, in fact, yeah, I think I shouted out like, oh, there's another Coppola at the top of the credits, not fully clocking. Like, oh, duh, it's him, you know?

Starting point is 00:34:27 Yeah. Yeah, Nicky is credited as Nicholas Kim Copeland. Okay, I did not see that. That's hysterical. Last two, spoilers. The two golden pistols that Nicholas Cage wields in this film are the same two golden pistols that he really used in the film face off. That's not trivia. Oh, they are, okay, fine.

Starting point is 00:34:48 Confirmation, it's the same pistols. That's the trivia. Yeah, I guess so. First, I was like this, that's just a plot point of the movie. Yeah. In the movie, well, I think they're saying like the actual ones that they used out. They're the real ones. The real ones.

Starting point is 00:35:01 In the movie, Havi offers Nick Cage $1 million to come to his birthday party. Demi Moore does a cameo in this movie and starred in the film In Decent Proposal in 1993 in which her character was offered $1 million to spend the night with a billionaire.

Starting point is 00:35:18 Okay. Okay, I guess that's a correlation there already. But that movie does not have Nicholas Cage, but okay. Well, she's in this and there's a similar setup. So maybe that's how that happens. I guess so. All righty. Anyways, that is the trivia for the unbearable weight of massive talent.

Starting point is 00:35:36 What did you guys think of the film if you have stuck with us this long? We appreciate it. Seriously. But yeah, is this one of your favorite Nicholas Cage films? Is it one of your favorite just meta films? Yeah. Yeah, where would you put this in the Cage Pantheon? Yeah, no, we'd love to hear your thoughts down below.

Starting point is 00:35:53 Let us know. And, yeah, thanks again for sticking with us this long. We appreciate it, seriously. Take care. get in the comments for Nicholas Cage get this man assigned pillow and you say goodbye in the Nick Cage voice all right

Starting point is 00:36:07 we'll see you next time be good out there Cage Nick Nick Nick

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