Cold Hard Cage, Week 4 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

[whimsical music] We're on.

Welcome to the AmRep Film Club, where Marco rehabilitates actual Cage.

Wh- wait, what? That's not what I wrote.

[laughs]

That's not...

I was, I was gonna, I was gonna ask you about that, actually.

[laughs] I'm sorry.

Marco.

Oh, Mallorca.

Oh, fuck, no wonder why I thought-

Mallorca.

Mallorca.

Mallorca.

[laughs] Ma- Mallorca.

[laughs]

Wow.

I was gonna...

Okay, Mallorca rehabilitates actual Cage, 'cause I was gonna ask you what that meant.

But I st- I'm gonna ask, ask you now what that means.

That's where they were.

Mallorca.

It's a place in Spain.

Oh.

[laughs]

It...

That's so funny.

I thought this was, like, some kind of knock on Bad Lieutenant or something.

Like, you have re- rehabilitated the Cage month, and I was like-

Oh, wow.

"Whoa, what is that?"

Wow.

And I was gonna be like, "What's, what's going on? What's this?" But no, okay.

I, I have to, I have to say, that was a far more entertaining intro than I, I ever could've come up with where I was.

[laughs]

[laughs] Okay.

And we continue.

So what we do here is one of us chooses a theme for the month, and we meet weekly to discuss a single film within that theme, and the occasional supplemental.

This is the final week of Cold, Hard Cage month, and we watched The Unbearable Weight: Massive Talent, 2022, which was chosen by Marco, who rebi- who, uh, might have rehabilitated actual Cage by doing this week.

And this is a spoiler discussion.

We're gonna spoil th- this movie that came out in 2022 about Nic Cage, and we're gonna spoil your plans, too.

Uh, play yourself pretending to be yourself as yourself.

And who am I? I am Anthony R., the shot master general here in southern California.

With me, as always, in the back is of Maine, Brian.

I am in Tijuana, Mexico right now.

Oh, snap.

Wow, south of the border.

South of the border, yeah.

Gotta, gotta, gotta be here to watch the Mexico game, although we'll probably watch it just across the border in San Diego, but whatever.

Wow.

There might be...

There, you might run into a couple Mexicans there, though.

Oh, yeah.

[laughs]

I believe.

Safe bet.

[laughs]

You, you can enjoy yourself a California burrito.

Already have.

Ooh.

Already have.

And now we- I've just been eating tacos every single day, and it's just amazing.

It's just the life, man.

The, uh, Tijuana's the best.

It's so nice.

Madone.

So nice.

Madone.

And over there in, I believe, Rhode Island, we have Pete too.

Pete, welcome.

[laughs]

Hey, longtime listener.

Um, yeah, I'm dealing with some, uh, camera trouble, so I'll just follow along for a little bit and, uh, my devices will be on soon.

As usual, Pete's looking forward to getting our opinion of this movie.

It was a t- it was a tough one to follow.

That's all I'm gonna say.

It was a little complex.

Yeah.

And Marco, where in the world are you?

Still in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Uh, possibly for longer than I was hoping.

It doesn't look like Taiwan's gonna work out.

So if anybody [laughs] past July wants to come visit, [laughs] I may still be here.

Great news for people who want that prize.

Well, the prize will still...

You know what? Marco will still be there.

We'll, we will be shifting to another prize, but you are more than welcome to go visit Marco in Thailand, in Majjo University International Dorm room number 110, and watch a movie with him, and you'll...

We'll still give you a prize, but, you know, at the, at the end of, at the beginning of August, we'll be introducing a new prize.

I, I'll, I'll tell, I'll tell you what.

Anybody comes out here, I will take you to Uniqlo and personally buy you a pair of underwear, since that prize remains unclaimed.

Um-

And I will, I will do a drawing of an eye for you, a Kurostama eye.

[laughs]

We'll do...

And we'll, maybe we'll let you, uh, maybe we'll let you host a month, I guess, as well.

But if you could make it to Thailand before then, uh, that would be great.

Okay.