CAGE UNCAGED: CAGELORD

Send us a text

DEUS EX MACHINE-GUNNA

LORD OF WAR (2004) has Cage give his all in a movie that looks great on paper: The Kiwi Idea Man of Truman Show and Gattaca, Andrew Niccol, writing and directing an epic, Scorsese-like film about the rise and fall of an arms dealer taking place from the 80s through the 00s? With era-appropriate songs? Cage narration? With future Oscar winner/publicity lightening rod Jared Leto as a substance-abusing partner/brother to Cage along with Ethan Flippin' Hawke as a globe-trotting Interpol Customs Agent with a grudge? Ian Flippin' Holm, BILBO BAGGINS y'all, as an older, international arms dealer ALSO WITH A GRUDGE???  The violent son of an African dictator obsessed with Rambo's gun??? Cage using a calculator while sitting on a fallen statue of Lenin???  Time-lapsed plane demolition in Africa?? BORSCHT??? SIGN US THE HELL UP! It sounds so far up our collective podcast alley it's practically on the other side of the street (?).

But, as we know, what looks good on paper... does not always translate. Or does it? We'll tell you.

Then, the nadir of Cage's career, the late aughts and teens, hits hard with LEFT BEHIND (2014). It's the one on a plane where people get raptured, based on the 300 page best selling novel that got off the plane before page 40. You know the drill - Cage spends most of the movie in a plane, but not in a bitchin' Con Air sort of way. More of a disaster movie, second rate Twilight Zone kind of way. Thomas read the book and watched the Kirk Cameron film version as prep. Does that make the Cage version more or less appealing? Listeners of The Good, The Pod and The Ugly get Free Rapture Passes after listening to this episode! Be a jerk and still get to heaven! email us @ [email protected] for your Rapture Pass today! Seriously. If you email us we will send you a pass. 

LORD OF WAR: 5:27

LEFT BEHIND: 56:38


Our FINAL FOUR Cage Films:
Con Air, Face/Off, Mandy, Raising Arizona

EPILOGUE: WILLY'S WONDERLAND

Theme Song by: Howling Fantods.