That might be the most Nic Cage thing I’ve ever read. The man is an enigma.
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Who reviews the reviewers?
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Everyone. Lol not a soul alive let that man live down tarnishing Paddington 2’s perfect 100% score. Rotten Tomatoes has never recovered.
What are we doing? Moving around chairs on the Titanic?
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The Nic Cage chatter reminds me of a funny story that Joanna Robinson (now of The Ringer) told on an episode of Trial by Content a couple of months ago.
“I interviewed him in 2015 … he was lovely - great - but at the end, because I’m me, I asked him something about comic books, something about Superman, or whatever…I said ‘well you’re a fan of comic books,’ or something like that, because he famously is. And he - as actors sometimes do - took odd umbrage to that question. I don’t know if I phrased it in a way that made it sound like I didn’t think it was okay to be comic books; obviously I do. But he was like, ‘Yeah, I like comic books, but I’m not, like, sitting here with my tray of lemon cookies and milk and my pile of comic books!’”
It was just a good laugh to hear about this hyper-specific way he tried to bat that question away.
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Fucking amazing
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The Nanny takes no fucking prisoners.
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LOL!!!
Nicolas Cage is a VERY weird person.
That is not a judgment on his character. He is just obviously a very weird dude.
If you are in Vegas, you will run across him in weird places. Five or six years ago I was leaving an Italian restaurant that’s nothing special unless you know the food is good. Who’s coming out while we’re all outside waiting for a table? Yep, good old Nic with the weirdest looking hair I’ve ever seen on a human being.
Again, not bad! Just…weird.
Are you a fan
Because I am a hyooge Joanna Robinson fangirl
but everyone I mentioned her to back in the old forum days didn’t seem to like her as much as I do 
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Yeah I like her. Probably my favorite is when she shows up on Ringer’s Prestige TV pod with Bill and others, but she’s always good with Mallory Rubin on House of R also.
Trial by Content is not must-listen as a general rule, but she’s the best part of the regular panel.
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Watched the original Mission Impossible. Enjoyed it well enough. Pluto…is not great. Seemed clear that they inserted TV-edit cuts along the way, as some transitions seemed to obviously not be from the original release. Also I paused a couple of times along the way, and when I came back it seemed to have fast-forwarded me in the story? And then I just had to press the rewind button a handful of times, at which point I would get served up a commercial break. On the other side of that break, it would come back still further past where I had been. I was dialing up the Wiki plot synopsis just to make sure I wasn’t missing key points when this happened. So I probably don’t want to watch too many movies through that service, but I did get through this one.
I won’t be rewatching Part II, but it’s possible that I’ll hop to Part III at some point and continue taking in the franchise.
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“Question for Broderick. Bud, you’ve played opposite just about every great motion picture actress…”
"Yes, I have. "
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Id suggest getting a free trial of paramount plus for the others.
Already did that to watch The Offer (which I enjoyed quite a bit). I’m sure I’ll pay for Paramount in the future, but it feels silly to do right now when I’ve got a lengthy to-watch list about 65 movies long across services I’m already paying for.
The Watch podcast is good, but you have to start at 6 minutes in to get past the requisite nonsense. Andy is ridiculous sometimes
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Who thought a Wonka prequel would be watchable? He’s a terrible misanthropic weirdo for 95% of the movie. His character works as a demented tour guide, but is this really a person you want to spend time with? You want to learn the backstory behind his puritanical judgement of small children and how he enslaved a race of terrifying scolding jerks?
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My first time listening to them. I may have added the podcast based on your prior rec? I didn’t mind the ramble but I can see how I might begin to lol
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It’s a good podcast! and the silly stuff is a good way to get to know the cast, but sometimes you just want to get to the actual stuff (like Andy’s opinion on The Idol the past few episodes)
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