Unraveling the Madness of Drive Angry with Nicholas Cage

Get ready to buckle up and take a wild ride into the eccentric world of Nicholas Cage's movie, Drive Angry, as Kiley and I break down the action-packed car chases, shootouts, and over-the-top chaos that ensues. We'll also dissect the underlying themes and complexities of the film, exploring the power dynamics between God and Satan, and how it impacts the storyline. So, are you ready to embark on an entertaining and in-depth discussion of this absurd yet captivating movie?

In our conversation, we'll reminisce about some of our favorite scenes, like Cage's memorable fight with the cult leader and the fascinating exchange between the accountant demon and the cultists. We'll also discuss the film's weaker moments, including the lack of explanation around Milton's capabilities and the sudden transition of Amber Heard's character to a single parent at the end of the movie. With Nicholas Cage at the helm, there's no shortage of memorable moments and wild entertainment.

To wrap up the episode, we'll ponder the lack of driving-related anger from Cage's character, which may have oversold the movie slightly. We'll also share user reviews and discuss how Cage's performance was crucial to the overall rating of the film. Lastly, we'll explore the idea of Nicholas Cage joining the Fast and Furious franchise, because why not? Don't miss this thrilling and in-depth conversation about Drive Angry, and be sure to subscribe and leave a rating or review!

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Transcript

Emily: 0:00

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Shawn: 0:21

I'd like to welcome you back to today's episode. I am Shaw and I have with me Kiley as we explore another epic film from Nick Cage. It's going to be a little bit wacky, a little bit eccentric and a lot of what we call mayhem and death. The film I'm talking about is Drive Angry, and this one, by many accounts, was what people like to call batshit crazy.

Kiley: 0:53

It was the wildest, weirdest long-tongued movie I've seen in a really long time. But, it was entertaining. I'll give it that better than the knowing, because the knowing was not entertaining on any level.

Shawn: 1:10

Yeah, this one just starts off. Well, let's come, let's just get into it. Yeah, get into it.

Kiley: 1:20

Kylie was made in 2011 at Starz. Nicholas Cage, amber Heard, and then that one guy who? William, what is it? Fitchner, or whatever, and Billy Burke. They're all in this movie And they, yeah, it's. You want to explain what it's about?

Shawn: 1:38

The Nick Cage's character, Milton, dies horrifically and finds out that his granddaughter is going to be sacrificed by a satanic cult. So he breaks out of hell with the sole purpose to save his granddaughter.

Kiley: 2:07

Yeah, and that's basically that movie. That's the movie.

Shawn: 2:11

That's the movie And he has. It starts off. We get like a opening credit scene of just what looks like maybe used for Constantine later down the line, but just it shows. It opens up, but the fire and brimstone, a car just driving out, and then we're greeted with some like religious tech that have no context.

Kiley: 2:41

No, meaning, it was just there, quite honestly.

Shawn: 2:45

The reference may be something very important that they don't pick up on there in the film. It's just there to tell you that this is happening and this serves as a religious purpose. For all we know, it could have been like some burning. It could have been Burning Man. For all we know, we don't even know it's hell. So, yeah, so they just it almost looks like they. It's like a piece of a Bible sermon, but they don't reference it again, so it's not that important. But yeah, that's what we open up with. And then we transition over to a car chase. How does this car chase happen? No context whatsoever. We transition from a car driving what from hell? to a car chase. That's happening. Nick Cage is in the car chasing this car.

Kiley: 3:47

This other car, this other car, yeah, the other car has some attacks. We don't know Racing down the street.

Shawn: 3:53

Yep, we don't know why they're being chased.

Kiley: 3:56

They're like attacking each other or trying to attack each other anyway.

Shawn: 4:00

Yeah, he's just full of hatred and anger at this point.

Kiley: 4:06

But the old. He's driving angry, as the title suggests.

Shawn: 4:09

As the title suggests, we only get maybe some context as once he catches up to them. Now, mind you, he doesn't just pull up and politely ask them for their, he uses as much force, he is smashing their car to get them out. And then he's asking them about the details of the baby and where to find the baby.

Kiley: 4:37

Yeah, and he's shooting people up just everywhere.

Shawn: 4:42

He's not giving them a chance to respond. He takes a shotgun. He shoots a guy clearly in his leg, like at this point, this guy, he's, literally He will bleed out. This guy, another guy, he doesn't get a response from him, he moves onto the next guy And, mind you, there's three people in this vehicle, so he's just working down to each person until he gets an answer. The next person he asks them the same question. He doesn't ask respond quick enough, so he shoots his hand or his arm off And we all know that that guy's dying at that point. And then he gets to the third person. The third person he tells them what he wants to know. But a kid has already decided he's killing all these people, regardless of what he gets the answer.

Kiley: 5:33

I don't think he kills the third one, though, because he keeps him alive to have him make sure that he notifies that he's coming to get his daughter.

Shawn: 5:41

Yeah, but like the, as he used his car to smash him, gasoline was like.

Kiley: 5:50

Yeah, that's true. We don't see the third person die. Exactly, there is an explosion, so it would make sense that he dies, and then it cuts to where Amber heard is, or whatever working.

Shawn: 6:01

We get like a resemblance of the crow type scene where he puts gasoline and he burns it like a walk away montage. So he, as he's walking away, he either he shoots or he throws a cigar and it catches the gasoline on fire, goes out to the car. I'm assuming he could have just taken their car.

Kiley: 6:25

He didn't want to take their car. He wanted to hurt them and kill them.

Shawn: 6:30

And he's telling everyone no.

Kiley: 6:31

He's a mad mad man.

Shawn: 6:33

Tell everyone I'm coming. I'm like this guy's not going to make it quickly, So he's going to die.

Kiley: 6:39

He's going to die, but they're going to know Yeah.

Shawn: 6:41

It's a movie. Yeah, so that the death count already begins with those people just shut up, just getting axed right away. We don't even know if the message gets out to them. It's just assume that they're dead. They're done so.

Kiley: 6:57

They're done. So Yeah, yeah, i would say I would agree the same. Did you have any favorite scenes from the movie so far?

Shawn: 7:04

or from the movie that we watched. There's so many. I think every scene with Nick Cage was a favorite scene, really.

Kiley: 7:13

Yes, he left some definitely some one liners up in there. Some wild shit. There's that one part where he's having sex with the waitress but still killing people While he's still having sex with her. It's freaking wild. So bad shit, so absurd, doesn't make any sense.

Shawn: 7:34

That happens in my favorite scene Is that oh, he says I never. So I would be my favorite scene. One of my favorites is that he tells the waitress It's just prelude that he never disrobes. So he's fully clothed Like he's about to like no, ditch her at any moment. And he has a cigar, he's smoking, he has a shades on cigar and whiskey and he has a gun. Who's the whole point? He's killing people left and right and she is just like having major Giant orgasm faces going on the entire time, the entire time and Nick pages just.

Kiley: 8:16

To the very end when she's that all of a sudden she shook, cuz like 15 people are dead. But he was killing him the whole time. He was sleeping with her, so I don't know why, She wasn't aware beforehand. It was straight face the entire time He was taking off his sunglasses.

Shawn: 8:34

Yeah.

Kiley: 8:35

I guess that's what happens when you go to hell. You're on move to buh-bye. Hey, life symbol pleasures.

Shawn: 8:41

I guess so, and So that was one of my favorite. One of my favorite scenes is just classic Nick cage. Just, i'm just gonna go Zero to 60 with this and just be myself. I Think my other favorite scene was when he's in in the diner where we're introduced to Amber heard and we are also Introduced to the waitress he later sleeps with. He's just minding his own business and He's I want coffee black. He's not even doing anything, he just Apparently, just because he's broke out of hell.

Kiley: 9:24

He just Sexual tension and energy, energy that women cannot resist. Yes, because of blonde ish haired Nicholas cage, Yeah because all black the.

Shawn: 9:39

He didn't even Act as though he was flirting or that he's I just want coffee and black with sugar. And those ladies you're gonna ask me when I'm off. And he's a no, and obviously like she didn't get the hint and And why would she? she was coming on very strong and he wasn't that having it, but it was just weird because like She couldn't read the signs and he was like, and he like mad handled her the kester and then still told her I want my sugar, want my coffee, black with sugar.

Kiley: 10:14

Yeah, he could, like just shoved his whole tongue in her mouth. I was like, oh, this is the kind of movie that we're watching today. This is completely. It's Nicholas K cage, unhinged, but like he knew how he needed to be unhinged So he just went with it. That's the thing. If you're gonna be in a really Terrible movie or a movie that makes no sense, just go all out because like you're already there. It's like Moira Rose and the what is it? the?

Kiley: 10:42

show the crowing or yeah where she has to go. She goes all out and then it gets popular. You got to do that. You just got to go for it, because otherwise it's just gonna be really terrible and no one's gonna remember it as a good time.

Emily: 10:56

Yeah.

Kiley: 10:57

I feel he definitely went all in. He really did.

Shawn: 11:00

I feel like when you're casting Nick cage for a character, you know what you're getting and what you're gonna ask of him to do, and then you just gotta let him play, like, yeah, for these roles, i feel like that's exactly what this was, like you you're getting and for this role, that's what you want him to do.

Kiley: 11:22

Yeah, that's exactly what you want him to do. I would say that I think one of my favorite scenes is There was a lot of fighting in this movie, but I really enjoyed when he went to fight the leader of the cult, so basically His daughter. As you find out after he died, his daughter was like involved with a cult leader who Convinced her to do a bunch of crazy things. They're like supposed to be Satan worshippers or anything like that and then they I think she leaves him and she attacks the cult leader and he, they and eventually find her and kill her and take the baby.

Kiley: 11:59

Yeah, and take the baby and that's his granddaughter who he's trying to protect, and the cult leader has him. So he's chasing him and while he's chasing him, and the cult is Chasing Milton, which is Nicholas Cage, are fighting him back. He's also being chased by some demon from hell who's trying to get him back into hell, who they don't really provide context on, but he like flips a coin anytime He's about to do anything and I enjoyed when he when he killed Amber Hertz ex-boyfriend.

Kiley: 12:33

Yeah, that's right, yeah, but I actually one of my favorite scenes was when they were he was. They were around the what is it? He was around the cult and they're trying to sacrifice the baby as make a sacrifice to see and the demon guy I Don't remember what his name was they count in the accountant out the accountant.

Kiley: 12:54

He tells them that Satan actually hates it when people sacrifice innocence in his name, because the innocence just go to heaven. So it's like it really doesn't do anything, like he hates when people do that and I thought that was really funny, so I enjoyed that. I also enjoyed when Nicholas Cage comes to have his final showdown with that guy, with a cult leader, and it's just a bunch of chaos and violence and Notorious one-liners from Cage. That was pretty funny.

Shawn: 13:27

Another one of my favorite scenes is actually with the demon of the accountant when he finds out That. So this is another scene where after there's a car chase There's a key, finds out he hoped Nicholas Milton vade the cops But as he immersed he can like sense the marking of someone like sins. So, or when they're about to die, go to hell.

Kiley: 13:59

Yeah, that's right.

Shawn: 14:00

So anytime he's interacts with someone, he's like oh, i'll see you soon, i'll see you in three days, i'll see you in six months. If you were like flipping out by that, what do you mean by that? And so he's saying that You're gonna die, you're not innocent, you're gonna die, and so it was very trippy when he's doing that. But he was having this non-shallot conversation with with one someone who was like a cult leader or a cult member, and They're like oh yeah, we are, were cultists were worshiping and saying in, we're doing this all for him and The demon that counting goes. We've. My boss has never asked a notice or memo. I'm informing us that we ever wanted you guys to do this.

Shawn: 14:50

Yeah which is funny because you know That the it shows you like the human wanting to do all this print of things like dark magic and saying that they're doing this for The devil. And here's this demon. Like We can do this stuff on our own, but we've never been told.

Kiley: 15:13

Yeah, that we needed your guys as assistants and he basically like alludes to them that Satan doesn't even care, he's you're not on his radar.

Shawn: 15:23

Yeah, like they're doing this and it's Doesn't really change anything.

Kiley: 15:29

Yeah, i think like the kind of point from that was that That the accountant seemed to know that Either way people were going to be bad or be good.

Kiley: 15:41

There was no, there was nothing that would sway them, Like there wouldn't be. You couldn't be a person who's like sacrificing an innocent to get to hell and not be a bad person, or you would just be, you would just be good. So for him, he just sees no, he saw no reason for people to try to do things And the name of Satan or for Satan to sway anyone. Cause they're already gonna make those choices anyway.

Shawn: 16:07

Yeah, and he found it very interesting. He's like what would drive someone who was already in hell to escape, and why was this cult so interested in this one person? And then, when he finally he goes, why are they going so hard for this person? I need to bring this person out, bring him back, cause he's supposed to. So I guess it's like there's this cosmic law that if a soul were to escape there, someone is sent to bring that soul back. That's supposed to be, that belongs there. The accountant is sent to bring Milton back, as he escaped. They want to know how he escaped, and so his job is to make sure that he brings them back, and thus with minimal casualties as possible, if he can. But he's a demon, so things are gonna happen.

Kiley: 17:01

Things are gonna happen. He's supposed to bring him back And he's got that weapon that apparently he picked up from hell. well, did they call it the God killer?

Shawn: 17:09

The God killer.

Kiley: 17:10

So it's essentially It could kill like a demon or an angel or whatever.

Shawn: 17:13

Yeah, it's a kill the demon or an angel. It's like an artifact, based on wherever it was created. It was either hidden in hell, so it's essentially it could wipe out your entire existence. So you don't exist on either heaven or hell. So if you were to die, you would not exist on either plan. You would be stuck in limbo.

Kiley: 17:36

Yeah, essentially And that's the only thing that like shocks the accountant, i would say, because I don't think he expected that. But I actually enjoyed his relationship with Nick Cage, with Milton, because at the end he allows Milton to give him a farewell to Amber Heard but also brings him back to hell in a stylish car And they're joking around with each other Like he. When Nicholas Cage, milton says that he's if he is stuck in the same hole again, he's gonna escape again, and then the accountant is like very much look forward to that day. So it's like it was fun for him. I enjoyed it. It seemed like it was a good time And while he didn't necessarily 100%, he didn't really interfere too much because that's not his job. There was that moment where he did distract the cult leader from whooping Nicholas Cage's butt Yeah, it's He like coughs and it draws that guy's attention And then that gives Nick Cage enough time to get the God killer and kill that man.

Shawn: 18:42

What's what in Constantine, where there's that line where there can't be two hells?

Kiley: 18:51

Yeah.

Shawn: 18:52

One hell, two hells is one hell too many. So this guy wants to bring hell on earth. There's already a hell and you just wanna bring it Like there can't be. There's already a king in one dimension. So in essence, he was doing yeah, he was tasked to bring it. But he's like also, when he found out that's what they were doing, he's like maybe I should also interrupt this, because this is not only gonna be bad for us, but it's also going to be bad for the balance of what we have going on here. But when he found out that this is the reason why he's doing this stuff, he goes oh, i'm just gonna take a backseat and let this ride out.

Kiley: 19:35

Yeah, I guess too, it depends on how you like. They don't provide this context, but I guess it depends on how you look at it, whether or not you view like Satan and God in a competition, with trying to see who's good and who's ultimately evil. So if that's the case, then there would be no reason to bring hell to earth because they're not. Then they're not actually like winning any souls, I guess, and some of the iterations, at least growing up religious part of the things we've seen is like that he wants to win more souls and get them to help. He wants that. He wants to prove to God that people are, that people are sinners.

Shawn: 20:20

Yeah, so there wasn't really much context in this morsel. It was like sublime in it. So for the most part.

Kiley: 20:31

Yeah, so there was actually. I just forgot what that last scene was that I was interested in. I don't remember. I was going to say it was one of my favorite scenes. It came to me while you were talking and then I didn't remember. I couldn't remember Not the God killer, i think it had to do with the accountant. but yeah, i don't remember. It'll come back to me.

Shawn: 20:53

One of the weakest moments would probably say. I think just storyline.

Kiley: 21:00

Oh yeah, obviously there was the fucking excuse me, the music just did not, it was just it's. I'm not saying that people need to have all the context in the world, but sometimes it pays to know what you're investing in, and there was just like no point where it was really you know what was going on, which is both good sometimes, but also bad. It had its pros and it had its cons.

Shawn: 21:27

I think the weakest moment was that Milton Milton, nick Cage's character, not only displace Amber Herb's character, but then, as he takes her on this wild ride, also makes her become a single parent. Yeah, at the end.

Kiley: 21:45

She had them taking on. She and he's like chose you. He didn't choose her, like he just. There's no, no reasoning. She just was there and he ended up. It was convenient for them to link up together. It had nothing to do with like him selecting her, but she's way too emotionally invested in him and this baby Like I get wanting to mess people up for a good time, i guess in the movie world where you're like, let's go fight these people who are terrible, who are trying to kill an infant. But she, the investment that she feels I was like dang she even takes on being a single mom of his granddaughter.

Shawn: 22:27

Yeah, that was like the weakest moment, like they built her up all the way through and then at the moment, he's like I'm dying here. Here's parenthood, good luck.

Kiley: 22:39

Yeah, good luck, I'm not going to be Godspeed.

Shawn: 22:41

Yeah, godspeed, i'm not going to be here. Yeah, i'll take this responsibility because the sexual tension between us was so great and I feel like you just gave me a kid and that was. I was like that. that's the happy ending.

Kiley: 22:58

Apparently it. I guess that's supposed to be like the happy ending, because technically she's grown and she doesn't have to depend on, i guess, her ex or I don't know. All I know is that it's they were trying to sell us on this, that weird sexual tension investment relationship. But I at the beginning I legit thought that was his daughter, because there's that much age between them And I didn't feel any sexual tension between them. I just felt like he's a demon from hell, or not demon. He's coming from hell. He only wants revenge. She's one track mine. I don't know why she joined up to help him. I don't know why she got invested. I don't know why she decided to take care of the kid. But you know what? All those things happened?

Shawn: 23:46

And another weakest moment was they didn't really explain Milton's capabilities, because around the third, the fourth act we eventually find out that Milton is supernatural, that he can't die. But prior to that we find he, we learned like, oh yeah, he can die. Or like, wait what? Oh, he gets shot in the fucking face and it heals, and like, oh yeah, he can't die. But before he was getting taken body shots, gunfire to the chest, and we're like, oh, he's going to die, yeah, and we're like, oh shit, maybe he's human. And then, no, later on, he same thing in a gunfight he's taking, he ends up getting shot in the head, through the eye, off the back of his skull, dead, but heals and he's perfectly fine.

Kiley: 24:54

Yeah.

Shawn: 24:56

So it was a big confusion going on there.

Kiley: 25:01

Okay, Yeah, i guess that would be. That is definitely one of the weak areas too, because it doesn't necessarily make sense not to be looking into it too deeply. But he escapes from hell Okay, sure, whatever. He takes the God killer Okay, sure, whatever. But either if he escapes, he's either going to be obviously like he's lost his physical body, so either he's supposed to be a soul or like just a spirit, or he's supposed to be a person, or he's supposed to be like a person with supernatural powers, and it's unclear until the end that he's got supernatural powers but also not really supernatural powers, because the only thing is that he can't die. So it doesn't make sense.

Shawn: 25:44

Yeah.

Kiley: 25:45

He still has this physical body, so it doesn't make sense why he can't die. but he's got no powers, because the accountant does have powers.

Shawn: 25:56

Yeah, and that was like for me, another weak area in the movie. The action was great, just parts of progression. the story of explaining stuff would have been great, just like. that was just very inconsistent. It was confusing to follow. Does he have supernatural abilities? He was like the average. he was like the discount version of the crow, if you think about it.

Kiley: 26:24

I want to say cut it like he was trying to be ghost writer, but in Drive Angry. That's what it felt like.

Shawn: 26:31

He was a discount version of a later character known as ghost writer.

Kiley: 26:35

Yeah, it was giving me those vibes hardcore for a while there And I was just like huh, this is odd, i would say. For me, probably the biggest, the weakest area in the movie was that it was they clearly filmed it with the intention of it being 3D And so, like I maybe I'm old, maybe I'm just I'm not of the Gen Z, maybe it's because I have worn glasses in my own life and I hate putting glasses over my glasses but I can't stand when it's very clearly meant to be 3D and stuff is like being thrown at the camera so that if you weren't at theaters you would get quote unquote scared or feel like you're involved in the action Just seemed so unnecessary And, especially 12 years ago, it was just so obvious, like visually, what was happening.

Kiley: 27:32

And it took away from it. It's like when you're watching the Hobbit CGI and you're thinking, wow, i can tell you're fake. but when you're watching the Lord of the Rings because he used prosthetics and a lot more makeup and actual physical bodies the only real CGI came around certain things You're like, oh, it looks real, it allows you to be more invested in it. but come around and it's all this CGI happening And you're like, wait a second, no, this is taking me out. this is taking me out of it. Like by the fifth time a tiger was flying by the screen. I was just like, okay.

Shawn: 28:11

I cannot cash that at all until like when they did the God killer thing for-.

Kiley: 28:17

Yeah, the God killer is when it was most prominent.

Shawn: 28:19

Yeah, it was most prominent. I just thought like, oh yeah, it's just the natural explosions, but yeah, the God killer death scene of when it actually hit, that was literally you could clearly see. oh, this is supposed to be man 3D. I'm like, but it doesn't stay anywhere in the movie or the sub like it's supposed to be 3D. So it was also very confusing.

Kiley: 28:46

That part was yeah, that was confusing. But I will say too, when he dies at the end, the cult leader and he gets like blown up by the God killer, his, the top of his head just comes clean off, without the brain inside it or anything, so that Nicholas Cage can drink out of it. And you know what? I respect that, but I also was like there's no brain matter in there at all. This is not realistic. I took anatomy class. I know that's not possible, but it's a weird thing to be caught up on.

Kiley: 29:18

Oh, you know what else I remembered? one of my favorite parts is the fact that anytime the accountant did anything crazy and law enforcement would try to stop him or they would question him, he would just show them a badge that he was with the FBI and they would be like, oh okay, but it would be the craziest things Like he took a car or a truck that was carrying, i'm assuming, like gasoline or or nitro or some type of fluid and a flammable fluid and use that to basically attack a bunch of the cops there to break them off so that Nicholas Cage and Amber Heard could go forward to go find the cult leader.

Kiley: 30:04

And when they're questioning him he's just like I'm FBI And they're like oh okay. Which I thought was so funny, Because I guess that's a real life, whenever usually someone of a high like with the plur we're trained not to question the police and the higher up they go, the more we're trained not to question them. So the fact that he wasn't even concerned about his life, he was just like I'll just show him this badge and they'll all concede. And then they did. I just thought it was really funny.

Shawn: 30:31

Yeah, he didn't come with a great line because I'm FBI, i'm FBI, yeah, i'm FBI.

Kiley: 30:38

I will say it is interesting that he chose to kill Amber Heard's ex-boyfriend, though, rather than the other people Like. He chose to involve the police officers in searching for Milton, but and he left other people alive at different times in the movie, but he did not choose to leave Amber Heard's boyfriend, ex-boyfriend alive. He chose to kill him, which was honestly not.

Shawn: 31:01

It was not a bad thing Like this guy's like dude, i think he was already sitting and he was already gonna die anyways.

Kiley: 31:06

Yeah, yeah, probably. So what would you say were your final thoughts and rating on the movie?

Shawn: 31:13

I think this movie was one giant dumpster fire, like it was like It's like Gif of Elmo and there's just a firebomb.

Kiley: 31:21

Yeah, like the Gif, like everything's gonna be fine because it's like a Frankenstein type of film.

Shawn: 31:30

I feel like they the director was trying to do too much in a film. You have a star like Nick Cage, you give them all this direction. Nick Cage solely was holding this film. Yeah, i would agree with that. He was probably like the best part, just because he was so out there.

Kiley: 31:50

He really just he's overacting. He just really bought into it and sold it. They were like, okay, you know what, I'm here with you on this journey, But also what the heck is happening Like throughout this movie. what is going on?

Shawn: 32:08

I feel like this movie is pretty much. even though it is a dumpster fire, it's a no-brainer. You don't have to think, It's just action. You get what you need from it just mindless violence from beginning to end, And I would give it a rating of five, Five stars. I would probably. Is this five out of 10? Five out of 10, yeah, Yeah.

Kiley: 32:31

I would agree.

Kiley: 32:33

I think, that I would give it five out of 10. A large portion due to Nicholas Cage's portrayal and how silly that was. But then also the lower score because of wow, i lost my train of thought. A lower score, yeah, it's definitely not a movie I probably would recommend to people, unless they were like I want to watch something. Well, completely hung over, out of my mind and not paying attention. Oh, i'd give him five stars because he didn't drive his angel. I'd give him five stars because he didn't drive as angry, nearly as much, as I thought he would. That's the title of the movie. I thought we were going to see it And we saw it barely until the third act, and even then he was just angry. He wasn't necessarily driving angry. I felt oversold.

Shawn: 33:24

Yeah, that was weird, like he did less driving in this movie.

Kiley: 33:29

Yeah like, why sell us on that if you're not going to drive angry man?

Shawn: 33:33

True, and he wasn't as angry.

Kiley: 33:36

He was more concentrated, but whatever. What can you do? Anyway, do you have your reviews pulled up on the letterbox?

Shawn: 33:43

Yeah, so we're going to move on to our next portion is where we pick two reviews that we'll read from users who also saw the film, who've given it a rating and review. Mine is going to be from user Earl 12456, who's given it a four star rating, And his review is going to be Drive Angry is a crazy movie over top nonsense. Nick Cage Performance is good.

Kiley: 34:25

That's yours.

Shawn: 34:26

Yeah, that's mine.

Kiley: 34:27

Okay line is from John is afraid. He gave it three stars, john. What are you afraid of? Isn't my question. Was it the movie? Are you afraid of the movie? I swear all afraid deep down. For his review he wrote I'm 99.9% sure that Nicholas Cage and Amber Heard didn't even know that they were being filmed throughout the entirety of this.

Emily: 34:51

Which I think is really funny.

Kiley: 34:52

I mean it's something you think about, like they're just acting naturally and they're just someone who happens to be catching them on camera, like that. that's pretty funny.

Shawn: 35:00

My second one's gonna be from user Tiffany. Let me be clear the one stars for Tom Atkins and the half stars for Nick Cage just being Nick Cage one and a half stars.

Kiley: 35:15

Wow, oh, people are harsh for this one, Harsher for this one than the knowing.

Kiley: 35:21

I'm surprised because I enjoyed this way more than knowing. the knowing felt like I lost hours of my life and it made me regret that I had gone down that journey. My second one is from someone named Reed who rated it three stars. He or she, i'm sorry they wrote I can't wait for drive angry two, drive angrier, drive angry three, drive angriest. and drive angry four Fury Road, which I think I would say. what about driving drive angry five, driving super angry. Coulda excuse me?

Shawn: 36:00

I feel like at some point they should include Nick Cage in the Fast and Furious.

Kiley: 36:05

Listen, that franchise is never gonna end. Yeah, you could bring Nicholas Cage in there. He'd probably bring some of the same energy that they currently have in those films.

Shawn: 36:16

They not Nick Cage, they should bring Milton's character. Oh, milton's character would be hilarious.

Kiley: 36:21

Because I need to be like dang. how is the supernatural exist in the Fast 10 universe, or Fast and Furious, when it just used to be about car racing? It ain't.

Shawn: 36:32

And spies and all that other stuff.

Kiley: 36:34

Yeah, spies. and now it's about international espionage Like it's crazy.

Shawn: 36:40

It's crazy.

Kiley: 36:41

Nothing. I just hope I evolve one day like how Fast and the Furious has evolved through the years. I want a journey like that, yeah.

Shawn: 36:49

But now getting off topic.

Kiley: 36:51

Yeah, we're getting off topic.

Shawn: 36:53

But that brings this episode to a close. So any final words.

Kiley: 36:58

Yes, if you'd like to keep listening, go ahead and subscribe or leave a rating or review. It's not as What is formatted all the time, but we do follow a general format. Sometimes our opinions are funny, sometimes we're just very confused. But yeah, that's all I would say.

Shawn: 37:21

Yeah, I'll just follow up. But yeah, we'll try to do our best with the formatting and she thinks it's fine. We'll continue this journey of Nick Cage through the multiverse.

Kiley: 37:36

We'll probably select our next film and I think you decided that it was gonna be next, wasn't it?

Shawn: 37:42

Yes, so you heard it first on the podcast.

Kiley: 37:46

Our next, the next film is going to be called, it would be called Next. Yeah, the irony.

Shawn: 37:52

Yeah, irony. And do you want to leave us with your cat face? Oh yeah.

Kiley: 37:58

I lost my And I lost my wife. Joni has his hand, joni has his wife. I'm gonna die saying that.

Emily: 38:08

All right, and that brings us to a close. Bye. Thanks for tuning into this episode of Second Emulation, where we explore the latest in pop culture movies, tv shows and anime. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, spotify or your favorite podcast app and leave us a rating and review to help us reach more listeners. And don't forget to follow us on social media for even more pop culture content And to stay up to date on all the latest news and releases. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions for future episodes. So until next time, keep on emulating and stay tuned for more exciting content.