Episode notes
This week, we dove fists-first into Cage—a movie that’s part underground fight club, part insensitive fever dream, and 100% baffling. Starring Lou Ferrigno as a brain-damaged Vietnam vet and Reb Brown as the most aggressively '80s sidekick(?) imaginable, this film raises a lot of questions—mostly: “How did this get made?” and “Why is this so casually offensive?” and "Who is this for?".
We unpack the film’s uneasy relationship with the Asian community, explore how our so-called "heroes" manipulate a mentally handicapped man into cage fighting for profit, and somehow still find time to marvel at Ferrigno's sincere performance trapped in a movie that has no idea what tone it’s going for.
Bring your disbelief and a stiff drink. You're gonna need both.
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ComedyMovieFunActionDark ComedyUnintentional ComedyDramatic OverkillMovie DiscussionBizarre Cinema