#58: Outcast/Left Behind (with Dave White)

This week, Linoleum Knife 's Dave White joins us for some rigorous religious scholarship surrounding two of Cage's Godliest movies! First, there's Vic Armstrong's adaptation of the best-selling apocalypse novel Left Behind , starring Cage in one of his sleepiest roles as hotshot airline pilot Rayford Steele, who finds himself flying a plane where half the passengers -- and his co-pilot -- have disappeared thanks to the Rapture. On the one hand, it's the rare Christsploitation movie where it doesn't feel like a feature-length Fox News segment; on the other, it's a cheap, warmed-over Airport riff featuring shoddy effects, wonky pacing, and an all-timer breakdown from American Idol 's Jordin Sparks. Then we travel East for Outcast , a Chinese-American-Canadian coproduction in which, much like Season of the Witch , Cage plays one half of a pair of Crusade Knights who quit the church because genocide is a bit too spicy for his taste. Problem is, it's not his movie: it's Hayden Christensen, glowering his way through poorly-shot fight choreography in a limp chase movie set in ancient China. Sure, Cage shows up in the last act with snake-hands and a British accent like a Disneyland Jack Sparrow impersonator, but it's not quite enough to save this slog. Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage

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#58: Outcast/Left Behind (with Dave White) is an episode from Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast by Nathan Rabin.

This episode is 01:08:51 long.

This episode was published on Feb 9, 2023.

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