320 – Matchstick Men

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

After his comeback stretch of high grossers Gladiator, Hannibal, and Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott returned in 2003 with a downshift into the character focused Matchstick Men. The film starred Nicolas Cage as a conman with compounding mental health issues who is then reunited with his daughter, played by Alison Lohman. With Sam Rockwell as Cage’s partner in con, the film played both Venice and TIFF to a positive critical reception, but was ultimately forgotten by awards voters by the end of the year.

This episode, we discuss Scott’s waning Oscar chances this year for Gladiator 2 and Scott is our first director to get a Six Timers quiz. We also discuss Cage’s stretch between his Oscar win and the Adaptation nomination, Lohman’s transformation into a teenager, and Rockwell’s emergence into a beloved character actor in the early 2000s.

Topics also include the audience response to City of Angels, local bakeries, and Nutcracker and the Four Realms.

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0:00.0	Joe, I am so pissed that I can't get interstellar points.
0:03.9	I know that this is a 10-
0:06.0	retroactive movie fantasy league
0:09.9	prior to existing, but like,
0:14.9	interstellar banging out those IMAX screens.
0:17.8	Man, like, that's... Not draftable.
0:21.2	Once again, the dying theatrical movie art form, not so much if Interstellar is packing
0:30.2	him in in IMAX.
0:31.7	Like, that's pretty rad.
0:32.8	I love that.
0:33.6	As I wrote for The Daily Beast, if you didn't get a ticket already, too bad.
0:38.0	Yes.
0:38.8	Also, kind of at this point in the movie Fantasy League, if you didn't draft either Moana 2 or Wicked, too bad at this stage of the game at least, because they are stomping all over everybody's rosters and stomping all over the leaderboard right now.
0:53.5	Very true.
0:54.8	Well, Wicked, wicked, I think, especially at the dollar price that it was draftable for,
1:02.9	I feel like Wicked is priming to be maybe the first points leader that is not guaranteed
1:10.4	to be a best picture winner, maybe.
1:13.2	Maybe.
1:14.0	Like, considering what else is up for best picture, but the amount of money Wicked is making,
1:20.2	Wicked could definitely be the biggest point earner already.
1:24.5	You were able to, if you were able to draft it at its going price, which was, I believe, $20 in,
1:32.6	you could have had Wicked for the same amount that you could have had Joker Folly Adieu for.
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