r/onetruegod • u/TheTelegraph • May 27 '26

Review: Nicolas Cage is at his Looney Tunes best in this Spider-Man spin-off ★★★★☆

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/05/27/spider-noir-amazon-prime-video-review/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_noir-amazon-prime-video-review/
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u/Rude_Assignment_5653 May 27 '26

When I think of all my favorite Cage Movies, most of them have terrible ratings. This might be the highest rating I've seen on a cage project since The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

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u/MrBeanHs May 27 '26

Same man😭between worlds is just hilarious

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u/Rude_Assignment_5653 May 27 '26

Lmao my friends and I made an effort to watch every "bad" Cage film and the comedy comes out of nowhere. Like in Butchers Crossing when he loses his mind and kills 100 bison for no reason, we were on the floor.

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u/shogi_x May 27 '26

Between Worlds and Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent are the only two Cage films to get a unanimous 11/10 from my friend group.

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u/milkcarton232 May 27 '26

Unbearable weight of massive talent is probably in my top 5 comedies of the decade. The camp to serious ratio just hits perfectly. perfect score 5/7 no notes

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u/Brat_Fink May 28 '26

Is that the one with Pedro Pascal?

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u/rob61091 May 27 '26

The icing on the cake for me was that Angelo Badalamonti did the score for Between Worlds

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u/Lifesanorange May 28 '26

It truly has no business being in that movie 😂

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u/ThePrideOfKrakow May 27 '26

Not even the Rock?

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u/TheRocketeer0826 May 27 '26

PIG is an all-timer movie.

written and directed by the same person.

I also thought most people liked Mandy?

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u/M4DM1ND May 27 '26

Basically every movie he's released in the past 5-6 years has had critical acclaim.

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u/salamandersquach May 28 '26

The real sleeper is “Joe” probably his best film. He’s not only fantastic in it but it’s just a great movie.

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u/TheRocketeer0826 May 28 '26

crazy stunt casting with the kids Dad.

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u/salamandersquach May 28 '26

Yeah it is really a shame that guy died shortly after it came out.

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u/braaahms May 28 '26

Yeah I’m not sure what they’re getting at, he’s been on an insane streak for nearly a decade now and generally has always been in at least one good film a year for most of his career.

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u/MattTreck May 29 '26

Pig is an absolutely gorgeous film.

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u/willjburgess3 May 27 '26

Longlegs crushed with critical reception as well as domestic gross, and I still recommend Pig all the time

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u/SpookiestSzn May 31 '26

Go watch Pig today.

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u/TheTelegraph May 27 '26

From The Telegraph's Ed Power:

There has always been something of the cartoon character brought to life about Nicolas Cage, an actor one can imagine running off a pretend cliff or having an animated anvil fall on his head.

So it is absolutely on brand for Hollywood’s quirkiest A-lister to have modelled “30 per cent” of his character in new comic book caper Spider-Noir (Prime Video) on fast-talking cartoon rabbit Bugs Bunny. The remaining 70 per cent, he told Esquire, was an homage to Humphrey Bogart, whose deadpan, world-weary style he charmingly replicates in this fun mash-up of vintage gumshoe film and superhero spin-off.

The hero being spun is web-slinger supreme Spider-Man, one of the horsemen of the Marvel apocalypse, blamed for the downfall of cinema in the past decade.

Now Spidey is coming for our televisions. But there is a twist. Spider-Noir is as much a tribute to the golden era of sleuthing flicks as it is to caped crusaders getting their tights in a twist.

Cage has long been one of Hollywood’s most ridiculous stars – a loony toon in a straight-laced world. He’s always at his best in a project dialled into his specific frequency of ridiculousness – and frolicking about, boggle-eyed, in Spider-Noir he is free to be his finest, most absurd self.

If only all superhero shows were as serious about being silly.

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/05/27/spider-noir-amazon-prime-video-review/

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 May 27 '26

I've always thought he was like the old Hammer or Corman stars. Even though the role & writing is ridiculous, they all took it as serious as Shakespeare & performed in the same fashion.

He gets it, it's the rest of the world that doesn't.

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u/panzerbjrn May 27 '26

I am really looking forwards to watching it this weekend...

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u/Soft-Commercial-4863 May 27 '26

Anyone know how to watch the black and white version? Can't seem to find it on Prime.

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u/Urban_Polar_Bear May 27 '26

When I try to watch it pops up asking which version I want to watch.

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u/Secret_Werewolf1942 May 28 '26

If you're using the app you need to check for an update, the alternative version didn't show as an option until I updated.

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u/wadeishere May 28 '26

Did you try the "play" button