{"id":6809,"date":"2024-09-19T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T02:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T02:37:17","slug":"the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched &quot;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&quot; starring Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal. It was my second time, and I didn&#8217;t remember much from the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I think the first time I watched, I was badly effected by the early scene where he gets drunk and ruins his daughter&#8217;s birthday party. It&#8217;s one of those scenes where I cringed so hard I wanted to crawl under the couch. Just super uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Took a bit of the punch out of the rest of the movie, is what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>On the second watch I closed my eyes and ears during that whole bit, and it was a much more enjoyable movie. I mean, sure, there were still some parts of it that were like &quot;This could have been cut or changed and it would be better,&quot; but the interactions between Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal&#8217;s Javi were a delight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not ever saying that it&#8217;s on my list of favored movies, but it was a fun lazy evening watch. (When they&#8217;re on LSD lol!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying you should rent or buy the movie. But if it&#8217;s already on your streaming service, why not give it a shot? Other than the birthday party scene, the rest is a fairly enjoyable watch.<\/p>\n<p>~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\">https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimichee.com\">https:\/\/kimichee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social\">https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched &quot;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&quot; starring Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal. It was my second time, and I didn&#8217;t remember much from the first time. I think the first time I watched, I was badly effected by the early scene where he gets drunk and ruins his daughter&#8217;s birthday party. It&#8217;s one&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent\/\" title=\"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[926],"tags":[928,970],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-movie-review","tag-movie-review","tag-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1LP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}