S16 Ep859: City of Angels (1998)
We Hate Movies
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4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
“He’s the best part of this movie” - Chris on Dennis Franz
On this week’s show, Remake-ril heads to Los Angeles as we chat about the sappy Hollywood remake, City of Angels!
A reimagining of Wim Wenders’ 1987 masterpiece, Wings of Desire, this film features Nicholas Cage as the lovelorn angel… Seth? How great, truly, is Dennis Franz in this movie? Why couldn’t they have kept Meg’s character a trapeze artist instead of switching it to a doctor? Should these angels be watching stuff like bath tub shenanigans? How weird is it to hear Sarah McLachlin’s “Angel” when that dog PSA isn’t on your TV? Does Colm Feore’s character give one of the worst movie marriage proposals of all time? And was that Michael Mann as the cigarette-smoking bar extra? PLUS: What a Rolling Rock commercial!
City of Angels stars Meg Ryan, Nicholas Cage, Andre Braugher, Colm Feore, Robin Bartlett, Joanna Merlin, and Dennis Franz as Mr. Messinger; directed by Brad Silberling.
Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the program, well, I don't want the world to see me because I don't think they'd understand what the hell I was doing watching this movie. |
| 0:06.4 | We're talking City of Angels. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Andrew Juppin. |
| 0:09.5 | Steven Sadek. |
| 0:10.4 | Eric Siska. |
| 0:11.5 | Falling Chris Cabin. |
| 0:13.3 | And we hate movies. |
| 0:15.1 | Music. I'm Hello, everyone. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the fine program, as always. |
| 0:44.6 | Thank you for tuning in this week, because that's right. |
| 0:46.9 | Remake roll continues, because we're talking about City of Angels from 1998, directed by Brad Silberling. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, this guy, you may recall his work previous episode a long time ago. |
| 1:01.2 | Casper, the friendly ghost, he directed that motion picture. |
| 1:06.0 | Moonlight Mile, which I think is a Jake Gyllenhaal. |
| 1:08.5 | It is indeed. |
| 1:09.6 | A movie from the Outs I didn't see. |
| 1:11.9 | Land of the Lost, the Will Ferrell |
| 1:14.1 | adaptation there. |
| 1:16.8 | And also the adaptation, |
| 1:18.7 | a series of unfortunate events, |
| 1:20.8 | the Lemony Snicket Netflix. |
| 1:23.5 | Oh, the movie's called that. |
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