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Blank Check with Griffin & David
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2018
Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail.
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We apologize in advance if you had a profound emotional experience with the new Robert Zemeckis joint - HERE felt like more of a “Here?? What???? Why?” to us. Dinosaurs, Benjamin Franklin’s cuck son, a man dying from laughter, a horny couple who invent the LA-Z Boy, airplane man (who does NOT die from airplane), and the double whammy of the Black Lives Matter movement and Covid all come together to create a strange boomer diorama that misses much of the quotidian beauty of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel. Will Bobby Z. ever make a good movie again? Griffin’s not feeling bullish on the prospects.
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based on how griffin talks about his life, he was 17 from around 97 through to around 07. dude's gone full big fish with his life story.
Alden looks like River Phoenix in Last Crusade, he would be good I think
ic xc ni ka toutos simionus foveros demoni acesta este cuvântul inspaimantator dracilor demonilor
Are studios stupid? Flat fee or % of gross? For a tentpole summer picture?
You guys prefer the dog or ox cut?
I know podcasters as a group handled covid poorly but jesus did Griffin really not handle covid well.
46:48 lol Griffin says it correctly the first time.
Shooter is Mark Wahlberg's best film yes even better than Boogie Nights
The original graphic novel is a straight up masterpiece, but I knew immediately when this was announced that turning it into Forrest Gump 2 would be a terrible idea.
01:23:10; you totally are.
I'm a big fan of the show and the guys but the way they cut someone like Shamylan so much slack yet won't take others seriously at all at times can be a bit obnoxious.
This movie should've been directed by Terrence Malick
the only one who could do it and make it good
Here? Hear?
10:04; voice cameo as the security guard in "The Walk".
great episode but Griffins lack of knowledge of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills knowledge is shocking
An Alan Silvestri score can save or sometimes ruin a film. I once watched a fan edit of Super Mario Bros with a replaced score that made it 60% better.
Could you provide a link?
OLD MEN STOP HAVING BONERS AND STOP BEING ABLE TO TELL A STORY these things are related.
You guys making me wait an additional week for your Mulholland Drive episode? For this?
You guys don't like UP? :/
Too short of a title to make a funny pun
the BLM scene was worse than Crash
you are just racist
Not Bobby Z's best
@CorridorCrew need to get their hands around this film and break down the CGI.It looks like dogs hot in the trailer. My theory is Bobby Zs eyesight is so gone he needs it all turning up to 11. Also, I'm not sure the dinosaur ender of a asteroid would be seen from New England or has the location moved?
M Knight Hatonahat
Do their youtube uploads have ads? I noticed this is shorter than the podcast app version.
Robert Richardson shoots the shit out of the twist/reveal scene in Shutter Island
You didn't like THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008)? Edgelord.
You're forgetting about HJO playing Forrest Gump Jr
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The First Omen is one of the best first feature directorial debuts since The VVitch and Heredity. Stevenson is a director to watch. Look forward to her comments on Lynch.
Chris Rock made a joke about Jada at the Oscars years before the Will Smith slap? 1:03:25 ??
The music comparison David is thinking of is Bruce Springsteen. It's often said people who list Nebraska as their favorite Bruce album aren't really Bruce fans
Yep. His version of Atlantic City on Nebraska, while not the masterpiece that The Band's is, is pretty strong though.
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Fight Club and Memento and Ameerican Beauty, these totems of pre-9/11 cinema were all edging on critiques of capitalism, just in a different way than say, Starship Troopers. But the pervert ennui decay or whatever that an 'end of history' type movie had was pretty quickly replaced with the hoorah. Critics saying they're turned off by a movie like Fight Club because of a toxic fanbase that the movie satirizes is a symptom of neoliberal rot. Was going to joke that Stevens is probably a Slate writer, and she is.
The irony of a leftist thinking they're better than anyone who doesn't call themselves a socialist isn't lost on me.
I'm not convinced that one's politics has as much to do with one's response to Fight Club as the nature of one's sense of humour does. Putting it crudely - you either get the joke, or you don't.
Gethard says he has a long and storied history with Diddy.... i feel like, ben should come in with an insert saying the diddy door is closed forever
Love The Straight Story ❤
David Lynch & Disney… now that’s an interesting combination
Absolutely love Lost Highway! For me it's endlessly rewatchable strange kind of meditation. And I'm a huge fan of Bill Pullman. I loved your take on character actor in a leading man's body - that's so true! It feels like most of the time nobody knows what to do with him or just sees him as a not-so-compelling straight man. He is terrific in both farce comedies and noir thrillers. By the way, check out Mike Figgis' "Liebestraum", it kinda resembles Lost Highway in some themes and slow dark-dreamy nature.
Alden would be a great young Indy. I think Steven was reminded of River Phoenix in Last Crusade when he discovered Alden in that Bar mitzvah sketch
This movie needed to be more queer
It is a very straight story
I don't even know what THE STRAIGHT STORY is
If I remember correctly, at the beginning of "Coming to America" Eddie Murphy asks his arranged-bride to bark like a dog, and she responds with "Arf! Arf!" That's the only example I can think of.
Two of my most despised movies of all time (Jerry Maguire and The English Patient) were out in the same week? Hmm, maybe I was just really grumpy.
80% on RT. 66% on metacritic. $7,500,000 budget... took in $41,300,000. WHAT???
"Mike Meyers is kinda cut" at any time is beyond unreasonable
dont forget Ricky Jay as Gupta the heroin addict in Tomorrow Never Dies
Suddenly I See has been stuck in my head since 2006. and every time I make a grilled cheese with Kraft singles I pretend it's $8 worth of Jarlsberg.
You guys need to watch how you speak about the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
One of my favorite Lynch movies, this should be fun
Wasn’t that the plot of hangover 3, not hangover 2 that griffin was talking about?
Just a minor comment: nope, it's not a Trent Reznor remix of I'm Deranged in the opening and closing credits. Those are just minor edits of the album version to meet the film's timing/needs.
I had never considered this in the context of the OJ trial and, I mean, duh. I'll have to keep that in mind next time I watch. Thanks, Blank Check!
Is it just me , having never seen A Straight Story, but are Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart the only times Lynch has tackled any sort of true joy?
I don’t know, I’d say that all his work has a certain amount of joy, with the possible one exception of Lost Highway; which is bleak as hell.
@@anisioc.3426 Maybe it's just hard for me to discern. He tackles darkness so aggressively and doesn't really telegraph the joy. I could also just be a dumb dumb and not picking up on it.
Inland Empire as well