Blank Check — Patreon: RoboCop (2014)

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “RoboCop (2014)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Ben Hosley (producer), Marika Brownlee (stops in briefly).

Subject films: RoboCop (2014).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy crosstalk; speaker attributions are guesses. This is a live-viewing commentary track, so timestamps roughly follow the film, with long tangents (Mets, Lord of the Rings, news) breaking it up.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Years for films were not all said in the transcript; years like 1987 (original), 1990, 1993 (RoboCop 2/3), 2005/2008/2009 and others are my own and are included only as year fields.
Names like Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle, Zach Grenier, Abbie Cornish, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Douglas Urbanski, Fernando Meirelles, Chi-Raq are my corrections of mangled transcript spellings.
Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner are my identification for the 'Numeyron Minor' credit; the speakers name only the surname-like garble.
Character names (Alex Murphy, Dr. Dennett Norton, Raymond Sellars, Pat Novak, Rick Flag) are partly from my memory or inferred; the transcript gives Murphy, Norton and 'Mr. Sellers' only loosely.
Edward 209 / ED-209 for the drone robot is as said ('Ed 209').
Kinnaman as Rick Flag in The Suicide Squad: the transcript says 'Rick Flagg' after a garbled name; I attached it to Kinnaman.

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career (career): Michael Keaton → Need for Speed. Keaton did two failed franchise starters in 2014 as supporting work.
“Michael Keaton is in need for speed and Robocop.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:04:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Keaton → Spotlight. Keaton's arc runs from Need for Speed and RoboCop through the Oscar near-win to Spotlight, which cements him as an elder statesman.
“Almost wins an Oscar and then spotlight just solidifies it of like Elder Statesman”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:05:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Keaton → Birdman. This is the last pre-comeback Keaton role, and Birdman follows with him owning a guy his age.
“It is the last movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:05:24 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): José Padilha → Elite Squad. Padilha comes from a gritty, stripped-down neo-realist police-force background, so the studio hired him for a serious reboot.
“this is the director who comes from a sort of like gritty kind of, uh, stripped down neo-realist”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:10:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Darren Aronofsky → RoboCop. Aronofsky was first choice, stayed three years, then left because MGM could not fund the film, the start of his flirtations with franchises.
“Yes, Darren Aronovsky is the 1st choice.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:11:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. In the original, Murphy loses his identity and must rediscover it; here he never does, and the host calls that stupid.
“he never loses his identity.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:18:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): RoboCop → RoboCop. The OCP change to OmniCorp is read as a change made because the original seems corny today.
“the differentiations they make feel driven by like, well, if you watch the original now, it's kind of corny.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:22:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Christopher Nolan → Gary Oldman. Nolan offered Oldman the Gordon part, which the speakers say reset Oldman's career.
“Nolan offers Rashal Ghoul to Gary Oldman, of course.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:24:23 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Gary Oldman → Batman Begins. Oldman's Gordon role changed his career after a stretch as a studio villain, and RoboCop asks him to play Gordon again without the mustache.
“He's just kind of Gordon without a mustache being like, Robocop, I'm really trying to help you here.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:24:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Joel Kinnaman → For All Mankind. Kinnaman is great in For All Mankind as Ed Baldwin, the only actor to appear in every season.
“he plays Ed Baldwin, who's one of the original astronauts.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:26:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. A remake that pushes seriousness and cuts the humor, though the humor is what people remember about the original.
“you're like, huh, because the humor's the stuff that people remember.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:30:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): José Padilha → Fernando Meirelles. Meirelles said Padilha told him making RoboCop was the worst experience of his life, with nine of every ten ideas cut.
“Every 10 ideas I have, 9 are cut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:31:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): RoboCop → RoboCop. The original's way of showing the conversion was good, but the remake skips the time lapse and wakes him already built.
“the way they did it was really a good way to do it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): RoboCop → Venom. Keeping his face visible is a studio note, like Topher Grace in Venom, so the visor keeps swinging up and down.
“So in this, it's like Topher Grace Venom where they're like, well, his visor comes up anytime he speaks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Legacy Effects → The Tick. The shop that holds the RoboCop suits also did a lot of the effects work on The Tick, which the speaker knows from working on that show.
“I just know legacy effects who did a lot of stuff on the tick.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:34:42 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Legacy Effects → RoboCop. After the first suit photos went over badly, the production gave Legacy Effects about two weeks to build a second suit closer to the 1987 look, per what the shop told the speaker.
“the production panicked when the 1st photos came out and the response was so bad and we were given like 2 weeks to make a new suit that looked more like the 80s movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:34:47 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. The remake keeps the hand as a clever Easter egg that inverts Bob Morton's order to junk the hand.
“in this one they keep the hand.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Avatar. The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
“It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): RoboCop → The Wizard of Oz. The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart.
“If I only had a heart is what it's.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): RoboCop → Focus. The training sequence plays Focus's 'Hocus Pocus' as the Tin Man 'If I Only Had a Heart' joke.
“Hocus pocus by focus.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Batman Begins. The remake is part of the grounded-and-serious wave that followed Nolan; the speakers say this film marks the end of it.
“The Batman begins effect.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Terminator Salvation. Non-Nolan grim-and-grounded reboots like this one end up self-serious but made by a dumb person and noted to death.
“you get Terminator salvation, you get these movies that are just like self-serious but made by a dumb person”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:57 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. The remake's Easter eggs, like the hand and the I'd buy that for a dollar line, feel dismissive of the original.
“Like all the jokes they make feel dismissive of the original film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Casino Royale. Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original.
“It's like the Casino Royale.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): RoboCop → Batman Begins. The black rubber suit and the motorcycle read as Nolan's Batman, not as a robot.
“And then the suit looks very Nolan Batman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:52:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): RoboCop → Batman: Arkham Asylum. The scanning and target-tagging scenes feel video-gamey, specifically like the Arkham games.
“Like this is like Arkham Asylum.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:54:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): RoboCop → Iron Man. The remake arrives six years after Iron Man nailed the cool-guy-in-a-robot-suit idea and gets nowhere close.
“Iron Man has nailed what they're trying to do and they're coming to the party 6 years late and not getting anywhere close, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:56:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Joel Kinnaman → RoboCop. Kinnaman's mixed accent, English with his dad and Swedish with his mom, gives Murphy an odd rhythm that stands in for the monotone.
“that gives him a version of the kind of weird Robocop monotonous voice, you know?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:57:59 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → Robocop 2. The speakers say RoboCop 2's satire goes big where this film does not.
“The fun of Robocop 2 is how big they can go with the satire.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:04:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Paul Verhoeven → Total Recall. Almost every Verhoeven Hollywood film got a remake or sequel, including Total Recall and RoboCop.
“almost every one of his Hollywood films was either sequelized or remade.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:06:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): John Carpenter → RoboCop. Carpenter got better at accepting executive-producer money on remakes of his ideas, while Verhoeven gets no checks.
“I will happily be a nominal, stupid executive producer or whatever if you pay me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:07:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): RoboCop → Chi-Raq (transcribed 'Shyraq'). Jackson's direct-address monologues here recall Chi-Raq, where he has fun as a meta narrator; here he is muzzled.
“Samuel Jackson has a character who similarly is doing like direct address to the camera monologues, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:09:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Samuel L. Jackson → Chi-Raq (transcribed 'Shyraq'). Jackson is in showman mode in Chi-Raq, a contrast to the restrained role here.
“He's in like showman mode in that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:09:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Metal Gear Solid → Final Destination: Bloodlines. The Final Destination Bloodlines directors are doing a Metal Gear Solid film at Sony.
“the fucking Found Destination Bloodline guy's doing Metal Gear Solid at Sony.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:15:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. Keaton's villain stays the same until a rooftop face-off; the speakers imagine Ronny Cox's version in his place.
“if Michael Keaton is fucking Ronnie Cox, you know. The movie like doesn't have a villain.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. The original's villains were iconic and specific; this one has a gangster, corruption, and a businessman, but no physical antagonist.
“He has no physical antagonist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): RoboCop → The Avengers. The film is pre-Marvel franchise filmmaking that landed two years after The Avengers and feels out of touch with trends.
“this movie comes out 2 years after the Avengers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:21:08 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): RoboCop → Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ranked against another 2014 one-star Patreon pick, the host likes this less than either it or Ouija.
“I think I like this less than either.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:22:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): RoboCop → Ouija. One-star Patreon-feed comparison: the hosts rate this film worse than Ouija.
“I think this is worse than Ouija.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:22:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): RoboCop → RoboCop 3. They rank the sequels against each other: 2 is better than 3, though both beat this film.
“Robocop 3 is like Lunchables Pizza?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:29:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): RoboCop → The Mandalorian and Grogu. A stoic armored parent who secretly cares is called basically RoboCop 3.
“It's basically RoboCop 3.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:34:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Hobbit → Christopher Lee. In The Hobbit, an aged Christopher Lee's head was CGI'd onto a body double, a worry for an aged Gandalf.
“they clearly CGI'd his head onto a body double?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:37:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Ian McKellen → The Lord of the Rings. The hosts imagine a new Lord of the Rings film about hunting for Gollum, with McKellen and Wood back and Kate Winslet leading.
“Kate Winslet is obviously leading that heart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:38:08 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Total Recall. The Wiseman remake of Total Recall is cited as an equally boring office-building finale, a remake sibling to this film.
“This is so similar to the Wiseman Total Recall.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:43:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael K. Williams → The Wire. Casting directors loved The Wire and Omar, so he gets cast in a small part.
“I love the wire and I love Omar.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:50:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): About Last Night → Sexual Perversity in Chicago. About Last Night is a remake of an earlier version drawn from a Chicago play.
“About last night is a remake of the actual version of sexual perverses in Chicago.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:58:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Steve Pink → High Fidelity. Steve Pink directed About Last Night and co-wrote High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank.
“Who co-wrote high fidelity and gross point blank.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:59:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): The Monuments Men → George Clooney. One of Clooney's biggest financial hits, even though the hacked Sony emails showed he thought it was bad.
“Because we know in 2014, the Sony hacks revealed that even George Clooney thought this movie was bad”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:00:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Endless Love → Tom Cruise. The 1981 Endless Love was Tom Cruise's first screen performance.
“it's also Tom Cruise's 1st screen performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:01:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Shana Feste → Country Strong. Endless Love's director also made The Greatest, Country Strong and Boundaries, mostly 2010s chick flicks.
“Endless love directed by Shana Feste, who made the greatest.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:02:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Resident Evil (film series) → Paul W.S. Anderson. The next series is the Paul W.S. Anderson-involved Resident Evil films, all six, then Welcome to Raccoon City.
“Paul W.S. Anderson's President Evil.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:04:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

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fun, about RoboCop (2014) - Aronofsky: Aronofsky was announced at Comic-Con and stayed on three years before MGM's money trouble ended it.
“He stayed on it for like 3 years.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:12:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - casting: MGM floated Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp, then Fassbender and Schoenaerts, then settled on Kinnaman.
“Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:13:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Joel Kinnaman: Kinnaman said his dad, an American soldier, deserted during Vietnam and ended up in Sweden; he spoke English with his dad and Swedish with his mom.
“I spoke English with my dad in Swedish with my mom.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:19:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about José Padilha: He told Meirelles it was hell; Meirelles repeated it in the press as a warning about Hollywood.
“I'm having the worst experience of my life.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:30:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - suit: The first suit reveal got an awful response a week or two into filming, so the production panicked and had two weeks to build a second, 80s-style suit that could fit only 15 to 20 minutes of the film.
“the production panicked when the 1st photos came out and the response was so bad”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:34:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - the mirror scene: The one scene the host likes: Murphy is stripped down to his lungs, brain and one hand and made to look in a mirror, called the Cronenberg moment.
“And then this is like the Cronenberg moment of this film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:39:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - anatomy: The film answers the question: he does not have a dick.
“They do answer the question, he does not have a dick.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:40:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jackie Earle Haley: Haley told the host while filming The Tick that he was proud of this performance because it was a different thing he doesn't usually get.
“was like really proud of this performance”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:45:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - Hocus Pocus: The training montage plays Focus's Hocus Pocus, one of the few things the hosts like.
“Hocus pocus by focus.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - Bing: Product placement for Microsoft Bing in a Sony movie.
“Microsoft Bing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:49:05 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - stars: Griffin gives the film one star on the Patreon scale and says it is 'an F'.
“I'm just going to tell you, okay, this movie's getting one star for me, okay?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:21:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Griffin's bootleg RoboCop toy: Griffin pulls out a true bootleg RoboCop toy from his shelves, blue and silver with misapplied paint, which still looks better than the movie.
“But somehow still looks better than what we're watching, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:24:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Pizza analogy: The hosts rank the RoboCops as pizza: the original is the best pizza ever, 2 is cafeteria pizza, 3 is Lunchables pizza, and this one is a picture of pizza stomped on.
“Robocop one is like the best pizza you've ever had.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:29:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - ending: The final showdown is Keaton holding the wife and son at gunpoint on a rooftop helipad to get away in a helicopter.
“The final showdown of this movie is Michael Keaton holding Alex Murphy's wife and sonic gunpoint on the rooftop helipad.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:46:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Keaton: Keaton told Marc Maron the new RoboCop might be good if they let the director do what he says.
“If they let him do what he's saying, it could be interesting, who knows?”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:48:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael K. Williams: Casting people loved The Wire and Omar and kept giving him small parts.
“he can play the ninth character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:50:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Samuel L. Jackson: The film ends with Jackson saying good night; the host jokes that his favorite part of his movies is when he doesn't say motherfucker.
“It's my favorite part of his movies is when he doesn't say motherfucker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:55:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - budget and box office: Budget estimated between $100 and $130 million; opened third at $21 million, made $58 million domestic, $242 million worldwide.
“It made 58 domestic, 242 worldwide.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:56:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - sequel: Neill Blomkamp was attached to a sequel and Neumeier and Miner came back with an old-man script called RoboCop Returns; it never happened.
“Yeah, it was called Robocop Returns.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:57:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Endless Love: Opened at $13 million; the 1981 original starred Brooke Shields and was Tom Cruise's first screen performance.
“because the original is a Brooke Shields movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:01:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about RoboCop (2014) - the hosts' ranking: All four films ranked: original is a clear number one; the hosts put 2 mildly above or below 3.
“I would say there's a pretty clear number one in the ranking of Robocop.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:04:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil series: Next up on the feed: all six Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil films, three of them 3D, with a 3D commentary.
“Three 3D entries.”
Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): A RoboCop devotee with posters, a bust and a bootleg toy in the office, who loves the Verhoeven original and its satire. He can't stand humorless grounded remakes that cut the jokes and the visor. A sucker for baseball giveaways at Mets games and Easter eggs done right.
David Sims (host): Film critic who writes for the Atlantic; likes Joel Kinnaman, For All Mankind and Michael Keaton's rhythms. He is hard on the film but follows the industry context closely. A sucker for box-office trivia and the Mets.
Ben Hosley (guest): The producer, in the room for the viewing. He seems bored, paces, and wants the film to end. He is not a big fan of the film's action either, and is the one asked to bring out bootleg toys.

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Jose/Petty/Padilla → José Padilha
Jackie O'Halley/O'Hilly → Jackie Earle Haley
Jennifer Ealy → Jennifer Ehle
J Barrichell → Jay Baruchel
Zach Ranier → Zach Grenier
Marie Jean Baptiste → Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Abby Cornish → Abbie Cornish
Fernando Merrill/Miro/Morales → Fernando Meirelles
Douglas Rabansky → Douglas Urbanski
Numeyron Minor → Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner
Gamora → probably 'Gomorrah'
Shyraq → Chi-Raq
Sam Jack → Samuel L. Jackson
Kinnaman rendered as Kenaman/Kellerman/Kittaman
'Jack Lewis' before the Suicide Squad lines: garbled, likely a Kinnaman/Rick Flag cue
'robocup', 'robacup', 'rokoff' → RoboCop
Mrs. 'Corners' → Abbie Cornish
Rust and Bone rendered as 'Rustin Bone' and 'Justin Bone'
Resident Evil as 'President Evil'

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