Blank Check — Patreon: The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free)

Published 2022-10-30; 2:54:07 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Tim Simons.

Subject films: The Shining.

On the transcript: Unlabelled speakers, heavy transcriber errors on proper names; the long Draft Day anecdote, King vs Kubrick dossier, and box office game are the main film-bearing sections. Ad reads are not present; podcast crew credits at the end are omitted.

Films that came up

Claims (53)

industry (release timing): Halloween → The Shining. The Shining arrives two years after Halloween rewrote the rules of killing everyone.
“But yeah, this movie is 2 years after Halloween”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:04:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (release timing): Jaws → The Shining. The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is.
“This is 5 years after Jaws.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (prestige horror): The Exorcist → The Shining. Compared as prestige horror with major actors based on a bestseller.
“That's a similar thing where it's like prestige horror with major actors based on a bestseller.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:07:24 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation): Stephen King → The Shining. The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie.
“This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (led to): The Shining → 1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.). After The Shining and Carrie came the real 1980s wave of King adaptations.
“the real 80s wave of like lots of king stuff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (director): Ivan Reitman → Draft Day. The show's Ivan Reitman series covers Draft Day.
“This is a podcast about the films of Ivan Reitman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:28:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): The Shining → Scent of a Woman. Nicholson's performance is compared to Pacino's codifying all his tics in one role.
“this kind of is his sense of a woman, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:35:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Tim Robinson. Nicholson's second bar scene is half a percent from an I Think You Should Leave performance.
“is about one half of a percent away from an I think you should leave Tim Robinson performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:37:13 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career context): Barry Lyndon → The Shining. Kubrick needed a commercial genre play after the Barry Lyndon flop.
“off of Barry Linden was a flop”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (answered by): The Shining → Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries). King's own miniseries is described as him showing folks the real Shining, after his objections to the film.
“okay, time to roll up my sleeves and show you folks the real shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:47:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
unmapped (documentary about): Room 237 → The Shining. Room 237 is a documentary about the many readings of The Shining.
“It's a movie about how many different ways this movie can be read, but it's just about it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:48:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (over-read puzzle): Nope → The Shining. Kubrick was not leaving breadcrumbs, unlike filmmakers like Peele who now construct puzzle movies.
“Whereas I think Kubrick was not intentionally like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:51:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (over-read): 2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining. Like 2001, Kubrick's films prompt people to ask what they mean.
“2001, obviously, is one of those like, wait, what's the meaning of that?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:57:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
“Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Stanley Kubrick → Network. Kubrick was approached to direct Network, which would have been an interesting what-if.
“To direct network, which is an interesting what if?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:00:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (technique): Sidney Lumet → Daniel. Lumet's choice on Daniel was to never show the sky until the end.
“never show the sky.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:02:29 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (talked out of it): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Chayefsky eventually told Kubrick he should not direct Network because they were both control freaks.
“Cheevsky eventually is like, you shouldn't do it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (blueprint): Stephen King → The Shining. The speakers read Kubrick saying the novel's plot is a good blueprint for the movie he wanted to make.
“I can make whatever movie I want with that as a blueprint.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:04:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (much copied): Casablanca → The Shining. Casablanca and The Shining are both so copied that first-time viewers find them corny.
“like every movie copied it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:13:58 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them)
people (same actor): Joe Turkel → Blade Runner. The Shining bartender is also Tyrell in Blade Runner.
“And it's also a Tyrell Blade Runner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:16:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared films): Scatman Crothers → Jack Nicholson. Scatman had been in a bunch of Nicholson movies, including The Fortune and Cuckoo's Nest.
“he had been in a bunch of Nicholson movies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (recommended): Jack Nicholson → Scatman Crothers. Nicholson recommended Scatman Crothers for the role.
“And so Nicholson recommends him for this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (next film): Scatman Crothers → Clint Eastwood. Scatman's next film after The Shining was Bronco Billy, an Eastwood film.
“the movie he did after this was Bronco Billy, which is a Clint Eastwood movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:23:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (frequent collaborator): Shelley Duvall → Robert Altman. Duvall did six Altman films in a row after being discovered by his producer.
“she does what, 6 Altman movies in a row.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:24:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (blacklisted): Bud Cort → Robert Altman. Altman cut Bud Cort off for taking Harold and Maude after M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud.
“And Altman's like, door closed, you're never welcome back.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:25:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (casting): Shelley Duvall → Popeye. Duvall was cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes.
“She's cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:26:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (co-writer): Stanley Kubrick → Diane Johnson. Kubrick co-wrote the script with the novelist Diane Johnson.
“obviously he co-wrote this movie with Diane Johnson”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (unmade). Kubrick wanted Nicholson to play Napoleon in his unmade Napoleon film.
“He had wanted him to play Napoleon in his Napoleon movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:30:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Spencer Tracy. Kubrick compares Nicholson to Spencer Tracy as one of the two greatest stars.
“Kubrick compares him to who he thinks of the 2 greatest stars, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:31:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → James Cagney. Kubrick compares Nicholson to Jimmy Cagney as one of the two greatest stars.
“Kubrick compares him to who he thinks of the 2 greatest stars, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:31:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Jane Fonda → The Shining. Kubrick said you could not have Jane Fonda in the part.
“you can't have Jane Fawn to play this part.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:41:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Jessica Lange → The Shining. Nicholson wanted Jessica Lange for Wendy.
“I kind of wanted Jessica Lang”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:41:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Tim Robinson. Both can go huge without it feeling like pushing.
“there are 2 guys who can go so fucking big.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowed habit): Boris Karloff → Jack Nicholson. In the Vivian Kubrick documentary Nicholson says he took his script-marking habit from Karloff.
“I stole this from Boris Karloff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:59 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
people (collaborator): Bob Rafelson → Jack Nicholson. Rafelson wrote Head with Nicholson.
“when Bob Raffelson was writing head with him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (cameo): Danny Lloyd → Doctor Sleep. Danny Lloyd makes a cameo in Doctor Sleep.
“He makes a cameo in Dr. Sleep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:00:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (first Steadicam use): Bound for Glory → The Shining. Bound for Glory was the first use of the Steadicam, which The Shining used so heavily.
“Bound for Glory is the 1st one, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:03:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (Steadicam operator): Garrett Brown → The Shining. Garrett Brown, who invented the Steadicam, operated it for the Steadicam shots.
“Garrett Brown, who invented it, does all operates the camera for all the city cam shots.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (shared crew): John Alcott → Stanley Kubrick. Alcott shot The Shining and also worked on other Kubrick films.
“John Alcott's the DP of this movie, but, um, who works on other cubrics.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (stolen move): The Shining → Zodiac. Fincher steals the Steadicam move where the camera turns with the car and keeps it centered.
“Fincher steals that move of like when the car turns a corner”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): The Shining → Bobby's World (TV). The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining.
“And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
unmapped (many takes): David Fincher → Stanley Kubrick. Fincher describes his many takes as getting preconceptions out of the actors, as speakers compare to Kubrick.
“That's the way Fincher talks about it”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:12:09 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (style borrowed): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
“He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
“it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): The Shining → Ready Player One. Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
“Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (friends): Stanley Kubrick → Steven Spielberg. Kubrick and Spielberg were very close.
“obviously Kubrick and Spielberg very close”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:31 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (music): Wendy Carlos → The Shining. Wendy Carlos's music is credited with making the crash zooms scary.
“Crash zooms are just always so effective with that fucking Wendy Carlos.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:29:57 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (parody): The Shining → The Simpsons (TV). The Simpsons parodied the film; the speaker knew its elements from parodies first.
“I feel like I'd seen so many parodies of different elements of this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:35:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (same weekend): The Shining → Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. The Shining platformed against the wide release of The Empire Strikes Back.
“this movie came out platform against the wide release of another very famous movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:37:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (same period): The Shining → Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th had opened two weeks earlier; both worked at the box office.
“Friday 13th had opened maybe 2 weeks ago or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:39:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (knockoff): American Graffiti → Hollywood Nights. Hollywood Nights looks like an American Graffiti knockoff.
“This looks like a kind of American graffiti knockoff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:40:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (knockoff): Animal House → Hollywood Nights. Hollywood Nights is called an Animal House runoff set in the past.
“That was like an animal house runoff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:41:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (film of the show): Get Smart (TV) → The Nude Bomb. The Nude Bomb is the Get Smart movie.
“it's the get smart movie”
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Fun items (24)

fun, about Draft Day: Tim Simons corrects everyone on Twitter that his coffee drop from the Draft Day trailer is not in the final film.
“the coffee drop is not in the film”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:25:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Draft Day: Frank Langella wore sunglasses on and off camera for the whole shoot and removed them theatrically at wrap.
“And he wore the sunglasses on offset in between takes, lunch, trailer, whatever, 100% of the time.”
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fun, about Jack Nicholson: Someone who worked with him reported Nicholson saying he makes classics, not movies.
“I don't make movies. I make classics.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:32:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick had his secretary bring him stacks of bestselling horror novels and she heard a book hit the wall every ten minutes until the day she heard nothing for two hours.
“every 10 minutes she'd hear a book hit the wall.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the phone, Kubrick told King the idea of a ghost is optimistic because it presupposes an afterlife, and answered King's question about hell with a flat denial.
“I don't believe in hell.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:45:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Room 237: The documentary's theories get boiled down: the moon-landing reading rests on Danny wearing a moon sweater.
“Well, the kid wears like a moon sweater and you're like, uh-huh.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Scatman Crothers: Crothers on Kubrick's takes: one shot of him crossing the street from a snow cat, no dialogue, took fifty.
“One scene, I get out of a snow cat and I walk across the street with no dialogue, 50 takes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Scatman Crothers: After months of Kubrick, Crothers cried when Clint Eastwood shot one take on Bronco Billy and moved on.
“Scatman says, like, he started crying because he was like, yeah, that was good.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:23:30 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Shelley Duvall: Duvall was discovered doing makeup demonstrations at a mall and sent to Robert Altman, who put her in Brewster McCloud.
“She's discovered for Brewster McLeod as like a makeup tester at a mall.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:24:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Shelley Duvall: Duvall describes the cost of crying for a year and a half: the body rebels and the thought of crying makes her cry.
“But after a while, your body rebels.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:51:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: On set, Nicholson broke down the door with the axe faster than the crew could replace it; he was once a fireman.
“He famously like broke the door down more than they could.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: On A Few Good Men, Nicholson gave full energy off camera for every other actor's coverage.
“He did off camera for everyone's, like, fucking takes and he did full energy every time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:27 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Danny Lloyd: Danny Lloyd was shielded from knowing he was in a horror movie, was never pushed into acting, and became a happy school teacher.
“He was very adamant that like this kid did not know he was in a horror movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:01:05 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: Kubrick called the Steadicam a magic carpet; the camera follows Danny's Big Wheel across carpet and wood.
“And he calls it like a magic carpet, which is really cool.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: The Big Wheel scenes: the game of how much carpet is left before the sound changes to wood.
“How much carpet do I have left before I hit wood and how different does the wood sound than the carpet?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:56 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: Costume note: Wendy's yellow chore coat with embroidery over denim and moccasins is a standout look.
“like a yellow chore coat with like this beautiful embroidery on it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:07:39 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: See the scene with Danny and the bedroom mirror, where Jack sees himself only through his son.
“only by looking at his son, does he realize who he is and who he's becoming”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:09:46 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: Look for the typed manuscript pages: the PAs typed every page by hand, because Kubrick would not allow Xeroxes.
“Oh, um, yeah, I wanted to say the poor fucking PAs.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:10:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: In the gold room blood scene, one chair moves between shots, a rare slip in a controlled film.
“it's funny that the chair moves.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:18:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: The original epilogue, with Wendy and Danny in the hospital, screened briefly before Kubrick cut it.
“There was the original ending that he cut out pretty quickly, but that did screen originally, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:24:22 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: The UK cut: Kubrick himself trimmed 30 minutes after the film played badly there.
“in the UK, the movie was not playing well, and Kubrick himself cut 30 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:25:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: An Entertainment Weekly quote from Diane Johnson on the final photo: Jack had been the hotel's creature through reincarnation.
“The idea that Jack was always at the hotel in some earlier incarnation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:32:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: It opened in roughly ten theaters before going wide, against The Empire Strikes Back on Memorial Day weekend.
“This movie was like 10 theaters opening weekend and then like a thousand.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:37:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Shining: It was nominated for two Razzies and got mixed-ish reviews in its day.
“it was famously nominated for 2 Razzies and got like mixed-ish reviews at the time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:37:08 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves Kubrick trivia, research-dossier detail, and the show's long-running bits; fascinated by how Altman's company shaped Shelley Duvall. Sensitive to anyone mishandling his catchphrases. A sucker for a Draft Day story and the box office game.
David Sims (host): Rates movies by kills and gives The Shining a high grade; fond of Nicholson and Pacino performance analysis. Says he is less of a Kubrick guy than most, but this is top tier for him. Will go along with the weird bit and then defend it.
Ben Hosley (host): The producer in the room; confident that his imagined stay in the hotel would be fine, and not sold on the skeleton room. Has not seen Nope, so he walks into jokes. Prefers practical comforts like peaches and ribs to the horror.
Tim Simons (guest): Came with notes and a laptop and loves the film; singles out Shelley Duvall and Scatman Crothers as the MVPs. Tired of the take industrial complex and prefers hearing people excited about a movie. A sucker for I Think You Should Leave comparisons and for domestic-violence readings of the film.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

Blackjack / Black Jack = Blank Check (show name)
Stanley Cooper / Cubric / Hubrick = Kubrick
Skyman Crowthers / Scam me on Crowther / Scavin Crothers / Skimming Carruthers = Scatman Crothers
Joe Turkle = Joe Turkel
Timothy Simons also rendered 'Tim Simons' and 'V' = Veep
Shelley Duval = Shelley Duvall
Pods Widecast = the series name for the Kubrick run
Stephen Webber = Stephen Weber (Shining miniseries lead)
Rebecca Tornay / Dorm de Mornay = Rebecca De Mornay
Patty Sheevsky / Cheevsky = Paddy Chayefsky
Lumeat / Lumet = Sidney Lumet
Brewster McLeod = Brewster McCloud
Bruce McCabe = McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Going South = Goin' South
Sense of a Woman = Scent of a Woman
Mars and Text = Mars Attacks
Garrett Brown's 'study cam' = Steadicam
Raffelson = Bob Rafelson
Terry Cruz = Terry Crews; Chai/Cheam McBride = Chi McBride; 'puffed Danny's' = likely Puff Daddy
Franklin Jella / Langella = Frank Langella
Robert Wool/Woolson/Wolf = Robert Wuhl (guess)
Alex Pairing = probably Alex Ross Perry (guess)
Rob Andrew Glutton, Hope Senor Hoffman = Philip Seymour Hoffman/others (unclear)
Jackie O'Hilly / Jackson Hill = Jackie Earle Haley (guess)
Gon show movie = The Gong Show Movie
Markromanick = Mark Romanek
quiches = Keaches; 'Quades/guests' as said

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