Blank Check — Patreon: Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free)

Published 2017-10-01; 1:45:02 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Jordan Hoffman.

Subject films: Blue Steel (1990).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy cross-talk; most attributions beyond Jordan's own stories are low confidence. Roster is Griffin, David, and guest Jordan; producer Ben Hosley is discussed but does not appear to be in the room.

Films that came up

Claims (58)

lineage (lineage): Ron Silver → Halloween. Ron Silver's killer becomes Michael Myers by the end.
“Ron Silver becomes Michael Myers by the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → Halloween. Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel.
“I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Trading Places. The handheld stock-exchange floor is gritty and well done, though no Trading Places.
“I mean, it's no trading places.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Someone to Watch Over Me. Prefers Bigelow's New York picture to Ridley Scott's New York picture of the same moment.
“You put this up against his New York picture at the time, someone to watch over me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:06:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Tony Scott. Bigelow's 90s images carry a weight beyond the stylization of 80s Tony Scott-era films.
“there's a weight to the images in this movie that feels like a real evolutionary step beyond the like stylization of the 80s”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:06:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Salt. Salt was written for a man and barely changed for a woman; Blue Steel is specific to its heroine.
“And the whole shtick was like, it was written for a guy, but then a woman stepped in and didn't change the movie at all.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:08:27 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Aliens. The locker-room dressing scene is shot like the gear-up in Aliens.
“shot like aliens.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:10:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jamie Lee Curtis → A Fish Called Wanda. Curtis should be proud of Wanda, a masterpiece, though she is in the ensemble.
“she should be very proud, certainly, of being in official Wanda, which is a masterpiece, but she's in the ensemble.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jamie Lee Curtis → Freaky Friday. Praises her sensitive, three-dimensional comic work and near Oscar.
“She is fantastic and Freaky Friday.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:12:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Blue Steel → Jamie Lee Curtis. Blue Steel should have launched a new phase of Curtis's career but did not.
“it does feel like this movie should have been the start of a phase in her career that didn't totally kickstart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:12:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jamie Lee Curtis → True Lies. True Lies lets her finally own the Jamie Lee Curtis persona while deconstructing it.
“And then true lies, she gets to ultimately play this at the end of the movie, but a lot of it's a deconstruction of that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:14:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Blue Steel → American Psycho. Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind.
“pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Richard Jenkins → Hannah and Her Sisters. Young Jenkins in Hannah and Her Sisters was his second film credit, after Silverado.
“her sisters is his 2nd film credit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:22:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Richard Jenkins → Step Brothers. Argues Jenkins deserved a nomination for Step Brothers, maybe his finest performance.
“Fantastic best performing actor for Step Brothers, which is maybe his finest performance ever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:23:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Richard Jenkins → Flirting with Disaster. Names Flirting with Disaster as a favorite Jenkins performance.
“My favorite Jenkins is flirting with disaster.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:24:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Mother. Unlike Mother!, Blue Steel gives you a grounding character.
“And my biggest struggle with mother is, I think, you don't have a grounding character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Michael Mann. The supermarket scene's look is so good Michael Mann could do no better.
“Michael Mann could do no better.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → Dirty Harry. The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force.
“Dirty Harry done the same thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Zero Dark Thirty. Blue Steel is more upfront about its feminism than Zero Dark Thirty.
“this movie is at least more upfront about its quote unquote feminist aspects than Zero Dark 30 is”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:35:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → Prince of the City. Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City.
“Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → The French Connection. Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case.
“French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Sea of Love. The opening sets up a middling Pacino-style cop movie before breaking the frame.
“You know, like a middling kind of like sea of love or whatever, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Monsters, Inc.. The opening training reveal is like the start of Monsters, Inc.
“It's the beginning of Monsters Inc.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Point Break. Both of Bigelow's films open with a training sequence.
“she makes 2 movies in a row that basically start with a training sequence because Point Break starts with Keanu shooting the targets”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The opening fake-out is almost as good as the Kobayashi Maru reveal in Star Trek II.
“I would say it's almost as good as Star Trek 2, the way they pull it back.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Eric Red → Near Dark. Corrects himself: Eric Red co-wrote Near Dark with Bigelow, not Point Break, then wrote Blue Steel with her.
“It's near dark, not point break.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ron Silver → The West Wing. Silver played a Democratic consultant, then a Republican one when brought back for season 7.
“in the West Wing, in the 1st in like maybe the 2nd season he plays like a Democratic campaign consultant and they brought him back for the 7th season to play a Republican campaign consultant”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:47:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): James Woods → Citizen Cohn. Woods played Roy Cohn, not a positive portrayal.
“he played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn, which, you know, is not a positive movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:49:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): James Woods → White House Down. Woods in White House Down plays a modern-day James Woods.
“I remember was White House down where he's great in that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:50:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Kate Bosworth → Superman Returns. Places Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns while trying to picture her.
“Kate Bosworth, the one who's in Superman Returns.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:51:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Angelina Jolie → Tomb Raider. Lara Croft keeps being cast right after an Oscar win.
“I love that apparently Laura Croft can only be played by people who just won an Oscar.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:52:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Kevin Dunn → Woody Allen. Woody Allen cast Dunn in several films to play the same role.
“It's so weird how Woody Allen has put him in like 6 movies to play the same role”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:58:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Kevin Dunn → Small Soldiers. Dunn plays the same bewildered dad in Small Soldiers.
“where he plays the exact same role in small soldiers”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:58:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Amir Mokri → Transformers. The Blue Steel cinematographer went on to shoot Transformers 3 and 4.
“Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Transformers. The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie.
“Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Superman. The helicopter date with aerial photography is a Superman thing.
“It's a Superman thing, and there are those amazing, like, the helicopter photography going around”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Tron. The helicopter-date score sounds like Tron.
“It sounds like Tron.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Near Dark. The score recalls the Tangerine Dream score in Near Dark.
“it's very similar to the Tangerine dream score in your dark.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ron Silver → Time Cop. Thinks of Silver as the villain in Time Cop.
“I think of him as the villain in time cop, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:08:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ron Silver → Heat Vision and Jack. In Heat Vision and Jack Silver plays himself as a crime boss, a self-parody of his slimeball phase.
“It's Ron Silver playing actor Ron Silver, who is the crime boss that is terrorizing this talking motorcycle and an astronaut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:09:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ron Silver → Reversal of Fortune. Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune in the same year.
“he's Dershwitz in Reversal of Fortune, which is the next year, or it's actually the same year”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:09:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ron Silver → Ali. Silver played Angelo Dundee in Ali.
“He plays Angelo Dundee, who is like his like trainer.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:10:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Blue Steel → The Wolf of Wall Street. Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him.
“He's like a wolf of Wall Street type.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Blue Steel → The Terminator. By the end Ron Silver is an unstoppable Terminator.
“And he's like, the terminator at this point.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:20:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blue Steel → Sergio Leone. The finale is a Sergio Leone shootout on Wall Street.
“then it's Sergio Leone shoot out at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:22:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → Zero Dark Thirty. Both end on one woman obsessively chasing one man, then sitting silently in a car.
“the ending of this movie is almost identical to the ending of Zero Dark 30, where it's one woman who has been methodically obsessively just trying to stop this one man”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:22:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Blue Steel → Zoolander. Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film.
“It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Blue Steel → Point Break. Ranks Blue Steel above Point Break.
“I think it's better than Point Break.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Blue Steel → The Hurt Locker. Tentative ranking puts Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker at the top of Bigelow, with Blue Steel in the top tier.
“I think I think it's Zero Dark 30, uh, and and, um, you know, uh, the Footlock, whatever the locker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → K-19: The Widowmaker. One host likes K-19; others call it handsomely boring and dour, unlike the livelier Blue Steel.
“It's a handsomely boring movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:25:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Blue Steel → The Hunt for Red October. The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one.
“It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Blue Steel → Joe Versus the Volcano. Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks.
“Oh, Joe versus the volcano?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Blue Steel → Lord of the Flies. Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies.
“The 1990 Lord of the Flies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Blue Steel → House Party. Number four that weekend was House Party.
“Oh, house party. house party.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): House Party → Will Smith. House Party was written for Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff, who turned it down.
“Adult and Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:32:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Driving Miss Daisy → Do the Right Thing. Do the Right Thing going un-nominated the year Driving Miss Daisy won says it all.
“do the right thing doesn't even get nominated in the year when driving Miss Staisy wins, that tells you everything.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:33:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Hans Zimmer → Driving Miss Daisy. Zimmer wrote the synthesizer theme for Driving Miss Daisy.
“Can you imagine Hans Zimmer wrote that?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:33:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Hans Zimmer → Rain Man. Rain Man was Zimmer's first score.
“No, he did the score for Rainman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

fun, about Roger Ebert: Ebert reviewed Blue Steel as the best Halloween sequel ever made, the grown-up version of Halloween.
“this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Richard Jenkins: At the Toronto Shape of Water premiere, David Sims cooed at Jenkins like an infant, then bolted upright: he is a god.
“he just bolted up right and said, he is a god.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:21:30 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Richard Jenkins: His Oscar-nomination news came from his son-in-law's father calling at noon; his own people forgot.
“my my son-in-law's father called me at like noon and was like, hey, congrats.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:23:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: Ron Silver fights behind a Sabrett hot dog cart in the Wall Street shootout.
“He's hiding behind a Sabrette's kosher hot dog cart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Pete's Dragon: A tweet joking it was cruel not to tell Robert Redford he was in a movie.
“it was a little cruel of the filmmakers not to tell Robert Redford that he was in a movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:29:53 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Envy: The movie hits Christopher Walken with a car and the last third becomes about Walken, as if it hijacked itself.
“Like the movie literally crashes into walking and he just hijacks it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:30:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Sloan's: A defunct Manhattan chain halfway between a convenience store and a supermarket, like the one in the Blue Steel robbery.
“Sloan's was a mini chain in Manhattan that was halfway between a convenience store and a supermarket.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:30:53 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: Clancy Brown's scene in the squad room is the movie in miniature: he ignores her, tells a gross joke, then shuts her down.
“Hijacks the movie for 90 seconds to make a gross blowjob joke, then takes note of her and is like, shut the fuck up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about New York police: The NYPD carried six-shooters long after semi-autos existed, until transit cops got 15-round Glocks and everyone protested.
“You guys want to know a story about NYPD revolvers from my days as a union reporter?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:33:28 · Jordan Hoffman (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: Opening reveal: the hallway arrest is a training test, and Curtis's mistake is that she ignored the woman as a threat.
“She didn't take the woman seriously as a threat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kathryn Bigelow: Bigelow used to flip Soho apartments with Philip Glass.
“Do you know she used to flip apartments in Soho with Philip Glass?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:43:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: The 22nd precinct on her collar is a fake precinct, since renamed for Central Park.
“It's on her collar, the 22nd precinct, which is the fake precinct.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:46:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Tubi TV: Watched Blue Steel on ad-supported Tubi; the same 10 ads recycled every 5 minutes.
“Yeah, but every 5 minutes there was ads.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Pixels: The film opens with Kevin James sweating at a podium, which felt relatable a month into the Trump administration.
“it was like a month into the Trump administration and we were like, this feels this feels very relatable for some reason.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:59:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: The gun is the One Ring: Silver obsesses over its power once he holds it.
“But it's almost like the gun in this movie is like the one ring.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:02:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: Bigelow's name in the bullet casings: the cops joke the only other Meghan Turner is an 88-year-old lady with an oxygen tank.
“Unless he's got an oxygen tank fetish, he's in the U.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Ron Silver: Recorded four Philip Roth audiobooks.
“this is a man who has recorded four, not one, not two, not three, four Philip Roth audiobooks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:07:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Heat Vision and Jack: Ron Silver plays himself as the villain terrorizing a talking motorcycle and an astronaut.
“It's Ron Silver playing actor Ron Silver, who is the crime boss that is terrorizing this talking motorcycle and an astronaut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:09:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Ron Silver: Klaus von Bulow once phoned the house sounding like Dracula; Silver played Dershowitz in the film.
“And he was like, this is Klaus von Bulow.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:10:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Blue Steel: Opened number five with 2.8 million dollars and made 8.2 on a roughly 16 million budget; debuted at Sundance and came out through MGM after Vestron went bankrupt.
“It opens number five at the box office with 2.8 million dollars.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Glory: As a 14-year-old snob he wanted to see Glory, it was sold out, so he saw House Party.
“I wanted to see Glory and it was sold out.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:41 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Robin Harris: In House Party the one line the speaker remembers is Robin Harris shouting this ain't Soul Train.
“That's the only thing I remember from House Party is him shouting, this ain't Soul Train.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:32:16 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Driving Miss Daisy: Billy Crystal's Oscar monologue opened with the movie that directed itself, since its director was not nominated.
“The movie, which I guess directed itself because the director was not nominated and the audience were like, huh.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:33:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jordan Hoffman: He was 14 and a foreign-film snob: then what David Ehrlich is now.
“I was then at 14 what David Ehrlich is now.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:47 · Jordan Hoffman (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Born on the Fourth of July: The wheelchair-genitals scene freaked him out at 15.
“he whips out his genitals to show that he is unable to he's unable to achieve an erection.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:35:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves Bigelow's tension and iconography, and Curtis's grounded, empathetic underplaying. Dislikes Mother!'s lack of an anchor. A sucker for character actors and the way a movie's scenes hold the whole thing in micro.
David Sims (host): Adores Richard Jenkins and critic-style takes; reads Blue Steel as a Bigelow B-picture that unifies her style. Loves a good box-office trivia quiz. Sucker for actor-career arcs.
Jordan Hoffman (guest): Loves New York texture and character actors like Ron Silver and Kevin Dunn; fond of Richard Lewis and Step Brothers. Dislikes ad-supported streaming and Mother!. A sucker for gun-fetish and penis symbolism readings.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

Catherine Biccolow/Piccola → Kathryn Bigelow
Widow Caster → The Widowmaker (K-19)
Emir Mokri → Amir Mokri
Elizabeth Pena/Henia → Elizabeth Pena
Strange Jace → Strange Days
your dark → Near Dark
Liam Mason → Liam Neeson
Reginald Hudland → Reginald Hudlin
Rob Schraub → Rob Schrab
Benzler → Ben Stiller
Reid Morano → Reed Morano
Schlorndorf → Volker Schlondorff
Kid and Play → likely Kid 'n Play (House Party)
Chisel Beach → On Chesil Beach
Sabrette → Sabrett hot dogs
Lombada → Lambada
Louise Fletcher partly rendered 'Fletcher's'
'hunger and crank' near 6:30 unclear, probably The Hunger

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