Blank Check with Griffin & David: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: none.

Subject films: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and rapid crosstalk, so almost all attributions are low confidence; several ads (Video Game Town, Audible Dracula, MUBI Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma) are baked in and skipped. The end of the file contains out-takes about the miniseries title and a failed Goldblum impression.

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Normalized some hosts' misspoken or mangled names to correct spellings in people and films (Koepp, Karyo, Postlethwaite, Trevorrow, Stormare) as guessed from context.
Added Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as a connection endpoint for the sequels the hosts refer to; the film title was not said.
Gave Guy Pearce's film as L.A. Confidential; hosts only said he is their best actor winner pick that year.
Role names Nick Van Owen, Eddie Carr, Peter Ludlow, Kelly Malcolm, Sarah Harding were added or inferred from context where not said; Sarah Harding was said.

Films that came up

Claims (49)

industry (Oscar snub): Jaws → Satyricon. Spielberg famously missed a best director nomination for Jaws when Fellini got a surprise nomination, probably for Satyricon.
“Fellini for like Satyricon.”
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industry (Oscar chase): The Color Purple → Schindler's List. The Color Purple's zero-win record is part of the narrative of Spielberg chasing an Oscar until Schindler's List.
“Color purple famously was the most nominations to receive 0 wins.”
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unmapped (same-year pair): Jurassic Park → Schindler's List. Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List.
“He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list.”
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people (producer hits): Steven Spielberg → Who Framed Roger Rabbit. While directing less, Spielberg was producing blockbusters such as Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Goonies and Gremlins.
“Roger Rabbit, back to the future, Goonies, Gremlins, guy's got a golden touch, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (double-release strategy): Amistad → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In 1997 Spielberg tried to repeat his 1993 pairing of a blockbuster and a prestige Oscar film.
“I'll give you your Blockbuster and your serious Oscar movie.”
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theme (character reinvention): Jeff Goldblum → Jurassic Park. Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book.
“Can I be the rock star sign?”
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career (career context): Jeff Goldblum → Independence Day. Goldblum had two of the ten biggest movies ever at the time and became an unconventional bankable leading man.
“He's in 2 of the 10 biggest movies of all time at that moment.”
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craft (borrowed style): Independence Day → Steven Spielberg. Independence Day cribs the Spielberg look of actors slowly standing up to stare at something dramatic.
“And then independence, like cribs a lot of that.”
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verdict (childhood favorite): Harriet the Spy → Vanessa Lee Chester. A host adored Vanessa Lee Chester as a child actor in Harriet the Spy and A Little Princess and still thinks the former is well directed.
“That film is still very well directed.”
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lineage (bad-source chain): Michael Crichton → David Koepp. The film flounders because it adapts a hastily written bad novel with a screenwriter the hosts consider weak.
“Two, they were making it based off a really terrible book that was also made quickly.”
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theme (disliked child character): Vanessa Lee Chester → Jake Lloyd. Both suffered audience backlash over their characters, though Lloyd had a double whammy of bad character and performance.
“Jake Lloyd had a double whammy where it's like this character sucks and the kid playing it sucks, you know?”
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lineage (homage): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → The Lost World. Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs.
“the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World.”
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unmapped (intent): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → Godzilla. A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending.
“I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie.”
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lineage (sequel-novel pattern): Hannibal → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Like Crichton's Lost World, Harris wrote Hannibal under pressure from a studio wanting a sequel to a hit film adaptation.
“another example of this is Thomas Harris with Hannibal, whichever wants to make a Sansa Lamb sequel.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (writing around an actor): Hannibal → Anthony Hopkins. The book Hannibal set up plastic surgery so a different actor could play Lecter if Hopkins declined.
“they set up that Hamble Lecter had a lot of plastic surgery done so that they could have a different actor play the role if necessary.”
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verdict (quality ranking): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → Jurassic Park III. A host prefers Jurassic Park III because it is shorter, lacks the Spielberg ambition, and acts like a fun monster movie.
“Jurassic Park 3 benefits from, it doesn't have the Spielberg touch, right?”
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craft (tone analogy): Jurassic Park III → Frankenstein. Jurassic Park III is likened to a later Universal Frankenstein sequel, made without prestige aims.
“it feels like a later universal, like Frankenstein movie.”
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theme (book character comparison): Richard Attenborough → Westworld. In Crichton's first book Hammond is creepier, closer to Ford in Westworld or Dr. Moreau, before the film made him a genial grandfather.
“He's a little more of a Ford in Westworld if you will.”
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craft (structural analogy): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → The Pink Panther. The sequel feels like deleted scenes from the first film with wraparound Goldblum footage, like the Pink Panther movie built from cut scenes after Peter Sellers died.
“this just feels like deleted scenes from the 1st Jurassic Park with some wraparound footage of Goldberg.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:38:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career timing): Julianne Moore → Boogie Nights. She came to the blockbuster from art-house work like Short Cuts and just before her first Oscar nomination for Boogie Nights.
“Boogie Nights was going to get the Oscar nomination this year.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (casting origin): Steven Spielberg → Swingers. A host speculates Spielberg cast Vince Vaughn after seeing dailies of Swingers.
“Spielberg seeing swingers, probably seeing dailies of swingers and being like, this guy is obviously going to be a big deal.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career arc): Vince Vaughn → Old School. Hosts trace five years of studios misusing Vaughn as a dramatic creep until Old School made him a comedy star.
“And then in 2003, he makes old school...”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (underwritten role): Julianne Moore → Evolution. Her Lost World role is compared to Evolution, another film where her character was underwritten.
“evolution is trying too hard by having her like fall over all the time.”
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craft (craft): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → John Williams. A host credits Williams for holding back his main Jurassic Park theme in the score until the end credits.
“Williams, to his credit, does not use his theme until the credits.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:52:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (praise): Pete Postlethwaite → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg reportedly called Postlethwaite one of the best actors he had worked with; they also worked together on Amistad.
“Spielberg said after, I guess, during the making of this film, Pipostle Fate was one of, if not the best actors he'd ever worked with.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:56:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (childhood memory): Pete Postlethwaite → James and the Giant Peach. A host remembers him as the man who gives James the bag of magic worms and narrates the film.
“He's the guy who gives James, the bag of magic worms, and James and the giant P.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (late career): Pete Postlethwaite → Inception. Hosts say he was good in Inception and The Town near the end of his career, after being wasted in the post-90s years.
“And he is good in inception in the town right at the very end there.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (only arc): Pete Postlethwaite → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Tembo's turn from hunter to awed protector is the only character arc in the film and suggests the poachers' viewpoint as a better sequel angle.
“If this movie has any arc at all. it's his”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel-comparison): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → Jurassic Park. The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
“This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (ratings history): Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom → Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's PG rating is called absurd given Spielberg's role in creating PG-13 after Temple of Doom and Gremlins.
“Spielberg's the reason that PG-13 was created.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (viewing memory): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → Godzilla. As a child, the speaker saw this, Godzilla and Batman & Robin without seeing the originals and loved the worse versions.
“I was getting the shittier version of the one that everyone liked, but because I was so unexposed to it, I was like, this is great.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:06:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (misreading): Jurassic Park → Jurassic World. Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World.
“Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (side-character problem): Jeff Goldblum → Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. Promoting the funny sideline guy to lead fails, as with Johnny Depp in the Pirates sequels, because the commentator cannot also carry the plot.
“the same thing that happened with the fucking Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.”
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theme (side-character problem): Jeff Goldblum → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. A host compares the sideline commentator role to Han Solo, who needs to stay off the main plot to earn his payoff.
“He needs to be the Han Solo yet.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:13:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (merchandise-driven scenes): Pocahontas → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The Miko hair-braiding scene stands as a model for toy-company demands that also shaped the vehicle-heavy Lost World.
“toy company executives met with the filmmakers.”
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theme (plot trope): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → King Kong. The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move.
“We've all seen King Kong.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared flaw): The Lost World: Jurassic Park → Jurassic World. Both sequels equate dinosaurs with animals and make zoo-and-animal-rights metaphors that the hosts say do not work.
“the movie is not equating dinosaurs to animals, which is the thing that this movie and Jurassic World both do.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:25:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (counterprogramming): Addicted to Love → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The romantic comedy opened against Lost World as classic counterprogramming but did not work.
“Number 2 is a classic example of counterprogramming.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:28:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (box office neighbor): The Fifth Element → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The Fifth Element was the previous week's number one and fell only thirty percent, grossing about 63 million total.
“So number 3 was number one the week before.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (visual design): Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery → Young Frankenstein. A host says the first Austin Powers has the well-designed look of a Young Frankenstein-style spoof.
“One of the spoofs that like young Frankenstein style gets the look, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:32:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (franchise decline): Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery → Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The sequels try to top themselves and Austin stops being funny once he figures himself out at the end of the first film.
“The 2nd and thirds are just trying to top themselves.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:32:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (confusion): Breakdown → Executive Decision. A host mixes up Breakdown with Executive Decision, in which Steven Seagal famously dies early despite co-lead billing.
“I always get those 2 confused.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:34:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (year ranking): Titanic → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Lost World was not the top film of 1997 because Titanic beat it, and Men in Black outgrossed it too.
“it was, of course, not the biggest movie of 19797 because Titanic was the biggest part.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:34:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (hosts' fix-it fantasy): Barry Sonnenfeld → Men in Black II. The hosts say they once designed a good Men in Black 2 at a bar and brag about it.
“David and I fixed Men in Black 2 one day.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:35:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (ripple effect): Jurassic Park → Anaconda. Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave.
“that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (creator's own verdict): Hook → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg himself calls Hook a disaster and his biggest mistake, so hosts argue nostalgia should not rehabilitate it.
“he says he thinks hook sucks.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:38:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (nostalgia trap): Hook → Hocus Pocus. Both are named as films people canonize only because they aired constantly during childhood.
“We have to stop canonizing things just because we saw them when we were young.”
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people (same casting problem): Vince Vaughn → Matthew McConaughey. Amistad tried to make McConaughey a movie star just as Lost World tried with Vaughn, and no one knew how to use either.
“Almostad kind of tries to do the same thing with McConaughey.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:40:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (insult joke): Colin Trevorrow → Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Closing rant says Trevorrow should not be allowed to make a Phantom Menace-style fan movie.
“You shouldn't be allowed to make a fucking fan of menace movie.”
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Fun items (24)

fun, about Steven Spielberg: Famous video of Spielberg at home watching the Oscar nominations expecting a Jaws best director nod and not getting it; he then spent about twenty years chasing an Oscar.
“he's sitting there in shock because he was so ready to get a best director nomination.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:03:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Steven Spielberg: Between Jurassic Park and Lost World, Spielberg released a PC and Mac video game, Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, while building DreamWorks.
“He releases the video game. Steven Spielberg director's chair for PC and Mac.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:06:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Steven Spielberg: The hosts argue DreamWorks was the biggest blank check ever: a whole studio built on Spielberg's career as collateral.
“And you and I would both argue that is the biggest blank check that any filmmakers ever had.”
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fun, about Pod Me If You Cast: The miniseries title is a riff on Catch Me If You Can, which the hosts note as the consistent pattern of all their miniseries names being adaptations of film titles.
“All their macers are adaptations of other films.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:10:52 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Crichton: Spielberg convinced Crichton to write a sequel novel even though Crichton said he did not write sequels, and Malcolm was revived from his death in the first book.
“Mikey's like, I don't write sequels.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:16:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about John Sayles: Legendary unmade Jurassic Park 4 script in which a scientist makes half-velociraptor, half-human commandos with guns strapped to their arms.
“half velociraptor, half human commando agents with gun strapped to their arms, who like went in and were like a black ops team.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:33:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: The hosts pitch a five-minute version: Hammond tells Malcolm about the second island over lunch, Malcolm says never go there, the end.
“Let's never go there.”
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fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Island name joke: Isla Sorna is mocked as Sarcasm Island and contrasted with Isla Nublar meaning Island of Clouds.
“Isla Sorna.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Ben Hosley: Running bit: the hosts try endless producer nicknames and pitch Benducer, Beniptanium and others, while Ben delivers a deadpan joke about being bald.
“I don't like to be referred to as a bald man, okay?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:55:09 · Ben Hosley (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Actors on AV Club roles features said he understood the camera so well that what felt too big in the scene looked perfectly measured on screen.
“So thoroughly understood the camera and the actor's relationship to the camera”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:57:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Joke that he should have had a Liam Neeson-style action comeback with the tagline The Apostle.
“I always wanted him to do like a Liam Neeson, like action movie comeback and the tagline could be the apostle.”
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fun, about Jurassic Park: The film is PG, a PG that came with an extra warning, ironic since Spielberg's films prompted PG-13.
“Jurassic Park is ridiculously rated PG.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: The one family-resemblance joke: when the stowaway daughter appears, Vaughn asks Schiff about a resemblance and Schiff holds up a finger, a casual treatment of a biracial family the hosts love.
“do you see a family resemblance?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:11:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: The gymnastics raptor scene is widely mocked, but one host cheered as a child and likes Goldblum's line about being kicked off the team.
“I actually think the line, the Goldblum line, kicked you off the team is funny.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:12:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Runtime and budget trivia: 129 minutes, longest of the original three; budget read aloud as 73 million after a 125 million guess; Amazon X-Ray claims fifty percent more dinosaur footage.
“They said that this film has 50% more dinosaur footage than the original.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:15:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Camper sequence praised: the sound of cracking glass does ninety percent of the work and music enters late.
“The way Spielberg uses the cracking of the glass is like, that's doing 90% of the heavy lifting for you.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:18:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Vince Vaughn: Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is described as a concert movie of stand-ups telling jokes as modern cowboys, and as bad.
“So bad.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:20:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Pocahontas: Famous story that toy executives demanded a scene where Meeko braids Pocahontas' hair because the toy tech was ready.
“And they throw it in there for no reason.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:21:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Jurassic Park toys: Merchandise spotlight: the JP logo branded on Jurassic Park toy dinosaur legs made it the only licensed dinosaur, and no-logo dinos marked you as a loser.
“You had to have the JP on the leg.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:22:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lost World: Jurassic Park: The toy T-Rex came with a screaming man in a cage that you could feed to the dinosaur and poop out, a scene better than anything in the actual movie.
“It'd be more fun to play with that and pretend that that happened in the movie than anything that actually happened in the goddamn movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Spider-Man: Box office kid memory: the 1997 four-day Memorial Day opening stood until Spider-Man hit 114 million, after Harry Potter fell just short at about 95-96.
“Spider-Man did 114.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:27:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Men in Black II: The hosts claim they fixed Men in Black 2 at a bar one night and want a time machine to rewrite it.
“I brag about it all the time because they should give us a time machine.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:36:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Hook: Spielberg thinks Hook sucks and calls it his biggest mistake; hosts say only nostalgia explains its revival.
“my biggest mistake.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:38:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Jurassic World: Closing rant against Jurassic World as aggressively uninteresting, with a violent wish against its director.
“aggressively uninteresting movie made by a hack, and it's also like, like, culturally toxic.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:42:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Seems to love practical Spielberg staging and sound design, character actors with great faces, and nostalgic picks like Harriet the Spy. Cannot stand lazy sequels with no story, CGI overuse and nostalgia-canonized movies. Is a sucker for merchandise history and a good Austin Powers rewatch.
David Sims (host): Loves box office history and the box office game, character acting, and a well-made Spielberg set piece. Cannot stand underwritten leads, miscast villains and nostalgia as a defense. Is a sucker for Austin Powers and a wrong-footed sequel pitch.

The show's recurring bits

The box office game: Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against.
The sung theme: "Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it.

Names the transcriber got wrong

Black Jack / Right Jack = Blank Check
Steven Stilberg / Steven Spiel / Spielberg variants
Jeffrey Katzmer = Jeffrey Katzenberg
Duressque Park / Dresselberg 3 = Jurassic Park / Jurassic Park 3
Isla Nubler = Isla Nublar; Sarcasm / Eastland = Isla Sorna / Isla Nublar
Sean Attenborough / Edinburgh = Richard Attenborough
Camilla Bell = Camilla Belle
Joe Zello = Joseph Mazzello
Peter Stormair / Stone air = Peter Stormare
Pipostle Fate / Apostlethwaite / P. Posslethwaite = Pete Postlethwaite
Richard Chef / Richard Schiff variants = Richard Schiff
Ben Hossley = Ben Hosley
Colin Trevor = Colin Trevorrow
David Kepp = David Koepp
Yacky Cairo / Checky Cairo = Tcheky Karyo
Lord Dern = Laura Dern
Goldbloom / Goldberg = Goldblum
Sonenfeld = Sonnenfeld
Hexaw Ridge = Hacksaw Ridge
Almostad = Amistad
Pod me if you cast = Pod Me If You Cast, the miniseries title
movie.com / movie = MUBI ad
Sansa Lamb = Silence of the Lambs
Jaw studio = Jaws

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