The Judge (2014)

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Wikidata Q13573278, film, IMDb tt1872194, TMDB 205587: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Robert Downey Jr. as star / first-time producer (Judging The Judge).

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

In the store as #631, The Judge (2014).

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Man of Steel: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (homage): Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read). The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

A Civil Action: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (visual-comparison): The Judge → A Civil Action. The Judge looks like A Civil Action, a stately legal drama Duvall was Oscar-nominated for.
    “the movie kind of looks like a civil action, which Robert Delwell was nominated for”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:14:57 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Big Daddy: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): The Judge → Big Daddy. The Judge's climactic testimony scene recalls Sandler's courtroom speech in Big Daddy, which works only because that film is a ribald comedy.
    “the scene in Big Daddy, where Adam Sandler tells his dad how much he loved him on the stand during...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:08:29 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Dracula Untold: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (box-office-context): Dracula Untold → The Judge. The Judge opened behind Annabelle's second weekend, mentioned beside the flop Dracula Untold.
    “You know, behind the 2nd weekend of Annabelle, this movie opened.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:30:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Due Date: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career-pattern): Due Date → The Judge. After Iron Man the only non-franchise outliers Downey signed on to were Due Date and The Judge.
    “and the 2 exceptions, the outliers are due date and the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:24:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Entourage: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (quality-comparison): Entourage → The Judge. David says the Entourage movie, which he watched the same day, is better than The Judge.
    “I had to watch it the same day I watched Entourage the movie, which is a better movie than the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:27 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Gravity: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (dropped-projects): The Judge → Gravity. Downey dropped out of Gravity, Oz the Great and Powerful and Inherent Vice while pursuing The Judge.
    “He was going to be the Cooney part in gravity. And he was going to be the Franco Partonas the Great and Powerful.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:27:33 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Inherent Vice: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (dropped-projects): The Judge → Inherent Vice. Downey had been going to play Joaquin Phoenix's role in Inherent Vice before dropping out.
    “He was going to play Joaquin Fiance's role in Inherit Vice.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:27:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Janusz Kaminski: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (cinematographer): Janusz Kaminski → The Judge. Kaminski, Spielberg's regular, shot The Judge beautifully but too seriously for the tone.
    “It's shot by Yanush Kaminsky, who's a great director of photographer. Steven Spielberg's regular, has shot every Steven Spielberg.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:34:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): King Arthur: Legend of the Sword → The Judge. David Dobkin developed a six-film Round Table plan for Warner before being replaced by Ritchie.
    “hey, David Dobkin, you just made the judge, we're not going to let you make a fucking 7 part”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:11:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Man of Steel: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (homage): The Judge → Man of Steel. The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Meet the Fockers: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): The Judge → Meet the Fockers. The naked-together bathtub gay-panic beat in the shower scene feels like a Fockers-style gag.
    “Like it almost turns into like a fucking little fokker seat where like they're naked together in a bathtub”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Men, Women & Children: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): The Judge → Men, Women & Children. Both were overly earnest star-driven dramas that flopped, though The Judge made far more.
    “I'm saying judge is a similar level of overly earnest big stars doing...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:30:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

No Country for Old Men: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (awards-contrast): The Judge → No Country for Old Men. Recent Best Picture winners like The Artist, The Hurt Locker, and No Country are not like The Judge, which is the old kind of Oscar bait.
    “the best picture winners of the last whatever years are like the artist and the hurt locker and like no country for all men”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:14:05 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Robert Downey Jr.: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (producer): Robert Downey Jr. → The Judge. The Judge was Downey's first film as a producer, under his new banner at Warner Bros.
    “This is his 1st film as a producer. He sets up a 1st look deal at Warner Brothers to bring them properties.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:27:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): The Judge → Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The Judge's characters announce their motivations in dialogue, which David says is worse than the Phantom Menace.
    “I just want to say this movie is a lot worse than Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Menace.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:09:46 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Steve Zaillian: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre-aspiration): The Judge → Steve Zaillian. Dobkin seems to want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaillian-style prestige drama.
    “I want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaleen or like a... What is the problem with this movie?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:15:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Susan Downey: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (producer): Susan Downey → The Judge. Susan Downey, who became his wife, is a producer credit on The Judge.
    “She becomes Susan Downey, which is why we don't remember her last name. Susan Downey, PGA. She's in the credit to the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:19:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Change-Up: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (same-director-motif): The Change-Up → The Judge. Both Dobkin films open or turn on peeing, bodily-fluid humor leaking into the prestige drama.
    “Another movie about peeing, where Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds pee into a fountain and lightning hits it and they change bodies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:38:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Gingerbread Man: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (prior-collaboration): The Gingerbread Man → The Judge. Downey and Duvall had worked together before in The Gingerbread Man and Lucky You, which fed the casting.
    “It was the gingerbread man. And lucky you. the Curtis Hanson poker movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:01:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The King's Speech: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (awards-contrast): The Judge → The King's Speech. King's Speech and A Beautiful Mind are the nearest recent mannered Oscar winners, but they are British or biopic.
    “But that's the British Tony thing. You know? And Beautiful Mind is like biopic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:14:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career-pattern): Due Date → The Judge. After Iron Man the only non-franchise outliers Downey signed on to were Due Date and The Judge.
    “and the 2 exceptions, the outliers are due date and the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:24:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (dropped-projects): The Judge → Gravity. Downey dropped out of Gravity, Oz the Great and Powerful and Inherent Vice while pursuing The Judge.
    “He was going to be the Cooney part in gravity. And he was going to be the Franco Partonas the Great and Powerful.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:27:33 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (dropped-projects): The Judge → Inherent Vice. Downey had been going to play Joaquin Phoenix's role in Inherent Vice before dropping out.
    “He was going to play Joaquin Fiance's role in Inherit Vice.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:27:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (awards-contrast): The Judge → No Country for Old Men. Recent Best Picture winners like The Artist, The Hurt Locker, and No Country are not like The Judge, which is the old kind of Oscar bait.
    “the best picture winners of the last whatever years are like the artist and the hurt locker and like no country for all men”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:14:05 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (awards-contrast): The Judge → The King's Speech. King's Speech and A Beautiful Mind are the nearest recent mannered Oscar winners, but they are British or biopic.
    “But that's the British Tony thing. You know? And Beautiful Mind is like biopic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:14:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (visual-comparison): The Judge → A Civil Action. The Judge looks like A Civil Action, a stately legal drama Duvall was Oscar-nominated for.
    “the movie kind of looks like a civil action, which Robert Delwell was nominated for”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:14:57 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (box-office-context): Dracula Untold → The Judge. The Judge opened behind Annabelle's second weekend, mentioned beside the flop Dracula Untold.
    “You know, behind the 2nd weekend of Annabelle, this movie opened.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:30:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (homage): The Judge → Man of Steel. The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

people (6)

  1. people (producer): Susan Downey → The Judge. Susan Downey, who became his wife, is a producer credit on The Judge.
    “She becomes Susan Downey, which is why we don't remember her last name. Susan Downey, PGA. She's in the credit to the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:19:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (producer): Robert Downey Jr. → The Judge. The Judge was Downey's first film as a producer, under his new banner at Warner Bros.
    “This is his 1st film as a producer. He sets up a 1st look deal at Warner Brothers to bring them properties.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:27:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (cinematographer): Janusz Kaminski → The Judge. Kaminski, Spielberg's regular, shot The Judge beautifully but too seriously for the tone.
    “It's shot by Yanush Kaminsky, who's a great director of photographer. Steven Spielberg's regular, has shot every Steven Spielberg.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:34:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (same-director-motif): The Change-Up → The Judge. Both Dobkin films open or turn on peeing, bodily-fluid humor leaking into the prestige drama.
    “Another movie about peeing, where Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds pee into a fountain and lightning hits it and they change bodies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:38:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (prior-collaboration): The Gingerbread Man → The Judge. Downey and Duvall had worked together before in The Gingerbread Man and Lucky You, which fed the casting.
    “It was the gingerbread man. And lucky you. the Curtis Hanson poker movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:01:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): King Arthur: Legend of the Sword → The Judge. David Dobkin developed a six-film Round Table plan for Warner before being replaced by Ritchie.
    “hey, David Dobkin, you just made the judge, we're not going to let you make a fucking 7 part”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:11:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (6)

  1. theme (comparison): The Judge → Men, Women & Children. Both were overly earnest star-driven dramas that flopped, though The Judge made far more.
    “I'm saying judge is a similar level of overly earnest big stars doing...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:30:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): The Judge → Meet the Fockers. The naked-together bathtub gay-panic beat in the shower scene feels like a Fockers-style gag.
    “Like it almost turns into like a fucking little fokker seat where like they're naked together in a bathtub”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (comparison): The Judge → Big Daddy. The Judge's climactic testimony scene recalls Sandler's courtroom speech in Big Daddy, which works only because that film is a ribald comedy.
    “the scene in Big Daddy, where Adam Sandler tells his dad how much he loved him on the stand during...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:08:29 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (comparison): The Judge → Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The Judge's characters announce their motivations in dialogue, which David says is worse than the Phantom Menace.
    “I just want to say this movie is a lot worse than Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Menace.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:09:46 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. theme (genre-aspiration): The Judge → Steve Zaillian. Dobkin seems to want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaillian-style prestige drama.
    “I want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaleen or like a... What is the problem with this movie?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:15:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. theme (quality-comparison): Entourage → The Judge. David says the Entourage movie, which he watched the same day, is better than The Judge.
    “I had to watch it the same day I watched Entourage the movie, which is a better movie than the judge.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:27 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Judge: Three minutes in, a supposedly serious drama opens with Downey peeing on David Krumholtz at a urinal, complete with an insert shot of urine on polished shoes. The hosts treat this as the first sign the director cannot stop being a Dobkin comedy director.
    “Minute 3 of the movie, it's a drama. Rardine Jr., an adult male is peeing on another adult male”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:35:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Judge: Duvall is 82, hairless, and in chemo, but they dye the few wisps on his head deep brown to make him look 70 instead of 80.
    “It's like, oh, you're right. That makes him look 70 instead of 80.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:00:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Judge: The shower scene: Downey hoses a soiled Duvall down with a handheld shower head, and the only shot they can't forget is the stained legs and the drain.
    “you just see shit running down his legs down the drain.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:04:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about The Judge: The judge's tell is that he forgets his bailiff's name; the hosts say it is set up in the first scene and is open and shut at trial, yet they convict him anyway.
    “The bailiff who he's had at his side for like 30 years.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:09:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about The Judge: David would take a dumb spaceship movie over a dumb adult drama, and notes The Judge has no spaceships.
    “I'd rather take a dumb spaceship movie than a dumb adult drama.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:10:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about The Judge: The Judge was Griffin's SAG screener and David's last Oscar-year completism watch; a 'Judging the Judge' sequel joke runs through the intro and outro.
    “I forgot to vote this, you idiot.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:21:46 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.