Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

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In the store as #602, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

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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.

Titanic: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (shared-technology): Titanic ⇒ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (the host's read). The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set.
    “James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:47 · David Sims (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

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: 4 lines industry ×2 contrast ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. industry (same-year-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Pirates came out the same year with stuffy British naval officers while this film shows a real shipboard ecosystem; they argue Pirates' success hurt this movie.
    “Pirates of Caribbean did kind of fuck this movie, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:18:34 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Gallipoli: 3 lines unmapped ×2 contrast ×1

  1. unmapped (brotherhood-of-man): Gallipoli → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Both are about a brotherhood of men facing an unseen enemy.
    “It's got the similar thing in Gallipoli of it's about like a brotherhood of man a little bit, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:55:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Star Trek (franchise, generally): 3 lines theme ×2 contrast ×1

  1. theme (critic-comparison): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Star Trek (franchise, generally). The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness.
    “Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Green Card: 2 lines unmapped ×2

  1. unmapped (weir-vignette-opening): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Green Card. Green Card's opening drumming-in-the-subway sequence and this film's small 5-to-72-second vignettes both build a world with no plot function, which studios no longer allow.
    “that opening sequence with the kid drumming in the in the subway. Yeah. Has nothing to do with the plot.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:47:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

A Beautiful Mind: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (crew-overlap): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → A Beautiful Mind. Akiva Goldsman, fresh off writing A Beautiful Mind, was brought in to beef up the Aubrey-Maturin relationship; Crowe was also on A Beautiful Mind.
    “So Akiva Goldsman, who, of course, had just written Beautiful Mind. What an Oscar does some rewrites”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:11:12 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Cabin Boy: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (joke-parallel (ship children)): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Cabin Boy. The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job.
    “that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Cinderella Man: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (scheduling-tradeoff): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Cinderella Man. Crowe postponed Cinderella Man (originally Lasse Hallstrom, later Ron Howard) to make this; Weir would not wait a year, and had the order flipped the tank might not have been available.
    “Crow decides to postpone Cinderella man. And instead boards the surprise.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:15:11 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Das Boot: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (ship-genre-contrast): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Das Boot. Hodgman says the film uniquely captures the vastness of the ocean, unlike space or sea movies where you keep running into other ships or aliens.
    “unlike any other ship movie that I've ever seen, whether that is a sailing ship or a motor ship or a spaceship or friendship.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:57:48 · John Hodgman (0.60 sure it was them)

Elephant: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (teen-favorites-that-year): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Elephant. David's favorite movies at 17 in 2003 included Elephant and All the Real Girls, alongside Lord of the Rings, X2, 28 Days Later and Kill Bill; Master and Commander was liked but grew over time.
    “My favorite movies of that year were elephant, which was a big movie for me then.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:45:26 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)

Elf: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (box-office-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Elf. Opening weekend, Elf (26 million) edged this film (25 million) for number one; expectations for Elf were low and it kept holding.
    “Elf is number one at the box office with 26 mil, mastering around right behind it at 25 mil.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 3:01:42 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Ford v Ferrari: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Ford v Ferrari. Another recent dad-skewing theatrical hit.
    “Ford versus Ferrari, I think dad movie was a big part of the part.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Gladiator: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (marketing-pitch): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Gladiator. The pitch to adults was 'Russell Crowe doing Gladiator on a boat', which should have meant an automatic 40 million opening.
    “we've got Russell Crowe doing gladiator on a boat.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 3:02:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Greyhound: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (dad-movie / theatrical-vs-streaming): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Greyhound. Greyhound, a naval Tom Hanks movie meant for theaters, went to Apple TV because of COVID, showing the dad audience now lives on streaming, unlike when this film got a major-studio release.
    “the number one movie in the history of Apple Plus is Tom Hanks's Greyhound, which was meant to be a theatrical movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:26:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Happy Feet: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (writer-other-work): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Happy Feet. Co-screenwriter John Collee also wrote Happy Feet and Paper Mask and had written for BBC's Star Cops.
    “Happy feet.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:03:06 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Harry Potter (the first film's director search): 1 line people ×1

  1. people (director-bakeoff): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Harry Potter (the first film's director search). In 2000 Weir was one of several directors pitching to direct Harry Potter; he lost, and then got attached to Master and Commander for Fox.
    “Peter Weir, Wolfgang Peterson. Rob Reiner, Jonathan Demi, the great bad Brad Silverling, director of your favorite Casper, participate in a creative bake off”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:57:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Hornblower (TV films): 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (same-genre / TV-companion): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Hornblower (TV films). Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute.
    “I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Jerry Maguire: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (rewatch-frequency / favorites): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Jerry Maguire. David lists Master and Commander among favorites seen many times, like Jerry Maguire (40 times), versus Late Spring, which he rates among the greatest but has seen 2-3 times.
    “It's sort of like Jerry Maguire, I've seen 40 times. Master and commander have seen it many, many, many, many.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:05:48 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Mad Max: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (joke-extension): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Mad Max. The idea of seizing an enemy's boat and renaming it, applied to cars, is likened to a Mad Max wasteland society.
    “I guess I'm just describing a Mad Max wasteland society.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Moby-Dick: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme / ship-as-world): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Moby-Dick. Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies.
    “how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90 sure it was them)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (lookalike-comedy): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The bandaged Frenchman at the end evokes the rude taunting Frenchman from Monty Python, tied to the Eric Idle lookalike riff.
    “this really feels like the rude, taunting Frenchman from, I mean, he's wearing these weird bandages on his head.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:27:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Mouse Hunt: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dinner-scene): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Mouse Hunt. Asked what other movie has a dinner scene like this, the hosts offer My Dinner with Andre and Mouse Hunt (a chef, a cockroach dinner), then Green Card with Bebe Neuwirth.
    “Wait a second. Mouse Hunt actually has, because he's a chef.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:16:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Muppet Treasure Island: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (shipboard-cabin-fever): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Muppet Treasure Island. Griffin offers Muppet Treasure Island as a 'serious, sober' seafaring work where cabin fever on a long voyage forces a flamenco number.
    “another serious, sober work of seafaring that I look to off in Muppet Treasure Island, in which they are on the ship for so long, they catch cabin fever”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:26:23 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

My Dinner with Andre: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dinner-scene): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → My Dinner with Andre. A joking comparison for the long weevils dinner conversation scene.
    “Just, just, what movie does this? A lesser of 2 weeks. Dinner scene? Every, just all, it's my dinner with Andre.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:16:17 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)

Nathan McGillis: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Nathan McGillis → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. A VFX artist at Asylum says none of the ocean in the film's storm sequence is CG, in line with Weir's wish for miniatures.
    “I can tell you, according to Nathan McGillis, McGinnis from Asylum, another VFX company. There's not one piece of ocean in that storm sequence that isn't real.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:35:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Picnic at Hanging Rock: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (weir-patience): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Picnic at Hanging Rock. Weir's patience, where nothing seems to happen until something suddenly does, runs through Witness, Hanging Rock and this film.
    “there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock, where you're just like, oh, yeah, I guess nothing's going to happen.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (shared-ship): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The ship that stood in for the Surprise (the Rose) is said to have been cast in a later Pirates film.
    “Also, they cast the ship in Pirates of the Caribbean four.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:34:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Robin Hood: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (franchise-that-didn't-happen): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Robin Hood. Robin Hood is the last time seven years later that Crowe could have stayed in the same breeches for sequels; Robin Hood and Noah also drew dads.
    “Well, we always point to Robin Hood as the last 7 years later.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:19:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

RoboCop: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (host-passion-episode): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → RoboCop. Like RoboCop, this is an episode where a movie means so much to one host the question was whether a guest was needed at all.
    “Sometimes there is a movie like Robocop, you know, where it's just like, this means so much to one of us.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:08:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Russell Boyd: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Russell Boyd → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography.
    “And of course, Russell Boyd won the office.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Spirited Away: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (top-ten-list): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Spirited Away. David's top ten includes Spirited Away, Alien, Master and Commander, A Matter of Life and Death and Chungking Express, the uncovered outliers.
    “Spirited away. Alien Master Commander. Matter of life and death.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:04:57 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Steve Martin's medieval barber SNL sketch: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (comic-contrast (medicine)): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Steve Martin's medieval barber SNL sketch. Griffin kept thinking of the SNL sketch where a medieval barber-doctor amputates for everything, yet Bettany's surgeon scenes convey a truly good doctor within limited technology.
    “the Steve Martin medieval barber SNL sketch?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Sully: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Sully. Another $100 million domestic dad-majority audience movie.
    “Sully, you know, these are movies that still, like, made a 100 million domestic, and you're like, this audience is majority dad.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Sunshine: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (authenticity-of-vessel-life): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Sunshine. Both films make the viewer feel they know what living on a vessel (spaceship or sailing ship) is like, despite having no firsthand knowledge.
    “This is what it feels like to live in a spaceship for a couple years.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:42:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy; Return of the King): 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (awards-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Lord of the Rings (trilogy; Return of the King). The film's 10 nominations lost in most categories to the Return of the King sweep, winning only cinematography and sound where LOTR was not nominated.
    “Unfortunately, this is the same year as Lord of the Rings, Return of the King.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:46:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

The Matrix Revolutions: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (box-office-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Matrix Revolutions. Matrix Revolutions opened number one but dropped to number three that weekend.
    “Number 3 is Matrix Revolutions.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 3:03:17 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

The Perfect Storm: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (visual-approach-contrast): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Perfect Storm. Weir did not want the storm to look like The Perfect Storm's CGI waves, preferring miniatures; an effects supervisor says none of the ocean in the storm is CG.
    “Peter Weir did not want the film to look like the perfect storm.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:35:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Pitt: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (comfort-watch): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Pitt. David puts on Master and Commander to lower his blood pressure after the stressful Pitt finale, as Dr. Robbie would prescribe.
    “Pushmaster and commander to get my BP down, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:06:07 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)

The Simpsons (submarine episode): 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (quote-memory): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Simpsons (submarine episode). The poop-deck exchange and 'cut of your jib' remind a host of a Simpsons submarine episode line.
    “Is the poop deck what I think it is?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:50:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Truman Show: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (shared-motif): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Truman Show. Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes.
    “They do both have sailing scenes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

The Year of Living Dangerously: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (weir-cinematography): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Year of Living Dangerously. Russell Boyd's Weir work (dense air in Year of Living Dangerously, making Hanging Rock with no money) explains why he wanted the challenge of this film.
    “any movie that can make the air feel dense.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Tim Robbins / Mystic River: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (same-awards-year): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Tim Robbins / Mystic River. Bettany's Supporting Actor nomination competed against Tim Robbins (Mystic River), Alec Baldwin (The Cooler), Benicio del Toro (21 Grams), and Djimon Hounsou (In America); Robbins was inevitable.
    “The Oscar nominees that year for sporting actor were Tim Robbins for Mr. Quiver who wins.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:49:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (shared-technology): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Titanic. The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set.
    “James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Top Gun: Maverick: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Top Gun: Maverick. Offered, with Ford v Ferrari and Sully, as recent examples of dad-audience movies that still succeed in theaters.
    “Top Gun Maverick, but that doesn't totally count, but it still counts.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Waterloo: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre-scarcity): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Waterloo. Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce.
    “I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Waterworld: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (production-lesson): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Waterworld. Weir wanted to shoot entirely on open water, but the studio pointed to Waterworld's floating-ship logistics as a cautionary tale.
    “he wants to shoot entirely on the water and they're like, look, that's Waterworld.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:04 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Witness: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (weir-patience): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Witness. Same patience; the slow burn pays off in action.
    “there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (6)

  1. contrast (contrast-in-tone): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Pirates features supernatural curses and Jack Sparrow's rum budget, whereas this film is about the actual daily life and ecosystem of a ship.
    “There are so many other boat movies. And I feel like there are so few that are about like the ecosystem of life on the boat”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (visual-approach-contrast): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Perfect Storm. Weir did not want the storm to look like The Perfect Storm's CGI waves, preferring miniatures; an effects supervisor says none of the ocean in the storm is CG.
    “Peter Weir did not want the film to look like the perfect storm.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:35:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (ship-genre-contrast): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Das Boot. Hodgman says the film uniquely captures the vastness of the ocean, unlike space or sea movies where you keep running into other ships or aliens.
    “unlike any other ship movie that I've ever seen, whether that is a sailing ship or a motor ship or a spaceship or friendship.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:57:48 · John Hodgman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (comic-contrast (medicine)): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Steve Martin's medieval barber SNL sketch. Griffin kept thinking of the SNL sketch where a medieval barber-doctor amputates for everything, yet Bettany's surgeon scenes convey a truly good doctor within limited technology.
    “the Steve Martin medieval barber SNL sketch?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (relationship-contrast): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Star Trek (franchise, generally). The Aubrey-Maturin bond is more intimate than the Kirk-McCoy friendship.
    “But there's a relationship between Maturin and Aubrey that is different from Kirk and Bones.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:10:36 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (war-depiction contrast): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Gallipoli. Asked how its depiction of war compares to Gallipoli, they say Gallipoli is about doomed innocence in a pointless WWI battle while this film is romantic about naval empire.
    “I don't find that with master and commander at all. No, not at all.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:56:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Russell Boyd → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography.
    “And of course, Russell Boyd won the office.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Nathan McGillis → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. A VFX artist at Asylum says none of the ocean in the film's storm sequence is CG, in line with Weir's wish for miniatures.
    “I can tell you, according to Nathan McGillis, McGinnis from Asylum, another VFX company. There's not one piece of ocean in that storm sequence that isn't real.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:35:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (9)

  1. industry (same-year-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Pirates came out the same year with stuffy British naval officers while this film shows a real shipboard ecosystem; they argue Pirates' success hurt this movie.
    “Pirates of Caribbean did kind of fuck this movie, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:18:34 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. industry (franchise-that-didn't-happen): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Robin Hood. Robin Hood is the last time seven years later that Crowe could have stayed in the same breeches for sequels; Robin Hood and Noah also drew dads.
    “Well, we always point to Robin Hood as the last 7 years later.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:19:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (dad-movie / theatrical-vs-streaming): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Greyhound. Greyhound, a naval Tom Hanks movie meant for theaters, went to Apple TV because of COVID, showing the dad audience now lives on streaming, unlike when this film got a major-studio release.
    “the number one movie in the history of Apple Plus is Tom Hanks's Greyhound, which was meant to be a theatrical movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:26:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. industry (same-awards-year): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Tim Robbins / Mystic River. Bettany's Supporting Actor nomination competed against Tim Robbins (Mystic River), Alec Baldwin (The Cooler), Benicio del Toro (21 Grams), and Djimon Hounsou (In America); Robbins was inevitable.
    “The Oscar nominees that year for sporting actor were Tim Robbins for Mr. Quiver who wins.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:49:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. industry (release-competition): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Fox pushed release to November for effects time, and Pirates in July ate its lunch; the studio worried about a 'boat curse' that Pirates' wild success seemed to lift.
    “Pirates of the Caribbean overperformed so wildly, then made people go like, oh, the boat curses gone.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:37:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. industry (awards-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Lord of the Rings (trilogy; Return of the King). The film's 10 nominations lost in most categories to the Return of the King sweep, winning only cinematography and sound where LOTR was not nominated.
    “Unfortunately, this is the same year as Lord of the Rings, Return of the King.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:46:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. industry (box-office-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Elf. Opening weekend, Elf (26 million) edged this film (25 million) for number one; expectations for Elf were low and it kept holding.
    “Elf is number one at the box office with 26 mil, mastering around right behind it at 25 mil.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 3:01:42 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. industry (marketing-pitch): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Gladiator. The pitch to adults was 'Russell Crowe doing Gladiator on a boat', which should have meant an automatic 40 million opening.
    “we've got Russell Crowe doing gladiator on a boat.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 3:02:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. industry (box-office-rival): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Matrix Revolutions. Matrix Revolutions opened number one but dropped to number three that weekend.
    “Number 3 is Matrix Revolutions.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 3:03:17 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (writer-other-work): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Happy Feet. Co-screenwriter John Collee also wrote Happy Feet and Paper Mask and had written for BBC's Star Cops.
    “Happy feet.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:03:06 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (crew-overlap): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → A Beautiful Mind. Akiva Goldsman, fresh off writing A Beautiful Mind, was brought in to beef up the Aubrey-Maturin relationship; Crowe was also on A Beautiful Mind.
    “So Akiva Goldsman, who, of course, had just written Beautiful Mind. What an Oscar does some rewrites”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:11:12 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (weir-cinematography): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Year of Living Dangerously. Russell Boyd's Weir work (dense air in Year of Living Dangerously, making Hanging Rock with no money) explains why he wanted the challenge of this film.
    “any movie that can make the air feel dense.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (director-bakeoff): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Harry Potter (the first film's director search). In 2000 Weir was one of several directors pitching to direct Harry Potter; he lost, and then got attached to Master and Commander for Fox.
    “Peter Weir, Wolfgang Peterson. Rob Reiner, Jonathan Demi, the great bad Brad Silverling, director of your favorite Casper, participate in a creative bake off”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:57:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (same-genre / TV-companion): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Hornblower (TV films). Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute.
    “I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander.”
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theme (6)

  1. theme (shared-motif): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Truman Show. Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes.
    “They do both have sailing scenes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (genre-scarcity): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Waterloo. Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce.
    “I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (dynamic / character-trio): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Star Trek (franchise, generally). The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage.
    “any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. theme (critic-comparison): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Star Trek (franchise, generally). The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness.
    “Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme / ship-as-world): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Moby-Dick. Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies.
    “how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. theme (joke-parallel (ship children)): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Cabin Boy. The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job.
    “that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (24)

  1. unmapped (top-ten-list): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Spirited Away. David's top ten includes Spirited Away, Alien, Master and Commander, A Matter of Life and Death and Chungking Express, the uncovered outliers.
    “Spirited away. Alien Master Commander. Matter of life and death.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:04:57 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (comfort-watch): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Pitt. David puts on Master and Commander to lower his blood pressure after the stressful Pitt finale, as Dr. Robbie would prescribe.
    “Pushmaster and commander to get my BP down, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:06:07 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (host-passion-episode): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → RoboCop. Like RoboCop, this is an episode where a movie means so much to one host the question was whether a guest was needed at all.
    “Sometimes there is a movie like Robocop, you know, where it's just like, this means so much to one of us.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:08:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Top Gun: Maverick. Offered, with Ford v Ferrari and Sully, as recent examples of dad-audience movies that still succeed in theaters.
    “Top Gun Maverick, but that doesn't totally count, but it still counts.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Ford v Ferrari. Another recent dad-skewing theatrical hit.
    “Ford versus Ferrari, I think dad movie was a big part of the part.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Sully. Another $100 million domestic dad-majority audience movie.
    “Sully, you know, these are movies that still, like, made a 100 million domestic, and you're like, this audience is majority dad.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (authenticity-of-vessel-life): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Sunshine. Both films make the viewer feel they know what living on a vessel (spaceship or sailing ship) is like, despite having no firsthand knowledge.
    “This is what it feels like to live in a spaceship for a couple years.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:42:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (scheduling-tradeoff): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Cinderella Man. Crowe postponed Cinderella Man (originally Lasse Hallstrom, later Ron Howard) to make this; Weir would not wait a year, and had the order flipped the tank might not have been available.
    “Crow decides to postpone Cinderella man. And instead boards the surprise.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:15:11 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (lookalike-comedy): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The bandaged Frenchman at the end evokes the rude taunting Frenchman from Monty Python, tied to the Eric Idle lookalike riff.
    “this really feels like the rude, taunting Frenchman from, I mean, he's wearing these weird bandages on his head.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:27:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (production-lesson): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Waterworld. Weir wanted to shoot entirely on open water, but the studio pointed to Waterworld's floating-ship logistics as a cautionary tale.
    “he wants to shoot entirely on the water and they're like, look, that's Waterworld.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:04 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (shared-technology): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Titanic. The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set.
    “James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (shared-ship): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The ship that stood in for the Surprise (the Rose) is said to have been cast in a later Pirates film.
    “Also, they cast the ship in Pirates of the Caribbean four.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:34:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (quote-memory): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → The Simpsons (submarine episode). The poop-deck exchange and 'cut of your jib' remind a host of a Simpsons submarine episode line.
    “Is the poop deck what I think it is?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:50:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (military-pageantry): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Gallipoli. Thinking of Gallipoli, the ornate officer uniforms there echo the 'military has to look fancy' impulse seen on the Surprise.
    “senior officers who you see at like the top of the hill watching the young boys do the basic training, you're like the ornateness of their uniforms.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:00:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (joke-extension): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Mad Max. The idea of seizing an enemy's boat and renaming it, applied to cars, is likened to a Mad Max wasteland society.
    “I guess I'm just describing a Mad Max wasteland society.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (dinner-scene): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → My Dinner with Andre. A joking comparison for the long weevils dinner conversation scene.
    “Just, just, what movie does this? A lesser of 2 weeks. Dinner scene? Every, just all, it's my dinner with Andre.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:16:17 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (dinner-scene): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Mouse Hunt. Asked what other movie has a dinner scene like this, the hosts offer My Dinner with Andre and Mouse Hunt (a chef, a cockroach dinner), then Green Card with Bebe Neuwirth.
    “Wait a second. Mouse Hunt actually has, because he's a chef.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:16:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (dinner-scene): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Green Card. Griffin notes the good dinner scene in Green Card as another Weir meal.
    “That's kind of a nice green card, too, with BB Newworth.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:16:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (shipboard-cabin-fever): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Muppet Treasure Island. Griffin offers Muppet Treasure Island as a 'serious, sober' seafaring work where cabin fever on a long voyage forces a flamenco number.
    “another serious, sober work of seafaring that I look to off in Muppet Treasure Island, in which they are on the ship for so long, they catch cabin fever”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:26:23 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (slow-burn-vs-swashbuckler): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Joking that Fox executives would wonder where the sword fight is, since Jack Sparrow fences the whole cast in Pirates.
    “I hear that Jack Sparrow, like, fences with every member of the cast prior to the Caribbean.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:44:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (weir-patience): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Picnic at Hanging Rock. Weir's patience, where nothing seems to happen until something suddenly does, runs through Witness, Hanging Rock and this film.
    “there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock, where you're just like, oh, yeah, I guess nothing's going to happen.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (weir-patience): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Witness. Same patience; the slow burn pays off in action.
    “there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (weir-vignette-opening): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Green Card. Green Card's opening drumming-in-the-subway sequence and this film's small 5-to-72-second vignettes both build a world with no plot function, which studios no longer allow.
    “that opening sequence with the kid drumming in the in the subway. Yeah. Has nothing to do with the plot.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:47:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (brotherhood-of-man): Gallipoli → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Both are about a brotherhood of men facing an unseen enemy.
    “It's got the similar thing in Gallipoli of it's about like a brotherhood of man a little bit, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:55:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (rewatch-frequency / favorites): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Jerry Maguire. David lists Master and Commander among favorites seen many times, like Jerry Maguire (40 times), versus Late Spring, which he rates among the greatest but has seen 2-3 times.
    “It's sort of like Jerry Maguire, I've seen 40 times. Master and commander have seen it many, many, many, many.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:05:48 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (teen-favorites-that-year): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Elephant. David's favorite movies at 17 in 2003 included Elephant and All the Real Girls, alongside Lord of the Rings, X2, 28 Days Later and Kill Bill; Master and Commander was liked but grew over time.
    “My favorite movies of that year were elephant, which was a big movie for me then.”
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what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. A speaker imagines three more Master and Commander films shot years ago and dropped at once.
    “What if tomorrow they announced that there were 3 more master and commander movies”
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Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: David states it is one of his ten favorites and Griffin says he texted it was the best movie ever made; David jokes he should have put it on his Sight and Sound ballot.
    “I think I should just, like, next time I do sight and sound, stop being like, moo, I love, you know, some important movie, so just fucking put this on there.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:01:45 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: David puts it on to calm his blood pressure, as a Pitt-style doctor would prescribe; his wife noticed it settles his mood.
    “Dr. Robbie would be like, get mastering commander in the DVD right now.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:06:12 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Griffin saw it at 14 in theaters with his oldest friend, was bored, and only later was converted; Derek has now seen it 20 times.
    “The movie starts, and like 3 minutes in, I was like, oh, right, I don't like this kind of movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:33:58 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: David saw it at 17 at the Odeon Leicester Square, then on a disastrous date; he bought the DVD right away.
    “I saw it at the Odeon Leicester Square with Howard Amos.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:38:37 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Studio panic in post: no villain, no romance, no women except a Brazilian lady with an umbrella for five seconds, who even made the trailer.
    “He's like, well, Brazilian lady has an umbrella for 5 seconds.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:36:25 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: The episode ends with the hosts and Hodgman singing the Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate shanty from a printout Ben prepared.
    “Safe and sound at home again.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:58:56 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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