Jeff Goldblum

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q106706: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Big Chill (1983); The Fly (1986); Jurassic Park (1993); Independence Day (1996); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); The Prince of Egypt (1998); Thor: Ragnarok (2017); Death Wish (2018).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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.

Chris Hemsworth: 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which they acted in: Chris Hemsworth ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read). Ragnarok is Hemsworth, who saw this film as a failure, asking to be allowed to be silly.
    “Ragnarok is Hemsworth being like, am I not, can I have some fun, please? and be silly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which they acted in: Chris Hemsworth ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read). Ragnarok is the correction to Hemsworth proving he's funny in other movies.
    “Thor Ragnarok is the correction to Hemsworth proving that he's funny in other movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Alien Resurrection (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Godzilla (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (intent) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). 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.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jason Aaron: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which they acted in: Jason Aaron ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read). Ragnarok is influenced by Jason Aaron's Thor comics.
    “Ragnarok is certainly influenced by the Jason Aaron stuff.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:12:02 · David Shoemaker (0.40 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). 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)

King Kong (2005): 1 line

  1. theme (plot trope) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). 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)

Michael Crichton: 1 line

  1. unmapped (adapted) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Michael Crichton ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Return of the Secaucus 7: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read). Called a precursor to The Big Chill.
    “precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

  1. craft (borrowed style) · through Independence Day (1996), which they acted in: Steven Spielberg ⇒ Independence Day (the host's read). 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.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:21:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Avengers (2012): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read). Ben's favorite Marvel movie; Hulk's journey into space follows from here.
    “Ragnarok is 100% Ben's favorite Marvel movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:18:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lost World (1912): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). 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.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

10 Years: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read). Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill.
    “I kind of like 10 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technology showed it was possible) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Anaconda (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (ripple effect) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read). 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)

Beautiful Girls (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read). Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex.
    “I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Bill Clinton: 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Bill Clinton (the host's read). EW's 15th anniversary review blamed The Big Chill for soundtrack albums, 30-something, and Bill Clinton.
    “Hell, blame the big show for Bill Quinton.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Hometown (TV series): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read). The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986.
    “As the short-lived series hometown?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (misreading) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World (the host's read). 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)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read). The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them.
    “even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Masters of the Universe (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which they acted in: Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read). The movie looks inspired by Ragnarok, which gave executives a template of color, weirdness, and joke tone to copy.
    “And it speaks to this movie feels very, um, inspired by Thor Ragnarok to me.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:09:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Nobody: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Death Wish (2018), which they acted in: Death Wish ⇒ Nobody (the host's read). Nobody is a Bob Odenkirk revenge thriller in the spirit of Death Wish.
    “the movie Nobody, the new Bob Odenkirk Revenge Thriller, this transformational Bob Odenkirk movie that's very much in the spirit of like Death Wish”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:07:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Reality Bites (1994): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read). Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
    “And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Intervention: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read). Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex.
    “There was a movie called The Intervention.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). 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)

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022): 1 line

  1. unmapped (self-parody) · through Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which they acted in: Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Thor: Love and Thunder (the host's read). Van says Love and Thunder is a spoof of Ragnarok and that Waititi likely knew it.
    “is like a spoof of Thor Ragnarok.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 1:11:29 · Van Lathan (0.80 sure it was them)

Twister (1996): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (13) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. 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.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:19:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jeff Goldblum → Death Wish. Goldblum in Death Wish: can't see Jeff Goldblum the same way.
    “Any movie that I've never seen Jeff Goldblum the same.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Jeff Goldblum → Benicio del Toro. Goldblum has said he wants to do more with del Toro in a future Avengers film because their characters are brothers.
    “Because they're brothers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:01:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Jeff Goldblum → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The Lost World shows why that second-lead model fails when he becomes the lead.
    “And that's why Lost World is not a great idea.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Jeff Goldblum → Independence Day. Independence Day divides plot and character responsibility well in a way similar to the Han Solo ensemble model.
    “they were like, Independence Day kind of has that too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Jeff Goldblum → Geena Davis. Goldblum's first wife appears in the opening credits and he later ended up with Geena Davis.
    “who he then broke up with and ended up with Gina Davis.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. 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?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. 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.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:13:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. 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)
  4. theme (theme): Jeff Goldblum → Jurassic Park. The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park.
    “Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Kevin Kline → Jeff Goldblum. Kline wanted Goldblum's funnier part but was pushed to the other.
    “Kevin Klein wanted Goldbloom's part because he thought it was a funnier role, but they pushed him too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (casting what-if): Jeff Goldblum → Anthony Hopkins. Van suggests Goldblum, a co-star of Pullman in Independence Day, as an offbeat rich guy.
    “I think Jeff Goldblum could have pulled this off in like in a weird, quirky sort of the rich.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:28:05 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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