David Dobkin

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q607615: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Clay Pigeons (1998); Shanghai Knights (2003); Wedding Crashers (2005); Fred Claus (2007); The Change-Up (2011); The Judge (2014). Count them as producer (1 film) instead.

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.

Man of Steel (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Judge (2014), which they directed: 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)

Shanghai Noon (2000): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Shanghai Knights (2003), which they directed: Shanghai Noon ⇒ Shanghai Knights (the host's read). Dobkin directed Knights, a catastrophe next to the masterpiece Noon.
    “The sequel to Shanghai Nune, which is a masterpiece.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:36:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (7) everyone in directing

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (filmography-contrast): David Dobkin → Wedding Crashers. His pre-Judge filmography is ugly, misjudged comedies with regressive politics, which makes a serious drama odd.
    “his filmography is mostly ugly, misjudged comedies that have regressive social politics.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:38:44 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (writer-link): David Dobkin → Gran Torino. Dobkin had the idea from his father's elder years and pitched it to the writer of Gran Torino, who wrote it.
    “picture basically to the writer of Grand Torino.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:36:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (director): Wedding Crashers → David Dobkin. Dobkin directed this monster hit, which they say is misogynistic and unfunny but well shot.
    “It is very well shot, though. I will say it looks nice.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:37:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (director): Fred Claus → David Dobkin. Dobkin's Fred Claus is a catastrophe with Vince Vaughn as Santa's brother and Ludacris's head on a filmed little person.
    “Yeah, they filmed a little person and then superimposed Ludacris's head so his neck never moves properly.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:38:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about David Dobkin: Bar mitzvah analogy: Dobkin plays it solemn like a 13-year-old reading from the Torah to prove he is a man, then slips back into pee jokes at the party.
    “It feels like the way that 13 year old boys have to act during their bar mitzvah, during the actual service in the Torah portion where they really have to put on the ears that they are now a man.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:56:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)