Griffin Newman

96 sketches, 1,162 claims, and 605 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–20 of 96 sketches.

Blank Check with Griffin & David: The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie (host)

Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness.

Stances

  • Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version
  • Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus
  • Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

Humor: Riffs and character bits on the Willem de ___ names and ongoing running gags.

In their words

  • “I find the ending so incredibly movie.” (0:19:45)
  • “This is my 1st time watching.” (0:26:27)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: The Color of Money with Chris Ryan (host)

Loves quirky or deep-cut cinema and playful franchise lore (Muppets, Species, Pink Panther sequels), and enjoys the abjectly stressful pool-hall world. Is a sucker for movie-star mannerisms and for fan trivia. Cannot stand Cars 2 or Zemeckis's Pinocchio.

Stances

  • Color of Money is a stabilizer, not a pure paycheck gig
  • Cars is bad and indefensible; Cars 2 is worse
  • Wants Lorraine Bracco redeemed via a Goodfellas episode
  • Adds stabilizer to the Blank Check lexicon

Humor: Rapid pop-culture riffing and running bits, playing unpredictably with franchise absurdities and mock-serious proposals.

In their words

  • “But stabilizer is a term we haven't used before. And you're right. Let's add it to the lexicon” (0:19:50)
  • “Cars is Doc Hollywood basically beat for beat.” (0:07:08)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: After Hours with Alison Sivitz (host)

Treats After Hours as a personal vibe movie and loves oddball details, Scorsese lore and downtown New York. Fond of Pee-wee and Griffin Dunn, plays bits about being named after Dunn. Cannot stand wasteful nostalgia and hates auto-flush toilets.

Stances

  • After Hours is a downtown, very Griffin movie
  • Modern remakes fail because phones and piled-up incident ruin it
  • Wicked 2 killed Wicked

Humor: Deadpan bits that run on, mock outrage, and wordplay about the Griffin theme.

In their words

  • “This movie also, let's just say, is very much reflective of my temperament.” (0:07:22)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Raging Bull with David Krumholtz (host)

A film completist who loves the weird 1980 corners of the box office and the Scorsese-De Niro dynamic. Cannot stand Jimmy Doyle as a date and worries about Hollywood executives. A sucker for obscure titles and good trivia and for Casavetes.

Stances

  • Raging Bull is a funny tragedy
  • Studio decisions based on metrics are ruining movies
  • Scorsese uses comedy to implicate the audience

Humor: Playful, riffing, bit-prone, with running gags like Hollywood 3.0.

In their words

  • “We've coined Hollywood 3.0 today for to describe just like the fucking nonsense that goes on day to day.” (0:13:41)
  • “The problem is those people who make the decisions now are like, it's like saber metrics.” (1:35:40)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman (host)

He came to the film bored at 14 (no monsters or puppets) and now respects it without it being his kind of movie; he adores Peter Weir's craft, Pirates of the Caribbean-era trivia and Oscar and career-arc analysis. He is a sucker for genre-bending Weir details and franchise history.

Stances

  • Revisited the film and understands its value though it is not innately his kind
  • Pirates of the Caribbean hurt this movie
  • Insists on playing the box office game
  • Weir is a patient director

Humor: Self-deprecating, quick riffs, bits about his own childhood tastes.

In their words

  • “It is innately not my kind of film, but I was not disengaged from it in the way I was as a 14 year old.” (0:36:16)
  • “I saw this in theaters.” (0:33:36)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Fearless with Timothy Simons (host)

Loves physical media, 4K steelbooks, and calling unlikely films masterpieces. Prone to over-planning and lateness. An anxious flyer who relies on Klonopin and researches crashes. Has a blind spot for studio comedies he has not seen.

Stances

  • Fearless is excellent but not a three-hour oil-drilling episode
  • movies are great again
  • Small Soldiers and Sliver defended as masterpieces by friends

Humor: Rapid-fire riffs, self-roasts, and elaborate hypothetical bits.

In their words

  • “They announce they announce small soldiers 4K steel book. and I go, obviously, inarguable masterpiece.” (1:00:59)
  • “I only see masterpieces.” (2:27:21)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Fargo with Zach Cregger (host)

A heavy researcher who comes with a 'dossier' of production history, interview quotes and box-office data, and loves Coens details, McDormand and Macy's performances, and deep-cut trivia. He is a sucker for the Mike Yanagita scene and the film's tonal balance, and delights in the weekly box-office game.

Stances

  • Fargo is the best encapsulation of the Coens, the way Blue Velvet is of Lynch
  • Macy should have been nominated for lead
  • Searches for essays-worthy meaning in the editing choices
  • Defends Jurassic Park III

Humor: Dry, bit-driven, and loves a running gag about podcast mechanics and Ben.

In their words

  • “I'm going to open the dossier now” (0:40:11)
  • “directing is about tone management.” (0:32:35)
  • “Okay, now I need to sidebar here for a 2nd because David and I are both Jurassic Park 3 defenders” (1:19:12)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis (host)

Loves puppet-baby and in-utero comedy, rewatching movies on Letterboxd, and weird Blu-ray ephemera. He is a Shelley Long Cheers loyalist who was cool on Kirstie Alley until this movie, and has a parent's eye on infant safety. He prefers movies that feel made by one person.

Stances

  • The in-utero Mikey is peak comedy and the infant middle is lazy
  • Authorship is the show's central criterion for a director
  • Rebecca-era Cheers was a shadow of the show

Humor: Escalating riffs and tangents (Rugrats connections, Renaissance prequel pitch) delivered in dry mock-formal register.

In their words

  • “I think this is both such a good movie star performance from him and such a great example of what I would call a movie star movie” (0:37:06)
  • “everything about this feels like it was made by one person.” (1:49:39)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri (host)

Passionate about Spielberg's autobiographical psychology and Oscar-race history; loves Lincoln, Catch Me If You Can, ensemble casts, and Malkovich as a flavor. Cannot stand Always and Spielberg's pure comedies; a sucker for deep-dive trivia and dossier research.

Stances

  • Empire is a very good movie where Spielberg starts subverting his own style
  • Fabelmans explains Spielberg's trauma
  • 1941 and Always are weak spots
  • Spielberg suffers from being compared to his own canon

Humor: Self-aware riffs, callbacks, and long absurd comparisons (sun-dried tomatoes on a sandwich), plus bits about Ben's resolutions.

In their words

  • “I think this movie's excellent.” (0:38:38)
  • “He's sun dried tomatoes on a sandwich.” (0:01:21)
  • “I do not have a single happy memory of my childhood.” (1:52:20)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis (host)

Came to Indiana Jones late, via box sets before Crystal Skull, and prefers Last Crusade for its silent-comedy streak, with reservations about Temple of Doom. Fascinated by how movies were made and by fandom history; a sucker for Spielberg staging, action craft and comics-era nostalgia.

Stances

  • Raiders is a lightning-in-a-bottle movie the sequels cannot recapture
  • Modern action imitators reverse-engineer surface elements
  • Treats Crystal Skull as half working

Humor: Does self-aware impressions and cranky-David riffs, mixes film nerd rigor with asides.

In their words

  • “Whereas I think, you know, David and I always felt like weird kids were we were paying attention to this at a time when like people were not.” (0:17:08)
  • “I'm Griffin.” (0:06:37)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff (host)

He is the first-time Return viewer on this episode, so his taste shows in reactions: he loves Lynch's plainness, simple low-tech tricks and the sense that reality is ripping apart. He wants spoiler-free viewing, the proper Criterion/box-set version, and cannot stand being told to read recaps. A sucker for bits and for a gift-worthy game of ratings guessing.

Stances

  • Wants to be unspoiled and refuses to read recaps or the behind-the-scenes documentary yet
  • Treats Part 8 as hypnotic and nearly unsummarizable until the others explain it
  • Believes in extended bits (Wonka 2, Gethard cut) over discussion

Humor: He builds long running bits and follows riffs to absurd conclusions, sometimes holding straight faces.

In their words

  • “I'm going to ask dumb questions because you guys have been thinking on these things for years, if not decades, and I'm new to all of this, right?” (1:09:38)
  • “I felt like I, as a viewer, had like lost control of my point of view watching.” (0:52:12)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Dune with John Hodgman (host)

Reads the show's research dossier aloud and loves film-history trivia, particularly how directors get hired and what the studios did to them. Identified from lines addressed to him and dossier reads; many individual attributions with David are uncertain. Enjoys the Dune film as a design and sound object.

Stances

  • Dune '84 is fascinating as the one bounce that redirected Lynch's career
  • Respects the dossier's production details over speculation

Humor: Dry riffing and callbacks, running bits with Ben and the dossier-researcher JJ.

In their words

  • “So in the dossier, David.” (1:05:21)
  • “JJ, while we were recording, texted David and I hope the Dune dossier still made sense once you reach the deeper pages, LOL.” (2:29:32)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany (host)

Loves plot-driven noir, weird procedural details (chain mail gloves, pockets, eyedrops) and Park's stranger visual gags. He prepares the director-biography research and box-office game. Is a sucker for bits that run for minutes, like the sand-beach and Wheel of Fortune riffs.

Stances

  • Park's best scenes are the quietly bizarre ones, ten per film
  • Decision to Leave works because the hero cannot see her directly
  • Likes long-running meta bits more than the ad-reads

Humor: Absurdist escalation and puns, running a single detail (chain mail, sand beach) into the ground.

In their words

  • “Okay, so yeah, let's talk about the plot of the movie. Guy falls off a mountain.” (0:54:04)
  • “Oh, can I just Shout out to she, young Kim.” (1:34:01)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak (host)

Treats Sherlock Jr. as a perfect film and loves seeing silent comedy in a theater, where he says it transformed him at CalArts. Prefers Chaplin's One A.M. to his features, and is a sucker for meta jokes about film language and for Cabin Boy-style references. He sours on The Navigator's cannibal-island finale for its racism.

Stances

  • Sherlock Jr. is one of the best movies ever made and a contender for best film covered on the show
  • Certain films must be seen in a theater with an audience
  • Short runtimes of 40 to 50 minutes suit these comedies best
  • The Navigator is Keaton in play-the-hits mode and the racist finale kills it

Humor: Riffs on running bits and pop-culture parallels, then happily trips himself up in his own jokes.

In their words

  • “which, for my money, is still the best thing Chaplain ever did, over his features.” (0:58:42)
  • “you can watch rear window at home and appreciate it.” (1:00:20)
  • “Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick's cabin boy is such a Buster Keaton setup.” (1:51:04)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Wendell & Wild (host)

Loves Selick's visual inventiveness and thinks Wendell & Wild eventually satisfies despite its density; steeped in film-business history and trivia. Defends big sci-fi blockbusters with heavy exposition like Inception and Avatar. Rankings: Nightmare 1, Coraline 2, Peach 3, Wendell & Wild 4, Monkeybone 5.

Stances

  • Wendell & Wild works in spite of itself
  • Netflix botched the release
  • Nightmare edges Coraline on the ranking
  • Monkeybone is an odd, likable bad object

Humor: Riffs on streaming-era absurdity and takes self-aware swipes at the show's own running gags.

In their words

  • “I do think it is cohesive by the end of the movie.” (1:54:06)
  • “I would say it works in spite of itself.” (1:53:03)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Star 80 with Julie Klausner (host)

Respects the craft of Fosse and defends Star 80 as powerful and aware of its own evil, while admitting it nearly unbearable. Loves the structural play of Fosse's films and Alan Ladd-era filmmaker faith. Cannot endorse or recommend Star 80, hates the soundtrack and dwells on true-crime and victim culture.

Stances

  • Star 80 is great but almost unwatchable and not recommendable
  • Fosse is underrated as a filmmaker
  • Fosse hates himself and does not seek forgiveness
  • Ranks Cabaret first with All That Jazz a close second

Humor: Self-deprecating, dark and quick, with pop-culture riffs and jokes about his own podcast.

In their words

  • “I think this movie is like staring into the sun.” (0:04:19)
  • “He, I do think, is incredibly underrated as a as a filmmaker.” (0:05:55)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens (host)

Loves the film's elusive, memory-like childhood section and its refusal to explain itself; is invested in Campion's research quotes and festival lore. Can't stand the bedsheet-to-armpits sex scene and heavy-handed biopic cliches. A sucker for oddball 90s trivia like FX2 and Brian Bosworth.

Stances

  • The film should be a movie, not a three-part TV series
  • Likes biopics that focus on one slice of life
  • Wants to protect young Janet and root for her
  • Collects odd details and quotes from Campion interviews

Humor: Self-deprecating and digressive, jokes about his own obsessions and failures.

In their words

  • “I was so like moonlight pilled watching this movie” (0:20:22)
  • “I just wanted to protect her in this sort of 1st half of the movie.” (0:51:46)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Starman with Katey Rich (host)

Loves classic-Hollywood trivia, obsessive research dossiers, practical effects and the unfussy craft of Bridges' performance. Worships Dean Cundy and wishes he had shot Starman. Cannot stand overstuffed jukebox movies like the Amazon Cinderella. A sucker for Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet and Oscar-clip nostalgia.

Stances

  • Starman is a good dorky movie; the poster and home-video art are bad
  • Cundy would have made it better
  • Carpenter's unsentimental filmmaking helped it age well
  • Coppola should make Megalopolis now

Humor: Riffs on voices, absurd imagined scenes and dad jokes, then goes deep on obscure Hollywood trivia.

In their words

  • “I love a road trip movie.” (1:33:30)
  • “I'm trying to do Jeff Bridges in this movie” (0:04:43)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (host)

Loves a good character-driven film with specificity and is a sucker for franchise action (Mission: Impossible) and spirited bad-movie obsessions. Can't stand Joy and Jason Reitman's tone-deaf fan-service sequels, and gets wary when a movie loses its human focus.

Stances

  • Ricki and the Flash is a good premise executed poorly
  • Defends Tully until its twist
  • Blames some Demme decisions for Ricki's flatness

Humor: Quick pop-culture riffs, fake-announcer bits and absurd puns, often at his own expense.

In their words

  • “Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans.” (0:02:48)
  • “I was like, we need to ban children from films forever.” (0:05:16)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang (host)

Loves practical movie-making and visible seams, and gets emotionally floored by sincere pictures like The Farewell and Spirited Away. Cannot stand dense plotting without a map, gun fetishism, and 'Western catharsis'. A sucker for John Wick, Keanu Reeves, heroic dogs, and a perfect sandwich.

Stances

  • Nausicaä is busy and he would like it better in sequence after Lupin, Cagliostro and Sky
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 is the best Wick and one of the year's best
  • Practical animation cheats are charming, not a flaw
  • Dubs are fine and he regrets not using the dub for the plot

Humor: Self-deprecating, tangential, and bit-driven, he tends to run an absurd joke (the Disney Store greeter, Galactus-sized puppeteer) until the others stop him.

In their words

  • “I love practical shit. I love the seams of movie making, you know?” (0:55:15)
  • “this movie doesn't understand that this is fucked up now.” (1:37:12)
  • “I think it's maybe the best work of Keanu's entire career.” (1:50:14)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 401–500 of 1,162 claims.

  1. contrast (unexplained-setup contrast): Masters of the Universe → Big. Big reaches its magic machine in under ten minutes with no backstory, which the movie should have emulated instead of over-explaining.
    “And there is no backstory of who made the machine or why or why it's possessed with a ghost or why it works or how to undo it.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:05:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (genre wave): Conan the Barbarian → Krull. The 80s high-fantasy boom was mostly kicked off by Conan the Barbarian's success.
    “mostly, you know, kicked off by the success of Conan the Barbarian, but there was just been so many films in that period of time”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:16:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (ranking): The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring → The Green Knight. Griffin's five fantasy picks (NeverEnding Story, Green Knight, Mononoke, Willow, Fellowship) are the common-canon list he could not talk himself out of.
    “like, it felt like a very kind of unoriginal list, but I couldn't talk myself into saying like, well, actually, BeastMaster has some really cool effects in it”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:18:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. theme (borderline-genre): Ray Harryhausen → The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Harryhausen movies blur Greek mythology and high fantasy; one of Sinbad or Jason would represent them.
    “I could put the 7th Voyage of Sinbad on a list like this, you know?”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:21:18 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (ranking): Barbie → The Lego Movie. Barbie sits at the top of the toy-movie heap, along with the first Lego Movie.
    “Barbie, obviously, I think now sits as like, arguably the top of the heap, along with, I would say, the Lego movie, the 1st Lego movie”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:30:19 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (lost masterpiece): The Thief and the Cobbler → The Magnificent Ambersons. Williams's never-finished Thief and the Cobbler is one of animation's great Magnificent Ambersons.
    “it's sort of one of the great magnificent Ambersons of animation.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:36:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (side job): Richard Williams → The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Williams took the Raggedy Ann job to fund self-producing more of The Thief and the Cobbler.
    “he took this assignment job, uh, to get the money to self-produce more of Thief and the Cobbler.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:36:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (tonal comp): The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy → The Dark Crystal. Raggedy Ann feels like the Jim Henson fantasy films discussed earlier.
    “It feels like the Jim Tanson fantasy films we were talking about.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:36:55 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (midpoint): The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy → Toy Story franchise. Raggedy Ann sits halfway between a child's imagined toy play and what Toy Story later found: that being a toy would be an existential nightmare.
    “It's halfway in between feeling like you're watching a film of what a kid imagines their toys are doing. And what Toy Story gets to later”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:37:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (toy origin): The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh → A.A. Milne. Pooh stories are tales adapted from a mythology a boy created for his toys; the film's framing device shows a boy's room of dolls.
    “They are tales adapted from The mythology created by kids for their toys.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:37:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (canon filler): The Hudsucker Proxy → Toy Story franchise. To make a good toy-movie canon you have to cheat and include movies not driven by a product: Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, Hudsucker.
    “In order to make a cannon that is good. You have to cheat and put in things like Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, and the Hudsucker proxy”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:39:55 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. verdict (ranking): Barbie → The Lego Movie. Of the whole toy-movie canon, only Barbie and The Lego Movie came from a cynical place and ended somewhere fairly pure.
    “And then you're like, really, it's only Barbie and Lego movie that came from the cynical place and ended up somewhere fairly pure.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:40:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  13. career (career): José Padilha → Elite Squad. Padilha comes from a gritty, stripped-down neo-realist police-force background, so the studio hired him for a serious reboot.
    “this is the director who comes from a sort of like gritty kind of, uh, stripped down neo-realist”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:10:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. programming (programming): Darren Aronofsky → RoboCop. Aronofsky was first choice, stayed three years, then left because MGM could not fund the film, the start of his flirtations with franchises.
    “Yes, Darren Aronovsky is the 1st choice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:11:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. In the original, Murphy loses his identity and must rediscover it; here he never does, and the host calls that stupid.
    “he never loses his identity.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:18:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. theme (theme): RoboCop → RoboCop. The OCP change to OmniCorp is read as a change made because the original seems corny today.
    “the differentiations they make feel driven by like, well, if you watch the original now, it's kind of corny.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:22:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. career (career): Gary Oldman → Batman Begins. Oldman's Gordon role changed his career after a stretch as a studio villain, and RoboCop asks him to play Gordon again without the mustache.
    “He's just kind of Gordon without a mustache being like, Robocop, I'm really trying to help you here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:24:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. career (career): Joel Kinnaman → For All Mankind. Kinnaman is great in For All Mankind as Ed Baldwin, the only actor to appear in every season.
    “he plays Ed Baldwin, who's one of the original astronauts.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:26:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. A remake that pushes seriousness and cuts the humor, though the humor is what people remember about the original.
    “you're like, huh, because the humor's the stuff that people remember.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:30:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. people (people): José Padilha → Fernando Meirelles. Meirelles said Padilha told him making RoboCop was the worst experience of his life, with nine of every ten ideas cut.
    “Every 10 ideas I have, 9 are cut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:31:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. craft (craft): RoboCop → RoboCop. The original's way of showing the conversion was good, but the remake skips the time lapse and wakes him already built.
    “the way they did it was really a good way to do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. craft (craft): RoboCop → Venom. Keeping his face visible is a studio note, like Topher Grace in Venom, so the visor keeps swinging up and down.
    “So in this, it's like Topher Grace Venom where they're like, well, his visor comes up anytime he speaks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. craft (craft): Legacy Effects → The Tick. The shop that holds the RoboCop suits also did a lot of the effects work on The Tick, which the speaker knows from working on that show.
    “I just know legacy effects who did a lot of stuff on the tick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:34:42 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  24. craft (craft): Legacy Effects → RoboCop. After the first suit photos went over badly, the production gave Legacy Effects about two weeks to build a second suit closer to the 1987 look, per what the shop told the speaker.
    “the production panicked when the 1st photos came out and the response was so bad and we were given like 2 weeks to make a new suit that looked more like the 80s movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:34:47 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  25. contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. The remake keeps the hand as a clever Easter egg that inverts Bob Morton's order to junk the hand.
    “in this one they keep the hand.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Avatar. The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
    “It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. craft (craft): RoboCop → The Wizard of Oz. The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart.
    “If I only had a heart is what it's.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  28. lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Batman Begins. The remake is part of the grounded-and-serious wave that followed Nolan; the speakers say this film marks the end of it.
    “The Batman begins effect.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Casino Royale. Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original.
    “It's like the Casino Royale.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. craft (craft): RoboCop → Batman Begins. The black rubber suit and the motorcycle read as Nolan's Batman, not as a robot.
    “And then the suit looks very Nolan Batman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:52:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. contrast (contrast): RoboCop → Robocop 2. The speakers say RoboCop 2's satire goes big where this film does not.
    “The fun of Robocop 2 is how big they can go with the satire.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:04:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. industry (industry): Paul Verhoeven → Total Recall. Almost every Verhoeven Hollywood film got a remake or sequel, including Total Recall and RoboCop.
    “almost every one of his Hollywood films was either sequelized or remade.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:06:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. career (career): RoboCop → Chi-Raq (transcribed 'Shyraq'). Jackson's direct-address monologues here recall Chi-Raq, where he has fun as a meta narrator; here he is muzzled.
    “Samuel Jackson has a character who similarly is doing like direct address to the camera monologues, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:09:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. career (career): Samuel L. Jackson → Chi-Raq (transcribed 'Shyraq'). Jackson is in showman mode in Chi-Raq, a contrast to the restrained role here.
    “He's in like showman mode in that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:09:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. contrast (contrast): RoboCop → RoboCop. Keaton's villain stays the same until a rooftop face-off; the speakers imagine Ronny Cox's version in his place.
    “if Michael Keaton is fucking Ronnie Cox, you know. The movie like doesn't have a villain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. verdict (verdict): RoboCop → Ouija. One-star Patreon-feed comparison: the hosts rate this film worse than Ouija.
    “I think this is worse than Ouija.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:22:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. verdict (verdict): RoboCop → RoboCop 3. They rank the sequels against each other: 2 is better than 3, though both beat this film.
    “Robocop 3 is like Lunchables Pizza?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:29:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. theme (theme): RoboCop → The Mandalorian and Grogu. A stoic armored parent who secretly cares is called basically RoboCop 3.
    “It's basically RoboCop 3.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:34:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  39. career (career): Steve Pink → High Fidelity. Steve Pink directed About Last Night and co-wrote High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank.
    “Who co-wrote high fidelity and gross point blank.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:59:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. programming (programming): Resident Evil (film series) → Paul W.S. Anderson. The next series is the Paul W.S. Anderson-involved Resident Evil films, all six, then Welcome to Raccoon City.
    “Paul W.S. Anderson's President Evil.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 2:04:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. career (career): Edge of Tomorrow → Top Gun: Maverick. Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. industry (industry): Edge of Tomorrow → Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Bourne, Smith and Edge all had the 'is he ever going to finish' chaos, with actors replaced mid-shoot.
    “Bourne and Smith and Edge of Tomorrow all had that thing of like, is he ever going to finish this thing?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. lineage (lineage): Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day. The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes.
    “Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. career (career): Edge of Tomorrow → American Made. Edge is the end of the run where Cruise looks like an aged-well human; by American Made he looks 'nuts'.
    “This is the end of that run.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:15:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. verdict (verdict): Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. By the time Fallout came out people were saying Edge also ruled; these are modern Cruise's high points.
    “these are now kind of his high points for modern Tom.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:16:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Boyhood. The speaker ranks Edge over Boyhood, which is respectable.
    “I like this more than boyhood, but boyhood is respectable.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:17:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Cocktail. Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them.
    “It's not cocktail, it's not color money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → The Color of Money. Same point: the earlier Cruise plays the guy who has the moves; Edge has him work for them.
    “not this guy has all the moves.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. career (career): Christopher McQuarrie → Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. This movie is followed by Cruise handing McQuarrie the directing job on Mission Impossible.
    “there's a reason why this movie is followed up by him saying you're the director of Mission Impossible now”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:22:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. people (people): Jack Reacher → Christopher McQuarrie. At the time, giving the Jack Reacher guy Mission Impossible felt like a step down.
    “he's given the Jack Reacher guy, Mission Impossible.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:22:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Battleship. Most 2010s movie aliens were CGI things in an armored suit like Battleship.
    “It was the battleship thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Arrival. Edge and Arrival were the two 2010s alien movies that finally went non-humanoid.
    “this and arrival were the 2 that were like, what if it's not humanoid at all?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  53. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → The Tomorrow War. Tomorrow War has half a good alien design, like a fleshy version of Edge's.
    “it kind of felt like it was just like a fleshy version of this”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  54. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Lady in the Water. The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils.
    “They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Cowboys & Aliens. Cowboys & Aliens has entirely CGI aliens still designed as if putting a suit on a person.
    “Like Cowboys and Aliens has the same problem”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → The Matrix. The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative.
    “There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  57. theme (theme): Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day. Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful.
    “Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  58. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day hits an inflection point where Bill Murray tries suicide and then just lives through it; Edge is about repeated violent deaths and the hope of advancing.
    “Groundhog Day hits the inflection point about halfway through where he's like, let me kill myself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. career (career): Doug Liman → Swingers. Swingers and the OC pilot are the zeitgeist hits that earned Liman the benefit of the doubt.
    “swingers like launched a 1000 ships, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:44:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  60. industry (industry): Alex Kurtzman → Transformers. Kurtzman and Orci are cast as kings of magic blood, writers of Transformers and Star Trek.
    “they were the Kings of magic blood.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:46:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  61. industry (industry): Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Ghost Protocol had the same chaos, with a hundred writers, which McQuarrie solved by starting to film and figuring it out.
    “This was the Macquarie thing, and this is exactly what happened on Ghost Protocol”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:47:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  62. people (people): Christopher McQuarrie → Edge of Tomorrow. McQuarrie joined halfway through filming, connected the dots, and became the writer on set; he then got Mission Impossible.
    “They hire Macquarie like halfway through filming and he immediately looks at what they have and starts like connecting dots and solving problems.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:47:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Raiders of the Lost Ark. The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'.
    “like end of Raiders shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  64. career (career): Doug Liman → Chaos Walking. After Edge, Liman never got another good one; Chaos Walking went through reshoots and recasting and came out years late.
    “chaos walking is going back for its 4th round of reshoots and recastings”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:54:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  65. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Oblivion. Oblivion is sad and quiet; Edge gets the humor Oblivion needed.
    “I think that movie needs more humor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:56:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  66. career (career): Emily Blunt → Looper. Looper was when people started to say they liked her; Edge is where she is agreed to be a star.
    “Looper felt smart for using her so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:57:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. career (career): Emily Blunt → The Devil Wears Prada. Prada plus My Summer of Love is how she was discovered and signed to a two-picture deal.
    “they're like, here's a discovery.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:58:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  68. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Iron Man 2. Fox kept Blunt in Gulliver's Travels instead of letting her be Black Widow in Iron Man 2 and the Avengers.
    “Then John Favreau was like, I want you to play Black Widow and Iron Man 2”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:58:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Get Him to the Greek. Blunt dropped out of Get Him to the Greek; Rose Byrne replaced her and entered the Apatow system, leaving Blunt in a middle zone until Edge.
    “They replaced her with Rose Byrne, who then gets properly fed into the Appatau system”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:59:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. verdict (verdict): Edge of Tomorrow → Jumper. Same director, similar practical-effect obsession; Jumper has a good idea and a bad story, Edge solves it.
    “you're like, he figured out this one thing and the story sucks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:02:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. craft (craft): Doug Liman → Jumper. Liman's tactile, cable-pulled approach on Jumper's teleports prefigures the practical exosuits in Edge, a classic Liman obsession that here paid off.
    “You're like classic Lyman mistake, except they solve it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:02:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. career (career): Bill Paxton → Training Day (TV series). Paxton went from Edge to the CBS Training Day series, which he died during.
    “He goes from this to the, um, uh, training day TV show and then he dies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  73. career (career): Bill Paxton → Nightcrawler. Paxton is in Nightcrawler and is really good in it.
    “Really good in that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:16:15 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  74. career (career): Kick Gurry → Speed Racer. Kick Gurry, a J Squad soldier, was Sparky in Speed Racer.
    “who, of course, was Sparky in... Speed Racer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:18:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  75. career (career): Tony Way → Black Books (TV series). Tony Way, Kimmel in J Squad, plays the clerk in a Black Books episode.
    “in black books, there's the episode where Bernard gets locked out of the bookshop.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:19:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  76. industry (industry): Edge of Tomorrow → Snabba Cash. Dragomir Mrsic from Edge is in Snabba Cash, the Swedish film that got Joel Kinnaman English-language work and Espinosa the RoboCop remake.
    “It's the thing that got Joel Kinnaman in English language productions, and then Daniel Espinoza gets hired to do the Robocop remake”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:20:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day. The choreography of the repeated day (dodging people, counting it off) is what Groundhog Day does.
    “It's what Grandhog Day does.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  78. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Monsters, Inc.. The ambiguous final beat mirrors Monsters Inc.: you want to know he goes back to her but no more definitive answer.
    “the perfect ending because it's like the Monsters Inc. ending”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:35:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  79. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → The Bourne Identity. The end-credits pop song sounds like the Moby song Bourne ends with.
    “it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  80. craft (craft): Moby → Edge of Tomorrow. The pop song over Edge of Tomorrow's final cut sounds like the Moby song that ends Bourne.
    “it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with, which then the later borns all use.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  81. craft (craft): Doug Liman → Dion Beebe. Liman often shoots his own films, but Dion Beebe shot Edge of Tomorrow.
    “He's shot a couple of his films, but no, Dion B. shot this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:59 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  82. craft (craft): Doug Liman → Swingers. Liman shot Fair Game, Swingers and Go himself.
    “He did shoot fair game and he shot swingers in go.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  83. what-if (what-if): Doug Liman → Tom Cruise. Liman and Cruise announced a film shot in space; it was canceled because Cruise didn't want to owe Trump a favor.
    “the space movie is finally like officially fucking canceled”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:37:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  84. contrast (contrast): Million Dollar Arm → Trouble with the Curve. Two baseball-coded movies from that era: Trouble with the Curve is the Eastwood one, Million Dollar Arm the Hamm one.
    “Trouble with the curb is the Eastward one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:44:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  85. people (people): Million Dollar Arm → Life of Pi. Million Dollar Arm has the Life of Pi guy in it.
    “Million dollar arm has the life of pie guy in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:44:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  86. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Devo. Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
    “Devo covered that song?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  87. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Thief. Thief is an example of a debut where the director arrives fully formed, in the same bucket as Eraserhead.
    “But I'm like, thief, guy arrives fully formed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  88. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dances with Wolves. Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture.
    “this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  89. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Edward Scissorhands. Eraserhead is the same outsider idea as Edward Scissorhands in raw form, where Burton's film was reworked into a presentable studio picture.
    “And this is him just doing the pure raw expression version of basically the same idea.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:26:19 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  90. lineage (lineage): David Lynch → Henry Mancini. Lynch as a child liked the music of Henry Mancini; the speaker then jokes none of these influences show in his work.
    “He liked Henry Mancini and Sandra D.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:29:34 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  91. people (people): David Lynch → Jack Fisk. Fisk, the production designer who plays the Man in the Planet, is the other big friend Lynch made in high school.
    “Uh, the other big uh, friend that he makes in high school. Jack Fisk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  92. craft (craft): David Lynch → Herbert Cardwell. Lynch says the original cinematographer was a genius who helped him understand making movies and lighting.
    “Lynch says he was a genius who helped him understand everything about making movies, like he knew how to light what he did”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:54:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  93. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return.
    “He's still doing this stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  94. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks.
    “the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  95. verdict (verdict): Antonio Banderas → Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Banderas can show up in a role and register as nothing, as in Dial of Destiny and Uncharted.
    “for a guy who was one of my favorite living actors, it is kind of astounding how he can also just give you nothing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:47:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. craft (craft): Come Out and Play → Makinov. The masked, pseudonymous Makinov is credited with director, cinematographer, editor, sound department, producer and writer on Come Out and Play, his only credit.
    “He is credited as director, cinematographer, editor, sound department producer, and writer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:16:28 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  97. what-if (what-if): The 13th Warrior → Greg Nicotero. With two reshoot units and a tripled budget, nobody thought to hire Greg Nicotero for creature looks, so the monsters stay men in bear suits.
    “no one's like, hey, maybe hire Greg Nicatero and come with a couple cool looks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:24:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  98. craft (craft): Heat → Moby. For a Heat-style scene of one man dying in front of another, the suggestion is to lay Moby's track over it, as Heat does.
    “Just throw some Moby in there, you know, over it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:07:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  99. lineage (adaptation scope): The Killer (graphic novel) → The Killer. The film takes almost everything from the first 200-odd pages of the comic; the series ran on to 2018.
    “it feels like everything from the movie is basically taken from the 1st 200 some odd pages”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  100. craft (same sound designer): Ren Klyce → Mank. The Killer's sound designer also did Mank; the speaker talked to him for both.
    “Talk to him too for Mank.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:13:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

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  1. fun, about The Ice Storm: The sound design sells the cold, down to flexing frozen boots.
    “And also, this movie does not get enough credit for how good the sound is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:11:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Elliott Gould: Griffin's story: Gould put a hand on his shoulder, said you're family, and later wrote him an Einstein quote.
    “He put his hand on my shoulder and he went, you're family.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:29:17 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Ice Storm: The film opens with Paul reading Fantastic Four on the stalled train.
    “Because the movie fucking opens with the Fantastic Four.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:36:04 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Vanilla Sky: Griffin's casting story: a casting director warned him not to joke about 'can you hear me now?' when the Verizon actor wrote and directed a film.
    “the writer and director of this film, who's going to be in the audition is the can you hear me now, guy?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:31:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Vanilla Sky: The recording was spread over years because the hosts kept leaving the country, so references to a breakup will be five weeks stale on release.
    “Having to re-listen to me make references to how sad I am right now 5 weeks from now when this episode's released.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:57:04 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)