Griffin Newman

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

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 41–60 of 96 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Zodiac as a masterpiece and the Fincher dossier details; the show's box-office fixer. Gets weirdly delighted by obsessive production detail (flashlight museum, typewriters). Has no patience for the studio logic of dumping films.

Stances

  • Zodiac is Fincher's best film and the best of a loaded 2007
  • Studios act irrationally against their own interests
  • Fincher is often called cold and later vindicated

Humor: Dry, deadpan banter and a running bit about reading the room as a podcast host.

In their words

  • “Okay, I'm going to read a thing while David's still in there.” (2:25:37)
  • “Leslie, I get some satisfaction out of the fact that I think people who listen to this show sometimes think that I'm like on my devices during this.” (2:20:30)

Blank Check — Patreon: David Fincher Music Videos (host)

Loves music videos tied to movie soundtracks and the weirdly sincere Springfield video. Grew up on Disney cassettes, Hanson, and Celebrity Death Match era pop culture. Appreciates a sprawling, nonsensical video that sets up multiple characters.

Stances

  • Praises the Springfield Dance This World Away video as a favorite, then sours on it
  • Defends movie tie-in videos that interact with the film
  • Mocks Fincher's autopilot work on rock videos

Humor: Escalating bits and character voices, from the Beavis and Butt-Head shirt assignments to the fake Reddit thread.

In their words

  • “I think all 3 of these guys are me, but it's an ed ego super ego thing.” (0:22:01)
  • “I was in, uh, anything goes?” (1:15:38)
  • “Uh, no, Hanson Hanson was my favorite band at this point in time.” (2:08:42)

Blank Check — Patreon: Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) (host)

Obsessive movie nerd who tracked every upcoming film as a 13-year-old and has a soft spot for Kristen Stewart. Loves craft and box office lore, recoils from suspense that stresses him out.

Stances

  • Panic Room was built around Jodie Foster and defies logic otherwise
  • Fincher scaled back after the Fight Club flop

Humor: Runs bits on tangents like Studio 60, razor scooters, and Jared Leto.

In their words

  • “obsessively read every fucking dork website I could and thought I was ahead of the curve and knew every movie that was in the pipeline.” (0:26:32)

Blank Check — Patreon: Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) (host)

Is a movie-tie-in collector who grew up in Britain, did not see Fight Club until later, and was never the target of it. Loves a deep tie-in and a rights-clearing bit. Thinks the film is fine but not his formative one.

Stances

  • Not the film for him, but happy to talk about it
  • DVD and collector culture matters
  • Anti-ads bit as the through-line

Humor: Runs bits (no-ads fake-outs, Deadpool-cover Photoshops) and narrates posters.

In their words

  • “The reason I have to tap out of this is I grew up in Britain.” (0:15:19)
  • “I was such a fan of tie-in games.” (3:00:35)
  • “I just did not have that masculine.” (0:33:16)

Blank Check — Patreon: The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves 90s thrillers, character actors, and Fincher at his bleakest; the show's box-office quizzer. Leans toward Se7en over The Game and wishes the movie really gamed him. Bit-hungry about names, keys, and found trivia.

Stances

  • Admires Se7en more than The Game
  • Never feels gamed by the movie
  • Likes The Player and the Criterion disc

Humor: Fast, absurd riffing and gags built on the movie's props.

In their words

  • “I would argue that I, my beef with this movie is that I never feel like I am being gamed.” (0:45:08)
  • “I don't hate the game.” (1:05:19)
  • “I love the player.” (1:05:18)

Blank Check — Patreon: Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves grim, well-made thrillers and obsessive craft detail; reads the dossier and revels in production lore. Teases guests about their bits. Has a Tisch background and some gun-safety training from a film shoot.

Stances

  • Se7en is great and Fincher's control of a never-named city is the key choice
  • Fincher is a blank-check director
  • Pitt's need to prove himself is the performance

Humor: Driven by running bits, exact trivia, and deadpan fake interview impressions.

In their words

  • “You know what has happened?” (1:36:38)
  • “I did when I did gun safety training for Tomorrow War.” (2:08:57)

Blank Check — Patreon: Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves a sequel that spits in the studio's eye, and the Alien 3 behind-the-scenes extras. Enjoys box-office-weekend trivia, poster taglines, and Fincher's DVD-era thoroughness. Speaker attribution in this transcript is mostly inferred, so these are low-confidence reads.

Stances

  • Alien 3 is a crowd-displeaser by design
  • On the assembly cut versus theatrical: leans theatrical, as a cleaner movie (low confidence on which host says it)

Humor: Running bits (the Santa Claus line, the wood planet, poster minutiae).

In their words

  • “Okay. I think the assembly cut is better while not being perfect.” (0:14:24)
  • “I really do have a preference here, and it is the dog” (1:21:48)

Blank Check — Patreon: The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Tim Burton's early work and defends late-period Burton, theme-park lore, box-office minutiae and Pixar-style craft. Can't stand studio condescension toward children and celebrity-casting logic. A sucker for sweaty, overworked names, bones, and unfashionable Disney touchstones.

Stances

  • Nightmare Before Christmas is a perfect movie that outlasts its ubiquity
  • Jack is an analog for artists trying to make commercial art
  • Studios underestimate children
  • Mrs. Doubtfire's box-office run deserves celebration

Humor: Sweaty-pun builds and deadpan escalation, riffing on bones and box-office numbers.

In their words

  • “I defend late period Burton” (0:18:59)
  • “I'm going to riot until they do.” (0:56:56)

Blank Check — Patreon: Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) (host)

Obsessed with this film and calls it his favorite of the Kubrick set alongside Barry Lyndon. Loves box-office trivia and where he saw things. A sucker for the small perfect line readings and the Christmas-lights look.

Stances

  • Eyes Wide Shut is a masterpiece
  • Reputation has risen and it will climb the Sight and Sound list
  • Bill's journey is about the impossibility of not knowing

Humor: Escalating riffs and bits, from alternate podcast lines to sequel fantasies.

In their words

  • “I don't need to know what grows for you every time when you watch that scene.” (0:01:19)
  • “Let's play the box office.” (2:42:11)

Blank Check — Patreon: Doctor Sleep (host)

Loves Doctor Sleep and the director's cut, and the idea that the sequel deepens The Shining. Treats Flanagan's patient, emotional horror as a plus and dislikes jump scares. A sucker for Rose the Hat as a villain and for the box office game.

Stances

  • Doctor Sleep is a great movie and rewatchable
  • jump scares are fake tension
  • legacy sequels usually just suck the steam from the original

Humor: Riffs and runs long on bits, such as the Rose the Hat biography and the Hunk Shoe sleep-train jokes.

In their words

  • “Now, I have to assume this is all conjecture on my part, okay?” (0:14:58)
  • “I give it 10 hunk shoes.” (1:33:23)

Blank Check — Patreon: Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Kubrick's dark, mordant comedy and the Barry Lyndon, Shining and Eyes Wide Shut run, and tracks the casting and production legends behind Full Metal Jacket. Reads the dossier closely, likes award-season trivia and box office games.

Stances

  • Kubrick's humor works best when earnest performances sit at the center
  • Ermey was a surprising Oscar snub
  • ranks Strangelove low among Kubrick's funny films

Humor: Deadpan, quotes the film back at itself and lets the guests run riffs.

In their words

  • “I, I, I rank Strange Love lower in the pack of movies I find funny by him.” (1:36:54)
  • “Now, which your answer is do it to children.” (0:15:10)

Blank Check — Patreon: The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Kubrick trivia, research-dossier detail, and the show's long-running bits; fascinated by how Altman's company shaped Shelley Duvall. Sensitive to anyone mishandling his catchphrases. A sucker for a Draft Day story and the box office game.

Stances

  • Stephen King's objections were a reaction to being shown himself
  • Kubrick's many takes need to be separated from cruelty
  • Would rather talk about the movie than its cultural weight

Humor: Pedantic riffs and teasing, usually at David's or Tim's expense.

In their words

  • “Wait, what is it called?” (0:13:43)
  • “I'm checking my notes here.” (2:47:46)

Blank Check — Patreon: Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Barry Lyndon as one of his favorite movies and finds the humor in Kubrick more than the austerity. Sentimental about the film's warmth and its devastating last act, especially as a parent. A sucker for the film's absurd rules (duels, class) and for production lore.

Stances

  • Barry Lyndon is a comedy and Kubrick's warmest film
  • O'Neal is perfect in the part
  • Barry stays mysterious without an inner monologue

Humor: Plays it dry and jokey, leaning into modern analogies and bits.

In their words

  • “I feel like this was the epitome of when the critical community was like, yeah, Kubrick makes like coffee table books.” (0:07:58)

Blank Check — Patreon: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (host)

Likes genre craft and unvarnished big swings; enjoys box-office-game trivia and Kubrick lore. Dislikes pretension without payoff. Hosts wallow in sequel-hubris jokes.

Stances

  • 2010 is respectable and watchable, not a masterpiece
  • Hyams not aping Kubrick was the smart move

Humor: Riffs on fake headlines and extended bits, with a dry, deflating tone.

In their words

  • “Good pull griff.” (1:12:13)

Blank Check — Patreon: A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Kubrick's looseness and humor and wants to demolish the cold-genius myth. Resents the mythology built around him and the attitude of Kubrick guys. Is a sucker for comedy bits, Simpsons-grade jokes, and cinema trivia like the box-office game.

Stances

  • Kubrick is not a humorless perfectionist; he was elastic with actors and loved improvisation
  • The mythology around Kubrick makes the films less interesting
  • Held the line that the bits should continue

Humor: Runs long, escalating bits and puns, and pins running gags like hip hop Sims for later payoff.

In their words

  • “the more people try to put Kubrick in this, like, alien box, the less interesting I find him.” (0:36:11)
  • “I don't think of myself as a Kubert guy, is because of how much I resent the mythology that's built around him” (0:43:58)

Blank Check — Patreon: 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) (host)

A Kubrick-series host who rewatched the films in order and found the 2001 rewatch surprisingly brisk. Loves the slow-sci-fi tradition including Star Trek The Motion Picture, and is moved by the ending's dread. A sucker for production lore from the dossier.

Stances

  • Reevaluating Kubrick as funny
  • 2001 is a brisk watch despite the slowness
  • Likes slow sci-fi like Star Trek TMP
  • AI rights may never be granted

Humor: Shifts between bits and earnest observations; lands jokes about the guest and podcast logistics.

In their words

  • “I found it a surprisingly brisk watch.” (0:36:31)
  • “I love the slowness of motion picture.” (0:44:04)
  • “My question is, do we ever grant them rights?” (0:48:01)

Blank Check — Patreon: Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) (host)

Loves Strangelove's dry delivery and Peter Sellers' underplayed Mandrake, and watched it as a comedy-obsessed kid through the AFI 100 Laughs list. Skeptical of Adam McKay's recent satire and of Don't Look Up's tag. A sucker for movie lists, titles and bits like podcast series names.

Stances

  • Mandrake may be the funniest of the three Sellers roles
  • The film's seriousness is what makes every joke funnier
  • Don't Look Up's ending works but its tag undercuts it
  • Podswide Cast was first pitch, best pitch

Humor: Escalates a bit with mock-grandiose confidence and wounded-pride deadpan.

In their words

  • “Podswide cast, it was like 1st pitch, best pitch, I just said we're fucking going with this.” (0:07:42)
  • “Mandrake talking about being captured by the Japanese is the funniest part of this whole movie.” (0:11:32)
  • “I watched this because AFI in the year 2000 did their 100 years, 100 laughs” (0:28:13)

Blank Check — Patreon: Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) (host)

Reread the book and finds it brilliantly written; an enthusiast of Kubrick on a big screen and of Sellers in Strangelove. Compares movies to a wide pop-culture range (Nope, Hail, Caesar!, The Lobster). Believes the Lolita poster beats the film.

Stances

  • The poster and tagline are better than the movie
  • The film's tone is wildly inconsistent but absorbing
  • Kubrick's films are best seen in a theater

Humor: Rapid-fire riffs, mock-pomposity and long tangents.

In their words

  • “I stand by it.” (1:38:12)
  • “Poster eats this movie's lunch.” (1:33:57)
  • “I hate watching his Kubrick movies at home.” (0:45:39)

Blank Check — Patreon: Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) (host)

Leans on the dossier and the Kubrick-era history; loves tidy business-and-career stories and the Blank Check 'guarantor' framing. Likes bits about stars and their careers. (Speaker attribution within the transcript is inferred; confidence is moderate.)

Stances

  • Spartacus is Kubrick's guarantor: the hit that gave him the blank check
  • Kubrick was a pain but the work stands out

Humor: Rapid riffs and impressions on the episode's running bits.

In their words

  • “Today we are covering Spartacus, which is what we like to call a guarantor.” (0:26:58)
  • “This is the film that gives them the blank check that they run off of for the rest of their career.” (0:27:03)

Blank Check — Patreon: Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) (host)

Admires well-made war films but finds them panic-inducing; prefers Full Metal Jacket to David. Likes the Coens (Hudsucker Proxy) and the box-office game ritual inherited from his father. Responds to Kirk Douglas as a star who used clout for challenging pictures.

Stances

  • War movies stress him out even when they are good
  • Paths of Glory is short in a way that is a blessing
  • Won't rewatch Saving Private Ryan despite loving it

Humor: Gallows-humor riffs and running bits that escalate the absurd (e.g. trench humor, reenactments as a Patreon goal).

In their words

  • “I get very stressed out watching war films even when I think they're good.” (0:02:01)
  • “I like full metal jacket more than you, David” (0:55:08)
  • “I buy it on fucking steel book.” (1:19:43)

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 601–700 of 1,162 claims.

  1. people (people): Joe Ranft → Toy Story. Ranft was a story supervisor on Toy Story.
    “He was a story supervisor on Toy Story.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:57:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Toy Story. Like early Pixar films, this one squeezes every joke out of its premise (Halloween monsters).
    “those early Pixar movies like hit the, the concept of the movie like a piñata until all of the joy fell out of it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:57:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Danny Elfman → Henry Selick. Elfman singing Jack while Sarandon speaks caused a long rift between Selick and Elfman.
    “this like caused a rift between Selleck and Elfman that like lasted for forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Danny Elfman → Ed Wood. The speaking-voice dispute is why Elfman did not score Ed Wood.
    “It's why Elfman didn't do Ed Wood.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Danny Elfman → Tim Burton. Elfman and Burton's working relationship is called very up and down.
    “I feel like Elfman and Burton have had a very up and down relationship in general, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): The Super Mario Bros. Movie → Chris Pratt. The Mario trailer set off the argument over whether big-star casting matters in animation.
    “why does this need to be Chris Pratt?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:06:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. industry (industry): Kung Fu Panda → Shark Tale. DreamWorks scripts were reverse-engineered around the star personas of the cast.
    “they were also like really caricaturing the characters to match the actors”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:08:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. industry (industry): Toy Story → Pixar. Pixar stubbornly cast the right people rather than the biggest names, a lesson no studio took.
    “Pixar remains pretty stubborn for a while about like, we're going to cast the right people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:10:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Corpse Bride. Corpse Bride's mechanical puppet faces look frozen; Nightmare's replacement faces stay expressive.
    “Like all the characters in that movie feel kind of Botox.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:21:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Universal horror films. Universal horrors run 70 to 75 minutes with padding, while Nightmare zooms without simplifying.
    “And like all of those movies are pretty much 70 to 75 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:27:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. contrast (contrast): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Hotel Transylvania. Monster-hotel comedies are enjoyed, but Halloween Town's residents are not stock archetypes.
    “I like that, look, I enjoy Hotel Transylvania.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:37:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Toy Story. The first breakthrough film in each form of animation becomes the template: CGI follows Toy Story, stop motion stays creepy.
    “And then the CGI becomes so defined by Toy Story.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:41:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. theme (theme): The Nightmare Before Christmas → The King of Comedy. Jack and Santa Claus are read as Rupert Pupkin and Jerry Langford (transcribed Pumpkin/Lanford).
    “the relationship between Jack and Santa Claus, excuse me, is just Rupert Pumpkin and Jerry Lanford.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:57:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (contrast): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Batman Forever. Oogie Boogie's dice rules echo Two-Face in Batman Forever.
    “He does a classic, uh, two-faced Batman forever thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:07:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. craft (craft): The Nightmare Before Christmas → Peanuts. The present-delivery montage plays by Peanuts rules: no grown-up faces.
    “they play by like fucking peanuts rules where you're never going to see grown up faces”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:08:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. people (people): Rudy → Jerry Goldsmith. The speaker owns the Rudy soundtrack on vinyl, by Jerry Goldsmith.
    “I own the soundtrack to Rudy on vinyl.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:29:32 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
    “You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (proof of concept): Mike Flanagan → Stephen King. Flanagan wrote the bar scene before the script and gave it to King as a sample of how he would thread the needle.
    “He wrote that before he wrote the script and gave that to King”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:17:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. people (contrast (digital vs actors)): Doctor Sleep → The Irishman. The two arrived the same month, one casting new actors for Nicholson and company, the other de-aging the originals.
    “This movie comes out right around the same time as the Irishman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (no CGI Nicholson): Mike Flanagan → Doctor Sleep. Flanagan reportedly considered a CGI Jack Nicholson and chose four new actors instead.
    “do we make like a CGI Jack Nicholson?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. people (tried to cast): Steven Spielberg → Jack Nicholson. Spielberg reportedly tried hard to get Nicholson for a cameo in Ready Player One.
    “I had heard how hard Spielberg tried to get him for Ready Player one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:21:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (holds her own): Rebecca Ferguson → Mission: Impossible. Ferguson held her own against Tom Cruise in the Mission: Impossible movies.
    “has been able to hold her own against Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:53:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (praised her preparation): Denis Villeneuve → Rebecca Ferguson. A Villeneuve interview around Dune showed her notes on every line.
    “I saw some interview with Denise Velneuve when Dune was coming out and he talked about how meticulous she is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (worked together before): Mike Flanagan → Jacob Tremblay. Flanagan had directed Tremblay before in Before I Wake.
    “You know, he's worked with Tremblay before, because Tremblay isn't before I wake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:00:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. career (competing project): Warner Brothers Overlook Hotel prequel (unmade) → Doctor Sleep. Warner Brothers spent about ten years trying to build something in the Shining universe, including a prequel Mark Romanek was to direct.
    “Warner Brothers was also trying for a very long time to make an Overlook Hotel prequel, which Mark Romantic was supposed to direct at some”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:03:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. programming (sequel to a Kubrick film (pairing)): 2010 → Doctor Sleep. The Patreon feed also covered 2010, another sequel to a Kubrick movie that avoids aping his style.
    “Another example of how dare you make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (recreated sets): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. Flanagan rebuilds the Overlook's art direction detail for detail without trying to ape Kubrick's style.
    “Every typewriter is the same color”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (learned sustained tension): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (Overlook recreated): Ready Player One → Doctor Sleep. Ready Player One rebuilt the hotel as a deliberate CGI recreation the year before; Doctor Sleep puts live actors into it.
    “Ready Player one has this whole sequence where it is truly just a CGI recreation of the hotel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:15:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (got him a job): Tim Miller → Jeff Fowler. Fowler was hired onto Sonic because he had the Tim Miller stamp of approval.
    “Jeff Fowler got hired onto Sonic because he had the Tim Miller stamp of approval.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:31:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. lineage (adaptation): The Short-Timers (novel) → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure.
    “Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. theme (contemporary comparison): Platoon → Full Metal Jacket. At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real.
    “Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. unmapped (considered for Hartman): Robert De Niro → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick considered De Niro and Ed Harris for Hartman.
    “So Kubrick considered a number of actors to play Gunner Sergeant Hartman, Robert De Niro, which is interesting to imagine, Ed Harris, who probably would be good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (technical advisor): R. Lee Ermey → Apocalypse Now. Ermey advised on Apocalypse Now and other Vietnam films before Full Metal Jacket.
    “Arlie Ermy had been a technical advisor in Apocalypse. Now, Purple Hearts, Boys and Company C, a lot of these Vietnam movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. lineage (source of the dialogue): R. Lee Ermey → Full Metal Jacket. Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
    “No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. people (front-loaded performance): Mark Rylance → R. Lee Ermey. Rylance in Bridge of Spies is a comparable case of owning the first 45 minutes and being snubbed or split.
    “Like, I was thinking about Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:19:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (weight-gain record): Raging Bull → Vincent D'Onofrio. D'Onofrio's weight gain is claimed to top De Niro's in Raging Bull.
    “There was sort of the victory lap of like he gained 10 more pounds than De Niro in Raging Bull.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:21:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. verdict (humor ranking): Dr. Strangelove → The Shining. Strangelove ranks lower for the speaker than Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut among Kubrick's funny films.
    “I, I, I rank Strange Love lower in the pack of movies I find funny by him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:36:54 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  39. people (comedy handed to the actors): Peter Sellers → Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick by his own admission let Peter Sellers figure out the comedy.
    “I will let Peter Sellers figure this part of the movie out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:38:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. people (pseudonymous composer): Vivian Kubrick → Full Metal Jacket. The score is credited to Abigail Mead, who is Kubrick's daughter Vivian.
    “the score is credited to Abigail Mead, but that is Kubrick's daughter.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:02:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (same song elsewhere): The Trashmen → Back to the Beach. The speaker first fell in love with Surfin' Bird in Back to the Beach, not Full Metal Jacket.
    “I 1st fell in love with that song in Frankie and Annette's back to the beach”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:04:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. people (writer then director): Chris Columbus → Gremlins. Columbus wrote Gremlins and The Goonies before directing Adventures in Babysitting.
    “And he wrote The Goonies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:15:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. unmapped (regular hairdresser): Leonard Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Leonard always did Kubrick's hair credits, which is why Hair by Leonard shows on many of his films.
    “His name is Leonard Lewis. He was the world's first celebrity hairdresser.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. unmapped (least hair): THX 1138 → Full Metal Jacket. Fewest hairs in any covered film since THX 1138.
    “this is like almost the least hair in any movie we've covered since THX. 1138.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. industry (release timing): Halloween → The Shining. The Shining arrives two years after Halloween rewrote the rules of killing everyone.
    “But yeah, this movie is 2 years after Halloween”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:04:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. industry (release timing): Jaws → The Shining. The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is.
    “This is 5 years after Jaws.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  47. lineage (adaptation): Stephen King → The Shining. The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie.
    “This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. unmapped (led to): The Shining → 1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.). After The Shining and Carrie came the real 1980s wave of King adaptations.
    “the real 80s wave of like lots of king stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. people (director): Ivan Reitman → Draft Day. The show's Ivan Reitman series covers Draft Day.
    “This is a podcast about the films of Ivan Reitman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:28:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  50. theme (comparison): The Shining → Scent of a Woman. Nicholson's performance is compared to Pacino's codifying all his tics in one role.
    “this kind of is his sense of a woman, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:35:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  51. career (career context): Barry Lyndon → The Shining. Kubrick needed a commercial genre play after the Barry Lyndon flop.
    “off of Barry Linden was a flop”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. unmapped (answered by): The Shining → Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries). King's own miniseries is described as him showing folks the real Shining, after his objections to the film.
    “okay, time to roll up my sleeves and show you folks the real shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:47:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  53. unmapped (documentary about): Room 237 → The Shining. Room 237 is a documentary about the many readings of The Shining.
    “It's a movie about how many different ways this movie can be read, but it's just about it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:48:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. unmapped (over-read puzzle): Nope → The Shining. Kubrick was not leaving breadcrumbs, unlike filmmakers like Peele who now construct puzzle movies.
    “Whereas I think Kubrick was not intentionally like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:51:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
    “Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. what-if (what-if): Stanley Kubrick → Network. Kubrick was approached to direct Network, which would have been an interesting what-if.
    “To direct network, which is an interesting what if?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:00:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. unmapped (technique): Sidney Lumet → Daniel. Lumet's choice on Daniel was to never show the sky until the end.
    “never show the sky.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:02:29 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  58. unmapped (talked out of it): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Chayefsky eventually told Kubrick he should not direct Network because they were both control freaks.
    “Cheevsky eventually is like, you shouldn't do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. unmapped (blueprint): Stephen King → The Shining. The speakers read Kubrick saying the novel's plot is a good blueprint for the movie he wanted to make.
    “I can make whatever movie I want with that as a blueprint.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:04:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  60. people (same actor): Joe Turkel → Blade Runner. The Shining bartender is also Tyrell in Blade Runner.
    “And it's also a Tyrell Blade Runner.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:16:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  61. unmapped (shared films): Scatman Crothers → Jack Nicholson. Scatman had been in a bunch of Nicholson movies, including The Fortune and Cuckoo's Nest.
    “he had been in a bunch of Nicholson movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  62. unmapped (recommended): Jack Nicholson → Scatman Crothers. Nicholson recommended Scatman Crothers for the role.
    “And so Nicholson recommends him for this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. career (next film): Scatman Crothers → Clint Eastwood. Scatman's next film after The Shining was Bronco Billy, an Eastwood film.
    “the movie he did after this was Bronco Billy, which is a Clint Eastwood movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:23:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. people (frequent collaborator): Shelley Duvall → Robert Altman. Duvall did six Altman films in a row after being discovered by his producer.
    “she does what, 6 Altman movies in a row.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:24:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  65. people (co-writer): Stanley Kubrick → Diane Johnson. Kubrick co-wrote the script with the novelist Diane Johnson.
    “obviously he co-wrote this movie with Diane Johnson”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  66. what-if (what-if casting): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (unmade). Kubrick wanted Nicholson to play Napoleon in his unmade Napoleon film.
    “He had wanted him to play Napoleon in his Napoleon movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:30:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  67. theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Spencer Tracy. Kubrick compares Nicholson to Spencer Tracy as one of the two greatest stars.
    “Kubrick compares him to who he thinks of the 2 greatest stars, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:31:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → James Cagney. Kubrick compares Nicholson to Jimmy Cagney as one of the two greatest stars.
    “Kubrick compares him to who he thinks of the 2 greatest stars, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:31:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. what-if (what-if casting): Jane Fonda → The Shining. Kubrick said you could not have Jane Fonda in the part.
    “you can't have Jane Fawn to play this part.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:41:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  70. what-if (what-if casting): Jessica Lange → The Shining. Nicholson wanted Jessica Lange for Wendy.
    “I kind of wanted Jessica Lang”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:41:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Tim Robinson. Both can go huge without it feeling like pushing.
    “there are 2 guys who can go so fucking big.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  72. unmapped (borrowed habit): Boris Karloff → Jack Nicholson. In the Vivian Kubrick documentary Nicholson says he took his script-marking habit from Karloff.
    “I stole this from Boris Karloff”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:59 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  73. people (collaborator): Bob Rafelson → Jack Nicholson. Rafelson wrote Head with Nicholson.
    “when Bob Raffelson was writing head with him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  74. unmapped (first Steadicam use): Bound for Glory → The Shining. Bound for Glory was the first use of the Steadicam, which The Shining used so heavily.
    “Bound for Glory is the 1st one, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:03:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. unmapped (Steadicam operator): Garrett Brown → The Shining. Garrett Brown, who invented the Steadicam, operated it for the Steadicam shots.
    “Garrett Brown, who invented it, does all operates the camera for all the city cam shots.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. people (shared crew): John Alcott → Stanley Kubrick. Alcott shot The Shining and also worked on other Kubrick films.
    “John Alcott's the DP of this movie, but, um, who works on other cubrics.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. unmapped (stolen move): The Shining → Zodiac. Fincher steals the Steadicam move where the camera turns with the car and keeps it centered.
    “Fincher steals that move of like when the car turns a corner”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. craft (style borrowed): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. lineage (homage): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
    “it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  80. unmapped (same period): The Shining → Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th had opened two weeks earlier; both worked at the box office.
    “Friday 13th had opened maybe 2 weeks ago or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:39:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  81. unmapped (knockoff): Animal House → Hollywood Nights. Hollywood Nights is called an Animal House runoff set in the past.
    “That was like an animal house runoff”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:41:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  82. unmapped (film of the show): Get Smart (TV) → The Nude Bomb. The Nude Bomb is the Get Smart movie.
    “it's the get smart movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:43:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  83. people (director): Jon Ronson → Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. The documentary short on Kubrick's archive is credited to Jon Ronson.
    “It's like a documentary short that I think John Ronson did.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:01:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  84. people (writer): Paddy Chayefsky → The Hospital. The Hospital is called a Chayefsky movie.
    “It's a Shayevsky movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:08:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  85. craft (classical-music villain): A Clockwork Orange → Sleeping with the Enemy. The speakers ask whether this was the first film to make a love of classical music a mark of evil; then joke about Sleeping with the Enemy.
    “Is this the 1st movie to make, like, for classical, like a love of classical music, this person is actually really evil.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:53:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  86. unmapped (other credit): Michael Bates → Last of the Summer Wine (TV). Bates is best known in Britain for the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
    “He was in last of the summer wine, which is just another hilarious where you're like, last of the summer wine”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:05:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  87. unmapped (parodied): A Clockwork Orange → The Simpsons (TV). The Simpsons reference this film a lot.
    “But the Simpsons reference is clockwork orange. a lot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:29:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  88. unmapped (in conversation): The Tree of Life → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tree of Life is called a movie very much in conversation with 2001.
    “that was a movie that's very much in conversation with this film”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:23:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  89. contrast (inverse sequence): Terrence Malick → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Malick's raptor scene in Tree of Life does a 2001-style sequence but as the first act of mercy rather than violence.
    “Malik always described that as like the 1st act of kindness or the 1st act of mercy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:23:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  90. theme (underplaying comparison): Peter Sellers → Robert De Niro. Speaker pairs Mandrake with De Niro's underplayed Jackie Brown as deceptively difficult acting.
    “to actively play someone who's got so little going on is so deceptively difficult because you watch something like this, like Mandrake”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:13:19 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  91. unmapped (business context): Lolita → Dr. Strangelove. The speaker says the takeaway from Lolita was that Sellers maybe saved it commercially, so the studio wanted more Sellers for a Kubrick film.
    “the takeaway from Lolita was like, sellers maybe saved that movie commercially.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:18:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  92. craft (tone comparison): Dr. Strangelove → Don't Look Up. Speakers compare the ending tags and tone of Don't Look Up against Strangelove's balance of satire and sincerity.
    “I remembered that don't look up has a tag, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:23:50 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  93. people (performance comparison): George C. Scott → Robert Duvall. Scott is likened to Duvall in Network for walking a line of overacting with a foot in reality.
    “He's kind of the Deval of this movie where he's like, he's towing a really fine line of like overacting, but with like a foot in reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  94. unmapped (similar setup): Dr. Strangelove → The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. Speaker, a fan as a kid, notes the Russians Are Coming is similar in setup, also a Cold War comedy.
    “The Russians are coming as a kid, which is a movie that is like kind of similar in its setup where, and it is also like a comedy about the Cold War.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:22:52 · Griffin Newman (0.65 sure it was them)
  95. lineage (comedic influence): Bob Newhart → Dr. Strangelove. Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier.
    “I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  96. lineage (comedic lineage): Shelley Berman → Bob Newhart. Speaker says Berman created the one-sided phone bit before Newhart, who maybe lifted a little and popularized it.
    “Shelley Berman kind of created before Newheart, Newheart maybe lifted a little bit, but Newheart at least popularized to a different degree.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:29:29 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  97. craft (set design template): Dr. Strangelove → Roger Moore Bond films. Speaker says hiring a Bond designer for the war room changed how such rooms look on screen forever, and the Bond movies being covered have war-room sets.
    “It is funny how this movie, this hiring a James Bond guy to design the war room, uh, changes the way you're allowed to put these things on screen forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:14:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  98. theme (analogy): The Fast and the Furious (franchise) → Kiss. Griffin's thesis that Fast and Furious is the Kiss of film.
    “the Fast and Furious movies are the kiss of film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  99. craft (craft): Paths of Glory → Spartacus. The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied.
    “similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  100. career (career): Harrison Ford → The Mosquito Coast. On Inside the Actors Studio Ford calls The Mosquito Coast his favorite of his films.
    “they talk about the mosquito coast, which I think he says is his favorite movie he made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:38:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

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  1. fun, about David Fincher: The anti-smoking ad that launched his music-video career: a fetus smoking in utero.
    “a fetus is smoking a cigarette in utero as an anti-cancer ad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:45:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about David Fincher: Told by the Paramount president that nobody would give him $400,000 for a first picture, Fincher answered with a joke about a 40-minute movie.
    “Why would I do a 40 minute movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:49:13 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about William Gibson: His unproduced script (now an audio drama, graphic novel, and novel) is summarized as space commies in a giant mall.
    “space commies, hijacked, alien eggs, big problem in wall mall world because it's set in a giant mall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:51:38 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Alien 3: Vincent Ward pitched a planet made of wood and monks; the studio responded by telling him to write it for $40 million.
    “Someone could walk into a studio and be like, whole planet is wood.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:58:03 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about David Fincher: His original Alien 3 pitch, in his own words, had multiple Lance Henriksens and 3,000 stormtroopers.
    “There were 3 Lance Henrikssons running around.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher says he tried to quit on day one; his agent said he could never work in town again.
    “Fincher says he tried to quit on day one and his agent was like, you can't.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:14 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Alien 3: A 93-day schedule cut to 70 days, and 50 effects shots cut to 25, meaning lots of 18-hour days.
    “Uh, supposed to be a 93 day shooting schedule.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Alien 3: In the assembly cut the alien gets into an ox, not the dog; the theatrical cut's dog set-up is the clearer one.
    “If you're talking about the assembly cut, it gets into an ox.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:21:38 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Brian Glover: The warden actor was a professional wrestler (the Red Devil, then Leon Arras the man from Paris) and the crew adored him on set.
    “He was a professional wrestler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:24:52 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Ralph Brown: '85' is the character's IQ; Fincher wanted 72, Fox wanted 97.
    “He wanted 72, Fox wanted 97.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Alien 3: Fox's head at the time on how little the content mattered to the opening.
    “well, first, you could have someone piss against the wall for 2 hours and call it Alien 3 and it would do 30000000 dollars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about David Fincher: In a behind-the-scenes clip on the Panic Room DVD, Fincher gives notes over the previs in real time, never waiting for it to finish.
    “he is nonstop just going like, that needs to be 2 inches lower.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:54:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Joel Schumacher: After Fincher showed him the cut, Schumacher said aiming high means disappointment, and that caring puts you at the mercy of people who don't.
    “you put yourself in a position where they have more power than you because you care and they don't.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:56:11 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Alien 3: A pricey makeup bald cap cost about $20 grand because re-cutting Weaver's hair would have cost about $40 grand; when they needed it again, they found it in a pile.
    “So instead, they paid like 20 grand to make the world's most advanced makeup bald cap.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:58:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Lethal Weapon 3: The opening-weekend rival's poster is a recycled Lethal Weapon 2 poster with Pesci peeking in.
    “just run back the fucking lethal weapon 2 poster, but just Magic is back again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:01:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Hot Topic reclaimed the weird Disney movie: Disney did not want it, released it under Touchstone, and now Hot Topic mostly sells Disney merchandise.
    “Disney didn't even want it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:06:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Michael McDowell: Per a Caroline Thompson interview, McDowell delivered only the Elfman lyrics reformatted as a screenplay; she said he had 'snorted his salary'.
    “She put it, quote, that he had snorted his salary”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:30:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Development was backwards: Burton's poem, Elfman writing songs from story beats, then Thompson writing a script to fill the gaps; animation started before a script.
    “But they are animating this movie before they have a script.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:34:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Stop motion: A single stop-motion shot like Jack scratching his chin took 3.5 weeks.
    “It took 3.5 weeks to have Jack scratch his chin and gesture at the moon”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:36:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Sally: See the close-up of Sally's spoon with holes and the poison going through it: a real-time live-action shot, two free seconds.
    “The one I always think of is the close-up shot of Sally's spoon with the holes in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:39:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Title card shot with candy corn letters before Burton's name was added late; Selick says he understands it and will rue it until he dies.
    “I understand it, and I will rue it until the day I die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:53:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Oogie Boogie: The four big unstitched bug shots took four months each.
    “4 big bug shots once once he's sort of unstitched and each of those shots took 4 months”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:54:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Chris Sarandon: The speaking Jack may be the most enunciated performance in movie history; Elfman sings, Sarandon speaks, causing a lasting rift.
    “this like caused a rift between Selleck and Elfman that like lasted for forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Vincent Price: Vincent Price was recorded as Santa but had just lost his wife and it didn't work; Don Ameche was 'insanely grouchy'; James Earl Jones shouted 'you don't know me'.
    “Vincent Price, uh, a hero of Tim Burton's”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:10:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Zero: Santa's grumpiness is the secret weapon: exasperated like a flight diverted to Atlanta.
    “He's exasperated in the way that you would be if like your flight got diverted to Atlanta, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:12:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Griffin's mom would not let him see it in theaters, so he got toys first; a lighting-fixture store near his school sold only lamps and Nightmare toys.
    “the only thing they sold aside from lamps was a nightmare before Christmas toys.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:04:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Emma Stefansky: Canonical to the podcast: Emma said of Oogie Boogie 'I wish I was bugs'.
    “Emma Stefansky said, I wish I was bugs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 2:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about David Sims: Sims says his review was positive but he reversed on the film within two weeks and wanted to rewatch it.
    “And within 2 weeks, you were like, is that movie better than I'm giving it credit for being?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan wrote the bar scene before the script and sent it to King as proof of concept; a host jokes he slipped a $20 in the pages.
    “He slipped a crisp 20 into those pages.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:17:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about The Shining: The tub lady gets more screen time in the director's cut, with a joke about her asking for the loofah.
    “She says, can you pass the loofah?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:27:50 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Doctor Sleep (director's cut): The director's cut has chapters, and takes fifteen minutes to show Ewan McGregor on screen.
    “Director's cut takes 15 minutes before you and McGregor shows up on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:29:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Rose the Hat: Joke biography of Rose: Irish for thousands of years, then in the 1960s a hat and Fleetwood Mac.
    “1960s, decides to wear a hat. Becomes her thing. listens to Fleetwood Mac one time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:55:15 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Rebecca Ferguson: Flanagan quote: Ferguson could not talk after the first take of the Tremblay scene.
    “Rebecca Ferguson couldn't talk after the 1st take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:01:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Jacob Tremblay: Flanagan quote read aloud: after the harrowing scene Tremblay hopped up, high-fived his dad and got a candy bar from craft services.
    “And then Jacob just hopped up, brushed himself off, high-fived his dad, went and got a candy bar from craft services, and the rest of us couldn't even blink.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:01:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Warner Brothers had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel while they believed the film would be a four-quadrant hit.
    “they had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Shot in Atlanta on a three month schedule, with no Kubrickian nonsense.
    “Three month shoot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:11:58 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan says he hates jump scares and learned to sustain tension from Kubrick.
    “I hate jump scares.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Ready Player One: Hosts imagine a future Ready Player Two visiting a Doctor Sleep verse of quiet conversations around cups of tea.
    “Well, and I hope that 30 years from now there's a Ready Player one, Ready Player 2, where they go to the Doctor Sleep Averse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:08 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Full Metal Jacket: The 3000 open video auditions produced a viral clip of a man at a Sears with a ladder saying hello Mr. Kubrick.
    “This was an early case of letting people submit auditions through videotape, like having a pretty open audition because they needed young people and they got 3000 submissions.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:50:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: Legend: Kubrick saw a video of Ermey rattling off insults while being pelted with tennis balls and oranges, never breaking.
    “There's like this legend that there's this video of Arli Ermy that Kubrick saw of him rattling off all these like insults and scream while being like pelted with tennis balls and oranges and never and never breaking.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:06:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: Weight gain claimed to be a record, 10 more pounds than De Niro in Raging Bull.
    “it has long stood as like the claim of the most weight an actor has gained for a role.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:21:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Adventures in Babysitting: A kid thinks D'Onofrio looks like Thor, and he is presented as the ultimate beefcake in the same year as Pyle.
    “the little girl in that movie is obsessed with Thor, Marvel's Thor, and she thinks he looks like Thor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:22:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Matthew Modine: Modine's joke to Kubrick: Spielberg meets a bearded man in heaven who thinks he is Kubrick but is God, and Kubrick liked it.
    “And Modine says, Stanley liked that joke.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:33:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Full Metal Jacket: The battlefield was Beckton Gasworks, a huge plant scheduled for demolition, so the crew could blow it up.
    “They're shooting at what's called the Bechton Gasworks, which was the largest gas plant in the world and was basically scheduled for demolition.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:43:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Draft Day: Tim Simons corrects everyone on Twitter that his coffee drop from the Draft Day trailer is not in the final film.
    “the coffee drop is not in the film”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:25:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Jack Nicholson: Someone who worked with him reported Nicholson saying he makes classics, not movies.
    “I don't make movies. I make classics.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:32:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick had his secretary bring him stacks of bestselling horror novels and she heard a book hit the wall every ten minutes until the day she heard nothing for two hours.
    “every 10 minutes she'd hear a book hit the wall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the phone, Kubrick told King the idea of a ghost is optimistic because it presupposes an afterlife, and answered King's question about hell with a flat denial.
    “I don't believe in hell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:45:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Room 237: The documentary's theories get boiled down: the moon-landing reading rests on Danny wearing a moon sweater.
    “Well, the kid wears like a moon sweater and you're like, uh-huh.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Scatman Crothers: Crothers on Kubrick's takes: one shot of him crossing the street from a snow cat, no dialogue, took fifty.
    “One scene, I get out of a snow cat and I walk across the street with no dialogue, 50 takes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Scatman Crothers: After months of Kubrick, Crothers cried when Clint Eastwood shot one take on Bronco Billy and moved on.
    “Scatman says, like, he started crying because he was like, yeah, that was good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:23:30 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Shelley Duvall: Duvall was discovered doing makeup demonstrations at a mall and sent to Robert Altman, who put her in Brewster McCloud.
    “She's discovered for Brewster McLeod as like a makeup tester at a mall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:24:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Shelley Duvall: Duvall describes the cost of crying for a year and a half: the body rebels and the thought of crying makes her cry.
    “But after a while, your body rebels.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:51:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Jack Nicholson: On set, Nicholson broke down the door with the axe faster than the crew could replace it; he was once a fireman.
    “He famously like broke the door down more than they could.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Jack Nicholson: On A Few Good Men, Nicholson gave full energy off camera for every other actor's coverage.
    “He did off camera for everyone's, like, fucking takes and he did full energy every time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:27 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about The Shining: Kubrick called the Steadicam a magic carpet; the camera follows Danny's Big Wheel across carpet and wood.
    “And he calls it like a magic carpet, which is really cool.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about The Shining: Look for the typed manuscript pages: the PAs typed every page by hand, because Kubrick would not allow Xeroxes.
    “Oh, um, yeah, I wanted to say the poor fucking PAs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:10:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about The Shining: In the gold room blood scene, one chair moves between shots, a rare slip in a controlled film.
    “it's funny that the chair moves.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:18:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about The Shining: The UK cut: Kubrick himself trimmed 30 minutes after the film played badly there.
    “in the UK, the movie was not playing well, and Kubrick himself cut 30 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:25:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about The Shining: An Entertainment Weekly quote from Diane Johnson on the final photo: Jack had been the hotel's creature through reincarnation.
    “The idea that Jack was always at the hotel in some earlier incarnation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:32:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: It opened at number nine at the box office in January 1972; Diamonds Are Forever was number one.
    “And it's opening on number nine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:54:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: Nolan's IMAX re-release was deliberately demastered to look yellowed and imperfect, how he remembered seeing it as a child.
    “He didn't want it to be like perfectly smooth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Leon Vitali: Vitali had to dodge whether the 4K Blu-ray would look like the Nolan version without stepping on Nolan's toes.
    “And he like couldn't say, good heavens, no.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:18:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's daughter says her father wanted to be a short-order cook, which fits his chaotic hosted dinners.
    “I think my father always had this secret dream of being like a short order cook.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick on why he did not want drugs to be the source of the film, as read from the dossier.
    “I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:16:29 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: Kubrick's premiere reaction was misery after 240 walkouts; he cut about 12 minutes.
    “apparently 240 people walked out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:14:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Douglas Trumbull: Kubrick got the film's only Oscar, for effects, while Trumbull got no statue.
    “The Oscars weirdly given to Kubrick and not to Trumbull.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:15:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about Dr. Strangelove: Mandrake's story about being captured by the Japanese is called the funniest part of the movie.
    “Mandrake talking about being captured by the Japanese is the funniest part of this whole movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:11:32 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Dr. Strangelove: AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs ranked Strangelove third, behind Tootsie and Some Like It Hot, and Blockbuster displayed the tapes together.
    “I watched this because AFI in the year 2000 did their 100 years, 100 laughs”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:28:13 · Griffin Newman (0.65 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Kirk Douglas: Douglas griped that Kubrick left their five-picture deal and made only six films after.
    “half of his remaining filmography would have been under my contract.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:30:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about Tony Curtis: Curtis's quote on why he and Kubrick got along: they only wanted to talk about two things.
    “we got along because we were only interested in talking about 2 things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: The research dossier's theory: the endless takes were waiting to be surprised, not to see what was in his head.
    “It sounded so much more that the thing he was waiting for was for something to surprise him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:29:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Cardassian-law episode gets confused with the Kardashians over Zoom.
    “Both times you said it, I thought you said Kardashians.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:26:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: Griffin avoided it his whole life, took six hours to finish for the podcast, loved it, owns it on steelbook, will never rewatch.
    “It took me 6 hours to finish watching it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:19:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about The Killing: A working title for the film was Bed of Fear, which sets Patton off on his Deathbed routine.
    “But one of the titles, one of the working titles that apparently was close to happening for this movie, I don't know if you know this, was bed of fear.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:48 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Die Hard: Sinatra's Detective rights gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Fox had to offer Die Hard to him first; the speaker pictures the call.
    “I just like imagining whoever the Fox exec was who was like, hey, Frank, I'm just calling so you can tell me to fuck off.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:15:04 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Harvey Keitel: Keitel supposedly told Kubrick to go fuck himself on Eyes Wide Shut after 27 takes of walking through a door.
    “Kubrick made him walk through a door 27 times”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:25:20 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about Timothy Carey: His performance clenches the jaw like a living corpse; the speakers love how strange and huge he is on screen.
    “I'm already dead, and I'm going to play this with a rictus because I'm going to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Timothy Carey: His image from The Killing turns up on the Sgt. Pepper outtake photos behind George Harrison, though the speaker concedes it may not be the final cover.
    “Sag had no cause projection, but apparently he's also in his image from the killing is on the Sergeant Pepper cover behind George Harrison.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about The Taking of Pelham 123: Why Matthau works: the original's one man who can handle it is hung over, ill-fitting suit, stale hot dog.
    “he's hung over in an ill-fitting suit eating a stale hot dog”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:42:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Sterling Hayden: Stated line on his character: not smart enough to pull it off, too smart to be happy if he did.
    “he's he's not smart enough to pull off a con of this size, but he's too smart to ever be happy if he were to pull it off”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:43:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about The Killing: Audiences hated the studio-demanded chronological cut even more, so the jumbled timeline went back in.
    “They test screen it and the audiences hate it even more when it's in the right order.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:52:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about The Killing: UA's Max Youngstein ranked Kubrick and Harris 'not far from the bottom' of their producer-filmmaker teams.
    “And Max said, not far from the bottom.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about The Killing: Time predicted it would 'make a killing at the cash booth'; Wikipedia's next line is a loss of $130,000.
    “going to make a killing at the cash booth”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:06:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about Goodfellas: Powell's letter to Scorsese: a stunning script, a wonderful film and a priceless social document.
    “dear Marty, it is a stunning script and we'll make a wonderful film and a priceless social document.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about Goodfellas: The wig-shop commercial in Goodfellas was shot and cut by the real wig shop owner.
    “That is shot, that footage was shot and cut by the guy who owned that wig shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:15:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about The Killing: Ben texts that if he were in a heist movie where people fuck it up, he would have pulled it off and ended on a tropical island.
    “Anytime Ben watches a heist movie in which people fuck it up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about Fear and Desire: The streaming copies are public-domain colorized versions that look like cheap AI, with color that will not stay on faces.
    “It looks like it was done by some very rudimentary $5 AI, but it's this thing where the color like can't stick to their faces.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:01:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Fear and Desire: Eerie shot: a dead woman's POV as a hand waves over her eyes, then a pulse check.
    “They cut to a POV shot. I know. Of him waving his hand in front of her eyes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Griffin's thesis: the best narrative ever built around Batman, with the most complete understanding of him as a character.
    “I think this is the best narrative that has ever been constructed around Batman”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:01:16 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: The villains list: Conan O'Brien as the Riddler, Mantzoukas as Scarecrow, Garfunkel and Oats as Poison Ivy and Clayface, Doug Benson as Bane.
    “Conan O'Brien plays the Riddler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:07:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Billy Dee Williams: Voices Two-Face as little Lego Billy Dee, finishing the arc of never playing him for Burton.
    “It's his voice and they make it look like him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:08:20 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: The whole movie takes place on a table, and the kid's threat is pulling two pushed-together tables apart.
    “So this is setting up the, like, without cutting out the real world from the 1st movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:53 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Mariah Carey is the mayor for no stated reason.
    “Mariah Carey, inexplicably the mayor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:10:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Watch the scene where Batman microwaves lobster Thermidor, types 20 minutes, and corrects himself; the hosts also like the lighting of the microwave.
    “And then he types 20 and then he goes, not 20 minutes stupid.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:19:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Lego film rule: animators scanned in every real Lego piece and had to build everything so it could physically exist.
    “So they essentially like scanned in every Lego block shape or piece type that exists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:19:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Popcorn is made of big white balls because they could not make new pieces and had to find the closest existing one.
    “So they like weren't allowed to make new pieces.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:21:06 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Batman has a wall of dead parents, a Crime Alley photo, and only drops his guard talking to the pictures.
    “This wall of dead parents.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:21:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Michael Cera: Allegra Frank's interview with Cera, who said his best compliment is when someone enjoys his dinner.
    “To me, the best compliment I could ever get in the world is when I make dinner for someone and they enjoy it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:30:19 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Lego hair pieces swap for a wind-blown version when a megaphone hits a character in the face.
    “they switch the hairpiece to a hairpiece that looks wind blown.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:34:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)