Blank Check with Griffin and David Podcast • Page 10

Ayyy Johnston just pulled ahead tho

 

thank god the Johnston bots started coming through

 

Nevermind, can’t believe HSM is getting beat by the Rugrats

 

Mike Judge vs. Danny DeVito is tough

Although a Judge miniseries would really only be four films right (Beavis & Butthead Do America, Office Space, Idiocracy, Extract)?

 

Podis & Casthead Do America vs. Pod Momma From The Cast

 

I’m all for a Judge miniseries.

 

I went with DeVito

 

No bad decisions here imo

 

The amount of comments ranging from “who the fuck is [older director]” to “this isn’t the type of podcast Blank Check is” make me convinced that they need to start doing a pre-1970 director once a year at this point.

 

I think some of the problem is kind of baked in to the premise of the podcast itself. Like defining your podcast as one where you are mainly concerned with a specific kind of director, one who got a proverbial "blank check" thanks to early career success, is going to open you up to people claiming "X director never got a blank check, why are you covering them". Format sticklers are always going to be a thing.

 

Yeah my concern is more the “covering older directors doesn’t fit the show” than the semantics over whether someone got a blank check or not.

 

I also think they are way too locked in to the whole blank check idea. Just make it a show about directors filmographies!

 

this already IS a podcast about filmographies*!

*directors who have massive success, early on in their careers, and are given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want. Sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes they bounce baybee.

 

The only problem I see with committing to doing a pre-New Hollywood director per year is that they're already really trying to mix it up in terms of race and gender, and they're already doing basically one animator a year -- an overwhelming majority of which are white + male -- and the MM winner each year -- have all been white so far -- and adding in a new yearly slot that is also likely going to be overwhelmingly white and male isn't going to leave them a lot of wiggle room each year.

 

Ok well, I’m open to just doing one, at all, period, to start lol

 

i’m all in on the Wolfgang Gang

 

My face when the March madness ep is 1.5 hours long:

:D

My face when david/chip was on even though they said he wouldn’t be:
:DD

 

Welp, Griffin announced at the end of the March Madness episode that Joe Dante will be a guest on an episode if they ever cover him so guess we have our winner

 

Eh still think Carpenter steamrolls

 

Yeah I still think Carpenter will win although I would be happy if Dante won also.

 

#TeamChan today

 

What is there even to talk about after a couple? I love his movies but they’re all more or less the same.

 

If they did Stone, the JFK episode would be the first episode in years that was shorter than the movie being discussed

 

I HIGHLY doubt that lol.

 

Truly can’t believe Malick beat Brest

Looks like Twilight is gonna edge out Muppets as well!

Wild day!