Blank Check with Griffin and David Podcast • Page 41

Insanely close race

 

Pretty cool that the winner of the International themed March Madness is actually a non-English speaking series - and a match-up between South Korean cinema nonetheless. I'm bummed my top 2 choices were both knocked out (Wong Kar Wai and David Cronenberg) but Park or Bong both have great potential

 

GDT fucking lost AGAIN???

JUST COVER HIM

(And do Kon too)

 

I voted for Bong but either will be great.

 

I voted for Park because it’ll be an excuse to dig into a director I don’t really know anything about, but would be totally fine with either. The history of BC MM winners is kinda wild haha

 

Yup their first ever MM winner was Nancy Meyers lol

 

was really rooting for Cuaron or GDT, won’t be mad with a Bong win though.

 

Bong is currently up by 1 vote

 

PARK HAS WON BY A SINGLE VOTE. Best march madness yet

 

That’s fucking nuts

 

Was hoping Park would win so I watched The Handmaiden for the first time last night and holy shit

 

Damn. Yet another miniseries where I only listen to like 3 episodes. Like this Danny Boyle one

 

I’m digging the Boyle series a bunch because I missed a bunch of his movies. That’s awesome for Park Chan-Wook, but I find his movies often too brutal for my taste.

 

Do we know when that series will start? After Boyle or is there another one lined up

 

March Madness winner is typically in the fall so I would imagine there’s at least 2 miniseries before Park Chan-Wook. I haven’t paid close attention to the Reddit (and I’m not up to date on Boyle) but I think the rumor is they’re doing a very old director next

 

Still making my way through the archives, and Life of Pi and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a hell of a pair of episodes back to back.

 

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is one of most iconic episodes of the whole pod

 

Billy Lynn was the episode that my friend told me about that got me into the show

then I went through the Nolan series and that got me hooked. I haven't been listening to any of the new series for months though, just weirdly wasn't super motivated to watch Kubrick or Boyle

 

I just very recently starting from the beginning. Watched Signs last night. M Night is wack.

 

M Night is good (75% of the time)

 

Even better than M.Night - The Wachowskis imo

 

I still need to watch Speed Racer

 

Don't really listen to episodes that I haven't seen the movie so never checked out the Billy Lynn. What's the story behind the episode?

Also, M. Night rules.

 

JD Amato does a really deep dive into technical film stuff and the episode features an incredible bit/joke that JD sets up in the beginning and gets perfectly paid off by Griffin. It's incredible.