Blackjack, we're really the day with Blackjack. Why are you here? I suppose I'm here to make friends with you and your dads too, but my heart is broken. Why is it broken?
Because of what I have to podcast today. No. Come in. I think no, what's the question?
Oh, sorry. Who's there? Adcass. What's the follow-up?
Podcast too. Podcast at the camp. It's the stupid. I don't like this voice you're typing.
It's kind of unsettling. It's the podcast at the camp. Look, there's a filmmaker who once every two years decides to knock at our door with a new film. He really is like, Clark, isn't he?
Yeah. We've been doing the show. This is now. We're coming up on our eighth anniversary, going to our ninth year of doing the show.
Is it four new movies? He's really stirring that period. Yeah, he only got his match with Spielberg. Steven Spielberg has had four films since we covered him.
Shyamalan obviously was the first director we covered as proper Blink Check Mini series, so he had a head start on everyone else. But even still, I believe it's Spielberg has four. Shyamalan has four. Every other director has one.
Yeah, there's no one with two. We're hoping it's made one. Gina's made one. Zamekis has made one.
We're talking since completion of Mini series. Cameron's made one. Pretty good one, though. Yeah, pretty fucking killer one.
Yeah, pretty good one. If you think about it, actually. Do you know about PyCon? Yeah, I'll cast one.
Well, Nolan will have made two this year. Oh, he's going to get us two. Right. Yes.
Right. No one's getting us to ten. He's going to be only one then. Correct.
Correct. Right, because some of them it's a little unfair. We timed it to Dunkirk. Same with the power of the dogs.
Right. Yeah, you know what? You know what? To revisit a director.
What's important is that Shyamalan is working a lot and efficiently and successfully. Not only that. But he has made four movies since we finished covering him in 2016 and all four of those films have been self-financed by the bank of Shyamalan. Sure.
That is the wildest part. And I don't know how this one's going to go. But it is basically tracking to make it's much back in its opening weekend. So it's going to be basically four bets in a row that paid off.
Right, and look, varying levels of success, but he basically seems to have established a model where he cannot lose money where at least all these films are going into slight profit. Glass made $250 million worldwide and that movie was not like. People hate that film. Whereas I think it's a glass of piece.
I do. But this is the thing. He has basically kept the budgets at the exact same general level that is easily passable. Basically an opening weekend alone.
He pre-sales distribution of foreign and everything. And it's like even if he's a big hit or it makes a little profit. And either way, every time he's fucking mortgaging his house, it was basically like, it was like the business was five. It was like 10.
And then like glass on, they've all been about 20. 20's own. Yeah. And then the actors want to work with him so he can get them for reasonable prices.
And like you say, he just kind of, you know, delivers in the same time slot usually. He's an efficient filmmaker. He knows what he can pull off. He builds films around locations that he knows he can shoot it.
Right? It's pretty impressive. We're talking of course about Manage Knight's Charlotte. Yes.
I'm Knight. Shyamalan. How old is he these days? 52 years old.
Yeah. He's like LeBron. He's got like another 40 years. I mean, it's wild how young he was at his sort of like peak of cultural comments.
You know? Look, this is a podcast called Blank Check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin. He hasn't really been a fast guy yet.
What if a guy was fast? Yeah. They should do more like that than they should do. Oh, they should do fun knocks.
Yeah. Is this the official event haircut to this? Yeah. Eddie, please, Eddie, he should also do a Roger Rabbit movie.
That's another thing I'm saying. Am I challenged to do a movie about a fast guy? He should do fun knocks and Roger Rabbit. He should bring back not make a Roger Rabbit sequel.
He just cast Roger Rabbit as an actor. As an in a role. He's connected. I mean, people love it.
You're see, tell me trouble. Anyway, this podcast called Blank Check podcast about philanthropies directors who have massive success early on their career say making the sixth sense and or giving a series of blank checks and whatever crazy passion products they want. Sometimes those checks clear, say signs, sometimes they bounce baby, say lady in the water, and then sometimes as we've said, a man establishes his own life credits and is able to issue the checks to himself. Yeah.
He's worked with every major studio now, but I feel like he'll never leave the universal stable, right? No, he was so excited when the old school universal logo up at the beginning of the movie. Yes. Yes.
Yes. And you open credits of this thing. The opening credits. Yeah.
It was very fun to discover what they meant after watching the movie because it's the visions on the Mexican restaurant menu, the nurses law, the school stuff. See, I'm already excited. This is not at the cabin. Yeah.
This is now, what in the movie is this? 13? Is this on Lucky 13 for M.I.? 15.
Wow. This is including Pring with anger. Yeah. They count.
You have to include YWake. Yeah. My feature film debut. I know that.
And I think it's and I challenge feature film debut as an actor. And is he in this movie? Oh, yeah, Ben. Yeah.
He didn't spot him. Are you trying to do something about a shopping channel? He's so I mean, I saw a really good sales person. Oh, yeah.
Oh, you think he just like who just really like just vanished. I was just like that French. I loved his cameo. Yeah.
I was so curious about this QVC type channel that also has breaking news. I had a lot of questions about this. It's a real channel. I mean, that's a real channel.
I was trying to take out the letters because they sort of make it so it looks like MSNBC. Right. It was a fake news channel. And LM and NASA.
This is a real question. If planes started falling out of the sky in their hundreds, would QVC break into that? Well, what did they do on 9-11? I don't know.
They probably had to address it on 11. Yeah. This is my question. Maybe QVC like the guys are like, I'm hate to turn off that fee.
I'm like, I'm gonna Google this right now. This is my new man. I'm a young person, right? So when I 11 happens, she's three.
I remember there being a thing where my parents were like, she can't process what's happening. Despite the fact that it was happening out our window. And my mom and dad were like, here are the channels you can't turn on? Sure.
Because a lot of entertainment channels were preempting their coverage with the news coverage of their sister networks. So whatever like conglomerate they were under, it was like Nickelodeon was maybe uninterrupted, but ESPN was playing ABC News. Right. Yeah.
So I have an answer for what QVC did during 9-11. Great question. Great answer. Give it to me.
I'm gonna read this from LostMediaWickie.com. Big fan of Lost Media. Came up on a Google to QVC, 9-11. American Free to Air Shopping Channel, QVC was in the middle of airing live programming on September 11, 2001, when the September 11th tax card.
With their increasing seriousness and scale, the events eventually led to abandonment and temporary suspension of network programming during an airing of Denimyn Co. a few hours after the attacks began. A slide was put up to note that the program was suspended and that one should turn to a news channel. Alongside later adding an additional slide with contact information to donate to the American Red Shop.
So they just said stop watching. Yes, they said. Yeah. Move on.
Yeah. Yeah. So they were falling out of the sky. What would you do?
I do. I'd be like, yeah. Yeah. It's interesting.
Look, Em Knight, one of the few people who is sort of a brand name in and of himself and because of that, he's been able to get original films made throughout his career, right? His last two films, Adaptations, obviously he did last year of Bender before, but that felt like an anomaly in his career. And now he is like using other starting points to craft proper Em Knight movies. Old, of course, was loosely based on a graphic novel.
And this is both, and I was looking at the credits. I thought this was interesting. I don't know if you caught this. It's both based on obviously Cabin at the end of the world that came out a couple years ago.
There also is a credit that says it is loosely inspired by Griffin Newman's current worldview. Yes, exactly. It does say that. Yeah, it says that.
Loosely. Like the comedy Stylings of Tim Allen. It's like sort of, we crafted it, obviously you couldn't make a movie out of my despair spirals, but you could loosely, could use it as a jumping off point. It's a way called Knock at the Cabin about how everything's bad.
Not everything's bad. Not everything's bad. That's the lesson in the movie. I don't know if I.
I mean, this is, it's somewhat I struggle with this movie. I will say, David, you far and away liked it the most of the four of us. Yeah. The three of us had pretty mixed.
I said, this is a real turd. He said it was a trend. He said it was a trend. It was a turd that you can't get to flush.
Yeah. You know, that kind of turd. Pretty surrender not liked it. Marie Barty, Marie Barty, Marie Barty.
Hey, Greath. Nice to be here. Native of Emmett Tomlinson and Grafts. Correct.
UVC also a little healthier area. Didn't know that. Company. But yeah.
Come back once again for a shot. Of course. Yes. Happy to be here.
I'm still chewing on this film. I am too. It's not going down easily. It's not.
It's like a turd. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a turd. It's like one of those really crusty baguettes that's a little rubbery too. And you're just chewing the bread.
You know, like you're eating a sandwich and you like the meat inside the sandwich. Yeah. But the bread itself is like. How's this metaphor doing?
It doesn't flustered. It doesn't flustered. You're trying to get to the toilet. I don't want to.
I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to bring the toilet in. I can't cut out the middle name.
I don't think I'm still getting into the toilet. I'm still chewing. I'm still chewing. I haven't been able to swallow.
I have no. I'm still chewing. I would say I was pretty amped for this movie. I think without having unreasonable excitement or expectations, but I just love the run that M Knight has been on.
Not that exception. I struggle with a split, but I've liked this recent run a lot. And on paper, I'm like, yes, this is exactly what I want to see him doing. This is a great setup for a film.
It teaches a really interesting actor to be working with. One of my favorite guys right now. And I just sat there and kept waiting for it to click for me. The feeling I like, and look, we talk about this a lot.
He is an aggressively unsettled filmmaker, right? And his tone and his pitch and his style are so weird and can be so off putting for people that a lot of folks watch his movies and immediately go, I can't handle any of this, right? Just immediate turn off for me. Whereas I'm very much on the wavelength of everything he tries to do.
But I feel like most of his movies, you sit there and whether or not it's a twist movie, I feel like there's a lot been made already about this is a movie that feels like it's building towards a twist and the twist is almost the lack of a twist. The twist is almost this film being exactly what it presents itself to be. Okay, I have to. Are you aware of the books?
I am. I am. All this to say, I spent the whole movie going, when am I going to click into what he's really trying to do here? And I kept on feeling like I was getting close and I couldn't quite understand what he was trying to say.
David, let's talk about the book. Well, because I watched this movie on a wear. I knew it was based on a book, but I didn't. And I knew that there was a little chatter out there from people who read the book being like, I wonder if he's going to do the plot of the book in that kind of concern to tell.
Sure. I watched this movie. I mean, I looked up the book and if they put the book on screen, do you know what happens in the book? Yes, I do know.
We're about to get into this. We're about to get into this. We dug into this after the movie. Yes, we did some book digging.
But yes, we're spoiling both the book and the movie proceeds at your own risk from here on out. But beyond the fact that I think the book's plot would have been kind of unpalatable for a movie. If he read that book and then fundamentally changed its takeaway is fascinating to me. Yes, I, internet, this is a semi reliable resource of a fact.
Yes. What I read yesterday made it sound like, and perhaps you will correct me here. This was a book that was optioned as a movie in its manuscript stage before it was even published. I believe Universal gets the rights to it.
They hire two writers who are the two writers who get credit on this film with Shyamalan. Shyamalan has his deal with what's his coming up, blinding edge with Universal now for distribution. At some point, Universal throws to him, hey, here's the thing we have what you maybe want to come on board as a producer. He goes, this is interesting.
He reads the script. He reads their script adaptation of the book. I think before he reads the book, who's this is interesting, comes on as producer, then goes, I'd like to have a pass with his writer and then decides he's going to direct it. So he's working off of mostly the adaptation that already existed in script form more than sparking to the book.
But I don't know. I think the adaptation was straightforward. I think so too. I don't think much of it can change to that point.
He read that story and changed it so profoundly. It's just so emlike. Yes. He read a book that is so profoundly pessimistic and it's viewpoint and anti-religious in a way.
And was like, I see sort of like a spiritualism in here and I see a chance for optimism in future. It's just so emlike. What a guy. What a wild guy.
Who was the guy? Oh, we were talking about Danny Boyle. He was saying it's weird how many filmmakers start out thinking they maybe want to be priests. Totally.
An emlike to classic example of it. Yes. Not that he obviously is a Hindu, but he went to Catholic school. That's so fascinating.
He's fascinated by faith. He's made life of pie. That was his huge passion project. But he put that in his face.
He's now like this person. He's struggling between faiths. Him being this immigrant who goes to a Catholic school just like not being Catholic because it was the best school and he's in an environment where he's indoctrinated with this. I wouldn't say it was the best school.
It was a good school that was slightly more affordable than some of the fancier schools. I think his parents at that point in the 80s or whatever thought that was the best place for him to be even if it was not their religious dogma. But yes, so he's like inundated with this thing that is not necessarily his religion that he was raised with. He's been a very interesting thing throughout all of his.
He talks about it. I feel like quite openly. Yes. So the plot of the cabin at the end of the world is very similar.
I know you guys know this. Yes. What about their basic setup? Very similar.
The setup is the same. There's a gay couple with their adopted daughter. Their own vacation. Four weirdos show up at the door with medieval weapons.
They're like, we don't know each other, but we've all had visions at the end of the world. And we've all had visions that one of you has to kill another one of you. It's a trolley car problem. You have to choose between the three of you, which one dies and one of you dying will prevent the apocalypse.
But you have to intend to kill. Yes. You know, like it has to be a conscious thing. Right.
The plot plays out the same except when about halfway through one of the guys gets his gun and tries to challenge them. Yes. The gun goes off in struggle and kills the daughter. Yes.
The small adorable girl. Little cute girl. Right. And they're like horrified and also like is it over and the guys are like it's not over because it means she wasn't a willing sacrifice.
Right. And so they all kill each other. The invaders. Yes.
Intentionally. They're all killing themselves off one by one. And then the couple decides not to kill each other because they're like whatever God would do this is not a God worth sacrificing ourselves for. We will face the end of the world together.
Correct. If it is happening. That's the reason we have each other. Our love is the one trip to your thing in this world.
And also beyond that even like what kind of God would not be satisfied by our daughter's life. Sure. What an asshole. Yes.
And what an asshole. What an asshole. Sure he made flowers over right then. Just be funny.
Just thinking about God in that way. Yeah. Yeah. There's things I like sunshine.
God directed unbreakable. But then in a way did he? Did he? Was his hand valued in the non?
And I think in the book there is a little more ambiguity as to whether the world is really happening or if it's just a really shitty day. Right. This movie is pretty definitive. This movie is more definitive as it goes on that the end of the world does seem to be happening and basically that the sacrifice is real.
God is real. Yes. I guess. And yeah.
And that the choice they make will stop it. Yeah. Obviously the movie is progressing in the same way of it seems ludicrous to begin with and you know, blah, blah, blah, more and more bad things start happening. But and then of course this movie has a totally different ending of one of them does decide to kill the other one and it does seem to be in the world.
Also the kid doesn't die. Yes. The kid doesn't die. Little when lives the other day.
With her one day. With one remaining parent. Ben Aldridge. Yeah.
Daddy Andrew. Daddy Andrew. Daddy Eric. Yes.
Dave John Garoff is Daddy Eric. And he gives me his son Geoff Wieckman, Rupert Grint, and what's the other actor? Niki a Suka Bird. She was so good.
She was so good. Yes. She's just a great actor. She's been amongst things.
She's a Brit. Yeah. She is a Brit. Well, notice.
One stat. This is the only other Rupert Grint movie to get white distribution in the United States outside of the Harry Potter franchise. I mean, I could believe that because he's made so few films and they're all British films. He was in the CBG movie that the involuntary manslaughter guy.
One of the most criminal film makers. What's his name? Randall Miller. Randall Miller?
Randall Miller, yeah. Yeah, really. He's never got an emerald. He's a new kid.
Yeah, that would have gotten him the UK. But he doesn't do a lot. He's been doing a M-Nights Servant Key Jos. Yeah, do you guys watch Servant?
No, and Emma Sapansky, who I saw this film with, he's telling me to watch it. And she says he plays a dang ass weird freaking out. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm about to be a little mean.
I thought he was terrible. I thought he was really good. I thought he was terrible. I thought he was really good in this.
Yeah, he's good in this. That's crazy. He's terrible. He died.
I was like, thank god. He can move. I was just pointed. He's like, I want him a group.
Yeah. Whatever accent he was trying to do. Let's do an accent. Mean guy accent.
He's kind of doing Hill Blanchry Bag. Yeah. Yeah. I just love that he's.
He's doing a lot of that. Because everything I've heard about him is rich. Straight chiller. He's a straight chiller.
Yeah. He's like a nice guy. He only is doing it because he's interested. Yeah.
And he's just decided to be Sean Melon's little free boy. Yeah. That's cool. I just was not impressed with what I saw from Weasel in this movie.
I like to breeze not impress. No. Ben impressed. I mean, because Grint's in the Ben zone.
Grint could play Ben. I mean, but he's like a bad. He's a bad guy. Well, but in the movie.
Ron Weasley is cute. I guess you never really did the Harry Potter thing. So you don't really know. You never see anyone.
No, I did finally see them. Like over pandemic. Yeah. Watch them.
That's weird. So you never watch them. Like I guess you're a little older. You didn't care about that much.
Yeah. I was this Griffin and I are the same age as a Radcliffe. And so we like. But the Harry Potter is the exact type of thing Ben's design.
Absolutely. In every way. You must have like Ron a little though. No.
Listen, I watched those things. Yeah. And I did not absorb them at all. Sure.
Okay. It's just not for me. Yeah, that's probably armor. It's a pretty dope position.
I was gonna say Ben. No one's fine. No one's fine. If you were like, I watched them and I fell in love the wizarding world.
Now. No. That's the lesson. I'm frantically trying to square this circle and you got out clean.
Yeah. Never was into it in the first place. You're like, let me in. Yeah.
Watch it later. Didn't like it. I mean, it's just I had no impact on me. Yeah.
And I do believe in magic. Yeah. Any young girls. It's just.
Well, yes, it is. It's funny. I think he and Radcliffe are in similar zones. It's just that Radcliffe does more stuff.
He does. But they're both in the zone and like I'll put a nasty little freak in indie stuff. And then Emma Watson has been in the biggest things post Potter, but also feels like the least successful element of all of them and now maybe a software tired. She's I feel like she's retired on less.
Yes. The right offer comes along or whatever. And it is crazy how it's so I was talking about this as I walked out the screen. Yeah.
She's in one of the most successful films of recent years. Yes. And everyone everyone on Earth 100 out of 100 people on the street would agree she's the worst thing. And she's.
Oh, I heard about Beauty and the Beast. No, but we're about financially successful. No, no, no, no. Okay.
The one that we made a lot of money. It's kind of a win and kind of did too. Everyone was a huge hit that everyone is rewatching. It's putting the Christmas classic that movie's getting etched in stone and everyone's like Florence P.Sarsha wrote it.
Yeah. Fuck, even the other one. Scanlon. Yeah.
Bob Oden Kirk. Everyone's posting. Oden Kirk. Do you ever see an Emma Watson gift?
No. David, I think similarly though to Marie's point, I don't want to talk about Beauty and Beast. I need to say this. You do.
I think she's going to have an actor who got less of a bump for being the lead of one of the 10 highest grossing movies of all time. It's not one of the 10 highest grossing movies of all time. At the time of its release, it might have been Beauty and Beast. It was not Mike.
It was seven. It was in the top 10. Did that make a Billy? I made one too.
Oh, that's ridiculous. I mean, I did see it in theaters opening week. For someone who was all of a big ass celebrity. But that's the thing.
To then be the lead of that movie and have the takeaway be she's pretty much done, right? The thing. That's the thing. Yes.
Harry Potter is it. Yeah. You're bigger. And you're like, she's in this is the end.
She's in Perks being a wallflower bling ring. Like on paper, she has the best post Potter career. On paper, you're like big projects. Yeah.
She's worked with the directors and high. But star all that. She's not in this movie. I know.
But the beauty of the Beast thing is not interesting to me in some way because it's sort of like those Disney movies are just it's just so irrelevant. Yeah. They're so let's call it. I shouldn't shut mouth the mouse.
You know. Oh, sure. But like, who got about any Disney? They want something to poster.
Yeah. Who got about any Disney? Great question. No one.
Lily James got a mild bump. I don't think Lily James was a professional. I think that's why she actually helped her be financial. Sure.
At a lower level. She gets some easily. And that was where they were still some novels. Right.
She was more unknown than most of their picks at the time she's gone. The Latin leads, especially the guy. No. No.
No. No. No. No.
No. No. No. We didn't like it.
But you also, we didn't even register you. But what just recently, what's your name? Name is Scott. Name is Scott.
I would have actually had more heat going into a Latin as opposed to a Latin. Yes. She had heat off power rangers. And I was that.
interesting. Yes, don't even think she's bad in that movie. She's not like amazing, but she's fine. But also Meg is like everyone's favorite.
It's supposed to be Emma Stone. I know. And you cannot find a person who thinks Emma Stone's not a Meg though. Emma Stone's a Joe.
Yes, she would have been too old to forget. But she's too old to forget. Cast the story. She was in a beloved movie.
People are posting screenshots from it all the time. The youth found it. The tumors love it. People basically forget she was in it.
Yeah, they do. I'm struggling to remember that she was in it right now. Talk about it. I can focus on her nonacting work.
She seems too care deeply about literacy, feminism, and sustainability. Use your platform, girl. She hasn't made a movie since Little Women. She seems to be so oftertired.
I also think it's interesting that the time of Potter, it felt like everyone was like, well, she's the one who's going to go on to have the latest. Absolutely. Ask a band was the first time anyone thought any of the kids were going to that movie. And you hear the stories of like, she's a little pro.
Yeah, she's the biggest find of those kids. And you even get to this point where you're like, Harry Melling's good. He's not just good. That guy's amazing.
Great. Is that Dursley? Yeah. Anytime he pops up in a movie, people are like, you know, who walks about with it.
Melling another theft called the cops. Yeah, he walked away with Buster Scraising and have arms and legs. Dottie was someone I did like. The little guy.
Dobby. I mean, Dobby was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who got your end of the head. He's always making mischief. He's sort of like, you know, what if Yoda but sort of, you know, funny, I guess.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, does he been in anything else? Yeah, he's on NBC show right now.
Is he the good doctor? Yeah, he's the good doctor. He's like the good doctor's rival. Lanky's, quick question and be honest.
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All right. Thank you. You guys saw it at the Regal Essex? Yes, we did.
We saw it just the very nice hour when we post yesterday. We, now let's just say this, okay? Cause we ran into a listener at the theater. Okay.
You said that they on the Discord had posed the theory that perhaps there is a curse upon the three of us. Yes. Cause of course, Ben, Marie and I, last main feed, new film from a previous director, Avatar of the Way of Water. We went to see it at the Regal Union Square.
Day of first screening. First screening. Publicly the first screening we could possibly go to. Early as one on the first day.
And the movie broke down, we had to go to a different screening and then a month later they announced that theater is closing. Yesterday we went to the Regal Essex, a different theater of the same beleaguered chain. Yeah. But they're not closing.
Nope. So now, yes, for now, not at least. It's probably brand new. I think they're whole regionally picking the squares that the least was ending.
And expensive. Yeah, but I'm sure the Regal Essex one's expensive too. But we went to the 5 p.m. Thursday showing once again.