275: Blank Check
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Continuing Kids Movie Month, we're discussing the surprisingly grim 1994 film Blank Check! Kat and Jocelyn discuss the narrative leaps this movie has to make to justify... literally everything that happens, how this movie does Karen Duffy dirty, and how the protagonist of this film is just kid Daniel Plainview.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, hi, Baili, everybody. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi, hi, Baili. |
| 0:28.2 | I want to know, welcome to I Hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:29.9 | I am Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:31.0 | I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love |
| 0:34.4 | and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:36.0 | This week, continuing Kids Movie Month, we are doing blank check and who |
| 0:40.7 | boy? |
| 0:41.8 | I already this movie defies categorization, words, easy summary. |
| 0:51.4 | Did you see this as a kid? |
| 0:52.6 | I did it, actually. |
| 0:54.0 | It was what I always wanted to see as a kid, because it is such a perfect |
| 0:57.8 | premise for a kid's movie, which is like, hey, if you were a kid, what would |
| 1:01.6 | you do if you suddenly had a million dollars, and like you can have fun and all |
| 1:05.6 | that stuff? |
| 1:06.6 | In execution, this film is fucking grim as hell. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes, it really is. |
| 1:11.4 | And they're clearly trying to build off the home alone energy that was around. |
| 1:15.6 | And Richie Richie. |
| 1:16.6 | And Richie Richie, and all those things. |
| 1:19.4 | But one, it's not that I would say home alone is the most heartfelt movie of time, but |
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