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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Alien³ with Matt Singer

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

The time has come for us to talk about one of the most successful, most influential, most respected American filmmakers of the past 30 years. That’s right, we’re talking about the director of ALIEN3, David “Da Finchman” Fincher! We’re kicking off “The Curious Pod of Benjamin Buttcast” in style, pressing play on our Alien Quadrilogy Blu-Ray with guest Matt Singer - and you better believe we’re watching the “extended cut” in “Mu-th-ur Mode”! Join us as we give some light background on young “Dave” Fincher, alleged neighbor of George Lucas and director of Madonna music videos and smoking fetus PSAs. We’re going long on the troubled production of ALIEN 3 - a franchise film that has such disdain for its audience that we can’t help but love and respect it. No Newt? NO PROBLEMO. Do you want to do the dance with Charles Dance? So do we!

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0:00.0

Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises nothing certain. Only that some

0:29.8

get called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind.

0:34.5

We commit these bodies to the void with the glad heart, but within each seed, there is a promise of

0:39.3

a flower and within each death, no matter how small, there is always a new podcast, a new beginning.

0:46.0

Amen. Sometimes I'll watch the quote as you read it and I'm kind of like, he's running out of words

0:52.0

to throw it in podcast. He knows exactly where to put it. But I figured he did. Yeah.

0:56.2

You're wearing sort of his glasses right now. He's kind of got those griffy glasses on.

1:01.6

Yeah. Charles is studying this movie. Huge Griffin Newman vibes.

1:04.7

Yes. Major Griffin energy. I just watched it in a way. It's so nice to see myself reflected on

1:09.9

screen. I just kind of have a, God, can we just all fucking stop fighting energy sometimes?

1:14.5

Which is sort of Griffin. He would manifest very differently, I think, coming out of me.

1:18.4

Out of you, you know, people would just like shut up and listen to you immediately.

1:23.3

What undeniable command he has of this room. A bunch of hard and convicts wouldn't be like,

1:28.0

oh, okay, okay. This is like such an astonishing performance from him. Love him.

1:34.0

Every time I watch this, I'm just like, this is kind of like one of the great supporting

1:38.1

performance. It's a period. I mean, I feel like you are. Okay. So,

1:43.4

we need to acknowledge, I need to have some gravitas here because of course this is

1:46.7

the start of many many series. But of course, we've covered this film. There's a lot of things

1:51.7

to set up because we did do alien commentaries in the pandemic. I know, but I just want to say,

1:57.4

I just remember your, your reverence for Dutton. Yes. And it clearly endures now. Right.

2:02.9

That's all at times. I have thought he might be, and this is, this is boiling hot.

2:08.6

And I don't know if I stand by this today, but at least think it's in the conversation.

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