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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Aloha with Esther Zuckerman

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Nearing the end of the Cameron Crowe mini series, Esther Zuckerman (The A.V. Club) joins Griffin and David to discuss the writer/director’s most recent theatrical release, 2015’s space militarization romantic comedy, Aloha. But doesn’t someone in Emma Stone’s camp look at this script and see at least a few red flags? Why is the movie set in Hawaii but features 99% white people? How do you make being a fighter pilot sound sexy if you’re a woman? Together, they examine Alec Baldwin’s yelling, defining gate blessings, why one can’t buy the sky and offer up their solutions to fix this film.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My father was half Chinese and half Hawaiian and my mother's a Swedish descent so that makes me a quarter podcast

0:26.3

Great hi. Hello, hi everyone. How are you doing? Oh?

0:32.0

Oh, my name is Griffin. I'm David Sims. This is Blankcheck with Griffin and David.

0:37.8

Colin, we podcast. This is a podcast where we go through directors who have big success early on

0:43.2

and they're given a series of blank checks that sometimes they cash out and sometimes the checks bounce.

0:49.0

Maybe this episode is not about the movie bounce. It's about the film of low-hob because we should do a

0:54.4

bounce podcast. Yeah, we'll bounce cast bounce cast. This many series we podcast is about the

1:00.7

film's camera crow and we are on not Don roost not Don roost. Don roost. Don roost.

1:05.6

Director of bounce. Yes, I didn't know that. That guy's got a weird career. So I'm saying bounce

1:10.9

cast. Yeah, let's do Roost cast. The opposite of pod. The pod of yeah. The opposite of podcast.

1:19.9

What do you do? We call happy endings to you did a movie called happy endings.

1:24.4

He started Adam Pally and no, no, no, no. Happy accidents was Brad Anderson, right? I don't know. Okay. And there

1:30.6

are the endings is the one where like 10. Oh, it's Rosanne's husband.

1:34.2

X has Tom Arnold Tom Arnold. Yes, gets like jerked off right at a massage parlour. But happy

1:40.2

accidents is Mercitome and Vincent Don for your time traveling. Is that what that movie's called?

1:44.9

Have you heard of this movie? You're not going to be introduced yet. I'm sure. Wait a second.

1:50.2

Do you see that off in the horizon? That's our last listener turning off this episode. I see them

1:56.4

leaving. All podcasts have been canceled. All podcasts have been canceled. You're correct.

2:00.6

And it was directed by Brad Anderson. It's yes, whoever that who's that? He did the machine.

2:06.9

Yes. Well, apparently it's about a woman who meets a man who claims to be from the year 2470.

2:11.8

Thank you.

2:14.2

Think.

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