Amistad

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Griffin and David look to Spielberg’s next film (also released in 1997) Amistad. But what are the glaringly problematic issues with this movie? Could a more suited director and screen writer have been brought onto the production? How long has Sir Anthony Hopkins been phoning it in exactly? Together they examine the career trajectory of Matthew McConaughey, Peter Firth receives comedy points and assess the cast in a performance review. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're on her. I derive much consolation from the fact that my colleague, Mr. Baldwin,
0:25.4	here has argued the case and so able and so complete a manners to leave me scarcely anything to say.
0:31.7	However, why are we here? How is it that a simple plain property issue? I should now find itself
0:39.5	a noble to be argued before the Supreme Court of United States of podcasts.
0:43.9	And great great. I think it's scarcely and so scarcely. I don't know who's fucking cares. Put your
0:50.8	Amazon kindle down. We're accepting that. Yeah. Yeah. Four times the charm. Hi, everybody. My name is Griffin Newman.
0:57.2	I'm David Sims. I'm looking to blank check with Griffin and David. Yes. It's a podcast about movies,
1:01.5	filmography. We look at directors who have had massive success early on guests. Here is a blank
1:05.6	check to make their own crazy passion projects. And sometimes I'm passion projects, but just are able
1:11.5	to do weird things. Sure. That people who don't have massive success can't do. That's a good way
1:17.3	of putting it less clearly than I've ever put it before. Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes
1:22.3	they bounce. Baby. Great. This is a me series about the films of one steveyspielberg. Yes.
1:30.0	It is called pod me if you cast. That's right. And it's about Steven Spielberg, the DreamWorks here.
1:36.5	His life post Oscar. This is technically his first DreamWorks movie we're talking about today. Yes.
1:40.7	Our first episode was about the lost world, but that was, you know, it was a universal picture.
1:45.1	We're flubbing it a little bit, but you know, it was post Oscar and we wanted to talk about the
1:48.3	lost world. And we did not want to open our series with the Amistad. Amistad. Our second episode is
1:55.5	about the film Amistad. Yeah, I listen to a couple white guys talk about a white guy making a
2:00.6	movie about slavery. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, one hand, we're very qualified to talk about
2:06.5	this because this movie was made by white men who shouldn't have made it. And it was made for white
2:11.2	people. Right. Yeah. Like on that hand, we are qualified to talk about this. But on the other hand,
2:16.1	shouldn't we all be just disqualified from life and criticism forever? I agree, Ben, all white man.
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