Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk with J.D. Amato

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Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2018

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Blank it, thank it! J.D. Amato (The President Show) returns, in the last episode of our mini series devoted to the filmography of director Ang Lee, to discuss 2016’s high frame rate Iraq War drama, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. But what makes this movie so revolutionary? What is the evolution of frame rates in film? Who are the shortest and the tallest actors according to IMDB? Together they examine the history of cameras from film to digital, the BIG3 basketball league and never doing an episode on The Happytime Murders. This episode is sponsored by [Away](https://www.awaytravel.com/check) CODE: CHECK, [Brooklinen](https://www.brooklinen.com/) CODE: CHECK and HowStuffWorks’ [The Soundtrack Show](https://www.soundtrackpodcast.com/). For your very own “I Talked the Walk 2018” merch goto [TeePublic](https://www.teepublic.com/stores/blank-check)! On Thursday, look out for our bonus episode on the Ang Lee directed short film [“Chosen”](https://youtu.be/Z6azAviqGvs) part of the BMW film series The Hire and then next week will begin our new mini series on the films of Nancy Meyers! [David Sims’ Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk review on the Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/the-unreality-of-billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk/507449/)

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0:00.0	You're podcast Billy no longer belongs to you it's America's podcast now
0:26.3	See Martin everyone knows that line ring ding ding as even more evil Jerry Jones
0:35.2	Yeah, so who is Jerry Jones the owner of the Dallas Cowboys okay, because this character
0:41.4	is sort of hobgoblin-esque figure in the national footballing his portrayal and I have no context for Jerry Jones
0:47.7	Obviously and obviously I'm digging straight into the deep end you're right here
0:52.0	Yes, but trail always felt like it was kind of Ted Turner inspired but his Jerry Jones that type of guy or is he combining no
1:02.1	Yeah, he's doing more of a Ted Turner thing in terms of his actual energy and everything right
1:07.6	Jerry Jones is more like of a creepy southerner who's a maniac. I wish
1:14.0	I'm gonna mustache with this what guys I
1:17.2	Think we're talking the walk in the lock 2018
1:22.0	We're here check we made it we're talking the lock check here's blank
1:28.5	Let's do the intro, but just the words are all out of order
1:31.7	Don't actually do that
1:33.7	baby
1:35.5	What are you gonna say I was gonna say this I need to start right here
1:39.4	I've seen a lot of people talking online about how this is a bad movie how this is starting with this no
1:45.3	No, no, no, we are starting with this
1:48.8	If you're tuning in right now and you're like I don't know if I'm looking this episode. Oh sure
1:53.3	You want a hook going to convince you I think they may have already swiped the leaps just the the sight of Billy lens long after I'm walk
2:00.2	But maybe this is what cinema is about
2:04.0	We like blank checks not because they are guarantees yes because they are blank I agree and this is a blank check
2:11.1	This is beyond the blank check this is I just 100% was watching last night and said this is quietly one of the most insane
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