Blank Check
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2017
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
We've lost count of how many times Blank Check has been requested for this podcast and we're really hoping it's because you guys know realize absolutely bonkers it is. While there were no shortage of Home Alone knock-offs in the wake of that film's success, this is probably the only one that features a romantic subplot involving a grown woman and a child.
To say we were surprised by this would be a massive understatement. Considering that the writer went on to pen one of the definitive books on screenwriting, it's astonishing how disjointed the plot is and what a murky (and creepy) sense of morality this exhibits.
Buckle up, 'cause this one was a wild ride.
Topics include: the key difference between a movie like this and other wish-fulfillment stories like Home Alone or Big, the missteps the script makes in setting up Preston's character and how little Act 1 has anything to do with what transpires in Act 3, the coo coo bananas crazy parents and their unrealistic expectations for their son, the least effective way to launder money, how far one million dollars would actually go, why the character of Henry deserves to be in a better movie, the absolutely insane final moments, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember blank check? |
| 0:06.7 | Hello and welcome? Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:33.8 | And I'm dead inside. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. Carlos. And I'm dead inside. I was up early enough to see the sunrise this morning, and as I stood at my window, |
| 0:58.7 | quietly contemplating the choices that had led me to this moment, I heard the gentle sounds |
| 1:03.6 | of Simon and Garfunkel. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello, darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping. |
| 1:15.6 | A vision of a kid with too many toys and grown women making out with little boys. |
| 1:23.6 | Who will answer for this? Who's to blame? I survived, but I'm not the same. |
| 1:32.7 | Eleven-year-old Preston Waters is a real fuck, but it's not entirely his fault. His father is |
| 1:39.9 | suffering from a traumatic brain injury. His older brothers are mental patients, and his mother is |
| 1:45.8 | obliviously gliding around in a quailute-induced stupor. They live in a nightmare world where |
| 1:51.3 | numbers are meaningless. Actions have no real consequences. Ice cream is served in trash cans, |
| 1:57.0 | and it's not illegal to tenderly kiss a child on the mouth like you mean it. |
| 2:01.9 | Walt Disney Pictures proudly presents everyone in this movie is dead now. |
| 2:07.7 | Envious of how Fox was printing money with those first two Home Alone films, |
| 2:11.3 | the studio bet screenwriter Blake Snyder that he couldn't possibly come up with a premise |
| 2:15.8 | that strained even more credibility than that, |
| 2:18.3 | to which Snyder replied, |
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