I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK with Karen Chee

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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

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🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

From the twisted mind of Park Chan-Wook, it’s…a surprisingly sensitive romance set in a mental hospital? Writer and Comedian Karen Chee joins us to chat about 2006’s I’M A CYBORG, BUT THAT’S OKAY - a real outlier in Park’s career, and a commercial disappointment after the global success of his Vengeance Trilogy. Would it surprise you to learn that this film was inspired by, of all things, TOY STORY? Is this the best Park film to remake with a cast of Muppets? Are any of the film’s mental illnesses based in reality? All that, and more, in a very silly episode.

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0:00.0	I'm not a psycho. I'm a pod cast cyborg is that right it doesn't
0:29.9	really work. But no, no. So what Griffin will do words is you'll take a quote from the movie.
0:35.6	Yeah. And then he'll put podcasts in the destroy it. And now obviously for this mini series,
0:41.4	we're doing movies that are mostly in another language. So it's even worse what you do.
0:46.0	Yeah. But by the way, we're coming off of mini series where all the films were silent.
0:49.4	That's true. The last mini series we did, I'm talking to our guests. Yeah. I don't know why you're
0:53.8	talking to me. I'm so confused, David, who you're talking to. I know. This even a podcast was
0:59.0	buster Keaton. So they were those were sound. So that was a real challenge for us.
1:02.1	Right. True. Yes. Sometimes I'll do taglines. Well, that's nice. Yeah. It's supposed to do quotes.
1:07.2	But it does get more difficult when it's when it's a foreign film. We've covered other foreign
1:11.6	films before. I think it's more difficult is I'm already bad at impressions. Right. But when you're
1:19.1	doing a a foreign film and it's like, I'm going to do the American translation of the line,
1:24.8	which means I'm totally losing the line reading. Right. Right. Right. Right. I can't even approximate
1:30.0	how they performed it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Wait, where did you watch the movie
1:35.4	like on what platform? I'm not trying to like fucking big dog you. I'm not trying to like come in
1:43.4	here trying to show off. Okay. You know, your first time guests were excited to have you.
1:48.6	I did import a blu-ray from England. I want a gun. Wow. I don't even know those possible.
1:54.2	You never far in blu-ray. And I got David a copy. You got me. I got a deal. I said you a copy.
1:59.0	You did. Well, I was saying you a Google Drive link. The Google Drive link didn't have subtitles.
2:03.7	So there was a moment where I was like, David and Griffith secretly blew it. I do. I just
2:09.9	did. Okay. All right. The version I had, but I think there is something tough about sending
2:15.2	subtitled. Sometimes it doesn't work. Download it. Oh. Okay. But like that's why I refuse in the
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