Oppenheimer with Marie Bardi

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 188 minutes

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Summary

DA MOVIESH ARE BACK, BABY! Film Director Barbie joins the gang to chat about Christopher Nolan’s latest and an historic weekend at the multiplex. What’s the best format for seeing OPPENHEIMER? Which of the many character actors in this film makes the biggest impression? Will David make his sexy Christopher Nolan voice a new recurring bit? Plus - we address the SAG strike (solidarity!), the social media discourse around this film (so dumb!), and Ben admits that science used to seem cool.

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0:00.0	Why would we move out to the middle of the desert for two to three hours?
0:26.0	Why?
0:27.0	Because this is the most important fucking podcast ever happened in the history of the world.
0:31.9	Great job.
0:32.9	Thank you.
0:33.9	Great job.
0:34.9	Did I blow up the levels there, Ben?
0:36.9	A little bit.
0:37.9	Okay.
0:38.9	That was a great job, but no one does grumpy, sort of bureaucrat, spittle, like Mr. Matt
0:47.2	Damon.
0:48.2	I was talking to someone.
0:49.2	Inamidable.
0:50.2	I was talking to someone who had seen the trailer and hadn't seen the movie yet and said,
0:53.0	like, there's that moment that Damon has in the trailer that feels almost a little silly
0:56.5	and a little goofy and over the top.
0:58.8	And I watched the trailer and just feels like, is he yelling every single line in this
1:03.3	movie?
1:04.3	And my answer was, he's basically playing Superintendent Chalmers, right?
1:11.2	Like it's not that he's like failing at seriousness.
1:14.6	It is kind of ostensibly a comedic performance of him being the befuddled constantly at the
1:21.3	brink of blowup.
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