Piranha II: The Spawning

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In the debut episode of a new mini series examining the filmography of James Cameron, Griffin and David discuss 1981’s B horror, Piranha II: The Spawning. But what is the story behind Cameron’s first “unofficial” offering as a director? What was the main request from the italian financiers of this film? In it’s 84 minute runtime are there more fish or people spawning? Together #thetwofriends delve into Cameron’s early career, share their mutual appreciation for actor Lance Henriksen, and attempt to make sense of this bonkers plot.

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0:00.0	It's podcast to the spotting
0:24.1	I'm not going to be a
0:26.1	great line in that movie.
0:28.1	No one's going to know. No one's watching this.
0:30.1	I think this will be no one will watch it.
0:32.1	There is no thing we have covered including the
0:34.1	buried secret of M. Night Shyline.
0:36.1	I'm not praying with anger.
0:38.1	I think more people look that up on YouTube.
0:40.1	I don't think many people watch that.
0:42.1	I don't know if anyone's going to fucking watch this.
0:44.1	This is a great start to our new mini-series.
0:46.1	Guys, I'm David Sims.
0:48.1	I'm Griffin Newman.
0:50.1	This is a podcast called Blank Check.
0:52.1	We're going through the filmographies of directors who experience early success
0:56.1	and then are given a series of Blank checks by Hollywood to do crazy passion projects.
1:00.1	Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce baby.
1:04.1	Sure.
1:06.1	And we're, you know, we talked about a lot of film.
1:08.1	Yeah, George Lucas.
1:10.1	Boom.
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