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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Unbreakable with Matt Patches

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Matt Patches (Thrillist, Grantland) joins Griffin and David this week to discuss Shyamalan’s fourth feature, Unbreakable. This sad and muted superhero film where mostly nothing happens was seen by many critics and fans as a “sophomore slump” when released in 2000. But what are some of it’s redeeming qualities? How does it stand out among the Marvel superhero movie craze in the years that followed? Oh and is there a twist you ask? Well listen along as the gang unpacks the making and reception of Unbreakable, together examine the stylistic choices incorporating the visual language of comic books, begin to notice a pattern of recurring themes related to loveless marriages and disturbed children, and try to shake the dead eyes of Spencer Treat Clark.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know how I knew, David?

0:23.0

I shouldn't know no along.

0:25.0

You know why?

0:27.0

Because of the kids, David.

0:29.0

I'm not going to call me Mr. Podcast.

0:31.0

That was too long.

0:34.0

Yeah.

0:35.0

Been cut out the first 45 seconds of that intro.

0:38.0

Maybe.

0:39.0

Okay, I am Griffin Newman.

0:41.0

I'm David Sims.

0:42.0

You might know us better as the two friends.

0:44.0

You know, we're the two friends.

0:45.0

Hashtag the two friends.

0:46.0

I really snapped episode one.

0:47.0

I said I really want to weaponize the two friends.

0:49.0

Yeah, you want to push the two friends.

0:50.0

The two friends, I think, is a good branding hook.

0:52.0

Which was my idea.

0:53.0

Yeah, oh, 100%.

0:54.0

We're the two friends.

0:55.0

We're the two friends.

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