Basic with BenDavid Grabinski

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

Our McTiernan series concludes with 2003’s BASIC - a film that Griffin thinks should instead be titled “COMPLICATED” - get it? Because there are so many plot twists?? The great BenDavid Grabinski joins us to chat about John Travolta’s run of big, skeezy characters post-FACE/OFF, McTiernan’s ultimate Achilles heel (getting too confident in his ability to fix impossible movies), the screenwriting career of studio wunderkind James Vanderbilt, and the truly terrible acting of Giovanni Ribisi. Plus, the return of Journalist Eddie Brock, our pitches for different versions of CHANGING LANES (which they should remake every five years), and our final McT filmography rankings.

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0:00.0	Like Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that... to say what to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is
0:17.0	a blank check.
0:21.0	Those of you I find lacking will quit and those of you who refuse to quit will have a
0:27.7	podcast this base suffers three podcasts a year unfortunate, that I will not hesitate to repeat if you cross me.
0:40.5	Here's a thing that's very frustrating about this movie.
0:43.0	Already?
0:44.0	Already.
0:45.0	I'd say minute 10.
0:47.0	The reveal of Sam Jack.
0:50.0	And you go...
0:51.0	I mean he's there right at the start but yes.
0:52.8	I guess his first real dialogue scene maybe.
0:55.4	After the helicopter at the start, sure.
0:57.2	Just regard my time code crack early on in the film.
0:59.8	Okay.
1:00.8	When we're really serve Sam Jack for the first time.
1:02.8	And two things become abundantly clear.
1:05.8	You're like, okay, this guy only lives in flashbacks.
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