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Blank Check with Griffin & David

War of the Worlds with J.D. Amato

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

J.D. Amato (My Brother, My Brother and Me) makes his third appearance on Blank Check, this week discussing 2005’s sci-fi doomsday The War of the Worlds. Why would this film mark the conclusion of the Cruise and Spielberg partnership? How much of tangent does Griffin go off on while discussing McG? Are we to be convinced Tom Cruise is a blue collar guy? Together, Griffin, David and J.D. delve into Dakota Fannings’ preciousness, the movie Mystery Men, the history of the actress who jumped onto the villain and with their legs snaps his neck and more. Plus, J.D. reaches out from the future and Producer Ben records ADR.

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0:00.0

Right Jack with Griffin and David. Right Jack with Griffin and David. Don't know what to say or do I expect.

0:13.0

All you need to know is that the name of the show is my Jack.

0:21.0

No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our world was being watched by intelligence is greater than our own.

0:28.0

That as men busy themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

0:40.0

With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world.

0:46.0

Yet across the Gulf of space, intellects, vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded all planet with NVS eyes and slowly and surely through their podcasts against us.

0:58.0

Hi.

1:00.0

I'm Morgan Freeman.

1:04.0

I'm David Sim.

1:06.0

And I'm Griffin Newman. Welcome to blank check with Griffin and David.

1:11.0

I think that through line of this many series is me doing consistently horrible impressions of people that everyone can impersonate.

1:19.0

Who we've done right now. We've done walking.

1:22.0

And I'm sure that right. Who have you swung and missed on walking.

1:26.0

I think there's one other big one that I missed on. I can't remember now because we're recording all these out of order.

1:30.0

We're also recording like 17 episodes a day.

1:32.0

Yes, we are 17 a day. Yeah.

1:35.0

We're sucking up movies is red goo. And then we're spraying them out everywhere.

1:40.0

Yeah. And then we become a great dusty tentacles that evaporate into the wind.

1:45.0

What podcast is this that we're recording so much of that sucking us dry? Why it's blank check with Griffin and David.

1:52.0

True. We are hashtag the two friends. Yes, we are two friends who host a podcast together. What's a podcast about?

2:00.0

Well, it's about filmography. It's about directors who have massive success early on.

2:06.0

And Hollywood gives them a blank check to make their own crazy projects.

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