Blank Check with Griffin and David Podcast • Page 30

I already thought this movie was good. But the episode is really selling me on it being a masterpiece.

 

It’s going to be in my top ten of the year for sure. Can’t see it not being there. It’s a truly great film.

 

Yeah, like it even more after this ep

 

Still think they should’ve gone with “The Podwer of the Cast”

 

With the snow it is taking me forever to get through the new episode. lol. Three hours is a lot of time when my dog doesn't want to be out for more than ten minutes.

 

Does anyone know why the Discord is so certain that Raimi is after Campion?

 

No clue but they've been talking it since, like, November at least. That thing moves so fast it's hard to keep up/track where stuff started.

 

For real. It’s at the point where it’s like an afterthought. I like being surprised, so I might stop going in there.

 

What'd you think of Sweetie? This was my first time seeing it.

 

I think it was on a later Carpenter that Griffin did the whole “a movie we will NEVER talk about on this podcast” thing when Evil Dead 2 came up. That and the fact that it would lineup with the new Doctor Strange is why people are so certain?

I’m down with Raimi, but I’d also like a little more distance from Carpenter before diving into another big Horror guy, plus I have a little bit of Spider-Man fatigue

 

Loved it. Was the first movie I watched on my new 4K tv so it looked GORGEOUS. It was so weird. Kinda bummed to know most of her movies are a lot more serious than this but I’m also definitely gonna follow along.

 

Yeah I felt the same way. It had a lot of stuff in it that felt like it was out of a Lynch and a Waters movie, which I was not expecting at all considering what she went on to make. Very weird and unsettling but in a good way.

 

Should I watch Top of the Lake? I’ve seen the first episode a couple times but never stuck with it. I remember some of the shots reminding me of Power of the Dog, in that sort of western sense.

 

I’m most of the way through the first season of TOTL and it’s pretty good. I don’t think it’s anything ground breaking or super exciting, but it’s very solid.

 

It’s basically just a NZ Twin Peaks riff?

 

No it's nowhere near as weird as Twin Peaks. It does get weird but not in the same way and not as often. Series 1 is generally a riff on the concept of "small town with dark secrets", series 2 is set in Sydney so it doesn't really have that feel at all. My wife and I watched both seasons over the last two weeks and it was pretty good. It's only 13 total episodes (7 in series 1, 6 episodes in series 2) so it goes quick.

 

I’d put it more in the Broadchurch/ The Sinner vein. Just a pretty straightforward “prestige”-y crime procedural.

 

I don't know if this is a hot take but I think I liked TOTL series 2 more than series 1. They're both good though.

 

Would give me an excuse to start Evil Dead 2. First one was fun

 

Evil Dead II is amazing. An all time great horror comedy

Watched Sweetie last night. Very weird movie but I enjoyed it. There were parts where I was thought it played like sketch comedy and then as it progressed and got to be more clearly about mental illness it became more bleak. Interesting to hear them talk about watching it knowing the direction her career ends up going, because I'd never seen any of her movies (or even heard of her tbh) so I'm watching everything without that context

 

One of the many many things I love about the pod is them pretty much programming some cool movies for me to watch I would have never seen otherwise. I loved going through Elaine May's filmography last year, and checking out Jane Campion's this year is shaping up to be another great ride.

 

Campion really hasn’t been my thing so far, I really struggled with Sweetie and An Angel At My Table. But I’m really glad this show does cover such different directors from series to series, even if it means there’s a couple months I’m not as into.

 

I wonder how they’re going to do March Madness. Just do all the polls on Patreon?

 

I'm sure they will find a way for non-Patreon members to vote

 

I think just not doing it on Twitter would be sufficient. They can probably do it via the Patreon site but make it public, can't they? Just do public poll posts with the main feed brackets and backer-only posts for the Patreon brackets.