Oops! All Box Office
Added 2021-05-11 04:00:06 +0000 UTCFor a long time the box office data for any film covered on the pod that was from back in the day was not available….until now! Thanks to author Leonidas Fragias’ e-book series US Weekly Top Ten Grossing Film Charts, Griffin, David, and Ben finally make good on past Box Office Games and go through all the movies they’ve covered from 1971-1981.
Comments
This is a great episode.
Chris L Kendall
2024-07-05 21:23:27 +0000 UTCI must respectfully voice my opinion that the movie for 1776 is straight fire with an amazing cast. And not for nothin' but it's incredibly historically accurate, way more than it needed to be.
Ryan Sosa
2021-10-24 22:24:47 +0000 UTCPink Panther Strikes Again was one of my favorites growing up. It has a lazer!
Billnetherlands
2021-07-26 15:42:33 +0000 UTCI have to ask: I have apparently missed hearing Griffin discuss Robert Wuhl in the past. Which episode(s) discusses him? I fuckin' hate that asshole. (Wuhl, not Griffin.)
Monique Dee
2021-05-16 21:31:51 +0000 UTCJust gotta say that Alice in Wonderland porno is pretty damn good. Yeah the hardcore stuff is typically whatever, but the movie itself is actually charming and has a sense of humor about itself. It's a musical too, and the songs aren't half bad!
Caleb McCandless
2021-05-16 13:47:28 +0000 UTCJust casually having to Google what the 6th movie of 2020 because they completely neglected to mention the name. Biiig wind up from David. Swing and a miss. The batter is outta here
Ray
2021-05-16 02:18:09 +0000 UTCIt's probably too late for me to write this comment and have anyone really notice, but I gotta expand on something mentioned in this ep. At one point the boys mention director James Glickenhaus, whose movie The Exterminator was in the 1980 top ten. They also point out that when you google his name, you see only see his massive car collection. There's a reason for that and it's a reason why Glickenhaus deserves to be covered on Blank Check. James Glickenhaus is the ultimate Blank Check director because he wrote his own blank checks throughout his career. His father ran one of the biggest investment firms on Wall Street. James was supposed to inherit the business, but instead used his inheritance to start funding his own movies. Here's the thing though, unlike most eccentric rich people who bankroll their own ego-driven movies, Glickenhaus' flicks actually made money and he kept making them for 20 years until he got bored and went back to the family investment firm. His movies are absolutely insane, incredibly fun, undeniably problematic, and exactly the reactionary fantasies that you'd expect from a trust fund kid funding his own 80s B-movies. His first movie The Astrologer was the forgettable hippie freak out movie made by the drugged up black sheep of a rich family that you'd expect. After that, Glickenhaus made movies designed for grindhouses, kicking off with The Exterminator (a film about a PTSD suffering Vietnam vet who decides to take the law into his own hands and clean up crime-ridden 1980 New York with a flame thrower). It's wild, establishing Glickenhaus' love of staging obscenely unsafe and expensive action scenes (he was cutting the checks and mostly working non-union, so no one could tell him that his stunts and explosions were too dangerous). That dangerous action led to his only work for hire with a Hong Kong studio hoping to break Jackie Chan in America. The Protector casts 80s Jackie Chan and Danny Aiello as a buddy cop combo that is just as bizarre as it sounds. Jackie and Glieckenhaus disagreed about how to shoot action and their fights led to Jackie making Police Story to show Glickenhaus how it was done. Then Glickenhaus makes Shakedown (aka Blue Jean Cop), a buddy vigilante movie starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliot as a DA and cop who have had enough of New York corruption and decide to take the law into their own hands. It ends without one of the greatest and most unbelievably goofball action climaxes of the 80s. His final big movie is McBain (and yes, it was released after The Simpsons created their own McBain). That's about Christopher Walken reuniting with his old Vietnam crew to go back to Nam and win the war for America all by themselves in the 90s. It's just a silly as it sounds. I know it'll never happen and chances are no one from Blank Check will even read this comment, but I sincerely hope that somehow the boys do a series on James Glickenhaus. The episodes would be hilarious, Ben would have a new favourite director (the guy made a movie called Blue Jean Cop after all), and finally more people would learn about the rich kid who funded his own action movie fantasies for years. I'm telling y'all, no one is more of a Blank Check director that James Glickenhaus!
Phil Brown
2021-05-14 20:39:39 +0000 UTCThis was so fun, I love hearing you all talk about the movies that don't exist.
Liz Gotauco
2021-05-14 12:10:46 +0000 UTCi've heard claims that the robber's partner wasn't actually trans irl, and that it was the robber trying to reconcile his own feelings that lead him to push for the partner to get surgery, but i have no idea if that's reality or if that's anti trans backlash or what. do have any knowledge there? it does seem like there was weirdly a period of time in which gay men would talk about getting srs as though it would make them more societally accepted and not less
disk-kun, the mascot for the famicom disk system
2021-05-14 05:49:02 +0000 UTCBurnt offerings rules!! Has to have been a huge influence on The Shining, it was made before it was even written
Jake
2021-05-13 18:48:02 +0000 UTCDennis Nordern”s show was ‘It’ll be alright on the night ‘ which was a compilation of bloops. It wasn’t a British version of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Nobody had videos in 1970s Britain, rationing had only just ended
Anthony Simon
2021-05-13 18:42:27 +0000 UTCA Walter Hill miniseries would be an all-timer. So weird, so many different movie stars. Would be perfectly timed with Walter Chaw’s upcoming book on Walter Hill. Really want to hear Ben riff on Streets of Fire.
Zach Havekost
2021-05-13 16:52:02 +0000 UTCI'm LOVING the musical takeover year!
Liz Gotauco
2021-05-12 23:43:15 +0000 UTCI can't believe I knew the answer to the first box office #1. Sure, it's the movie every fuckin amateur knows of that era but...still proud.
Liz Gotauco
2021-05-12 23:22:43 +0000 UTCI loved this ep
Zwoozy
2021-05-12 21:35:30 +0000 UTCTHANK YOU I KEPT REWINDING
Zwoozy
2021-05-12 21:35:06 +0000 UTCsame
Zwoozy
2021-05-12 21:34:16 +0000 UTCI didn’t even see the runtime until now. I could’ve sworn it was shorter
Philip Ehlke
2021-05-12 14:54:38 +0000 UTCWouldn’t want it monthly, but an annual version would be perfect...
Geoff Demitz
2021-05-12 14:08:34 +0000 UTCTbh wish it was longer
The Real Kal-El
2021-05-12 08:25:26 +0000 UTCSo much to love here but my favorite moment comes at the very end when neither Griffin nor David ever actually say that the #6 movie of 2020 is Call of the Wild (probably because it doesn’t exist)
Brock Landreth
2021-05-12 03:27:01 +0000 UTCTo be a bit of a bummer about the talk around Dog Day Afternoon, one of my favorite movies and how it handles its trans character. It's worlds ahead from most films of the time in regard to how people treat her but there are stories of trans actress Elizabeth Coffey was turned down for looking too much like a woman (despite closer matching the person from real life). I don't know whose decision that was but it's interesting to see how a movie that does something so well can do bad in other ways. Anyway yeah I love 12 Angry Men more but Lumet can't really do wrong by me
Ashley Minor
2021-05-12 02:50:21 +0000 UTCRe Griffin trying to remember where "Proudfoot" is from--it's Lord of the Rings
Michael Hashizume
2021-05-12 01:23:50 +0000 UTCFolks, the 70s has so many that truly do NOT exist.
Anthony Regina
2021-05-12 01:09:21 +0000 UTCLeonard Frey is also really good in the original Boys in the Band. He plays the role Zachary Quinto played in the remake
Nate Shu
2021-05-11 22:49:33 +0000 UTCIt's called you've been framed because your video is being "framed" inside the television!
Elliot
2021-05-11 20:51:42 +0000 UTCI made an LB list of everything covered https://boxd.it/c65Vi
Nicholas Hoffman
2021-05-11 20:19:43 +0000 UTCIt's because its pro-independence message conflicts with David's brainwashing by the British school system.
Tobey
2021-05-11 17:35:47 +0000 UTCNo one mentioned that this “Norman... is that you?” movie also features noted non-actor Sergio Aragonés! I was scrolling IMDb while they were talking about it and flipped my lid.
Anthony Regina
2021-05-11 17:27:56 +0000 UTCI am FLABBERGHASTED that David doesn’t get why 1776 is good. The movie is trash, for sure but the show is absolutely incredible. It’s full of talking and rules! Why doesn’t he get it??
Ralph
2021-05-11 16:33:46 +0000 UTCWell, I'm the person who knew Alice In Wonderland with like two clues.
GrrNoise
2021-05-11 15:33:20 +0000 UTCBurnt Offerings rules
Laura E
2021-05-11 14:34:55 +0000 UTCI picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue! ❤️
Travis Williams
2021-05-11 07:00:42 +0000 UTCGod dammit I love this podcast
Bobby Jones
2021-05-11 05:41:15 +0000 UTCA book. A podcast. Almost 3 hours with both. Giving me life, fellas!
Chas
2021-05-11 04:15:34 +0000 UTC2.38 Wow
Akhil Akhil
2021-05-11 04:13:37 +0000 UTCHooray!😍
Jacob Dominguez
2021-05-11 04:04:58 +0000 UTCIn awe at the size of this lad
Rad Rodge
2021-05-11 04:04:13 +0000 UTCA magnificent day!
Luccas Hallow
2021-05-11 04:03:16 +0000 UTCOh SHIT yes I’m so stoked for this
Brent Carroll
2021-05-11 04:01:52 +0000 UTCHell yeah!
Annie
2021-05-11 04:01:24 +0000 UTC
