The Big Picture

The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims

Oct 4, 2022

01:51:04

Episode guests

David Sims

Griffin Newman

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Avatar Expanded Universe

01:44

Is Avatar Good?

01:31

Movie Review - Is This a Movie About Colonization?

02:16

Introduction

2min

Blank Check

2min

Is This a Bad Movie Podcast?

2min

Avatar: The Movie That Will Make You Want to See It Again?

2min

Avatar - The Most Financially Successful Film Ever Made

2min

I Hate Avatar, I Don't Know What It Is.

3min

Is It's in for God?

2min

Matt Damon's the Great Wall

2min

Matt Damon - I Don't Want to Look In.

2min

10.

Is Matt Damon Secretly Better Than He Is a Leading Man?

2min

11.

Sam Worthington's Performance Worked Better for Me This Time

2min

12.

Camara

2min

13.

Avatar Is Not Worth Watching

2min

14.

Cameron's Deep Sea Years

2min

15.

Is He a Con Artist?

2min

16.

Is It True You Stand to Make No Money Off This Movie?

2min

17.

Avatar Movie Review

2min

18.

Avatar - Is There a Buy-In?

3min

19.

Movie Review - Sigourney Weaver

2min

20.

Jurassic Park

2min

21.

Is This a Comic Book Movie?

2min

22.

Movie Review - This Is the End

3min

23.

Is Avatar Coming Out?

2min

24.

Avatar - The Origin Story of the Biggest Banshee

2min

25.

Avatar Expanded Universe

2min

26.

The Job Is Not That Bold, Right?

2min

27.

Movie Review - Is This a Movie About Colonization?

2min

28.

Is This a Movie Like the Last of the Mohicans?

2min

29.

Is Avatar Good?

2min

30.

Top Gun, I'm Like, Okay, Okay?

2min

31.

Avatar - A Movie That Rewards You the More You Give Yourself Over to It

2min

32.

Movie Review: The Naveet

2min

33.

The Xenomorph

2min

34.

Aliens - Is There a Shadow Body in the Movie?

2min

35.

I Love the Magical Dandelion Lands on My Own

2min

36.

'Pookie Nights' - The Best Actress of All Time

2min

37.

The Black Men Can't Jump in Hollywood Podcast

3min

38.

Endgame

2min

39.

Endgame

2min

40.

The Way of Water Podcast - Uber One

2min

41.

The Way of Water - The Perfect Example of Divergent

2min

42.

Avatar One Is Going to Open in China

2min

43.

Is Avatar Going to Be Great?

2min

44.

Is Avatar the Way of Water?

2min

45.

TAR Is Capitalized With an Accent

2min

46.

The Avatar Trailer Comes On. She's in on the Way of Water

2min

47.

Star Wars Movie Review

2min

48.

Avatar the Way of Water and Wakanda Forever Are Nominated for Best Picture

2min

49.

Is There a Consensus Critical Favorite of the Best Picture?

3min

50.

Is There a World Where the Oscar Voters Are Just Hits?

2min

51.

James Cameron, I Need Four Avatar Sequels

2min

52.

Terminator 2 Teaser Trailer

2min

53.

Avatar Movie Review - Is This a Top Gun Movie?

2min

54.

Avatar - A New Movie Review

2min

‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ the sequel to the most lucrative movie of all time, is slated for the end of this year. Does anyone care? Sean is joined by Griffin Newman and David Sims, hosts of the ‘Blank Check’ podcast, to discuss the lasting impact of James Cameron’s technologically revolutionary behemoth, and more importantly, whether ‘Avatar’ is actually good.

Host: Sean Fennessey

Guests: Griffin Newman and David Sims

Producer: Bobby Wagner

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