Blank Check Review

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Hello, sir Hello, and yeah, so we're here one

last time in 2024 for the 3th anniversary stuff

You will hear Probably the next episode, you'll

actually probably hear this episode in 2025,

but we're recording this in 2024. This episode

is all about blank check from Disney from 1994.

The next episode, Dave Draper returns and we

talk about a movie from 2011, which was John

Boyega's debut film, Attack the Block. That was

something, but yeah. Let me ask you a question,

sir. Yes. Blank check for a million dollars.

What would you do with it? If I had a blank check

for a million dollars, yeah Hmm Well, I would

hope I would hope it was a legit check not a

blank yeah, but I'm saying like What would you

do with them? If you had a blank check and what

would you do with a million? Like it takes him

in this movie. It takes him like three different

He's like, oh, I'm just gonna make it up for

200. And then I'll just do it for this and I'll

just do it for that. And I'm just like, wow.

I would pay my house off. There you go. They'd

be expensive, yo. Yeah, they'd be expensive,

yo. And we'd be old by the time we finished that

30 year mortgage and have to refinance. It is

what it is. um but yeah no this is like i was

i re -watched this today and i'm like okay i

know it's 1994 standards but how this did not

teach kids of the 90s to try to do this is just

crazy to me crazy it was that long ago yeah that's

very true you know what's funny is this this

film has a crappy rating on the tomato meter

It's gonna 9 % rotten and then I don't know what

the heck a popcorn meter is but on their their

website unless that's the fan rating But it's

gonna 35 % I'm like, okay, this movie is absolutely

hilarious Hey at least red one got a 31 % rotten

That's rotten tomatoes though the the people

put 90 % so this is how I gauge a film If the

audience score is high and the critics score

is low, it's a winner. If it's the other way

around, I'm not going to enjoy it. But yeah,

this is kind of both on par at the bottom. But

I feel like this is one of those ones that unless

you grew up with it, you're not going to enjoy

it. Yeah, probably. I feel like this is one of

those ones where, like I said at the beginning,

what would you do with a million dollars? Like

you said you'd pay off your house and I'm sure

you'd have plenty of money left over to whatever

with the rest of it and same thing with me is

like I would take care of everything I needed

to take care of I would make sure I was set up

for you know as long as I could be set up for

a million bucks and the interesting thing is

I actually did the well Google did the math,

but I did the math on this and 1994 to next year

2025. $1 million in 1984 is equivalent in purchasing

power to about $2 ,128 ,832 .66 today. So it

had an increase of 112 .88 % over 30 years. Hey,

increase is increase, right, folks? Yep. but

uh because i'm i'm always curious like when they

when they give out certain amounts of money like

hell $200 was a big deal 30 years ago to a lot

of people especially to a kid he's 11 years this

kid is 11 years old and he just wants to he wants

to have money He's not old enough to have a job

to make the money kind of thing, but like At

11 or your parents having you mow the lawn and

giving you 10 bucks 20 bucks, whatever Probably

not. Oh, they were okay. Good. Yep All right.

We'll see, you know You could get this little

boy James. I used to make 10 bucks for mowing

my lawn Hmm. Very cool. Very cool I was trying

to figure out where I know some of these people

from, some of the actors. Michael Lerner, who

plays Biederman. Unfortunately, he passed away

this year. He was 81. Last year, he was 81. Died

of complications from brain seizures at a hospital

in Burbank. That's... But I was looking at the

character of Biederman and I kept seeing Wayne

Knight. I kept seeing Newman. It was his voice

and the way he looked and stuff and I'm looking

through his tomography and I'm like They do they

do have a striking resemblance in their yeah

Yeah, my first thought the whole time watching

this was holy crap Kramer and Newman before Kramer

and Newman He was in one of your favorite movies.

He was mr. Greenway and elf From 2003. That's

not one of my favorite movies. It's not? I thought

it was. No. Really? I don't mind. I don't mind

it. It's not one of my favorites, though. It's

not. Elf is not one of those ones I care to go

back and watch. There's a lot of people that

like that movie. I guess I get you. My boss likes

that movie. He actually dresses like him for

Halloween sometimes or Christmas, I mean. She's

Yeah, and I'm just kind of looking through Biederman's

TV credits to see where else I think I had No,

nothing He's in plenty of shows are recognized.

He was in the a team an episode for that. He

was in various things But like nothing is jumping

out at me. So that Blank check Preston waters

11 years old wants money doesn't have a job has

a very Overly strict father and a mother that

I don't know like she's not really she's there

and she presents a united front with the father

but she's not really she's not taking him aside

to say here's this or here's that behind the

father's back something like that but it seems

like it's the father and the three sons because

he's got two older brothers who are doing this

hand -and -foot business what the hell did his

older brothers just know He was in Star Trek.

Yes, he was. Yes, Brian Banzal. He was Worf's

son. Yes. Yes, Brian Banzal. Alexander Ryzenko.

Yep. Yes, he was. He was in seven episodes, so

we will get to that at some point. Yeah, Brian

Banzal as an actor and musician, he kinda got

into some trouble. 2007 2009 2010 with violence

and Assaulting his partner and things like that

and everything else which I I Don't really mind

the terminology, but I find it interesting that

Wikipedia whoever wrote this Wikipedia article

for the for his his Articular Under legal issues,

it says that he was arrested on charges of assaulting

his partner. He was sentenced to two years of

probation on August 31st, 2007. Very next statement,

which has citations on December 7th of 2009.

He was arrested for third degree assault and

failure to appear in connection with the 2007

assault on his girlfriend. I don't really, the

whole girlfriend partner thing doesn't matter

to me, but like, why doesn't it just say. The

same thing since it was the same person who's

what it is. Well, yeah, he had some legal issues

and Yeah, I don't know He's from 98 to now he's

a musician which I've only ever seen him in this

thing Like I know he's been in next -gen and

I know he's been in some other he was in an episode

of Super Mario Brothers Super Show He's in Koopa

Claws Don't remember him in that. This is the

only thing I remember him. He was in Parker Lewis

can't lose for an episode. Don't remember that

I have no idea what that is Parker Lewis can't

lose was anything that he was in pre Star Trek

The next generation in Super Mario Brothers Super

show. I have no idea what he was in. Yeah Well,

yeah, that's yeah, and then blank check and my

check Yeah And then we've got what else we got

here for this Like I mentioned Jen though the

father James played by James Redborne. I Recognized

him. He was in one of my favorite TV shows. He

was in white collar as the main FBI head person

Reese Hughes So I recognized him as the father

and he had been in a bunch of other stuff as

well New York undercover and he was in an episode

of Seinfeld he was in I'm trying to see if there's

a A Star Trek connection for you anywhere here.

There doesn't seem to be Not even in movies.

He was in real steel as Marvin if you saw real

steel in 2011 But he just has one of those faces

one of those voices that I absolutely remember

off the top of my head, but um, but yeah, no

absolutely. But this movie, it's very simple,

straightforward, kid wants money, kid wants money

for stuff, kid wants whatever. I don't think

he's not willing to do the work for it. He just

doesn't have the opportunity to do the work for

it, and then he just kinda ends up on easy street

by forging this blank check. Kind of thing I

Love how like easy they make it seem in the computers

for like this crap Yeah, and then the fact that

like oh it's easy to talk with a robo voice and

then it's easy to you know It's like why didn't

you think to use a font to make it look like

somebody wrote it instead of typed? Yeah Like

that's the first thing I noticed when I see it,

but it's like I also like I've thought about

that when i watched him like why didn't you just

write it in some kind of cursive font yeah like

nobody would have caught it like no i mean the

only way they were going to catch it is the way

they actually caught it which was the whole meat

juice and yeah sure i'm juice what he actually

says is No thanks, I'm not thirsty, because he

doesn't realize what Biederman is saying to him.

He's asking him, are you juice? Not, do you want

juice, kind of thing. But, uh, yeah, no, the,

the, the, the actual act of writing out and doing,

not even writing out, printing out the blank

check, or even having the, like, I don't, remember

I guess I don't remember computers from 30 years

ago because I don't remember like well could

scanners not scanners could printers do that

you put in a piece of paper like a blank check

and it would print on it automatically yeah well

you can print on it you just have to line it

up in the right spot on the document right okay

gotcha if you don't it'll print in the weirdest

place and then you'll be screwed Be screwed,

yeah. Huh, interesting. But yeah, folks, don't

print out blank checks, please. We don't endorse

criminality here at the Geekcast Radio Network,

as much as we would love to have a million bucks.

And you have to find a stall to put them all

in. A million bucks, get it? A million bucks.

Nobody's laughing. Alright, shut up, Mike. Suspension

of disbelief on most of this stuff, I would say

this movie overall is fairly decent. It's another

one of those one -and -done films. Does not need

more to it. Does not need less to it either,

so there's that. I'm glad that this is one of

those one -off films, because Disney tends to

overdo it with remakes or sequels. And this one

does not need either no luckily this never got

a remake or a sequel or anything It just exists

in the scope of 30 years ago Now it's funny because

a lot of the reviews and stuff are like looking

back on it. Uh -huh. It's kind of messed up Yeah,

it's very messed up Because they're like in a

lot of ways, but then people are like, oh, it's

a grown woman kissing an 11 year old boy Yeah,

yeah, yeah that was a little They yeah, they

do this whole thing and she even says oh, you

know call me in ten years and she's probably

what? late 20s early 30s and he's 11 so Yeah

Yeah, a little cringy a little cringy Yeah by

a bit Because if that were a male and um, you

know, yeah a male FBI agent and you're all like

that would have gone over like Yeah, really badly.

So you just got missed Yeah, like in the at the

time like yeah that parts messed up, but like

I didn't mind the rest of the film Yeah, no,

absolutely. I like the limo driver. I like all

of his interactions with that though Yep, that

yeah good old Henry Henry's awesome. Yep. Henry

is awesome that dude. I wonder what I can't even

print it Rick You come in I not even sure I passed

away in 2015 Let's see, he was in Loaded Wo -

Oh! He's in a lot of stuff. He was one of the

prison guards in Spaceballs. He was Walt, aka

also the city worker in Die Hard. So there's

that. Now I gotta really re -watch Die Hard just

to find him in it, not because it's not a Christmas

movie. He was in The Last Boy Scout. Like I mentioned,

he was in Loaded Weapon 1. He was in Groundhog

Day. He was Gus in Groundhog Day. Last Action

Hero. He was in... I'm trying to think. He was

in the first scary movie. He was in Harvard Man

in 2001. And then he played Father Rick in Funky

Monkey in 2004, which was his final role. He's

probably sure he's dead. He doesn't like Mike.

So, you know, mostly pretty much all movie stuff

for him. Very cool. Yep. Oh yeah, blank check.

It's... It was fun going back and re -watching

this, because I remember watching it at the time

when I was 14, and at that time I had a crush

on one of the older girls in the neighborhood,

so I kind of saw the similarities between me

and Preston a little bit. Even though I wasn't

as, uh, computer - I was computer savvy, but,

you know, for... Non -Mac computers. No Macintosh.

Nope. I'm not a fan of them at all. Damn rotten

fruit. So yeah, that's uh, that's blank check.

I'm probably gonna give the movie a three and

a half out of five. Yeah, I mean I'll probably

give it about the same just because I did enjoy

it but it's again it's another one of those ones

that you know between that one moment at the

end and then like Some of it like I don't it

doesn't have a lot of rewatchability Yeah, no,

this is like one like literally. I think I've

seen this once in the last 30 years before this

viewing I I Think I saw it about four years ago

Yeah, whenever Disney Plus was 2019 -2020 whenever

Disney Plus Started being a thing is when I watched

it so I'd say four or five years ago, but Before

that I hadn't rewatched this in a long time All

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this It was the perfect crime Everything was

going according to plan. I want new bills. We're

back in the SNL business, Biederman. I'll send

my guy in tomorrow with a check for a million.

Yep, tomorrow, just like the old days. But one

little thing is about to come between him and

his money. Preston Waters. What about my bike?

What do you want, kid? What do you think? Come

on, let's make a deal. Give that check to your

dad. He didn't know what to do with it. It's

a blank check. Cash in the big one today? Sort

of. I worked hard to steal that money, Beerman!

You gave it to some sick -faced little kid. Now,

America's smallest millionaire Nice to meet you.

Hop in. I didn't actually mean hop in. is about

to become a big -time spender. I'm gonna go buy

some stuff. He's getting everything he ever wanted.

And doing everything he ever dreamed. Help me

find him. You understand? Not too shabby. It's

comfortable. Hey, mister, you know where the

refreshment stands are? No. It's a date, then.

A date? Baby brother comes into his own. Now

the boy who's learning to live the good life.

Trust me. is going to teach three careless crooks.

The hardest thing about having a million dollars

is trying to hang on to it. You are on a roll.

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