Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
Comic Book Movies, a conversation – “Tank Girl”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about movies based on comic books.
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Referenced media:
- “Point Break” (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
- “Orange Is the New Black” (Jenji Kohan, 2013-2019)
- “Tank Girl” (1988-now) by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett
- “A League of Their Own” (Penny Marshall, 1992)
- “Station Eleven” (Patrick Somerville, 2021-2022)
- “Crumb” (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)
- “Casper” (Brad Silberling, 1995)
- “Batman Forever” (Joel Schumacher, 1995)
- “Judge Dredd” (Danny Cannon, 1995)
- “Judge Dredd” (1977-now) by John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, and Pat Mills
- “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)
- “Twilight” (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
- “Thirteen” (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003)
- “Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
- “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
- “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)
- “House of Cards” (Beau Willimon, 2013-2018)
- “Star Wars: Special Edition” (George Lucas, 1997)
- “The Wizard of Oz” (Victor Fleming, 1939)
- “Dune” (1984) by David Lynch
- “Dune” (1965) by Frank Herbert
- “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)
Audio quotation:
- “Tank Girl” (Rachel Talalay, 1995), including music composed by Graeme Revell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHMp8qY6Yo
- “Pool pump noise” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I-_GEM1wRIY
- “Drown Soda” (1991) by Hole from the “Tank Girl” soundtrack, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvL6GLJiX927JfXHNRtuj87-vcehTEV-
- “Clint Eastwood” (2001) by Gorillaz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw
- “Big Gun” (1995) by Ice-T from the “Tank Girl” soundtrack, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvL6GLJiX927JfXHNRtuj87-vcehTEV-