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
2005, a conversation – “Bad News Bears”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005.
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Referenced media:
- “The Bad News Bears” (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
- “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
- “Slacker” (Richard Linklater, 1990)
- “Dazed and Confused” (Richard Linklater, 1993)
- “School of Rock” (Richard Linklater, 2003)
- “Friday Night Lights” (Peter Berg, 2004)
- “Pollock” (Ed Harris, 2000)
- “Talk Soup” (Brad Gyori, 1991-2002)
- “Little Miss Sunshine” (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006)
- “The Fly” (David Cronenberg, 1986)
- “Bad Santa” (Terry Zwigoff, 2003)
- “Crumb” (Terry Zwigoff, 2003)
- “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (George Lucas, 2005)
- “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (Garth Jennings, 2005)
- “The Longest Yard” (Peter Segal, 2005)
- “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (Tim Burton, 2005)
- “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” (Mel Stuart, 1971)
- “The Dukes of Hazzard” (Jay Chandrasekhar, 2005)
- “King Kong” (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack, 1933)
- “King Kong” (John Guillermin, 1976)
- “King Kong” (Peter Jackson, 2005)
Audio quotation:
- “Bad News Bears” (Richard Linklater, 2005), including music composed by Ed Schearmur, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJM7u4KxMEEijvYTOPM0T4eR7IBNXp6FU
- “This is War” (Ben Kweller, 2005), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-Q8BnVUsA&list=OLAK5uy_lJM7u4KxMEEijvYTOPM0T4eR7IBNXp6FU&index=5
- “Cocaine” (J.J. Cale, 1976), performed by Eric Clapton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxVZkNfxJdA&list=OLAK5uy_lJM7u4KxMEEijvYTOPM0T4eR7IBNXp6FU&index=8
- “Friday Night Lights” (Peter Berg, 2004)
- “‘NFL on FOX’ Theme Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1o2blfeO0