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 – “Kingdom of Heaven”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005.
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Referenced media:
- “Sin City” (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, 2005)
- “Crash” (Paul Haggis, 2004)
- “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” (George Lucas, 2005)
- “Black Hawk Down” (Ridley Scott, 2001)
- “Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000)
- “Hannibal” (Ridley Scott, 2001)
- “War of the Worlds” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Peter Jackson, 2001)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)
- “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” (George Lucas, 1999)
- “Game of Thrones” (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, 2011-2019)
- “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (Rick Berman and Michael Piller, 1993-1999)
- “Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)
- “Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
- “Braveheart” (Mel Gibson, 1995)
- “Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
- “Tron” (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
- “Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
- “Napoleon” (Ridley Scott, 2023)
- “The Last Duel” (Ridley Scott, 2021)
Audio quotation:
- “Kingdom of Heaven” (Ridley Scott, 2005), including the songs “Ibelin”, “To Jerusalem”, “Path to Heaven”, and “Crusaders” by Harry Gregson-Williams