April 5, 2024

Creature Feature Movie Draft (w/ Daniel Blackaby)

To accompany our discussion of Jaws last week, we did a Creature Feature Movie Draft! Creature Features are generally any film where a creature of some sort (beast, vampire, alien, zombie, etc.) is the main antagonist. We drafted 5 movies each and ended up with some great lists and fun discussions. Tune in to hear how the draft turned out, and look for the poll to vote for your favorite draft on our social media platforms!



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Transcript

Eli Price (00:01.738)
Hello and welcome to the establishing shot a podcast where we do deep dives into directors and their filmographies. I am your host Eli Price and I'm here again with Daniel Blackaby of The Collision. And yeah, he joined me last week for our episode on Jaws and we had a really good discussion. I really enjoyed.

our discussion on Jaws. So if you haven't listened to that, go back and do that. Because it is the inspiration for our movie draft today. We are going to be doing a creature feature movie draft. And yeah, I guess just a real quick, if you're not familiar with what a creature feature is, it's basically, I guess the easiest way to.

Define it as basically any movie where a creature is kind of the antagonist of the movie, a creature of some sort, whether it be a animal or a monster or vampires or zombies or anything like any sort of creature. And usually they're kind of in the horror. It's like a horror sub genre kind of.

But yeah, a lot of creature features. A lot of people think of the old, what would it be, universal creature features from the 40s and 50s when they hear the term creature feature. But yeah, this is going to be a fun draft. Are you excited about this one, Daniel?

Daniel Blackaby (01:51.06)
Oh, I am. This is, I mean, this is one of my favorite, like, I'm just I'm a sucker for, like, you get some creature, you know, put some humans around trying to escape and like, that's, that's in my wheelhouse. I guess I'm the target audience for any movie like that.

Eli Price (02:05.378)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know what I don't know what it says about people that really like that sort of movie Because I like these movies too, but uh, but yeah, we'll leave that up to the psychologists I don't I don't have any experience in that But yeah the if you've never joined us for a movie draft before basically I always describe it to puke it's

Daniel Blackaby (02:13.96)
You know?

Eli Price (02:35.818)
It's easy if you have sports, um, if you understand how drafts work with sports, but, uh, but I always explain it as like, it's like picking the best kickball team, um, out in the school yard, you know, during recess, you want to, you know, you want to make sure you've got the best, uh, the best team you, you pick and make your picks strategically. You gotta have, you know, fill in all your positions and, uh, and, um, but you know, sometimes you, uh,

You forget about like being the best and you, you draft your best friend first, even though, you know, he's not any good. Um, that happens every once in a while. And, um, but yeah, we, we do, um, our drafts, me and Daniel will go back and forth picking movies out of this category and then, uh, then yeah, come, uh, Monday I'll do a poll and the people will decide who, who had the best draft.

Daniel Blackaby (03:32.313)
decide how much I won by.

Eli Price (03:34.282)
Yeah, I like it. I love it. I love it when my guests come on here, like determined to, to destroy me. Um, and sometimes they do it's happened. Um, uh, but yeah, we're gonna go ahead and get started. I always give my first time guests the first pick. Um, so Daniel's going to get the first pick. Um, but don't worry if you ever come on for another episode, um, I'm gonna, I'll take the first pick from you. And.

I'll take them myself. But yeah, you've got the first pick. Where are you going to go with this one?

Daniel Blackaby (04:12.568)
Yeah, well, so the key is to try and think. I sort of have my dream team. I just need to figure out how long I can leave, what order you might be leading to. But definitely, first pick, like when you said what the draft would be, obvious first pick for me is Alien. For all the reasons that, I mean, it's essentially has been described as like Jaws in space. All the reasons I love Jaws so much.

Eli Price (04:24.161)
Yeah.

Eli Price (04:36.13)
Credit lesser than jaws, yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (04:41.908)
I also love Alien. Like it's, I mean, if you do an Alien episode, I'd be happy to jump on that, but it's just another one of those perfect movies that just so much tension and just so much cool stuff going on.

Eli Price (04:46.064)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (04:50.44)
Yeah.

Eli Price (04:54.604)
Yeah.

Eli Price (04:59.402)
Yeah, that was my, that was going to be my first pick if I went first. Oh man. So now I'm really thrown for a loop. Um, it's a man, this is tough now, uh, because everything else is kind of like up in the air, there's a lot of different ways I feel like I can go. Um, so I think what I'll do is.

Daniel Blackaby (05:03.345)
Thank you.

Eli Price (05:29.902)
I'll, this is, this may not get the, a popular vote. This may be an example of like, I just shared of like picking your best friend. Um, but I am a huge fan of the, uh, the 1931 Frankenstein. Um, I love that movie. I think it's so good. Um, and it's like, it's not just like.

Daniel Blackaby (05:37.372)
Thank you.

Eli Price (05:56.258)
Frankenstein's monster, but it's like, it feels just like it's exploring some, like, deepness of like what makes us human and, and Frankenstein's monster. And I just love that movie. It's the, like, it's, it's also like just iconic and like it's images. Like you think of like the Dr. Frankenstein in the lab with all the like electricity going and stuff and like.

Frankenstein like slowly stomping around. I just love this movie. I think it's so good. So I'm going to pick Frankenstein. It may hurt me in the. Oh, yeah, you got to see it at some point.

Daniel Blackaby (06:35.029)
I have not seen it.

I know I need to, I need to do that.

Eli Price (06:41.994)
Yeah, it's, it's a really fun movie. Like, but also, like I said, I think, I think it like, to me, like, even aside from like kind of the, some of the hokeyness that it feels a hokey to us now, of course, but like, I think it's dealing with some like interesting themes, but. Yeah, you've got, you've got your next pick. You've already won the draft with alien, I think, but you can go ahead and take four more.

Daniel Blackaby (07:10.053)
There's still aliens out there. There's still the second, the sequel. So I think my second pick, I think to continue, we talked about Spielberg with our Jaws episode. So I will pick Jurassic Park. It's another, again, I think it's just a lot of, I think all three of those, Jaws, Alien, and Jurassic Park are different in a lot of ways.

Eli Price (07:12.226)
That's true.

Eli Price (07:24.846)
Mm hmm. Yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (07:37.456)
but they're doing a lot of the same. I think a lot of the reason I like those movies is the same things like this, the slow build of tension, like the water cup, you know, shaking, the slow reveal of the T-Rex and just some of the character stuff and just the struggle for survival that that's just, it's such a good movie. I hadn't watched it for the first time with my kids not long ago and I hadn't seen it for a while.

Eli Price (07:45.153)
Yeah.

Eli Price (07:53.57)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (08:01.985)
Yeah.

Eli Price (08:05.313)
Oh yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (08:06.736)
And I was like, oh, this is a good movie. This is, you know, it's fun. I think my hatred for the more recent Jurassic World movies almost turned me off from the originals so I hadn't watched them for a long time. But I was like, oh, this is a good movie.

Eli Price (08:19.01)
Yeah.

Eli Price (08:27.37)
Yeah. I almost took it instead of Frankenstein just to try to cancel out your alien a little bit. So now you're really like. You're really running away with this. I'm going to take one that I know at least like one of my friends is a big fan of this movie, so maybe I'll get his vote with this pick. I'm going to take John Carpenter's The Thing. Have you seen The Thing?

Daniel Blackaby (08:56.352)
I think I have, but I don't think I've ever actually just sat through and watched. Like, it used to always come on late night on TV, and I had insomnia for years and years when I was younger. So, like, I feel like I've seen so much of that movie, but I don't know. It's been a while, though.

Eli Price (09:02.967)
Sure.

Eli Price (09:12.695)
Yeah.

Eli Price (09:16.81)
Yeah, I mean, it's just like... I mean, it's Kurt Russell being terrorized by this really disgusting...

Daniel Blackaby (09:25.736)
Because it is horrifying.

Eli Price (09:27.462)
Oh yeah, it's gross. Like there's some things that like make you like wanna look away, but it's also like you can't look away. This like alien that's basically like disfiguring like people and dogs and stuff. It's really gross, but like, it's just another example of like a movie that is just like really like thrilling and like suspenseful and scary, but also like

dealing with the things that a lot of these seem to do, which is what makes us human, what are our greatest fears and why are those our greatest fears, sort of thing. A lot of these kind of have that undercurrent to them. So I like my pick with the thing. What's your third pick? I think we're going to go up to five picks each.

I don't think I clarified that, but yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (10:27.927)
Yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (10:31.304)
I think for... So I'm a little worried that I'm going to use the sports analogy that I'm picking too many of the same type of player. But I think for my third, a slightly more recent film, Go With A Quiet Place. I forget how many years ago the original came out. But I mean, it was like my favorite movie of the year.

Eli Price (10:43.672)
That's fine.

Eli Price (10:51.234)
Hmm.

Eli Price (10:59.946)
It's fantastic, yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (11:01.064)
It's so good. It was I think it was actually when we started our collision and I started reviewing movies. It was like the first movie that I reviewed because whenever that came out. But we have so much about that movie. I mean, it has like the scares, it has, you know, the gimmick that doesn't ever really feel like a gimmick of, you know, can't make noise. You got to stay silent. And then just as a father myself, like the family dynamic and kind of grounding it in this.

Eli Price (11:09.75)
Nice.

Eli Price (11:22.542)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (11:27.371)
Yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (11:30.04)
very contained, you know, and I'm just a sucker for that. Any, like a movie that takes place in like one small location, like I just, like Signs sort of did that. Like I just love those sort of movies so much. I like the second one too, but I think the first one is just one of the best sort of Jaws-esque movies that I've seen in recent years.

Eli Price (11:55.454)
Yeah. I was a bit kind of underwhelmed by the second one, but the first one I love, I think, I think because it was so simple. Um, the, I guess like the concept of it is like very simple. Um, and also like, you know, the, the one scene that everyone knows that I'm talking about, if they've seen the movie, like, it's just like,

brings me to tears like, you know, and it probably will every time I watch it. But yeah, great, great pick. I guess I'll follow suit and go with another recent one that I actually described this movie to people that hadn't seen it yet as Jaws but in the Sky. And I'm going to go with Jordan Pills. Nope.

Daniel Blackaby (12:49.86)
I haven't seen I haven't not seen that one either

Eli Price (12:51.759)
Oh man, well then you've got to because it's Jaws in the Sky.

Daniel Blackaby (12:54.264)
Yeah, I know I'm sold on the yeah, I think I was I got super sick the day I was supposed to go review that and there's never caught up with it.

Eli Price (13:02.51)
Oh yeah, you've got it, you've got to see it now. Have you ever heard it described as that before?

Daniel Blackaby (13:08.584)
No, but now I'm if I knew if I knew it was described as that I would have gone whether I was sick or not I would have found jaws in the sky is I mean that's speaking my language

Eli Price (13:15.223)
Yeah.

Eli Price (13:18.526)
Yeah. And it's a, you know, it's an alien. So it's a, it's a Jaws alien in the sky. Like it's, I mean, what could you ask for really? Um, at a movie.

Daniel Blackaby (13:30.48)
I know that's hitting the bullseye of my like movie going interest.

Eli Price (13:34.722)
Uh, and then like on top of that, you know, Daniel Kaluuya is like haunting, like stare that he has, um, as an actor is just like, yeah, it's a, it's a great movie. And I think there's just like an incredible, it's one that I haven't seen since theaters. Um, but now that I'm talking about it, like, it makes me want to go like rewatch it right now.

When it came out, um, me and like some of my friends, like talked about it over text for days after watching it. I think there's just an incredible depth to it. Um, like what it's doing, like visually and what's like the themes and stuff is just really good. Um, but yeah, I'm, I'm excited to see more stuff from, from Jordan Peele for sure. Um,

Daniel Blackaby (14:29.073)
Yeah, I need to see that.

Eli Price (14:32.114)
Yeah, you're the fourth pick. Where are you going to go?

Daniel Blackaby (14:37.337)
So this one might be off the path a bit. I was going to leave this one because I figured there's a better chance that this wasn't high on your list. But now I don't want to risk not getting it. But I'm going to take Godzilla minus one. I don't know if you... I'm trying to figure out, well, it's new enough that I can probably leave it,

Eli Price (14:56.638)
I was actually going to take that next.

Daniel Blackaby (15:04.52)
I mean, I love that movie. Probably my favorite movie of last year. And it was one that I wasn't... It was sort of the antithesis of all the things that I don't like about a lot of monster movies. It did the opposite. I got all the things that it wasn't a big spectacle. It was super character-driven. It was very... I kind of describe a lot of these movies. There's the difference between...

Eli Price (15:23.23)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (15:28.563)
Mm-hmm.

Daniel Blackaby (15:34.928)
Like whether you're cheering for the characters to like die or whether you're cheering for them to live like The ones that are just the gore and the spectacle and like the gross you out and you just sort of want the monster to claim a victim Where I tend to gravitate more towards like obviously characters are probably gonna die but You're cheering for the characters to live like you You're rooting for the humans like to because you care about them and to me This movie was just

Eli Price (15:46.646)
Yeah.

Eli Price (16:00.64)
Right.

Daniel Blackaby (16:04.46)
aspect like and it doesn't hurt that the director in a bunch of interviews said that a lot of the movie was directly inspired by Jaws and you can see that with like the boat chase and stuff was but yeah I loved I loved this movie.

Eli Price (16:14.158)
Yeah.

Eli Price (16:19.326)
Yeah, it wasn't my favorite movie of last year, but it was in my top 10. So I'm actually, we're recording this before I've actually recorded this episode that will come out before this episode. It happens sometimes, everything out of sequence. But yeah, I watched a lot of films.

Last year, I think I saw at this point 68 total film, like 2023 films. And so, um, so when you watch that many being, making the top 10 is a, is a big deal. So it, uh, it was in my top 10. I, I thought it was incredible. Like the visuals, like it was, it was very reminiscent of, to me, like story wise of the original.

Daniel Blackaby (16:53.916)
Wow.

Eli Price (17:17.634)
Godzilla, which I've always loved. And I'm tempted to take next. Because I think Godzilla 1, I like more just because it's maybe more modern. But it's doing a lot of similar things that the old one did. It's kind of a, it's kind of like,

what reboots should be. Like if all reboots were like incredibly well made, then they would all be like as good as Godzilla minus one. But we just usually don't get that. But yeah, I'll just make I'll just say Godzilla is like one of the top honorable mentions so that we can get some new maybe some nuance here on the list. And I'm going to go.

Uh, you know, you went with a Japanese movie. I'm going to, um, do something I wasn't expecting to do, but, um, it'll be fun in the context of the draft. I'm going to go with a Korean movie, um, that came out not last year, but, um, in 2016, I'm going to take a train to Busan, um, which is a Korean zombie movie.

Uh, that's really good. Actually, I think I might've taken this, um, in a train movie draft that I did with Sam, um, uh, a while back. Yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (18:54.44)
because I know Sam's talked about this movie and he's tried to film me on it because I haven't seen it, but he's filming.

Eli Price (19:00.126)
Or he might've taken, I don't know, one of us took it in that draft, I think. Um, but yeah, uh, yeah, I guess I'll get one, uh, for good foreign language, uh, monster movie. And I think this is maybe my favorite as far as that goes. Um, and we haven't gotten any zombies on here yet, so we've got to get some, some zombies in the list. Um, and.

Daniel Blackaby (19:23.829)
Yeah, really.

Eli Price (19:29.398)
Yeah, I think trained abuse on is one of, if not my favorite zombie movie. It's just really good. Um, great care. Like it's just like the same, we keep talking about these same things of like the best monster movies have like really good character building. Um, and this one has phenomenal character building. So yeah, definitely highly recommend.

Eli Price (19:59.498)
Uh, really like incredible. There's like one sequence in particular that's like an extended, just like suspense, like zombie, you know, the ZA let's not disturb the zombies kind of sequence. Um, that's really good, but yeah. All right. This is your last pick. Fifth pick.

Daniel Blackaby (20:22.504)
Okay, let's see. So I'm wavering.

Eli Price (20:27.818)
It's hard when you get down to the last one and there's like so many good ones still.

Daniel Blackaby (20:31.752)
Yeah. So I'll give an honorable shout out, because I feel like it probably would get more votes. To Cloverfield, just for, like, it was an original. I just haven't seen it for so long, but it's unique, kind of when that sort of gimmick, found footage, still felt, like, really fresh and original. But I think for my official pick, I will go with Prey. The, I don't know if you've seen the, like, Predator, like, kind of...

Eli Price (20:41.034)
Mm-hmm, yeah.

Eli Price (20:49.998)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (20:56.83)
Mm, I did.

Daniel Blackaby (21:02.332)
sequel, prequel for Hulu. Yeah, it is. I loved it. I thought it did a lot of the same things, I think, that even that Godzilla minus one did. I get character driven. I thought the actress was fantastic in that. And just the idea of one of these movies that's not set in modern times was one of those moments of

Eli Price (21:04.278)
the prequel that's better than the original.

Eli Price (21:12.118)
Well.

Daniel Blackaby (21:32.132)
why are there not so many more, like give me an alien back and like, I guess they had cowboys and aliens or something. Maybe they have done some of these, but just the sort of, like, you know, the more like ancient sort of culture having to combat these things that we associate with like sci-fi and like the future was just such a neat sort of contrast that, that for me, that movie just, I don't know, I really, I really enjoyed it.

Eli Price (21:39.499)
Yeah.

Eli Price (21:47.959)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (21:54.516)
Yeah.

Eli Price (22:02.654)
Yeah, yeah, it's really good. I was surprised how much I liked it. And I wish it would have went to theaters. It just kind of like dropped on Hulu if I'm remembering correct. I don't know if it.

Daniel Blackaby (22:17.336)
Yeah, I think it was right in... Was it always that plan or is that right in COVID? I forget. But it seemed like it kind of came out and then no one really talked about it. And I get... It just didn't seem like it got as much buzz as it could have got.

Eli Price (22:22.815)
It wasn't during COVID.

Eli Price (22:32.426)
Yeah, it could have been a really big like theater release. I don't, they dropped the ball on that one for sure. I know it wasn't during COVID because I was still in 2020 with COVID going, I was still in my apartment before we bought our house. And so, and I remember watching this movie like at our house when it came out. So yeah.

I don't know what they did. They did something wrong there.

Eli Price (23:08.13)
But yeah, I, um, that was a great pick. Your list is really good. And I've it's tough because I love my list too. But then I'll look at your list and I'm like, man, it's, uh, as far as like popular, what I think people are going to vote for, like, I think you've already beaten me, so I'm gonna, I'm going to just go with something that I really like that maybe.

I won't get the votes since I feel like I've already lost. And we've got some alien, we've got some zombie, some beasts, Godzilla is represented. So I am going to take a monster that we have not taken yet. And I'm going to take a vampire. I've taken their original Nosferatu, the 1922 one, in a draft before.

So I'm going to shout out that one, but I'm going to draft a Nosferatu, the vampire, the Werner Herzog one that came out in 1979, uh, starring, um, Klos Kinski, um, as count Dracula. Um, and it's just a really, really well-made movie. Um, it's, um,

It's just got this like all through the movie. It just somehow holds this just like super eerie feeling without ever letting it like fall into like campiness. Or at least that's how it worked for me. Like I just felt like kind of creeped out the whole movie. Even though like, I don't know, I feel like vampires can so easily kind of get corny or.

can't be or whatever. And, but Werner Herzog is kind of, he's just like a really great filmmaker. And so he just, I guess he knew what he was doing and made a really great movie. I wanna say, I'm double checking myself. Yeah, it is, it says that, yeah, it's a German language film. Werner Herzog has made some American,

Eli Price (25:33.674)
like English language, but this he is German and this is a German language film. Um, but yeah, it's, it's a really, really good movie. Um, so yeah, that's, I'm going to take one just to get some, some good vampire representation on the creature feature, uh, draft. Um, but yeah, that's our, um, that's, that's it.

We both have five movies. Before I read back our drafts, do you have any other like big honorable mentions you wanna shout out?

Daniel Blackaby (26:10.556)
Well, I mentioned signs. I love that movie. I know some people aren't as crazy about it, but.

Eli Price (26:13.166)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (26:17.546)
Yeah, it's been a long time, I need to revisit it.

Daniel Blackaby (26:20.696)
Yeah, I know the ending is maybe a little maybe not the best, but just that's kind of self-contained. And I know people aren't hot on Mel Gibson these days either, but he's great in that movie. And I mean, aliens, I know people, I know lots of people that like talk like aliens is better than alien. And I just don't get it. Like, I think alien is so like I like aliens, but it's just.

Eli Price (26:29.71)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (26:43.51)
I don't think, yeah.

Daniel Blackaby (26:49.796)
It's a very different type of movie. And I get sort of fun, but it's not as inspired as the original Alien was.

Eli Price (26:52.278)
It is.

Eli Price (26:57.866)
Yeah. I mean, it's, it's a, it's just a totally different movie. Like the alien is a suspense thriller horror and you know, aliens is just kind of like, um, uh, an action movie, I guess with like sci-fi, a sci-fi setting. Um, that's how it feels to me anyway. It's.

It's just, they just feel like very different movies. I do like aliens a lot, but it's not, it's not in the same realm as alien to me. I, we're in agreement there for sure.

Daniel Blackaby (27:37.82)
Did you have any that you were sad to leave off your list?

Eli Price (27:40.99)
Yeah, I had a few that I was so. I didn't draft arrival because I didn't. Yeah, I just didn't feel like the aliens played as they didn't play a huge part. And I don't want to give too much of a spoiler for people that haven't seen it, but I'm not even sure that they're like antagonists in the movie. So like I had it on my list, but I was like looking at it and I was like

Daniel Blackaby (27:49.)
I don't even think of that.

Eli Price (28:09.674)
I don't know if this is technically like would fall into the creature feature category, but it is an incredible movie. So I'll shout it out anyway. District 9, I feel like, is one that is overlooked. But yeah, I think it's a really good movie. Aliens again. And then besides that, I'll shout out

Daniel Blackaby (28:21.372)
But yeah.

Eli Price (28:37.858)
Two more, I'll shout out Bong Joon-ho's The Host. Many people recognize Bong Joon-ho as the director of Parasite. But yeah, but The Host is a monster movie. It's like this weird, like fish, I don't know, it's like this weird fish.

Daniel Blackaby (28:49.448)
Oh, I didn't even make the connection that he did that.

Eli Price (29:04.878)
conglomerate sort of monster that comes out of a polluted, um, like river next to their city. Uh, it's, it's really good. A really enjoyable movie. And then the other one is, um, I thought about taking this to get, uh, animated representation, uh, on the list. Um, but I figured I'd just shout it out. It's, um, made by the studio cartoon saloon who have made a few good movies, um, but it's called Wolfwalkers. Um.

Daniel Blackaby (29:34.737)
in a minute.

Eli Price (29:35.602)
Yeah, it's really good. It's about this, it's kind of this like Irish folktale kind of thing where this girl and this girl's dad is like a, um, a wolf hunter. Um, and, uh, I think that's, I think that's what it is. Um, yeah, wipe out. They're basically hunting wolves, but there's also like this tale of like werewolves.

kind of thing. And basically, she befriends these werewolves and starts to become one. But her dad is a hunter of the wolves, too. So it's this really, really good little folk tale kind of animated movie. It's.

Highly recommend it. It's on Apple TV if you have Apple TV It's just a really sweet it has a very sweet like father-daughter kind of dynamic going on to Yeah, I recommend that it's um, it's a good a werewolf creature feature just animated Yeah

I have other ones that I like, um, a good bit, but I think, I think we've shouted out a good bit of movies. And then, you know, of course this is the honorary Jaws draft. So Jaws is like the 101 in all of our hearts, I guess.

Eli Price (31:19.318)
But, uh, but yeah, um, that was, yeah, that was fun. I'll read out, um, the final list for each of us and, um, and we'll, I guess we'll leave it up to the people to decide who had the better draft. Um, I think it maybe was Daniel, uh, but I like my list a lot. I'll stand by it. And Daniel, Daniel ended up with alien Jurassic park.

A Quiet Place, Godzilla minus one, and Prey. And I ended up with Frankenstein, The Thing, Nope, Train to Buusan, and Nosferatu the Vampire, the Werner Herzog version. Yeah, I think we both have really good lists. I keep saying I think you're going to win because you kept taking the one I was going to take right before.

Daniel Blackaby (32:16.156)
I know, I feel like I got lucky with my... I'm glad I got my ones that... Before you snatched them from me.

Eli Price (32:17.226)
right before I went.

Eli Price (32:23.986)
Yeah, you were like, you were spot on. Uh, I don't know how you did that, but, um, but yeah, you, you knocked it out of the park, I think. Um, but yeah, we'll see, we'll see what the people think. Uh, but yeah, Daniel is, um, is at the collision and he's, uh, he, he talked a little bit about that on the last episode, make sure you go check out.

that and our JAWS discussion. And I'll make sure to drop links to the collision and where you can follow Daniel on social media and the episode notes. So go click on those, give them a follow, check out what they're doing at the collision. And yeah, other than that, we have Close Encounters of the Third Kind coming up next week with.

with, yeah, we talked about it with Sam, who works with Daniel at the Collision. So the Collision double feature on the establishing shot with Daniel and Sam. So yeah, I'm looking forward to my discussion on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but until then, we are gonna wrap it up and end it. So yeah, it was fun.

Daniel Blackaby (33:29.212)
Hehehe

Eli Price (33:47.874)
But I've been Eli Price for Daniel Blackaby. You've been listening to The Establishing Shot. We'll see you next time.

 

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Daniel Blackaby

Director of The Collision and The Blackaby Bible Institute

Daniel has published multiple books in both fiction and non-fiction. He currently lives in Georgia with his wife Sarah and twin boys, Logan and Emerson. He holds a PhD in Aesthetic Philosophy/Theology and is the founder of thecollision.org, a multi-media ministry helping Christians to engage with culture. Daniel considers himself a major Tolkien buff and a connoisseur of European heavy metal.

Favorite Director(s):
Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan

Guilty Pleasure Movie:
Emperor's New Groove