What the corpus says about Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (16)

[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · theme · Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means. · "Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:34 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ The Longest Day · contrast · Ryan was far more intense than the WWII classics, one viewer had been an extra in The Longest Day. · "But Saving Private Ryan was way more intense than the World War II classics of the past."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Schindler's List is the other side of the coin and does what Ryan's back half wanted to do: reckon with the other side of the conflict. · "My number 4 Schindler's list, which is kind of the other side of the coin on Saving Private Ryan."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:23:17 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · contrast · They are inverse movies: Ryan follows through for a symbolic victory and micro empathy, Paths of Glory is about covering for the boss. · "they're kind of inverse movies because saving Private Ryan is like, we need to follow through on this mission."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:12:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Saving Private Ryan · verdict · The film is two films: a landing that changed war movies and a baggy, ending-too-often second half. · "it ends 3 or 4 times."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:58:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Saving Private Ryan · verdict · The first 20 minutes are among the best 20 minute stretches ever. · "I think the 1st 20 minutes of that movie are absolutely one of the best 20 minute stretches ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:35:01 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Saving Private Ryan · industry · Weir was nominated that year but Spielberg won for Private Ryan. · "Spielberg won for Private Ryan."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read) · industry · Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others. · "It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:02:13 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Vietnam · what-if · Raftery can't imagine a studio greenlighting a Vietnam Saving Private Ryan. · "I can't imagine a studio exec green lighting of Vietnam version of Saving Private Ryan."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read) · stylistic shift · Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich. · "Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 1:00:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Harve Presnell ↔ Saving Private Ryan · career · Fargo revived Presnell's film career and led to his Saving Private Ryan monologue. · "I think it was a bit of a resurgence for him because then he's in Saving Private Ryan."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:39 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Tom Hanks ↔ Saving Private Ryan · people · Hanks was Forrest Gump and the captain in Ryan. · "it stars Tom Hanks as a middle-aged army captain, sent to find a young paratrooper behind enemy lines."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40)] Sylvester Stallone ↔ Saving Private Ryan · what-if · Stallone's rewrite aimed for an opening like Saving Private Ryan on the streets of Detroit, which was too expensive. · "The script he wrote, the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan on the beaches of Normandy was what he was going for."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Paths of Glory · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:01:28 · WWII veteran (0.70)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · Raftery watched it with two D-Day vets who said young people should see it so they never want to go to war. · "If they see that, one of the vets said, they ain't never gonna want to go to war."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · The D-Day opening is 40 minutes without a breath, and the film doesn't even tell you what it's about yet. · "We don't even learn what the movie is about."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:59:29 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · Bill saw it in a full theater in Boston; people were shaking when the barrage calmed down, like witnessing a car crash. · "It was like we had witnessed like a car crash."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:19:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · Griffin avoided it his whole life, took six hours to finish for the podcast, loved it, owns it on steelbook, will never rewatch. · "It took me 6 hours to finish watching it."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (30)

[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:57:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lean ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him. · "He asks Spielberg to check in on the rights for him."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read) · lineage · Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier. · "Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:46:41 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Apocalypse Now · lineage · The Ewok guerrilla war ties to Lucas's Vietnam interest; he was supposed to make Apocalypse Now before handing it to Coppola. · "George Lucas is supposed to make apocalypse now, right?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:01:53 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] J.G. Ballard ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · The novel is darker than the film, which sanitized it and condensed characters. · "There is definitely a lot of sanitizing happening and a lot of kind of condensing of characters and turning them into more of a more of a Hollywoody plot element."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut. · "Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:01 · unknown (0.00)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Apocalypse Now · theme · Jackson's performance transcends its memes like hearing Satisfaction for real, which then plays in Apocalypse Now. · "It's like you've heard it a 1000000000 times."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:49:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Tropic Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Ben Stiller, on the Empire set as a young actor, was inspired by actors playing at suffering to make Tropic Thunder two decades later. · "Which, of course, this is one of this movie's greatest, like, lasting legacies is that this, this is what inspires Tropic Thunder."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Janusz Kaminski · craft · Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area. · "And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:13 · unidentified host (0.30)] The Rolling Stones ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · The speaker heard "Satisfaction" play in Apocalypse Now at a recent screening and compares hearing it fresh to hearing Jackson's performance fresh. · "And satisfaction plays in that movie and I was like, this song's fucking good, man."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:44:48 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] War Horse ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Spielberg returns to the idea of navigating the rules of a world you do not understand, as Jim does in the camp. · "the idea of sort of trying to learn to live by the rules of a world you don't quite understand."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:38 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Sean demands real animals, citing the tiger in Apocalypse Now. · "You're not responding like the way Frederick Forrest responds to the tiger in apocalypse now"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:25:00 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Haruki Murakami · theme · Bilge learned about Japan's wartime atrocities in China from Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. · "it's really a book about Japan's ignorance of it, the atrocities it carried out in China"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Apocalypse Now ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent. · "if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:16:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Steven Spielberg · theme · Unlike his other childhood films, Empire shows adulthood through a child's eyes. · "But this is a film where you are seeing adulthood through the eyes of a child."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Saving Private Ryan (1998) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Saving Private Ryan (1998) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · theme · Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means. · "Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:34 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ The Longest Day · contrast · Ryan was far more intense than the WWII classics, one viewer had been an extra in The Longest Day. · "But Saving Private Ryan was way more intense than the World War II classics of the past."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Schindler's List is the other side of the coin and does what Ryan's back half wanted to do: reckon with the other side of the conflict. · "My number 4 Schindler's list, which is kind of the other side of the coin on Saving Private Ryan."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:23:17 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · contrast · They are inverse movies: Ryan follows through for a symbolic victory and micro empathy, Paths of Glory is about covering for the boss. · "they're kind of inverse movies because saving Private Ryan is like, we need to follow through on this mission."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:12:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Saving Private Ryan · verdict · The film is two films: a landing that changed war movies and a baggy, ending-too-often second half. · "it ends 3 or 4 times."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:58:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Saving Private Ryan · verdict · The first 20 minutes are among the best 20 minute stretches ever. · "I think the 1st 20 minutes of that movie are absolutely one of the best 20 minute stretches ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:35:01 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Saving Private Ryan · industry · Weir was nominated that year but Spielberg won for Private Ryan. · "Spielberg won for Private Ryan."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read) · industry · Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others. · "It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:02:13 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Vietnam · what-if · Raftery can't imagine a studio greenlighting a Vietnam Saving Private Ryan. · "I can't imagine a studio exec green lighting of Vietnam version of Saving Private Ryan."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read) · stylistic shift · Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich. · "Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 1:00:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Harve Presnell ↔ Saving Private Ryan · career · Fargo revived Presnell's film career and led to his Saving Private Ryan monologue. · "I think it was a bit of a resurgence for him because then he's in Saving Private Ryan."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:39 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Tom Hanks ↔ Saving Private Ryan · people · Hanks was Forrest Gump and the captain in Ryan. · "it stars Tom Hanks as a middle-aged army captain, sent to find a young paratrooper behind enemy lines."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40)] Sylvester Stallone ↔ Saving Private Ryan · what-if · Stallone's rewrite aimed for an opening like Saving Private Ryan on the streets of Detroit, which was too expensive. · "The script he wrote, the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan on the beaches of Normandy was what he was going for."
[pairs] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Paths of Glory · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:01:28 · WWII veteran (0.70)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · Raftery watched it with two D-Day vets who said young people should see it so they never want to go to war. · "If they see that, one of the vets said, they ain't never gonna want to go to war."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · The D-Day opening is 40 minutes without a breath, and the film doesn't even tell you what it's about yet. · "We don't even learn what the movie is about."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:59:29 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · Bill saw it in a full theater in Boston; people were shaking when the barrage calmed down, like witnessing a car crash. · "It was like we had witnessed like a car crash."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:19:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan · fun · Griffin avoided it his whole life, took six hours to finish for the podcast, loved it, owns it on steelbook, will never rewatch. · "It took me 6 hours to finish watching it."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:57:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lean ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him. · "He asks Spielberg to check in on the rights for him."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read) · lineage · Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier. · "Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:46:41 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Apocalypse Now · lineage · The Ewok guerrilla war ties to Lucas's Vietnam interest; he was supposed to make Apocalypse Now before handing it to Coppola. · "George Lucas is supposed to make apocalypse now, right?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:01:53 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] J.G. Ballard ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · The novel is darker than the film, which sanitized it and condensed characters. · "There is definitely a lot of sanitizing happening and a lot of kind of condensing of characters and turning them into more of a more of a Hollywoody plot element."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut. · "Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:01 · unknown (0.00)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Apocalypse Now · theme · Jackson's performance transcends its memes like hearing Satisfaction for real, which then plays in Apocalypse Now. · "It's like you've heard it a 1000000000 times."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:49:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Tropic Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Ben Stiller, on the Empire set as a young actor, was inspired by actors playing at suffering to make Tropic Thunder two decades later. · "Which, of course, this is one of this movie's greatest, like, lasting legacies is that this, this is what inspires Tropic Thunder."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Janusz Kaminski · craft · Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area. · "And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:13 · unidentified host (0.30)] The Rolling Stones ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · The speaker heard "Satisfaction" play in Apocalypse Now at a recent screening and compares hearing it fresh to hearing Jackson's performance fresh. · "And satisfaction plays in that movie and I was like, this song's fucking good, man."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:44:48 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] War Horse ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Spielberg returns to the idea of navigating the rules of a world you do not understand, as Jim does in the camp. · "the idea of sort of trying to learn to live by the rules of a world you don't quite understand."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:38 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Sean demands real animals, citing the tiger in Apocalypse Now. · "You're not responding like the way Frederick Forrest responds to the tiger in apocalypse now"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:25:00 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Haruki Murakami · theme · Bilge learned about Japan's wartime atrocities in China from Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. · "it's really a book about Japan's ignorance of it, the atrocities it carried out in China"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Apocalypse Now ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent. · "if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:16:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Steven Spielberg · theme · Unlike his other childhood films, Empire shows adulthood through a child's eyes. · "But this is a film where you are seeing adulthood through the eyes of a child."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Saving Private Ryan (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Saving Private Ryan (1998) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.