What the corpus says about Do the Right Thing (1989)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ She's Gotta Have It · lineage · Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It. · "As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:14:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Jungle Fever (the host's read) · theme · Jungle Fever explored the Bensonhurst setting a couple of years later, rehearsing part of that story. · "which I think is explored in jungle fever a couple years later"
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:36 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ The Matrix · theme · Sean offers The Matrix as a film that attracted retroactive concern about violence, unlike the contemporaneous panic over Do the Right Thing. · "I think there's been a lot of retroactive energy on the Matrix."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:10:53 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Do the Right Thing · craft · The Ice Storm gets cold weather as right as Do the Right Thing gets hot weather, trading rage for malaise. · "I think this movie gets cold weather as right as do the right thing gets hot weather."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:16:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Wedding Crashers · contrast · Most Rewatchables picks are quotable fun like Wedding Crashers; this movie is different. · "a lot of the movies we do on this show are like wedding crashers."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · contrast · Beverly Hills Cop is a comfort rewatch whose social import is extra-textual; Do the Right Thing is working hard to be important and disrupt comfort. · "it's working hard to be important, and it's working hard to disrupt your feeling of ease and comfort."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:32:10 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives · contrast · Naming Uncle Boonmee as a favorite sounds pretentious; naming Do the Right Thing gets you labeled a black critic. · "If you said Uncle Boone me, people would say you're pretentious, but if you say, do the right thing, people say, oh, he's a black critic."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:31 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] BlacKkKlansman ↔ Do the Right Thing · contrast · Spike's screenwriting is sometimes the problem, as with BlacKkKlansman, whereas Do the Right Thing's screenplay is perfect. · "This is a Black Lansman thing too."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Do the Right Thing · contrast · Chris argues Do the Right Thing is a 1989 film that feels like a 1990s one from its influence. · "the influence that movie had for everything that happened in the 1990s makes it feel like it was a 1990s movie"
16. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mo' Better Blues ↔ Do the Right Thing · contrast · Mo' Better Blues is a completely different follow-up to Do the Right Thing. · "Spike Lee's amazing, completely different follow-up to do the right thing"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:26:18 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Mo' Better Blues · career · Critics bring up Spike's money and commercial work even when judging unrelated films like Mo' Better Blues. · "Nothing to do about Better Blues, whether Mo Better Blues is a good movie."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:32:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Broadcast News · verdict · Both come up as perfect movies in the best-movie-of-the-80s conversation. · "Adam, we had a conversation on this show about Broadcast News a few months ago."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ↔ 4 Little Girls · verdict · Wesley argues 4 Little Girls and other work challenge the claim that Do the Right Thing is the Spike apex; Sean says the screenplay is why this one is, for fiction. · "the reason that I'm saying do the right thing is the apex of his filmmaking."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:38:05 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Clockers · verdict · Clockers is Wesley's second favorite Spike Lee film, with the greatest ending of any of his movies, with Spike solving Richard Price script problems. · "Clockers, my 2nd favorite Spike Lee movie has the greatest ending of all Spike Lee's movies."
21. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · verdict · Do the Right Thing, not even nominated, should have beaten Driving Miss Daisy. · "I do the right thing, which was not nominated over driving was Daisy."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · industry · Driving Miss Daisy won best picture the year Do the Right Thing was not nominated; the snub is the reason the film is remembered in awards history. · "This is, of course, the year that driving Miss Daisy won best picture."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:05:29 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Weekend at Bernie's · industry · Wesley, 13, was far more interested in seeing Weekend at Bernie's that same stretch than Do the Right Thing. · "That was the weekend that weekend at Bernie's."
24. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:43 · unknown (0.40)] Driving Miss Daisy ↔ Do the Right Thing · industry · The year before, Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar over Do the Right Thing, making it a back-to-back miss. · "89 is when driving Miss Daisy wins over."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:33:16 · unknown (0.40)] Driving Miss Daisy ↔ Do the Right Thing · industry · Do the Right Thing going un-nominated the year Driving Miss Daisy won says it all. · "do the right thing doesn't even get nominated in the year when driving Miss Staisy wins, that tells you everything."
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Steel Magnolias · joke answer · Joke answer to 'favorite movie' versus the real answer, Do the Right Thing. · "Number one, steel magnolias."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Do the Right Thing ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · said 4 times in 4 episodes
2. [pairs] Do the Right Thing ↔ Mo' Better Blues · said 2 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] Do the Right Thing ↔ Inside Man · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (5)

1. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · lineage · Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling. · "we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:19:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Inside Man · theme · Bill asks whether Ferris is the Apex Mountain of all-in-one-day movies; Chris names Inside Man as a favorite of the genre. · "my favorite all in one day movie is, I think, is inside man."
3. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Mo' Better Blues · programming · Pick 21 (round 7), category wild card: Spike Lee's different follow-up to Do the Right Thing; love story about an artist's soul. · "Well, better blues is sitting at the top of my wild card list right now."
4. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Matthew Libatique ↔ Inside Man · craft · Libatique shot Inside Man (not The Wrestler, which used a documentary DP). · "he shot Inside Man, which is a gorgeously shot movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
3. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
4. [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
5. [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

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [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)
2. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Do the Right Thing (1989) 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 Do the Right Thing (1989) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ She's Gotta Have It · lineage · Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It. · "As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:14:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Jungle Fever (the host's read) · theme · Jungle Fever explored the Bensonhurst setting a couple of years later, rehearsing part of that story. · "which I think is explored in jungle fever a couple years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:36 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ The Matrix · theme · Sean offers The Matrix as a film that attracted retroactive concern about violence, unlike the contemporaneous panic over Do the Right Thing. · "I think there's been a lot of retroactive energy on the Matrix."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:10:53 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Do the Right Thing · craft · The Ice Storm gets cold weather as right as Do the Right Thing gets hot weather, trading rage for malaise. · "I think this movie gets cold weather as right as do the right thing gets hot weather."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:16:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Wedding Crashers · contrast · Most Rewatchables picks are quotable fun like Wedding Crashers; this movie is different. · "a lot of the movies we do on this show are like wedding crashers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · contrast · Beverly Hills Cop is a comfort rewatch whose social import is extra-textual; Do the Right Thing is working hard to be important and disrupt comfort. · "it's working hard to be important, and it's working hard to disrupt your feeling of ease and comfort."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:32:10 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives · contrast · Naming Uncle Boonmee as a favorite sounds pretentious; naming Do the Right Thing gets you labeled a black critic. · "If you said Uncle Boone me, people would say you're pretentious, but if you say, do the right thing, people say, oh, he's a black critic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:31 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] BlacKkKlansman ↔ Do the Right Thing · contrast · Spike's screenwriting is sometimes the problem, as with BlacKkKlansman, whereas Do the Right Thing's screenplay is perfect. · "This is a Black Lansman thing too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Do the Right Thing · contrast · Chris argues Do the Right Thing is a 1989 film that feels like a 1990s one from its influence. · "the influence that movie had for everything that happened in the 1990s makes it feel like it was a 1990s movie"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mo' Better Blues ↔ Do the Right Thing · contrast · Mo' Better Blues is a completely different follow-up to Do the Right Thing. · "Spike Lee's amazing, completely different follow-up to do the right thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:26:18 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Mo' Better Blues · career · Critics bring up Spike's money and commercial work even when judging unrelated films like Mo' Better Blues. · "Nothing to do about Better Blues, whether Mo Better Blues is a good movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:32:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Broadcast News · verdict · Both come up as perfect movies in the best-movie-of-the-80s conversation. · "Adam, we had a conversation on this show about Broadcast News a few months ago."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ↔ 4 Little Girls · verdict · Wesley argues 4 Little Girls and other work challenge the claim that Do the Right Thing is the Spike apex; Sean says the screenplay is why this one is, for fiction. · "the reason that I'm saying do the right thing is the apex of his filmmaking."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:38:05 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Clockers · verdict · Clockers is Wesley's second favorite Spike Lee film, with the greatest ending of any of his movies, with Spike solving Richard Price script problems. · "Clockers, my 2nd favorite Spike Lee movie has the greatest ending of all Spike Lee's movies."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · verdict · Do the Right Thing, not even nominated, should have beaten Driving Miss Daisy. · "I do the right thing, which was not nominated over driving was Daisy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · industry · Driving Miss Daisy won best picture the year Do the Right Thing was not nominated; the snub is the reason the film is remembered in awards history. · "This is, of course, the year that driving Miss Daisy won best picture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:05:29 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Weekend at Bernie's · industry · Wesley, 13, was far more interested in seeing Weekend at Bernie's that same stretch than Do the Right Thing. · "That was the weekend that weekend at Bernie's."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:43 · unknown (0.40)] Driving Miss Daisy ↔ Do the Right Thing · industry · The year before, Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar over Do the Right Thing, making it a back-to-back miss. · "89 is when driving Miss Daisy wins over."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:33:16 · unknown (0.40)] Driving Miss Daisy ↔ Do the Right Thing · industry · Do the Right Thing going un-nominated the year Driving Miss Daisy won says it all. · "do the right thing doesn't even get nominated in the year when driving Miss Staisy wins, that tells you everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Steel Magnolias · joke answer · Joke answer to 'favorite movie' versus the real answer, Do the Right Thing. · "Number one, steel magnolias."
[pairs] Do the Right Thing ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · said 4 times in 4 episodes
[pairs] Do the Right Thing ↔ Mo' Better Blues · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Do the Right Thing ↔ Inside Man · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · lineage · Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling. · "we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:19:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Inside Man · theme · Bill asks whether Ferris is the Apex Mountain of all-in-one-day movies; Chris names Inside Man as a favorite of the genre. · "my favorite all in one day movie is, I think, is inside man."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Mo' Better Blues · programming · Pick 21 (round 7), category wild card: Spike Lee's different follow-up to Do the Right Thing; love story about an artist's soul. · "Well, better blues is sitting at the top of my wild card list right now."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Matthew Libatique ↔ Inside Man · craft · Libatique shot Inside Man (not The Wrestler, which used a documentary DP). · "he shot Inside Man, which is a gorgeously shot movie."
[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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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
[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
[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] 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 Do the Right Thing (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Do the Right Thing (1989) 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.