What the corpus says about Lady in the Water (2006)

The 48 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 (26)

[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:33:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · theme · Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump. · "Because signs does the same thing where it just ends."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:36:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · theme · Shyamalan films all center on men who neglect family for work and on crises of faith; here the man loses his family entirely. · "all in my trauma films are crisis of faith movies, right?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:36:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Village · craft · The cast-intro structure, where each character gets one cartoonish trait up front, works like The Village, except The Village is involving. · "sort of in the same way that the village works, except the village is involving."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Chronicles of Narnia · craft · As Story weakens her color drains until she resembles Tilda Swinton in Narnia. · "By the end, she's Tilda Swinton in Narnia."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:33:16 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · craft · The scrunt is held up as a better-shot, better-designed, better-reflection creature that makes good on the sins of the Signs alien. · "I think the scrunt, he shoots better, designs better, does the reflection thing better."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:18:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Harry Potter (the films) · contrast · Proposes the invented terms would be easier if the story were a known fable, since J.K. Rowling's invented vocabulary was learned by audiences. · "Like, he was just like, oh, J.K. Rowling did it."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:38:41 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Village · career · The Village was the first real backlash, and Lady in the Water is cast as the film that dynamited his career. · "the village marks something of a turning point because it's when the kind of the bloom fell off the rose"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:53:00 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last Airbender · career · Notes that Shyamalan bounced back after the flop, with The Last Airbender coming. · "I haven't seen the last Airbender."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:43:19 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · industry · Pirates was number one on Lady in the Water's opening weekend, with Cars in the mix. · "Number one was still Pirates of the Caribbean."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:43:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Monster House · industry · Monster House opened to 22 million versus Lady's 18 million on the same weekend. · "That opened to 22 and lady opened to 18 mil."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:38:49 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water ↔ Star Wars prequels / The Phantom Menace · exposition overload · Both have stretches of invented-terminology exposition that never sink in. · "We talked about there was a phenomenon that would occur in that movie in those movies where like a stretch of dialogue is so much fucking nonsense information."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:48:41 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Birdman · critic portrayal · Birdman's film critic is called more sensitive and three-dimensional than Balaban's critic in Lady in the Water. · "Inaritu's portrayal of a film critic in Birdman is sensitive and three-dimensional compared to Bob Paliban in this, right?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:49:36 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Godzilla · critic portrayal · Ranks directors who put film critics in their movies to shit on them, with Godzilla's Mayor Ebert gag, then Birdman, then Lady in the Water. · "I go Godzilla, then Birdman, or the unexpected virtue."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Scream · meta monologue · Balaban's speech about what a PG-13 movie will not show is compared to a Kevin Williamson-style monologue from Scream. · "Bob Bellman giving a Kevin Williamson style monologue."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:26:33 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lady in the Van · title joke · Lady in the Van is almost as hard to follow as Lady in the Water. · "Lady in the van is almost as hard to follow Lady in the water."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:47:07 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Lady in the Water ↔ Inception · film about filmmaking · Griffin reads Lady in the Water as Shyamalan's Inception, with the crew roles standing for the collaborative filmmaking process. · "I think he confirmed it, that Inception was Christopher Nolan's film about filmmaking."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:52:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Happening · next episode · The Happening is next, with James Urbaniak as guest; Griffin calls it his least favorite. · "will be our guest for the happening, which is the one that he special requested as well."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lady in the Water ↔ The Village · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:20:20 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water · fun · Other kids at Griffin's NYU summer program saw it and came back to the cafeteria yelling snarf, snarf, snarf, mocking the film. · "At the cafeteria, they were going snarf, snarf, snarf, snarf."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:45:24 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Lady in the Water · fun · Shyamalan demanded the set be within 45 minutes of his Pennsylvania home and timed the trip at 43 minutes; the whole apartment complex and pool were built for the film at a Levittown warehouse site. · "Shamalan demanded that the set be within 45 minutes of his Pennsylvania home."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water · fun · An IMDb trivia fact claims 9 across could not touch 27 down in the crossword Mr. Dury does, since it would need to be 19 letters long. · "It would have to be at least 19 layers long to do so."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:10 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water · fun · Shyamalan's wish list for supporting roles reportedly included Pacino, De Niro, Gene Wilder, Sidney Poitier, Vince Vaughn, Alec Baldwin and more, all men. · "Gene Wilder."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:12:36 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water · fun · Cleveland sees a book called The Cookbook, panics that it is a cookbook, and the misdirect resolves 85 seconds later. · "That happens 85 seconds after the idea was set up."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:43:40 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water · fun · Opened to 18 million, number three behind Pirates of the Caribbean and Monster House, and finished with 42 million domestic, 72 worldwide. · "It ended up with a grand total of $42 million, 72 worldwide."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (9)

[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:10:02 · David Sims (0.50)] Crash McCreery ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · craft · The monkey creatures in Lady in the Water were designed by the man who did the monster pirates (Davy Jones's crew) in Dead Man's Chest. · "These creatures were designed by Crash Macreri, who also did all the monster pirates in the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point

The shows' running bits (1)

[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)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Lady in the Water (2006) 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 Lady in the Water (2006) 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.

[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:33:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · theme · Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump. · "Because signs does the same thing where it just ends."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:36:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · theme · Shyamalan films all center on men who neglect family for work and on crises of faith; here the man loses his family entirely. · "all in my trauma films are crisis of faith movies, right?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:36:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Village · craft · The cast-intro structure, where each character gets one cartoonish trait up front, works like The Village, except The Village is involving. · "sort of in the same way that the village works, except the village is involving."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Chronicles of Narnia · craft · As Story weakens her color drains until she resembles Tilda Swinton in Narnia. · "By the end, she's Tilda Swinton in Narnia."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:33:16 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · craft · The scrunt is held up as a better-shot, better-designed, better-reflection creature that makes good on the sins of the Signs alien. · "I think the scrunt, he shoots better, designs better, does the reflection thing better."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:18:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Harry Potter (the films) · contrast · Proposes the invented terms would be easier if the story were a known fable, since J.K. Rowling's invented vocabulary was learned by audiences. · "Like, he was just like, oh, J.K. Rowling did it."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:38:41 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Village · career · The Village was the first real backlash, and Lady in the Water is cast as the film that dynamited his career. · "the village marks something of a turning point because it's when the kind of the bloom fell off the rose"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:53:00 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last Airbender · career · Notes that Shyamalan bounced back after the flop, with The Last Airbender coming. · "I haven't seen the last Airbender."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:43:19 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · industry · Pirates was number one on Lady in the Water's opening weekend, with Cars in the mix. · "Number one was still Pirates of the Caribbean."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:43:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Monster House · industry · Monster House opened to 22 million versus Lady's 18 million on the same weekend. · "That opened to 22 and lady opened to 18 mil."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:38:49 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water ↔ Star Wars prequels / The Phantom Menace · exposition overload · Both have stretches of invented-terminology exposition that never sink in. · "We talked about there was a phenomenon that would occur in that movie in those movies where like a stretch of dialogue is so much fucking nonsense information."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:48:41 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Birdman · critic portrayal · Birdman's film critic is called more sensitive and three-dimensional than Balaban's critic in Lady in the Water. · "Inaritu's portrayal of a film critic in Birdman is sensitive and three-dimensional compared to Bob Paliban in this, right?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:49:36 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Godzilla · critic portrayal · Ranks directors who put film critics in their movies to shit on them, with Godzilla's Mayor Ebert gag, then Birdman, then Lady in the Water. · "I go Godzilla, then Birdman, or the unexpected virtue."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Scream · meta monologue · Balaban's speech about what a PG-13 movie will not show is compared to a Kevin Williamson-style monologue from Scream. · "Bob Bellman giving a Kevin Williamson style monologue."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:26:33 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lady in the Van · title joke · Lady in the Van is almost as hard to follow as Lady in the Water. · "Lady in the van is almost as hard to follow Lady in the water."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:47:07 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Lady in the Water ↔ Inception · film about filmmaking · Griffin reads Lady in the Water as Shyamalan's Inception, with the crew roles standing for the collaborative filmmaking process. · "I think he confirmed it, that Inception was Christopher Nolan's film about filmmaking."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:52:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Happening · next episode · The Happening is next, with James Urbaniak as guest; Griffin calls it his least favorite. · "will be our guest for the happening, which is the one that he special requested as well."
[pairs] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lady in the Water ↔ The Village · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:20:20 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water · fun · Other kids at Griffin's NYU summer program saw it and came back to the cafeteria yelling snarf, snarf, snarf, mocking the film. · "At the cafeteria, they were going snarf, snarf, snarf, snarf."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:45:24 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Lady in the Water · fun · Shyamalan demanded the set be within 45 minutes of his Pennsylvania home and timed the trip at 43 minutes; the whole apartment complex and pool were built for the film at a Levittown warehouse site. · "Shamalan demanded that the set be within 45 minutes of his Pennsylvania home."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water · fun · An IMDb trivia fact claims 9 across could not touch 27 down in the crossword Mr. Dury does, since it would need to be 19 letters long. · "It would have to be at least 19 layers long to do so."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:10 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Lady in the Water · fun · Shyamalan's wish list for supporting roles reportedly included Pacino, De Niro, Gene Wilder, Sidney Poitier, Vince Vaughn, Alec Baldwin and more, all men. · "Gene Wilder."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:12:36 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water · fun · Cleveland sees a book called The Cookbook, panics that it is a cookbook, and the misdirect resolves 85 seconds later. · "That happens 85 seconds after the idea was set up."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:43:40 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water · fun · Opened to 18 million, number three behind Pirates of the Caribbean and Monster House, and finished with 42 million domestic, 72 worldwide. · "It ended up with a grand total of $42 million, 72 worldwide."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:10:02 · David Sims (0.50)] Crash McCreery ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · craft · The monkey creatures in Lady in the Water were designed by the man who did the monster pirates (Davy Jones's crew) in Dead Man's Chest. · "These creatures were designed by Crash Macreri, who also did all the monster pirates in the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point
[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)

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 Lady in the Water (2006); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Lady in the Water (2006) 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.