What the corpus says about The King's Speech (2010)

What was said about it (6)

1. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ The King's Speech · contrast · King's Speech and A Beautiful Mind are the nearest recent mannered Oscar winners, but they are British or biopic. · "But that's the British Tony thing. You know? And Beautiful Mind is like biopic."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:37:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Darkest Hour ↔ The King's Speech · contrast · Mendelsohn's king did not stutter as much as Colin Firth's Oscar-winning version. · "famously the character that Con Firth won for the Oscar for."
3. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:40:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · verdict · The Academy was wrong: The Social Network should have beaten The King's Speech. · "obviously, should have been social network over King speech."
4. [The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · industry · King's Speech beat Social Network at the Oscars, which the speaker finds unforgivable. · "notably the social network, being defeated by the king speech, which is a result that should be should die in a fire."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:08:17 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · industry · The Social Network should have won Best Picture but The King's Speech took it. · "You know, this film probably should have won best picture, but a certain king had to speak."
6. [Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:24:22 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Colin Firth ↔ The King's Speech · people · Colin Firth's stutter is held up as the only film stutter that felt accurate, unlike Giamatti's. · "It was kind of the only stutter in film history that felt like, oh, that seems pretty accurate."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] The King's Speech ↔ The Social Network · said 3 times in 3 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
2. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Andrei Tarkovsky ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show) · lineage · Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'. · "as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time."
3. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read) · lineage · The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film. · "an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel."
4. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
5. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:04:10 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Darkest Hour ↔ Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright) · theme · Both are scripts of people talking in rooms, which challenged him to find cinema in conversation. · "it was men in rooms talking to each other, the creative challenge of that thrilled me."
6. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:30:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Men, Women & Children · theme · Both were overly earnest star-driven dramas that flopped, though The Judge made far more. · "I'm saying judge is a similar level of overly earnest big stars doing..."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
8. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:12:20 · Joe Wright (0.95)] The Soloist ↔ Darkest Hour · theme · On real-life stories: you cannot change events, so The Soloist got a smaller ending of friendship; Darkest Hour seeks truth over fact. · "you're not necessarily wanting the facts, you're wanting the truth, and they sometimes are different things"
9. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Meet the Fockers · theme · The naked-together bathtub gay-panic beat in the shower scene feels like a Fockers-style gag. · "Like it almost turns into like a fucking little fokker seat where like they're naked together in a bathtub"
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
11. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Max Richter ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show) · craft · Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter. · "I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on."
12. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:08:29 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Big Daddy · theme · The Judge's climactic testimony scene recalls Sandler's courtroom speech in Big Daddy, which works only because that film is a ribald comedy. · "the scene in Big Daddy, where Adam Sandler tells his dad how much he loved him on the stand during..."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
14. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Nils Frahm ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show) · craft · Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm. · "I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on."
15. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:09:46 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · theme · The Judge's characters announce their motivations in dialogue, which David says is worse than the Phantom Menace. · "I just want to say this movie is a lot worse than Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Menace."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
17. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Philip Glass ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show) · craft · Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass. · "I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music."
18. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:15:12 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Steve Zaillian · theme · Dobkin seems to want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaillian-style prestige drama. · "I want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaleen or like a... What is the problem with this movie?"
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the maker said so) · lineage · Sorkin says a larger share of the movie than people expect is lifted directly from depositions and emails; the speaker reports he has pointed this out. · "But that's always a big thing he's pointed out is like a larger percentage of the movie that people, than people would expect is me just using direct transcripts verbatim."
20. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:23 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Bruno Delbonnel ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · With DP Bruno Delbonnel he developed a simple, honest, truthful style. · "together we we developed a style that was trying to just be as simple and as honest and as dramatic as possible"
21. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:27 · David Sims (0.60)] Entourage ↔ The Judge · theme · David says the Entourage movie, which he watched the same day, is better than The Judge. · "I had to watch it the same day I watched Entourage the movie, which is a better movie than the judge."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:48:25 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the host's read) · lineage · The Facebook-creation blog post is almost entirely verbatim in the movie. · "It's almost entirely verbatim in the movie."
23. [The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:06:18 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Joe Wright ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · Wright thinks film is like music, happening in time, and gives actors rhythm notes by singing them. · "Film for me is most like music."
24. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:57 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ A Civil Action · craft · The Judge looks like A Civil Action, a stately legal drama Duvall was Oscar-nominated for. · "the movie kind of looks like a civil action, which Robert Delwell was nominated for"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [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
2. [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
3. [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
4. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

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] 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)
3. [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 The King's Speech (2010) 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 The King's Speech (2010) 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 · Judging The Judge · 1:14:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ The King's Speech · contrast · King's Speech and A Beautiful Mind are the nearest recent mannered Oscar winners, but they are British or biopic. · "But that's the British Tony thing. You know? And Beautiful Mind is like biopic."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:37:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Darkest Hour ↔ The King's Speech · contrast · Mendelsohn's king did not stutter as much as Colin Firth's Oscar-winning version. · "famously the character that Con Firth won for the Oscar for."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:40:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · verdict · The Academy was wrong: The Social Network should have beaten The King's Speech. · "obviously, should have been social network over King speech."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · industry · King's Speech beat Social Network at the Oscars, which the speaker finds unforgivable. · "notably the social network, being defeated by the king speech, which is a result that should be should die in a fire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:08:17 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · industry · The Social Network should have won Best Picture but The King's Speech took it. · "You know, this film probably should have won best picture, but a certain king had to speak."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:24:22 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Colin Firth ↔ The King's Speech · people · Colin Firth's stutter is held up as the only film stutter that felt accurate, unlike Giamatti's. · "It was kind of the only stutter in film history that felt like, oh, that seems pretty accurate."
[pairs] The King's Speech ↔ The Social Network · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Andrei Tarkovsky ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show) · lineage · Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'. · "as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read) · lineage · The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film. · "an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:04:10 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Darkest Hour ↔ Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright) · theme · Both are scripts of people talking in rooms, which challenged him to find cinema in conversation. · "it was men in rooms talking to each other, the creative challenge of that thrilled me."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:30:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Men, Women & Children · theme · Both were overly earnest star-driven dramas that flopped, though The Judge made far more. · "I'm saying judge is a similar level of overly earnest big stars doing..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:12:20 · Joe Wright (0.95)] The Soloist ↔ Darkest Hour · theme · On real-life stories: you cannot change events, so The Soloist got a smaller ending of friendship; Darkest Hour seeks truth over fact. · "you're not necessarily wanting the facts, you're wanting the truth, and they sometimes are different things"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Meet the Fockers · theme · The naked-together bathtub gay-panic beat in the shower scene feels like a Fockers-style gag. · "Like it almost turns into like a fucking little fokker seat where like they're naked together in a bathtub"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Max Richter ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show) · craft · Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter. · "I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:08:29 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Big Daddy · theme · The Judge's climactic testimony scene recalls Sandler's courtroom speech in Big Daddy, which works only because that film is a ribald comedy. · "the scene in Big Daddy, where Adam Sandler tells his dad how much he loved him on the stand during..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Nils Frahm ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show) · craft · Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm. · "I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:09:46 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · theme · The Judge's characters announce their motivations in dialogue, which David says is worse than the Phantom Menace. · "I just want to say this movie is a lot worse than Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Menace."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Philip Glass ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show) · craft · Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass. · "I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:15:12 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Steve Zaillian · theme · Dobkin seems to want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaillian-style prestige drama. · "I want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaleen or like a... What is the problem with this movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the maker said so) · lineage · Sorkin says a larger share of the movie than people expect is lifted directly from depositions and emails; the speaker reports he has pointed this out. · "But that's always a big thing he's pointed out is like a larger percentage of the movie that people, than people would expect is me just using direct transcripts verbatim."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:23 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Bruno Delbonnel ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · With DP Bruno Delbonnel he developed a simple, honest, truthful style. · "together we we developed a style that was trying to just be as simple and as honest and as dramatic as possible"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:27 · David Sims (0.60)] Entourage ↔ The Judge · theme · David says the Entourage movie, which he watched the same day, is better than The Judge. · "I had to watch it the same day I watched Entourage the movie, which is a better movie than the judge."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:48:25 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the host's read) · lineage · The Facebook-creation blog post is almost entirely verbatim in the movie. · "It's almost entirely verbatim in the movie."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:06:18 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Joe Wright ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · Wright thinks film is like music, happening in time, and gives actors rhythm notes by singing them. · "Film for me is most like music."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:57 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ A Civil Action · craft · The Judge looks like A Civil Action, a stately legal drama Duvall was Oscar-nominated for. · "the movie kind of looks like a civil action, which Robert Delwell was nominated for"
[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] 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] 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
[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
[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 The King's Speech (2010); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The King's Speech (2010) 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.