What the corpus says about Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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What was said about it (24)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:41:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Dark Phoenix · contrast · Endgame's roaring screening is contrasted with a Dark Phoenix showing interrupted by a fire alarm. · "It was the opposite experience movie watching than you had from Avengers, which is getting a fire alarm in the last 45 seconds of the movie"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:49:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Avengers: Endgame · verdict · Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a tier of one, with the rest of the summer far down. · "once upon a time in Hollywood is is like a tier of one to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:28:09 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · verdict · Griffin's frustration with Infinity War in theaters came from dreading what Endgame would do; having since loved Endgame he likes this film more on rewatch. · "I feel like a lot of my frustrations with this movie when I saw it were also based on me anticipating what I thought they were going to do with Endgame"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:26:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · verdict · Hindsight reframes Infinity War as a movie about processing trauma rather than pure battle. · "a movie about the processing of trauma"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Joker · industry · 2019 had several event films (Joker, Once Upon a Time, Endgame) before the 'flame out'. · "the grand orgy before the flame out, before the fall of Empire"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Long Shot ↔ Avengers: Endgame · industry · Long Shot opened a week after Endgame with two stars over 35, which explains its low turnout. · "It came a week out a week after Endgame and stars 2 people over the age of 35."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:09:17 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Shazam! · industry · Miles has Marvel fatigue from years of buildup to Endgame and prefers DC's standalone approach. · "it feels like we've been preparing for endgame, like, just forever"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:40:23 · David Sims (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · industry · Infinity War's billing is a crayon drawing next to Endgame's. · "Billing on this movie is a fucking crayon drawing compared to the billing of endgame"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · Mantis proves Thanos can be mentally manipulated, so Endgame should have used Wanda against him. · "you have a very powerful mental manipulator in Wanda, and she doesn't do it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:12:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · Would have preferred Wanda going into Thanos's head in Endgame, a Mysterio-style nightmare sequence. · "I would have enjoyed her more going into his head"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:28:26 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · Hoping for Sif or Ty Simpkins as a surprise appearance in Endgame. · "Ty Simpkins is your surprise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:01:35 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Iron Man 3 · what-if · Speaker wants an older Harley back in Endgame, a kid inspired by Stark who got into inventing. · "It would be nice to see an older version of this kid who, like, was inspired by Tony Stark and we see where he is now."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 1:09:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Avengers: Endgame · Marvel peak · Sean asks whether Endgame was the crowning achievement and everything since has been scattered fan service. · "Is there a part of you that's like Endgame was actually was the crowning achievement"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:33:00 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Avengers: Endgame · audience experience · The hammer-to-Captain-America moment at a raucous Disney lot screening made Chris feel eleven years old. · "I was like, I'm 11 years old. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:57:39 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · continuity · The Scarlet Witch's mind-reading powers from Ultron are teased here and then forgotten by Endgame. · "teasing the fact that the Scarlet Witch originated having mind powers"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ⇒ Avengers: Endgame (the host's read) · continuity · Thor knowing where the reality stone is sets up a bad decision in Endgame. · "that plays into Endgame, and a bad decision they make"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:23:35 · unknown (0.50)] James D'Arcy ↔ Avengers: Endgame · people · D'Arcy, the original human Jarvis, played Jarvis in Agent Carter and was brought back in Endgame; the film also has Bettany as Jarvis's voice, making two Jarvises on the Surprise. · "It's got not one, but 2 Jarvis is on it."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:56:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Amanda Dobbins · verdict · Seeing Endgame with an audience beat watching alone at home. · "seeing Endgame with people was really fun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:01:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · They hope Endgame has Benicio del Toro's Collector and Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster together as the Space Brothers. · "If Endgame doesn't have Space Necio and Jeff Spaceblum together as the Space Brothers."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 11 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:56:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · The Cap-and-hammer moment: a crowd cheered; Amanda turned to Chris Ryan to ask why. · "I also remember seeing the hammer thing and then turning to Chris and being like, why are they cheering?"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:33:04 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · Chris saw Endgame at a Disney lot screening where the crowd screamed when the hammer reached Captain America. · "The people in the movie theater were screaming."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:34:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · Amanda found the CGI muddy and had to text Chris afterward to ask what was the deal with the hammer. · "I texted you when I was like, what was the deal with the hammer?"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:31:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · Amanda admits she will be sad if Captain America dies, while Sean doesn't care. · "It'll be sad if Captain America dies."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (22)

[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:04:08 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · programming · DVD momentum from the first made the sequel open bigger than the first's total. · "DVD could actually get momentum for a sequel"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World 3 · programming · Myers skipped Wayne's World 3 to develop Austin Powers. · "He didn't do a 3rd Wayne's World War film so he could develop this movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:08 · unknown (0.40)] Our Man Flint ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Austin Powers draws on 60s spy movies like Our Man Flint and Michael Caine films. · "a couple of other movies like Armand Flint, the James Coburn movie from the 60s"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:12 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Caine ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Clearly based in part on a bunch of Michael Caine movies. · "There's a bunch of Michael Kane movies that it's clearly based on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dr. No ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld. · "Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Mini-Me/Scott Evil fight calls back to the toilet sequence in the first movie. · "Great callback to the toilet sequence in the in the 1st movie"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] 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] 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] 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] Miles Surrey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Miles prefers the grounded first half of Shazam! to the CGI villain half, has some Marvel fatigue, and likes the DC standalone approach. He was less taken with Wonder Woman than most. He enjoys talking about actors who transform. · stances: Shazam! is best as a what-if about a kid with powers; Superhero final fights are derivative; Marvel fatigue makes DC's standalone approach appealing

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 Avengers: Endgame (2019) 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 Avengers: Endgame (2019) 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 · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:41:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Dark Phoenix · contrast · Endgame's roaring screening is contrasted with a Dark Phoenix showing interrupted by a fire alarm. · "It was the opposite experience movie watching than you had from Avengers, which is getting a fire alarm in the last 45 seconds of the movie"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:49:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Avengers: Endgame · verdict · Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a tier of one, with the rest of the summer far down. · "once upon a time in Hollywood is is like a tier of one to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:28:09 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · verdict · Griffin's frustration with Infinity War in theaters came from dreading what Endgame would do; having since loved Endgame he likes this film more on rewatch. · "I feel like a lot of my frustrations with this movie when I saw it were also based on me anticipating what I thought they were going to do with Endgame"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:26:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · verdict · Hindsight reframes Infinity War as a movie about processing trauma rather than pure battle. · "a movie about the processing of trauma"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Joker · industry · 2019 had several event films (Joker, Once Upon a Time, Endgame) before the 'flame out'. · "the grand orgy before the flame out, before the fall of Empire"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Long Shot ↔ Avengers: Endgame · industry · Long Shot opened a week after Endgame with two stars over 35, which explains its low turnout. · "It came a week out a week after Endgame and stars 2 people over the age of 35."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:09:17 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Shazam! · industry · Miles has Marvel fatigue from years of buildup to Endgame and prefers DC's standalone approach. · "it feels like we've been preparing for endgame, like, just forever"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:40:23 · David Sims (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · industry · Infinity War's billing is a crayon drawing next to Endgame's. · "Billing on this movie is a fucking crayon drawing compared to the billing of endgame"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · Mantis proves Thanos can be mentally manipulated, so Endgame should have used Wanda against him. · "you have a very powerful mental manipulator in Wanda, and she doesn't do it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:12:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · Would have preferred Wanda going into Thanos's head in Endgame, a Mysterio-style nightmare sequence. · "I would have enjoyed her more going into his head"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:28:26 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · Hoping for Sif or Ty Simpkins as a surprise appearance in Endgame. · "Ty Simpkins is your surprise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:01:35 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Iron Man 3 · what-if · Speaker wants an older Harley back in Endgame, a kid inspired by Stark who got into inventing. · "It would be nice to see an older version of this kid who, like, was inspired by Tony Stark and we see where he is now."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 1:09:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Avengers: Endgame · Marvel peak · Sean asks whether Endgame was the crowning achievement and everything since has been scattered fan service. · "Is there a part of you that's like Endgame was actually was the crowning achievement"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:33:00 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Avengers: Endgame · audience experience · The hammer-to-Captain-America moment at a raucous Disney lot screening made Chris feel eleven years old. · "I was like, I'm 11 years old. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:57:39 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · continuity · The Scarlet Witch's mind-reading powers from Ultron are teased here and then forgotten by Endgame. · "teasing the fact that the Scarlet Witch originated having mind powers"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ⇒ Avengers: Endgame (the host's read) · continuity · Thor knowing where the reality stone is sets up a bad decision in Endgame. · "that plays into Endgame, and a bad decision they make"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:23:35 · unknown (0.50)] James D'Arcy ↔ Avengers: Endgame · people · D'Arcy, the original human Jarvis, played Jarvis in Agent Carter and was brought back in Endgame; the film also has Bettany as Jarvis's voice, making two Jarvises on the Surprise. · "It's got not one, but 2 Jarvis is on it."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:56:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Amanda Dobbins · verdict · Seeing Endgame with an audience beat watching alone at home. · "seeing Endgame with people was really fun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:01:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Avengers: Endgame · what-if · They hope Endgame has Benicio del Toro's Collector and Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster together as the Space Brothers. · "If Endgame doesn't have Space Necio and Jeff Spaceblum together as the Space Brothers."
[pairs] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 11 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:56:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · The Cap-and-hammer moment: a crowd cheered; Amanda turned to Chris Ryan to ask why. · "I also remember seeing the hammer thing and then turning to Chris and being like, why are they cheering?"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:33:04 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · Chris saw Endgame at a Disney lot screening where the crowd screamed when the hammer reached Captain America. · "The people in the movie theater were screaming."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:34:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · Amanda found the CGI muddy and had to text Chris afterward to ask what was the deal with the hammer. · "I texted you when I was like, what was the deal with the hammer?"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:31:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame · fun · Amanda admits she will be sad if Captain America dies, while Sean doesn't care. · "It'll be sad if Captain America dies."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:04:08 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · programming · DVD momentum from the first made the sequel open bigger than the first's total. · "DVD could actually get momentum for a sequel"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World 3 · programming · Myers skipped Wayne's World 3 to develop Austin Powers. · "He didn't do a 3rd Wayne's World War film so he could develop this movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:08 · unknown (0.40)] Our Man Flint ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Austin Powers draws on 60s spy movies like Our Man Flint and Michael Caine films. · "a couple of other movies like Armand Flint, the James Coburn movie from the 60s"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:12 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Caine ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Clearly based in part on a bunch of Michael Caine movies. · "There's a bunch of Michael Kane movies that it's clearly based on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dr. No ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld. · "Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Mini-Me/Scott Evil fight calls back to the toilet sequence in the first movie. · "Great callback to the toilet sequence in the in the 1st movie"
[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] 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] 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] 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] Miles Surrey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Miles prefers the grounded first half of Shazam! to the CGI villain half, has some Marvel fatigue, and likes the DC standalone approach. He was less taken with Wonder Woman than most. He enjoys talking about actors who transform. · stances: Shazam! is best as a what-if about a kid with powers; Superhero final fights are derivative; Marvel fatigue makes DC's standalone approach appealing
[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 Avengers: Endgame (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Avengers: Endgame (2019) 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.