What the corpus says about Aquaman (2018)

The 42 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 (7)

[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:56 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Aquaman ↔ Aquaman 2 and The Trench spinoff (planned) · programming · Miles says Aquaman mostly planted seeds for a sequel and a Trench spinoff. · "Aquaman, you know, was only really playing the seeds for Aquaman 2"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Deadpool ↔ Aquaman · craft · Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action. · "I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:49:05 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Apes had Reebok, geocaching and no food tie-ins, unlike today's Denny's or IHOP deals. · "They had Reebok ads."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Fennessey says Shazam! is lighter but not as operatically goofy as Aquaman. · "it's not quite as operatically goofy as Aquaman was"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Aquaman lacks the self-awareness without self-consciousness that Spider-Verse has. · "it doesn't have any of the self-awareness or the, you know, it's not it's self-awareness, but not self-consciousness of Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:00 · Micah Peters (0.60)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Coming off Aquaman, the speaker doesn't want to overpraise Spider-Verse because the bar feels lowered. · "coming off of Aquaman, I'm kind of like, whoa, yeah, you know, the bar's lowering"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:27:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Aquaman made the speaker dread a sequel; Spider-Verse made him curious about where the story goes. · "unlike Aquaman, which as soon as the movie ended, I was like, I can't believe I have to go do this again 2 years from now"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Aquaman ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:51:58 · unknown (0.30)] Aquaman · fun · Plot interrogation of Queen Atlanna: an Atlantean who comes ashore and has a child with a fisherman. · "She is an Atlantean who comes to the shore and fucks a fisherman."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (26)

[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Deadpool ⇒ Logan (the host's read) · lineage · Deadpool started the shift to telling the best story true to one character, which Logan continued. · "this started with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds standalone Deadpool movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
[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 (2)

[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)

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 Aquaman (2018) 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 Aquaman (2018) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:56 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Aquaman ↔ Aquaman 2 and The Trench spinoff (planned) · programming · Miles says Aquaman mostly planted seeds for a sequel and a Trench spinoff. · "Aquaman, you know, was only really playing the seeds for Aquaman 2"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Deadpool ↔ Aquaman · craft · Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action. · "I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:49:05 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Apes had Reebok, geocaching and no food tie-ins, unlike today's Denny's or IHOP deals. · "They had Reebok ads."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Fennessey says Shazam! is lighter but not as operatically goofy as Aquaman. · "it's not quite as operatically goofy as Aquaman was"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Aquaman lacks the self-awareness without self-consciousness that Spider-Verse has. · "it doesn't have any of the self-awareness or the, you know, it's not it's self-awareness, but not self-consciousness of Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:00 · Micah Peters (0.60)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Coming off Aquaman, the speaker doesn't want to overpraise Spider-Verse because the bar feels lowered. · "coming off of Aquaman, I'm kind of like, whoa, yeah, you know, the bar's lowering"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:27:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Aquaman made the speaker dread a sequel; Spider-Verse made him curious about where the story goes. · "unlike Aquaman, which as soon as the movie ended, I was like, I can't believe I have to go do this again 2 years from now"
[pairs] Aquaman ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:51:58 · unknown (0.30)] Aquaman · fun · Plot interrogation of Queen Atlanna: an Atlantean who comes ashore and has a child with a fisherman. · "She is an Atlantean who comes to the shore and fucks a fisherman."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Deadpool ⇒ Logan (the host's read) · lineage · Deadpool started the shift to telling the best story true to one character, which Logan continued. · "this started with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds standalone Deadpool movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"
[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] 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] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
[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)

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 Aquaman (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Aquaman (2018) 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.