What the corpus says about Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

The 47 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 (8)

  1. [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?"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dune ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · theme · Joke: Chip's co-producer was Judge Doom, so Doom/Dune won. · "my co-producer was, of course, Judge Doom."
  3. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:03:26 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · industry · Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Cocktail and others filled the box office the week Last Temptation opened at #13. · "The movie comes out August 12, 1988."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:29:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⇒ The Nightmare Before Christmas (the host's read) · industry · Katzenberg was looking at Roger Rabbit's success as a reason to try different styles and techniques. · "looking at the success they had with Roger Rabbit and saying, like, we should try different styles"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:14:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Kathleen Turner ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · career · Turner voiced Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit, a hugely influential movie, in the same 80s run. · "She was the voice in who framed Roger Rabbit, which was a massive deal"
  6. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:40 · unknown (0.30)] Steven Spielberg ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · people · While directing less, Spielberg was producing blockbusters such as Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Goonies and Gremlins. · "Roger Rabbit, back to the future, Goonies, Gremlins, guy's got a golden touch, right?"
  7. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Who Framed Roger Rabbit ↔ Robert Zemeckis · people · Roger Rabbit is Zemeckis's early-90s film. · "of course, Robert Zamekis's movie from the early 90s"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:46:37 · unknown (0.40)] Charles Fleischer ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · people · Fleischer, who plays a Zodiac suspect, is the voice of Roger Rabbit. · "Speaking of Roger Rabbit in this movie."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

  1. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
  2. [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"
  3. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:14:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Tucker: The Man and His Dream ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · programming · Scorsese and Coppola released passion projects the same weekend. · "Just interesting that Marty and Francis on the same weekend released like passion projects"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 1:45:36 · Michael Rianda (0.60)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The Haunted Mansion (Disney ride) · programming · The film's iconography now powers a seasonal Haunted Mansion overlay. · "the haunted mansion ride is like so amazing."
  5. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
  6. [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"
  7. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:44:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Barbara Hershey ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · Hershey also planted the book in Scorsese's head and told him to let her audition as Mary Magdalene. · "But it's planted in his head by her."
  8. [Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:32:50 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · theme · Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. · "Night before Christmas has like one major objective that everyone's right on."
  9. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
  10. [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."
  11. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50)] The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing. · "The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:03:55 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The Wizard of Oz · theme · The film's cult growth into mainstream pop culture is compared to Oz. · "in that sort of Wizard of Oz conversation of like movies that came out, did okay at the time and are now just like so deeply woven into the tapestry of pop culture"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ The Lord of the Rings trilogy · theme · Everyone keeps comparing Dune's trilogy to Lord of the Rings. · "everyone keeps talking about it as the Lord of the Rings."
  14. [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."
  15. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:52:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Gabriel ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · lineage · Gabriel's score is claimed to shape how every Middle East-set film sounds. · "But like every movie set in the Middle East now sounds like this because of this score."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:52:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ Henry Selick · theme · Jack's arc is read as the animators themselves trying to make commercial art. · "how much Jack is an analog for these guys trying to figure out how to make commercial art"
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:29 · unknown (0.30)] Chip Smith ↔ Dune · theme · Chip is called a Baron Harkonnen type; Dune won the most Oscars on a Chip-produced telecast. · "you got some like kind of baron Harkonan vibes."
  18. [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."
  19. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:07:01 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ishtar · theme · Per Miriam Bale, it shares many Moroccan locations with Ishtar, shot around the same time. · "Yes, it shares a lot of locations with Ishtar, which was made around the same time."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 1:41:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ Toy Story · theme · The first breakthrough film in each form of animation becomes the template: CGI follows Toy Story, stop motion stays creepy. · "And then the CGI becomes so defined by Toy Story."
  21. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:38 · unknown (0.40)] Javier Bardem ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve uses comforting faces like Bardem as shortcut casting. · "Javier Burden walks in and people are like, I get what this is."
  22. [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"
  23. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'The Inner Light' · theme · Jesus lives a whole accelerated lifetime in a vision, like Picard living 50 years on a village. · "You can't not think of the inner light, the most famous episode of this of that show."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 1:57:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The King of Comedy · theme · Jack and Santa Claus are read as Rupert Pupkin and Jerry Langford (transcribed Pumpkin/Lanford). · "the relationship between Jack and Santa Claus, excuse me, is just Rupert Pumpkin and Jerry Lanford."
  25. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:20:27 · unknown (0.35)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve's film makes the plot easier to follow when watching Lynch's. · "it's easier for me to track what's going on in the plot of this movie because I can keep relating it back to the movie that is more narratively functional."
  26. [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."
  27. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:49:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ X2 · theme · Judas recognizing the child angel as Satan is jokingly tied to creepy-girl villains in Resident Evil and X2's White Queen. · "Have you ever seen Resident Evil?"
  28. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:31:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Danny Elfman ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · craft · Elfman wrote songs off Burton's story beats with no script, and the script came after. · "Burton is basically describing the story beats, and Elfman is writing songs off of the story beats"
  29. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Lynch's film reaches the end of Villeneuve's Part One in about 90 minutes, then crams the rest into 45. · "Everything that he made the 2nd film is contained within 45 minutes."
  30. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Biggie's Hypnotize · craft · The film keeps the edgier lyrics of Hypnotize intact, making it the first superhero movie to feature it. · "This is certainly the 1st superhero movie to feature Biggie's hypnotized"
  31. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Jesus dragging himself back to the cross after seeing the life he wasn't given plays like the wonderful-life reversal. · "also a very kind of like it's a wonderful life scene."
  32. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joe Ranft ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · craft · Ranft is counted among the five people credited with shaping the film's story. · "Thompson, Joe Ramped, Elfman, Selleck, Burton, all can be given a fair amount of credit for the shaping of this film."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  1. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
  2. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
  3. [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'
  4. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

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

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 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 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 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 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 · ‘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 — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dune ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · theme · Joke: Chip's co-producer was Judge Doom, so Doom/Dune won. · "my co-producer was, of course, Judge Doom."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:03:26 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · industry · Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Cocktail and others filled the box office the week Last Temptation opened at #13. · "The movie comes out August 12, 1988."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:29:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⇒ The Nightmare Before Christmas (the host's read) · industry · Katzenberg was looking at Roger Rabbit's success as a reason to try different styles and techniques. · "looking at the success they had with Roger Rabbit and saying, like, we should try different styles"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:14:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Kathleen Turner ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · career · Turner voiced Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit, a hugely influential movie, in the same 80s run. · "She was the voice in who framed Roger Rabbit, which was a massive deal"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:40 · unknown (0.30)] Steven Spielberg ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · people · While directing less, Spielberg was producing blockbusters such as Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Goonies and Gremlins. · "Roger Rabbit, back to the future, Goonies, Gremlins, guy's got a golden touch, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Who Framed Roger Rabbit ↔ Robert Zemeckis · people · Roger Rabbit is Zemeckis's early-90s film. · "of course, Robert Zamekis's movie from the early 90s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:46:37 · unknown (0.40)] Charles Fleischer ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · people · Fleischer, who plays a Zodiac suspect, is the voice of Roger Rabbit. · "Speaking of Roger Rabbit in this movie."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
[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"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:14:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Tucker: The Man and His Dream ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · programming · Scorsese and Coppola released passion projects the same weekend. · "Just interesting that Marty and Francis on the same weekend released like passion projects"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 1:45:36 · Michael Rianda (0.60)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The Haunted Mansion (Disney ride) · programming · The film's iconography now powers a seasonal Haunted Mansion overlay. · "the haunted mansion ride is like so amazing."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
[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"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:44:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Barbara Hershey ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · Hershey also planted the book in Scorsese's head and told him to let her audition as Mary Magdalene. · "But it's planted in his head by her."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:32:50 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · theme · Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. · "Night before Christmas has like one major objective that everyone's right on."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
[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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50)] The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing. · "The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:03:55 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The Wizard of Oz · theme · The film's cult growth into mainstream pop culture is compared to Oz. · "in that sort of Wizard of Oz conversation of like movies that came out, did okay at the time and are now just like so deeply woven into the tapestry of pop culture"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ The Lord of the Rings trilogy · theme · Everyone keeps comparing Dune's trilogy to Lord of the Rings. · "everyone keeps talking about it as the Lord of the Rings."
[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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:52:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Gabriel ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · lineage · Gabriel's score is claimed to shape how every Middle East-set film sounds. · "But like every movie set in the Middle East now sounds like this because of this score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:52:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ Henry Selick · theme · Jack's arc is read as the animators themselves trying to make commercial art. · "how much Jack is an analog for these guys trying to figure out how to make commercial art"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:29 · unknown (0.30)] Chip Smith ↔ Dune · theme · Chip is called a Baron Harkonnen type; Dune won the most Oscars on a Chip-produced telecast. · "you got some like kind of baron Harkonan vibes."
[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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:07:01 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ishtar · theme · Per Miriam Bale, it shares many Moroccan locations with Ishtar, shot around the same time. · "Yes, it shares a lot of locations with Ishtar, which was made around the same time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 1:41:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ Toy Story · theme · The first breakthrough film in each form of animation becomes the template: CGI follows Toy Story, stop motion stays creepy. · "And then the CGI becomes so defined by Toy Story."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:38 · unknown (0.40)] Javier Bardem ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve uses comforting faces like Bardem as shortcut casting. · "Javier Burden walks in and people are like, I get what this is."
[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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'The Inner Light' · theme · Jesus lives a whole accelerated lifetime in a vision, like Picard living 50 years on a village. · "You can't not think of the inner light, the most famous episode of this of that show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 1:57:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The King of Comedy · theme · Jack and Santa Claus are read as Rupert Pupkin and Jerry Langford (transcribed Pumpkin/Lanford). · "the relationship between Jack and Santa Claus, excuse me, is just Rupert Pumpkin and Jerry Lanford."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:20:27 · unknown (0.35)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve's film makes the plot easier to follow when watching Lynch's. · "it's easier for me to track what's going on in the plot of this movie because I can keep relating it back to the movie that is more narratively functional."
[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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:49:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ X2 · theme · Judas recognizing the child angel as Satan is jokingly tied to creepy-girl villains in Resident Evil and X2's White Queen. · "Have you ever seen Resident Evil?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:31:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Danny Elfman ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · craft · Elfman wrote songs off Burton's story beats with no script, and the script came after. · "Burton is basically describing the story beats, and Elfman is writing songs off of the story beats"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Lynch's film reaches the end of Villeneuve's Part One in about 90 minutes, then crams the rest into 45. · "Everything that he made the 2nd film is contained within 45 minutes."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Biggie's Hypnotize · craft · The film keeps the edgier lyrics of Hypnotize intact, making it the first superhero movie to feature it. · "This is certainly the 1st superhero movie to feature Biggie's hypnotized"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Jesus dragging himself back to the cross after seeing the life he wasn't given plays like the wonderful-life reversal. · "also a very kind of like it's a wonderful life scene."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joe Ranft ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · craft · Ranft is counted among the five people credited with shaping the film's story. · "Thompson, Joe Ramped, Elfman, Selleck, Burton, all can be given a fair amount of credit for the shaping of this film."
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] 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 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 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.