What the corpus says about Shazam! (2019)

The 43 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 (20)

  1. [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"
  2. [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"
  3. [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"
  4. [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"
  5. [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"
  6. [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"
  7. [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"
  8. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70)] War of the Worlds ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview) · craft · Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire. · "the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings"
  9. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · contrast · Fennessey says Shazam!'s tone differs significantly from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films. · "I think tonally this movie is pretty significantly different from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films"
  10. [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"
  11. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:05:03 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Spider-Man (Peter Parker films, as a generic comparison) · contrast · Miles says most superhero movies turn derivative at the power-discovery stage, as with Peter Parker scaling skyscrapers, but Shazam! felt genuine there. · "like Peter Parker like scaling skyscrapers type of thing"
  12. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Joker is standalone and has virtually nothing in common with Shazam!. · "Joker, which is coming in October, which also feels quite standalone and seems to have virtually nothing in common with a movie like Shazam"
  13. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:32:27 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · people · Grace Fulton, who plays Mary, was an easy cast because Sandberg had worked with her on Annabelle: Creation. · "Grace Fulton, who plays Mary, because I worked with her on, um, uh, Annabelle Creation"
  14. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:09:17 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · verdict · Miles was less of a fan of Wonder Woman than others were. · "I personally wasn't as big of a fan as as Wonder Woman, as other people were"
  15. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:43 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Justice League ↔ Shazam! · industry · DC pivoted to standalone films after Justice League underperformed against expectations. · "they did a pretty quick pivot from, like, fast tracking their Justice League movie"
  16. [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"
  17. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:24:29 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · what-if · The earlier Shazam script was Shazam versus Black Adam; it was judged too much for one movie, so Black Adam was cut. · "we have this script that's basically Shazam versus Black Adam, which is a long time nemesis"
  18. [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"
  19. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] David F. Sandberg ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg shot himself with action figures to show the previs team the action he wanted. · "on this movie, I just shoot myself playing with action figures."
  20. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Jennifer Spence ↔ Shazam! · career · Sandberg says production designer Spence stepped up alongside his returning crew on Shazam!. · "or production design, Jennifer Spence, and like it felt like we all got to step up together."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

  1. [pairs] Shazam! ↔ Annabelle: Creation · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Shazam! ↔ Big · said 2 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · said 2 times in 1 episode
  4. [pairs] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:02:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! · fun · The character was originally called Captain Marvel and became Shazam when folded into DC, since Marvel had its own. · "he was actually originally called Captain Marvel"
  2. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:05:23 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! · fun · Miles on what a real 14-year-old with powers would do: buy beer, hit a strip club, and rave about the wings because it's PG-13. · "would go to script strip club and like beam about the chicken wings because this is a PG 13 movie"
  3. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! · fun · Sandberg previsualized scenes by filming himself with action figures and handing it to the CG team. · "I just shoot myself playing with action figures."
  4. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:28:02 · David F. Sandberg (0.90)] Shazam! · fun · Why communication is hard: even a gray line on a graphic gets returned wrong several times. · "yeah, I want a gray line down here."
  5. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:31:59 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! · fun · Casting rule: to be Shazam you must audition, since no one had seen these adult actors play a child. · "we had this rule that if you want to be Shazam, you have to come in and audition"
  6. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:35:09 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! · fun · Sandberg on big VFX films: spectacle on screen is tedious to shoot. · "the more spectacular it looks on screen, the more boring it probably was to shoot"

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

  1. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:30:12 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] James ↔ Annabelle: Creation · craft · James felt Annabelle's first design looked too evil, so her features were softened. · "James actually felt that she was almost too obviously evil looking"
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 1:02:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Wonder Woman ↔ Kingdom Come · lineage · Sean points to Alex Ross's 90s comic Kingdom Come, where an elderly Wonder Woman and Batman had a thing. · "you got the sense that Wonder Woman and Batman had a thing, but they no longer got along anymore."
  3. [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"
  4. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:24:27 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Wonder Woman ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · Wonder Woman is the first DC movie since the Nolan films that understands what it is. · "Wonder Woman is the 1st movie that they've made."
  5. [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."
  6. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:17:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Wonder Woman, like Superman, is a god and needs less emotional complexity; Carol Danvers is a real person who is blank for most of the film. · "Wonder Woman, likes Superman, is a god. And the levels of emotional complexity that we expect from a god are lesser than a real person."
  7. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:57:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Wonder Woman ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens · theme · Both Wonder Woman's Amazons and Rey getting the lightsaber hit Amanda with a symbolic reaction, despite her not being a franchise person. · "I felt the same way when Ray gets the lightsaber in, in the Force Awakens"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:16 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · CTHD tapped into female strength that Wonder Woman had to catch up to 18 years later. · "this movie was tapping into things that Wonder Woman would have to like run around to 18 years later."
  9. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Wonder Woman ↔ Captain Marvel · craft · Wonder Woman did its origin story in the first 30 minutes and moved on; Captain Marvel spends the whole film on it. · "What Wonder Woman did was gave us the best version of its origin story in the 1st 30 minutes, and then we were kind of done with that."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [speaker] David F. Sandberg · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Sandberg loves genre, popcorn movies, horror, comedy, and science fiction, and says he wants to make a good time at the movies. He is a gearhead about how cameras and effects work and has a strong filmic memory. He is self-effacing and openly doubtful about himself. · stances: There was no studio mandate on tone, and he liked making a movie that stands on its own; Casting for enthusiasm matters most; Spectacle is tedious to shoot; Wants a rest before deciding on Shazam 2
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (1)

  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)

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 Shazam! (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 Shazam! (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 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 · '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 · '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 · '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 · '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 · '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 · '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"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70)] War of the Worlds ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview) · craft · Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire. · "the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · contrast · Fennessey says Shazam!'s tone differs significantly from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films. · "I think tonally this movie is pretty significantly different from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films"
[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 · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:05:03 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Spider-Man (Peter Parker films, as a generic comparison) · contrast · Miles says most superhero movies turn derivative at the power-discovery stage, as with Peter Parker scaling skyscrapers, but Shazam! felt genuine there. · "like Peter Parker like scaling skyscrapers type of thing"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Joker is standalone and has virtually nothing in common with Shazam!. · "Joker, which is coming in October, which also feels quite standalone and seems to have virtually nothing in common with a movie like Shazam"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:32:27 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · people · Grace Fulton, who plays Mary, was an easy cast because Sandberg had worked with her on Annabelle: Creation. · "Grace Fulton, who plays Mary, because I worked with her on, um, uh, Annabelle Creation"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:09:17 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · verdict · Miles was less of a fan of Wonder Woman than others were. · "I personally wasn't as big of a fan as as Wonder Woman, as other people were"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:43 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Justice League ↔ Shazam! · industry · DC pivoted to standalone films after Justice League underperformed against expectations. · "they did a pretty quick pivot from, like, fast tracking their Justice League movie"
[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"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:24:29 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · what-if · The earlier Shazam script was Shazam versus Black Adam; it was judged too much for one movie, so Black Adam was cut. · "we have this script that's basically Shazam versus Black Adam, which is a long time nemesis"
[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 · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] David F. Sandberg ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg shot himself with action figures to show the previs team the action he wanted. · "on this movie, I just shoot myself playing with action figures."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Jennifer Spence ↔ Shazam! · career · Sandberg says production designer Spence stepped up alongside his returning crew on Shazam!. · "or production design, Jennifer Spence, and like it felt like we all got to step up together."
[pairs] Shazam! ↔ Annabelle: Creation · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Shazam! ↔ Big · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:02:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! · fun · The character was originally called Captain Marvel and became Shazam when folded into DC, since Marvel had its own. · "he was actually originally called Captain Marvel"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:05:23 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! · fun · Miles on what a real 14-year-old with powers would do: buy beer, hit a strip club, and rave about the wings because it's PG-13. · "would go to script strip club and like beam about the chicken wings because this is a PG 13 movie"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! · fun · Sandberg previsualized scenes by filming himself with action figures and handing it to the CG team. · "I just shoot myself playing with action figures."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:28:02 · David F. Sandberg (0.90)] Shazam! · fun · Why communication is hard: even a gray line on a graphic gets returned wrong several times. · "yeah, I want a gray line down here."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:31:59 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! · fun · Casting rule: to be Shazam you must audition, since no one had seen these adult actors play a child. · "we had this rule that if you want to be Shazam, you have to come in and audition"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:35:09 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Shazam! · fun · Sandberg on big VFX films: spectacle on screen is tedious to shoot. · "the more spectacular it looks on screen, the more boring it probably was to shoot"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:30:12 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] James ↔ Annabelle: Creation · craft · James felt Annabelle's first design looked too evil, so her features were softened. · "James actually felt that she was almost too obviously evil looking"
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 1:02:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Wonder Woman ↔ Kingdom Come · lineage · Sean points to Alex Ross's 90s comic Kingdom Come, where an elderly Wonder Woman and Batman had a thing. · "you got the sense that Wonder Woman and Batman had a thing, but they no longer got along anymore."
[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"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:24:27 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Wonder Woman ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · Wonder Woman is the first DC movie since the Nolan films that understands what it is. · "Wonder Woman is the 1st movie that they've made."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:17:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Wonder Woman, like Superman, is a god and needs less emotional complexity; Carol Danvers is a real person who is blank for most of the film. · "Wonder Woman, likes Superman, is a god. And the levels of emotional complexity that we expect from a god are lesser than a real person."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:57:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Wonder Woman ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens · theme · Both Wonder Woman's Amazons and Rey getting the lightsaber hit Amanda with a symbolic reaction, despite her not being a franchise person. · "I felt the same way when Ray gets the lightsaber in, in the Force Awakens"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:16 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · CTHD tapped into female strength that Wonder Woman had to catch up to 18 years later. · "this movie was tapping into things that Wonder Woman would have to like run around to 18 years later."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Wonder Woman ↔ Captain Marvel · craft · Wonder Woman did its origin story in the first 30 minutes and moved on; Captain Marvel spends the whole film on it. · "What Wonder Woman did was gave us the best version of its origin story in the 1st 30 minutes, and then we were kind of done with that."
[speaker] David F. Sandberg · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Sandberg loves genre, popcorn movies, horror, comedy, and science fiction, and says he wants to make a good time at the movies. He is a gearhead about how cameras and effects work and has a strong filmic memory. He is self-effacing and openly doubtful about himself. · stances: There was no studio mandate on tone, and he liked making a movie that stands on its own; Casting for enthusiasm matters most; Spectacle is tedious to shoot; Wants a rest before deciding on Shazam 2
[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
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

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 Shazam! (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Shazam! (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.