What the corpus says about Ricki and the Flash (2015)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Ricki and the Flash (2015) 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 Ricki and the Flash (2015) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:26:38 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Young Adult · craft · The speaker compares the two as opposite ends of Cody's style: Young Adult over-explains every incident, Ricki is vague about how bad Ricki was. · "they feel like 2 sorts of extremes on her like her writing style, on the opposite ends."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:11:44 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Juno · craft · Juno nails an innately unlikable character (Jennifer Garner) as pathologically uncool; Ricki's son-boyfriend scene is the failed version of that balance. · "Jennifer Garner's character in Juno is so incredibly good at being like, this is an innately unlikable person who we always demonize in movies like this."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:18:48 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Young Adult · contrast · Young Adult is a little overwritten by Diablo Cody; Ricki is the mirror image, a little underwritten. · "And then Ricky in the Flash is like the inverse of that where I'm like, this is like 10 to 15% underwrit."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Rachel Getting Married · contrast · Rachel Getting Married felt like Demme liberated; Ricki is his first studio film in 11 years. · "Rachel getting married felt like him sort of being liberated."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:22:55 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Florence Foster Jenkins · people · Streep playing a bad singer in Florence Foster Jenkins is a more interesting performance than her unclear singing in Ricki. · "I like her singing and like that's a more interesting performance, performance because we know she's a bad singer."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:30:01 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ A Master Builder · verdict · The hosts argue which is Demme's worst; Master Builder is declared probably worse than Ricki. · "And then he makes master builder, which is probably his worst movie."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:42:44 · unknown (0.30)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Joy · industry · Streep lost the Globe comedy/musical lead category to Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, plus Trainwreck, Spy, Grandma and Lady in the Van nominees. · "Meryl couldn't beat either of them out."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:38:59 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Fantastic Four · industry · Ricki opened the same August 2015 weekend as Fantastic Four, ranking number seven. · "Ricky by the way, is opening at number seven."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Stop Making Sense · why Demme fit · Demme was a sensible hire on paper because he made Stop Making Sense and Rachel Getting Married, plus a prior relationship with Streep. · "If you go, like, you're getting the guy who did stop making sense and Rachel getting married."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:29:58 · unknown (0.30)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ How Do You Know · lighting · The flat, equally bright lighting of Ricki is likened to How Do You Know. · "It is like the how do you know lighting?"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:37:42 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Tully · specificity · Tully earns its modest, specific scenes of two people talking for most of its length; Ricki should have had that same energy between its complicated characters. · "I wish this had the specificity that Tully has for so much of its running time"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:38:07 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Juno · motherhood trilogy · Juno, Tully and Ricki are grouped as Diablo Cody movies about motherhood, with Young Adult as a possible fourth. · "specifically Juno, Tully and Ricky and the Flash. The mother. All movies about motherhood."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:45:44 · Bobby Finger (0.50)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Wild Rose · same ideas · Wild Rose tackles a woman abandoning family for a music career and does it better, with a lead who is both charismatic and annoying. · "And is not the exact same movie, but is exploring a lot of the same ideas."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:02:56 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Wild Rose · talent reveal · In Wild Rose the lead's talent reveal lands because she is a real fuck-up first; in Ricki we are told Ricki is good but can't tell. · "The reveal of being really good."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:28:55 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Crazy Mama · preferred Demme · One host prefers Crazy Mama and Caged Heat-era Demme to Ricki, which just disappoints. · "I like Crazy Mama and Cage He far more than this."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:49:54 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Pixels ↔ Ricki and the Flash · joke equivalence · A joke that Pixels was Adam Sandler coming back to a recovering suicidal daughter, i.e. Ricki. · "Became Adam Sandler coming back to a suicidal daughter's like recovery period."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:01:27 · unknown (0.35)] Diablo Cody ↔ Ricki and the Flash · lineage · Cody said Ricki is based on her mother-in-law, who plays in a bar band. · "that her mother-in-law is part of a bar band that she would watch her play"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:34:43 · David Sims (0.40)] Declan Quinn ↔ Ricki and the Flash · craft · The host, after naming Quinn as cinematographer, finds the photography of Ricki weirdly flat and shiny, a disservice to hiring Demme. · "this movie is weirdly flat and I don't know what's up with the photography at all."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:47:07 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30)] Jenny Lewis ↔ Ricki and the Flash · craft · The speaker likes the song 'Cold One', written by Jenny Lewis and her ex-boyfriend, and says it should have drawn a Golden Globe nomination. · "Written by Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis and her ex-boyfriend."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:52:17 · unknown (0.35)] Mamie Gummer ↔ Ricki and the Flash · people · Mamie Gummer plays Streep's daughter, a real mother-daughter pairing that seemed promising but doesn't help. · "It's like they thought they were getting something special with having them be mother and daughter in this movie and they got the opposite"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:32:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Tom Rothman ↔ Ricki and the Flash · industry · Rothman's micromanaging explains the too-big sets and too-bright scenes that smother Demme. · "Tom Rothman, who is notoriously very controlling at Fox, very domineering and sort of micromanaging of everything, even just to the visual scheme of the movie."
[pairs] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Juno · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Young Adult · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Wild Rose · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:23:29 · Bobby Finger (0.50)] Ricki and the Flash · fun · The bar-band casting problem: Bobby and Lindsey's old dive-bar KJ felt like a real regular; Streep as a bar-band singer never reads as a plausible mediocre singer. · "And I couldn't tell if I was supposed to think Ricky was a good singer, a so-so singer, a great singer."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:25:19 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash · fun · The band includes Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads, and a member who is Demme's cousin or uncle. · "This band is pretty crazy because you have Bernie Worrell in there."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:30:01 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash · fun · Lighting complaint: every shot is equally shiny and bright whether indoors, outdoors, day or night, so it looks like a Wizards of Waverly Place set. · "Where like every single shot of the movie is the shiniest thing you've ever seen and is equally bright, whether they are indoors, outdoors, daytime or nighttime."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:42:49 · unknown (0.30)] Ricki and the Flash · fun · Streep lost the Golden Globe comedy/musical actress award to Jennifer Lawrence for Joy; nominees included Trainwreck, Spy, Grandma and Lady in the Van, which the hosts use as proof of the film's mismarketing. · "Right, but this it just shows how like mismarketed this movie was, when it was finished, everyone watched it, was like, what is that?"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:45:17 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash · fun · Box office: opened at number seven the weekend Fantastic Four opened to $25M and Rogue Nation held number one; made about $20M on a $30M budget. · "And you're like, Ricky and the Flash like only costs 30 and still wasn't successful."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:49:03 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash · fun · The Kam/Cam Collins essay question: was Audra McDonald's role written for a Black woman or just cast that way? The line about driving to a white school reads ambiguously. · "I don't know if this is just demi casting a great actress and not giving a shit about the fact that she's black or Diablo Cody being like, specifically, this is supposed to be a black."
[speaker] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
[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] 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)

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