What the corpus says about Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

The 60 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 (21)

[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop. · "Fallout kind of have the same ending."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits. · "we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:22 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · contrast · Fallout swings the other way, up into theatricality, after Rogue Nation's street level. · "Fallout. is like, let's amp up the theatricality. like that goes that goes in the other direction again."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:22:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · verdict · Chris ranks the post-3 MI films: Ghost Protocol good, Rogue Nation great, Fallout exceptional. · "Ghost Protocol is good. Rogue Nation is great and fallout is exceptional."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:34:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · Debate over which MI film to keep; one says Fallout is the better performance than the first, another prefers Fallout for stakes. · "I think he's better as an actor and his better performance than the 1st one."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · verdict · Fallout is argued in over Edge of Tomorrow because it cemented Cruise's reinvention and made Top Gun: Maverick possible. · "without fallout being what it is and being as successful."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Chris likes Fallout a lot more than Rain Man. · "I like Mission Impossible Fallout a lot more than Rain Man."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Magnolia · verdict · Asked directly whether he likes Fallout more than Magnolia, Chris says no. · "Do you like Mission Impossible Fallout more than Magnolia?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:16:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · By the time Fallout came out people were saying Edge also ruled; these are modern Cruise's high points. · "these are now kind of his high points for modern Tom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:57:36 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · One host calls Rogue Nation objectively a little better than Fallout while acknowledging bias. · "I think Rogue Nation is objectively a little better than fallout"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:28 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · verdict · Later one host switches: Fallout is better because McQuarrie learned how to manage energy. · "Because fallout is just, it's just Macquarie has learned everything he needs to learn."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · industry · Every MI film reuses the same three-set-piece structure plus a McGuffin, which is why the franchise is elastic. · "they used the same exact structure in every single movie that came forward."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · enabling success · Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick. · "he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:34:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · ideal · Fallout is held up as the movie that would have swept this ceremony's categories, had it come out in 2019. · "It is a very special movie and also would have fit so many of these categories."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's. · "Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:37:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Vanessa Kirby ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · career · Kirby's MI and Hobbs & Shaw work should have made her the next action star. · "her work in Mission Impossible 6 and in Hobbs and Shaw should have cemented her as the next great action star"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:40:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lorne Balfe ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · career · The composer of Lego Batman also scored Mission: Impossible Fallout. · "who did the score for this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:00:42 · unknown (0.30)] Sean Harris ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · career · Lane is the first M:I antagonist to feel like part of a bigger ongoing tapestry. · "he's the 1st antagonist in these movies who feels like he belongs as part of the bigger ongoing tapestry."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Wolf Blitzer · people · Blitzer's cameo works because the movie turns it into Ethan Hunt rather than the real anchor. · "In fallout, it's so effective because it's not actually Wolf Blitzer. It's Ethan Hunt."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible - Fallout · fun · Henry Cavill and Cruise punch each other in the bathroom and later on a cliff after a helicopter chase; the Henry Cavill speech about being disavowed is remembered. · "how many times can a man be disavowed, discarded and ignored by his government?"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mission: Impossible - Fallout · fun · Real news anchors in fictional movies should stop; Wolf Blitzer's Fallout cameo is the sole exception because it's Ethan Hunt in disguise, and Pat Kiernan has the best agent in New York. · "Why is his agent the best one at New York?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (27)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40)] Eddington ↔ Magnolia · lineage · Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia. · "strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · craft · Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste. · "it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."

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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional

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] 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 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (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 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (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 Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop. · "Fallout kind of have the same ending."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits. · "we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:22 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · contrast · Fallout swings the other way, up into theatricality, after Rogue Nation's street level. · "Fallout. is like, let's amp up the theatricality. like that goes that goes in the other direction again."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:22:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · verdict · Chris ranks the post-3 MI films: Ghost Protocol good, Rogue Nation great, Fallout exceptional. · "Ghost Protocol is good. Rogue Nation is great and fallout is exceptional."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:34:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · Debate over which MI film to keep; one says Fallout is the better performance than the first, another prefers Fallout for stakes. · "I think he's better as an actor and his better performance than the 1st one."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · verdict · Fallout is argued in over Edge of Tomorrow because it cemented Cruise's reinvention and made Top Gun: Maverick possible. · "without fallout being what it is and being as successful."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Chris likes Fallout a lot more than Rain Man. · "I like Mission Impossible Fallout a lot more than Rain Man."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Magnolia · verdict · Asked directly whether he likes Fallout more than Magnolia, Chris says no. · "Do you like Mission Impossible Fallout more than Magnolia?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:16:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · By the time Fallout came out people were saying Edge also ruled; these are modern Cruise's high points. · "these are now kind of his high points for modern Tom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:57:36 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · One host calls Rogue Nation objectively a little better than Fallout while acknowledging bias. · "I think Rogue Nation is objectively a little better than fallout"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:28 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · verdict · Later one host switches: Fallout is better because McQuarrie learned how to manage energy. · "Because fallout is just, it's just Macquarie has learned everything he needs to learn."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · industry · Every MI film reuses the same three-set-piece structure plus a McGuffin, which is why the franchise is elastic. · "they used the same exact structure in every single movie that came forward."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · enabling success · Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick. · "he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:34:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · ideal · Fallout is held up as the movie that would have swept this ceremony's categories, had it come out in 2019. · "It is a very special movie and also would have fit so many of these categories."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's. · "Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:37:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Vanessa Kirby ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · career · Kirby's MI and Hobbs & Shaw work should have made her the next action star. · "her work in Mission Impossible 6 and in Hobbs and Shaw should have cemented her as the next great action star"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:40:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lorne Balfe ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · career · The composer of Lego Batman also scored Mission: Impossible Fallout. · "who did the score for this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:00:42 · unknown (0.30)] Sean Harris ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · career · Lane is the first M:I antagonist to feel like part of a bigger ongoing tapestry. · "he's the 1st antagonist in these movies who feels like he belongs as part of the bigger ongoing tapestry."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Wolf Blitzer · people · Blitzer's cameo works because the movie turns it into Ethan Hunt rather than the real anchor. · "In fallout, it's so effective because it's not actually Wolf Blitzer. It's Ethan Hunt."
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible - Fallout · fun · Henry Cavill and Cruise punch each other in the bathroom and later on a cliff after a helicopter chase; the Henry Cavill speech about being disavowed is remembered. · "how many times can a man be disavowed, discarded and ignored by his government?"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mission: Impossible - Fallout · fun · Real news anchors in fictional movies should stop; Wolf Blitzer's Fallout cameo is the sole exception because it's Ethan Hunt in disguise, and Pat Kiernan has the best agent in New York. · "Why is his agent the best one at New York?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40)] Eddington ↔ Magnolia · lineage · Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia. · "strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · craft · Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste. · "it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] 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 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mission: Impossible – Fallout (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.