What the corpus says about Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

The 54 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)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous. · "a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Doctor Sleep · lineage · Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned. · "Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Godzilla vs. Kong · theme · Podcasters are becoming storytelling vectors, as in a character named Podcast. · "There is a character named podcast in a movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Bringing Up Baby ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · The screwball energy of Bringing Up Baby is the gleeful-but-smart quality they loved in Ghostbusters, which others dumb down. · "is the same thing that you and I responded to in Ghostbusters that so many people dumb down."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · craft · Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half. · "It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] That Thing You Do! ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · craft · Like Ghostbusters, That Thing You Do! is built from top-tier component parts. · "One thing about this movie is very similar to say something I was pointing out about Ghostbusters."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:05:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · contrast · The original aspired upward for kids; Afterlife makes grown-ups into kids. · "it made young kids want to be older and cool."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · contrast · Both are about families; Come On, Come On is self-aware where Afterlife is not. · "This is self-aware, even if Ghostbusters Afterlife is not."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:09:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · people · Speaker liked the 2016 film defensively and because Hemsworth was funny. · "I thought the Chris Hemsworth character was just like very funny and they should let Chris Hemsworth just be a comedian more often."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:07:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · verdict · Afterlife strips out the art and humor of the original. · "all of the art and the humor that you and I associate with the original Ghostbusters is like totally missing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · verdict · Original Ghostbusters showing up at 70 feel flat and unexcited, a bummer. · "they showed up and it was just very flat and they don't seem excited to be there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · industry · Walmart product placement for marshmallow men sells toys to children. · "that scene was the real low point because that is definitely takes place in a product placement Walmart ad"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · industry · Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office. · "trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · lineage · Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film. · "And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:21:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · career · Reitman's ghostbusters decision looks like capitulating to Hollywood and may make him a franchise filmmaker. · "he has kind of minted a future as a franchise filmmaker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:07:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · career · Reitman, who always said he was different from his father, ended up running a franchise with a PowerPoint press conference. · "now not only did he have to do the franchise that he always said he didn't want to do"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · said 7 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Come On, Come On · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · The movie pencil-sketch-over-a-Xerox feel. · "the movie does often feel like a pencil sketch over a Xerox."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Stay Puft marshmallow men are shown across a Walmart product placement scene with Paul Rudd. · "there is just a lot of time spent of Paul Rudd showing you the various deals available at Walmart"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Muncher the blue blob humping a fire hydrant is the one moment of joy; speaker was the only one laughing in the theater. · "So when like muncher, the blue blob shows up and is humping a fire hydrant."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · The Ghostbusters theme only plays in the end credits. · "Why did I have to wait until the end credits for the Ghostbusters theme song?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Muncher is a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue. · "it was just a basically also a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Nine-year-olds not knowing ghosts terrorized New York is a nit: it would be the biggest thing since the Crusades. · "This would be the biggest thing since like the Crusades."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (21)

[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read) · lineage · The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster. · "I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Holiday ↔ Bringing Up Baby · programming · Holiday was long out of circulation and is now on the Criterion Channel, likely prompting the question. · "a lot of people have been watching holiday because that had been out of circulation and is now on the criterion collection"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Smile · programming · Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror. · "smile is literally about trauma"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode) · lineage · Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills. · "Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:56:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Bringing Up Baby ↔ Howard Hawks · lineage · Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedies influenced every romantic comedy and dialogue-heavy film since. · "the Howard Hawks screwball comedies because just of the fast talking and the influence that they have on every single romantic comedy that is made"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] 2010 ↔ Doctor Sleep · programming · The Patreon feed also covered 2010, another sequel to a Kubrick movie that avoids aping his style. · "Another example of how dare you make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Come On, Come On · theme · All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife. · "all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · theme · Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child). · "you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · craft · Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women. · "this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned. · "Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton's films · craft · Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do. · "So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton · craft · An uncle who does not know how to parent makes every scene like a Keaton movie. · "it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film. · "it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:03 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Come On, Come On · craft · Phoenix surprised Mills with how good he was at doing the interviews. · "I was surprised at how deeply Joaquin got into it and how good he was at it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing. · "There's also Doctor Sleep."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (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
[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
[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'

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) 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 Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) 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 · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous. · "a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Doctor Sleep · lineage · Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned. · "Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Godzilla vs. Kong · theme · Podcasters are becoming storytelling vectors, as in a character named Podcast. · "There is a character named podcast in a movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Bringing Up Baby ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · The screwball energy of Bringing Up Baby is the gleeful-but-smart quality they loved in Ghostbusters, which others dumb down. · "is the same thing that you and I responded to in Ghostbusters that so many people dumb down."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · craft · Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half. · "It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] That Thing You Do! ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · craft · Like Ghostbusters, That Thing You Do! is built from top-tier component parts. · "One thing about this movie is very similar to say something I was pointing out about Ghostbusters."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:05:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · contrast · The original aspired upward for kids; Afterlife makes grown-ups into kids. · "it made young kids want to be older and cool."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · contrast · Both are about families; Come On, Come On is self-aware where Afterlife is not. · "This is self-aware, even if Ghostbusters Afterlife is not."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:09:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · people · Speaker liked the 2016 film defensively and because Hemsworth was funny. · "I thought the Chris Hemsworth character was just like very funny and they should let Chris Hemsworth just be a comedian more often."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:07:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · verdict · Afterlife strips out the art and humor of the original. · "all of the art and the humor that you and I associate with the original Ghostbusters is like totally missing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · verdict · Original Ghostbusters showing up at 70 feel flat and unexcited, a bummer. · "they showed up and it was just very flat and they don't seem excited to be there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · industry · Walmart product placement for marshmallow men sells toys to children. · "that scene was the real low point because that is definitely takes place in a product placement Walmart ad"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · industry · Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office. · "trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · lineage · Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film. · "And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:21:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · career · Reitman's ghostbusters decision looks like capitulating to Hollywood and may make him a franchise filmmaker. · "he has kind of minted a future as a franchise filmmaker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:07:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · career · Reitman, who always said he was different from his father, ended up running a franchise with a PowerPoint press conference. · "now not only did he have to do the franchise that he always said he didn't want to do"
[pairs] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · said 7 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Come On, Come On · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · The movie pencil-sketch-over-a-Xerox feel. · "the movie does often feel like a pencil sketch over a Xerox."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Stay Puft marshmallow men are shown across a Walmart product placement scene with Paul Rudd. · "there is just a lot of time spent of Paul Rudd showing you the various deals available at Walmart"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Muncher the blue blob humping a fire hydrant is the one moment of joy; speaker was the only one laughing in the theater. · "So when like muncher, the blue blob shows up and is humping a fire hydrant."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · The Ghostbusters theme only plays in the end credits. · "Why did I have to wait until the end credits for the Ghostbusters theme song?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Muncher is a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue. · "it was just a basically also a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife · fun · Nine-year-olds not knowing ghosts terrorized New York is a nit: it would be the biggest thing since the Crusades. · "This would be the biggest thing since like the Crusades."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read) · lineage · The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster. · "I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Holiday ↔ Bringing Up Baby · programming · Holiday was long out of circulation and is now on the Criterion Channel, likely prompting the question. · "a lot of people have been watching holiday because that had been out of circulation and is now on the criterion collection"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Smile · programming · Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror. · "smile is literally about trauma"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode) · lineage · Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills. · "Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:56:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Bringing Up Baby ↔ Howard Hawks · lineage · Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedies influenced every romantic comedy and dialogue-heavy film since. · "the Howard Hawks screwball comedies because just of the fast talking and the influence that they have on every single romantic comedy that is made"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] 2010 ↔ Doctor Sleep · programming · The Patreon feed also covered 2010, another sequel to a Kubrick movie that avoids aping his style. · "Another example of how dare you make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Come On, Come On · theme · All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife. · "all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · theme · Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child). · "you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · craft · Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women. · "this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned. · "Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton's films · craft · Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do. · "So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton · craft · An uncle who does not know how to parent makes every scene like a Keaton movie. · "it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film. · "it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:03 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Come On, Come On · craft · Phoenix surprised Mills with how good he was at doing the interviews. · "I was surprised at how deeply Joaquin got into it and how good he was at it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing. · "There's also Doctor Sleep."
[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] 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
[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'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) 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.