What the corpus says about It's Complicated (2009)

What was said about it (7)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ It's Complicated · theme · Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated. · "Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · contrast · It has aged much better than It's Complicated, which people wrongly rank above it. · "it has aged so much better than it's complicated."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:26:17 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · It's Complicated is the sketch-comedy version of this film. · "it's complicated, feels like the sketch comedy version of this."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:28:35 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · The daughter here has more grace than Lake Bell's character in It's Complicated. · "there's more grace in this to her versus like the Lake Bell character"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · said 5 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated · fun · Meyers made Steve Martin do about ten makeup tests. · "Steve Martin do like 10 makeup tests."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read) · programming · Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience. · "Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · lineage · The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. · "there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine."
3. [Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30)] Stuck on You ↔ Something's Gotta Give · programming · Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three. · "Big broad comedy, high concept."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
6. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:00 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Justice League · craft · Suicide Squad's street-level crooks fighting a celestial god is a story-scale mistake. · "Like, why are they fighting an like a celestial god."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35)] Michael ↔ Something's Gotta Give · lineage · Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael. · "Is this a remake of Michael?"
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it. · "he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jack Nicholson · theme · The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona. · "It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Defending Your Life · theme · The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life. · "It looks like defending your life or something."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Risky Business · lineage · Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake. · "if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parenthood ↔ Father of the Bride · lineage · Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself. · "Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire. · "It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read) · lineage · Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget. · "I'm okay with Father of the Bride too."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Nancy Meyers · craft · The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations. · "this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read) · lineage · The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic. · "The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

1. [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
2. [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 (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished It's Complicated (2009) 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 It's Complicated (2009) 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 · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ It's Complicated · theme · Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated. · "Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · contrast · It has aged much better than It's Complicated, which people wrongly rank above it. · "it has aged so much better than it's complicated."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:26:17 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · It's Complicated is the sketch-comedy version of this film. · "it's complicated, feels like the sketch comedy version of this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:28:35 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · The daughter here has more grace than Lake Bell's character in It's Complicated. · "there's more grace in this to her versus like the Lake Bell character"
[pairs] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · said 5 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated · fun · Meyers made Steve Martin do about ten makeup tests. · "Steve Martin do like 10 makeup tests."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read) · programming · Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience. · "Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · lineage · The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. · "there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30)] Stuck on You ↔ Something's Gotta Give · programming · Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three. · "Big broad comedy, high concept."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:00 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Justice League · craft · Suicide Squad's street-level crooks fighting a celestial god is a story-scale mistake. · "Like, why are they fighting an like a celestial god."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35)] Michael ↔ Something's Gotta Give · lineage · Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael. · "Is this a remake of Michael?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it. · "he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jack Nicholson · theme · The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona. · "It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Defending Your Life · theme · The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life. · "It looks like defending your life or something."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Risky Business · lineage · Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake. · "if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parenthood ↔ Father of the Bride · lineage · Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself. · "Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire. · "It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read) · lineage · Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget. · "I'm okay with Father of the Bride too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Nancy Meyers · craft · The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations. · "this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read) · lineage · The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic. · "The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic."
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with It's Complicated (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend It's Complicated (2009) 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.