What the corpus says about Fast Five (2011)

The 50 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 (19)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:34:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Hobbs & Shaw ↔ Fast Five · theme · Sean expects the franchise to become expansion titles because Statham and Diesel do not want to make movies together. · "clearly Jason Statham and Vin Diesel don't necessarily want to make a lot of movies together"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Amanda defends Fast Five over Furious 7 by the Rio safe-drag set piece. · "Like they took the safe out of the wall and then they just dragged it through the city and then they switched it to another safe."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:06:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Fast Five · craft · Both are ensemble movies where everyone shines, setups pay off, and every moment is fun. · "here's a big ensemble cast. everyone shines, everything that's set up is paid off, elegantly, and every moment is fun."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:22:57 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ F9 · contrast · Same villain structure: the Rock isn't quite a villain in Fast Five and Cena turns good in F9. · "But then they do it again in fast 5 with the rock, and he's not really the villain, but he's the villain."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Fast Five · contrast · Shea argues Furious 7 beats Fast Five on emotion; Amanda says Fast Five opens up all the possibility. · "But like fast 5 is that it opens up all the possibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · verdict · Amanda's personal order puts Fast Five first, and she ranks Furious 7 third. · "I obviously am putting Fast 5 at number one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:03 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · verdict · Shea's sequel-vs-original ranking: original at 1 as start of everything and best Dom/Brian, Fast Five at 2. · "It's the start of everything."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:45:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · verdict · Final ranking has the original at number one, Fast Five second, as a compromise. · "number two, Fast five, number one, the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Fast Five · industry · Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise. · "I mean, Fast and Furious."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:27:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Amanda says the franchise has room alongside Citizen Kane. · "And is it Citizen Kane?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:28:16 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious · industry · Franchise films fund other films like bestselling books float a publisher. · "They don't get made if you don't have movies like these that are fucking just bringing in every dollar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:07:17 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Fast Five · industry · The film belongs to a 2007-2011 window where everything was set in Rio favelas with rooftop chases, like the Fast and Furious entries. · "in, like, there's a four-year gap window in Hollywood where they're like, everything should be set in the favelas of Rio."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:04:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Justin Lin ↔ Fast Five · career · Sean credits Justin Lin as most responsible for pushing the franchise from street racing to bigger action. · "Justin Lynn is probably most responsible for taking the franchise from this grounded street level action"

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:06:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five · fun · Amanda came to the series with Fast Five and it was her first Fast film, a baptism by fire. · "I was taken by friends to see Fast 5 in a theater."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:14:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five · fun · Onion video: interview with a child as Fast 5's screenwriter. · "the interview was with a small child"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 1:01:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five · fun · Amanda's evergreen: the Rio safe drag, which she yells about again at the close. · "So they just hitched their cars to it and took the safe with them."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:17:53 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ⇒ The Fate of the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · Fate and F9 lean on Furious 7's ending in vain with passing references to Brian. · "And they try and lean on it a little bit in the fate of the furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:42:44 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Hulk · programming · Hulk-van talk reminds a speaker of Bow Wow's Hulk-fist BMW in Tokyo Drift. · "And then, of course, in Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift, Lil Bow Wow drives a whole car."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Errol Morris ↔ Citizen Kane · programming · The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane. · "he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:20:21 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] Better Luck Tomorrow ↔ F9 · lineage · Justin Lin folds his earlier film (via Han) into the Fast saga, like Jay-Z and Nas remaking a hot song. · "he's like, oh, the movie that I did before, Better Luck tomorrow."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:08:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Roger Corman film ⇒ The Fast and the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · The first film borrowed its title from a 1960s Corman exploitation movie. · "it borrowed its title from a somewhat well-known Roger Corman exploitation movie from the 1960s"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:52:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Taken · theme · Toddlers are like cars without brakes, as in Furious 7 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. · "in fact, in Furious seven. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in that car are jumping across buildings because there's no breaks in it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:50:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Citizen Kane ↔ Casablanca · programming · Younger viewers resist classics because they feel they must watch five canonical films first; a recent episode showed they refuse Citizen Kane even on streaming. · "we just went through a whole episode where people refuse to watch Citizen Kane on streaming."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:40:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] 2 Fast 2 Furious ↔ F9 · lineage · Sean says 2 Fast 2 Furious is tonally closer to the current franchise than the gritty Rob Cohen original. · "seems like it has a little bit more in common tonally than with the current set of the franchise than that original Rob Cohen film"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:45:16 · unknown (0.40)] Steven Seagal ↔ The Fast and the Furious · theme · Seagal and Vin Diesel never lose fights, which fits the ego-stroke category. · "Vin Diesel is a good one, though."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:15:53 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Fast and Furious 6 ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Letty-Gina fight in 6 and Letty-Ronda Rousey fight in 7 named as the two best fights. · "she's given us the 2 best fights."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:52 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Furious 7 ↔ Wiz Khalifa · craft · A Wiz Khalifa song carries the Paul Walker send-off ending, enough to make the speaker cry in the theater. · "I can't, I'm crying to a whiz Khalifa song in the movie theater, like, what? That's how special this movie is."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · craft · Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself. · "Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[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] 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

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)

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 Fast Five (2011) 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 Fast Five (2011) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:34:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Hobbs & Shaw ↔ Fast Five · theme · Sean expects the franchise to become expansion titles because Statham and Diesel do not want to make movies together. · "clearly Jason Statham and Vin Diesel don't necessarily want to make a lot of movies together"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Amanda defends Fast Five over Furious 7 by the Rio safe-drag set piece. · "Like they took the safe out of the wall and then they just dragged it through the city and then they switched it to another safe."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:06:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Fast Five · craft · Both are ensemble movies where everyone shines, setups pay off, and every moment is fun. · "here's a big ensemble cast. everyone shines, everything that's set up is paid off, elegantly, and every moment is fun."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:22:57 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ F9 · contrast · Same villain structure: the Rock isn't quite a villain in Fast Five and Cena turns good in F9. · "But then they do it again in fast 5 with the rock, and he's not really the villain, but he's the villain."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Fast Five · contrast · Shea argues Furious 7 beats Fast Five on emotion; Amanda says Fast Five opens up all the possibility. · "But like fast 5 is that it opens up all the possibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · verdict · Amanda's personal order puts Fast Five first, and she ranks Furious 7 third. · "I obviously am putting Fast 5 at number one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:03 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · verdict · Shea's sequel-vs-original ranking: original at 1 as start of everything and best Dom/Brian, Fast Five at 2. · "It's the start of everything."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:45:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · verdict · Final ranking has the original at number one, Fast Five second, as a compromise. · "number two, Fast five, number one, the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Fast Five · industry · Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise. · "I mean, Fast and Furious."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:27:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Amanda says the franchise has room alongside Citizen Kane. · "And is it Citizen Kane?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:28:16 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious · industry · Franchise films fund other films like bestselling books float a publisher. · "They don't get made if you don't have movies like these that are fucking just bringing in every dollar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:07:17 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Fast Five · industry · The film belongs to a 2007-2011 window where everything was set in Rio favelas with rooftop chases, like the Fast and Furious entries. · "in, like, there's a four-year gap window in Hollywood where they're like, everything should be set in the favelas of Rio."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:04:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Justin Lin ↔ Fast Five · career · Sean credits Justin Lin as most responsible for pushing the franchise from street racing to bigger action. · "Justin Lynn is probably most responsible for taking the franchise from this grounded street level action"
[pairs] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:06:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five · fun · Amanda came to the series with Fast Five and it was her first Fast film, a baptism by fire. · "I was taken by friends to see Fast 5 in a theater."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:14:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five · fun · Onion video: interview with a child as Fast 5's screenwriter. · "the interview was with a small child"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 1:01:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five · fun · Amanda's evergreen: the Rio safe drag, which she yells about again at the close. · "So they just hitched their cars to it and took the safe with them."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:17:53 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ⇒ The Fate of the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · Fate and F9 lean on Furious 7's ending in vain with passing references to Brian. · "And they try and lean on it a little bit in the fate of the furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:42:44 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Hulk · programming · Hulk-van talk reminds a speaker of Bow Wow's Hulk-fist BMW in Tokyo Drift. · "And then, of course, in Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift, Lil Bow Wow drives a whole car."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Errol Morris ↔ Citizen Kane · programming · The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane. · "he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:20:21 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] Better Luck Tomorrow ↔ F9 · lineage · Justin Lin folds his earlier film (via Han) into the Fast saga, like Jay-Z and Nas remaking a hot song. · "he's like, oh, the movie that I did before, Better Luck tomorrow."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:08:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Roger Corman film ⇒ The Fast and the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · The first film borrowed its title from a 1960s Corman exploitation movie. · "it borrowed its title from a somewhat well-known Roger Corman exploitation movie from the 1960s"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:52:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Taken · theme · Toddlers are like cars without brakes, as in Furious 7 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. · "in fact, in Furious seven. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in that car are jumping across buildings because there's no breaks in it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:50:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Citizen Kane ↔ Casablanca · programming · Younger viewers resist classics because they feel they must watch five canonical films first; a recent episode showed they refuse Citizen Kane even on streaming. · "we just went through a whole episode where people refuse to watch Citizen Kane on streaming."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:40:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] 2 Fast 2 Furious ↔ F9 · lineage · Sean says 2 Fast 2 Furious is tonally closer to the current franchise than the gritty Rob Cohen original. · "seems like it has a little bit more in common tonally than with the current set of the franchise than that original Rob Cohen film"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:45:16 · unknown (0.40)] Steven Seagal ↔ The Fast and the Furious · theme · Seagal and Vin Diesel never lose fights, which fits the ego-stroke category. · "Vin Diesel is a good one, though."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:15:53 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Fast and Furious 6 ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Letty-Gina fight in 6 and Letty-Ronda Rousey fight in 7 named as the two best fights. · "she's given us the 2 best fights."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:52 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Furious 7 ↔ Wiz Khalifa · craft · A Wiz Khalifa song carries the Paul Walker send-off ending, enough to make the speaker cry in the theater. · "I can't, I'm crying to a whiz Khalifa song in the movie theater, like, what? That's how special this movie is."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · craft · Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself. · "Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character."
[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] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] 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 Fast Five (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Fast Five (2011) 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.