What the corpus says about Tootsie (1982)

The 43 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 (5)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Tootsie · theme · The Big Chill is part of a lost wave of 80s serious comedies like Tootsie, Lost in America, Baby Boom, Broadcast News. · "I also feel like this has aged well as one of the signature serious comedies of the 1980s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:29:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Tootsie · theme · Speaker says Strangelove and Tootsie are both extremely funny but feel important to the industry. · "Well, this movie and Totsie have a lot in common, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:15:49 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · people · Hoffman cast Pollack to be intimidated, and Pollack is similarly a director Cruise defers to. · "And similarly, it's very smart to cast Pollock in this because Pollock is a director who's worked with Cruz before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:14:01 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie ↔ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi · industry · Tootsie ran 24 weeks and made $177 million alongside Jedi's summer; its premise is that there are no good parts for men. · "So a team made $177 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:06:35 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Tootsie ↔ Bill Murray · verdict · Murray is amazing in Tootsie though nobody thinks of it as a Murray film. · "he's actually amazing in Tootsie"

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:14:16 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie · fun · The central premise of Tootsie is joked to be that there are no good parts out there for men. · "There are no good parts out there for men."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:55 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Mandalorian · programming · After The Mandalorian the speaker wants new characters, not known ones, as a model for future Star Wars. · "after Mandalorian, I'm like, don't give me characters we already know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Grand Canyon ↔ The Big Chill · programming · Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it. · "Grand Canyon, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:22:02 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · programming · The next Patreon commentary is Force Awakens, ten days later. · "The next commentary episode is the Force Awakens."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:31 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Hangover Part II · lineage · Death Star 2 is framed as a sequel that repeats the first one, like a Hangover sequel. · "It's like hangover two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40)] Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read) · lineage · Called a precursor to The Big Chill. · "precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier. · "I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first. · "We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read) · lineage · Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill. · "I kind of like 10 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet. · "He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read) · lineage · Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex. · "There was a movie called The Intervention."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986. · "As the short-lived series hometown?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:20:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · lineage · Lucas's goofy special-edition additions anticipate the broad humor of the prequels, such as Jar Jar. · "It's weird how many of the Lucas alterations are like really goofy broad humor."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass. · "You know what movie they smoked grass in?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 2:01:46 · David Sims (0.75)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Seven Days in May · theme · Seven Days in May is a serious political thriller with a similar vibe about the military clashing with the president. · "It's another political thriller with kind of a similar vibe, but it's serious,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · lineage · Luke's lost lightsaber (his father's) turns up again in The Force Awakens. · "Which then reappears, of course, in The Force Awakens."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five. · "Number five, Friday the 13th."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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

The shows' running bits (2)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Tootsie (1982) 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 Tootsie (1982) 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 · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Tootsie · theme · The Big Chill is part of a lost wave of 80s serious comedies like Tootsie, Lost in America, Baby Boom, Broadcast News. · "I also feel like this has aged well as one of the signature serious comedies of the 1980s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:29:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Tootsie · theme · Speaker says Strangelove and Tootsie are both extremely funny but feel important to the industry. · "Well, this movie and Totsie have a lot in common, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:15:49 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · people · Hoffman cast Pollack to be intimidated, and Pollack is similarly a director Cruise defers to. · "And similarly, it's very smart to cast Pollock in this because Pollock is a director who's worked with Cruz before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:14:01 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie ↔ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi · industry · Tootsie ran 24 weeks and made $177 million alongside Jedi's summer; its premise is that there are no good parts for men. · "So a team made $177 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:06:35 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Tootsie ↔ Bill Murray · verdict · Murray is amazing in Tootsie though nobody thinks of it as a Murray film. · "he's actually amazing in Tootsie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:14:16 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie · fun · The central premise of Tootsie is joked to be that there are no good parts out there for men. · "There are no good parts out there for men."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:55 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Mandalorian · programming · After The Mandalorian the speaker wants new characters, not known ones, as a model for future Star Wars. · "after Mandalorian, I'm like, don't give me characters we already know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Grand Canyon ↔ The Big Chill · programming · Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it. · "Grand Canyon, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:22:02 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · programming · The next Patreon commentary is Force Awakens, ten days later. · "The next commentary episode is the Force Awakens."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:31 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Hangover Part II · lineage · Death Star 2 is framed as a sequel that repeats the first one, like a Hangover sequel. · "It's like hangover two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40)] Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read) · lineage · Called a precursor to The Big Chill. · "precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier. · "I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first. · "We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read) · lineage · Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill. · "I kind of like 10 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet. · "He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read) · lineage · Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex. · "There was a movie called The Intervention."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986. · "As the short-lived series hometown?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:20:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · lineage · Lucas's goofy special-edition additions anticipate the broad humor of the prequels, such as Jar Jar. · "It's weird how many of the Lucas alterations are like really goofy broad humor."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass. · "You know what movie they smoked grass in?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 2:01:46 · David Sims (0.75)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Seven Days in May · theme · Seven Days in May is a serious political thriller with a similar vibe about the military clashing with the president. · "It's another political thriller with kind of a similar vibe, but it's serious,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · lineage · Luke's lost lightsaber (his father's) turns up again in The Force Awakens. · "Which then reappears, of course, in The Force Awakens."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five. · "Number five, Friday the 13th."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Tootsie (1982); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Tootsie (1982) 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.