What the corpus says about John Wick (2014)

The 52 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 (13)

  1. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:07:45 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ John Wick (the host's read) · lineage · John Wick may belong to the subgenre Taken started, though Wick is a more elaborate 5 o'clocker. · "Probably even John Wick, maybe."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:31 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ⇒ Polar (the host's read) · lineage · Polar is a John Wick ripoff. · "Polar is a John Wick ripoff."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 1:04:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ John Wick · theme · The Killer is the more realistic version of John Wick. · "It's like the more realistic version of John Wick."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ John Wick · theme · John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism. · "I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ John Wick · craft · Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth. · "John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:52:32 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ John Wick · contrast · Tumbling stunts like these are not what you see in John Wick. · "That's usually not what you see in John Wick."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:11:28 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ↔ Ballerina (John Wick spinoff) · verdict · Fatigue with the Wick-verse; Ballerina gets a no, thank you. · "Valerina, no, thank you."
  8. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] John Wick ↔ Taken · same type · John Wick is called an elaborate 5 o'clocker with more moving pieces than Taken. · "Uh, is an elaborate 5 o'clock or. There's actually some moving pieces in that, and you can't totally shut your brain off."
  9. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:04:53 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ John Wick · worldbuilding · Both drop the viewer into a hidden criminal world with only hints, and it works because they do not over-explain. · "they just dropped you into this world, and they give you little hints of other parts of it, so you know, or you assume that these things exist, but they don't ever go into explaining anything."
  10. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:05:18 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Wanted ↔ John Wick · failed imitation · Wanted tried the same assassin-network trick but explained too much and flopped. · "It didn't work with that movie Wanted. Remember they try to do the exact same thing with Wanted."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:59:20 · David Ehrlich (0.40)] Chad Stahelski ↔ John Wick · craft · The Stahelski and Leitch school of action wants you to see the whole stunt, the whole fight. · "I like that because, right, again, they want you to see the whole stunt."
  12. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:57 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ↔ Keanu Reeves · career · John Wick is another post-prime peak in the same category. · "Is it like Keanu Reeves, John Wick?"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:54:48 · unknown (0.30)] Peter Serafinowicz ↔ John Wick · career · He pops into franchises for a few days (here, John Wick) with just enough screen time to matter without carrying the film. · "But like doing like John Wick for 2 days."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] John Wick ↔ Taken · said 3 times in 1 episode

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

  1. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:07:29 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ The Equalizer (the host's read) · lineage · Taken's box office started a subgenre of an older star beating up younger bad guys, and The Equalizer is the first example. · "There's a whole subgenre of movies after taking exploded at the box office where everybody's like, oh, shoot, we just have to get an old person and let them fight young people"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
  4. [The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
  5. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:18:47 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ Kidnap (the host's read) · lineage · Kidnap is another of the movies stemming from Taken. · "Kidnap is another one of the stemmed off of taken movies, so it's funny that you mentioned it."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
  9. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:42:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 3 · lineage · Taken 3 is conceded as horrific. · "let's concede that taken 3 was horrific"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
  13. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:43:16 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 2 · lineage · The first film works because there is no main villain and Neeson figures it out as we watch; Taken 2 gives him a known enemy. · "I like Liam Neeson figuring it out. I don't like him being pitted in a spot where we know exactly what he has to do."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
  17. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
  21. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Grey ↔ Taken · theme · Neeson's later action films each fit the five-words-or-less 5 o'clocker test: The Grey, Non-Stop, The Commuter. · "Liam Neeson wilderness wolves."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
  25. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:45:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken ↔ Training Day · theme · Bad guys playing cards at the hideout is a staple, as in Training Day, which was even more intense. · "this happened in training day as well, and training day was even more intense"
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
  27. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
  28. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
  29. [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."
  30. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
  31. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."
  32. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] David Ehrlich · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies. · stances: Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form; The film is an invitation to project yourself onto; The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal
  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
  4. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'

The shows' running bits (2)

  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] 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 John Wick (2014) 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 John Wick (2014) 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 · 'Taken' · 0:07:45 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ John Wick (the host's read) · lineage · John Wick may belong to the subgenre Taken started, though Wick is a more elaborate 5 o'clocker. · "Probably even John Wick, maybe."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:31 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ⇒ Polar (the host's read) · lineage · Polar is a John Wick ripoff. · "Polar is a John Wick ripoff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 1:04:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ John Wick · theme · The Killer is the more realistic version of John Wick. · "It's like the more realistic version of John Wick."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ John Wick · theme · John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism. · "I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ John Wick · craft · Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth. · "John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:52:32 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ John Wick · contrast · Tumbling stunts like these are not what you see in John Wick. · "That's usually not what you see in John Wick."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:11:28 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ↔ Ballerina (John Wick spinoff) · verdict · Fatigue with the Wick-verse; Ballerina gets a no, thank you. · "Valerina, no, thank you."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] John Wick ↔ Taken · same type · John Wick is called an elaborate 5 o'clocker with more moving pieces than Taken. · "Uh, is an elaborate 5 o'clock or. There's actually some moving pieces in that, and you can't totally shut your brain off."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:04:53 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ John Wick · worldbuilding · Both drop the viewer into a hidden criminal world with only hints, and it works because they do not over-explain. · "they just dropped you into this world, and they give you little hints of other parts of it, so you know, or you assume that these things exist, but they don't ever go into explaining anything."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:05:18 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Wanted ↔ John Wick · failed imitation · Wanted tried the same assassin-network trick but explained too much and flopped. · "It didn't work with that movie Wanted. Remember they try to do the exact same thing with Wanted."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:59:20 · David Ehrlich (0.40)] Chad Stahelski ↔ John Wick · craft · The Stahelski and Leitch school of action wants you to see the whole stunt, the whole fight. · "I like that because, right, again, they want you to see the whole stunt."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:57 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ↔ Keanu Reeves · career · John Wick is another post-prime peak in the same category. · "Is it like Keanu Reeves, John Wick?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:54:48 · unknown (0.30)] Peter Serafinowicz ↔ John Wick · career · He pops into franchises for a few days (here, John Wick) with just enough screen time to matter without carrying the film. · "But like doing like John Wick for 2 days."
[pairs] John Wick ↔ Taken · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:07:29 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ The Equalizer (the host's read) · lineage · Taken's box office started a subgenre of an older star beating up younger bad guys, and The Equalizer is the first example. · "There's a whole subgenre of movies after taking exploded at the box office where everybody's like, oh, shoot, we just have to get an old person and let them fight young people"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:18:47 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ Kidnap (the host's read) · lineage · Kidnap is another of the movies stemming from Taken. · "Kidnap is another one of the stemmed off of taken movies, so it's funny that you mentioned it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:42:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 3 · lineage · Taken 3 is conceded as horrific. · "let's concede that taken 3 was horrific"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:43:16 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 2 · lineage · The first film works because there is no main villain and Neeson figures it out as we watch; Taken 2 gives him a known enemy. · "I like Liam Neeson figuring it out. I don't like him being pitted in a spot where we know exactly what he has to do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Grey ↔ Taken · theme · Neeson's later action films each fit the five-words-or-less 5 o'clocker test: The Grey, Non-Stop, The Commuter. · "Liam Neeson wilderness wolves."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:45:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken ↔ Training Day · theme · Bad guys playing cards at the hideout is a staple, as in Training Day, which was even more intense. · "this happened in training day as well, and training day was even more intense"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[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] David Ehrlich · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies. · stances: Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form; The film is an invitation to project yourself onto; The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal
[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] 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] 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 John Wick (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend John Wick (2014) 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.