What the corpus says about Dazed and Confused (1993)

The 42 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 (8)

  1. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:18 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] House Party ↔ Dazed and Confused · lineage · For its rap-era teens, House Party was a Dazed and Confused before Dazed came out. · "This was like my days to confused before Days to Confuse came out."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:53:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The this-is-the-peak-of-your-life theme also drives Dazed and Confused. · "But even like movies, other, like days been confused. It was a theme for the for that movie too."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The film takes the one-crazy-night party movie and marries it to Night of the Living Dead. · "taking one crazy night party, like Project Decks or Days and Confused, and then marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing. · "Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list."
  5. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:16:24 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Summer Catch · craft · Both films cut around a star who cannot pitch: Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer and Freddie Prinze Jr. · "The windup and then cutting to the guy behind him where it's clearly the stunt double pitcher because, you know, the guy couldn't."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:08:35 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Reality Bites · craft · Two kinds of generational movie: looking back at a past era (Dazed, Graffiti) versus real time (Reality Bites, Saturday Night Fever). · "And then there are the movies where they actually try to do it in real time, like Saturday Night Fever is like this, and reality bites is like the clearest example."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Weird Science ↔ Dazed and Confused · contrast · Ilan Mitchell-Smith as lead is compared to Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer: a lot put on a young unproven lead. · "very similar too, is the Wiley Wiggins dazed and confused performance as Mitch Kramer."
  8. [Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:14:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Beware of the Gonzo ↔ Dazed and Confused · people · Like Dazed and Confused, the young cast included many future stars. · "It was hour dazed and confused."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:06:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Friday Night Lights (TV series) · programming · The reboot will use the title as a bucket for different stories about Texas high school football. · "use the title as a bucket to tell different stories about high school football in Texas."
  3. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:09 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ House Party · programming · Pick 12 (round 4), category comedy: Rap-era slice of life, Hudlin, Kid 'n Play. · "I'm going to pick house party."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · lineage · Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore. · "For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 1:42:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · programming · Best double feature: the serious Texas version after the super fun one. · "We get the super fun Texas version, then we get like the serious version."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Before Sunrise · lineage · Part of the same four-film Gen X set. · "Kind of like, if you were going to explain Generation X in 4 movies, I would pick those for, which one would you knock out singles?"
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ MASH · lineage · Friday Night Lights is a movie that led to a TV show, like MASH, Buffy and Parenthood. · "there's been really good movies that led to better TV shows."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:37 · Chuck Klosterman (0.70)] Slacker ↔ Reality Bites · lineage · Klosterman says Slacker belongs in the Gen X group because its script appears in the Gen X Reader. · "there's a anthology book called the Gen X Reader, and some of the slacker script is in that book."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Buffy the Vampire Slayer · lineage · Another movie that led to a TV series, named as precedent. · "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read) · theme · Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts. · "And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better. · "I think parenthood, there's a really good argument."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · theme · Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites. · "Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The TV show's excellence overshadowed the film, which has become underrated. · "And then this one, which I think the TV show kind of overwhelmed the movie, and now the movie has become weirdly underrated."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:20:06 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ High Fidelity · theme · Frampton Comes Alive as a signal of mainstream taste echoes a Frampton cover scene in High Fidelity. · "In the book High Fidelity,"
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
  22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:09:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Against the Grain (NBC show) · lineage · Earlier Texas football entries that Friday Night Lights outdid; the NBC show failed. · "there was against the grain, an NBC show with Ben Affleck as the quarterback that failed."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · theme · In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has. · "But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle."
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:10:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · lineage · Both took viewers into the Texas football world; Friday Night Lights nailed it and the TV series went further. · "Then this movie nailed it?"
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:38:11 · Ethan Hawke (0.70)] Talking Heads ↔ Reality Bites · craft · The Talking Heads song that opens the film throws you into that moment in America. · "even when it starts out, that talking head song, we're on a roll, no. Like, it jettisons you into that moment in America, I think."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Chuck Klosterman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · Obsessed with how the 90s defined selling out, indie rock ethos, and how art and commerce collided; dislikes the English-major Troy type. Loves Kicking and Screaming over Reality Bites. · stances: Selling out was the central 90s tension; Kicking and Screaming is superior; Hawke won the movie
  4. [speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
  5. [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)

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

The whole prompt

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 Dazed and Confused (1993) 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 Dazed and Confused (1993) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:18 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] House Party ↔ Dazed and Confused · lineage · For its rap-era teens, House Party was a Dazed and Confused before Dazed came out. · "This was like my days to confused before Days to Confuse came out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:53:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The this-is-the-peak-of-your-life theme also drives Dazed and Confused. · "But even like movies, other, like days been confused. It was a theme for the for that movie too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The film takes the one-crazy-night party movie and marries it to Night of the Living Dead. · "taking one crazy night party, like Project Decks or Days and Confused, and then marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing. · "Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:16:24 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Summer Catch · craft · Both films cut around a star who cannot pitch: Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer and Freddie Prinze Jr. · "The windup and then cutting to the guy behind him where it's clearly the stunt double pitcher because, you know, the guy couldn't."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:08:35 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Reality Bites · craft · Two kinds of generational movie: looking back at a past era (Dazed, Graffiti) versus real time (Reality Bites, Saturday Night Fever). · "And then there are the movies where they actually try to do it in real time, like Saturday Night Fever is like this, and reality bites is like the clearest example."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Weird Science ↔ Dazed and Confused · contrast · Ilan Mitchell-Smith as lead is compared to Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer: a lot put on a young unproven lead. · "very similar too, is the Wiley Wiggins dazed and confused performance as Mitch Kramer."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:14:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Beware of the Gonzo ↔ Dazed and Confused · people · Like Dazed and Confused, the young cast included many future stars. · "It was hour dazed and confused."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:06:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Friday Night Lights (TV series) · programming · The reboot will use the title as a bucket for different stories about Texas high school football. · "use the title as a bucket to tell different stories about high school football in Texas."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:09 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ House Party · programming · Pick 12 (round 4), category comedy: Rap-era slice of life, Hudlin, Kid 'n Play. · "I'm going to pick house party."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · lineage · Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore. · "For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 1:42:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · programming · Best double feature: the serious Texas version after the super fun one. · "We get the super fun Texas version, then we get like the serious version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Before Sunrise · lineage · Part of the same four-film Gen X set. · "Kind of like, if you were going to explain Generation X in 4 movies, I would pick those for, which one would you knock out singles?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ MASH · lineage · Friday Night Lights is a movie that led to a TV show, like MASH, Buffy and Parenthood. · "there's been really good movies that led to better TV shows."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:37 · Chuck Klosterman (0.70)] Slacker ↔ Reality Bites · lineage · Klosterman says Slacker belongs in the Gen X group because its script appears in the Gen X Reader. · "there's a anthology book called the Gen X Reader, and some of the slacker script is in that book."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Buffy the Vampire Slayer · lineage · Another movie that led to a TV series, named as precedent. · "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read) · theme · Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts. · "And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better. · "I think parenthood, there's a really good argument."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · theme · Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites. · "Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The TV show's excellence overshadowed the film, which has become underrated. · "And then this one, which I think the TV show kind of overwhelmed the movie, and now the movie has become weirdly underrated."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:20:06 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ High Fidelity · theme · Frampton Comes Alive as a signal of mainstream taste echoes a Frampton cover scene in High Fidelity. · "In the book High Fidelity,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:09:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Against the Grain (NBC show) · lineage · Earlier Texas football entries that Friday Night Lights outdid; the NBC show failed. · "there was against the grain, an NBC show with Ben Affleck as the quarterback that failed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · theme · In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has. · "But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:10:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · lineage · Both took viewers into the Texas football world; Friday Night Lights nailed it and the TV series went further. · "Then this movie nailed it?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:38:11 · Ethan Hawke (0.70)] Talking Heads ↔ Reality Bites · craft · The Talking Heads song that opens the film throws you into that moment in America. · "even when it starts out, that talking head song, we're on a roll, no. Like, it jettisons you into that moment in America, I think."
[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] Chuck Klosterman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · Obsessed with how the 90s defined selling out, indie rock ethos, and how art and commerce collided; dislikes the English-major Troy type. Loves Kicking and Screaming over Reality Bites. · stances: Selling out was the central 90s tension; Kicking and Screaming is superior; Hawke won the movie
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[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 Dazed and Confused (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Dazed and Confused (1993) 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.