What the corpus says about Jurassic Park (1993)

The 60 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 (26)

[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read) · lineage · Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave. · "that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read) · lineage · The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them. · "even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park. · "Jurassic Park is the same way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:43:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · The drive-in tornado reveal is ranked alongside the T-Rex in Jurassic Park though not as iconic. · "I think this one's up there in subways with like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Both Avatar and Jurassic Park must front-load complicated sci-fi premises; Jurassic Park is the cited good example. · "Jurassic Park has them watching a movie about how Jurassic Park works."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:40:14 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Jurassic Park is the usual example of exposition done right; Cameron just gets Avatar's exposition done bluntly. · "Jurassic Park is always site as an example of like, they figured out the right way to do it."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:09:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Both are told perfectly and are tighter than people remember. · "I think also just it's very similar to Jurassic Park in so far as it's told perfectly."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Jaws ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow. · "I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:43:21 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Old Dogs ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · The zoo break-in sequence gives Jurassic Park vibes. · "Getting kind of Jurassic Park vibes from this."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:06:23 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Jurassic Park ↔ Transformers (movies) · contrast · Jurassic Park is lean where modern spectacles are bloated. · "It is very much a lean middleweight fighter."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · career · Spielberg released both in the same year. · "he released Jurassic Park and Schindler's list in the same year."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:24:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hook ↔ Jurassic Park · verdict · Hook is where Spielberg turns parent, and Jurassic Park is the better telling of the same father story. · "Jurassic Park is the much better version of what the story that Huck is trying to do."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:35 · unknown (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ↔ Jurassic Park · verdict · Jurassic Park's PG rating is called absurd given Spielberg's role in creating PG-13 after Temple of Doom and Gremlins. · "Spielberg's the reason that PG-13 was created."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · industry · Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous. · "coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Jurassic Park ↔ Jurassic Park · industry · Its popularity on release is likened to a Michael Jackson-level approval rating. · "But the approval rating of Jurassic Park is hard to overstate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 2:22:47 · David Sims (0.40)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ Jurassic Park · industry · Nightmare's first-ever animated VFX nomination lost to Jurassic Park. · "It lost to Jurassic Park."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:31:31 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Jurassic Park · what-if · A Spielberg F1 would be Jurassic Park with cars. · "This is essentially Jurassic Park, but with cars"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:01 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · same-year pair · Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List. · "He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World (the host's read) · misreading · Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World. · "Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read) · technology showed it was possible · The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered. · "And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book. · "Can I be the rock star sign?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park. · "Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:25:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Jurassic Park ↔ Stan Winston · craft · Jurassic Park fuses a new standard of CGI with incredible practical effects. · "it set a new standard for what computer generated graphics could be in a film, and it also has incredible practical special effects."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Jurassic Park ↔ Twister · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Jurassic Park ↔ Avatar · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park · fun · The film is PG, a PG that came with an extra warning, ironic since Spielberg's films prompted PG-13. · "Jurassic Park is ridiculously rated PG."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:07:13 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Jurassic Park · fun · Spielberg Wonderface: the shot where Sam Neill turns Laura Dern's head toward a brontosaurus. · "He captures wonder in a way that no other filmmaker really ever has"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Jurassic Park · fun · See Laura Dern with her head down on the breathing triceratops, and the T. rex footprint pressed in the ground. · "you can see the tyrannosaurus claw foot pressed down and the footprint."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Schindler's List · lineage · It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now. · "set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:41:41 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] John Williams ↔ A.I. Artificial Intelligence · craft · The A.I. score is beautiful on its own but is not always well used in the film and overwhelms the ending. · "And also, I would argue that the score isn't always that well used in the movie."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Independence Day · programming · Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister. · "July 2nd Independence Day."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Speed · programming · Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed. · "It's gotta be speed, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 1:47:09 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Deep Impact · programming · Deep Impact, same summer, is suggested as a disaster double feature and feels coded to Twister. · "Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] 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] 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'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Jurassic Park (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 Jurassic Park (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.

[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read) · lineage · Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave. · "that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read) · lineage · The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them. · "even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park. · "Jurassic Park is the same way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:43:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · The drive-in tornado reveal is ranked alongside the T-Rex in Jurassic Park though not as iconic. · "I think this one's up there in subways with like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Both Avatar and Jurassic Park must front-load complicated sci-fi premises; Jurassic Park is the cited good example. · "Jurassic Park has them watching a movie about how Jurassic Park works."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:40:14 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Jurassic Park is the usual example of exposition done right; Cameron just gets Avatar's exposition done bluntly. · "Jurassic Park is always site as an example of like, they figured out the right way to do it."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:09:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Both are told perfectly and are tighter than people remember. · "I think also just it's very similar to Jurassic Park in so far as it's told perfectly."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Jaws ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow. · "I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:43:21 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Old Dogs ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · The zoo break-in sequence gives Jurassic Park vibes. · "Getting kind of Jurassic Park vibes from this."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:06:23 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Jurassic Park ↔ Transformers (movies) · contrast · Jurassic Park is lean where modern spectacles are bloated. · "It is very much a lean middleweight fighter."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · career · Spielberg released both in the same year. · "he released Jurassic Park and Schindler's list in the same year."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:24:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hook ↔ Jurassic Park · verdict · Hook is where Spielberg turns parent, and Jurassic Park is the better telling of the same father story. · "Jurassic Park is the much better version of what the story that Huck is trying to do."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:35 · unknown (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ↔ Jurassic Park · verdict · Jurassic Park's PG rating is called absurd given Spielberg's role in creating PG-13 after Temple of Doom and Gremlins. · "Spielberg's the reason that PG-13 was created."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · industry · Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous. · "coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Jurassic Park ↔ Jurassic Park · industry · Its popularity on release is likened to a Michael Jackson-level approval rating. · "But the approval rating of Jurassic Park is hard to overstate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 2:22:47 · David Sims (0.40)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ Jurassic Park · industry · Nightmare's first-ever animated VFX nomination lost to Jurassic Park. · "It lost to Jurassic Park."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:31:31 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Jurassic Park · what-if · A Spielberg F1 would be Jurassic Park with cars. · "This is essentially Jurassic Park, but with cars"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:01 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · same-year pair · Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List. · "He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World (the host's read) · misreading · Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World. · "Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read) · technology showed it was possible · The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered. · "And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book. · "Can I be the rock star sign?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park. · "Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:25:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Jurassic Park ↔ Stan Winston · craft · Jurassic Park fuses a new standard of CGI with incredible practical effects. · "it set a new standard for what computer generated graphics could be in a film, and it also has incredible practical special effects."
[pairs] Jurassic Park ↔ Twister · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Jurassic Park ↔ Avatar · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:04:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park · fun · The film is PG, a PG that came with an extra warning, ironic since Spielberg's films prompted PG-13. · "Jurassic Park is ridiculously rated PG."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:07:13 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Jurassic Park · fun · Spielberg Wonderface: the shot where Sam Neill turns Laura Dern's head toward a brontosaurus. · "He captures wonder in a way that no other filmmaker really ever has"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Jurassic Park · fun · See Laura Dern with her head down on the breathing triceratops, and the T. rex footprint pressed in the ground. · "you can see the tyrannosaurus claw foot pressed down and the footprint."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Schindler's List · lineage · It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now. · "set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:41:41 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] John Williams ↔ A.I. Artificial Intelligence · craft · The A.I. score is beautiful on its own but is not always well used in the film and overwhelms the ending. · "And also, I would argue that the score isn't always that well used in the movie."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Independence Day · programming · Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister. · "July 2nd Independence Day."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Speed · programming · Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed. · "It's gotta be speed, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 1:47:09 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Deep Impact · programming · Deep Impact, same summer, is suggested as a disaster double feature and feels coded to Twister. · "Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] 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] 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'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 Jurassic Park (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Jurassic Park (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.