What the corpus says about A Bronx Tale (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)

[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:47 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Last Crusade is offered as a father-son film among filmmakers who rarely make them. · "Well, I guess last Crusade's a Father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · theme · Casino is described as coming, though less of an Italian movie. · "casinos coming, even though, you know, that's a little less of an Italian movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. · "I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Saturday Night Fever · theme · Speaker puts Saturday Night Fever in the same Italian-movie situation. · "Oddly enough, I put Saturday Night Fever in that Italian movie situation"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:24:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Tony Soprano is described as the corrupted version of Sonny. · "So he's like kind of the corrupted screensaver version of Sonny in a lot of ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Irishman · theme · De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump. · "he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane. · "the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:22:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · contrast · The Pauly-to-Jimmy shift in Goodfellas parallels the old-neighborhood-boss versus cocaine-and-silencers mafia, which this movie sits on the nostalgic side of. · "Pauly is like, we all sit around and and eat sausage and and like, we fix the neighborhood and keep it safe"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:40:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Good Shepherd · career · The Good Shepherd is De Niro's only other directing credit. · "Good Shepherd is his only other movie, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:11:24 · Van Lathan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Belly · people · Taral Hicks's career: she appeared in Belly, which may have been too much for her devout beliefs. · "And she appeared in the film Belly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:38:27 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Stanley & Iris · people · Asked if this was De Niro's only normal movie marriage, they cite Stanley and Iris with Jane Fonda as another functional one. · "Stanley and Iris?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:26:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · verdict · Apex for crap scenes and for father-son: Goodfellas and Casino are the competition. · "I gotta go with the fellas, man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Django Unchained · verdict · Apex Mountain for racists getting burned alive: this or the end of Django Unchained. · "Isn't Django unchained, really more the, you know, the end of Django unchained?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:27:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Speed · verdict · Best movie bus drivers: this or Speed. · "It's just it's this or Annie and Speed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:33:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Usual Suspects · verdict · Apex Mountain for Palminteri: A Bronx Tale or The Usual Suspects, with Suspects bigger but this his whole life. · "So suspects is definitely a bigger movie."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · said 7 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Sopranos · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:48:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale · fun · The door test: Sonny's rule that if a girl does not reach over and unlock your car door, dump her fast. It now fails because there are no pull-up knobs, and the hosts also debate the Mario test. · "The door test is now defunct because we don't have buttons that you pull up and down?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:50:58 · Van Lathan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale · fun · The $20 rule: Sonny's advice that you can buy off a pest for 20 bucks and never think about it again. Van calls it the truest thing in the movie because he lends money. · "That is by far. is the truest thing in this entire movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:52:03 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Three great women: Sonny says they come along like great fighters (Marciano, Sugar Ray, Joe Louis), yet he got all three at 16. The hosts love the unprovable theory. · "I just love crazy theories like that that can't be proven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:54:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Lessons from the movie, the show's rare lessons segment: better to be feared than loved (Machiavelli in prison), trouble is a cancer, nobody cares, a rat is the lowest thing, and three great women. 'Nobody cares' voted best. · "I would say the best, greatest lesson from this movie is probably the nobody cares."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:03:09 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Rewatchable scenes: bar introductions of Eddie Mush, JoJo the Whale, Frankie Coffee Cake; craps; the Mush horse-track scene; the biker bar 'Now you can't leave'; De Niro 'stay away from my son'; Sonny's shooting; the funeral. Ryan names the biker bar; the others pick the crap scene. · "I actually have now you just can't leave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:18:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Best quote: 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent', delivered by Coach Finstock-style line; it also resurfaces as the 'best quote' of the episode. · "Best quote, saddest thing in life is wasted talent."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frank Sinatra → The Godfather · lineage · Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica. · "Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:25 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Casino · theme · Joke about the kids never having seen Casino, which a speaker calls the most grown-up movie. · "Casino is kind of the most grown up movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:58:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ The Sopranos · theme · A shooting that nobody follows up recalls the Russian in the woods in The Sopranos. · "It's like the Russian and the sopranos, the Russian in the woods."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:04:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · lineage · King adaptations ranked: Stand By Me, Shawshank, Misery, and The Shining as the four best. · "Misery's the 3rd of that of the 3 best ones, I think, and the Shining, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Italians out of their element, as with Vito in New Hampshire and Tony on a college visit. · "This is like the all time Italians out of their element."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ The Godfather · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:16:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Analyze This ↔ The Sopranos · theme · The Sopranos has basically the same mob-boss-in-therapy premise and cut the legs out of Analyze This's legacy. · "the Sopranos completely cut the cut the legs out of that movie from a legacy standpoint because the Sopranos is basically the same premise"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:00:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fletch ↔ The Godfather · theme · Alan Stanwick's house is the same house as the horse-head scene in The Godfather. · "The godfather, when Jack Waltz finds the horse head in his bed"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] 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] 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 A Bronx Tale (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 A Bronx Tale (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 Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:47 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Last Crusade is offered as a father-son film among filmmakers who rarely make them. · "Well, I guess last Crusade's a Father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · theme · Casino is described as coming, though less of an Italian movie. · "casinos coming, even though, you know, that's a little less of an Italian movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. · "I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Saturday Night Fever · theme · Speaker puts Saturday Night Fever in the same Italian-movie situation. · "Oddly enough, I put Saturday Night Fever in that Italian movie situation"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:24:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Tony Soprano is described as the corrupted version of Sonny. · "So he's like kind of the corrupted screensaver version of Sonny in a lot of ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Irishman · theme · De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump. · "he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane. · "the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:22:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · contrast · The Pauly-to-Jimmy shift in Goodfellas parallels the old-neighborhood-boss versus cocaine-and-silencers mafia, which this movie sits on the nostalgic side of. · "Pauly is like, we all sit around and and eat sausage and and like, we fix the neighborhood and keep it safe"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:40:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Good Shepherd · career · The Good Shepherd is De Niro's only other directing credit. · "Good Shepherd is his only other movie, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:11:24 · Van Lathan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Belly · people · Taral Hicks's career: she appeared in Belly, which may have been too much for her devout beliefs. · "And she appeared in the film Belly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:38:27 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Stanley & Iris · people · Asked if this was De Niro's only normal movie marriage, they cite Stanley and Iris with Jane Fonda as another functional one. · "Stanley and Iris?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:26:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · verdict · Apex for crap scenes and for father-son: Goodfellas and Casino are the competition. · "I gotta go with the fellas, man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Django Unchained · verdict · Apex Mountain for racists getting burned alive: this or the end of Django Unchained. · "Isn't Django unchained, really more the, you know, the end of Django unchained?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:27:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Speed · verdict · Best movie bus drivers: this or Speed. · "It's just it's this or Annie and Speed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:33:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Usual Suspects · verdict · Apex Mountain for Palminteri: A Bronx Tale or The Usual Suspects, with Suspects bigger but this his whole life. · "So suspects is definitely a bigger movie."
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · said 7 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Sopranos · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:48:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale · fun · The door test: Sonny's rule that if a girl does not reach over and unlock your car door, dump her fast. It now fails because there are no pull-up knobs, and the hosts also debate the Mario test. · "The door test is now defunct because we don't have buttons that you pull up and down?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:50:58 · Van Lathan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale · fun · The $20 rule: Sonny's advice that you can buy off a pest for 20 bucks and never think about it again. Van calls it the truest thing in the movie because he lends money. · "That is by far. is the truest thing in this entire movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:52:03 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Three great women: Sonny says they come along like great fighters (Marciano, Sugar Ray, Joe Louis), yet he got all three at 16. The hosts love the unprovable theory. · "I just love crazy theories like that that can't be proven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:54:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Lessons from the movie, the show's rare lessons segment: better to be feared than loved (Machiavelli in prison), trouble is a cancer, nobody cares, a rat is the lowest thing, and three great women. 'Nobody cares' voted best. · "I would say the best, greatest lesson from this movie is probably the nobody cares."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:03:09 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Rewatchable scenes: bar introductions of Eddie Mush, JoJo the Whale, Frankie Coffee Cake; craps; the Mush horse-track scene; the biker bar 'Now you can't leave'; De Niro 'stay away from my son'; Sonny's shooting; the funeral. Ryan names the biker bar; the others pick the crap scene. · "I actually have now you just can't leave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:18:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale · fun · Best quote: 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent', delivered by Coach Finstock-style line; it also resurfaces as the 'best quote' of the episode. · "Best quote, saddest thing in life is wasted talent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frank Sinatra → The Godfather · lineage · Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica. · "Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:25 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Casino · theme · Joke about the kids never having seen Casino, which a speaker calls the most grown-up movie. · "Casino is kind of the most grown up movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:58:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ The Sopranos · theme · A shooting that nobody follows up recalls the Russian in the woods in The Sopranos. · "It's like the Russian and the sopranos, the Russian in the woods."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:04:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · lineage · King adaptations ranked: Stand By Me, Shawshank, Misery, and The Shining as the four best. · "Misery's the 3rd of that of the 3 best ones, I think, and the Shining, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Italians out of their element, as with Vito in New Hampshire and Tony on a college visit. · "This is like the all time Italians out of their element."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ The Godfather · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:16:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Analyze This ↔ The Sopranos · theme · The Sopranos has basically the same mob-boss-in-therapy premise and cut the legs out of Analyze This's legacy. · "the Sopranos completely cut the cut the legs out of that movie from a legacy standpoint because the Sopranos is basically the same premise"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:00:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fletch ↔ The Godfather · theme · Alan Stanwick's house is the same house as the horse-head scene in The Godfather. · "The godfather, when Jack Waltz finds the horse head in his bed"
[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] 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] 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 A Bronx Tale (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend A Bronx Tale (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.