What the corpus says about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

What was said about it (8)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:19 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · lineage · The big musical number in an action movie feels like Last Crusade, then is corrected to Temple of Doom. · "It's part of this movie feeling very last crusade to me."
3. [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."
4. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:01 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · craft · Last Crusade shows that silent comedy, especially Buster Keaton, is part of the DNA of these movies. · "that's the huge part of the DNA of these movies is silent comedy and not just the adventure serials."
5. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:04:11 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · Last Crusade avoids a third love interest by giving Indy a sparring partner in his dad. · "Indiana Jones needs a sparring partner, they just make it his dad instead of a love interest"
6. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:32:44 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull · verdict · Last Crusade was the right ending; another sequel after Crystal Skull is disappointing. · "Was there a better way to end one of the great franchises than Last Crusade?"
7. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:21:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ 1941 · comedy attempts · Last Crusade is his one fully successful comedy; his clean comedies like 1941 and The Terminal are among his worst. · "basically, all of his worst movies are his cleanest attempts at comedies, like, 1941, the terminal, arguably all these."
8. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:13:57 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Last Crusade reads as a Buster Keaton movie. · "It's a very Griffey movie and I feel like is a very Buster Keatney movie in particular."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (27)

1. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
2. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:36:24 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Chuck Jones ⇒ 1941 (the host's read) · craft · 1941 is Chuck Jones trying to come to life; Raiders uses the same storytelling with narrative discipline. · "that is a Chuck Jones cartoon trying to come to life."
3. [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."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
5. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
6. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
7. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:38:44 · unknown (0.40)] John Williams ↔ 1941 · craft · 1941's score is argued to be among Williams' very best. · "you can argue 1941 is among his very, very best"
8. [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."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
10. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
11. [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."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
13. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
14. [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"
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
16. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
17. [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."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
19. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
20. [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."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
22. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
23. [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."
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
25. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
26. [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."
27. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [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
3. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 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 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 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 · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:19 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · lineage · The big musical number in an action movie feels like Last Crusade, then is corrected to Temple of Doom. · "It's part of this movie feeling very last crusade to me."
[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."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:01 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · craft · Last Crusade shows that silent comedy, especially Buster Keaton, is part of the DNA of these movies. · "that's the huge part of the DNA of these movies is silent comedy and not just the adventure serials."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:04:11 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · Last Crusade avoids a third love interest by giving Indy a sparring partner in his dad. · "Indiana Jones needs a sparring partner, they just make it his dad instead of a love interest"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:32:44 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull · verdict · Last Crusade was the right ending; another sequel after Crystal Skull is disappointing. · "Was there a better way to end one of the great franchises than Last Crusade?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:21:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ 1941 · comedy attempts · Last Crusade is his one fully successful comedy; his clean comedies like 1941 and The Terminal are among his worst. · "basically, all of his worst movies are his cleanest attempts at comedies, like, 1941, the terminal, arguably all these."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:13:57 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Last Crusade reads as a Buster Keaton movie. · "It's a very Griffey movie and I feel like is a very Buster Keatney movie in particular."
[pairs] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:36:24 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Chuck Jones ⇒ 1941 (the host's read) · craft · 1941 is Chuck Jones trying to come to life; Raiders uses the same storytelling with narrative discipline. · "that is a Chuck Jones cartoon trying to come to life."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:38:44 · unknown (0.40)] John Williams ↔ 1941 · craft · 1941's score is argued to be among Williams' very best. · "you can argue 1941 is among his very, very best"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."
[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] 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] 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
[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 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 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.