What the corpus says about Saturday Night Fever (1977)

The 59 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 · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Dance Fever · programming · Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence. · "I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Good Times · programming · Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention. · "Oh, since we're talking about good times."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out. · "it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read) · lineage · Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie. · "I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original. · "I'm glad it exists."
[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 · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:10:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · theme · 70s and 80s films tried to capture a city or group; Scorsese did it in Mean Streets with people who are not great either. · "like, you know, mean streets, Scorsese does that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them. · "Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:11:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Welcome Back, Kotter · theme · Old Brooklyn as a pop-culture location: Kimmel picks Welcome Back Kotter over this film and The Warriors. · "Well, I'm going to have to go with Welcome back Cotter"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:11:56 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.60)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Annie Hall · theme · The Brooklyn Bridge is used by Woody Allen as well, but Simmons says this film is apex Brooklyn Bridge. · "Woody Allen's making his movies right at the same time as this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene. · "every mafia movie's got one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:13:44 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Rocky · theme · Kimmel notes the film never gives Tony a Rocky-style triumphant moment. · "there's no like, you know, there's no rocky moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ All the Right Moves · theme · All the Right Moves runs the same formula: a kid trapped in a dead-end town might get out. · "It's basically the same formula, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:45:36 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Serpico · craft · Tony's bedroom has Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett posters. · "there's posters of Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Warriors · craft · The Barracudas fight should have been better compared with The Warriors and other great 70s fight scenes. · "if you're comparing it to movies like the Warriors and some of the great 70s fight scene movies."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale. · "the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Sopranos · contrast · Simmons wonders whether the producers knew these men were bad guys, unlike David Chase on The Sopranos. · "I know for the Sopranos, for instance, you know that David Chase knows that these are bad guys"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Manhattan · contrast · Woody Allen's Manhattan is the polished version of New York against Brooklyn in this film. · "Annie Hall in Manhattan, the good version"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:18:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · contrast · Staying Alive is so different that it did not ruin the original the way most sequels would. · "it's just so different from Saturday Night Fever that it didn't ruin it in the same way most sequels would."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:47:32 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Grease · contrast · Merchant says people think of Saturday Night Fever as a Grease-like musical, but it is a much tougher, grittier film. · "like a companion piece to Greece, but it's actually a much tougher, grittier film"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:09:59 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Grease · career · Grease follows this film and Travolta filmed the two back to back; Simmons argues Grease was his apex. · "He's in 2 of them back to back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:22:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Welcome Back, Kotter · career · Travolta went from the TV goof Barbarino to this part, a surprise that he was a real actor. · "Going from Barbarino to this part, I think was surprising in a good way"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Chinatown · verdict · Simmons ranks the dance floor takeover among the five most iconic scenes of the 70s next to Chinatown and The Godfather. · "I actually think this is one of the 5 most iconic scenes of the 70s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction. · "75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Rocky · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Grease · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Annie Hall · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Staying Alive · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Welcome Back, Kotter · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:09:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Re-released as a PG in 1979, heavily dubbed, with the dialogue changed from a vulgar word to 'pig'. · "And they re-released this movie as a PG movie in 1979."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:20:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · The dance contest is rigged for Tony; he hands the trophy to the Puerto Rican couple, who were better. · "Tony Minero takes his check and hands it to the Puerto Rican couple and the trophy too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:20:24 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Joke: the Puerto Rican couple got a second-place check as well, so Tony should have swapped checks. · "So they got a double dip."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Gene Siskel bought the white suit at a 1979 charity auction for $2,000 and sold it in 1995 at Christie's for $145,000. · "Cisco bought the fucking suit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:29:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Opening credits: Tony walks the street with a paint can and stacks two pizza slices; Kimmel says his wife has seen just the first minute. · "I bet you've seen the 1st minute of it and that's it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:38:25 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Kimmel and Clito named a body part Father Frank Jr. after the Father Frank scene. · "called our penis's Father Frank Jr."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:04:39 · Juliet Litman (0.75)] Woody Allen ↔ Annie Hall · lineage · Juliet traces the first rom-com era to Woody Allen and 'the sort of Annie Hall of it all'. · "I think that's the sort of Annie Hall of it all can't be ignored fully"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:13 · Jessica Bendinger (0.85)] Grease ⇒ Jessica Bendinger (the host's read) · lineage · Bendinger names Grease, Risky Business and Fast Times as the teen classics she grew up on. · "But before that, it was Greece was probably the biggest, you know, cultural phenomenon, then Risky Business and Fast Times, of course."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:47:44 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Modern Romance ↔ Annie Hall · lineage · Modern Romance is Albert Brooks trying to make his Annie Hall and failing hilariously. · "It's Albert Brooks trying to do his Annie Hall"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:44 · Van Lathan (0.80)] The Big Chill ↔ Grease · theme · Van's list continues through Grease, Good Will Hunting, and Jackass. · "Number three, Grease."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters. · "I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Mean Streets ⇒ Boogie Nights (the maker said so: the Boogie Nights commentary track) · lineage · Per the commentary track, Anderson lifted images from Mean Streets, Goodfellas and other Scorsese films for Boogie Nights. · "Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:28:11 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Cinderella Man (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky set up the idea that a victory transforms the supporting cast too, as in Cinderella Man where he fights for Giamatti. · "by the time you get to like Cinderella man, you realize that he's not just fighting for him, he's fighting for Giamatti."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (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] Jimmy Kimmel · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · Grew up on the soundtrack and loves Travolta, the TV era and 70s TV icons (Good Times, Kotter). Defends comedians for awards and Woody Allen. Is a sucker for family anecdotes (his Italian Brooklyn-adjacent roots, Aunt Chippy) and cannot stand fake New York accents. · stances: The film is a time capsule of Bay Ridge; Opening credits are the most rewatchable scene; Woody Allen should have won Best Actor; The film would not be made now
[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] Stephen Merchant · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · A former film critic with very broad taste, from Fellini and Antonioni to Predator and Die Hard, and loves Rocky (especially Rocky 2), musicals, and grittier-than-remembered classics like Saturday Night Fever. Admires craft and performance skill, and is wary of mocking subject matter. · stances: Wrestling was a late conversion; he came to respect the performance craft; Make it work for non-fans, like Rocky or Billy Elliot; Simplify the source rather than serve every fan; Success in one thing does not open every door

The shows' running bits (2)

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

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 Saturday Night Fever (1977) 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 Saturday Night Fever (1977) 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 · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Dance Fever · programming · Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence. · "I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Good Times · programming · Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention. · "Oh, since we're talking about good times."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out. · "it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read) · lineage · Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie. · "I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original. · "I'm glad it exists."
[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 · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:10:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · theme · 70s and 80s films tried to capture a city or group; Scorsese did it in Mean Streets with people who are not great either. · "like, you know, mean streets, Scorsese does that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them. · "Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:11:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Welcome Back, Kotter · theme · Old Brooklyn as a pop-culture location: Kimmel picks Welcome Back Kotter over this film and The Warriors. · "Well, I'm going to have to go with Welcome back Cotter"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:11:56 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.60)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Annie Hall · theme · The Brooklyn Bridge is used by Woody Allen as well, but Simmons says this film is apex Brooklyn Bridge. · "Woody Allen's making his movies right at the same time as this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene. · "every mafia movie's got one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:13:44 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Rocky · theme · Kimmel notes the film never gives Tony a Rocky-style triumphant moment. · "there's no like, you know, there's no rocky moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ All the Right Moves · theme · All the Right Moves runs the same formula: a kid trapped in a dead-end town might get out. · "It's basically the same formula, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:45:36 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Serpico · craft · Tony's bedroom has Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett posters. · "there's posters of Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Warriors · craft · The Barracudas fight should have been better compared with The Warriors and other great 70s fight scenes. · "if you're comparing it to movies like the Warriors and some of the great 70s fight scene movies."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale. · "the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Sopranos · contrast · Simmons wonders whether the producers knew these men were bad guys, unlike David Chase on The Sopranos. · "I know for the Sopranos, for instance, you know that David Chase knows that these are bad guys"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Manhattan · contrast · Woody Allen's Manhattan is the polished version of New York against Brooklyn in this film. · "Annie Hall in Manhattan, the good version"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:18:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · contrast · Staying Alive is so different that it did not ruin the original the way most sequels would. · "it's just so different from Saturday Night Fever that it didn't ruin it in the same way most sequels would."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:47:32 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Grease · contrast · Merchant says people think of Saturday Night Fever as a Grease-like musical, but it is a much tougher, grittier film. · "like a companion piece to Greece, but it's actually a much tougher, grittier film"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:09:59 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Grease · career · Grease follows this film and Travolta filmed the two back to back; Simmons argues Grease was his apex. · "He's in 2 of them back to back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:22:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Welcome Back, Kotter · career · Travolta went from the TV goof Barbarino to this part, a surprise that he was a real actor. · "Going from Barbarino to this part, I think was surprising in a good way"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Chinatown · verdict · Simmons ranks the dance floor takeover among the five most iconic scenes of the 70s next to Chinatown and The Godfather. · "I actually think this is one of the 5 most iconic scenes of the 70s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction. · "75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster."
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Rocky · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Grease · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Annie Hall · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Staying Alive · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Welcome Back, Kotter · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:09:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Re-released as a PG in 1979, heavily dubbed, with the dialogue changed from a vulgar word to 'pig'. · "And they re-released this movie as a PG movie in 1979."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:20:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · The dance contest is rigged for Tony; he hands the trophy to the Puerto Rican couple, who were better. · "Tony Minero takes his check and hands it to the Puerto Rican couple and the trophy too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:20:24 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Joke: the Puerto Rican couple got a second-place check as well, so Tony should have swapped checks. · "So they got a double dip."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Gene Siskel bought the white suit at a 1979 charity auction for $2,000 and sold it in 1995 at Christie's for $145,000. · "Cisco bought the fucking suit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:29:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Opening credits: Tony walks the street with a paint can and stacks two pizza slices; Kimmel says his wife has seen just the first minute. · "I bet you've seen the 1st minute of it and that's it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:38:25 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever · fun · Kimmel and Clito named a body part Father Frank Jr. after the Father Frank scene. · "called our penis's Father Frank Jr."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:04:39 · Juliet Litman (0.75)] Woody Allen ↔ Annie Hall · lineage · Juliet traces the first rom-com era to Woody Allen and 'the sort of Annie Hall of it all'. · "I think that's the sort of Annie Hall of it all can't be ignored fully"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:13 · Jessica Bendinger (0.85)] Grease ⇒ Jessica Bendinger (the host's read) · lineage · Bendinger names Grease, Risky Business and Fast Times as the teen classics she grew up on. · "But before that, it was Greece was probably the biggest, you know, cultural phenomenon, then Risky Business and Fast Times, of course."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:47:44 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Modern Romance ↔ Annie Hall · lineage · Modern Romance is Albert Brooks trying to make his Annie Hall and failing hilariously. · "It's Albert Brooks trying to do his Annie Hall"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:44 · Van Lathan (0.80)] The Big Chill ↔ Grease · theme · Van's list continues through Grease, Good Will Hunting, and Jackass. · "Number three, Grease."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters. · "I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Mean Streets ⇒ Boogie Nights (the maker said so: the Boogie Nights commentary track) · lineage · Per the commentary track, Anderson lifted images from Mean Streets, Goodfellas and other Scorsese films for Boogie Nights. · "Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:28:11 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Cinderella Man (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky set up the idea that a victory transforms the supporting cast too, as in Cinderella Man where he fights for Giamatti. · "by the time you get to like Cinderella man, you realize that he's not just fighting for him, he's fighting for Giamatti."
[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] Jimmy Kimmel · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · Grew up on the soundtrack and loves Travolta, the TV era and 70s TV icons (Good Times, Kotter). Defends comedians for awards and Woody Allen. Is a sucker for family anecdotes (his Italian Brooklyn-adjacent roots, Aunt Chippy) and cannot stand fake New York accents. · stances: The film is a time capsule of Bay Ridge; Opening credits are the most rewatchable scene; Woody Allen should have won Best Actor; The film would not be made now
[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] Stephen Merchant · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · A former film critic with very broad taste, from Fellini and Antonioni to Predator and Die Hard, and loves Rocky (especially Rocky 2), musicals, and grittier-than-remembered classics like Saturday Night Fever. Admires craft and performance skill, and is wary of mocking subject matter. · stances: Wrestling was a late conversion; he came to respect the performance craft; Make it work for non-fans, like Rocky or Billy Elliot; Simplify the source rather than serve every fan; Success in one thing does not open every door
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Saturday Night Fever (1977); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Saturday Night Fever (1977) 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.