What the corpus says about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

What was said about it (13)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Blank Check · lineage · Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit. · "She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
4. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:49:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Avatar ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · contrast · Avatar has no visible seams, unlike franchise movies such as Doctor Strange 2 that lop off swaths. · "You were talking about Doctor Strange 2 and how there are huge swaths of that movie that you can just see, they just lopped off."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Justice League · contrast · Stewart's Professor X with the old chair and sting is like Elfman reusing the Batman and Superman themes: clever or fan service. · "I'm going to use my Batman theme."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:30:39 · Patrick Willems (0.50)] Eternals ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · contrast · Eternals let a director shoot it her way and it is called their biggest folly; Raimi gets a bit more latitude. · "It is now perceived as their biggest folly ever."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:28:41 · Patrick Willems (0.60)] Spider-Man 3 ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · verdict · Spider-Man 3 is more purely Raimi but disappoints because Patrick cares about that story; he doesn't care about Doctor Strange's references. · "even though it's much more of a pure Raimi movie."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:15:48 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Spider-Man: No Way Home ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · industry · Multiverse lets Marvel turn sequels into Lego sequels, like a Force Awakens inside a newer franchise. · "by using the multiverse, they can now turn these sequels into Lego sequels."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:16:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Fantastic Four · industry · The multiverse is a way to fold Fox's X-Men and Fantastic Four into a 25-movie universe. · "figure out what the fuck to do with the Fox things they've inherited"
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:36:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Marvels (comic) ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · what-if · A daring Marvel project would be Marvels, a photojournalist witnessing the history of the Marvel universe. · "it's basically just one guy witnessing the the world changing"
11. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:21:22 · David Sims (0.50)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · post-credit shock · The Joan Rivers end-credit reveal is likened to Clea appearing in Doctor Strange's credits. · "as shocking as Joan Rivers voicing a baby at the end of look who's talking."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:18:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · continuity · Professor X here is not the same version as Patrick Stewart's in the Fox X-Men movies. · "the Professor X that shows up in this movie is not the same one from the Fox movies."
13. [The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Rachel McAdams ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · career · McAdams was in a Raimi film but terribly underused in it. · "when we saw the trailer for Dr. Strange 2 directed by Sam Raimi, she was in flashback"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:12:04 · David Sims (0.35)] John Travolta ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Travolta's drugged, lopsided face is likened to Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3. · "Travolta's got, like, Topher Gray Spider Man 3 face."
2. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
3. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
4. [The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Eternals ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · theme · Eternals feels like an unknown cast of space characters, like Guardians, but Guardians had one-liners as the hook. · "Guardians feels like a very unique proposition where it was like, this is in space and we're going to introduce all this stuff, but really just come for the one liners."
5. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
7. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
9. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
11. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
13. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
17. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [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
2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
3. [speaker] Patrick Willems · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · Loves Marvel characters he has cared about all his life and wants resources to make something. Idolized the Waverly Films shorts group. Dislikes the franchise pipeline that strips directors' voices. · stances: Would make a Marvel movie for the resources; Marvel movies cost too much; Hawkeye lost the comic's style
4. [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
5. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional

The shows' running bits (2)

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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 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 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Blank Check · lineage · Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit. · "She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:49:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Avatar ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · contrast · Avatar has no visible seams, unlike franchise movies such as Doctor Strange 2 that lop off swaths. · "You were talking about Doctor Strange 2 and how there are huge swaths of that movie that you can just see, they just lopped off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Justice League · contrast · Stewart's Professor X with the old chair and sting is like Elfman reusing the Batman and Superman themes: clever or fan service. · "I'm going to use my Batman theme."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:30:39 · Patrick Willems (0.50)] Eternals ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · contrast · Eternals let a director shoot it her way and it is called their biggest folly; Raimi gets a bit more latitude. · "It is now perceived as their biggest folly ever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:28:41 · Patrick Willems (0.60)] Spider-Man 3 ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · verdict · Spider-Man 3 is more purely Raimi but disappoints because Patrick cares about that story; he doesn't care about Doctor Strange's references. · "even though it's much more of a pure Raimi movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:15:48 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Spider-Man: No Way Home ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · industry · Multiverse lets Marvel turn sequels into Lego sequels, like a Force Awakens inside a newer franchise. · "by using the multiverse, they can now turn these sequels into Lego sequels."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:16:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Fantastic Four · industry · The multiverse is a way to fold Fox's X-Men and Fantastic Four into a 25-movie universe. · "figure out what the fuck to do with the Fox things they've inherited"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:36:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Marvels (comic) ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · what-if · A daring Marvel project would be Marvels, a photojournalist witnessing the history of the Marvel universe. · "it's basically just one guy witnessing the the world changing"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:21:22 · David Sims (0.50)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · post-credit shock · The Joan Rivers end-credit reveal is likened to Clea appearing in Doctor Strange's credits. · "as shocking as Joan Rivers voicing a baby at the end of look who's talking."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:18:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · continuity · Professor X here is not the same version as Patrick Stewart's in the Fox X-Men movies. · "the Professor X that shows up in this movie is not the same one from the Fox movies."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Rachel McAdams ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · career · McAdams was in a Raimi film but terribly underused in it. · "when we saw the trailer for Dr. Strange 2 directed by Sam Raimi, she was in flashback"
[pairs] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:12:04 · David Sims (0.35)] John Travolta ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Travolta's drugged, lopsided face is likened to Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3. · "Travolta's got, like, Topher Gray Spider Man 3 face."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Eternals ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · theme · Eternals feels like an unknown cast of space characters, like Guardians, but Guardians had one-liners as the hook. · "Guardians feels like a very unique proposition where it was like, this is in space and we're going to introduce all this stuff, but really just come for the one liners."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Patrick Willems · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · Loves Marvel characters he has cared about all his life and wants resources to make something. Idolized the Waverly Films shorts group. Dislikes the franchise pipeline that strips directors' voices. · stances: Would make a Marvel movie for the resources; Marvel movies cost too much; Hawkeye lost the comic's style
[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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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)

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 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 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.