What the corpus says about Swingers (1996)

The 57 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 (11)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read) · lineage · Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino. · "The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:10:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Swingers · craft · Vaughn's Rick in the first half echoes his Swingers character Trent: constant performing, false energy, bravado. · "He's always, you know, he's always got this like false energy, this bravado, and he's kind of doing that in the 1st half of this movie where he's trying to connect with Danny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:09:08 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] After Hours ↔ Swingers · contrast · Bill contrasts New York cabs with LA car culture in Swingers. · "if you watch swingers and everybody's in their cars and they have like multiple scenes where the 5 guys are driving in their cars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:01:04 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Swingers · what-if · Sil could have gone to the Viper Room or the Swingers bar. · "Easily could have gone to the bar and swing, to place in swingers where the old people Marty Elaine play."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:48:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Knocked Up ↔ Swingers · reference · A speaker notes there is a Swingers joke when they drive to Vegas, and wonders if under-20s get it. · "They have a swinger's joke in the movie too, when they're driving to Vegas."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Doug Liman ↔ Swingers · craft · Liman shot Fair Game, Swingers and Go himself. · "He did shoot fair game and he shot swingers in go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:08:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Vince Vaughn ↔ Swingers · career · Six years after Swingers made him a star, Vaughn was chasing serious thrillers, Domestic Disturbance among them. · "Clay pigeon, psycho, the cell, domestic disturbance and made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Vince Vaughn ↔ Swingers · career · Old School comes back to the Swingers energy after years of odd roles, including the Psycho remake. · "I think this is the funniest I've ever found him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:44:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doug Liman ↔ Swingers · career · Swingers and the OC pilot are the zeitgeist hits that earned Liman the benefit of the doubt. · "swingers like launched a 1000 ships, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:16:31 · unknown (0.30)] Jon Favreau ↔ Swingers · career · Marvel did not hire him on the strength of Swingers. · "They weren't hiring like swingers made Fabreau in their mind."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:19 · unknown (0.30)] Steven Spielberg ↔ Swingers · people · A host speculates Spielberg cast Vince Vaughn after seeing dailies of Swingers. · "Spielberg seeing swingers, probably seeing dailies of swingers and being like, this guy is obviously going to be a big deal."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (40)

[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ The Good Son · programming · The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode. · "Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up. · "And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:18 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Changing Lanes · lineage · Changing Lanes is named as another 2000s 'from hell' picture (road rage from hell) alongside Domestic Disturbance. · "Oh yeah. With Sam Jackson and Ben Affleck, the road rage from hell."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · programming · Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much. · "This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ One Hour Photo · lineage · One Hour Photo is cited as the 2000s photo-developer-from-hell entry in the same cycle. · "You get one hour photo with Robin Williams."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather. · "Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:11:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ The League (TV) · programming · Bill says Knocked Up may be the most high-profile fantasy moment in a movie, since The League is a TV show. · "It might be the most high profile fantasy moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Single White Female · theme · The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear. · "there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Zoolander · theme · Zoolander is now beloved, but the post-9/11 audience was not ready for a comedy. · "Even though the movie's beloved now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:17:46 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Domestic Disturbance · theme · The movie is mashed from TV-movie formulas: an ABC after school special about a first dad and his son. · "It's basically an ABC after school special of like the 1st dad trying to keep his relationship with his son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies. · "It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."

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] 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] 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

The shows' running bits (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)
[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 Swingers (1996) 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 Swingers (1996) 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 · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read) · lineage · Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino. · "The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:10:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Swingers · craft · Vaughn's Rick in the first half echoes his Swingers character Trent: constant performing, false energy, bravado. · "He's always, you know, he's always got this like false energy, this bravado, and he's kind of doing that in the 1st half of this movie where he's trying to connect with Danny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:09:08 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] After Hours ↔ Swingers · contrast · Bill contrasts New York cabs with LA car culture in Swingers. · "if you watch swingers and everybody's in their cars and they have like multiple scenes where the 5 guys are driving in their cars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:01:04 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Swingers · what-if · Sil could have gone to the Viper Room or the Swingers bar. · "Easily could have gone to the bar and swing, to place in swingers where the old people Marty Elaine play."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:48:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Knocked Up ↔ Swingers · reference · A speaker notes there is a Swingers joke when they drive to Vegas, and wonders if under-20s get it. · "They have a swinger's joke in the movie too, when they're driving to Vegas."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Doug Liman ↔ Swingers · craft · Liman shot Fair Game, Swingers and Go himself. · "He did shoot fair game and he shot swingers in go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:08:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Vince Vaughn ↔ Swingers · career · Six years after Swingers made him a star, Vaughn was chasing serious thrillers, Domestic Disturbance among them. · "Clay pigeon, psycho, the cell, domestic disturbance and made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Vince Vaughn ↔ Swingers · career · Old School comes back to the Swingers energy after years of odd roles, including the Psycho remake. · "I think this is the funniest I've ever found him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:44:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doug Liman ↔ Swingers · career · Swingers and the OC pilot are the zeitgeist hits that earned Liman the benefit of the doubt. · "swingers like launched a 1000 ships, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:16:31 · unknown (0.30)] Jon Favreau ↔ Swingers · career · Marvel did not hire him on the strength of Swingers. · "They weren't hiring like swingers made Fabreau in their mind."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:19 · unknown (0.30)] Steven Spielberg ↔ Swingers · people · A host speculates Spielberg cast Vince Vaughn after seeing dailies of Swingers. · "Spielberg seeing swingers, probably seeing dailies of swingers and being like, this guy is obviously going to be a big deal."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ The Good Son · programming · The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode. · "Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up. · "And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:18 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Changing Lanes · lineage · Changing Lanes is named as another 2000s 'from hell' picture (road rage from hell) alongside Domestic Disturbance. · "Oh yeah. With Sam Jackson and Ben Affleck, the road rage from hell."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · programming · Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much. · "This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ One Hour Photo · lineage · One Hour Photo is cited as the 2000s photo-developer-from-hell entry in the same cycle. · "You get one hour photo with Robin Williams."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather. · "Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:11:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ The League (TV) · programming · Bill says Knocked Up may be the most high-profile fantasy moment in a movie, since The League is a TV show. · "It might be the most high profile fantasy moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Single White Female · theme · The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear. · "there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Zoolander · theme · Zoolander is now beloved, but the post-9/11 audience was not ready for a comedy. · "Even though the movie's beloved now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:17:46 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Domestic Disturbance · theme · The movie is mashed from TV-movie formulas: an ABC after school special about a first dad and his son. · "It's basically an ABC after school special of like the 1st dad trying to keep his relationship with his son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies. · "It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[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] 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] 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
[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 Swingers (1996); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Swingers (1996) 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.