What the corpus says about Rocky (1976)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 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 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:38:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Creed closely follows Rocky's structure, but opens with Creed obviously able to fight, unlike Rocky's grim opening bout. · "in Creed, which very closely follows some of the structures of rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:14:31 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Rocky Balboa (the host's read) · lineage · The little girl Marie from Rocky grows up to be the love interest in Rocky Balboa. · "she then becomes the Rocky Balboa love interest."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:12:52 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Rocky · lineage · Tommy Morrison led cards and was cast in Rocky V, used to argue Butch could have been a decent boxer. · "Tommy Morrison led multiple cards and got cast in Rocky 5."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Rocky ⇒ Bull Durham (the host's read) · lineage · Bull Durham took the Rocky motto a level further in how a sports movie is written. · "how can we take that rocky motto and actually go the next level with how we write a movie"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:24:09 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Rocky · lineage · Merchant says the documentary had a Rocky style underdog story at its core. · "there was a sort of rocky style underdog story at the core of it"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:07 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Merchant says Creed repeated Rocky's trick of making you care about the character before the fighting. · "when they rebooted it with Creed, I think they did the same thing"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:55:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ The Last Dance · theme · Dynasty stories work in documentaries and books, like The Last Dance, but not in movies. · "It's basically what the last dance is about too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:57:04 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Sports movies of the era pit an audience-favorite against the black player or team, like Hoosiers and Rocky. · "it's like Hoosiers, it's rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:30:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky ↔ Bull Durham · theme · The apex-mountain question: is Rocky or Bull Durham the peak for withholding sex while training? · "Is it this or Bull Durham?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:32:57 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Happy Gilmore · theme · Asked for a better ice skating date than Rocky's, someone offers Happy Gilmore and The Cutting Edge. · "There is an ice skating date in Happy Gilmore."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:33:02 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Rocky ↔ The Cutting Edge · theme · The figure-skating date in The Cutting Edge offered as a rival to Rocky's skating rink. · "Cutting Edge?"
[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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:04:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Rocky · craft · The terminal bar looks like the Rocky bar where they watch the fight. · "It looks like the Rocky one bar that they're that they're all watching the fight in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:24:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Bound for Glory · craft · The first two Steadicam films were Bound for Glory and Marathon Man; Rocky was the third. · "The 1st 2 steady cam films were bound for Gloria Marathon Man"

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Fighting with My Family · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Creed · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Network · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Bull Durham · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:04:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky · fun · Prequel joke: Rocky is a prequel to Rocky 3, and boxing does not happen until the last 13 minutes. · "There's boxing does not happen to the last 13 minutes of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:09:24 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Rocky · fun · Bill saw Rocky in 1976 in Dedham with his dad and left confused whether Rocky won, because they announced only one scorecard. · "But leaving, my big memory was being confused whether he won the fight or not and asking my dad like, but what was the scorecard?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:33:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky · fun · Hot take: the 1976 Oscars; Stallone lost to Peter Finch and Network; the hosts relitigate best actor and best picture. · "But the important part here is it's not Rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:35:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky · fun · The first 45 minutes of Rocky are too slow for kids who prefer Rocky 3 and 4 today. · "My kids wanted to watch Rocky 3 and Rocky 4"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:35:55 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky · fun · Most rewatchable: the Spider Rico fight and the $70.20 / $40 payoffs before the credits, which sets expectations. · "I love the beginning with the Spider Rico fight."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:42:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky · fun · Most rewatchable: the meat locker TV interview, with Duke hearing the punches behind his back. · "Duke's got his back to the TV and then he's like turns around slowly."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:53:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Leave No Trace ↔ Fighting with My Family · programming · Fennessey proposes Leave No Trace as an unlikely but reasonable double feature with Fighting with My Family. · "That would make an unlikely but not unreasonable double feature with fighting with my family."
[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 · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street. · "those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?"
[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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:54:51 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Bull Durham · craft · The hooker's complaint is the reverse of Duke in Bull Durham wanting to read poetry all night. · "It's kind of like the reverse of in Bull Durham when Duke is like, we didn't fuck, man."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read) · lineage · The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated. · "this article written by Nick Cohen"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:15:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Bull Durham is the proposed namesake for a horrible-on-screen-athleticism flex category, though Tim Robbins is defended for his idiosyncratic windup. · "I nominate Tim Robbins as the namesake for Bull Durham."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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
[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

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Rocky (1976) 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 Rocky (1976) 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’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘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 · ‘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 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 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:38:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Creed closely follows Rocky's structure, but opens with Creed obviously able to fight, unlike Rocky's grim opening bout. · "in Creed, which very closely follows some of the structures of rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:14:31 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Rocky Balboa (the host's read) · lineage · The little girl Marie from Rocky grows up to be the love interest in Rocky Balboa. · "she then becomes the Rocky Balboa love interest."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:12:52 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Rocky · lineage · Tommy Morrison led cards and was cast in Rocky V, used to argue Butch could have been a decent boxer. · "Tommy Morrison led multiple cards and got cast in Rocky 5."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Rocky ⇒ Bull Durham (the host's read) · lineage · Bull Durham took the Rocky motto a level further in how a sports movie is written. · "how can we take that rocky motto and actually go the next level with how we write a movie"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:24:09 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Rocky · lineage · Merchant says the documentary had a Rocky style underdog story at its core. · "there was a sort of rocky style underdog story at the core of it"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:07 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Merchant says Creed repeated Rocky's trick of making you care about the character before the fighting. · "when they rebooted it with Creed, I think they did the same thing"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:55:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ The Last Dance · theme · Dynasty stories work in documentaries and books, like The Last Dance, but not in movies. · "It's basically what the last dance is about too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:57:04 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Sports movies of the era pit an audience-favorite against the black player or team, like Hoosiers and Rocky. · "it's like Hoosiers, it's rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:30:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky ↔ Bull Durham · theme · The apex-mountain question: is Rocky or Bull Durham the peak for withholding sex while training? · "Is it this or Bull Durham?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:32:57 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Happy Gilmore · theme · Asked for a better ice skating date than Rocky's, someone offers Happy Gilmore and The Cutting Edge. · "There is an ice skating date in Happy Gilmore."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:33:02 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Rocky ↔ The Cutting Edge · theme · The figure-skating date in The Cutting Edge offered as a rival to Rocky's skating rink. · "Cutting Edge?"
[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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:04:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Rocky · craft · The terminal bar looks like the Rocky bar where they watch the fight. · "It looks like the Rocky one bar that they're that they're all watching the fight in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:24:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Bound for Glory · craft · The first two Steadicam films were Bound for Glory and Marathon Man; Rocky was the third. · "The 1st 2 steady cam films were bound for Gloria Marathon Man"
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Fighting with My Family · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Creed · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Network · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rocky ↔ Bull Durham · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:04:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky · fun · Prequel joke: Rocky is a prequel to Rocky 3, and boxing does not happen until the last 13 minutes. · "There's boxing does not happen to the last 13 minutes of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:09:24 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Rocky · fun · Bill saw Rocky in 1976 in Dedham with his dad and left confused whether Rocky won, because they announced only one scorecard. · "But leaving, my big memory was being confused whether he won the fight or not and asking my dad like, but what was the scorecard?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:33:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky · fun · Hot take: the 1976 Oscars; Stallone lost to Peter Finch and Network; the hosts relitigate best actor and best picture. · "But the important part here is it's not Rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:35:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky · fun · The first 45 minutes of Rocky are too slow for kids who prefer Rocky 3 and 4 today. · "My kids wanted to watch Rocky 3 and Rocky 4"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:35:55 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky · fun · Most rewatchable: the Spider Rico fight and the $70.20 / $40 payoffs before the credits, which sets expectations. · "I love the beginning with the Spider Rico fight."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:42:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky · fun · Most rewatchable: the meat locker TV interview, with Duke hearing the punches behind his back. · "Duke's got his back to the TV and then he's like turns around slowly."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:53:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Leave No Trace ↔ Fighting with My Family · programming · Fennessey proposes Leave No Trace as an unlikely but reasonable double feature with Fighting with My Family. · "That would make an unlikely but not unreasonable double feature with fighting with my family."
[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 · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street. · "those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?"
[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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:54:51 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Bull Durham · craft · The hooker's complaint is the reverse of Duke in Bull Durham wanting to read poetry all night. · "It's kind of like the reverse of in Bull Durham when Duke is like, we didn't fuck, man."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read) · lineage · The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated. · "this article written by Nick Cohen"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:15:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Bull Durham is the proposed namesake for a horrible-on-screen-athleticism flex category, though Tim Robbins is defended for his idiosyncratic windup. · "I nominate Tim Robbins as the namesake for Bull Durham."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the 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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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
[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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Rocky (1976); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Rocky (1976) 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.