What the corpus says about Father of the Bride (1991)

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What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · lineage · The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. · "there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it. · "he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Risky Business · lineage · Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake. · "if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parenthood ↔ Father of the Bride · lineage · Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself. · "Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read) · lineage · Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget. · "I'm okay with Father of the Bride too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read) · lineage · The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic. · "The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Four Weddings and a Funeral (the host's read) · lineage · Father of the Bride starts the 90s wedding-movie explosion that includes Four Weddings, Wedding Planner and Wedding Singer. · "This like really starts the 90s explosion of everything from 4 weddings and a funeral to wedding planner and wedding singer and you name it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ It's Complicated · theme · Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated. · "Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · theme · Both end with newlyweds leaving for the honeymoon immediately, which never happens in real life. · "By the way, my best friend's wedding does it too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:15:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Sex and the City · theme · Dobbins would watch a Father of the Bride series even if it betrays the original, like she watches the Sex and the City revival. · "there's a new Sex in the City remake episode to watch, you know, even though it's like one of, it's, it's not really working"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Baby Boom ↔ Father of the Bride · craft · The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride. · "Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:59:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The War of the Roses ↔ Father of the Bride · contrast · Amanda ranks the Roses house outside her top 20 movie houses, beginning her list with the Father of the Bride house. · "This is not even a top 20 movie house."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:09:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · contrast · Rachel Getting Married is the dysfunctional, intense wedding movie; Father of the Bride is the gentle one where everyone ends up loving each other. · "the bizarre version of this is Rachel's getting married."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · contrast · Apex pick: Father of the Bride is the happy wedding movie, not the one with complete dysfunction. · "not Rachel's getting married where it's just complete dysfunction and people fucking in the basement."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · people · The dad in Rachel Getting Married, and the kitchen meltdown scene, is amazing but intense in the opposite way. · "the dad is amazing in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:23:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ The Parent Trap · people · Meyers directed Parent Trap after the split with Shyer; Dobbins calls it weirdly important and Lohan's double role one of the great kid performances. · "It's one of the great kid actor performances ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:39:40 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Indian Summer (Big Show ripoff, per speaker) · people · Kimberly Williams's next notable role was Indian Summer, a Big Show ripoff, and she never broke out. · "she was in Indian summer, which was one of the many terrible big show ripoffs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:21 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Father of the Bride ↔ The Godfather · people · Simmons does not count The Godfather as a wedding movie, and says Keaton's performance here makes up for Kay Corleone. · "I don't count the godfather as a wedding movie, even though the wedding is important."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Jerk ↔ Father of the Bride · verdict · The Jerk would have been the pick for a while but has not got the legs. · "I think the jerk would have been there for a while, but I just don't think it's gotten the legs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Roxanne ↔ Father of the Bride · verdict · Roxanne was a massive movie that people feared he could not pull off, but this is still his best. · "Roxanne was a massive movie. And was a movie that people were not were worried that he was going to pull it off and they did, and it's really good."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:51 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Parenthood ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · verdict · Some would pick Parenthood as his best because it tried this type of movie first and spun off into a TV show. · "Some people might say parenthood actually, because it's the 1st type of movie that tried to do the stuff they did."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:14:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ↔ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels · earlier edgier Martin · Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Three Amigos show a Martin edgier than the dad persona, like discovering your dad was cool in his 20s. · "you go back and you see 3 of me, it goes, and you see dirty rotten scoundrels."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:26:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Goodfellas · narration that works · Narration is usually a crutch, but it works in Goodfellas and here because the monologue is good and the narration lets George say what he cannot say. · "Narration is usually a crutch and you really, like Goodfellas is a good example of like, narration totally worked."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:02 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Father of the Bride ↔ Teen Wolf · basketball scene scale · Teen Wolf has the worst basketball scene ever; Father of the Bride's father-daughter scene rates about an eight against its one. · "The worst, the worst basketball scene ever in a movie is in Teen Wolf."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:26:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride · fun · The film's catchphrase-adjacent scene: the dad's opening monologue to camera. Dobbins hates talking to camera as a device but says it works here because the monologue is excellent, and it sets up voiceover narration that lets George say what he cannot say to the family. · "It works in this one because the monologue's really good and he's really good in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:33:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride · fun · Steve Martin's dinner list of consolations: Paul Simon tickets at the Forum, a Lakers game, and 'independent communications consultant' as code for unemployed. Dobbins used the line on her in-laws. · "Independent communications consultant is still..."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (12)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better. · "I think parenthood, there's a really good argument."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:26:07 · unknown (0.35)] Margot at the Wedding ↔ Rachel Getting Married · theme · A run of films about actresses being awful at small family weddings; Kidman goes further than Hathaway's Rachel Getting Married character. · "But so there was like the this era of actresses you like being really awful at small family weddings."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · theme · One of the late-80s female-empowerment workplace comedies the 1980s produced alongside Working Girl. · "the female empowerment workplace comedy stuff that is like, for the 80s, because you have baby boom here, too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style. · "I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Parenthood · theme · Also in the 80s dramedies about life crises that are no longer made. · "Cities liquors like that, working girl, parenthood, you know, there's a bunch of movies that are like this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Franchises like Alien and Blade Runner predict a first generation of androids that does horrid things and gets scaled back. · "very much like in this franchise and Blade Runner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:45:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Parenthood · craft · Parenthood used a school-shooting imagery as a comedic device, another example of things no longer made. · "Or even parenthood where they use a school shooting for a comedic device."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Blade Runner ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas. · "It was so bad in the original Blade Runner."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · craft · Both films mark a new era partly through their synth scores: Mann used Tangerine Dream, Scott used Vangelis. · "Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream, like these, the, it sounds different."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

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

The shows' running bits (3)

[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 Father of the Bride (1991) 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 Father of the Bride (1991) 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 · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · lineage · The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. · "there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it. · "he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Risky Business · lineage · Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake. · "if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parenthood ↔ Father of the Bride · lineage · Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself. · "Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read) · lineage · Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget. · "I'm okay with Father of the Bride too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read) · lineage · The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic. · "The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Four Weddings and a Funeral (the host's read) · lineage · Father of the Bride starts the 90s wedding-movie explosion that includes Four Weddings, Wedding Planner and Wedding Singer. · "This like really starts the 90s explosion of everything from 4 weddings and a funeral to wedding planner and wedding singer and you name it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ It's Complicated · theme · Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated. · "Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · theme · Both end with newlyweds leaving for the honeymoon immediately, which never happens in real life. · "By the way, my best friend's wedding does it too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:15:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Sex and the City · theme · Dobbins would watch a Father of the Bride series even if it betrays the original, like she watches the Sex and the City revival. · "there's a new Sex in the City remake episode to watch, you know, even though it's like one of, it's, it's not really working"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Baby Boom ↔ Father of the Bride · craft · The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride. · "Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:59:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The War of the Roses ↔ Father of the Bride · contrast · Amanda ranks the Roses house outside her top 20 movie houses, beginning her list with the Father of the Bride house. · "This is not even a top 20 movie house."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:09:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · contrast · Rachel Getting Married is the dysfunctional, intense wedding movie; Father of the Bride is the gentle one where everyone ends up loving each other. · "the bizarre version of this is Rachel's getting married."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · contrast · Apex pick: Father of the Bride is the happy wedding movie, not the one with complete dysfunction. · "not Rachel's getting married where it's just complete dysfunction and people fucking in the basement."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · people · The dad in Rachel Getting Married, and the kitchen meltdown scene, is amazing but intense in the opposite way. · "the dad is amazing in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:23:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ The Parent Trap · people · Meyers directed Parent Trap after the split with Shyer; Dobbins calls it weirdly important and Lohan's double role one of the great kid performances. · "It's one of the great kid actor performances ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:39:40 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Indian Summer (Big Show ripoff, per speaker) · people · Kimberly Williams's next notable role was Indian Summer, a Big Show ripoff, and she never broke out. · "she was in Indian summer, which was one of the many terrible big show ripoffs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:21 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Father of the Bride ↔ The Godfather · people · Simmons does not count The Godfather as a wedding movie, and says Keaton's performance here makes up for Kay Corleone. · "I don't count the godfather as a wedding movie, even though the wedding is important."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Jerk ↔ Father of the Bride · verdict · The Jerk would have been the pick for a while but has not got the legs. · "I think the jerk would have been there for a while, but I just don't think it's gotten the legs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Roxanne ↔ Father of the Bride · verdict · Roxanne was a massive movie that people feared he could not pull off, but this is still his best. · "Roxanne was a massive movie. And was a movie that people were not were worried that he was going to pull it off and they did, and it's really good."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:51 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Parenthood ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · verdict · Some would pick Parenthood as his best because it tried this type of movie first and spun off into a TV show. · "Some people might say parenthood actually, because it's the 1st type of movie that tried to do the stuff they did."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:14:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ↔ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels · earlier edgier Martin · Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Three Amigos show a Martin edgier than the dad persona, like discovering your dad was cool in his 20s. · "you go back and you see 3 of me, it goes, and you see dirty rotten scoundrels."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:26:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Goodfellas · narration that works · Narration is usually a crutch, but it works in Goodfellas and here because the monologue is good and the narration lets George say what he cannot say. · "Narration is usually a crutch and you really, like Goodfellas is a good example of like, narration totally worked."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:02 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Father of the Bride ↔ Teen Wolf · basketball scene scale · Teen Wolf has the worst basketball scene ever; Father of the Bride's father-daughter scene rates about an eight against its one. · "The worst, the worst basketball scene ever in a movie is in Teen Wolf."
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ Rachel Getting Married · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Father of the Bride ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:26:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride · fun · The film's catchphrase-adjacent scene: the dad's opening monologue to camera. Dobbins hates talking to camera as a device but says it works here because the monologue is excellent, and it sets up voiceover narration that lets George say what he cannot say to the family. · "It works in this one because the monologue's really good and he's really good in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:33:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride · fun · Steve Martin's dinner list of consolations: Paul Simon tickets at the Forum, a Lakers game, and 'independent communications consultant' as code for unemployed. Dobbins used the line on her in-laws. · "Independent communications consultant is still..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better. · "I think parenthood, there's a really good argument."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:26:07 · unknown (0.35)] Margot at the Wedding ↔ Rachel Getting Married · theme · A run of films about actresses being awful at small family weddings; Kidman goes further than Hathaway's Rachel Getting Married character. · "But so there was like the this era of actresses you like being really awful at small family weddings."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · theme · One of the late-80s female-empowerment workplace comedies the 1980s produced alongside Working Girl. · "the female empowerment workplace comedy stuff that is like, for the 80s, because you have baby boom here, too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style. · "I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Parenthood · theme · Also in the 80s dramedies about life crises that are no longer made. · "Cities liquors like that, working girl, parenthood, you know, there's a bunch of movies that are like this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Franchises like Alien and Blade Runner predict a first generation of androids that does horrid things and gets scaled back. · "very much like in this franchise and Blade Runner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:45:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Parenthood · craft · Parenthood used a school-shooting imagery as a comedic device, another example of things no longer made. · "Or even parenthood where they use a school shooting for a comedic device."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Blade Runner ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas. · "It was so bad in the original Blade Runner."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · craft · Both films mark a new era partly through their synth scores: Mann used Tangerine Dream, Scott used Vangelis. · "Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream, like these, the, it sounds different."
[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
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Father of the Bride (1991); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Father of the Bride (1991) 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.