What the corpus says about Blade Runner (1982)
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 (16)
- [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 · ‘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 — 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."
- [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 · 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."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · contrast · Blade Runner is inscrutable and picked over; Thief is straightforward. · "Whereas Thief is much more straightforward, but, you know, Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream"
- [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:48:02 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Blade Runner · verdict · Edgar says he grew up loving films now called ahead of their time, such as Blade Runner and John Carter, without knowing they had flopped, so the cult-flop reputation does not bother him. · "I knew that the John Cum, the thing was a flop or Blade Runner, like sort of you consume it in the same way"
- [Blank Check · Dune · 1:13:35 · unknown (0.40)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ↔ Blade Runner · industry · Blade Runner stars a Star Wars actor but is a weird sci-fi noir. · "We got one of the stars of Star Wars, but it's doing a weird sci-fi noir."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:58:38 · unknown (0.30)] Seven ↔ Blade Runner · unnamed city · Se7en's rainy, never-named city is likened to Blade Runner's. · "It's like it's like Blade Runner."
- [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:39:09 · David Sims (0.45)] Rutger Hauer ↔ Blade Runner · career · Hauer's Blade Runner villain made him fear typecasting. · "I love him in Blade Runner so much."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:34:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Harrison Ford ↔ Blade Runner · career · Ford's 80s run: two Raiders movies, two Star Wars, Blade Runner, Witness, Mosquito Coast, Frantic, then this. · "Blade Runner, Witness, Mosquito Coast, frantic."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:27:59 · David Sims (0.45)] Joe Turkel ↔ Blade Runner · career · Turkel plays Tyrell in Blade Runner. · "becomes the bartender in the Shining, but also he's Tyrell and Blade Runner."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.30)] Harrison Ford ↔ Blade Runner · career · Blade Runner bombed, but Ford had Indiana Jones in his back pocket, so he could not say no to Lucas. · "Like, even though Blade Runner bombed, he knows like, I got fucking Indiana Jones in the back pocket, that thing's a go."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 1:16:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joe Turkel ↔ Blade Runner · people · The Shining bartender is also Tyrell in Blade Runner. · "And it's also a Tyrell Blade Runner."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:05:30 · unknown (0.50)] Jordan Cronenweth ↔ Blade Runner · people · Cronenweth is a legendary cinematographer who shot Blade Runner. · "And he's in like a legendary cinematography shot Blade Runner."
Films put beside it more than once (1)
- [pairs] Blade Runner ↔ Thief · said 3 times in 1 episode
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (34)
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
- [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 · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
- [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
- [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 Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
- [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 · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
- [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 Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
- [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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:53:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Ridley Scott · lineage · On the Rewatchables they joked about whether Mann invented wetting the streets, with Ridley Scott dumping water. · "Remember Ridley Scott just dumping water on the streets."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
- [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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
- [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."
Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)
- [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
- [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
- [speaker] 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] 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] Edgar Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · Loves Jackie Chan, Shaw Brothers kung fu, music-driven comedy, comics, and the unusual studio film. Revels in craft and in collaborators. Is not a fan of the uniformity of VFX-reel studio movies. · stances: The film could not be made today; One-and-done was deliberate; no sequel urge; Plan the movie, but credit collaborators for beating the plan
- [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
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 Blade Runner (1982) 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 Blade Runner (1982) 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’ · 0:08:22 · 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 · ‘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 — 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."
[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 · 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · contrast · Blade Runner is inscrutable and picked over; Thief is straightforward. · "Whereas Thief is much more straightforward, but, you know, Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:48:02 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Blade Runner · verdict · Edgar says he grew up loving films now called ahead of their time, such as Blade Runner and John Carter, without knowing they had flopped, so the cult-flop reputation does not bother him. · "I knew that the John Cum, the thing was a flop or Blade Runner, like sort of you consume it in the same way"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:13:35 · unknown (0.40)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ↔ Blade Runner · industry · Blade Runner stars a Star Wars actor but is a weird sci-fi noir. · "We got one of the stars of Star Wars, but it's doing a weird sci-fi noir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:58:38 · unknown (0.30)] Seven ↔ Blade Runner · unnamed city · Se7en's rainy, never-named city is likened to Blade Runner's. · "It's like it's like Blade Runner."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:39:09 · David Sims (0.45)] Rutger Hauer ↔ Blade Runner · career · Hauer's Blade Runner villain made him fear typecasting. · "I love him in Blade Runner so much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:34:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Harrison Ford ↔ Blade Runner · career · Ford's 80s run: two Raiders movies, two Star Wars, Blade Runner, Witness, Mosquito Coast, Frantic, then this. · "Blade Runner, Witness, Mosquito Coast, frantic."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:27:59 · David Sims (0.45)] Joe Turkel ↔ Blade Runner · career · Turkel plays Tyrell in Blade Runner. · "becomes the bartender in the Shining, but also he's Tyrell and Blade Runner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.30)] Harrison Ford ↔ Blade Runner · career · Blade Runner bombed, but Ford had Indiana Jones in his back pocket, so he could not say no to Lucas. · "Like, even though Blade Runner bombed, he knows like, I got fucking Indiana Jones in the back pocket, that thing's a go."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 1:16:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joe Turkel ↔ Blade Runner · people · The Shining bartender is also Tyrell in Blade Runner. · "And it's also a Tyrell Blade Runner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:05:30 · unknown (0.50)] Jordan Cronenweth ↔ Blade Runner · people · Cronenweth is a legendary cinematographer who shot Blade Runner. · "And he's in like a legendary cinematography shot Blade Runner."
[pairs] Blade Runner ↔ Thief · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[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 · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[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 Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[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 · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[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 Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:53:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Ridley Scott · lineage · On the Rewatchables they joked about whether Mann invented wetting the streets, with Ridley Scott dumping water. · "Remember Ridley Scott just dumping water on the streets."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[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."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] 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] 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] Edgar Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · Loves Jackie Chan, Shaw Brothers kung fu, music-driven comedy, comics, and the unusual studio film. Revels in craft and in collaborators. Is not a fan of the uniformity of VFX-reel studio movies. · stances: The film could not be made today; One-and-done was deliberate; no sequel urge; Plan the movie, but credit collaborators for beating the plan
[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
[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 Blade Runner (1982); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Blade Runner (1982) 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.