What the corpus says about Something's Gotta Give (2003)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read) · programming · Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience. · "Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30)] Stuck on You ↔ Something's Gotta Give · programming · Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three. · "Big broad comedy, high concept."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35)] Michael ↔ Something's Gotta Give · lineage · Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael. · "Is this a remake of Michael?"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Defending Your Life · theme · The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life. · "It looks like defending your life or something."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire. · "It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ La La Land · craft · Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land. · "it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:43:29 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give → Ratatouille · craft · The Paris shot with the Eiffel Tower looks like Ratatouille, and the speaker starts to say the music does too. · "the shot when he steps out and the Eiffel Towers behind him is one of the ones that looks like Ratatouille. The music also sounds like..."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:27:02 · unknown (0.45)] The Parent Trap ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · Parent Trap may be her favorite directed film, but this is the Nancy Meyers movie. · "oh, Parent Trap might be your favorite movie that she directed, but someone's got to give is the Nancy Myers movie."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:11:33 · unknown (0.40)] About Schmidt ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · Nicholson was nominated for About Schmidt because he played against type; critics punished him for doing Jack elsewhere. · "the only modern one he gets the nomination for is about Schmidt, because he played so thoroughly against hype."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:18:44 · unknown (0.40)] What Women Want ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · What Women Want has no Nancy-surrogate character, unlike this film. · "Helen Hunt is not Nancy Myers at all."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · contrast · It has aged much better than It's Complicated, which people wrongly rank above it. · "it has aged so much better than it's complicated."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:26:17 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · It's Complicated is the sketch-comedy version of this film. · "it's complicated, feels like the sketch comedy version of this."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:28:35 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · The daughter here has more grace than Lake Bell's character in It's Complicated. · "there's more grace in this to her versus like the Lake Bell character"
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.40)] Anger Management ↔ Something's Gotta Give · career · After a bad run and time off, Nicholson came back to light comedy: Anger Management, then this. · "He came back with anger management, something's got to give."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Departed · career · Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance. · "He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:09:48 · Bobby Finger (0.50)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Intern · verdict · Saying it is Meyers's best movie. · "it's her best movie."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:12 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · The two comedies are aimed at the same viewer. · "that's what these movies, they're they're aimed at the same viewer."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55)] The Intern ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies. · "it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye"
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:48:13 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Orange County · industry · Butterfly was already a running joke in Orange County, so it was stale for this film's opening. · "And Orange County makes the running joke of everyone's listening to butterfly."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.40)] Bringing Down the House ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · Steve Martin's two 2003 hits made a second wave of him. · "this weird 2nd wave of Steve Martin"
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jack Nicholson · theme · The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona. · "It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Nancy Meyers · craft · The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations. · "this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:43:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers · craft · A speaker says Meyers's signature score sound, including the delicate Spanish guitar, begins with this film. · "This is where her like, you know, her like delicate like Spanish guitar comes in for the 1st time."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · said 5 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Intern · said 2 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Meet the Parents · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:03:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · Fox turned the film down because the leads were too old, per IMDb trivia. · "Fox turned this down because they said the leads were too old."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:47:45 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · The script as written in 2002 named Ja Rule's Living It Up for the opening; the film used Crazy Town's Butterfly. · "Nancy Myers penned the words, Ja Rule, living it up."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:58:35 · Romley Newman (0.80)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · Romley Newman: this is the most kitchen-heavy Meyers movie, with an amazing Viking range and huge island. · "this is the most kitchen heavy movie out of any Nancy Myers movie, probably any movie ever."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:12 · unknown (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · A reading: Nicholson is in a heavenly afterlife after his heart attack, hence the all-white look. · "there are very few movies that commit so hard to their color palette being white."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:20:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · The characters say 'me too' to each other constantly, which jumps out now. · "how many times in this movie they say, me too."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:25:13 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · Keaton wears turtlenecks until she is bare-necked; the neck insecurity pays off visually. · "And then for the rest of the movie, she's wearing V-neck."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (4)

1. [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?"
2. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:15:08 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Universal Pictures ↔ Meet the Parents · programming · Universal's 2000 slate was original A-list films like Meet the Parents, Erin Brockovich and Gladiator. · "At the time, it was mostly producing original films with A-list stars, like Meet the Parents, or Aaron Brockovich, or Elizabeth Taylor's favorite award-winning epic."
3. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Intern ↔ Mindhunter (TV) · lineage · Mindhunter is like The Intern with ages reversed: a mentor and an up-and-coming hot shot. · "Mindhunter's kind of like the intern, you know, you just reverse the ages a little bit"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
2. [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
3. [speaker] Romley Newman · no sketch

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] 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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Something's Gotta Give (2003) 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 Something's Gotta Give (2003) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read) · programming · Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience. · "Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30)] Stuck on You ↔ Something's Gotta Give · programming · Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three. · "Big broad comedy, high concept."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35)] Michael ↔ Something's Gotta Give · lineage · Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael. · "Is this a remake of Michael?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Defending Your Life · theme · The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life. · "It looks like defending your life or something."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire. · "It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ La La Land · craft · Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land. · "it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:43:29 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give → Ratatouille · craft · The Paris shot with the Eiffel Tower looks like Ratatouille, and the speaker starts to say the music does too. · "the shot when he steps out and the Eiffel Towers behind him is one of the ones that looks like Ratatouille. The music also sounds like..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:27:02 · unknown (0.45)] The Parent Trap ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · Parent Trap may be her favorite directed film, but this is the Nancy Meyers movie. · "oh, Parent Trap might be your favorite movie that she directed, but someone's got to give is the Nancy Myers movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:11:33 · unknown (0.40)] About Schmidt ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · Nicholson was nominated for About Schmidt because he played against type; critics punished him for doing Jack elsewhere. · "the only modern one he gets the nomination for is about Schmidt, because he played so thoroughly against hype."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:18:44 · unknown (0.40)] What Women Want ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · What Women Want has no Nancy-surrogate character, unlike this film. · "Helen Hunt is not Nancy Myers at all."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · contrast · It has aged much better than It's Complicated, which people wrongly rank above it. · "it has aged so much better than it's complicated."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:26:17 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · It's Complicated is the sketch-comedy version of this film. · "it's complicated, feels like the sketch comedy version of this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:28:35 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · contrast · The daughter here has more grace than Lake Bell's character in It's Complicated. · "there's more grace in this to her versus like the Lake Bell character"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.40)] Anger Management ↔ Something's Gotta Give · career · After a bad run and time off, Nicholson came back to light comedy: Anger Management, then this. · "He came back with anger management, something's got to give."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Departed · career · Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance. · "He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:09:48 · Bobby Finger (0.50)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Intern · verdict · Saying it is Meyers's best movie. · "it's her best movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:12 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · The two comedies are aimed at the same viewer. · "that's what these movies, they're they're aimed at the same viewer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55)] The Intern ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies. · "it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:48:13 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Orange County · industry · Butterfly was already a running joke in Orange County, so it was stale for this film's opening. · "And Orange County makes the running joke of everyone's listening to butterfly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.40)] Bringing Down the House ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · Steve Martin's two 2003 hits made a second wave of him. · "this weird 2nd wave of Steve Martin"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jack Nicholson · theme · The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona. · "It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Nancy Meyers · craft · The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations. · "this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:43:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers · craft · A speaker says Meyers's signature score sound, including the delicate Spanish guitar, begins with this film. · "This is where her like, you know, her like delicate like Spanish guitar comes in for the 1st time."
[pairs] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Intern · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Meet the Parents · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:03:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · Fox turned the film down because the leads were too old, per IMDb trivia. · "Fox turned this down because they said the leads were too old."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:47:45 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · The script as written in 2002 named Ja Rule's Living It Up for the opening; the film used Crazy Town's Butterfly. · "Nancy Myers penned the words, Ja Rule, living it up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:58:35 · Romley Newman (0.80)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · Romley Newman: this is the most kitchen-heavy Meyers movie, with an amazing Viking range and huge island. · "this is the most kitchen heavy movie out of any Nancy Myers movie, probably any movie ever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:12 · unknown (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · A reading: Nicholson is in a heavenly afterlife after his heart attack, hence the all-white look. · "there are very few movies that commit so hard to their color palette being white."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:20:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · The characters say 'me too' to each other constantly, which jumps out now. · "how many times in this movie they say, me too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:25:13 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give · fun · Keaton wears turtlenecks until she is bare-necked; the neck insecurity pays off visually. · "And then for the rest of the movie, she's wearing V-neck."
[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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:15:08 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Universal Pictures ↔ Meet the Parents · programming · Universal's 2000 slate was original A-list films like Meet the Parents, Erin Brockovich and Gladiator. · "At the time, it was mostly producing original films with A-list stars, like Meet the Parents, or Aaron Brockovich, or Elizabeth Taylor's favorite award-winning epic."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Intern ↔ Mindhunter (TV) · lineage · Mindhunter is like The Intern with ages reversed: a mentor and an up-and-coming hot shot. · "Mindhunter's kind of like the intern, you know, you just reverse the ages a little bit"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
[speaker] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Romley Newman · no sketch
[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] 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 Something's Gotta Give (2003); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Something's Gotta Give (2003) 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.