What the corpus says about Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

The 44 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 (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · The audience sides with the nuisance (Candy / Simon) against the clear jerk, the same dynamic Kinnear sustains against Nicholson. · "even though Steve Barnes clearly a dick are like, yeah, but fucking John Candy, this guy is a nuisance."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ The Breakfast Club · verdict · Speaker defends Breakfast Club and calls Planes, Trains a masterpiece, while Sixteen Candles is too gross. · "But breakfast club I stand behind."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:35:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ Wall Street · what-if · Planes, Trains and Automobiles should have won best actor for Candy that year, over Michael Douglas in Wall Street. · "Yeah, the movie that should have won best actor this year."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:44 · David Sims (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ John Candy · verdict · Candy should have won best actor for it. · "talking about our man JC should have won best actor for them."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ As Good as It Gets · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:36:27 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles · fun · The 4K has a fabled hour of deleted scenes; there was never a 3-hour cut, Hughes just assembled too much Candy and Martin footage. · "He just had so much good footage of Candy and Martin that his 1st assembly."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (28)

[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ Sneakers · programming · The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie. · "this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · programming · Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie. · "I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · lineage · Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School. · "You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 2:46:56 · David Sims (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a long-awaited legacy sequel to an Oscar-winning 80s drama. · "a much minded sequel, long-awaited, a legacy sequel of sorts, to a Oscar winning 80s drama."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat. · "Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:36 · unknown (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street is followed by Money Never Sleeps. · "but then, of course, money never slept"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad. · "Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Another movie with no black people that did not need any. · "Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ WarGames · lineage · Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated. · "I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ Her · lineage · Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one. · "Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did. · "And they're the Breakfast Club, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Breakfast Club · craft · Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club. · "It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Al Feldstein ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein. · "this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[speaker] Chris Gethard · latest sketch, Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · Loves an unapologetic dickhead performance and Star Wars minutiae (memorized the encyclopedia in high school); a sucker for Helen Hunt and for underdog films like Breaking Away. Can't stand Poe Dameron's mutiny, bad-movie-in-theaters stories, or romances where a straight man and woman can't just respect each other. · stances: Kinnear's performance is the best in the film and may be his career peak; Poe Dameron is a war criminal; Wants straight male/female friendships that stay non-romantic; Nicholson in this film is top three for lovable dickheads
[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] Kyle Brandt · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · A Hughes-head who has pushed to cover Weird Science for about five years; loves the quotability, Gary's dad and Chet, and 80s mall and party scenes. Cannot stand Lisa's behavior and the lead's line readings, and is bothered that the Chicago-area setting ignores the 85 Bears. · stances: Weird Science deserves a rewatch and has the best 80s title theme song; Downey or Hall should have been the Wyatt/lead pairing; Chicago-suburbs Hughes-verse details matter

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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) 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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) 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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · The audience sides with the nuisance (Candy / Simon) against the clear jerk, the same dynamic Kinnear sustains against Nicholson. · "even though Steve Barnes clearly a dick are like, yeah, but fucking John Candy, this guy is a nuisance."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ The Breakfast Club · verdict · Speaker defends Breakfast Club and calls Planes, Trains a masterpiece, while Sixteen Candles is too gross. · "But breakfast club I stand behind."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:35:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ Wall Street · what-if · Planes, Trains and Automobiles should have won best actor for Candy that year, over Michael Douglas in Wall Street. · "Yeah, the movie that should have won best actor this year."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:44 · David Sims (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ John Candy · verdict · Candy should have won best actor for it. · "talking about our man JC should have won best actor for them."
[pairs] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ As Good as It Gets · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:36:27 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles · fun · The 4K has a fabled hour of deleted scenes; there was never a 3-hour cut, Hughes just assembled too much Candy and Martin footage. · "He just had so much good footage of Candy and Martin that his 1st assembly."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ Sneakers · programming · The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie. · "this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · programming · Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie. · "I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · lineage · Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School. · "You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 2:46:56 · David Sims (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a long-awaited legacy sequel to an Oscar-winning 80s drama. · "a much minded sequel, long-awaited, a legacy sequel of sorts, to a Oscar winning 80s drama."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat. · "Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:36 · unknown (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street is followed by Money Never Sleeps. · "but then, of course, money never slept"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad. · "Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Another movie with no black people that did not need any. · "Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ WarGames · lineage · Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated. · "I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ Her · lineage · Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one. · "Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did. · "And they're the Breakfast Club, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Breakfast Club · craft · Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club. · "It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Al Feldstein ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein. · "this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein."
[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] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[speaker] Chris Gethard · latest sketch, Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · Loves an unapologetic dickhead performance and Star Wars minutiae (memorized the encyclopedia in high school); a sucker for Helen Hunt and for underdog films like Breaking Away. Can't stand Poe Dameron's mutiny, bad-movie-in-theaters stories, or romances where a straight man and woman can't just respect each other. · stances: Kinnear's performance is the best in the film and may be his career peak; Poe Dameron is a war criminal; Wants straight male/female friendships that stay non-romantic; Nicholson in this film is top three for lovable dickheads
[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] Kyle Brandt · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · A Hughes-head who has pushed to cover Weird Science for about five years; loves the quotability, Gary's dad and Chet, and 80s mall and party scenes. Cannot stand Lisa's behavior and the lead's line readings, and is bothered that the Chicago-area setting ignores the 85 Bears. · stances: Weird Science deserves a rewatch and has the best 80s title theme song; Downey or Hall should have been the Wyatt/lead pairing; Chicago-suburbs Hughes-verse details matter
[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 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) 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.