What the corpus says about Airplane! (1980)

The 43 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 (7)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Airplane! · airport movie · Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient. · "It's either this or airplane, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:12:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Jerk ↔ Airplane! · aged-comedy peers · The Jerk is grouped with Airplane and Blues Brothers as all-time bangers that faded as years passed. · "like airplane, Blues Brothers, some of those where they were just like, all kind, all time bangers, and then as the years passed, they've kind of faded"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · reference · The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works. · "there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 0:39:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ↔ Airplane! · career · Kareem's IMDb run: Game of Death, Airplane, and Fletch; later Mighty Ducks D2. · "which inexplicably has that Bruce Lee movie, Airplane, and Fletch."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (29)

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ This Is Spinal Tap · lineage · Both lampoon rock-star mythology; Dewey is a Forrest Gump of popular music where Tap's band has no identity. · "connecting Walkhart to Spinal Tap, because I think there's a deep spiritual communion between these movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Dance Fever · programming · Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence. · "I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read) · lineage · Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era. · "that this had a Dell comics color adaptation"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:29:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Rocketman · theme · Walk Hard did not deflate the music biopic; Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody and Respect kept coming, certifying it as a subgenre. · "So it didn't actually deflate anything. If anything, it almost like raised them up and certified them as an ongoing subgenre in film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Good Times · programming · Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention. · "Oh, since we're talking about good times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read) · lineage · The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated. · "this article written by Nick Cohen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ↔ Cleopatra · theme · Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much. · "Cleopatra was like the end of an error"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out. · "it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40)] Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus · theme · Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to. · "Hail Caesar, which is mocking that"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:07 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Weird Al · craft · The guest says the songs written for Walk Hard are credible enough to meet the high bar set by Weird Al's song parodies, which is the comparison for its style-parody music. · "it's a high bar to match someone like weird out in his song parodies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read) · lineage · Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie. · "I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40)] Sergei Prokofiev ↔ Spartacus · craft · Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him. · "The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Elvis · craft · Both feature a dead brother as the formative trauma (Walk Hard's wrong-kid-died gag, Elvis's twin). · "that's also the premise of Elvis is that, you know, his twin brother died at a very young age."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original. · "I'm glad it exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · craft · The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied. · "similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Saturday Night Fever · theme · Speaker puts Saturday Night Fever in the same Italian-movie situation. · "Oddly enough, I put Saturday Night Fever in that Italian movie situation"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Jimmy Kimmel · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · Grew up on the soundtrack and loves Travolta, the TV era and 70s TV icons (Good Times, Kotter). Defends comedians for awards and Woody Allen. Is a sucker for family anecdotes (his Italian Brooklyn-adjacent roots, Aunt Chippy) and cannot stand fake New York accents. · stances: The film is a time capsule of Bay Ridge; Opening credits are the most rewatchable scene; Woody Allen should have won Best Actor; The film would not be made now

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Airplane! (1980) 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 Airplane! (1980) 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 · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Airplane! · airport movie · Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient. · "It's either this or airplane, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:12:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Jerk ↔ Airplane! · aged-comedy peers · The Jerk is grouped with Airplane and Blues Brothers as all-time bangers that faded as years passed. · "like airplane, Blues Brothers, some of those where they were just like, all kind, all time bangers, and then as the years passed, they've kind of faded"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · reference · The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works. · "there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 0:39:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ↔ Airplane! · career · Kareem's IMDb run: Game of Death, Airplane, and Fletch; later Mighty Ducks D2. · "which inexplicably has that Bruce Lee movie, Airplane, and Fletch."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ This Is Spinal Tap · lineage · Both lampoon rock-star mythology; Dewey is a Forrest Gump of popular music where Tap's band has no identity. · "connecting Walkhart to Spinal Tap, because I think there's a deep spiritual communion between these movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Dance Fever · programming · Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence. · "I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read) · lineage · Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era. · "that this had a Dell comics color adaptation"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:29:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Rocketman · theme · Walk Hard did not deflate the music biopic; Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody and Respect kept coming, certifying it as a subgenre. · "So it didn't actually deflate anything. If anything, it almost like raised them up and certified them as an ongoing subgenre in film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Good Times · programming · Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention. · "Oh, since we're talking about good times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read) · lineage · The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated. · "this article written by Nick Cohen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ↔ Cleopatra · theme · Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much. · "Cleopatra was like the end of an error"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out. · "it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40)] Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus · theme · Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to. · "Hail Caesar, which is mocking that"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:07 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Weird Al · craft · The guest says the songs written for Walk Hard are credible enough to meet the high bar set by Weird Al's song parodies, which is the comparison for its style-parody music. · "it's a high bar to match someone like weird out in his song parodies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read) · lineage · Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie. · "I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40)] Sergei Prokofiev ↔ Spartacus · craft · Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him. · "The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Elvis · craft · Both feature a dead brother as the formative trauma (Walk Hard's wrong-kid-died gag, Elvis's twin). · "that's also the premise of Elvis is that, you know, his twin brother died at a very young age."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original. · "I'm glad it exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · craft · The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied. · "similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Saturday Night Fever · theme · Speaker puts Saturday Night Fever in the same Italian-movie situation. · "Oddly enough, I put Saturday Night Fever in that Italian movie situation"
[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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Jimmy Kimmel · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · Grew up on the soundtrack and loves Travolta, the TV era and 70s TV icons (Good Times, Kotter). Defends comedians for awards and Woody Allen. Is a sucker for family anecdotes (his Italian Brooklyn-adjacent roots, Aunt Chippy) and cannot stand fake New York accents. · stances: The film is a time capsule of Bay Ridge; Opening credits are the most rewatchable scene; Woody Allen should have won Best Actor; The film would not be made now
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Airplane! (1980); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Airplane! (1980) 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.