What the corpus says about Weird Science (1985)

The 57 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 (26)

  1. [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."
  2. [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."
  3. [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"
  4. [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."
  5. [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."
  6. [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."
  7. [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."
  8. [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."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:31:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Weird Science ↔ Frankenstein · lineage · Ebert's review says the movie combines male teenage fantasy with Frankenstein's monster. · "Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'. · "Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad."
  11. [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."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup. · "it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it"
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:05:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Weird Science ↔ Teen Wolf · theme · Teen Wolf is on the list of weird 1985 teen movies and was already a Rewatchables episode. · "There's Teen Wolf, which we've already done in the movie."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:05:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mischief ↔ Weird Science · theme · Mischief goes back to the 50s but has the same premise of kids trying to get laid. · "And then mischief, which goes back to the 50s, but is basically the same premise of kids trying to get laid."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:06:40 · Kyle Brandt (0.75)] Weird Science ↔ Splash · theme · Before Weird Science, the 80s had magical beautiful women appearing to ordinary guys; Splash's mermaid loves Tom Hanks. · "So before weird science, we have Splash, where there's this beautiful mermaid that comes out of the water and loves Tom Hanks, all right?"
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:06:49 · Kyle Brandt (0.70)] Weird Science ↔ National Lampoon's Vacation · theme · The red-Ferrari woman who keeps appearing in Vacation is another magical 80s dream woman. · "You have vacation where like the dorky dad's driving cross country and, 0 my god, in a red Ferrari."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:06 · Kyle Brandt (0.75)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · theme · Mannequin, a couple years later, is a weirder version of the magical woman who finds the dorky guy; Weird Science is the best known of them. · "Like these magical women who are almost science fiction, but are so beautiful, come and find the dorky guy, and weird science was right in the middle of that."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:17 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Weird Science ↔ Can't Buy Me Love · theme · Can't Buy Me Love is another version of the 80s premise of guys trying to get laid, by buying a fake girlfriend. · "And you left out Can't Buy Me Love, which is another version of this where the guy's like, what if I used all my lawnmower money for a couple years and bought a fake girlfriend for a couple months?"
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Her · theme · Derek Thompson's male-loneliness podcast ties the 1985 premise to today: kids who cannot meet anybody would not leave the house. · "Derek Thompson just did a podcast for us about male loneliness"
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:50:32 · Kyle Brandt (0.40)] Weird Science ↔ Risky Business · theme · The parents-away-and-clean-up-before-they-return trope runs through Weird Science, Risky Business and Adventures in Babysitting. · "Adventures and babysitting, risky business."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
  22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Superbad ↔ Weird Science · craft · Both end with the two friends going off with girls separately and reconvening, the friendship being the real subject. · "Superbat ends with the 2 guys separately going with these girls that they like and then reconvening at the end"
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:49:21 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Weird Science ↔ Back to School · craft · Downey's Back to School look and this character are very similar, hair included. · "because the back to school and this character are very similar."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:50:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.35)] Weird Science ↔ Poltergeist · craft · The party-scene effects, objects moving around the living room, hold up like Poltergeist. · "like poltergeist."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · craft · The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie. · "It comprises 10% of the whole movie."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

  1. [pairs] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · said 5 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Weird Science ↔ Superbad · said 3 times in 1 episode
  4. [pairs] Weird Science ↔ Her · said 2 times in 1 episode
  5. [pairs] Weird Science ↔ Risky Business · said 2 times in 1 episode
  6. [pairs] Weird Science ↔ Mad Max 2 · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (5)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:34:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.30)] Weird Science · fun · The sleepover scene: kids rewound the computer-rendered chest-enlarging moment; the scarcity of nude images in the 80s made it a scrambled-porn apex mountain. · "This is a scrambled porn apex mountain."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:46 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Weird Science · fun · Kyle ranks its party scene, with the mansion, lake, magic food and bartenders, the number one high school party in any decade. · "This is number one high school party movie in any decade."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:28:56 · Kyle Brandt (0.70)] Weird Science · fun · The Chicago-suburbs nitpick: the 85 Bears are nowhere in the movie. · "It drives me nuts that there's no 85 bears in this."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:38:45 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Weird Science · fun · The Playboy-trunk souvenir wish. · "My souvenir bill will be, uh, Wyatt's incredible full ass treasure chest of Playboys."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Weird Science · fun · Craig's reaction on learning LeBrock married Seagal is called the favorite moment of the pod. · "Craig, if we could rewind this pod, the part where you had a natural reaction to Kelly LeBrock, we married to Steven Seagal was my favorite moment."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

  1. [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."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up. · "And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Her ↔ Lost in Translation · theme · A Spike Jonze episode would involve the he-said-she-said around Coppola's Lost in Translation. · "he said, she said quality of her with lost in translation"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max. · "which is like the sequel to Mad Max."
  6. [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."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
  8. [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."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
  10. [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?"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
  12. [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."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:42 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Blues Brothers · theme · Chez Louis is the same restaurant as in Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire, a three-year span of iconic 80s restaurant movies. · "Same restaurant as the Blues Brothers, with Elwood and Jake."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ St. Elmo's Fire · theme · Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell. · "same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  1. [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
  2. [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 (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

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 Weird Science (1985) 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 Weird Science (1985) 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’ · 0:12:19 · 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."
[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."
[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 · ‘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."
[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."
[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."
[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 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:31:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Weird Science ↔ Frankenstein · lineage · Ebert's review says the movie combines male teenage fantasy with Frankenstein's monster. · "Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'. · "Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup. · "it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:05:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Weird Science ↔ Teen Wolf · theme · Teen Wolf is on the list of weird 1985 teen movies and was already a Rewatchables episode. · "There's Teen Wolf, which we've already done in the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:05:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mischief ↔ Weird Science · theme · Mischief goes back to the 50s but has the same premise of kids trying to get laid. · "And then mischief, which goes back to the 50s, but is basically the same premise of kids trying to get laid."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:06:40 · Kyle Brandt (0.75)] Weird Science ↔ Splash · theme · Before Weird Science, the 80s had magical beautiful women appearing to ordinary guys; Splash's mermaid loves Tom Hanks. · "So before weird science, we have Splash, where there's this beautiful mermaid that comes out of the water and loves Tom Hanks, all right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:06:49 · Kyle Brandt (0.70)] Weird Science ↔ National Lampoon's Vacation · theme · The red-Ferrari woman who keeps appearing in Vacation is another magical 80s dream woman. · "You have vacation where like the dorky dad's driving cross country and, 0 my god, in a red Ferrari."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:06 · Kyle Brandt (0.75)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · theme · Mannequin, a couple years later, is a weirder version of the magical woman who finds the dorky guy; Weird Science is the best known of them. · "Like these magical women who are almost science fiction, but are so beautiful, come and find the dorky guy, and weird science was right in the middle of that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:17 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Weird Science ↔ Can't Buy Me Love · theme · Can't Buy Me Love is another version of the 80s premise of guys trying to get laid, by buying a fake girlfriend. · "And you left out Can't Buy Me Love, which is another version of this where the guy's like, what if I used all my lawnmower money for a couple years and bought a fake girlfriend for a couple months?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Her · theme · Derek Thompson's male-loneliness podcast ties the 1985 premise to today: kids who cannot meet anybody would not leave the house. · "Derek Thompson just did a podcast for us about male loneliness"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:50:32 · Kyle Brandt (0.40)] Weird Science ↔ Risky Business · theme · The parents-away-and-clean-up-before-they-return trope runs through Weird Science, Risky Business and Adventures in Babysitting. · "Adventures and babysitting, risky business."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Superbad ↔ Weird Science · craft · Both end with the two friends going off with girls separately and reconvening, the friendship being the real subject. · "Superbat ends with the 2 guys separately going with these girls that they like and then reconvening at the end"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:49:21 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Weird Science ↔ Back to School · craft · Downey's Back to School look and this character are very similar, hair included. · "because the back to school and this character are very similar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:50:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.35)] Weird Science ↔ Poltergeist · craft · The party-scene effects, objects moving around the living room, hold up like Poltergeist. · "like poltergeist."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · craft · The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie. · "It comprises 10% of the whole movie."
[pairs] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Weird Science ↔ Superbad · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Weird Science ↔ Her · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Weird Science ↔ Risky Business · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Weird Science ↔ Mad Max 2 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:34:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.30)] Weird Science · fun · The sleepover scene: kids rewound the computer-rendered chest-enlarging moment; the scarcity of nude images in the 80s made it a scrambled-porn apex mountain. · "This is a scrambled porn apex mountain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:46 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Weird Science · fun · Kyle ranks its party scene, with the mansion, lake, magic food and bartenders, the number one high school party in any decade. · "This is number one high school party movie in any decade."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:28:56 · Kyle Brandt (0.70)] Weird Science · fun · The Chicago-suburbs nitpick: the 85 Bears are nowhere in the movie. · "It drives me nuts that there's no 85 bears in this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:38:45 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Weird Science · fun · The Playboy-trunk souvenir wish. · "My souvenir bill will be, uh, Wyatt's incredible full ass treasure chest of Playboys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Weird Science · fun · Craig's reaction on learning LeBrock married Seagal is called the favorite moment of the pod. · "Craig, if we could rewind this pod, the part where you had a natural reaction to Kelly LeBrock, we married to Steven Seagal was my favorite moment."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up. · "And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Her ↔ Lost in Translation · theme · A Spike Jonze episode would involve the he-said-she-said around Coppola's Lost in Translation. · "he said, she said quality of her with lost in translation"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max. · "which is like the sequel to Mad Max."
[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 · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite 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 · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
[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 · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
[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 · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:42 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Blues Brothers · theme · Chez Louis is the same restaurant as in Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire, a three-year span of iconic 80s restaurant movies. · "Same restaurant as the Blues Brothers, with Elwood and Jake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ St. Elmo's Fire · theme · Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell. · "same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell"
[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] 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] 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 Weird Science (1985); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Weird Science (1985) 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.