What the corpus says about Easy A (2010)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:46:09 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Marvin's Room · programming · Juliet's first coed theater outing was Marvin's Room, in contrast to seeing teen movies with friends. · "The 1st movie I saw with like boys and girls, like it was like a co-ed group outing was Marvin's room, which is so depressing."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version) ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version. · "does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein. · "the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious. · "You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Easy A ↔ Book Smart · theme · Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow. · "Like we saw this in book and book smart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:49:20 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ One Tree Hill · theme · Mary Ann's clean-teen Christianity recalls the virgin-professing 'clean teens' of One Tree Hill. · "And that also reminded me of one Tree Hill, where they had the clean teens"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:29:46 · Juliet Litman (0.45)] Cruella ↔ Easy A · theme · If Easy A's unlikely premise worked, maybe a Cruella movie for kids can too. · "And they made it work."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:05:19 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Easy A ↔ The 40-Year-Old Virgin · craft · Like that film's setup, the premise turns creepy without its star; Emma Stone's gravity holds Easy A together. · "It's like a very similar thing with the setup for the 40-year-old virgin, without Steve Carell in that movie, it becomes exceptionally creepy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · craft · Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once. · "I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:47:17 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] One Tree Hill ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · craft · The webcam broadcasting echoes Peyton on One Tree Hill, so there was a precedent. · "There's 2 pieces of this movie that have strong callbacks to one Tree Hill."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:48:33 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ (500) Days of Summer · craft · Like 500 Days of Summer, Easy A sets up a structuring device early (the signs) and repeats it all movie. · "I really like in the movies, when they like set up a device early on and you know they're doing it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:19:18 · Juliet Litman (0.55)] She's All That ↔ Easy A · contrast · Written through a male normative gaze, She's All That feels like a different world from Easy A, Clueless and Mean Girls. · "there's such a, like, kind of, um, normative gaze in She's All That that does not feel as present in some of the other movies we're discussing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:03:02 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Crazy, Stupid, Love · career · The next year Stone was in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help, a sign Easy A launched her. · "And then the next year, she was in Crazy Stupid Love and the Help."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:03:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Superbad · career · Easy A is described as coming straight off Superbad in Stone's rise. · "Yes, so Emma Stone, she's come to us. Straight off, super bad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Easy A ↔ She's the Man · career · Amanda Bynes's last film is Easy A, a bookend to a career that included the cult classic She's the Man. · "she's the man is like a cult classic now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Hairspray · career · Amanda Bynes was very good in Hairspray too. · "she also was very, very good in hairspray"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:31:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Peter Rabbit · career · After Easy A, Will Gluck made Friends with Benefits and then the live-action Peter Rabbit movies. · "he makes friends with benefits and then he does the live action Peter Rabbit movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:40:58 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Twilight · people · A bookstore clerk in Easy A was also in Twilight, a joke about Twilight sits beside the Bible. · "Oh, that's in bestsellers right next to Twilight."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · verdict · Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads. · "Number 2 for me is Emma Stone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · industry · Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival. · "from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Black Swan · industry · Stone should have been nominated for the 2010 Best Actress race against Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, Rabbit Hole, Winter's Bone and Blue Valentine; the Oscars don't acknowledge comedy. · "However, the Oscars... Don't really acknowledge comedy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:43:35 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Stranger Things · industry · Netflix has launched careers (Millie Bobby Brown) but teen movies now go straight to Netflix and skip the group theater experience. · "All of the recent teen movies are just Netflix releases."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Easy A · overqualified lead · Emma Stone in Easy A is the other candidate for an actress overqualified for a teen movie, alongside Lohan. · "Emma Stone would be the other candidate for just, Completely overqualified to be in one of these movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] John Hughes ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage. · "But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Easy A ↔ Clueless · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Easy A ↔ One Tree Hill · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:23:05 · Juliet Litman (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Shot on location in Ojai at a local high school; the production wasn't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways and had to improvise the direction. · "they weren't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways, so they had to do a lot of on the on the scene, um, improv"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:23:28 · Juliet Litman (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Bert Royal allegedly wrote almost the whole script in five consecutive days; the 'blacklist' story doesn't really check out. · "good old Bert allegedly wrote almost all of it in 5 consecutive days."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:24:56 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A · fun · Most rewatchable scene: the Pocket Full of Sunshine bed montage, about two minutes that makes you root for Olive. · "By the end of that weekend, the scene is, what, a minute and a half, two minutes long, but by the end of it, you're like,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:26:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Amanda's pick: the Knock on Wood performance is pure star quality and needed in a teen comedy. · "And you always need a musical number in a teen comedy, in my opinion, or some sort of performance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:28:37 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Shea's pick: the confessional is where you know Stone can do everything; she weaponizes her giant eyes. · "she really, like, weaponizes her eyeballs, these gigantic eyeballs that she has"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:29:20 · Shea Serrano (0.55)] Easy A · fun · Shea picks the twat kitchen scene as his most rewatchable; the family also calls out the T-word guessing game. · "my most rewatchable scene is when she has to tell her parents that she used the word twat"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[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’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · theme · Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick. · "It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls. · "I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Clueless · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
[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 Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Cruel Intentions · theme · Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99. · "That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable."
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Secret Admirer ↔ Mean Girls · theme · The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek. · "Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[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

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Easy A (2010) 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 Easy A (2010) 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 · ‘Easy A’ · 1:46:09 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Marvin's Room · programming · Juliet's first coed theater outing was Marvin's Room, in contrast to seeing teen movies with friends. · "The 1st movie I saw with like boys and girls, like it was like a co-ed group outing was Marvin's room, which is so depressing."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version) ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version. · "does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein. · "the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious. · "You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Easy A ↔ Book Smart · theme · Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow. · "Like we saw this in book and book smart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:49:20 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ One Tree Hill · theme · Mary Ann's clean-teen Christianity recalls the virgin-professing 'clean teens' of One Tree Hill. · "And that also reminded me of one Tree Hill, where they had the clean teens"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:29:46 · Juliet Litman (0.45)] Cruella ↔ Easy A · theme · If Easy A's unlikely premise worked, maybe a Cruella movie for kids can too. · "And they made it work."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:05:19 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Easy A ↔ The 40-Year-Old Virgin · craft · Like that film's setup, the premise turns creepy without its star; Emma Stone's gravity holds Easy A together. · "It's like a very similar thing with the setup for the 40-year-old virgin, without Steve Carell in that movie, it becomes exceptionally creepy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · craft · Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once. · "I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:47:17 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] One Tree Hill ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · craft · The webcam broadcasting echoes Peyton on One Tree Hill, so there was a precedent. · "There's 2 pieces of this movie that have strong callbacks to one Tree Hill."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:48:33 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ (500) Days of Summer · craft · Like 500 Days of Summer, Easy A sets up a structuring device early (the signs) and repeats it all movie. · "I really like in the movies, when they like set up a device early on and you know they're doing it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:19:18 · Juliet Litman (0.55)] She's All That ↔ Easy A · contrast · Written through a male normative gaze, She's All That feels like a different world from Easy A, Clueless and Mean Girls. · "there's such a, like, kind of, um, normative gaze in She's All That that does not feel as present in some of the other movies we're discussing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:03:02 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Crazy, Stupid, Love · career · The next year Stone was in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help, a sign Easy A launched her. · "And then the next year, she was in Crazy Stupid Love and the Help."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:03:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Superbad · career · Easy A is described as coming straight off Superbad in Stone's rise. · "Yes, so Emma Stone, she's come to us. Straight off, super bad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Easy A ↔ She's the Man · career · Amanda Bynes's last film is Easy A, a bookend to a career that included the cult classic She's the Man. · "she's the man is like a cult classic now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Hairspray · career · Amanda Bynes was very good in Hairspray too. · "she also was very, very good in hairspray"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:31:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Peter Rabbit · career · After Easy A, Will Gluck made Friends with Benefits and then the live-action Peter Rabbit movies. · "he makes friends with benefits and then he does the live action Peter Rabbit movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:40:58 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Twilight · people · A bookstore clerk in Easy A was also in Twilight, a joke about Twilight sits beside the Bible. · "Oh, that's in bestsellers right next to Twilight."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · verdict · Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads. · "Number 2 for me is Emma Stone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · industry · Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival. · "from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Black Swan · industry · Stone should have been nominated for the 2010 Best Actress race against Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, Rabbit Hole, Winter's Bone and Blue Valentine; the Oscars don't acknowledge comedy. · "However, the Oscars... Don't really acknowledge comedy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:43:35 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Stranger Things · industry · Netflix has launched careers (Millie Bobby Brown) but teen movies now go straight to Netflix and skip the group theater experience. · "All of the recent teen movies are just Netflix releases."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Easy A · overqualified lead · Emma Stone in Easy A is the other candidate for an actress overqualified for a teen movie, alongside Lohan. · "Emma Stone would be the other candidate for just, Completely overqualified to be in one of these movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] John Hughes ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage. · "But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie."
[pairs] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Easy A ↔ Clueless · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Easy A ↔ One Tree Hill · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:23:05 · Juliet Litman (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Shot on location in Ojai at a local high school; the production wasn't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways and had to improvise the direction. · "they weren't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways, so they had to do a lot of on the on the scene, um, improv"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:23:28 · Juliet Litman (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Bert Royal allegedly wrote almost the whole script in five consecutive days; the 'blacklist' story doesn't really check out. · "good old Bert allegedly wrote almost all of it in 5 consecutive days."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:24:56 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A · fun · Most rewatchable scene: the Pocket Full of Sunshine bed montage, about two minutes that makes you root for Olive. · "By the end of that weekend, the scene is, what, a minute and a half, two minutes long, but by the end of it, you're like,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:26:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Amanda's pick: the Knock on Wood performance is pure star quality and needed in a teen comedy. · "And you always need a musical number in a teen comedy, in my opinion, or some sort of performance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:28:37 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] Easy A · fun · Shea's pick: the confessional is where you know Stone can do everything; she weaponizes her giant eyes. · "she really, like, weaponizes her eyeballs, these gigantic eyeballs that she has"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:29:20 · Shea Serrano (0.55)] Easy A · fun · Shea picks the twat kitchen scene as his most rewatchable; the family also calls out the T-word guessing game. · "my most rewatchable scene is when she has to tell her parents that she used the word twat"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[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’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · theme · Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick. · "It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls. · "I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Clueless · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
[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 Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Cruel Intentions · theme · Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99. · "That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable."
[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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Secret Admirer ↔ Mean Girls · theme · The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek. · "Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston"
[speaker] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[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
[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 Easy A (2010); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Easy A (2010) 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.