What the corpus says about Elvis (2022)

What was said about it (12)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
2. [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."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · craft · Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker). · "It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure"
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:54:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Love and Mercy ↔ Elvis · contrast · Love & Mercy splits its story across two Brian Wilsons (Cusack, Dano) rather than a cradle-to-grave Wikipedia run. · "it gives you kind of 2 lenses to, to go through the 60s and the creation of the Beach Boys"
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:02:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amadeus ↔ Elvis · contrast · Amadeus conveys Mozart's genius without answering who he was; Elvis also skips interiority but fails to fill the gap. · "it's smart that Elvis doesn't do that, even though you feel the lack of it because Elvis doesn't fill anything else in."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:23:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Elvis ↔ Cloud Atlas · career · Hanks's accent work in Elvis recalls his big swing in Cloud Atlas; accents are not where he excels. · "it reminded me a little bit of Cloud Atlas where he's like, I want to have some fun."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:13:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Elvis ↔ The Great Gatsby · people · Style-as-substance can't hold up a whole film, as Luhrmann's Great Gatsby shows. · "I think that that can't hold up a film, as we've learned in like many other Buzzlerman films, including Great Gatsby"
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · parody of a parody · Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star. · "somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open."
9. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · prefigured by · A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard. · "there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:37:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Elvis ↔ Respect · missing scene · Respect's songwriting-in-the-studio scene always works; Elvis disappointingly has no 'they're writing Jailhouse Rock' moment. · "there's no point where they're just like, oh my god, they're writing Jailhouse Rock or whatever."
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Elvis ↔ Behind the Candelabra · wished-for complement · Sean wished Elvis had more Fat Elvis; Behind the Candelabra is one long stretch of that excessive late period. · "I wish there was a little bit more Fat Elvis in the film Elvis."
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Austin Butler · people · Butler embodies Elvis so well that Sean thought he was really good, though the Parker framing detracts from him. · "I don't know if he looks exactly like Elvis, but man, he embodies him so well."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Elvis ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · said 3 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:05:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Elvis · fun · Amanda zoned out and missed that Elvis's mother died, and only realized the fancy house was Graceland when the film moved on; the pacing is endless yet frenetic. · "Like, quite literally, I missed that Graceland was purchased as Graceland, you know, like 2 hours in the movie."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:17:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Elvis · fun · Sean's contrast: Elvis was shot with one camera on Ed Sullivan; the movie cuts a hundred times in two minutes to match his magnetism. · "it literally cuts a 100 times in a 2 minute period of performance because that's almost sort of what it takes to match the Elvis Presley magnetism."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Elvis · fun · The film's 68 Comeback Special sequence and 'If I Can Dream' are Sean's favorite moments, close to Elvis's 'A Change Is Gonna Come'. · "It's as close as Elvis got to a change is going to come."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:24:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] Elvis · fun · Sean and Amanda attended the same screening unknowingly; Amanda left with alacrity. · "We were at the same screening. We didn't know this and I did watch you just leaving with like alacrity, even for you."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (11)

1. [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"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:36:53 · David Sims (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Behind the Candelabra · craft · Erskine walking in on the unmasked Red Skull... actually Toby Jones's Zola reaction, as when Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee. · "this feels like the scene in, uh, behind the candelabra where Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee."
3. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
4. [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."
5. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
6. [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."
7. [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."
8. [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."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
10. [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."
11. [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"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
3. [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

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] 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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Elvis (2022) 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 Elvis (2022) 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 Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
[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 Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · craft · Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker). · "It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:54:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Love and Mercy ↔ Elvis · contrast · Love & Mercy splits its story across two Brian Wilsons (Cusack, Dano) rather than a cradle-to-grave Wikipedia run. · "it gives you kind of 2 lenses to, to go through the 60s and the creation of the Beach Boys"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:02:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amadeus ↔ Elvis · contrast · Amadeus conveys Mozart's genius without answering who he was; Elvis also skips interiority but fails to fill the gap. · "it's smart that Elvis doesn't do that, even though you feel the lack of it because Elvis doesn't fill anything else in."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:23:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Elvis ↔ Cloud Atlas · career · Hanks's accent work in Elvis recalls his big swing in Cloud Atlas; accents are not where he excels. · "it reminded me a little bit of Cloud Atlas where he's like, I want to have some fun."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:13:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Elvis ↔ The Great Gatsby · people · Style-as-substance can't hold up a whole film, as Luhrmann's Great Gatsby shows. · "I think that that can't hold up a film, as we've learned in like many other Buzzlerman films, including Great Gatsby"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · parody of a parody · Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star. · "somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · prefigured by · A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard. · "there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:37:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Elvis ↔ Respect · missing scene · Respect's songwriting-in-the-studio scene always works; Elvis disappointingly has no 'they're writing Jailhouse Rock' moment. · "there's no point where they're just like, oh my god, they're writing Jailhouse Rock or whatever."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Elvis ↔ Behind the Candelabra · wished-for complement · Sean wished Elvis had more Fat Elvis; Behind the Candelabra is one long stretch of that excessive late period. · "I wish there was a little bit more Fat Elvis in the film Elvis."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Austin Butler · people · Butler embodies Elvis so well that Sean thought he was really good, though the Parker framing detracts from him. · "I don't know if he looks exactly like Elvis, but man, he embodies him so well."
[pairs] Elvis ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:05:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Elvis · fun · Amanda zoned out and missed that Elvis's mother died, and only realized the fancy house was Graceland when the film moved on; the pacing is endless yet frenetic. · "Like, quite literally, I missed that Graceland was purchased as Graceland, you know, like 2 hours in the movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:17:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Elvis · fun · Sean's contrast: Elvis was shot with one camera on Ed Sullivan; the movie cuts a hundred times in two minutes to match his magnetism. · "it literally cuts a 100 times in a 2 minute period of performance because that's almost sort of what it takes to match the Elvis Presley magnetism."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Elvis · fun · The film's 68 Comeback Special sequence and 'If I Can Dream' are Sean's favorite moments, close to Elvis's 'A Change Is Gonna Come'. · "It's as close as Elvis got to a change is going to come."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:24:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] Elvis · fun · Sean and Amanda attended the same screening unknowingly; Amanda left with alacrity. · "We were at the same screening. We didn't know this and I did watch you just leaving with like alacrity, even for you."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:36:53 · David Sims (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Behind the Candelabra · craft · Erskine walking in on the unmasked Red Skull... actually Toby Jones's Zola reaction, as when Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee. · "this feels like the scene in, uh, behind the candelabra where Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
[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 Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
[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 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."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
[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 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"
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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
[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)

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 Elvis (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Elvis (2022) 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.