What the corpus says about The Truman Show (1998)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · 1998 is praised as the year that checked every genre box, with Truman Show as sci-fi, a model for movie-year variety and Powell's Running Man. · "I think 1998 is in the running for the greatest checking all the boxes movie year we've ever had."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Armageddon · programming · In the 1998 genre roster, Truman Show is the sci-fi entry and Armageddon the action entry. · "Sci-fi Truman show."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · programming · Double feature: Gattaca, the other Andrew Nichol film. · "Gattica, underscene, other Andrew Nichol"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · Powell's double-feature answer is his own movie. · "Glenn's like, I'll go the running man."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:14:43 · Glen Powell (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Jury Duty · lineage · The TV show Jury Duty, with everyone in on it except one guy, is the modern Truman Show. · "That's modern Truman show."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Barbie · lineage · Linney studied 1950s Sears catalogs for her poses, as Gerwig consulted for Barbie. · "Greta Irwig consulted where for Barbie because she wanted to create that world"
9. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:02:51 · Glen Powell (0.90)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · theme · Powell sees comps between being watched in Truman Show and his own film Running Man. · "I really like there's a lot of comps between the Truman show and running man"
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:17:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Razor's Edge · theme · Truman is Carrey's version of the comedian who does a serious turn, a Hollywood staple. · "The comedian who doesn't want to be a comedian for a movie movie."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:37:42 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · theme · Nichol saw Truman Show and Gattaca as two films about what technology will do to humanity. · "these these 2 movies are basically related for me."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:37:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls · craft · The rhino gag defended as one of the greatest physical gags, a dumb premise that works through full commitment. · "I think is still one of the greatest physical gags of all time."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:40:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · craft · The basement escape scene is a little Shawshank-ish. · "A little Shawshankish."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:48:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · Truman Show has a major plot beat every ten minutes, passing an invented Raiders-style screenplay test. · "This movie passes the Raiders of the Lost Arc screenplay test that I'm inventing"
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:51:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ Ordinary People · craft · Death-at-sea scenes: Ordinary People, Perfect Storm and Titanic are cited alongside Truman Show's. · "Because ordinary people has a great one."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:45:42 · David Sims (0.40)] The Batman ↔ The Truman Show · craft · The submerged water-tank photography against a painted backdrop looks like The Truman Show. · "I was about to reference the Truman show."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:13:31 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ 7 Up (Michael Apted series) · contrast · Like Apted's series, lives play out inside a film framework, but Truman does not know he is participating. · "the crucial thing about Truman is that he doesn't know he's participating in something that everybody else does."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Truman Show ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · contrast · Powell contrasts the first AD's nightmare on Truman Show with Top Gun: Maverick, the biggest people-count movie he made, with Navy briefs. · "Top Gun Maverick was probably the that was probably the biggest, most amount of people movie you made."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:24:40 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ The Mask · contrast · Carrey took it down 5% so the performance does not turn into the Mask. · "so that it doesn't turn into the mask at any moment"
21. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:34:46 · Glen Powell (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · contrast · Powell prefers Truman and says Eternal Sunshine is an emotional premise while Truman is a higher tightrope for an actor. · "I think Eternal Sunshine is a brilliant premise that's like a really emotionally driven premise."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Sixth Sense · contrast · The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing. · "if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Minority Report · contrast · A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report. · "you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller."
24. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:18:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Death Wish · contrast · The original darker Manhattan script had a subway attack, like Death Wish. · "which is, well, Truman show Death Wish, kind of like that."
25. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:20:56 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Dead Poets Society · verdict · The vision of Truman Show is argued to be more complex than Dead Poets; Weir apex. · "I think the vision of this movie is way more complex than Dead Fox."
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ⇒ Survivor (the host's read) · industry · Truman Show weirdly kicked off reality TV, predating Survivor by a year or two. · "This kind of weirdly kicked it off, like this predated by a year or two."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · said 3 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · said 2 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:11:11 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] The Truman Show · fun · Bill rewatched it for a week on pay-per-view reruns using an illegal cable box in Boston in the late 90s. · "I had an illegal cable box in Boston in the late 90s"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:12:07 · Glen Powell (0.85)] The Truman Show · fun · Powell translated the Latin on an arch in the bus scene as 'all for one, one for all', the kind of Easter egg Weir doesn't foreground. · "And it says, it's, it translates to all for one, one for all."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:33:19 · unknown (0.50)] The Truman Show · fun · The film got only three Oscar nominations, none for Carrey. · "Only three."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:46:56 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Truman Show · fun · Cats absent in Sea Haven; Powell notes Sofia is overrun with dogs and Plovdiv with cats; Mallory Rubin will be furious. · "I'm only saying this for Mallory Rubin because she works with us"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show · fun · Release was pushed from 1997 to 1998 so as not to run into Titanic. · "It was supposed to be 97 and then the Titanic literally was this big boat coming for everybody"
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:49:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Truman Show · fun · Screenplay beats land every ten minutes: boat, Lauren, set, wedding photo, name, dad. · "20 minutes we meet Lauren."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:38:42 · Glen Powell (0.80)] Stephen King ⇒ The Running Man (the host's read) · lineage · The novel takes place in 2025 and bakes in deep fakes and reality TV blood lust. · "The original running man book, Richard Bachman, a.k.a. Stephen King, wrote it."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:39:51 · Glen Powell (0.90)] Edgar Wright ↔ The Running Man · craft · Powell says Wright let loose his action chops on Running Man after Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver. · "getting to watch Edgar on this movie, like truly unleash and like take that weapon and just like send it."
4. [The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:04 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Falling Down · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Falling Down fascist among Douglas's friction. · "he stole the fascist from falling down."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:40:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joel Schumacher ↔ The Game · theme · One host says The Game feels very Joel Schumacher. · "Because the game feels very Joel Schumacher to me."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:43:29 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Most Dangerous Game · theme · Fincher first wondered if the script was a Most Dangerous Game thing, and was relieved it wasn't. · "oh, is it like a most dangerous game kind of thing?"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:50:34 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Calls the film Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. · "Kafka's it's a wonderful life."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:51:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Game ↔ Jury Duty (TV) · theme · Compares the game to the Jury Duty prank. · "It's just fucking the jury duty or whatever."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

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] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
3. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
4. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'

The shows' running bits (3)

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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Truman Show (1998) 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 The Truman Show (1998) 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 · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · 1998 is praised as the year that checked every genre box, with Truman Show as sci-fi, a model for movie-year variety and Powell's Running Man. · "I think 1998 is in the running for the greatest checking all the boxes movie year we've ever had."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Armageddon · programming · In the 1998 genre roster, Truman Show is the sci-fi entry and Armageddon the action entry. · "Sci-fi Truman show."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · programming · Double feature: Gattaca, the other Andrew Nichol film. · "Gattica, underscene, other Andrew Nichol"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · Powell's double-feature answer is his own movie. · "Glenn's like, I'll go the running man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:14:43 · Glen Powell (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Jury Duty · lineage · The TV show Jury Duty, with everyone in on it except one guy, is the modern Truman Show. · "That's modern Truman show."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Barbie · lineage · Linney studied 1950s Sears catalogs for her poses, as Gerwig consulted for Barbie. · "Greta Irwig consulted where for Barbie because she wanted to create that world"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:02:51 · Glen Powell (0.90)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · theme · Powell sees comps between being watched in Truman Show and his own film Running Man. · "I really like there's a lot of comps between the Truman show and running man"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:17:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Razor's Edge · theme · Truman is Carrey's version of the comedian who does a serious turn, a Hollywood staple. · "The comedian who doesn't want to be a comedian for a movie movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:37:42 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · theme · Nichol saw Truman Show and Gattaca as two films about what technology will do to humanity. · "these these 2 movies are basically related for me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:37:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls · craft · The rhino gag defended as one of the greatest physical gags, a dumb premise that works through full commitment. · "I think is still one of the greatest physical gags of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:40:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · craft · The basement escape scene is a little Shawshank-ish. · "A little Shawshankish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:48:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · Truman Show has a major plot beat every ten minutes, passing an invented Raiders-style screenplay test. · "This movie passes the Raiders of the Lost Arc screenplay test that I'm inventing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:51:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ Ordinary People · craft · Death-at-sea scenes: Ordinary People, Perfect Storm and Titanic are cited alongside Truman Show's. · "Because ordinary people has a great one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:45:42 · David Sims (0.40)] The Batman ↔ The Truman Show · craft · The submerged water-tank photography against a painted backdrop looks like The Truman Show. · "I was about to reference the Truman show."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:13:31 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ 7 Up (Michael Apted series) · contrast · Like Apted's series, lives play out inside a film framework, but Truman does not know he is participating. · "the crucial thing about Truman is that he doesn't know he's participating in something that everybody else does."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Truman Show ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · contrast · Powell contrasts the first AD's nightmare on Truman Show with Top Gun: Maverick, the biggest people-count movie he made, with Navy briefs. · "Top Gun Maverick was probably the that was probably the biggest, most amount of people movie you made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:24:40 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ The Mask · contrast · Carrey took it down 5% so the performance does not turn into the Mask. · "so that it doesn't turn into the mask at any moment"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:34:46 · Glen Powell (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · contrast · Powell prefers Truman and says Eternal Sunshine is an emotional premise while Truman is a higher tightrope for an actor. · "I think Eternal Sunshine is a brilliant premise that's like a really emotionally driven premise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Sixth Sense · contrast · The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing. · "if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Minority Report · contrast · A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report. · "you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:18:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Death Wish · contrast · The original darker Manhattan script had a subway attack, like Death Wish. · "which is, well, Truman show Death Wish, kind of like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:20:56 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Dead Poets Society · verdict · The vision of Truman Show is argued to be more complex than Dead Poets; Weir apex. · "I think the vision of this movie is way more complex than Dead Fox."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ⇒ Survivor (the host's read) · industry · Truman Show weirdly kicked off reality TV, predating Survivor by a year or two. · "This kind of weirdly kicked it off, like this predated by a year or two."
[pairs] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:11:11 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] The Truman Show · fun · Bill rewatched it for a week on pay-per-view reruns using an illegal cable box in Boston in the late 90s. · "I had an illegal cable box in Boston in the late 90s"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:12:07 · Glen Powell (0.85)] The Truman Show · fun · Powell translated the Latin on an arch in the bus scene as 'all for one, one for all', the kind of Easter egg Weir doesn't foreground. · "And it says, it's, it translates to all for one, one for all."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:33:19 · unknown (0.50)] The Truman Show · fun · The film got only three Oscar nominations, none for Carrey. · "Only three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:46:56 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Truman Show · fun · Cats absent in Sea Haven; Powell notes Sofia is overrun with dogs and Plovdiv with cats; Mallory Rubin will be furious. · "I'm only saying this for Mallory Rubin because she works with us"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show · fun · Release was pushed from 1997 to 1998 so as not to run into Titanic. · "It was supposed to be 97 and then the Titanic literally was this big boat coming for everybody"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:49:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Truman Show · fun · Screenplay beats land every ten minutes: boat, Lauren, set, wedding photo, name, dad. · "20 minutes we meet Lauren."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:38:42 · Glen Powell (0.80)] Stephen King ⇒ The Running Man (the host's read) · lineage · The novel takes place in 2025 and bakes in deep fakes and reality TV blood lust. · "The original running man book, Richard Bachman, a.k.a. Stephen King, wrote it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:39:51 · Glen Powell (0.90)] Edgar Wright ↔ The Running Man · craft · Powell says Wright let loose his action chops on Running Man after Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver. · "getting to watch Edgar on this movie, like truly unleash and like take that weapon and just like send it."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:04 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Falling Down · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Falling Down fascist among Douglas's friction. · "he stole the fascist from falling down."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:40:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joel Schumacher ↔ The Game · theme · One host says The Game feels very Joel Schumacher. · "Because the game feels very Joel Schumacher to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:43:29 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Most Dangerous Game · theme · Fincher first wondered if the script was a Most Dangerous Game thing, and was relieved it wasn't. · "oh, is it like a most dangerous game kind of thing?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:50:34 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Calls the film Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. · "Kafka's it's a wonderful life."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:51:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Game ↔ Jury Duty (TV) · theme · Compares the game to the Jury Duty prank. · "It's just fucking the jury duty or whatever."
[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] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Truman Show (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Truman Show (1998) 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.