What the corpus says about Moneyball (2011)

The 56 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 · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Major League · theme · Like Major League, Moneyball does not end with winning the World Series. · "major league famously doesn't end with winning the World Series, but The movie almost doesn't care if you don't get that."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:31:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ F1 · theme · F1 is very Moneyball because Pitt is channeling Billy Beane, the guy who never made it; called a demerit for F1. · "a lot of what Pitt is doing is just channeling Billy, you know? Like the guy who never really made it."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Good Will Hunting · theme · Peter Brand is like the wizard of math everyone is waiting to have his big moment. · "I thought a lot about Goodwill hunting, watching this movie the 2nd time, you know, like the wizard who just kind of needs to tap into everything and all the math"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Friday Night Lights · craft · Shares the score and music and people doing their best, more the show than the movie. · "Really more the show than the movie, but the movie too, but especially the score and the music and people just doing their best."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:18:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Moneyball ↔ Eddington · contrast · Today we are skeptical of lives dominated by data, as in Eddington, which makes Billy's stance feel different now. · "pretty dubious of having our lives dominated by a data center if you've seen Eddington."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:38:02 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Moneyball · career · Hill's line to God invoking Moneyball. · "I'm Jonah Hill, for Moneyball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Moneyball · people · Moneyball is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Moneyball ↔ The Artist · verdict · A less traditional do-over: Moneyball should have beaten The Artist. · "Gonna gonna put moneyball over the artist here?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Moneyball (the host's read) · industry · The film points toward the next wave of dramas that happen to be about sports. · "And Friday Night Lights is moving us toward this kind of next iteration of whatever that was, and it's leading to stuff like money ball and win-win and like dramas that also happen to be about sports."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:26:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] For Love of the Game ↔ Moneyball · industry · Baseball movies progressed from straight sports to merging genres (For Love of the Game) to a movement story that happens to be about baseball (Moneyball). · "now it's like this is about a movement that happened in a sport and it just happens to be about baseball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:21:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · what-if · Pitt might have made three or four more Moneyball-type movies in the Brangelina gap. · "I feel like there was like 3 or 4 more money ball type movies for him in there and he just didn't make them."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:22:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Moneyball ↔ Reds · unmade version · Soderbergh's planned version was like Reds as a baseball movie, with to-camera testimony from real people. · "It was kind of like if you made reds as a baseball movie where he was going to use into camera testimony and real life people performing from the film."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:28:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ A Minecraft Movie · shared trait · Both are IP (based on existing property), tied to the claim that movies are back. · "So Moneyball and then Minecraft, that's that's the director. They're both IP."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:31:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Air · similar subject · Air is a similar movie about commerce, finance, and decision-making around sports, with movie stars and questionable pants. · "Air sort of a similar movie to this in terms of ideas and the relationship between commerce and finance and decision making around sports."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:31:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Hustle · similar subject · Hustle is the recent Adam Sandler basketball scout movie, another sports-business pick. · "The recent Adam Sandler movie about basketball, scout, player personnel person."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:33:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ All the President's Men · process procedural · Both are process movies that take you inside a world and show how people do things and talk. · "taking you inside of a world that you don't totally understand and showing you literally how people do things, literally how people talk about things"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:49:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Aaron Sorkin · craft · Pitt and Hill do Sorkin dialogue at a slow pace, not rat-a-tat. · "they are not doing the Ratatat dialogue."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:05:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Brad Pitt ↔ Moneyball · career · Moneyball showed shades of the performance Pitt reaches here. · "You see shades of it and moneyball, yeah."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Moneyball ↔ F1 · said 3 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball · fun · The film's central romantic claim: it is about math, angry people, and unflattering pants, yet becomes irresistibly sentimental. · "It's about math. It is about like a lot of math, and there are just a lot of numbers at screen all the time."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · The big game is a mid-season winning-streak game, not a playoff; the movie shows mostly failures, only the Hatteberg home run and not the 11 runs. · "the big game is just like a winning streak game in the middle of the season."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:26:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · Six Oscar nominations (picture, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, editing, sound mixing) but no director nomination. · "Six Academy Award nominations, picture actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, film editing, and sound mixing."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:28:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · Four stars from Ebert; about $120 million on a roughly $50-60 million budget; called a very adult movie. · "$120 million is like a 50 or $60000000 movie."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · The Mets version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon, a hostage situation in 100-degree heat. · "What would the Mets version of Moneyball be?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:30:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Moneyball · fun · The show kept refusing Moneyball screening requests; the hosts say they said no four times. · "You said no 4 times."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:16:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Minecraft Movie ↔ The Last Starfighter · theme · A 10-year-old picking up a sword to fight an evil pig echoes 80s kid-hero movies. · "movies I saw as a kid, like the last Starfighter or, um, invaders"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:23:44 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Panic Room ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · theme · Diabetes as a better plot device: the manager in Dog Day Afternoon. · "Oh, dog to afternoon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:16:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Minecraft Movie ↔ Invaders (as heard; likely Invaders from Mars) · theme · Same echo. · "movies I saw as a kid, like the last Starfighter or, um, invaders"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Spotlight ↔ All the President's Men · lineage · Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style. · "it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:47:55 · unknown (0.35)] Green Card ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · craft · Opening mood montages of the city (hail a cab, etc.) were once common in movies, like Dog Day Afternoon. · "I mean, it's a dog day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] All the President's Men ↔ Network · theme · Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail. · "there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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] 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] 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'

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Moneyball (2011) 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 Moneyball (2011) 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 Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Major League · theme · Like Major League, Moneyball does not end with winning the World Series. · "major league famously doesn't end with winning the World Series, but The movie almost doesn't care if you don't get that."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:31:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ F1 · theme · F1 is very Moneyball because Pitt is channeling Billy Beane, the guy who never made it; called a demerit for F1. · "a lot of what Pitt is doing is just channeling Billy, you know? Like the guy who never really made it."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Good Will Hunting · theme · Peter Brand is like the wizard of math everyone is waiting to have his big moment. · "I thought a lot about Goodwill hunting, watching this movie the 2nd time, you know, like the wizard who just kind of needs to tap into everything and all the math"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Friday Night Lights · craft · Shares the score and music and people doing their best, more the show than the movie. · "Really more the show than the movie, but the movie too, but especially the score and the music and people just doing their best."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:18:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Moneyball ↔ Eddington · contrast · Today we are skeptical of lives dominated by data, as in Eddington, which makes Billy's stance feel different now. · "pretty dubious of having our lives dominated by a data center if you've seen Eddington."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:38:02 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Moneyball · career · Hill's line to God invoking Moneyball. · "I'm Jonah Hill, for Moneyball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Moneyball · people · Moneyball is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Moneyball ↔ The Artist · verdict · A less traditional do-over: Moneyball should have beaten The Artist. · "Gonna gonna put moneyball over the artist here?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Moneyball (the host's read) · industry · The film points toward the next wave of dramas that happen to be about sports. · "And Friday Night Lights is moving us toward this kind of next iteration of whatever that was, and it's leading to stuff like money ball and win-win and like dramas that also happen to be about sports."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:26:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] For Love of the Game ↔ Moneyball · industry · Baseball movies progressed from straight sports to merging genres (For Love of the Game) to a movement story that happens to be about baseball (Moneyball). · "now it's like this is about a movement that happened in a sport and it just happens to be about baseball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:21:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · what-if · Pitt might have made three or four more Moneyball-type movies in the Brangelina gap. · "I feel like there was like 3 or 4 more money ball type movies for him in there and he just didn't make them."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:22:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Moneyball ↔ Reds · unmade version · Soderbergh's planned version was like Reds as a baseball movie, with to-camera testimony from real people. · "It was kind of like if you made reds as a baseball movie where he was going to use into camera testimony and real life people performing from the film."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:28:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ A Minecraft Movie · shared trait · Both are IP (based on existing property), tied to the claim that movies are back. · "So Moneyball and then Minecraft, that's that's the director. They're both IP."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:31:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Air · similar subject · Air is a similar movie about commerce, finance, and decision-making around sports, with movie stars and questionable pants. · "Air sort of a similar movie to this in terms of ideas and the relationship between commerce and finance and decision making around sports."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:31:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Hustle · similar subject · Hustle is the recent Adam Sandler basketball scout movie, another sports-business pick. · "The recent Adam Sandler movie about basketball, scout, player personnel person."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:33:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ All the President's Men · process procedural · Both are process movies that take you inside a world and show how people do things and talk. · "taking you inside of a world that you don't totally understand and showing you literally how people do things, literally how people talk about things"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:49:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Aaron Sorkin · craft · Pitt and Hill do Sorkin dialogue at a slow pace, not rat-a-tat. · "they are not doing the Ratatat dialogue."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:05:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Brad Pitt ↔ Moneyball · career · Moneyball showed shades of the performance Pitt reaches here. · "You see shades of it and moneyball, yeah."
[pairs] Moneyball ↔ F1 · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball · fun · The film's central romantic claim: it is about math, angry people, and unflattering pants, yet becomes irresistibly sentimental. · "It's about math. It is about like a lot of math, and there are just a lot of numbers at screen all the time."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · The big game is a mid-season winning-streak game, not a playoff; the movie shows mostly failures, only the Hatteberg home run and not the 11 runs. · "the big game is just like a winning streak game in the middle of the season."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:26:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · Six Oscar nominations (picture, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, editing, sound mixing) but no director nomination. · "Six Academy Award nominations, picture actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, film editing, and sound mixing."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:28:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · Four stars from Ebert; about $120 million on a roughly $50-60 million budget; called a very adult movie. · "$120 million is like a 50 or $60000000 movie."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Moneyball · fun · The Mets version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon, a hostage situation in 100-degree heat. · "What would the Mets version of Moneyball be?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:30:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Moneyball · fun · The show kept refusing Moneyball screening requests; the hosts say they said no four times. · "You said no 4 times."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:16:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Minecraft Movie ↔ The Last Starfighter · theme · A 10-year-old picking up a sword to fight an evil pig echoes 80s kid-hero movies. · "movies I saw as a kid, like the last Starfighter or, um, invaders"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:23:44 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Panic Room ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · theme · Diabetes as a better plot device: the manager in Dog Day Afternoon. · "Oh, dog to afternoon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:16:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Minecraft Movie ↔ Invaders (as heard; likely Invaders from Mars) · theme · Same echo. · "movies I saw as a kid, like the last Starfighter or, um, invaders"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Spotlight ↔ All the President's Men · lineage · Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style. · "it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:47:55 · unknown (0.35)] Green Card ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · craft · Opening mood montages of the city (hail a cab, etc.) were once common in movies, like Dog Day Afternoon. · "I mean, it's a dog day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] All the President's Men ↔ Network · theme · Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail. · "there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[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] 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] 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] 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 Moneyball (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Moneyball (2011) 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.