What the corpus says about Internal Affairs (1990)

The 47 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Single White Female · lineage · The dark, weird-sex run of movies carries on into Single White Female in 92. · "Even through like single white female."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:41:23 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Internal Affairs ↔ Rear Window · lineage · The jealousy scenes turn the movie toward Rear Window or Vertigo as Raymond is consumed by sexual inadequacy more than the case. · "That's where it turns to the rear window a little bit, right?"
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:00:07 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Serpico ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Raymond, though supposedly an IAD rookie, takes over like Serpico. · "And he turned into like Serpico."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ⇒ Deep Cover (the host's read) · lineage · Deep Cover was conceived as a sequel to Internal Affairs; Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean got involved in writing it. · "Deep cover was conceived as a sequel to this movie."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:17:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Shield (TV) ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · The Shield is offered as the closest TV answer to a dirty-cop show. · "I guess the shield's the closest, right?"
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:23:46 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Leaving Las Vegas ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Both are set in a place supposed to be full of promise but are really full of sin and desperation. · "They're both set in a place that's supposed to be full of promise, but is, in fact, full of sin and desperation."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:44:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ L.A. Confidential · theme · L.A. Confidential is the other prominent L.A. dirty-cop movie that the speakers had left out. · "LA Confidential?"
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:07:06 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Another 48 Hrs. ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · The Internal Affairs guy is cast as the bad guy while investigating Jack Cates, who is the corrupt one. · "Meanwhile, he's investigating Jack Cates, who is like just completely corrupt."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Another movie with no black people that did not need any. · "Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:20:31 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Unfaithful · theme · Apex Mountain candidates for imagining a spouse with someone else: Unfaithful and Indecent Proposal. · "Unfaithful is a big one when gear after he kills the sculptor."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:20:46 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Indecent Proposal · theme · Indecent Proposal is declared the winner of the imagined-spouse-affair Apex Mountain. · "That's the winner."
  22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:24:33 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Heat ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Bad-guy world where everybody knows the plan is a movie trope shared with Heat. · "Am I tripping or does that happen in heat as well?"
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Internal Affairs · craft · Both open with a dirty cop who executes a man and plants a gun on him with no consequences. · "So like even in like confidential when Russell Crowe just walks in and executes that guy."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:48:27 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Lethal Weapon 3 · craft · The unfinished Granada Hills development recalls construction sites in Lethal Weapon 3 and other action crime movies. · "Because when you think about, I guess it's lethal weapon three."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:16:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Internal Affairs · contrast · Training Day knows it is a different prism on dirty cops, while Internal Affairs treats a dirty cop as fun to watch. · "Yeah, training day is in a completely different prism and it knows that this movie is kind of like, ah, it's fun to watch Richard Gere be a dirty cop."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

  1. [pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ L.A. Confidential · said 2 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Lieutenant · said 2 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · said 2 times in 1 episode
  4. [pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:02:11 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Internal Affairs · fun · Hosts say it is a one-of-one: a dirty-cop movie crossed with a psychosexual thriller. · "I don't know that they ever did."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Watching it feels like a genre of its own: you look behind you to see whether anyone is watching you watch it. · "is anybody watching me watch this movie?"
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:24:45 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Box office: a $50 million budget (as said) against 47.7 million, then a cable mainstay, heavily edited for TNT. · "It was one of the worst edited for TNT movies possible"
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:50:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Original ending: they go out a window into a pool and Peck seems to drown; test audiences hated it, so it was changed. · "They end up going out the window, falling in the swimming pool, peck drowns."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:03:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Rat Squad: a better title offered via a speaker's father, a former police officer, who said that is what Internal Affairs was called. · "they called it the rat squad."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:08:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs · fun · Casting what-ifs: the research list of actors offered Peck includes Nolte, Harrison Ford, Pacino, and Schwarzenegger. · "Alec Baldwin, Tom Barringer, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, William Defoe, De Niro, Michael, Douglas, Harrison Ford, which is the one that I would nominate."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (7)

  1. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:46:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] To Live and Die in L.A. ↔ Bad Lieutenant · programming · Date-night worst movie lists: To Live and Die in L.A. starts one, then Bad Lieutenant, Happiness, 8MM, Come and See. · "He said, uh, he nominates Bad Lieutenant, Happiness, 8 millimeter and come and see."
  2. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:31:24 · unknown (0.40)] L.A. Confidential ↔ The Nice Guys · programming · CR month ends with To Live and Die in L.A., Nice Guys, and L.A. Confidential, the first four-person Rewatchable. · "Our 1st 4 person we watchable."
  3. [The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:45:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken ↔ Training Day · theme · Bad guys playing cards at the hideout is a staple, as in Training Day, which was even more intense. · "this happened in training day as well, and training day was even more intense"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:32:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Training Day · craft · Peck's power-move needling about the wife echoes Alonzo's needling of Jake in Training Day. · "You know how, like, in training day, like, when Alonso asked, what's Ethan?"
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · theme · The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential. · "Like, like the Kevin Spacey character."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:49:11 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · craft · The script reminds Leslye of L.A. Confidential: methodical, restarts mid-film, scenes handing off to the next. · "It's absolutely, like, the script reminds me so much of LA confidential."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

The shows' running bits (1)

  1. [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 Internal Affairs (1990) 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 Internal Affairs (1990) 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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Single White Female · lineage · The dark, weird-sex run of movies carries on into Single White Female in 92. · "Even through like single white female."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:41:23 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Internal Affairs ↔ Rear Window · lineage · The jealousy scenes turn the movie toward Rear Window or Vertigo as Raymond is consumed by sexual inadequacy more than the case. · "That's where it turns to the rear window a little bit, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:00:07 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Serpico ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Raymond, though supposedly an IAD rookie, takes over like Serpico. · "And he turned into like Serpico."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ⇒ Deep Cover (the host's read) · lineage · Deep Cover was conceived as a sequel to Internal Affairs; Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean got involved in writing it. · "Deep cover was conceived as a sequel to this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:17:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Shield (TV) ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · The Shield is offered as the closest TV answer to a dirty-cop show. · "I guess the shield's the closest, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:23:46 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Leaving Las Vegas ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Both are set in a place supposed to be full of promise but are really full of sin and desperation. · "They're both set in a place that's supposed to be full of promise, but is, in fact, full of sin and desperation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:44:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ L.A. Confidential · theme · L.A. Confidential is the other prominent L.A. dirty-cop movie that the speakers had left out. · "LA Confidential?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:07:06 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Another 48 Hrs. ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · The Internal Affairs guy is cast as the bad guy while investigating Jack Cates, who is the corrupt one. · "Meanwhile, he's investigating Jack Cates, who is like just completely corrupt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Another movie with no black people that did not need any. · "Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:20:31 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Unfaithful · theme · Apex Mountain candidates for imagining a spouse with someone else: Unfaithful and Indecent Proposal. · "Unfaithful is a big one when gear after he kills the sculptor."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:20:46 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Indecent Proposal · theme · Indecent Proposal is declared the winner of the imagined-spouse-affair Apex Mountain. · "That's the winner."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:24:33 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Heat ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Bad-guy world where everybody knows the plan is a movie trope shared with Heat. · "Am I tripping or does that happen in heat as well?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Internal Affairs · craft · Both open with a dirty cop who executes a man and plants a gun on him with no consequences. · "So like even in like confidential when Russell Crowe just walks in and executes that guy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:48:27 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Lethal Weapon 3 · craft · The unfinished Granada Hills development recalls construction sites in Lethal Weapon 3 and other action crime movies. · "Because when you think about, I guess it's lethal weapon three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:16:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Internal Affairs · contrast · Training Day knows it is a different prism on dirty cops, while Internal Affairs treats a dirty cop as fun to watch. · "Yeah, training day is in a completely different prism and it knows that this movie is kind of like, ah, it's fun to watch Richard Gere be a dirty cop."
[pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ L.A. Confidential · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Lieutenant · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:02:11 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Internal Affairs · fun · Hosts say it is a one-of-one: a dirty-cop movie crossed with a psychosexual thriller. · "I don't know that they ever did."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Watching it feels like a genre of its own: you look behind you to see whether anyone is watching you watch it. · "is anybody watching me watch this movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:24:45 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Box office: a $50 million budget (as said) against 47.7 million, then a cable mainstay, heavily edited for TNT. · "It was one of the worst edited for TNT movies possible"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:50:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Original ending: they go out a window into a pool and Peck seems to drown; test audiences hated it, so it was changed. · "They end up going out the window, falling in the swimming pool, peck drowns."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:03:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs · fun · Rat Squad: a better title offered via a speaker's father, a former police officer, who said that is what Internal Affairs was called. · "they called it the rat squad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:08:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs · fun · Casting what-ifs: the research list of actors offered Peck includes Nolte, Harrison Ford, Pacino, and Schwarzenegger. · "Alec Baldwin, Tom Barringer, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, William Defoe, De Niro, Michael, Douglas, Harrison Ford, which is the one that I would nominate."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:46:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] To Live and Die in L.A. ↔ Bad Lieutenant · programming · Date-night worst movie lists: To Live and Die in L.A. starts one, then Bad Lieutenant, Happiness, 8MM, Come and See. · "He said, uh, he nominates Bad Lieutenant, Happiness, 8 millimeter and come and see."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:31:24 · unknown (0.40)] L.A. Confidential ↔ The Nice Guys · programming · CR month ends with To Live and Die in L.A., Nice Guys, and L.A. Confidential, the first four-person Rewatchable. · "Our 1st 4 person we watchable."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:45:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken ↔ Training Day · theme · Bad guys playing cards at the hideout is a staple, as in Training Day, which was even more intense. · "this happened in training day as well, and training day was even more intense"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:32:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Training Day · craft · Peck's power-move needling about the wife echoes Alonzo's needling of Jake in Training Day. · "You know how, like, in training day, like, when Alonso asked, what's Ethan?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · theme · The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential. · "Like, like the Kevin Spacey character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:49:11 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · craft · The script reminds Leslye of L.A. Confidential: methodical, restarts mid-film, scenes handing off to the next. · "It's absolutely, like, the script reminds me so much of LA confidential."
[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] 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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 Internal Affairs (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Internal Affairs (1990) 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.