What the corpus says about Sully (2016)

The 43 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 (5)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:55:14 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Sully · theme · Shield's board distrusts the Avengers the way the flight board distrusted Sully, who was right. · "They didn't trust Sully, but Sully was right."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Sully · dad-movie · Another $100 million domestic dad-majority audience movie. · "Sully, you know, these are movies that still, like, made a 100 million domestic, and you're like, this audience is majority dad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:36:58 · Van Lathan (0.55)] The Edge ↔ Sully · plane crash · Sully joins The Edge as a reminder of how terrifying bird strikes are. · "does it make you wonder why there aren't more, like the, like the movie Sully is another one?"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:21:32 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Connor Ratliff ↔ Sully · re-cut · Connor re-cut Sully into a 41-minute crash-only version, an act of director-intent perversity like his Badalamenti-scored Twin Peaks cut. · "I cut out all the parts that weren't the crash."

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:22:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Sully · fun · Connor's 41-minute crash-only cut of Sully ends with Eckhart looking at Sully, a hard cut to black, then Tom Petty's Learning to Fly. · "And then we hear Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers learning to fly."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Cliffhanger · programming · Cliffhanger is the pick to pair with The Edge, being outdoors. · "I was thinking cliffhanger."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Ghost and the Darkness · programming · Ghost and the Darkness, from around the same time, is another animal-stalking pairing. · "You could also talk me to Ghost in the Darkness because this came right around this time or they're chasing the killer lions."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Edge ↔ Trespass · programming · Trespass is suggested as a double-bill pick. · "you remember that movie Trespass?"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:25:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Art Linson ↔ The Edge · lineage · Linson, a 90s producer, wrote a book whose big section is the making of The Edge. · "And the big part of the book is about him putting together the edge."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:03:10 · Van Lathan (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Cast Away · theme · Man-against-nature survival movies hook the viewer because you imagine what you would do. · "there's very few movies where you're not locked in."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:41:32 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Halloween H2O · theme · The rule of three, that the Black guy dies when three are left, was subverted by LL Cool J in H2O and Deep Blue Sea. · "LL Cool J survived twice."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Lost · theme · Bill is always in for survival stories: Lost, Castaway, Yellowjackets, this movie. · "I'm just in."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Fearless ↔ Allen Daviau · craft · The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it. · "this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · craft · Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography. · "And of course, Russell Boyd won the office."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:23 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Yellowjackets · theme · Yellowjackets is now a whole show about trying to survive. · "and then we have yellow jackets, which now is a whole show about people trying to survive"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

[speaker] Connor Ratliff · latest sketch, Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · A devoted Twin Peaks fan with trading cards, a signed Bobby Briggs rookie card and a season-2 episode already behind the Patreon paywall. He loves Lynch's plainness, Badalamenti's jazz, the Return overall, and tinkering with fan re-cuts. He cannot stand a long commute and is a sucker for a gimmick edit. · stances: Part 8 is the high point of the Return: if it ended there, still glad they came back; Lynch's silences and Badalamenti's absence make the Return different from Twin Peaks; adding the music feels more like Twin Peaks; Part 8 needed the least score of any episode; Fan re-cuts are a perversity but still interesting
[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 (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 Sully (2016) 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 Sully (2016) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:55:14 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Sully · theme · Shield's board distrusts the Avengers the way the flight board distrusted Sully, who was right. · "They didn't trust Sully, but Sully was right."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Sully · dad-movie · Another $100 million domestic dad-majority audience movie. · "Sully, you know, these are movies that still, like, made a 100 million domestic, and you're like, this audience is majority dad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:36:58 · Van Lathan (0.55)] The Edge ↔ Sully · plane crash · Sully joins The Edge as a reminder of how terrifying bird strikes are. · "does it make you wonder why there aren't more, like the, like the movie Sully is another one?"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:21:32 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Connor Ratliff ↔ Sully · re-cut · Connor re-cut Sully into a 41-minute crash-only version, an act of director-intent perversity like his Badalamenti-scored Twin Peaks cut. · "I cut out all the parts that weren't the crash."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:22:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Sully · fun · Connor's 41-minute crash-only cut of Sully ends with Eckhart looking at Sully, a hard cut to black, then Tom Petty's Learning to Fly. · "And then we hear Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers learning to fly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Cliffhanger · programming · Cliffhanger is the pick to pair with The Edge, being outdoors. · "I was thinking cliffhanger."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Ghost and the Darkness · programming · Ghost and the Darkness, from around the same time, is another animal-stalking pairing. · "You could also talk me to Ghost in the Darkness because this came right around this time or they're chasing the killer lions."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Edge ↔ Trespass · programming · Trespass is suggested as a double-bill pick. · "you remember that movie Trespass?"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:25:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Art Linson ↔ The Edge · lineage · Linson, a 90s producer, wrote a book whose big section is the making of The Edge. · "And the big part of the book is about him putting together the edge."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:03:10 · Van Lathan (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Cast Away · theme · Man-against-nature survival movies hook the viewer because you imagine what you would do. · "there's very few movies where you're not locked in."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:41:32 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Halloween H2O · theme · The rule of three, that the Black guy dies when three are left, was subverted by LL Cool J in H2O and Deep Blue Sea. · "LL Cool J survived twice."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Lost · theme · Bill is always in for survival stories: Lost, Castaway, Yellowjackets, this movie. · "I'm just in."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Fearless ↔ Allen Daviau · craft · The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it. · "this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · craft · Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography. · "And of course, Russell Boyd won the office."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:23 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Yellowjackets · theme · Yellowjackets is now a whole show about trying to survive. · "and then we have yellow jackets, which now is a whole show about people trying to survive"
[speaker] Connor Ratliff · latest sketch, Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · A devoted Twin Peaks fan with trading cards, a signed Bobby Briggs rookie card and a season-2 episode already behind the Patreon paywall. He loves Lynch's plainness, Badalamenti's jazz, the Return overall, and tinkering with fan re-cuts. He cannot stand a long commute and is a sucker for a gimmick edit. · stances: Part 8 is the high point of the Return: if it ended there, still glad they came back; Lynch's silences and Badalamenti's absence make the Return different from Twin Peaks; adding the music feels more like Twin Peaks; Part 8 needed the least score of any episode; Fan re-cuts are a perversity but still interesting
[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 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 Sully (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Sully (2016) 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.