What the corpus says about Dances with Wolves (1990)

What was said about it (8)

1. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
2. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Dances with Wolves ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · contrast · Unlike Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves is not offensive in its depiction of native people. · "It's not like driving Miss Daisy where there's something kind of offensive about it."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Dances with Wolves · contrast · Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture. · "this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece."
4. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ↔ Dances with Wolves · verdict · Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas for the Oscars was a nightmare. · "And then dances with wolves over good food. That's kind of a nightmare."
5. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Dances with Wolves ↔ Goodfellas · verdict · Dances with Wolves is not a bad movie, but it is not Goodfellas. · "It's just not Goodfellas."
6. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Goodfellas ↔ Dances with Wolves · verdict · Goodfellas should have won Best Picture over Dances with Wolves. · "Goodfellas overdances with wolves."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:07:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kevin Costner ↔ Dances with Wolves · career · Costner, fresh off Dances with Wolves, could make any film; his blessing and Buena Vista deal shaped Tombstone. · "Costner was coming off dancing with wolves and could make any movie he wanted and that he bowed out of this."
8. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:39:13 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] John Barry ↔ Dances with Wolves · verdict · Barry's Dances with Wolves score is called possibly the greatest power boost a score ever gave a movie. · "you and I say that might be the single greatest, like, power boost of a score to a movie ever."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Dances with Wolves ↔ Goodfellas · said 3 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (25)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
2. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
3. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · lineage · Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling. · "we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
5. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
6. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
9. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
11. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
12. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
14. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
15. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
18. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
24. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:07:47 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Galaxy Quest · theme · The human-looking avatars are compared to Galaxy Quest's aliens who look like convention fans. · "There is a version of this story"
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [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
3. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Dances with Wolves (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 Dances with Wolves (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 Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Dances with Wolves ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · contrast · Unlike Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves is not offensive in its depiction of native people. · "It's not like driving Miss Daisy where there's something kind of offensive about it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Dances with Wolves · contrast · Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture. · "this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ↔ Dances with Wolves · verdict · Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas for the Oscars was a nightmare. · "And then dances with wolves over good food. That's kind of a nightmare."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Dances with Wolves ↔ Goodfellas · verdict · Dances with Wolves is not a bad movie, but it is not Goodfellas. · "It's just not Goodfellas."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Goodfellas ↔ Dances with Wolves · verdict · Goodfellas should have won Best Picture over Dances with Wolves. · "Goodfellas overdances with wolves."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:07:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kevin Costner ↔ Dances with Wolves · career · Costner, fresh off Dances with Wolves, could make any film; his blessing and Buena Vista deal shaped Tombstone. · "Costner was coming off dancing with wolves and could make any movie he wanted and that he bowed out of this."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:39:13 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] John Barry ↔ Dances with Wolves · verdict · Barry's Dances with Wolves score is called possibly the greatest power boost a score ever gave a movie. · "you and I say that might be the single greatest, like, power boost of a score to a movie ever."
[pairs] Dances with Wolves ↔ Goodfellas · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · lineage · Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling. · "we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:07:47 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Galaxy Quest · theme · The human-looking avatars are compared to Galaxy Quest's aliens who look like convention fans. · "There is a version of this story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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 Dances with Wolves (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Dances with Wolves (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.