What the corpus says about As Good as It Gets (1997)

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What was said about it (26)

[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · The audience sides with the nuisance (Candy / Simon) against the clear jerk, the same dynamic Kinnear sustains against Nicholson. · "even though Steve Barnes clearly a dick are like, yeah, but fucking John Candy, this guy is a nuisance."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:37:56 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Groundhog Day · contrast · A host argues Groundhog Day's redemption of a jerk is more commendable than Melvin's. · "but look at Groundhog Day, another one, but in a way that I think actually is more commendable."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Wolf · contrast · Nicholson's earlier 90s films had a harder edge; this is the softest, cheeriest Nicholson movie. · "But Jack Nicholson, usually the movies he's in have a harder edge."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:15:06 · unknown (0.30)] I'll Do Anything ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · After the disaster of I'll Do Anything, Brooks needed to get his groove back, and As Good as It Gets did it. · "And then makes, I'll do anything, which is like a disaster."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read) · people · Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together. · "They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:39:25 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Groundhog Day · verdict · Doubts Melvin's growth compared with Phil Connors's growth. · "I don't know that I buy Melvin's growth."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:48:09 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Good Will Hunting · verdict · A host would have given the Oscar to Damon; another recalls Nicholson more. · "I love Matt Damon, but I remember Jack Nicholson's performance a lot more."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Will & Grace · industry · Kinnear's gay character came a year before Will & Grace changed depictions on TV. · "To give you some perspective, this is a year before the TV show Will and Grace debuts."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:16:39 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Mars Attacks! · industry · Released the same year; a host loved Mars Attacks for Nicholson's double performance. · "This is the same year as Mars Attacks, and I was all fucking about Mars Attacks, in both Jack Nicholson performances, blows the roof off."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:17:45 · unknown (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Batman · industry · As Good as It Gets is Nicholson's second-highest grosser, behind Batman. · "This is his 2nd highest grossing film ever only behind Batman."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:58 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · industry · Asks if this thoughtful character piece broke out in a year of Titanic and Men in Black. · "in a year where it was like Titanic, Men in Black, all of a sudden, here's this like, thoughtful character piece."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:56 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ As Good as It Gets · OCD treatment · Bob's improvement by pursuing the doctor is compared to Helen Hunt making Nicholson less OCD. · "So it's almost like Helen Hunt and as good as it gets, making Nicholas and less OCD."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:37:33 · unknown (0.40)] Maya Rudolph ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · Her first film role, before SNL in 2000. · "but this is her 1st film role."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:21:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Helen Hunt ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · Helen Hunt's run from Kiss of Death and Twister to winning an Oscar for As Good as It Gets was an unexpected shoot to the A-list. · "And then she wins an Oscar for as good as it gets."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:31:44 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Greg Kinnear ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · Ephron and Delia wanted the actor after his As Good as It Gets notices and he was about to blow up. · "Uh, it's Delia Nora Efron, go see as good as it gets."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:45:55 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Greg Kinnear · verdict · Chris asks if the film is Kinnear's career peak. · "as good as it gets, is it peak Kaneer?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:21:08 · unknown (0.30)] Helen Hunt ↔ As Good as It Gets · industry · Hunt was the first to win an Emmy and an Oscar in the same year (Mad About You and this film). · "win the Emmy and the Oscar in the same year."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Groundhog Day · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:35:17 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Sixth biggest movie of 1997 despite Titanic and Men in Black. · "It was the 6th biggest movie of the year."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:12:31 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Helen Hunt said it was not meant as a romcom; Brooks only asked for a kiss on the final scene. · "And then when they filmed the final scene, James L. Brooks was like, Try kissing her."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:15:19 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Brooks did not originate the script, unlike every other movie he made; he punched up the dialogue. · "And this script wasn't originated by him, which every other movie he's done."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:25:54 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Opening scene has Melvin throwing a dog down a garbage chute and berating Kinnear; the hosts note it is the opposite of save the cat. · "It's also like, it's pretty audacious of Brooks to be like, I'm literally going to do the opposite of save the cat in the 1st shot of my movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:26:07 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · The dog looks like a muffin; the poster featured smiling Jack holding the dog. · "This dog that literally just looks like a muffin with 2 eyes on it."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Trivia: Nicholson designed his own downtown wardrobe, though the hosts debate whether it reads downtown. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jerry Maguire ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · A hypothetical Jerry Maguire 2 would work like The Hustler/Color of Money pairing. · "If it was like the hustle and the color of money and he returns to his Eddie Felson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.30)] Joker ↔ Batman · lineage · A new Joker ties right into Nicholson's Joker. · "Wow, topical ties right into the jack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · The whole town seems to attend the trial each day. · "Groundhog Day is a thing that came out for me watching this too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:53:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Cuarón's repeated thanks to the same Roma actors in each speech is compared to the alarm clock in Groundhog Day. · "it was that sort of the alarm clock going off in Groundhog Day."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jerry Maguire ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · theme · Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke. · "just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · craft · The choreography of the repeated day (dodging people, counting it off) is what Groundhog Day does. · "It's what Grandhog Day does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:53:46 · Marie Bardi (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ Jerry Maguire · theme · The sports-marketing partners are likened to Jerry Maguire. · "So they're Jerry Maguires?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:10:01 · unknown (0.30)] Cuba Gooding Jr. ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · His strength was more energy than any actor alive, as in Jerry Maguire, but it is too hot for this film. · "This was a moment where I think Cuba's greatest strength was he had more energy than any other actor alive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire. · "It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Chris Gethard · latest sketch, Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · Loves an unapologetic dickhead performance and Star Wars minutiae (memorized the encyclopedia in high school); a sucker for Helen Hunt and for underdog films like Breaking Away. Can't stand Poe Dameron's mutiny, bad-movie-in-theaters stories, or romances where a straight man and woman can't just respect each other. · stances: Kinnear's performance is the best in the film and may be his career peak; Poe Dameron is a war criminal; Wants straight male/female friendships that stay non-romantic; Nicholson in this film is top three for lovable dickheads
[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
[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] 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 As Good as It Gets (1997) 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 As Good as It Gets (1997) 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 · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · The audience sides with the nuisance (Candy / Simon) against the clear jerk, the same dynamic Kinnear sustains against Nicholson. · "even though Steve Barnes clearly a dick are like, yeah, but fucking John Candy, this guy is a nuisance."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:37:56 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Groundhog Day · contrast · A host argues Groundhog Day's redemption of a jerk is more commendable than Melvin's. · "but look at Groundhog Day, another one, but in a way that I think actually is more commendable."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Wolf · contrast · Nicholson's earlier 90s films had a harder edge; this is the softest, cheeriest Nicholson movie. · "But Jack Nicholson, usually the movies he's in have a harder edge."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:15:06 · unknown (0.30)] I'll Do Anything ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · After the disaster of I'll Do Anything, Brooks needed to get his groove back, and As Good as It Gets did it. · "And then makes, I'll do anything, which is like a disaster."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read) · people · Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together. · "They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:39:25 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Groundhog Day · verdict · Doubts Melvin's growth compared with Phil Connors's growth. · "I don't know that I buy Melvin's growth."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:48:09 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Good Will Hunting · verdict · A host would have given the Oscar to Damon; another recalls Nicholson more. · "I love Matt Damon, but I remember Jack Nicholson's performance a lot more."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Will & Grace · industry · Kinnear's gay character came a year before Will & Grace changed depictions on TV. · "To give you some perspective, this is a year before the TV show Will and Grace debuts."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:16:39 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Mars Attacks! · industry · Released the same year; a host loved Mars Attacks for Nicholson's double performance. · "This is the same year as Mars Attacks, and I was all fucking about Mars Attacks, in both Jack Nicholson performances, blows the roof off."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:17:45 · unknown (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Batman · industry · As Good as It Gets is Nicholson's second-highest grosser, behind Batman. · "This is his 2nd highest grossing film ever only behind Batman."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:58 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · industry · Asks if this thoughtful character piece broke out in a year of Titanic and Men in Black. · "in a year where it was like Titanic, Men in Black, all of a sudden, here's this like, thoughtful character piece."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:56 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ As Good as It Gets · OCD treatment · Bob's improvement by pursuing the doctor is compared to Helen Hunt making Nicholson less OCD. · "So it's almost like Helen Hunt and as good as it gets, making Nicholas and less OCD."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:37:33 · unknown (0.40)] Maya Rudolph ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · Her first film role, before SNL in 2000. · "but this is her 1st film role."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:21:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Helen Hunt ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · Helen Hunt's run from Kiss of Death and Twister to winning an Oscar for As Good as It Gets was an unexpected shoot to the A-list. · "And then she wins an Oscar for as good as it gets."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:31:44 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Greg Kinnear ↔ As Good as It Gets · career · Ephron and Delia wanted the actor after his As Good as It Gets notices and he was about to blow up. · "Uh, it's Delia Nora Efron, go see as good as it gets."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:45:55 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Greg Kinnear · verdict · Chris asks if the film is Kinnear's career peak. · "as good as it gets, is it peak Kaneer?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:21:08 · unknown (0.30)] Helen Hunt ↔ As Good as It Gets · industry · Hunt was the first to win an Emmy and an Oscar in the same year (Mad About You and this film). · "win the Emmy and the Oscar in the same year."
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Groundhog Day · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:35:17 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Sixth biggest movie of 1997 despite Titanic and Men in Black. · "It was the 6th biggest movie of the year."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:12:31 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Helen Hunt said it was not meant as a romcom; Brooks only asked for a kiss on the final scene. · "And then when they filmed the final scene, James L. Brooks was like, Try kissing her."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:15:19 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Brooks did not originate the script, unlike every other movie he made; he punched up the dialogue. · "And this script wasn't originated by him, which every other movie he's done."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:25:54 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Opening scene has Melvin throwing a dog down a garbage chute and berating Kinnear; the hosts note it is the opposite of save the cat. · "It's also like, it's pretty audacious of Brooks to be like, I'm literally going to do the opposite of save the cat in the 1st shot of my movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:26:07 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · The dog looks like a muffin; the poster featured smiling Jack holding the dog. · "This dog that literally just looks like a muffin with 2 eyes on it."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets · fun · Trivia: Nicholson designed his own downtown wardrobe, though the hosts debate whether it reads downtown. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jerry Maguire ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · A hypothetical Jerry Maguire 2 would work like The Hustler/Color of Money pairing. · "If it was like the hustle and the color of money and he returns to his Eddie Felson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.30)] Joker ↔ Batman · lineage · A new Joker ties right into Nicholson's Joker. · "Wow, topical ties right into the jack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · The whole town seems to attend the trial each day. · "Groundhog Day is a thing that came out for me watching this too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:53:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Cuarón's repeated thanks to the same Roma actors in each speech is compared to the alarm clock in Groundhog Day. · "it was that sort of the alarm clock going off in Groundhog Day."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jerry Maguire ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · theme · Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke. · "just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · craft · The choreography of the repeated day (dodging people, counting it off) is what Groundhog Day does. · "It's what Grandhog Day does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:53:46 · Marie Bardi (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ Jerry Maguire · theme · The sports-marketing partners are likened to Jerry Maguire. · "So they're Jerry Maguires?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:10:01 · unknown (0.30)] Cuba Gooding Jr. ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · His strength was more energy than any actor alive, as in Jerry Maguire, but it is too hot for this film. · "This was a moment where I think Cuba's greatest strength was he had more energy than any other actor alive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire. · "It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that."
[speaker] Chris Gethard · latest sketch, Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · Loves an unapologetic dickhead performance and Star Wars minutiae (memorized the encyclopedia in high school); a sucker for Helen Hunt and for underdog films like Breaking Away. Can't stand Poe Dameron's mutiny, bad-movie-in-theaters stories, or romances where a straight man and woman can't just respect each other. · stances: Kinnear's performance is the best in the film and may be his career peak; Poe Dameron is a war criminal; Wants straight male/female friendships that stay non-romantic; Nicholson in this film is top three for lovable dickheads
[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
[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] 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 As Good as It Gets (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend As Good as It Gets (1997) 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.