What the corpus says about Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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What was said about it (26)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
  2. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
  3. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
  6. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks. · "echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · In 2012 Banner could become the Hulk at will; now he cannot at all. · "where Bruce Banner could turn into the Hulk at Will, and now he can't turn into it at all"
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · Thanos's 'I'll do it myself' in Infinity War is explained by this film's first-wave contractors who all blow it. · "Yeah, is that he's he's contracted people to get all this shit for him and they all blow it."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
  15. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:32:09 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Comic book crossover events · craft · Infinity War worked because it recreates the feeling of reading a massive comic crossover event. · "Infinity War was as good as it was because it recreates the feeling of reading like a massive crossover event in a comic book."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:07:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · craft · Guardians 2's Gamora and Nebula scene gives her survival-instinct backstory that Infinity War could have drawn on. · "I feel like Guardians 2 does this very good job when she has her sort of big scene with Nebula"
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:23:30 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Alien / Aliens · craft · Stark getting sucked out the airlock: it's the first Alien, not Aliens. · "It's an alien thing, right?"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:39:41 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Alien / Aliens · craft · The Titan ship looks like the horseshoe ship from the Alien films. · "Which also looks like the horseshoe from the alien films."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:40:14 · John Hodgman (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Star Trek (TNG, Star Trek Live) · craft · Spaceships need no aerodynamics; the Borg cube was the beautiful proof. · "That was what was so beautiful about the design of the Borg cube."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:03:09 · unknown (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · Had Marvel known how big Black Panther would be, Shuri would not have been kept in one room. · "if they had known how big Black Panther was gonna be, they would not have kept Sherry in one room"
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:03:48 · unknown (0.30)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · A listener pointed out that Wakanda in Black Panther is an Atlanta parking lot on green screen, a source of local pride. · "clearly it is a parking lot in Atlanta that is green screen"
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:05:58 · unknown (0.35)] Venom ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · The Outriders look like Venom symbiotes, perhaps a soft setup. · "They look like venoms, right?"
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:25:43 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Mortal Kombat · craft · Thor's lightning eyes read as Raiden from Mortal Kombat. · "Radonized from Mortal Kombat."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:36:48 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Iron Man 3 · craft · Iron Man 3 completes Tony's arc, so Spider-Man can be his second arc. · "Iron Man 3 completes the Tony Arc"
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:55:33 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · Prefers Iron Man's visible plate-and-gear machinery to Infinity War's seamless nanobite suit. · "I like it so much more when it's the thing where like one plate has to like rise up"

Films put beside it more than once (6)

  1. [pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · said 11 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Black Panther · said 6 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ The Avengers · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  4. [pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  5. [pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  6. [pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:32:00 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Asking for 19 films of knowledge for a three-hour movie is ridiculous. · "Like asking somebody to have 19 films worth of knowledge in order to enjoy a 3 hour movie"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:20:09 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Opening ritual: the hosts try to start the film in sync with a Thanos snap, botching the remote and resetting twice. · "David, I'm going to go three, two, one, and then I want you to do a Thanos snap."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:41:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Black Order power ranking: Ebony Maw first for his Mr. Burns hand flick; Proxima Midnight second for Carrie Coon. · "I like the Mr. Burns hand."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:45:47 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Filming locations: the New York blocks are CGI, Edinburgh and Atlanta are real, and Thanos's little hut is in the Philippines. · "And then Thanos's weird little hut is in the Philippines."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:59:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Look at the chip shop in the Edinburgh scene: a sign says they will deep fry your kebab, which leads to Scottish deep-frying and a prank-call album bit. · "there's just a sign in the chip shop that just says, we will deep fry your kebab"
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:03:25 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Cap's Nomad costume: the torn-off stars read as aged and on the run, and Hodgman explains the 1970s comic Nomad identity after Watergate. · "And I love that they make it clear that he has ripped off the stars."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
  4. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
  11. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
  14. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
  3. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
  4. [speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
  5. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
  6. [speaker] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly

The shows' running bits (2)

  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] 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

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 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 Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 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 Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks. · "echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · In 2012 Banner could become the Hulk at will; now he cannot at all. · "where Bruce Banner could turn into the Hulk at Will, and now he can't turn into it at all"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · Thanos's 'I'll do it myself' in Infinity War is explained by this film's first-wave contractors who all blow it. · "Yeah, is that he's he's contracted people to get all this shit for him and they all blow it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:32:09 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Comic book crossover events · craft · Infinity War worked because it recreates the feeling of reading a massive comic crossover event. · "Infinity War was as good as it was because it recreates the feeling of reading like a massive crossover event in a comic book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:07:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · craft · Guardians 2's Gamora and Nebula scene gives her survival-instinct backstory that Infinity War could have drawn on. · "I feel like Guardians 2 does this very good job when she has her sort of big scene with Nebula"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:23:30 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Alien / Aliens · craft · Stark getting sucked out the airlock: it's the first Alien, not Aliens. · "It's an alien thing, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:39:41 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Alien / Aliens · craft · The Titan ship looks like the horseshoe ship from the Alien films. · "Which also looks like the horseshoe from the alien films."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:40:14 · John Hodgman (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Star Trek (TNG, Star Trek Live) · craft · Spaceships need no aerodynamics; the Borg cube was the beautiful proof. · "That was what was so beautiful about the design of the Borg cube."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:03:09 · unknown (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · Had Marvel known how big Black Panther would be, Shuri would not have been kept in one room. · "if they had known how big Black Panther was gonna be, they would not have kept Sherry in one room"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:03:48 · unknown (0.30)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · A listener pointed out that Wakanda in Black Panther is an Atlanta parking lot on green screen, a source of local pride. · "clearly it is a parking lot in Atlanta that is green screen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:05:58 · unknown (0.35)] Venom ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · The Outriders look like Venom symbiotes, perhaps a soft setup. · "They look like venoms, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:25:43 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Mortal Kombat · craft · Thor's lightning eyes read as Raiden from Mortal Kombat. · "Radonized from Mortal Kombat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:36:48 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Iron Man 3 · craft · Iron Man 3 completes Tony's arc, so Spider-Man can be his second arc. · "Iron Man 3 completes the Tony Arc"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:55:33 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · Prefers Iron Man's visible plate-and-gear machinery to Infinity War's seamless nanobite suit. · "I like it so much more when it's the thing where like one plate has to like rise up"
[pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · said 11 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Black Panther · said 6 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ The Avengers · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:32:00 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Asking for 19 films of knowledge for a three-hour movie is ridiculous. · "Like asking somebody to have 19 films worth of knowledge in order to enjoy a 3 hour movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:20:09 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Opening ritual: the hosts try to start the film in sync with a Thanos snap, botching the remote and resetting twice. · "David, I'm going to go three, two, one, and then I want you to do a Thanos snap."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:41:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Black Order power ranking: Ebony Maw first for his Mr. Burns hand flick; Proxima Midnight second for Carrie Coon. · "I like the Mr. Burns hand."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:45:47 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Filming locations: the New York blocks are CGI, Edinburgh and Atlanta are real, and Thanos's little hut is in the Philippines. · "And then Thanos's weird little hut is in the Philippines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:59:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Look at the chip shop in the Edinburgh scene: a sign says they will deep fry your kebab, which leads to Scottish deep-frying and a prank-call album bit. · "there's just a sign in the chip shop that just says, we will deep fry your kebab"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:03:25 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War · fun · Cap's Nomad costume: the torn-off stars read as aged and on the run, and Hodgman explains the 1970s comic Nomad identity after Watergate. · "And I love that they make it clear that he has ripped off the stars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
[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] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
[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] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly
[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] 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 Avengers: Infinity War (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 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.