What the corpus says about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

What was said about it (20)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ This Is Spinal Tap · lineage · Both lampoon rock-star mythology; Dewey is a Forrest Gump of popular music where Tap's band has no identity. · "connecting Walkhart to Spinal Tap, because I think there's a deep spiritual communion between these movies"
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:29:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Rocketman · theme · Walk Hard did not deflate the music biopic; Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody and Respect kept coming, certifying it as a subgenre. · "So it didn't actually deflate anything. If anything, it almost like raised them up and certified them as an ongoing subgenre in film."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
4. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Elvis · craft · Both feature a dead brother as the formative trauma (Walk Hard's wrong-kid-died gag, Elvis's twin). · "that's also the premise of Elvis is that, you know, his twin brother died at a very young age."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:48:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Behind the Candelabra ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · contrast · Behind the Candelabra is very comic but not parody, unlike Walk Hard. · "It's not parody. It's not comedy, even though it is very comic."
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:27 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] The Doors ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · industry · Walk Hard's poster of John C. Reilly was modeled on Val Kilmer in The Doors so it would pass as a real biopic. · "the poster of John C. Riley is modeled on Val Kilmer in the doors, right?"
9. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · parody target · Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup. · "for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · parody of a parody · Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star. · "somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open."
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · prefigured by · A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard. · "there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago."
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:51 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Ray ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · parody of · Walk Hard arrived in the wake of Ray and Walk the Line and skewers their clichés. · "that film coming out in the wake of things like Ray, and especially walk the line"
13. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:28:10 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · parody of · Walk Hard is a beat-for-beat demolition of Walk the Line (and Ray), pairing contempt with affection. · "it is such a perfect note for note, beat for beat, cliche for cliche, demolition of this kind of movie, with just the right amount of contempt and affection"
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:52 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Untitled Bowie biopic (the one with no Bowie songs) · solves a problem · A Bowie biopic with no Bowie songs is the IP problem; Walk Hard avoids it by inventing a fake musician with credible songs. · "Walkhart solves that problem by inventing a fake musician and then giving him songs that almost sound more credible than the real ones."
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:41:03 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping · satire trilogy · Spinal Tap, Walk Hard and Popstar make an instructive trilogy of music satire, with Popstar the millennial, internet-era update. · "if you drew a line from Spinal Tap through Walkhard through pop star, that's like just this expert satire"
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:07 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Weird Al · craft · The guest says the songs written for Walk Hard are credible enough to meet the high bar set by Weird Al's song parodies, which is the comparison for its style-parody music. · "it's a high bar to match someone like weird out in his song parodies"
17. [The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:42:32 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] John C. Reilly ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · career · Talladega Nights greenlit Reilly's lead role in Walk Hard, an apex moment for him. · "I believe this movie Greenlit, him getting his own star role in a movie, which is Walkhart."
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:40:05 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Eddie Vedder · people · Eddie Vedder inducts everyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a parody of himself, singled out as the funniest performance ever. · "It's like funniest performance ever in a movie, is Eddie Vedder doing a parody of himself, because he inducts everyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
19. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:12 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Judd Apatow · produced by · Walk Hard was produced and shaped by Judd Apatow, in his big year of Knocked Up and Superbad; one of his better credits. · "it is produced by, and shaped in a good way by, by, by Judd Appital, right?"
20. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:33:56 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Marshall Crenshaw · songwriting credit · Marshall Crenshaw, a power-pop singer, has songwriting credits on Walk Hard's catchy songs. · "there's also some songwriting credits on it, I think, for Marshall Crenshaw, who's a great power pop singer from the 80s"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Elvis · said 3 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Walk the Line · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:05 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Adam watches the Beatles-stop-fighting-in-India excerpt on YouTube about weekly; he saw the film twice in theaters. · "I don't know how many times I've watched the Beatles stop fighting here in India excerpt online on YouTube."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:31:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Amanda saw it on a Netflix mailer on a couch with a group of young people, which she thinks is how this whole generation of films should be experienced. · "which is how I think all this this entire generation of movies should like truly be experienced."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:22 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Walk Hard's Roy Orbison parody 'Life Without You' is stirring; the fake hippie numbers like the song about a change that never says what it is are great. · "the fake Roy Orbison song he does, the life without you is really quite stirring"
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:52 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Tim Meadows and Chris Parnell as Dewey's backing band mocking a Dylan parody: 'This is very deep.' · "Tim Meadows with his perfect delivery. like, you don't understand. This is very deep, you know?"
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · The film's jokes annotate themselves: characters introduce themselves and each scene has a thesis statement, which the film dares you to call out. · "daring you to call it, call bullshit on this trope of just people saying who they are at all times, which I think is priceless."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:49 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · The final Hall of Fame performance is with Jewel, Lyle Lovett and Ghostface, inducted by Eddie Vedder who 'should have won an Oscar'. · "he performs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the greatest band of all time, which is Jewel, Lyle, Lovett, and Ghostface"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (9)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:36:53 · David Sims (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Behind the Candelabra · craft · Erskine walking in on the unmasked Red Skull... actually Toby Jones's Zola reaction, as when Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee. · "this feels like the scene in, uh, behind the candelabra where Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee."
4. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · craft · Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker). · "It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure"
6. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
8. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
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] 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
4. [speaker] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture

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 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 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 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 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 · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ This Is Spinal Tap · lineage · Both lampoon rock-star mythology; Dewey is a Forrest Gump of popular music where Tap's band has no identity. · "connecting Walkhart to Spinal Tap, because I think there's a deep spiritual communion between these movies"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:29:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Rocketman · theme · Walk Hard did not deflate the music biopic; Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody and Respect kept coming, certifying it as a subgenre. · "So it didn't actually deflate anything. If anything, it almost like raised them up and certified them as an ongoing subgenre in film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Elvis · craft · Both feature a dead brother as the formative trauma (Walk Hard's wrong-kid-died gag, Elvis's twin). · "that's also the premise of Elvis is that, you know, his twin brother died at a very young age."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:48:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Behind the Candelabra ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · contrast · Behind the Candelabra is very comic but not parody, unlike Walk Hard. · "It's not parody. It's not comedy, even though it is very comic."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:27 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] The Doors ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · industry · Walk Hard's poster of John C. Reilly was modeled on Val Kilmer in The Doors so it would pass as a real biopic. · "the poster of John C. Riley is modeled on Val Kilmer in the doors, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · parody target · Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup. · "for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · parody of a parody · Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star. · "somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read) · prefigured by · A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard. · "there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:51 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Ray ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · parody of · Walk Hard arrived in the wake of Ray and Walk the Line and skewers their clichés. · "that film coming out in the wake of things like Ray, and especially walk the line"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:28:10 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read) · parody of · Walk Hard is a beat-for-beat demolition of Walk the Line (and Ray), pairing contempt with affection. · "it is such a perfect note for note, beat for beat, cliche for cliche, demolition of this kind of movie, with just the right amount of contempt and affection"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:52 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Untitled Bowie biopic (the one with no Bowie songs) · solves a problem · A Bowie biopic with no Bowie songs is the IP problem; Walk Hard avoids it by inventing a fake musician with credible songs. · "Walkhart solves that problem by inventing a fake musician and then giving him songs that almost sound more credible than the real ones."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:41:03 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping · satire trilogy · Spinal Tap, Walk Hard and Popstar make an instructive trilogy of music satire, with Popstar the millennial, internet-era update. · "if you drew a line from Spinal Tap through Walkhard through pop star, that's like just this expert satire"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:07 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Weird Al · craft · The guest says the songs written for Walk Hard are credible enough to meet the high bar set by Weird Al's song parodies, which is the comparison for its style-parody music. · "it's a high bar to match someone like weird out in his song parodies"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:42:32 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] John C. Reilly ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · career · Talladega Nights greenlit Reilly's lead role in Walk Hard, an apex moment for him. · "I believe this movie Greenlit, him getting his own star role in a movie, which is Walkhart."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:40:05 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Eddie Vedder · people · Eddie Vedder inducts everyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a parody of himself, singled out as the funniest performance ever. · "It's like funniest performance ever in a movie, is Eddie Vedder doing a parody of himself, because he inducts everyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:12 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Judd Apatow · produced by · Walk Hard was produced and shaped by Judd Apatow, in his big year of Knocked Up and Superbad; one of his better credits. · "it is produced by, and shaped in a good way by, by, by Judd Appital, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:33:56 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Marshall Crenshaw · songwriting credit · Marshall Crenshaw, a power-pop singer, has songwriting credits on Walk Hard's catchy songs. · "there's also some songwriting credits on it, I think, for Marshall Crenshaw, who's a great power pop singer from the 80s"
[pairs] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Elvis · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Walk the Line · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:05 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Adam watches the Beatles-stop-fighting-in-India excerpt on YouTube about weekly; he saw the film twice in theaters. · "I don't know how many times I've watched the Beatles stop fighting here in India excerpt online on YouTube."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:31:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Amanda saw it on a Netflix mailer on a couch with a group of young people, which she thinks is how this whole generation of films should be experienced. · "which is how I think all this this entire generation of movies should like truly be experienced."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:22 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Walk Hard's Roy Orbison parody 'Life Without You' is stirring; the fake hippie numbers like the song about a change that never says what it is are great. · "the fake Roy Orbison song he does, the life without you is really quite stirring"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:34:52 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · Tim Meadows and Chris Parnell as Dewey's backing band mocking a Dylan parody: 'This is very deep.' · "Tim Meadows with his perfect delivery. like, you don't understand. This is very deep, you know?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · The film's jokes annotate themselves: characters introduce themselves and each scene has a thesis statement, which the film dares you to call out. · "daring you to call it, call bullshit on this trope of just people saying who they are at all times, which I think is priceless."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:49 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · fun · The final Hall of Fame performance is with Jewel, Lyle Lovett and Ghostface, inducted by Eddie Vedder who 'should have won an Oscar'. · "he performs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the greatest band of all time, which is Jewel, Lyle, Lovett, and Ghostface"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:36:53 · David Sims (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Behind the Candelabra · craft · Erskine walking in on the unmasked Red Skull... actually Toby Jones's Zola reaction, as when Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee. · "this feels like the scene in, uh, behind the candelabra where Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · craft · Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker). · "It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[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] 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] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[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 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 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.