What the corpus says about Moulin Rouge! (2001)

The 39 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (12)

[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:09:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Wicked · theme · Moulin Rouge plays for a huge number of people the way Wicked plays for the speaker. · "I'm aware that this plays like Wicked played to me for a huge number of people."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.35)] The Others ↔ Moulin Rouge! · contrast · Same year, polar opposites: the restrained ghost story against the Moulin Rouge excess shows her range. · "The exact polar opposite of Moulin Rouge, and the fact that they happen in the same year shows like her incredible."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:31:49 · unknown (0.35)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ The Paperboy · contrast · For viewers who like camp Kidman, The Paperboy gives a different version than the Moulin Rouge kind. · "I don't want the Lumon Rouge version."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:11:38 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Moulin Rouge! · industry · Apes was not nominated for makeup while Moulin Rouge, In the Bedroom and A Beautiful Mind were. · "Now, another nominee was Moulin Rouge, which has incredible makeup and hair."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:14:31 · unknown (0.35)] The Hours ↔ Moulin Rouge! · industry · Her Oscar for The Hours is read as making up for passing her over for Moulin Rouge and The Others. · "I think it is a little bit of a like, whoops, we should have given it to her for Moulin Rouge and the others in a collective way and did not do that."
[Blank Check · Starman · 0:50:36 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Moulin Rouge! ⇒ Cinderella (the host's read) · imitation · The Amazon Cinderella tries the Moulin Rouge jukebox-musical thing and fails; Moulin Rouge is a lot harder to pull off. · "It's trying to do the Moulin Rouge thing of like, oh, it's like a jukebox musical where we just like picked songs we like"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 0:50:06 · David Sims (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Panic Room · carried-over injury · Kidman's knee was injured on Moulin Rouge and not healed, and she reinjured it on Panic Room. · "The whole thing with her knee was that she had actually injured at making Milan Rouge and not known."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:57:39 · unknown (0.30)] Moulin Rouge! → Moulin Rouge! · version · Baz Luhrmann did a version of Moulin Rouge that cost a fortune. · "he did a version of it that cost $1000000 per minute."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:11:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Nicole Kidman · career · Arguably the most important movie of her career: original, singing, awards, box office. · "Yeah, it's a huge, huge movie, arguably the most important movie in her career, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Baz Luhrmann ↔ Moulin Rouge! · career · Luhrmann reinvented musicals with Moulin Rouge and redefined the jukebox musical, making him a natural fit for Elvis. · "reinvented musicals, really, with Moulin Rouge and redefined the idea of the jukebox musical."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:10:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · Going in because of box office, awards and new audience despite one host's hatred. · "It's definitely going in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:34:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Moulin Rouge! · industry · Kidman's knee injury from Moulin Rouge was aggravated on Panic Room. · "she aggravated an injury that she had suffered on Moulin Rouge."

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:10:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! · fun · A rant against the film, singing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a can-can, from a host who says it makes him want to be shot in the face. · "But with turn of the 20th century, France singing smells like teen spirit in a can can."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:11:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! · fun · The defender was 17 in 2001 and calls the film a masterpiece and Baz Luhrmann a visionary. · "I think this movie is a masterpiece and I think Baz Lerman is a visionary."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:13:51 · unknown (0.40)] Mrs. Dalloway ⇒ The Hours (the host's read) · lineage · The Hours is a nesting-doll take on Mrs. Dalloway, with Kidman as Virginia Woolf in one of three timelines. · "It's like a nesting doll take on Mrs. Dalloway, the Virginia Wolf novel."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:12:26 · unknown (0.35)] The Others ↔ The Sixth Sense · lineage · The Others arrived on the heels of The Sixth Sense and the two are paired in many ways. · "Coming hot on the heels of the 6th sense is these 2 movies are sort of paired in many ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (3)

[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 Moulin Rouge! (2001) 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 Moulin Rouge! (2001) 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 Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:09:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Wicked · theme · Moulin Rouge plays for a huge number of people the way Wicked plays for the speaker. · "I'm aware that this plays like Wicked played to me for a huge number of people."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.35)] The Others ↔ Moulin Rouge! · contrast · Same year, polar opposites: the restrained ghost story against the Moulin Rouge excess shows her range. · "The exact polar opposite of Moulin Rouge, and the fact that they happen in the same year shows like her incredible."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:31:49 · unknown (0.35)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ The Paperboy · contrast · For viewers who like camp Kidman, The Paperboy gives a different version than the Moulin Rouge kind. · "I don't want the Lumon Rouge version."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:11:38 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Moulin Rouge! · industry · Apes was not nominated for makeup while Moulin Rouge, In the Bedroom and A Beautiful Mind were. · "Now, another nominee was Moulin Rouge, which has incredible makeup and hair."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:14:31 · unknown (0.35)] The Hours ↔ Moulin Rouge! · industry · Her Oscar for The Hours is read as making up for passing her over for Moulin Rouge and The Others. · "I think it is a little bit of a like, whoops, we should have given it to her for Moulin Rouge and the others in a collective way and did not do that."
[Blank Check · Starman · 0:50:36 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Moulin Rouge! ⇒ Cinderella (the host's read) · imitation · The Amazon Cinderella tries the Moulin Rouge jukebox-musical thing and fails; Moulin Rouge is a lot harder to pull off. · "It's trying to do the Moulin Rouge thing of like, oh, it's like a jukebox musical where we just like picked songs we like"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 0:50:06 · David Sims (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Panic Room · carried-over injury · Kidman's knee was injured on Moulin Rouge and not healed, and she reinjured it on Panic Room. · "The whole thing with her knee was that she had actually injured at making Milan Rouge and not known."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:57:39 · unknown (0.30)] Moulin Rouge! → Moulin Rouge! · version · Baz Luhrmann did a version of Moulin Rouge that cost a fortune. · "he did a version of it that cost $1000000 per minute."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:11:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Nicole Kidman · career · Arguably the most important movie of her career: original, singing, awards, box office. · "Yeah, it's a huge, huge movie, arguably the most important movie in her career, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Baz Luhrmann ↔ Moulin Rouge! · career · Luhrmann reinvented musicals with Moulin Rouge and redefined the jukebox musical, making him a natural fit for Elvis. · "reinvented musicals, really, with Moulin Rouge and redefined the idea of the jukebox musical."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:10:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · Going in because of box office, awards and new audience despite one host's hatred. · "It's definitely going in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:34:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Moulin Rouge! · industry · Kidman's knee injury from Moulin Rouge was aggravated on Panic Room. · "she aggravated an injury that she had suffered on Moulin Rouge."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:10:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! · fun · A rant against the film, singing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a can-can, from a host who says it makes him want to be shot in the face. · "But with turn of the 20th century, France singing smells like teen spirit in a can can."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:11:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! · fun · The defender was 17 in 2001 and calls the film a masterpiece and Baz Luhrmann a visionary. · "I think this movie is a masterpiece and I think Baz Lerman is a visionary."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:13:51 · unknown (0.40)] Mrs. Dalloway ⇒ The Hours (the host's read) · lineage · The Hours is a nesting-doll take on Mrs. Dalloway, with Kidman as Virginia Woolf in one of three timelines. · "It's like a nesting doll take on Mrs. Dalloway, the Virginia Wolf novel."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:12:26 · unknown (0.35)] The Others ↔ The Sixth Sense · lineage · The Others arrived on the heels of The Sixth Sense and the two are paired in many ways. · "Coming hot on the heels of the 6th sense is these 2 movies are sort of paired in many ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Moulin Rouge! (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Moulin Rouge! (2001) 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.