What the corpus says about Inception (2010)

The 54 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 (8)

[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:53:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Inception · craft · The whole movie spends its running time on clumsy rules-exposition so the final act can pay off, like Inception. · "the whole movie is Inception style explaining to you, well, this is a kick, and this is a totem"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Inception · craft · The flipping car shots are guessed to use a rotating mounted camera like Inception's hallway. · "I think it's probably similar to how they did the hallway in Inception"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:44:37 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Inception · craft · The simultaneous multi-location tasks in the climax are parallel action like Inception. · "Like, this is that thrilling like inception shit."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:47:07 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Lady in the Water ↔ Inception · film about filmmaking · Griffin reads Lady in the Water as Shyamalan's Inception, with the crew roles standing for the collaborative filmmaking process. · "I think he confirmed it, that Inception was Christopher Nolan's film about filmmaking."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:21:54 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Inception · demanding-film grace · Van says many people love Inception without understanding it, yet comic book movies are not given the same pass. · "I know a lot of people who loved inception."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:47 · unknown (0.30)] Pete Postlethwaite ↔ Inception · career · Hosts say he was good in Inception and The Town near the end of his career, after being wasted in the post-90s years. · "And he is good in inception in the town right at the very end there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:56:36 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Berenger ↔ Inception · career · Later he was in one Nolan movie, Inception. · "Inception, right."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:16:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Tom Hardy ↔ Inception · what-if · Hardy would be a Bond pick but won't be the movie-star version of himself outside Inception. · "I would like Tom Hardy to play James Bond."

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:48:27 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Inception · fun · Griffin's read: Inception as Nolan's movie about filmmaking, which maps to Lady in the Water, with a team of specialized roles saving a woman named Story. · "This is a movie in which a woman whose name is story is like has to be saved and protected and carried off into the sky by a whole team of people"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (39)

[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[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 · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 0:53:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Jordan Peele ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the maker said so: Selick's account of seeing Key and Peele) · lineage · Selick saw Key and Peele on Comedy Central and realized they were Wendell and Wild. · "then it hit me, Wendell and Wild."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Pablo Lobato ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the host's read) · lineage · Selick picked a flat, cutout caricature style that should not be adaptable to 3D and asked the team to build it. · "Wendolyn Wilde, Argentinian artist, Pablo Lobato, is the big inspiration for the look of a lot of these guys."
[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 · 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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:32:50 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · theme · Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. · "Night before Christmas has like one major objective that everyone's right on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:16:53 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Beetlejuice · craft · Wendell and Wild are Beetlejuice-like in that the story is really about the human teen (Lydia/Kat) and they are the colorful characters. · "They're Beetlejuicy in the movie in that it's like, well, it's really about Lydia."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:28:33 · David Sims (0.40)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Coraline · craft · The kindness shown to Kat, with quiet sadness, is likened to the boredom sequences in Coraline. · "it's it's similar to the sort of the boredom sequences and core line where, uh, Everyone's kind to cat."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:52:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Avatar · craft · Big sci-fi blockbusters like Inception and Avatar earn their virtuoso final acts with an hour of clumsy exposition; Wendell & Wild operates the same way. · "And they're things like Inception or Avatar, where you're like, you know what?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · As a prequel, Captain Marvel brings back Guardians characters Ronan (Lee Pace) and Korath (Djimon Hounsou). · "this is, of course, a prequel, so their characters appear in this film again."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'. · "I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 2:12:32 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery · craft · Griffin hoped a second viewing would work like Glass Onion, with setup gaining meaning, but it did not. · "I was curious if watching it a 2nd time, it would have like a glass onion effect"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:35:50 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · lineage · It has a Star Trek vibe, essentially a comedy with 60s Trek aesthetics. · "It's like someone doing a comedy with 60s trek aesthetics."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Male sincerity and intimacy in Fast and Furious is raised alongside Benji and Ethan. · "Male sincerity."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Inception (2010) 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 Inception (2010) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:53:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Inception · craft · The whole movie spends its running time on clumsy rules-exposition so the final act can pay off, like Inception. · "the whole movie is Inception style explaining to you, well, this is a kick, and this is a totem"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Inception · craft · The flipping car shots are guessed to use a rotating mounted camera like Inception's hallway. · "I think it's probably similar to how they did the hallway in Inception"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:44:37 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Inception · craft · The simultaneous multi-location tasks in the climax are parallel action like Inception. · "Like, this is that thrilling like inception shit."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:47:07 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Lady in the Water ↔ Inception · film about filmmaking · Griffin reads Lady in the Water as Shyamalan's Inception, with the crew roles standing for the collaborative filmmaking process. · "I think he confirmed it, that Inception was Christopher Nolan's film about filmmaking."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:21:54 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Inception · demanding-film grace · Van says many people love Inception without understanding it, yet comic book movies are not given the same pass. · "I know a lot of people who loved inception."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:47 · unknown (0.30)] Pete Postlethwaite ↔ Inception · career · Hosts say he was good in Inception and The Town near the end of his career, after being wasted in the post-90s years. · "And he is good in inception in the town right at the very end there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:56:36 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Berenger ↔ Inception · career · Later he was in one Nolan movie, Inception. · "Inception, right."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:16:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Tom Hardy ↔ Inception · what-if · Hardy would be a Bond pick but won't be the movie-star version of himself outside Inception. · "I would like Tom Hardy to play James Bond."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:48:27 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Inception · fun · Griffin's read: Inception as Nolan's movie about filmmaking, which maps to Lady in the Water, with a team of specialized roles saving a woman named Story. · "This is a movie in which a woman whose name is story is like has to be saved and protected and carried off into the sky by a whole team of people"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[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 · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 0:53:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Jordan Peele ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the maker said so: Selick's account of seeing Key and Peele) · lineage · Selick saw Key and Peele on Comedy Central and realized they were Wendell and Wild. · "then it hit me, Wendell and Wild."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Pablo Lobato ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the host's read) · lineage · Selick picked a flat, cutout caricature style that should not be adaptable to 3D and asked the team to build it. · "Wendolyn Wilde, Argentinian artist, Pablo Lobato, is the big inspiration for the look of a lot of these guys."
[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 · 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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:32:50 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · theme · Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. · "Night before Christmas has like one major objective that everyone's right on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:16:53 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Beetlejuice · craft · Wendell and Wild are Beetlejuice-like in that the story is really about the human teen (Lydia/Kat) and they are the colorful characters. · "They're Beetlejuicy in the movie in that it's like, well, it's really about Lydia."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[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."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:28:33 · David Sims (0.40)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Coraline · craft · The kindness shown to Kat, with quiet sadness, is likened to the boredom sequences in Coraline. · "it's it's similar to the sort of the boredom sequences and core line where, uh, Everyone's kind to cat."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:52:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Avatar · craft · Big sci-fi blockbusters like Inception and Avatar earn their virtuoso final acts with an hour of clumsy exposition; Wendell & Wild operates the same way. · "And they're things like Inception or Avatar, where you're like, you know what?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · As a prequel, Captain Marvel brings back Guardians characters Ronan (Lee Pace) and Korath (Djimon Hounsou). · "this is, of course, a prequel, so their characters appear in this film again."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'. · "I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 2:12:32 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery · craft · Griffin hoped a second viewing would work like Glass Onion, with setup gaining meaning, but it did not. · "I was curious if watching it a 2nd time, it would have like a glass onion effect"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:35:50 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · lineage · It has a Star Trek vibe, essentially a comedy with 60s Trek aesthetics. · "It's like someone doing a comedy with 60s trek aesthetics."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Male sincerity and intimacy in Fast and Furious is raised alongside Benji and Ethan. · "Male sincerity."
[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] 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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Inception (2010); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Inception (2010) 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.