What the corpus says about The Sixth Sense (1999)

What was said about it (5)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
3. [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."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Sixth Sense · contrast · The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing. · "if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist."
5. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Sixth Sense · career · Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand. · "is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (28)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
2. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · lineage · Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera. · "Well, very much from the original smile."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · 1998 is praised as the year that checked every genre box, with Truman Show as sci-fi, a model for movie-year variety and Powell's Running Man. · "I think 1998 is in the running for the greatest checking all the boxes movie year we've ever had."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
6. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality. · "But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85)] Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene. · "reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Armageddon · programming · In the 1998 genre roster, Truman Show is the sci-fi entry and Armageddon the action entry. · "Sci-fi Truman show."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
10. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:38 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · theme · One film literalizes the gender and fraud dynamics and the other supernaturalizes them; neither is right. · "one movie can kind of literalize the idea and another movie can kind of supernaturalize the idea"
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
14. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · craft · Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2. · "obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · programming · Double feature: Gattaca, the other Andrew Nichol film. · "Gattica, underscene, other Andrew Nichol"
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · Powell's double-feature answer is his own movie. · "Glenn's like, I'll go the running man."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
25. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:14:43 · Glen Powell (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Jury Duty · lineage · The TV show Jury Duty, with everyone in on it except one guy, is the modern Truman Show. · "That's modern Truman show."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 0:46:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Jackass ↔ Fight Club · theme · A speaker says the urge Fight Club is getting at reaches its peak form in Jackass. · "I do find like the expression of what this movie is sort of getting at for me reaches its peak form in jackass."
27. [Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:23:07 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Season of the Witch · theme · The speaker wants a McTiernan-elevated version of what Season of the Witch does: real knights facing something maybe supernatural. · "I want the elevated McTiernan movie of what I think that movie accomplishes."
28. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:29:43 · unknown (0.40)] Frank Capra ⇒ The Truman Show (the host's read) · lineage · Nichol's idea is described as Capra plus Hitchcock combined. · "you basically take Frank Capra and Alpha Hitchcock and you put it together, and that's what this movie is."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
2. [speaker] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
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

The shows' running bits (2)

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

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Sixth Sense (1999) 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 The Sixth Sense (1999) 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 — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[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 · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Sixth Sense · contrast · The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing. · "if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Sixth Sense · career · Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand. · "is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · lineage · Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera. · "Well, very much from the original smile."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · 1998 is praised as the year that checked every genre box, with Truman Show as sci-fi, a model for movie-year variety and Powell's Running Man. · "I think 1998 is in the running for the greatest checking all the boxes movie year we've ever had."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality. · "But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85)] Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene. · "reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:06:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Armageddon · programming · In the 1998 genre roster, Truman Show is the sci-fi entry and Armageddon the action entry. · "Sci-fi Truman show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:38 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · theme · One film literalizes the gender and fraud dynamics and the other supernaturalizes them; neither is right. · "one movie can kind of literalize the idea and another movie can kind of supernaturalize the idea"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · craft · Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2. · "obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Gattaca · programming · Double feature: Gattaca, the other Andrew Nichol film. · "Gattica, underscene, other Andrew Nichol"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ The Running Man · programming · Powell's double-feature answer is his own movie. · "Glenn's like, I'll go the running man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:14:43 · Glen Powell (0.60)] The Truman Show ↔ Jury Duty · lineage · The TV show Jury Duty, with everyone in on it except one guy, is the modern Truman Show. · "That's modern Truman show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 0:46:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Jackass ↔ Fight Club · theme · A speaker says the urge Fight Club is getting at reaches its peak form in Jackass. · "I do find like the expression of what this movie is sort of getting at for me reaches its peak form in jackass."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:23:07 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Season of the Witch · theme · The speaker wants a McTiernan-elevated version of what Season of the Witch does: real knights facing something maybe supernatural. · "I want the elevated McTiernan movie of what I think that movie accomplishes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:29:43 · unknown (0.40)] Frank Capra ⇒ The Truman Show (the host's read) · lineage · Nichol's idea is described as Capra plus Hitchcock combined. · "you basically take Frank Capra and Alpha Hitchcock and you put it together, and that's what this movie is."
[speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[speaker] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
[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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Sixth Sense (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Sixth Sense (1999) 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.