What the corpus says about Suicide Squad (2016)

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What was said about it (16)

[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 Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:00 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Justice League · craft · Suicide Squad's street-level crooks fighting a celestial god is a story-scale mistake. · "Like, why are they fighting an like a celestial god."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:29:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Wonder Woman ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Wonder Woman does not react to anything else; Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman do. · "Wonder Woman is the 1st DCU movie that doesn't feel reactionary to something else that has happened."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Both are teams of wild cards, but Suicide Squad is unbearable where Guardians works. · "And it's trying to do the same thing where it's like every character's a wild card, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:33:10 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Guardians' needle drops come from an emotional spine (the mixtape), while Suicide Squad's songs relate too directly to the action. · "Suicide Squad, you feel like every needle drop is trying too hard to relate directly to what's going on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:49 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Polar makes Suicide Squad look tame. · "This movie makes Suicide Squad look like..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:29:53 · unknown (0.30)] Suicide Squad ↔ Zack Snyder's Justice League (the Snyder cut) · verdict · A speaker would rather see the Ayer cut of Suicide Squad than the Snyder cut. · "I am more interested in seeing an eye cut than I am in seeing the Snyder cut, to be fair."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:29:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Deadpool ⇒ Suicide Squad (the host's read) · industry · Suicide Squad felt reactive to Deadpool's success. · "Suicide Squad felt like it was very influenced by the success of Deadpool"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:24:31 · unknown (0.30)] Idris Elba ↔ Suicide Squad · career · Elba keeps playing supporting parts in franchises (Thor, Suicide Squad), so Man-at-Arms feels like a continuation. · "I mean, he was literally in the Thor films."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:50:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] John Cena ↔ Suicide Squad · career · The Suicide Squad uses Cena's humor better than F9. · "And I felt like it leveraged his sense of humor in a way that this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:11:30 · David Sims (0.55)] James Gunn ↔ Suicide Squad · career · Fired from Guardians 3, DC snatched him up and let him make an R-rated superhero movie. · "He got like an R-rated superhero movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:13:24 · unknown (0.30)] James Gunn ↔ Suicide Squad · career · It is bizarre that Gunn kept going on Suicide Squad after returning to Marvel, and they expected Disney to force him to choose. · "I was astonished that Disney wasn't like, if you want Guardians, you have to quit Suicide Squad and let someone else direct your script."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:39:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Jared Leto ↔ Suicide Squad · people · Leto's Joker reads as gritty but his star level is a Marvel-style move. · "the level of star feels like a Marvel move also."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:13:44 · unknown (0.30)] Dave Bautista ↔ Suicide Squad · people · Bautista is apparently going to be in Gunn's Suicide Squad, showing Gunn loves him. · "Uh, Batista's apparently going to be in the Suicide Squad moment."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Suicide Squad ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:28:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Suicide Squad · fun · The trailer was more of a Marvel trailer than the movie in the can, due to reshoots. · "the trailer for Suicide Squad was more of a Marvel trailer than the movie that they had in the can"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:29 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Suicide Squad · fun · Audience guffawed at the celestial-god climax; one host says 13-year-old David would have loved it. · "13 year old David would have thought it was awesome."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (30)

[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ It's Complicated · theme · Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated. · "Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?"
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Deadpool ⇒ Logan (the host's read) · lineage · Deadpool started the shift to telling the best story true to one character, which Logan continued. · "this started with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds standalone Deadpool movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Deadpool ↔ Aquaman · craft · Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action. · "I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[speaker] 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] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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'

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 Suicide Squad (2016) 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 Suicide Squad (2016) 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 · 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 Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:00 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Justice League · craft · Suicide Squad's street-level crooks fighting a celestial god is a story-scale mistake. · "Like, why are they fighting an like a celestial god."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:29:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Wonder Woman ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Wonder Woman does not react to anything else; Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman do. · "Wonder Woman is the 1st DCU movie that doesn't feel reactionary to something else that has happened."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Both are teams of wild cards, but Suicide Squad is unbearable where Guardians works. · "And it's trying to do the same thing where it's like every character's a wild card, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:33:10 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Guardians' needle drops come from an emotional spine (the mixtape), while Suicide Squad's songs relate too directly to the action. · "Suicide Squad, you feel like every needle drop is trying too hard to relate directly to what's going on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:49 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Polar makes Suicide Squad look tame. · "This movie makes Suicide Squad look like..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:29:53 · unknown (0.30)] Suicide Squad ↔ Zack Snyder's Justice League (the Snyder cut) · verdict · A speaker would rather see the Ayer cut of Suicide Squad than the Snyder cut. · "I am more interested in seeing an eye cut than I am in seeing the Snyder cut, to be fair."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:29:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Deadpool ⇒ Suicide Squad (the host's read) · industry · Suicide Squad felt reactive to Deadpool's success. · "Suicide Squad felt like it was very influenced by the success of Deadpool"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:24:31 · unknown (0.30)] Idris Elba ↔ Suicide Squad · career · Elba keeps playing supporting parts in franchises (Thor, Suicide Squad), so Man-at-Arms feels like a continuation. · "I mean, he was literally in the Thor films."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:50:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] John Cena ↔ Suicide Squad · career · The Suicide Squad uses Cena's humor better than F9. · "And I felt like it leveraged his sense of humor in a way that this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:11:30 · David Sims (0.55)] James Gunn ↔ Suicide Squad · career · Fired from Guardians 3, DC snatched him up and let him make an R-rated superhero movie. · "He got like an R-rated superhero movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:13:24 · unknown (0.30)] James Gunn ↔ Suicide Squad · career · It is bizarre that Gunn kept going on Suicide Squad after returning to Marvel, and they expected Disney to force him to choose. · "I was astonished that Disney wasn't like, if you want Guardians, you have to quit Suicide Squad and let someone else direct your script."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:39:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Jared Leto ↔ Suicide Squad · people · Leto's Joker reads as gritty but his star level is a Marvel-style move. · "the level of star feels like a Marvel move also."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:13:44 · unknown (0.30)] Dave Bautista ↔ Suicide Squad · people · Bautista is apparently going to be in Gunn's Suicide Squad, showing Gunn loves him. · "Uh, Batista's apparently going to be in the Suicide Squad moment."
[pairs] Suicide Squad ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:28:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Suicide Squad · fun · The trailer was more of a Marvel trailer than the movie in the can, due to reshoots. · "the trailer for Suicide Squad was more of a Marvel trailer than the movie that they had in the can"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:29 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Suicide Squad · fun · Audience guffawed at the celestial-god climax; one host says 13-year-old David would have loved it. · "13 year old David would have thought it was awesome."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ It's Complicated · theme · Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated. · "Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?"
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Deadpool ⇒ Logan (the host's read) · lineage · Deadpool started the shift to telling the best story true to one character, which Logan continued. · "this started with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds standalone Deadpool movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Deadpool ↔ Aquaman · craft · Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action. · "I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[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 — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
[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] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[speaker] 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] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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'
[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 Suicide Squad (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Suicide Squad (2016) 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.