What the corpus says about Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

What was said about it (26)

1. [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."
2. [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."
3. [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."
4. [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."
5. [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."
6. [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."
7. [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."
8. [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."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:38:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · A scummy alien bar full of background characters is like the Star Wars cantina. · "It's like a cantina from Star Wars."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · Thanos's 'I'll do it myself' in Infinity War is explained by this film's first-wave contractors who all blow it. · "Yeah, is that he's he's contracted people to get all this shit for him and they all blow it."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:14:00 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Princess Bride · lineage · Drax is like Andre the Giant's Fezzik-style revenge figure, Rocket like Wallace Shawn's Vizzini, Gamora like Robin Wright's Buttercup. · "He's kind of like the character who's like, you killed my..."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:16:55 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Rocket is a Han Solo and Chewbacca pairing: Groot is the one only Rocket understands, and Rocket pretends he doesn't care about the group. · "Oh, the way I'm also thinking now, like, how rocket is kind of like Han Solo?"
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:26:31 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel deepens Yondu's relationship with Quill so the first film's scene reads differently in retrospect. · "Knowing what you know about their relationship that you learn in the sequel, you know, colors this scene a little bit more"
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:42:42 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel doubles down on Yondu's arrow by building its best action sequence around it. · "And then that the 2nd movie doubles down on it with like building its best action sequence around the era."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:43:46 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · lineage · Vol. 2 is the movie that develops Nebula's backstory with Gamora; this film is about Quill and dads in embryo. · "Because 2 is the one that's gonna, you know, is trying to win you over to Nebula."
16. [The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Eternals ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · theme · Eternals feels like an unknown cast of space characters, like Guardians, but Guardians had one-liners as the hook. · "Guardians feels like a very unique proposition where it was like, this is in space and we're going to introduce all this stuff, but really just come for the one liners."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did. · "And they're the Breakfast Club, right?"
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:14:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Captain Marvel ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · craft · Everything in the film except Brie Larson's polished lead is silly fun closer to Guardians. · "kind of silly fun, kind of closer to Guardians for lack of a better term."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:15:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Finding Nemo · craft · Like Nemo, it opens with the biggest tragedy (a death) and then moves on, so the audience is with it from the first minutes. · "The Finding Nemo thing, where it's like, if you start with like the eel, the barracuda, like eating all the babies, then you're like with it."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:24:01 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · craft · Brightly colored aliens echo original Trek, where skin color alone makes a film more interesting. · "I mean, classic like original Star Trek, just like, what are we painted in blue?"
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:25:17 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · craft · Vol. 2 used a brightly blue Yondu and a bright Milano interior to dodge the washed-out look of the first film's color grading. · "He's just smart about working in, like, I'm going to make his skin so bright blue."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:37:28 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · The prison-break action sequence has clear rules like the Death Star trench-run style 'we got to get through there' setups. · "It's like Death Starship where it's just like, we got to get through there."
24. [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."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:46:06 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · craft · The Flarkin cat in Captain Marvel is a version of the Drax metaphor joke, but this film's joke lands better thanks to the cut to his face. · "And you know, you know, the cat in Captain Marvel is like a version of this joke."
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:08:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · contrast · The soundtrack was a cultural moment of the kind Marvel and Guardians of the Galaxy are for kids today. · "They may feel that way about Guardians of the Galaxy"

Films put beside it more than once (6)

1. [pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · said 6 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · said 4 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 3 times in 2 episodes
4. [pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 3 times in 2 episodes
5. [pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · said 3 times in 1 episode
6. [pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (2)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy · fun · Amanda knows Guardians only as the raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper, and Sean suggests she go by Amanda the Accuser. · "perhaps you should go by Amanda the accuser in future podcasts."
2. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:16:40 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy · fun · Marvel's gamble: a wrestler, the Parks and Rec guy, and a raccoon; selling point was Marvel goes to space. · "The selling point on that movie was Marvel Goes to Space."

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

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Hosts are excited to see Jackson as a younger Nick Fury again. · "Can't wait for him to do stuff again in like Captain Marvel and shit."
3. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
4. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:07:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · craft · Guardians 2's Gamora and Nebula scene gives her survival-instinct backstory that Infinity War could have drawn on. · "I feel like Guardians 2 does this very good job when she has her sort of big scene with Nebula"
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
8. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
9. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
10. [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."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:14:20 · unknown (0.30)] Dave Bautista ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · craft · In the sequel, Drax and Gamora are made different shades of green; in this film Drax is darker and more muted. · "They notably, because Drax and Gamor are both green, they were like, you have to make them different shades, because we don't want all the characters to look the same."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
14. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
16. [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."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
18. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
3. [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'
4. [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
5. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 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 Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The 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."
[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 · 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 · 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 — 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 · 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."
[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 · 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 · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:38:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · A scummy alien bar full of background characters is like the Star Wars cantina. · "It's like a cantina from Star Wars."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · Thanos's 'I'll do it myself' in Infinity War is explained by this film's first-wave contractors who all blow it. · "Yeah, is that he's he's contracted people to get all this shit for him and they all blow it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:14:00 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Princess Bride · lineage · Drax is like Andre the Giant's Fezzik-style revenge figure, Rocket like Wallace Shawn's Vizzini, Gamora like Robin Wright's Buttercup. · "He's kind of like the character who's like, you killed my..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:16:55 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Rocket is a Han Solo and Chewbacca pairing: Groot is the one only Rocket understands, and Rocket pretends he doesn't care about the group. · "Oh, the way I'm also thinking now, like, how rocket is kind of like Han Solo?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:26:31 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel deepens Yondu's relationship with Quill so the first film's scene reads differently in retrospect. · "Knowing what you know about their relationship that you learn in the sequel, you know, colors this scene a little bit more"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:42:42 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel doubles down on Yondu's arrow by building its best action sequence around it. · "And then that the 2nd movie doubles down on it with like building its best action sequence around the era."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:43:46 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · lineage · Vol. 2 is the movie that develops Nebula's backstory with Gamora; this film is about Quill and dads in embryo. · "Because 2 is the one that's gonna, you know, is trying to win you over to Nebula."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Eternals ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · theme · Eternals feels like an unknown cast of space characters, like Guardians, but Guardians had one-liners as the hook. · "Guardians feels like a very unique proposition where it was like, this is in space and we're going to introduce all this stuff, but really just come for the one liners."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did. · "And they're the Breakfast Club, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:14:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Captain Marvel ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · craft · Everything in the film except Brie Larson's polished lead is silly fun closer to Guardians. · "kind of silly fun, kind of closer to Guardians for lack of a better term."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:15:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Finding Nemo · craft · Like Nemo, it opens with the biggest tragedy (a death) and then moves on, so the audience is with it from the first minutes. · "The Finding Nemo thing, where it's like, if you start with like the eel, the barracuda, like eating all the babies, then you're like with it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:24:01 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · craft · Brightly colored aliens echo original Trek, where skin color alone makes a film more interesting. · "I mean, classic like original Star Trek, just like, what are we painted in blue?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:25:17 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (the host's read) · craft · Vol. 2 used a brightly blue Yondu and a bright Milano interior to dodge the washed-out look of the first film's color grading. · "He's just smart about working in, like, I'm going to make his skin so bright blue."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:37:28 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · The prison-break action sequence has clear rules like the Death Star trench-run style 'we got to get through there' setups. · "It's like Death Starship where it's just like, we got to get through there."
[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 — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:46:06 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · craft · The Flarkin cat in Captain Marvel is a version of the Drax metaphor joke, but this film's joke lands better thanks to the cut to his face. · "And you know, you know, the cat in Captain Marvel is like a version of this joke."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:08:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · contrast · The soundtrack was a cultural moment of the kind Marvel and Guardians of the Galaxy are for kids today. · "They may feel that way about Guardians of the Galaxy"
[pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · said 6 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy · fun · Amanda knows Guardians only as the raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper, and Sean suggests she go by Amanda the Accuser. · "perhaps you should go by Amanda the accuser in future podcasts."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:16:40 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy · fun · Marvel's gamble: a wrestler, the Parks and Rec guy, and a raccoon; selling point was Marvel goes to space. · "The selling point on that movie was Marvel Goes to Space."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Hosts are excited to see Jackson as a younger Nick Fury again. · "Can't wait for him to do stuff again in like Captain Marvel and shit."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:07:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · craft · Guardians 2's Gamora and Nebula scene gives her survival-instinct backstory that Infinity War could have drawn on. · "I feel like Guardians 2 does this very good job when she has her sort of big scene with Nebula"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:14:20 · unknown (0.30)] Dave Bautista ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · craft · In the sequel, Drax and Gamora are made different shades of green; in this film Drax is darker and more muted. · "They notably, because Drax and Gamor are both green, they were like, you have to make them different shades, because we don't want all the characters to look the same."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
[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 · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] 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 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
[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 Guardians of the Galaxy (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 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.