What the corpus says about Inglourious Basterds (2009)

What was said about it (14)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
3. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
4. [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 · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked. · "that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have."
5. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:53 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's three-count device recurs, e.g., Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds. · "There's another 3 count that I really enjoy from, you know, Fastbender and Inglorious Bastards."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there. · "That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · There are two ways to handle accents: the Basterds way of casting real nationalities, or letting actors use their own accents as here. · "There's the inglorious bastard's way where you're just like, everyone's actually going to speak the language they would speak"
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:12:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Ryan says Tarantino's project is historical correction, as in Basterds; a what-if movie. · "his project is history. Like his project is this like kind of almost like historical correction of a record"
10. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:19:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Pulp Fiction · verdict · One host puts Basterds first and Pulp Fiction second among Tarantino's films, behind both Reservoir Dogs. · "I feel like Bastards is number one, pretty clearly, and Pulp Pickers is number 2 pretty clearly."
11. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:11:18 · David Krumholtz (0.60)] Raging Bull ↔ Inglourious Basterds · meta ending · Raging Bull's ending where Scorsese says it is his masterpiece resembles Tarantino's closing line in Inglourious Basterds. · "It's it's akin to what Tarantino later did in inglorious Bastards."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:26:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Brad Pitt ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Pitt does better work once writers like Tarantino give him funnier material that suits his twitchiness. · "I think later on when Pitt starts working with writers who are a little bit funnier, he does better work in some ways"
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:29:43 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Fassbender ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Fassbender is nearly funny only in Basterds (as the English officer parody) and Steve Jobs. · "he's kind of playing like this great parody of the the Colonel Blimp"
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:28:26 · David Sims (0.30)] Mike Myers ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Myers lately works in two-day cameos like Bohemian Rhapsody and Inglourious Basterds. · "And inglorious bastards are both like, hey, wouldn't it be funny if you did this and showed up for like 2 days?"

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Pulp Fiction · said 3 times in 2 episodes
2. [pairs] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · said 2 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Reservoir Dogs · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (34)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
4. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
10. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
15. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
20. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
25. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
27. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so) · lineage · Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery. · "Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie"
28. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
29. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
30. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
31. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
32. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
33. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
34. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
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] 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
4. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
5. [speaker] David Krumholtz · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raging Bull · Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen. · stances: Raging Bull completely validates cinema; De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better; AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human; Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies
6. [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)

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 Inglourious Basterds (2009) 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 Inglourious Basterds (2009) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
[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 · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked. · "that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:53 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's three-count device recurs, e.g., Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds. · "There's another 3 count that I really enjoy from, you know, Fastbender and Inglorious Bastards."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there. · "That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · There are two ways to handle accents: the Basterds way of casting real nationalities, or letting actors use their own accents as here. · "There's the inglorious bastard's way where you're just like, everyone's actually going to speak the language they would speak"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:12:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Ryan says Tarantino's project is historical correction, as in Basterds; a what-if movie. · "his project is history. Like his project is this like kind of almost like historical correction of a record"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:19:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Pulp Fiction · verdict · One host puts Basterds first and Pulp Fiction second among Tarantino's films, behind both Reservoir Dogs. · "I feel like Bastards is number one, pretty clearly, and Pulp Pickers is number 2 pretty clearly."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:11:18 · David Krumholtz (0.60)] Raging Bull ↔ Inglourious Basterds · meta ending · Raging Bull's ending where Scorsese says it is his masterpiece resembles Tarantino's closing line in Inglourious Basterds. · "It's it's akin to what Tarantino later did in inglorious Bastards."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:26:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Brad Pitt ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Pitt does better work once writers like Tarantino give him funnier material that suits his twitchiness. · "I think later on when Pitt starts working with writers who are a little bit funnier, he does better work in some ways"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:29:43 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Fassbender ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Fassbender is nearly funny only in Basterds (as the English officer parody) and Steve Jobs. · "he's kind of playing like this great parody of the the Colonel Blimp"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:28:26 · David Sims (0.30)] Mike Myers ↔ Inglourious Basterds · career · Myers lately works in two-day cameos like Bohemian Rhapsody and Inglourious Basterds. · "And inglorious bastards are both like, hey, wouldn't it be funny if you did this and showed up for like 2 days?"
[pairs] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Pulp Fiction · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Inglourious Basterds ↔ Reservoir Dogs · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so) · lineage · Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery. · "Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] David Krumholtz · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raging Bull · Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen. · stances: Raging Bull completely validates cinema; De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better; AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human; Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies
[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 Inglourious Basterds (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Inglourious Basterds (2009) 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.