What the corpus says about Poor Things (2023)

What was said about it (22)

1. [The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
2. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
3. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
4. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
5. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
6. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"
7. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ Poor Things · theme · Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie. · "that's also his horror movie."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:36:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Poor Things · craft · The red-sky backdrop outside DeVito's office looks like a fairy-tale set, like Poor Things. · "looks like you're like in poor things for like a second."
9. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · craft · The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon. · "the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz."
10. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Lobster ↔ Poor Things · contrast · The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie. · "I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made."
11. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:15:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Poor Things ↔ Frankenstein · contrast · Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about science; Poor Things uses its framework to arrive at redemption and closeness. · "There's a lot of other ideas in Frankenstein, but this movie in many ways is the opposite."
12. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] May December ↔ Poor Things · people · Sean says he discussed the satirization of actors in May December with the guests, tied to why actors may have overlooked it. · "I actually talked about specifically some of the satirization of actors with Julianne and Todd."
13. [The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:17:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Game of Thrones · industry · A bar manager made a Poor Things martini because he liked the film, just as he did for Game of Thrones, which is not studio viral marketing. · "sometimes they did it for Game of Thrones. And then they just did it for poor things."
14. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Poor Things ↔ The Holdovers · industry · The two are tied, appealing to different voting blocks: old classical versus young and visual. · "the holdovers is just a very classical movie that feels like it was made in the 70s and speaks to that nostalgia factor for a lot of voters"
15. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Oppenheimer ↔ Poor Things · industry · Oppenheimer bridges the old and new voting blocks the other two split. · "It is very old versus young and Oppenheimer is the great tiebreaker because it does both."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Poor Things · industry · Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars. · "Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things."
17. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
18. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
19. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:47:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Holly Waddington · craft · A host raves that the clothes in Poor Things are out of control and credits the costumes to Holly Waddington. · "The clothes in this movie are out of control."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:11:32 · unknown (0.30)] Emma Stone ↔ Poor Things · career · In Poor Things Emma Stone is like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined, with sexual content in a funny tone. · "But she's sort of like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined."
21. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mark Ruffalo ↔ Poor Things · career · Amanda marvels that Ruffalo spent ten MCU years and never did a part like this. · "I can't believe Mark Ruffalo is just in the MCU for like 10 years and wasn't doing stuff like this"
22. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Poor Things ↔ Guillermo del Toro · could-have-been-by · The creature story and design could have come from a del Toro film. · "This could have been a Giroba Del Toro movie, honestly"

Fun items about it (1)

1. [The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:16:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things · fun · A Los Angeles bar printed a Poor Things martini ad, not from Searchlight but because the bar manager liked the movie. · "oh no, the bar manager just does that when he likes stuff."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (9)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Barbie · lineage · Linney studied 1950s Sears catalogs for her poses, as Gerwig consulted for Barbie. · "Greta Irwig consulted where for Barbie because she wanted to create that world"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

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] 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
3. [speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
4. [speaker] Todd Haynes · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · Obsessed with languages of film, melodrama and artifice that still lands as real emotion, and leaving spaces for audiences to fill in. Loves collaborators with strong intuition; praises Melton and Moore. Admires Poor Things and Past Lives. · stances: Films are discourses in languages we speak without knowing; Melodrama is real emotion in artificial form; May December is about the transgressions embedded in narrative

The shows' running bits (2)

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

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Poor Things (2023) 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 Poor Things (2023) 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 · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ Poor Things · theme · Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie. · "that's also his horror movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:36:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Poor Things · craft · The red-sky backdrop outside DeVito's office looks like a fairy-tale set, like Poor Things. · "looks like you're like in poor things for like a second."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · craft · The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon. · "the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Lobster ↔ Poor Things · contrast · The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie. · "I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:15:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Poor Things ↔ Frankenstein · contrast · Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about science; Poor Things uses its framework to arrive at redemption and closeness. · "There's a lot of other ideas in Frankenstein, but this movie in many ways is the opposite."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] May December ↔ Poor Things · people · Sean says he discussed the satirization of actors in May December with the guests, tied to why actors may have overlooked it. · "I actually talked about specifically some of the satirization of actors with Julianne and Todd."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:17:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Game of Thrones · industry · A bar manager made a Poor Things martini because he liked the film, just as he did for Game of Thrones, which is not studio viral marketing. · "sometimes they did it for Game of Thrones. And then they just did it for poor things."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Poor Things ↔ The Holdovers · industry · The two are tied, appealing to different voting blocks: old classical versus young and visual. · "the holdovers is just a very classical movie that feels like it was made in the 70s and speaks to that nostalgia factor for a lot of voters"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Oppenheimer ↔ Poor Things · industry · Oppenheimer bridges the old and new voting blocks the other two split. · "It is very old versus young and Oppenheimer is the great tiebreaker because it does both."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Poor Things · industry · Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars. · "Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:47:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Holly Waddington · craft · A host raves that the clothes in Poor Things are out of control and credits the costumes to Holly Waddington. · "The clothes in this movie are out of control."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:11:32 · unknown (0.30)] Emma Stone ↔ Poor Things · career · In Poor Things Emma Stone is like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined, with sexual content in a funny tone. · "But she's sort of like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mark Ruffalo ↔ Poor Things · career · Amanda marvels that Ruffalo spent ten MCU years and never did a part like this. · "I can't believe Mark Ruffalo is just in the MCU for like 10 years and wasn't doing stuff like this"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Poor Things ↔ Guillermo del Toro · could-have-been-by · The creature story and design could have come from a del Toro film. · "This could have been a Giroba Del Toro movie, honestly"
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:16:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things · fun · A Los Angeles bar printed a Poor Things martini ad, not from Searchlight but because the bar manager liked the movie. · "oh no, the bar manager just does that when he likes stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Barbie · lineage · Linney studied 1950s Sears catalogs for her poses, as Gerwig consulted for Barbie. · "Greta Irwig consulted where for Barbie because she wanted to create that world"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"
[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] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Todd Haynes · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · Obsessed with languages of film, melodrama and artifice that still lands as real emotion, and leaving spaces for audiences to fill in. Loves collaborators with strong intuition; praises Melton and Moore. Admires Poor Things and Past Lives. · stances: Films are discourses in languages we speak without knowing; Melodrama is real emotion in artificial form; May December is about the transgressions embedded in narrative
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Poor Things (2023); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Poor Things (2023) 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.