What the corpus says about The Matrix (1999)

The 57 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (12)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:14:25 · Wesley Morris (0.65)] The Matrix ↔ WALL-E · programming · Between The Matrix and WALL-E, Wesley says humanity's fate is already depicted, seen in airport travelers sunk into phones. · "between that movie and Wali, I'm like, we're set for life"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:36 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ The Matrix · theme · Sean offers The Matrix as a film that attracted retroactive concern about violence, unlike the contemporaneous panic over Do the Right Thing. · "I think there's been a lot of retroactive energy on the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ The Matrix · theme · Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars. · "like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:31:01 · unknown (0.40)] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · theme · Norton's cubicle drone is called the mirror image of Keanu's in The Matrix. · "He is the mirror image of Keanu in the Matrix, the same mirror, the, you know, the cubicle guy with the fucking, you know, ill-fitting white shirt"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Matrix · craft · CTHD's choreographer is the same as The Matrix's. · "obviously this has the same actual choreographer as that movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:39:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · industry · The Matrix got tagged with the Columbine fallout because the two films opened so close together. · "The Matrix has gotten tagged so much with the columbine shit because they were so close together."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:09:41 · unknown (0.40)] Laurence Fishburne ↔ The Matrix · verdict · Fishburne is miracle casting for Morpheus. · "Of course he's not because Larry Fishburn is like the miracle casting of that movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:09:27 · unknown (0.40)] Sean Connery ↔ The Matrix · what-if · Connery was going to be Morpheus but thought the script was dog shit. · "He was going to be Morpheus. So they sent him this dog shit script."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (36)

[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read) · lineage · Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all. · "Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York. · "It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ She's Gotta Have It · lineage · Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It. · "As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Matrix (1999) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Matrix (1999) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:14:25 · Wesley Morris (0.65)] The Matrix ↔ WALL-E · programming · Between The Matrix and WALL-E, Wesley says humanity's fate is already depicted, seen in airport travelers sunk into phones. · "between that movie and Wali, I'm like, we're set for life"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:36 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ The Matrix · theme · Sean offers The Matrix as a film that attracted retroactive concern about violence, unlike the contemporaneous panic over Do the Right Thing. · "I think there's been a lot of retroactive energy on the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ The Matrix · theme · Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars. · "like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:31:01 · unknown (0.40)] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · theme · Norton's cubicle drone is called the mirror image of Keanu's in The Matrix. · "He is the mirror image of Keanu in the Matrix, the same mirror, the, you know, the cubicle guy with the fucking, you know, ill-fitting white shirt"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Matrix · craft · CTHD's choreographer is the same as The Matrix's. · "obviously this has the same actual choreographer as that movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:39:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · industry · The Matrix got tagged with the Columbine fallout because the two films opened so close together. · "The Matrix has gotten tagged so much with the columbine shit because they were so close together."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:09:41 · unknown (0.40)] Laurence Fishburne ↔ The Matrix · verdict · Fishburne is miracle casting for Morpheus. · "Of course he's not because Larry Fishburn is like the miracle casting of that movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:09:27 · unknown (0.40)] Sean Connery ↔ The Matrix · what-if · Connery was going to be Morpheus but thought the script was dog shit. · "He was going to be Morpheus. So they sent him this dog shit script."
[pairs] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read) · lineage · Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all. · "Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York. · "It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ She's Gotta Have It · lineage · Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It. · "As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Matrix (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Matrix (1999) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.