What the corpus says about Babylon (2022)

The 59 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 (26)

[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:26 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Snack Shack · programming · A pool-snacks tangent leads to a recommendation of Snack Shack, produced by Rian Johnson's T Street. · "Um, Basically being released independently is produced by Ryan Johnson's company, T Street, and it's a, here we see Margot Robbie losing her nerve and breaking down."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:30:05 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Road House · programming · After a crocodile-fear tangent triggered by Babylon's crocodile scene, a speaker pushes Roadhouse for its crocodile scene. · "I mean, they're just... pretty exciting crocodile scene."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'. · "Again, like a very, very direct homage."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose. · "But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show) · lineage · The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one. · "The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · theme · The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone. · "And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:42:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Babylon ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Sean says the Boogie Nights comparison for Babylon is apt, though he thinks the characterization is weaker. · "The Boogie Nights comparison has been made frequently."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:59 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Babylon ↔ Avatar: The Way of Water · craft · Chris thinks it cheap that Babylon's montage of cinema moments includes Avatar, which Sean defends as part of cinema's evolution. · "It feels cheap that he would put that movie in the like montage of the greatest film moments ever"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on. · "Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30)] La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet. · "This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:59:20 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · craft · Both films show Margot Robbie watching herself on screen in a movie theater. · "Yeah, also shout out to Margot Robbie watching herself on screen in movie theaters."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain. · "Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:56:30 · unknown (0.30)] The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier') ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · The audience in Babylon's screening laughs at the same dialogue ('I love you') as in Singin' in the Rain's screening of The Dancing Cavalier. · "They're literally laughing at the exact same dialogue in the screening that they do of the link cavalier."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:11:07 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ La La Land · contrast · The hosts imagine Babylon being sold as from the director of La La Land, while Barbie's release sat nearby. · "This is from the man who brought you Laland and the woman who brought you Barbie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:22:09 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Immaculate · contrast · Immaculate is held up as a movie that is perfect at 89 minutes, against Babylon at 3.5 hours. · "Like, did you need another 40 minutes of immaculate?"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:22:25 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Transformers: Age of Extinction · contrast · A speaker says long auteur films do not bother them but long bad blockbusters like Transformers: Age of Extinction do. · "I was reminded recently that Transformers colon Age of Extinction, which is either the 4th or 5th Transformers movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:23:01 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Oppenheimer · contrast · Babylon's first-AD hitting-the-marks scene is contrasted with Nolan's Oppenheimer shoot, which had no marks. · "Christopher Nolan, like on Oppenheimer, they didn't really have any marks that they had to hit."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:18:43 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Whiplash · career · The same party sequence is described as La La Land and Whiplash blending together. · "this sequence with, uh, Lee Jung Lee as a kind of stand in for anime Wong is when I felt like this was a real fusion of the things that Chazelle had done to this point."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:19:06 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ La La Land · career · The Lee Jung Lee party sequence is said to blend La La Land and Whiplash. · "that this is kind of La La Land and whiplash blending together."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Babylon ↔ La La Land · career · Sean, who loved Whiplash and First Man but not La La Land, reads Babylon as Chazelle realizing La La Land was a mistake. · "This feels like him realizing that La La Land was a mistake, which I thought I think is like a magnificent thing."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:07:31 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ May December · industry · A speaker wonders if Babylon suffered in Los Angeles for the same reason May December did in awards season. · "I wonder if this movie suffered at least here in Los Angeles, in part for the same reason that May, December, seemed to suffer during award season."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:08:29 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Maestro · industry · Babylon's flop with Los Angeles voters is compared to May December's, and the self-loathing about Hollywood to Maestro and Mank. · "It's like, it's scenes, a collection of amazing scenes."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:10:53 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Barbie · what-if · A speaker argues Babylon would have done bigger business had Barbie come out before it. · "If Barbie had come out before Babylon, how big is Babylon?"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Babylon ↔ Singin' in the Rain · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babylon ↔ La La Land · said 4 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:51 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Babylon · fun · Chris asks if Sean understands Babylon's ending after seeing Avatar: The Way of Water, and calls the montage cameo cheap. · "Do you feel like you understand the ending of Babylon anymore now that you have seen Avatar The Way of Water?"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:00:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babylon · fun · The cold open joke: the show's tagline is replaced with a gag about who wants to see someone's dad fight a snake, referencing the film's rattlesnake scene. · "And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about who wants to see my dad fight a fucking snake?"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:02:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babylon · fun · Framing of the whole movie as a 'we're so back, it's so over' manifestation: everything good and bad about Hollywood and the 21st-century promise of movies. · "this movie is the perfect manifestation of, we're so back, it's so over."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:04:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babylon · fun · The elephant scene at the opening is read as a tidy metaphor for what you must endure to break into Hollywood. · "Nice little tidy metaphor for the experience of trying to break into Hollywood."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:07:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Babylon · fun · Amanda's famous take: she likes the middle two hours best, and found the opening party a lot after the elephant. · "I famously really like the middle 2 hours of this movie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:08:04 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon · fun · A wish that more movies had overture sections, stretching 20 minutes of virtuosity at the screen. · "I think more movies should have like overture sections like this."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Emma Stone ↔ La La Land · craft · Stone's performative quality works in Easy A's numbers and webcam and also in La La Land. · "I mean, it also works in La La Land."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Downton Abbey: A New Era (the host's read) · theme · The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain. · "it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:26:37 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30)] Justin Hurwitz ↔ La La Land · craft · Hurwitz's pretty score is credited with carrying La La Land's weaker songs, City of Stars included, over the line. · "I think Justin Hurwick is a really great composer and his music is very pretty and so that sort of carried those songs over the line."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · programming · Disney's next big release after Avatar 2 is Ant-Man in late February, giving it about two months of runway. · "No, it's Ant-man in like late February, maybe."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:56:43 · unknown (0.30)] Clara Bow ⇒ Singin' in the Rain (the host's read) · theme · A speaker says part of the Lena Lamont / Clara Bow type of brassy outsider star is historically real, and Nellie fits it. · "Well, I think like a little bit of the Lena Lamont Clara Beau stuff is real."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ La La Land · craft · Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land. · "it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:52:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Frances Ha ↔ Singin' in the Rain · theme · Both are listed as feel-good picks about movement and joy: the pirouette to Modern Love versus dancing. · "the scene of Greta Gerwig pirouetting down to modern love"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Napoleon · programming · Apple may release Napoleon on Christmas Day because the landscape is soft. · "Apple is seriously considering releasing Ridley Scott's Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix on Christmas Day because they're looking at the landscape and they're like, it's soft out here."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:44:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · lineage · Cameron's pitches for sequels sounded off beforehand and then worked, as with T2. · "Before Terminator 2 was like, you want more Terminator?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (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
[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] 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

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 Babylon (2022) 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 Babylon (2022) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:26 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Snack Shack · programming · A pool-snacks tangent leads to a recommendation of Snack Shack, produced by Rian Johnson's T Street. · "Um, Basically being released independently is produced by Ryan Johnson's company, T Street, and it's a, here we see Margot Robbie losing her nerve and breaking down."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:30:05 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Road House · programming · After a crocodile-fear tangent triggered by Babylon's crocodile scene, a speaker pushes Roadhouse for its crocodile scene. · "I mean, they're just... pretty exciting crocodile scene."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'. · "Again, like a very, very direct homage."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose. · "But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show) · lineage · The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one. · "The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · theme · The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone. · "And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:42:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Babylon ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Sean says the Boogie Nights comparison for Babylon is apt, though he thinks the characterization is weaker. · "The Boogie Nights comparison has been made frequently."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:59 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Babylon ↔ Avatar: The Way of Water · craft · Chris thinks it cheap that Babylon's montage of cinema moments includes Avatar, which Sean defends as part of cinema's evolution. · "It feels cheap that he would put that movie in the like montage of the greatest film moments ever"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on. · "Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30)] La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet. · "This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:59:20 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · craft · Both films show Margot Robbie watching herself on screen in a movie theater. · "Yeah, also shout out to Margot Robbie watching herself on screen in movie theaters."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain. · "Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:56:30 · unknown (0.30)] The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier') ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · The audience in Babylon's screening laughs at the same dialogue ('I love you') as in Singin' in the Rain's screening of The Dancing Cavalier. · "They're literally laughing at the exact same dialogue in the screening that they do of the link cavalier."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:11:07 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ La La Land · contrast · The hosts imagine Babylon being sold as from the director of La La Land, while Barbie's release sat nearby. · "This is from the man who brought you Laland and the woman who brought you Barbie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:22:09 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Immaculate · contrast · Immaculate is held up as a movie that is perfect at 89 minutes, against Babylon at 3.5 hours. · "Like, did you need another 40 minutes of immaculate?"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:22:25 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Transformers: Age of Extinction · contrast · A speaker says long auteur films do not bother them but long bad blockbusters like Transformers: Age of Extinction do. · "I was reminded recently that Transformers colon Age of Extinction, which is either the 4th or 5th Transformers movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:23:01 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Oppenheimer · contrast · Babylon's first-AD hitting-the-marks scene is contrasted with Nolan's Oppenheimer shoot, which had no marks. · "Christopher Nolan, like on Oppenheimer, they didn't really have any marks that they had to hit."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:18:43 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Whiplash · career · The same party sequence is described as La La Land and Whiplash blending together. · "this sequence with, uh, Lee Jung Lee as a kind of stand in for anime Wong is when I felt like this was a real fusion of the things that Chazelle had done to this point."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:19:06 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ La La Land · career · The Lee Jung Lee party sequence is said to blend La La Land and Whiplash. · "that this is kind of La La Land and whiplash blending together."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Babylon ↔ La La Land · career · Sean, who loved Whiplash and First Man but not La La Land, reads Babylon as Chazelle realizing La La Land was a mistake. · "This feels like him realizing that La La Land was a mistake, which I thought I think is like a magnificent thing."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:07:31 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ May December · industry · A speaker wonders if Babylon suffered in Los Angeles for the same reason May December did in awards season. · "I wonder if this movie suffered at least here in Los Angeles, in part for the same reason that May, December, seemed to suffer during award season."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:08:29 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Maestro · industry · Babylon's flop with Los Angeles voters is compared to May December's, and the self-loathing about Hollywood to Maestro and Mank. · "It's like, it's scenes, a collection of amazing scenes."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:10:53 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Barbie · what-if · A speaker argues Babylon would have done bigger business had Barbie come out before it. · "If Barbie had come out before Babylon, how big is Babylon?"
[pairs] Babylon ↔ Singin' in the Rain · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babylon ↔ La La Land · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:51 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Babylon · fun · Chris asks if Sean understands Babylon's ending after seeing Avatar: The Way of Water, and calls the montage cameo cheap. · "Do you feel like you understand the ending of Babylon anymore now that you have seen Avatar The Way of Water?"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:00:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babylon · fun · The cold open joke: the show's tagline is replaced with a gag about who wants to see someone's dad fight a snake, referencing the film's rattlesnake scene. · "And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about who wants to see my dad fight a fucking snake?"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:02:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babylon · fun · Framing of the whole movie as a 'we're so back, it's so over' manifestation: everything good and bad about Hollywood and the 21st-century promise of movies. · "this movie is the perfect manifestation of, we're so back, it's so over."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:04:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babylon · fun · The elephant scene at the opening is read as a tidy metaphor for what you must endure to break into Hollywood. · "Nice little tidy metaphor for the experience of trying to break into Hollywood."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:07:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Babylon · fun · Amanda's famous take: she likes the middle two hours best, and found the opening party a lot after the elephant. · "I famously really like the middle 2 hours of this movie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:08:04 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon · fun · A wish that more movies had overture sections, stretching 20 minutes of virtuosity at the screen. · "I think more movies should have like overture sections like this."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Emma Stone ↔ La La Land · craft · Stone's performative quality works in Easy A's numbers and webcam and also in La La Land. · "I mean, it also works in La La Land."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Downton Abbey: A New Era (the host's read) · theme · The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain. · "it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:26:37 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30)] Justin Hurwitz ↔ La La Land · craft · Hurwitz's pretty score is credited with carrying La La Land's weaker songs, City of Stars included, over the line. · "I think Justin Hurwick is a really great composer and his music is very pretty and so that sort of carried those songs over the line."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · programming · Disney's next big release after Avatar 2 is Ant-Man in late February, giving it about two months of runway. · "No, it's Ant-man in like late February, maybe."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:56:43 · unknown (0.30)] Clara Bow ⇒ Singin' in the Rain (the host's read) · theme · A speaker says part of the Lena Lamont / Clara Bow type of brassy outsider star is historically real, and Nellie fits it. · "Well, I think like a little bit of the Lena Lamont Clara Beau stuff is real."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ La La Land · craft · Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land. · "it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:52:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Frances Ha ↔ Singin' in the Rain · theme · Both are listed as feel-good picks about movement and joy: the pirouette to Modern Love versus dancing. · "the scene of Greta Gerwig pirouetting down to modern love"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Napoleon · programming · Apple may release Napoleon on Christmas Day because the landscape is soft. · "Apple is seriously considering releasing Ridley Scott's Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix on Christmas Day because they're looking at the landscape and they're like, it's soft out here."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:44:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · lineage · Cameron's pitches for sequels sounded off beforehand and then worked, as with T2. · "Before Terminator 2 was like, you want more Terminator?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[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] 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
[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 Babylon (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Babylon (2022) 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.