What the corpus says about Skyfall (2012)

The 53 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 (23)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:12:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Casino Royale ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Skyfall is the payoff of the first Craig movie, where Vesper's betrayal shows Bond can feel. · "it's also the ultimate payoff of what starts in the 1st Craig movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:46:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Dark Knight ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Mendes openly lifted the Dark Knight aesthetic and the orphan-avenging-sins idea. · "Mendy's just very openly lifted a lot of the Dark Knight aesthetic for these movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:15:34 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall ↔ Unforgiven · theme · Skyfall is a reckoning with everything that came before in its franchise. · "Skyfall is like the unfor is unforgiven to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:08:15 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Skyfall ↔ Rocky (series) · theme · Best entries show the hero coming to terms with aging, which Skyfall pairs with the permanent hero. · "some of the best movies about those things are about the person coming to terms with the fact that they're not as powerful as they once were."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:27:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Scenes can be great for camera work and music, like the Copacabana scene, as Silva's intro is. · "great because of a piece of camera work, like the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:24:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Skyfall ↔ Quantum of Solace · contrast · Quantum has nothing like Skyfall's deep thinking about what Bond means, partly because it was written during the writers' strike. · "there's nothing that has that kind of Christmas, that kind of like deep thinking about what these movies mean."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:37:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall ↔ Mission: Impossible · contrast · Bond now has 'Mission Impossibleitis' of topping set pieces; MI is the action gold standard. · "to me, the gold standard is the Mission Impossible movies on this stuff right now"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:39:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Skyfall ↔ Pacific Rim · contrast · Skyfall's action is legible and grounded, unlike Pacific Rim. · "rather than like either Pacific Rim, what the fuck is the going on right now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:39:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Casino Royale ↔ Skyfall · contrast · The Casino Royale Uganda opening is incomprehensible about who is chasing what; Skyfall is clear. · "There's that whole big opening sequence in Uganda."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:30:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall ↔ Austin Powers · industry · Silva's early villain speech inverts the cliche that Austin Powers parodied. · "movies like Austin Powers parodied it till no end"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:45:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Skyfall ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · industry · Bringing a prestige director to a franchise leads to Coogler doing Creed and Black Panther. · "It leads to things like Ryan Kugler does Creed in Black Panther"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:43:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Skyfall ↔ Sam Mendes · theme · Skyfall helped Bond convince itself it was a prestige genre, which led to bloat. · "become a prestige genre like genre."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · craft · The Adele song feels both a century old and incredibly modern. · "The Adele song, it feels like it's 100 years old and also incredibly modern"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Roger Deakins ↔ Skyfall · craft · The shot-from-behind-Bond's-shoulder Silva intro is Deakins photography, and the movie is candy for movie nerds. · "The movie is shot by Roger Deakins."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:26:14 · unclear host (0.30)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · craft · The Adele song is cued at the pivot where M orders Moneypenny to take the shot in Istanbul. · "I think that's in the trailer and it obviously cues the great Adele song."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:43:59 · unclear host (0.30)] Roger Deakins ↔ Skyfall · craft · Deakins's photography keeps Skyfall looking cutting edge and undated years later. · "And the deacons of it all. Yeah, it has a, it looks if a movie, if this movie came out today, I'd be like, this is cutting edge shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:01:51 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jez Butterworth ↔ Skyfall · people · Butterworth is suspected of writing the Bond-and-Silva scenes uncredited and also worked on Spectre. · "who I reckless, recklessly suspect, wrote these scenes between Bond and Silva"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:49:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · verdict · The theme song is picked as the best-aged element of the movie and an Oscar winner. · "That song is fire. I, that's, that's got the highest approval rating. So let's go with Adele's song wins"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:02:35 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Christopher Nolan ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · industry · Bond producers wanted their own critically acclaimed thriller since Nolan was having all the fun with Bond-esque movies. · "Let's do it ourselves."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:22:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Skyfall ↔ Danny Boyle · industry · Bond's Olympics opening with Craig made the character a point of pride months before release. · "he his James Bond, like as a character kicked off the Olympics and the Danny Boyle opening sequence."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Peter Morgan ↔ Skyfall · what-if · A discarded Morgan script held the blueprint of M as empire stand-in with a rebelling son. · "there was another script for the 23rd movie that was written by Peter Morgan."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:57:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Sean Connery ↔ Skyfall · what-if · Connery was in talks to play Kincade but stunt casting was rejected. · "They were in discussions with Sean Connery to play Kincaid."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kevin Spacey ↔ Skyfall · what-if · Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory because Mendes directed him in American Beauty. · "I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Skyfall ↔ Casino Royale · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:27:55 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall · fun · The Silva intro is a single sustained take shot over Bond's shoulder; the speaker says the filmmakers knew what they had. · "They knew what they had."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall · fun · The rat speech: Silva's monologue ends the first act rather than the movie. · "But this one is like, it's just playwriting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:53:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Skyfall · fun · Severin scene: Bond sneaking up on her in the shower after she says she was in a sex ring, flagged as the film's worst-aged moment. · "It really jumped out at me last time I watched it when he's like, I'm going to sneak attack you in the shower"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Skyfall · fun · Casting what-if: Connery as Kincade rejected; Spacey approached for Mallory. · "I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:05:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall · fun · Award for overacting goes to the boat captain, because the group will not name Bardem. · "How about we give it to the boat captain who sticks his head and is like, we should push off?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Skyfall · fun · Half-ass research: anagram of Raoul Silva is 'a rival soul'; 'think on your sins' is 'your son isn't in HK'. · "Raul Silva is an anagram for a rival soul."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:52:10 · unknown (0.40)] Casino Royale ⇒ Quantum of Solace (the host's read) · programming · Quantum of Solace is to Casino Royale as Temple of Doom is to Raiders, a bumpy follow-up; they will cover Quantum one day. · "I think of it as the Temple of Doom to Casino Royals, Raiders of the Lost Ark in like sort of complimentary..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Naked Gun in 1987 had the first long-pee scene, beating Austin Powers and A League of Their Own, answering a Twitter correction. · "that was the 1st long piece scene. That beats Austin Powers and League of their own."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:38:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Creed closely follows Rocky's structure, but opens with Creed obviously able to fight, unlike Rocky's grim opening bout. · "in Creed, which very closely follows some of the structures of rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Casino Royale · lineage · Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original. · "It's like the Casino Royale."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:07 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Merchant says Creed repeated Rocky's trick of making you care about the character before the fighting. · "when they rebooted it with Creed, I think they did the same thing"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Casino Royale ↔ Quantum of Solace · craft · Casino Royale sung by Chris Cornell and Quantum by Jack White and Alicia Keys, both strange compared with Adele. · "theme song in Quantum of Solace is sung by Jack White and Alicia Keys, and it's actually quite strange."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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

The shows' running bits (3)

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

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 Skyfall (2012) 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 Skyfall (2012) 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 · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:12:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Casino Royale ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Skyfall is the payoff of the first Craig movie, where Vesper's betrayal shows Bond can feel. · "it's also the ultimate payoff of what starts in the 1st Craig movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:46:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Dark Knight ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Mendes openly lifted the Dark Knight aesthetic and the orphan-avenging-sins idea. · "Mendy's just very openly lifted a lot of the Dark Knight aesthetic for these movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:15:34 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall ↔ Unforgiven · theme · Skyfall is a reckoning with everything that came before in its franchise. · "Skyfall is like the unfor is unforgiven to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:08:15 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Skyfall ↔ Rocky (series) · theme · Best entries show the hero coming to terms with aging, which Skyfall pairs with the permanent hero. · "some of the best movies about those things are about the person coming to terms with the fact that they're not as powerful as they once were."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:27:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Scenes can be great for camera work and music, like the Copacabana scene, as Silva's intro is. · "great because of a piece of camera work, like the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:24:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Skyfall ↔ Quantum of Solace · contrast · Quantum has nothing like Skyfall's deep thinking about what Bond means, partly because it was written during the writers' strike. · "there's nothing that has that kind of Christmas, that kind of like deep thinking about what these movies mean."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:37:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall ↔ Mission: Impossible · contrast · Bond now has 'Mission Impossibleitis' of topping set pieces; MI is the action gold standard. · "to me, the gold standard is the Mission Impossible movies on this stuff right now"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:39:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Skyfall ↔ Pacific Rim · contrast · Skyfall's action is legible and grounded, unlike Pacific Rim. · "rather than like either Pacific Rim, what the fuck is the going on right now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:39:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Casino Royale ↔ Skyfall · contrast · The Casino Royale Uganda opening is incomprehensible about who is chasing what; Skyfall is clear. · "There's that whole big opening sequence in Uganda."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:30:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall ↔ Austin Powers · industry · Silva's early villain speech inverts the cliche that Austin Powers parodied. · "movies like Austin Powers parodied it till no end"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:45:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Skyfall ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · industry · Bringing a prestige director to a franchise leads to Coogler doing Creed and Black Panther. · "It leads to things like Ryan Kugler does Creed in Black Panther"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:43:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Skyfall ↔ Sam Mendes · theme · Skyfall helped Bond convince itself it was a prestige genre, which led to bloat. · "become a prestige genre like genre."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · craft · The Adele song feels both a century old and incredibly modern. · "The Adele song, it feels like it's 100 years old and also incredibly modern"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Roger Deakins ↔ Skyfall · craft · The shot-from-behind-Bond's-shoulder Silva intro is Deakins photography, and the movie is candy for movie nerds. · "The movie is shot by Roger Deakins."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:26:14 · unclear host (0.30)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · craft · The Adele song is cued at the pivot where M orders Moneypenny to take the shot in Istanbul. · "I think that's in the trailer and it obviously cues the great Adele song."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:43:59 · unclear host (0.30)] Roger Deakins ↔ Skyfall · craft · Deakins's photography keeps Skyfall looking cutting edge and undated years later. · "And the deacons of it all. Yeah, it has a, it looks if a movie, if this movie came out today, I'd be like, this is cutting edge shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:01:51 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jez Butterworth ↔ Skyfall · people · Butterworth is suspected of writing the Bond-and-Silva scenes uncredited and also worked on Spectre. · "who I reckless, recklessly suspect, wrote these scenes between Bond and Silva"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:49:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · verdict · The theme song is picked as the best-aged element of the movie and an Oscar winner. · "That song is fire. I, that's, that's got the highest approval rating. So let's go with Adele's song wins"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:02:35 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Christopher Nolan ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · industry · Bond producers wanted their own critically acclaimed thriller since Nolan was having all the fun with Bond-esque movies. · "Let's do it ourselves."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:22:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Skyfall ↔ Danny Boyle · industry · Bond's Olympics opening with Craig made the character a point of pride months before release. · "he his James Bond, like as a character kicked off the Olympics and the Danny Boyle opening sequence."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Peter Morgan ↔ Skyfall · what-if · A discarded Morgan script held the blueprint of M as empire stand-in with a rebelling son. · "there was another script for the 23rd movie that was written by Peter Morgan."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:57:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Sean Connery ↔ Skyfall · what-if · Connery was in talks to play Kincade but stunt casting was rejected. · "They were in discussions with Sean Connery to play Kincaid."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kevin Spacey ↔ Skyfall · what-if · Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory because Mendes directed him in American Beauty. · "I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory."
[pairs] Skyfall ↔ Casino Royale · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:27:55 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall · fun · The Silva intro is a single sustained take shot over Bond's shoulder; the speaker says the filmmakers knew what they had. · "They knew what they had."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall · fun · The rat speech: Silva's monologue ends the first act rather than the movie. · "But this one is like, it's just playwriting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:53:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Skyfall · fun · Severin scene: Bond sneaking up on her in the shower after she says she was in a sex ring, flagged as the film's worst-aged moment. · "It really jumped out at me last time I watched it when he's like, I'm going to sneak attack you in the shower"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Skyfall · fun · Casting what-if: Connery as Kincade rejected; Spacey approached for Mallory. · "I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:05:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Skyfall · fun · Award for overacting goes to the boat captain, because the group will not name Bardem. · "How about we give it to the boat captain who sticks his head and is like, we should push off?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Skyfall · fun · Half-ass research: anagram of Raoul Silva is 'a rival soul'; 'think on your sins' is 'your son isn't in HK'. · "Raul Silva is an anagram for a rival soul."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:52:10 · unknown (0.40)] Casino Royale ⇒ Quantum of Solace (the host's read) · programming · Quantum of Solace is to Casino Royale as Temple of Doom is to Raiders, a bumpy follow-up; they will cover Quantum one day. · "I think of it as the Temple of Doom to Casino Royals, Raiders of the Lost Ark in like sort of complimentary..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Naked Gun in 1987 had the first long-pee scene, beating Austin Powers and A League of Their Own, answering a Twitter correction. · "that was the 1st long piece scene. That beats Austin Powers and League of their own."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:38:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Creed closely follows Rocky's structure, but opens with Creed obviously able to fight, unlike Rocky's grim opening bout. · "in Creed, which very closely follows some of the structures of rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Casino Royale · lineage · Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original. · "It's like the Casino Royale."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:07 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read) · lineage · Merchant says Creed repeated Rocky's trick of making you care about the character before the fighting. · "when they rebooted it with Creed, I think they did the same thing"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Casino Royale ↔ Quantum of Solace · craft · Casino Royale sung by Chris Cornell and Quantum by Jack White and Alicia Keys, both strange compared with Adele. · "theme song in Quantum of Solace is sung by Jack White and Alicia Keys, and it's actually quite strange."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Skyfall (2012); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Skyfall (2012) 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.