What the corpus says about 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The 60 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)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones. · "it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there. · "What's the human error in the Ludovico technique."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:43:48 · unknown (0.30)] Star Trek: The Motion Picture ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · theme · Star Trek TMP's slowness feels more self-indulgent than 2001's, ten years later. · "The slowness of that film feels more self-indulgent that this does, and that is 10 years after this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:19:03 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Interstellar · theme · Interstellar contains a go-into-a-crazy-thing sequence and the offhand robot Tars, compared with HAL. · "Obviously, Interstellar, which is a supreme masterpiece and also contains a sequence where someone goes into a crazy thing and then a bunch of crazy stuff happens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:37:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Being There (the host's read) · theme · Being There used a funky version of 2001's Zarathustra theme for its big moment. · "they were going to play the also Sprack Zarathustra, but they did the funky version instead"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 2:05:19 · unknown (0.30)] Men in Black ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · theme · The film's ending aliens are compared to the cigarette-smoking aliens of Men in Black. · "it's the cigarette smoking aliens from Men in Black, who are like, we created everything."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The abstract atomic-origin sequence is likened to 2001 for television, and the speakers note 2001 also comes after two hours of conventional narrative. · "you're like, oh, we're watching something that is 2001, a Space Odyssey for television."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · craft · The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end. · "Yeah, is the music."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:57:45 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ The Shining · craft · Bowman about to kill HAL is shot from below, handheld, like a Shining shot. · "He's about to kill Hal, and it's a shining shot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · contrast · 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas. · "it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:07:19 · unknown (0.40)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · contrast · This film was nominated for best picture while 2001 was not. · "Wild that a clock recording was nominated for best picture in 2001 wasn't."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:35:37 · unknown (0.30)] Forbidden Planet ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · contrast · Kubrick did not want futuristic-sounding music like Forbidden Planet's electronic score. · "Yeah, like forbidden Planet had the Fheramins and he..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:29:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Fear and Desire ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · career · An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001. · "So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:06:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · career · After the grandest film he moves to a punk movie within two years. · "It just feels so exciting to be like, you just made 2001."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:11:11 · David Sims (0.30)] David and Lisa ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · people · Keir Dullea's break was David and Lisa, a small indie, before being cast in 2001. · "I mean, cure delay, like, yeah, breaks on David and Lisa, which is this like small sort of like searing relationship trauma."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · said 5 times in 4 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ The Shining · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Silent Running · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Dr. Strangelove · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ The Tree of Life · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · Nolan's IMAX re-release was deliberately demastered to look yellowed and imperfect, how he remembered seeing it as a child. · "He didn't want it to be like perfectly smooth."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:19:15 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · A focus problem at a 70mm screening made the monolith shudder, the best Jordan has ever seen the film. · "It was like the monolist was freaking out, man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:55:24 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · The ending room is actually meant by the aliens to be a hotel room for Bowman. · "The van, the aliens created it for him thinking that it was supposed to be a hotel room."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:56:54 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · The film is documentary-handheld for 90 seconds when the astronauts walk down to the monolith on the moon, breaking Kubrick's locked-off rules. · "Everything is locked off, square, very symmetrical, you know, hyperstylized, and then it's documentary style for like 90 seconds, and then that weird sound happens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:58:48 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · The Dawn of Man to space cut: those first orbiting objects are nuclear weapons, with flags on them, a detail Jordan learned decades later. · "But specifically, those 1st images you see in space, those are nuclear weapons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:17:39 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · MGM marketing found the hippies; a Christian Science Monitor review called it the ultimate trip, and the poster used it. · "referred to it as the ultimate trip, but didn't mean it in a psychedelic way."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
[speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'

The shows' running bits (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] 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)

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 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 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 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones. · "it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there. · "What's the human error in the Ludovico technique."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:43:48 · unknown (0.30)] Star Trek: The Motion Picture ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · theme · Star Trek TMP's slowness feels more self-indulgent than 2001's, ten years later. · "The slowness of that film feels more self-indulgent that this does, and that is 10 years after this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:19:03 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Interstellar · theme · Interstellar contains a go-into-a-crazy-thing sequence and the offhand robot Tars, compared with HAL. · "Obviously, Interstellar, which is a supreme masterpiece and also contains a sequence where someone goes into a crazy thing and then a bunch of crazy stuff happens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:37:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Being There (the host's read) · theme · Being There used a funky version of 2001's Zarathustra theme for its big moment. · "they were going to play the also Sprack Zarathustra, but they did the funky version instead"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 2:05:19 · unknown (0.30)] Men in Black ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · theme · The film's ending aliens are compared to the cigarette-smoking aliens of Men in Black. · "it's the cigarette smoking aliens from Men in Black, who are like, we created everything."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The abstract atomic-origin sequence is likened to 2001 for television, and the speakers note 2001 also comes after two hours of conventional narrative. · "you're like, oh, we're watching something that is 2001, a Space Odyssey for television."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · craft · The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end. · "Yeah, is the music."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:57:45 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ The Shining · craft · Bowman about to kill HAL is shot from below, handheld, like a Shining shot. · "He's about to kill Hal, and it's a shining shot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · contrast · 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas. · "it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:07:19 · unknown (0.40)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · contrast · This film was nominated for best picture while 2001 was not. · "Wild that a clock recording was nominated for best picture in 2001 wasn't."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:35:37 · unknown (0.30)] Forbidden Planet ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · contrast · Kubrick did not want futuristic-sounding music like Forbidden Planet's electronic score. · "Yeah, like forbidden Planet had the Fheramins and he..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:29:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Fear and Desire ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · career · An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001. · "So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:06:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · career · After the grandest film he moves to a punk movie within two years. · "It just feels so exciting to be like, you just made 2001."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:11:11 · David Sims (0.30)] David and Lisa ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · people · Keir Dullea's break was David and Lisa, a small indie, before being cast in 2001. · "I mean, cure delay, like, yeah, breaks on David and Lisa, which is this like small sort of like searing relationship trauma."
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · said 5 times in 4 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ The Shining · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Silent Running · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Dr. Strangelove · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ The Tree of Life · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · Nolan's IMAX re-release was deliberately demastered to look yellowed and imperfect, how he remembered seeing it as a child. · "He didn't want it to be like perfectly smooth."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:19:15 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · A focus problem at a 70mm screening made the monolith shudder, the best Jordan has ever seen the film. · "It was like the monolist was freaking out, man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:55:24 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · The ending room is actually meant by the aliens to be a hotel room for Bowman. · "The van, the aliens created it for him thinking that it was supposed to be a hotel room."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:56:54 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · The film is documentary-handheld for 90 seconds when the astronauts walk down to the monolith on the moon, breaking Kubrick's locked-off rules. · "Everything is locked off, square, very symmetrical, you know, hyperstylized, and then it's documentary style for like 90 seconds, and then that weird sound happens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:58:48 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · The Dawn of Man to space cut: those first orbiting objects are nuclear weapons, with flags on them, a detail Jordan learned decades later. · "But specifically, those 1st images you see in space, those are nuclear weapons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:17:39 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey · fun · MGM marketing found the hippies; a Christian Science Monitor review called it the ultimate trip, and the poster used it. · "referred to it as the ultimate trip, but didn't mean it in a psychedelic way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
[speaker] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
[speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

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 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 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.