What the corpus says about The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

The 48 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 (19)

  1. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs. · "the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World."
  2. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:18 · unknown (0.30)] Hannibal ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · lineage · Like Crichton's Lost World, Harris wrote Hannibal under pressure from a studio wanting a sequel to a hit film adaptation. · "another example of this is Thomas Harris with Hannibal, whichever wants to make a Sansa Lamb sequel."
  3. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
  4. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30)] King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · theme · The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move. · "We've all seen King Kong."
  5. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:38:20 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ The Pink Panther · craft · The sequel feels like deleted scenes from the first film with wraparound Goldblum footage, like the Pink Panther movie built from cut scenes after Peter Sellers died. · "this just feels like deleted scenes from the 1st Jurassic Park with some wraparound footage of Goldberg."
  6. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:30:49 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Jurassic Park III · verdict · A host prefers Jurassic Park III because it is shorter, lacks the Spielberg ambition, and acts like a fun monster movie. · "Jurassic Park 3 benefits from, it doesn't have the Spielberg touch, right?"
  7. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:34:43 · unknown (0.30)] Titanic ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · verdict · Lost World was not the top film of 1997 because Titanic beat it, and Men in Black outgrossed it too. · "it was, of course, not the biggest movie of 19797 because Titanic was the biggest part."
  8. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:08:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · Flesh+Blood is a tweener or bridge between two phases of the director's career, as Lost World was for Spielberg. · "It's sort of a tweener."
  9. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:11:45 · unknown (0.30)] Amistad ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · In 1997 Spielberg tried to repeat his 1993 pairing of a blockbuster and a prestige Oscar film. · "I'll give you your Blockbuster and your serious Oscar movie."
  10. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.30)] The Fifth Element ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · The Fifth Element was the previous week's number one and fell only thirty percent, grossing about 63 million total. · "So number 3 was number one the week before."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · Resurrection came out the same year as The Lost World, with Independence Day in the mix. · "This comes out the same year as Lost World."
  12. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30)] Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · intent · A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending. · "I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie."
  13. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:06:23 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Godzilla · viewing memory · As a child, the speaker saw this, Godzilla and Batman & Robin without seeing the originals and loved the worse versions. · "I was getting the shittier version of the one that everyone liked, but because I was so unexposed to it, I was like, this is great."
  14. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:21:11 · unknown (0.30)] Pocahontas ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · merchandise-driven scenes · The Miko hair-braiding scene stands as a model for toy-company demands that also shaped the vehicle-heavy Lost World. · "toy company executives met with the filmmakers."
  15. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:25:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Jurassic World · shared flaw · Both sequels equate dinosaurs with animals and make zoo-and-animal-rights metaphors that the hosts say do not work. · "the movie is not equating dinosaurs to animals, which is the thing that this movie and Jurassic World both do."
  16. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:28:15 · unknown (0.30)] Addicted to Love ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · counterprogramming · The romantic comedy opened against Lost World as classic counterprogramming but did not work. · "Number 2 is a classic example of counterprogramming."
  17. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:52:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ John Williams · craft · A host credits Williams for holding back his main Jurassic Park theme in the score until the end credits. · "Williams, to his credit, does not use his theme until the credits."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:33 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · craft · The Lost World shows why that second-lead model fails when he becomes the lead. · "And that's why Lost World is not a great idea."
  19. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30)] Pete Postlethwaite ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · only arc · Tembo's turn from hunter to awed protector is the only character arc in the film and suggests the poachers' viewpoint as a better sequel angle. · "If this movie has any arc at all. it's his"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Godzilla · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:35:21 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · The hosts pitch a five-minute version: Hammond tells Malcolm about the second island over lunch, Malcolm says never go there, the end. · "Let's never go there."
  2. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · Island name joke: Isla Sorna is mocked as Sarcasm Island and contrasted with Isla Nublar meaning Island of Clouds. · "Isla Sorna."
  3. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · The one family-resemblance joke: when the stowaway daughter appears, Vaughn asks Schiff about a resemblance and Schiff holds up a finger, a casual treatment of a biracial family the hosts love. · "do you see a family resemblance?"
  4. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:12:40 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · The gymnastics raptor scene is widely mocked, but one host cheered as a child and likes Goldblum's line about being kicked off the team. · "I actually think the line, the Goldblum line, kicked you off the team is funny."
  5. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:15:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · Runtime and budget trivia: 129 minutes, longest of the original three; budget read aloud as 73 million after a 125 million guess; Amazon X-Ray claims fifty percent more dinosaur footage. · "They said that this film has 50% more dinosaur footage than the original."
  6. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:18:14 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · Camper sequence praised: the sound of cracking glass does ninety percent of the work and music enters late. · "The way Spielberg uses the cracking of the glass is like, that's doing 90% of the heavy lifting for you."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Godzilla · craft · 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering. · "the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Practical Magic ↔ Addicted to Love · craft · Practical Magic and Addicted to Love share Griffin Dunn's strange, dark tonal mix. · "I realized I felt the same about addicted to love"
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
  4. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:45:35 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Amistad ↔ Lincoln · theme · Bilge says Spielberg's serious films, from Empire to Schindler, Amistad, Lincoln and Ryan, all turn on people as items on a ledger. · "they all they all become about sort of people as items on a ledger, even saving Private Ryan."
  5. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  7. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  9. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
  11. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
  13. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
  15. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
  17. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
  19. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Excalibur · craft · The siege-tower set piece is presented like a grand medieval epic. · "Is it's presenting it to you like you're watching."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  1. [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
  2. [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 (1)

  1. [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 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 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 · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs. · "the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:18 · unknown (0.30)] Hannibal ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · lineage · Like Crichton's Lost World, Harris wrote Hannibal under pressure from a studio wanting a sequel to a hit film adaptation. · "another example of this is Thomas Harris with Hannibal, whichever wants to make a Sansa Lamb sequel."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30)] King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · theme · The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move. · "We've all seen King Kong."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:38:20 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ The Pink Panther · craft · The sequel feels like deleted scenes from the first film with wraparound Goldblum footage, like the Pink Panther movie built from cut scenes after Peter Sellers died. · "this just feels like deleted scenes from the 1st Jurassic Park with some wraparound footage of Goldberg."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:30:49 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Jurassic Park III · verdict · A host prefers Jurassic Park III because it is shorter, lacks the Spielberg ambition, and acts like a fun monster movie. · "Jurassic Park 3 benefits from, it doesn't have the Spielberg touch, right?"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:34:43 · unknown (0.30)] Titanic ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · verdict · Lost World was not the top film of 1997 because Titanic beat it, and Men in Black outgrossed it too. · "it was, of course, not the biggest movie of 19797 because Titanic was the biggest part."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:08:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · Flesh+Blood is a tweener or bridge between two phases of the director's career, as Lost World was for Spielberg. · "It's sort of a tweener."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:11:45 · unknown (0.30)] Amistad ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · In 1997 Spielberg tried to repeat his 1993 pairing of a blockbuster and a prestige Oscar film. · "I'll give you your Blockbuster and your serious Oscar movie."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.30)] The Fifth Element ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · The Fifth Element was the previous week's number one and fell only thirty percent, grossing about 63 million total. · "So number 3 was number one the week before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · industry · Resurrection came out the same year as The Lost World, with Independence Day in the mix. · "This comes out the same year as Lost World."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30)] Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · intent · A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending. · "I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:06:23 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Godzilla · viewing memory · As a child, the speaker saw this, Godzilla and Batman & Robin without seeing the originals and loved the worse versions. · "I was getting the shittier version of the one that everyone liked, but because I was so unexposed to it, I was like, this is great."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:21:11 · unknown (0.30)] Pocahontas ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · merchandise-driven scenes · The Miko hair-braiding scene stands as a model for toy-company demands that also shaped the vehicle-heavy Lost World. · "toy company executives met with the filmmakers."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:25:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Jurassic World · shared flaw · Both sequels equate dinosaurs with animals and make zoo-and-animal-rights metaphors that the hosts say do not work. · "the movie is not equating dinosaurs to animals, which is the thing that this movie and Jurassic World both do."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:28:15 · unknown (0.30)] Addicted to Love ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · counterprogramming · The romantic comedy opened against Lost World as classic counterprogramming but did not work. · "Number 2 is a classic example of counterprogramming."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:52:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ John Williams · craft · A host credits Williams for holding back his main Jurassic Park theme in the score until the end credits. · "Williams, to his credit, does not use his theme until the credits."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:33 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · craft · The Lost World shows why that second-lead model fails when he becomes the lead. · "And that's why Lost World is not a great idea."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30)] Pete Postlethwaite ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · only arc · Tembo's turn from hunter to awed protector is the only character arc in the film and suggests the poachers' viewpoint as a better sequel angle. · "If this movie has any arc at all. it's his"
[pairs] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Godzilla · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:35:21 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · The hosts pitch a five-minute version: Hammond tells Malcolm about the second island over lunch, Malcolm says never go there, the end. · "Let's never go there."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · Island name joke: Isla Sorna is mocked as Sarcasm Island and contrasted with Isla Nublar meaning Island of Clouds. · "Isla Sorna."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · The one family-resemblance joke: when the stowaway daughter appears, Vaughn asks Schiff about a resemblance and Schiff holds up a finger, a casual treatment of a biracial family the hosts love. · "do you see a family resemblance?"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:12:40 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · The gymnastics raptor scene is widely mocked, but one host cheered as a child and likes Goldblum's line about being kicked off the team. · "I actually think the line, the Goldblum line, kicked you off the team is funny."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:15:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · Runtime and budget trivia: 129 minutes, longest of the original three; budget read aloud as 73 million after a 125 million guess; Amazon X-Ray claims fifty percent more dinosaur footage. · "They said that this film has 50% more dinosaur footage than the original."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:18:14 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park · fun · Camper sequence praised: the sound of cracking glass does ninety percent of the work and music enters late. · "The way Spielberg uses the cracking of the glass is like, that's doing 90% of the heavy lifting for you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Godzilla · craft · 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering. · "the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Practical Magic ↔ Addicted to Love · craft · Practical Magic and Addicted to Love share Griffin Dunn's strange, dark tonal mix. · "I realized I felt the same about addicted to love"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:45:35 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Amistad ↔ Lincoln · theme · Bilge says Spielberg's serious films, from Empire to Schindler, Amistad, Lincoln and Ryan, all turn on people as items on a ledger. · "they all they all become about sort of people as items on a ledger, even saving Private Ryan."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Excalibur · craft · The siege-tower set piece is presented like a grand medieval epic. · "Is it's presenting it to you like you're watching."
[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] 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 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 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.