What the corpus says about The Godfather (1972)

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)

[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. · "I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane. · "the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ The Godfather · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:00:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fletch ↔ The Godfather · theme · Alan Stanwick's house is the same house as the horse-head scene in The Godfather. · "The godfather, when Jack Waltz finds the horse head in his bed"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:20:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Brotherhood ↔ The Godfather · theme · Everyone cites Douglas's mob movie as the Godfather but bad. · "the brotherhood that everyone cites is like, oh, this is like the godfather but bad."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.40)] The Godfather ↔ Sicario · craft · The Godfather scene has more buildup and suspense, and Michael is not killing anyone's kids. · "there's actually more drama in that Godfather scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:10:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the maker said so: Russell, in his True West magazine interview) · craft · Russell's intended tone was a Western Godfather; Jarre's version was more elegant. · "Well, Russell says it, it was basically the godfather of Westerns."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read) · craft · The Oriental faro takeover shows the Godfather-like business side Russell wanted. · "You could see the godfather thing that Russell's talking about when he moves into Tombstone and immediately takes over the Faro game at the Oriental."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Godfather · craft · Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen. · "There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:04:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ The Godfather · contrast · Structurally Rocky is like Godfather if it were all Michael and Kay's dates and the Don dies only in the last minutes; boxing barely appears until the last 13 minutes. · "imagine if Godfather was entirely about Kate and Michael not in New York City."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:25:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ The Godfather · contrast · 1981 compared with the Oscar crowd: Thief shut out. · "So thief got shut out in the Oscars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:33:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ The Godfather · career · Godfather made Caan; Thief holds his best moment, better than any Godfather moment. · "I think it's better than any godfather moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:21 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Father of the Bride ↔ The Godfather · people · Simmons does not count The Godfather as a wedding movie, and says Keaton's performance here makes up for Kay Corleone. · "I don't count the godfather as a wedding movie, even though the wedding is important."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Sicario ↔ The Godfather · verdict · Godfather beats Sicario for best dinner-scene assassination because it is the bigger, more important movie. · "Godfather is just a bigger, more important movie."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:50:55 · Julie Klausner (0.40)] Cabaret ↔ The Godfather · industry · Fosse beat Coppola for the best director Oscar for Cabaret while The Godfather won picture. · "Francois Coppola in the Godfather, the guy we use as shorthand for directing a movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ The Godfather · industry · The Academy's anniversary shoehorning (Godfather 50th, Pulp Fiction 28th) was awkward; Pacino and De Niro barely spoke. · "The weird thing was, like, you have Pacino and De Niro out there, and they don't talk."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:18:10 · James Gray (0.90)] The Godfather ↔ The Godfather Part II · industry · Both were rare cases where personal work also clicked commercially. · "and his masterpieces, and they are beyond genius, somehow clicked commercially"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:34:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Offer (TV) ↔ The Godfather · industry · The Offer sidelines Talia Shire and Diane Keaton, whose work on The Godfather was tangible. · "the show is like completely uninterested in like Talia Shire or Diane Keaton"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:03:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · rewatchables cross-reference · Godfather scene (Vito: whoever comes to you is the traitor) is Simmons' favorite and is referenced as covered in the Godfather pod. · "my favorite scene the Godfather is when Vito's getting old."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:18:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · canon · Simmons lists Bronx Tale in the iconic Italian-American pop canon with Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Sopranos, and My Cousin Vinny. · "Godfather one and two, Goodfellas, Bronx Tale, Sopranos."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ The Godfather · shared line · Old School features the characters calling Luke Wilson 'Godfather'; the host also notes the Godfather timeline. · "Godfather. Godfather."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frank Sinatra → The Godfather · lineage · Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica. · "Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:00:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] John Hughes ↔ The Godfather · theme · Hughes's vindictiveness toward slighters is compared to Michael Corleone. · "Hughes was weirdly vindictive for somebody who had such a, like that in like a dangerous Michael Corleone kind of way"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:58:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thanos ↔ The Godfather · theme · Invoking Thanos is now as universal a pop reference as invoking The Godfather. · "invoking Thanos is the same as like invoking the Godfather"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:23:12 · James Gray (0.90)] Mario Puzo ⇒ The Godfather (the host's read) · craft · Coppola cut huge sections of Puzo's novel, as Gray cut Grann's book. · "even there, Francis took out huge sections of the book and made very interesting decisions."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] The Godfather ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Sicario · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Panic Room · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Tombstone · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Thief · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:38 · unknown (0.40)] The Godfather · fun · Bill says the dinner scene saved Pacino from being fired. · "there's some backstory with Godfather where they were going to like, they wanted to replace Pacino and they shot that scene and that was the scene that saved him from getting fired"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:09:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Godfather · fun · Closing Godfather corrections: Corleone compound is in Long Beach, Sean is a proud North Shore guy, a reader notes Bobby Thompson's home run game on the radio, and a bit about the kids Kay was teaching. · "fuck the southern shore."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:23:25 · James Gray (0.90)] The Godfather · fun · A book of Coppola's original notes on the novel's pages, the Godfather notebook, has just been published. · "A wonderful book called The Godfather notebook that has just been published about Francis's original notes on the pages of the book itself."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:33:38 · James Gray (0.90)] The Godfather · fun · Gray calls The Godfather a locomotive through the chest, unlike TV. · "And the thing is like a locomotive that plunges its way through the center of your chest"

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:26:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Vision Quest ↔ Sicario · theme · Secret Handshake category: Vision Quest's red wrestling high-tops and Sicario's blue and pink money bands as props only fans recognize. · "Vision Quest, Loud and Swain's red Asex wrestling high tops, which we talked about on that part for 5 solid."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:05:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Wyatt Earp ↔ Tombstone · programming · Rival Earp films, the second to market lost ground; Tombstone came first. · "It's almost like whichever one comes out 1st has such an advantage."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:34:41 · unknown (0.40)] Sicario ↔ American Gangster · theme · Craig's complaint that Alejandro killed too quickly leads to Denzel shooting the guy in American Gangster, with De Niro's approach as the opposite. · "You want the person to know that you killed them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:02:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tombstone ↔ Rounders · lineage · Ryan called Tombstone the Rounders of Westerns for rewatchability. · "I was like, this movie is the Rounders of Westerns."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Tombstone ↔ Under Siege · lineage · Part of the era of genre films that jump a level above their pitch. · "It just winds up being like an action movie that's way better than it has any business being."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] James Gray · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · Loves classical, big-canvas cinema: Coppola, Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Fellini, Scorsese. Believes in the communal theater experience and the 90 to 120 minute feature. Wary of testing-driven, branded product; admires directors who build a name as a brand. Respects TV (Sopranos, Breaking Bad) but calls it a different muscle. · stances: Films should be personal, not formula; audiences catch up later; Failure is the norm; stay Zen and keep trying; Theatrical viewing is better than a phone or computer; sad about its decline; Movies are not beholden to literal historical fact; Wants to keep making features rather than go to TV
[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] 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] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie

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 The Godfather (1972) 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 Godfather (1972) 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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. · "I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane. · "the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ The Godfather · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:00:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fletch ↔ The Godfather · theme · Alan Stanwick's house is the same house as the horse-head scene in The Godfather. · "The godfather, when Jack Waltz finds the horse head in his bed"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:20:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Brotherhood ↔ The Godfather · theme · Everyone cites Douglas's mob movie as the Godfather but bad. · "the brotherhood that everyone cites is like, oh, this is like the godfather but bad."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.40)] The Godfather ↔ Sicario · craft · The Godfather scene has more buildup and suspense, and Michael is not killing anyone's kids. · "there's actually more drama in that Godfather scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:10:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the maker said so: Russell, in his True West magazine interview) · craft · Russell's intended tone was a Western Godfather; Jarre's version was more elegant. · "Well, Russell says it, it was basically the godfather of Westerns."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read) · craft · The Oriental faro takeover shows the Godfather-like business side Russell wanted. · "You could see the godfather thing that Russell's talking about when he moves into Tombstone and immediately takes over the Faro game at the Oriental."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Godfather · craft · Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen. · "There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:04:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ The Godfather · contrast · Structurally Rocky is like Godfather if it were all Michael and Kay's dates and the Don dies only in the last minutes; boxing barely appears until the last 13 minutes. · "imagine if Godfather was entirely about Kate and Michael not in New York City."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:25:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ The Godfather · contrast · 1981 compared with the Oscar crowd: Thief shut out. · "So thief got shut out in the Oscars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:33:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ The Godfather · career · Godfather made Caan; Thief holds his best moment, better than any Godfather moment. · "I think it's better than any godfather moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:03:21 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Father of the Bride ↔ The Godfather · people · Simmons does not count The Godfather as a wedding movie, and says Keaton's performance here makes up for Kay Corleone. · "I don't count the godfather as a wedding movie, even though the wedding is important."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Sicario ↔ The Godfather · verdict · Godfather beats Sicario for best dinner-scene assassination because it is the bigger, more important movie. · "Godfather is just a bigger, more important movie."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:50:55 · Julie Klausner (0.40)] Cabaret ↔ The Godfather · industry · Fosse beat Coppola for the best director Oscar for Cabaret while The Godfather won picture. · "Francois Coppola in the Godfather, the guy we use as shorthand for directing a movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ The Godfather · industry · The Academy's anniversary shoehorning (Godfather 50th, Pulp Fiction 28th) was awkward; Pacino and De Niro barely spoke. · "The weird thing was, like, you have Pacino and De Niro out there, and they don't talk."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:18:10 · James Gray (0.90)] The Godfather ↔ The Godfather Part II · industry · Both were rare cases where personal work also clicked commercially. · "and his masterpieces, and they are beyond genius, somehow clicked commercially"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:34:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Offer (TV) ↔ The Godfather · industry · The Offer sidelines Talia Shire and Diane Keaton, whose work on The Godfather was tangible. · "the show is like completely uninterested in like Talia Shire or Diane Keaton"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:03:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · rewatchables cross-reference · Godfather scene (Vito: whoever comes to you is the traitor) is Simmons' favorite and is referenced as covered in the Godfather pod. · "my favorite scene the Godfather is when Vito's getting old."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:18:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · canon · Simmons lists Bronx Tale in the iconic Italian-American pop canon with Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Sopranos, and My Cousin Vinny. · "Godfather one and two, Goodfellas, Bronx Tale, Sopranos."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ The Godfather · shared line · Old School features the characters calling Luke Wilson 'Godfather'; the host also notes the Godfather timeline. · "Godfather. Godfather."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frank Sinatra → The Godfather · lineage · Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica. · "Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:00:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] John Hughes ↔ The Godfather · theme · Hughes's vindictiveness toward slighters is compared to Michael Corleone. · "Hughes was weirdly vindictive for somebody who had such a, like that in like a dangerous Michael Corleone kind of way"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:58:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thanos ↔ The Godfather · theme · Invoking Thanos is now as universal a pop reference as invoking The Godfather. · "invoking Thanos is the same as like invoking the Godfather"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:23:12 · James Gray (0.90)] Mario Puzo ⇒ The Godfather (the host's read) · craft · Coppola cut huge sections of Puzo's novel, as Gray cut Grann's book. · "even there, Francis took out huge sections of the book and made very interesting decisions."
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Sicario · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Panic Room · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Tombstone · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Godfather ↔ Thief · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:38 · unknown (0.40)] The Godfather · fun · Bill says the dinner scene saved Pacino from being fired. · "there's some backstory with Godfather where they were going to like, they wanted to replace Pacino and they shot that scene and that was the scene that saved him from getting fired"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:09:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Godfather · fun · Closing Godfather corrections: Corleone compound is in Long Beach, Sean is a proud North Shore guy, a reader notes Bobby Thompson's home run game on the radio, and a bit about the kids Kay was teaching. · "fuck the southern shore."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:23:25 · James Gray (0.90)] The Godfather · fun · A book of Coppola's original notes on the novel's pages, the Godfather notebook, has just been published. · "A wonderful book called The Godfather notebook that has just been published about Francis's original notes on the pages of the book itself."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:33:38 · James Gray (0.90)] The Godfather · fun · Gray calls The Godfather a locomotive through the chest, unlike TV. · "And the thing is like a locomotive that plunges its way through the center of your chest"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:26:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Vision Quest ↔ Sicario · theme · Secret Handshake category: Vision Quest's red wrestling high-tops and Sicario's blue and pink money bands as props only fans recognize. · "Vision Quest, Loud and Swain's red Asex wrestling high tops, which we talked about on that part for 5 solid."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:05:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Wyatt Earp ↔ Tombstone · programming · Rival Earp films, the second to market lost ground; Tombstone came first. · "It's almost like whichever one comes out 1st has such an advantage."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:34:41 · unknown (0.40)] Sicario ↔ American Gangster · theme · Craig's complaint that Alejandro killed too quickly leads to Denzel shooting the guy in American Gangster, with De Niro's approach as the opposite. · "You want the person to know that you killed them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:02:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tombstone ↔ Rounders · lineage · Ryan called Tombstone the Rounders of Westerns for rewatchability. · "I was like, this movie is the Rounders of Westerns."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Tombstone ↔ Under Siege · lineage · Part of the era of genre films that jump a level above their pitch. · "It just winds up being like an action movie that's way better than it has any business being."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] James Gray · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · Loves classical, big-canvas cinema: Coppola, Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Fellini, Scorsese. Believes in the communal theater experience and the 90 to 120 minute feature. Wary of testing-driven, branded product; admires directors who build a name as a brand. Respects TV (Sopranos, Breaking Bad) but calls it a different muscle. · stances: Films should be personal, not formula; audiences catch up later; Failure is the norm; stay Zen and keep trying; Theatrical viewing is better than a phone or computer; sad about its decline; Movies are not beholden to literal historical fact; Wants to keep making features rather than go to TV
[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] 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] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[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 The Godfather (1972); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Godfather (1972) 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.