What the corpus says about Gangs of New York (2002)

The 39 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 (7)

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:35 · unknown (0.40)] Gangs of New York ↔ One Battle After Another · career · PTA has been trying to get One Battle off the ground for ten years as Scorsese did with Gangs for decades. · "I mean, PCA has been trying to get one battle off the ground for 10 years."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:47 · unknown (0.40)] Gangs of New York ↔ Megalopolis · career · Decades-long passion projects rarely pan out; Megalopolis is the cautionary example. · "Has anyone been like, yeah, that was it. nailed that. Megalopolis."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:59:52 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Gangs of New York · industry · Last Temptation put Scorsese in debt until Cape Fear; Gangs put him back and The Departed got him out. · "He says the movie put him in debt and like he didn't come out of it until he made Cape Fear."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:35:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Heat ↔ Gangs of New York · what-if · Listener's 10-percent-better idea: Heat without the Portman storyline or with Vincent doing coke, Gangs of New York with Cameron Diaz recast. · "how heat would be 10% better if they either dropped the Portman storyline, or had Vincent doing coke, or gangs of New York, if Cameron Diaz was recast."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:18:50 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Gangs of New York · blank check scale · Gangs of New York is Scorsese's true blank check, a nonfiction book about Bowery gangsters he wanted $100 million for. · "But that movie was so risky and he had tried to do it for so long, like his blank check is gangs of New York."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Gangs of New York · audience anticipation · Simmons felt the same big-names anticipation for Gangs of New York as for The Departed. · "the other time I remember feeling it was gangs, gangs of New York in 2002"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (26)

[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 2:10:32 · unknown (0.40)] Megalopolis ↔ 65 · theme · Passion projects that took decades usually need Adam Driver to land; 65 took 25 years. · "if you have a passion project you've been trying to make for 20 years, the key is Adam Driver."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ↔ One Battle After Another · programming · The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another. · "that was also great prep for one battle after another."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Asked which soundtrack he prefers, Simmons picks Goodfellas. · "Which soundtrack do you prefer this or Goodfellas?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:58:26 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Heat · craft · Heat is long and full of huge stars like this, but Mann's decisions were all considered while The Departed feels like flying by the seat of its pants. · "I felt like heat was crafted. Every decision he makes is really well thought out"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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 (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 Gangs of New York (2002) 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 Gangs of New York (2002) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:35 · unknown (0.40)] Gangs of New York ↔ One Battle After Another · career · PTA has been trying to get One Battle off the ground for ten years as Scorsese did with Gangs for decades. · "I mean, PCA has been trying to get one battle off the ground for 10 years."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:47 · unknown (0.40)] Gangs of New York ↔ Megalopolis · career · Decades-long passion projects rarely pan out; Megalopolis is the cautionary example. · "Has anyone been like, yeah, that was it. nailed that. Megalopolis."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:59:52 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Gangs of New York · industry · Last Temptation put Scorsese in debt until Cape Fear; Gangs put him back and The Departed got him out. · "He says the movie put him in debt and like he didn't come out of it until he made Cape Fear."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:35:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Heat ↔ Gangs of New York · what-if · Listener's 10-percent-better idea: Heat without the Portman storyline or with Vincent doing coke, Gangs of New York with Cameron Diaz recast. · "how heat would be 10% better if they either dropped the Portman storyline, or had Vincent doing coke, or gangs of New York, if Cameron Diaz was recast."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:18:50 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Gangs of New York · blank check scale · Gangs of New York is Scorsese's true blank check, a nonfiction book about Bowery gangsters he wanted $100 million for. · "But that movie was so risky and he had tried to do it for so long, like his blank check is gangs of New York."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Gangs of New York · audience anticipation · Simmons felt the same big-names anticipation for Gangs of New York as for The Departed. · "the other time I remember feeling it was gangs, gangs of New York in 2002"
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 2:10:32 · unknown (0.40)] Megalopolis ↔ 65 · theme · Passion projects that took decades usually need Adam Driver to land; 65 took 25 years. · "if you have a passion project you've been trying to make for 20 years, the key is Adam Driver."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ↔ One Battle After Another · programming · The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another. · "that was also great prep for one battle after another."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Asked which soundtrack he prefers, Simmons picks Goodfellas. · "Which soundtrack do you prefer this or Goodfellas?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:58:26 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Heat · craft · Heat is long and full of huge stars like this, but Mann's decisions were all considered while The Departed feels like flying by the seat of its pants. · "I felt like heat was crafted. Every decision he makes is really well thought out"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."
[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] 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)
[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 Gangs of New York (2002); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Gangs of New York (2002) 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.