What the corpus says about Titanic (1997)

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 (23)

[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Titanic · contrast · Titanic's pitch was a famous ship; Avatar's was Looney Tunes by comparison. · "the pitch for Avatar is Looney Tunes, like compared to like him being like, I know it's going to cost a fortune for me to build a boat and sink it, but it's the Titanic."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Titanic · contrast · The era's teenage-girl default was Titanic 50 times; Amanda was drawn to Good Will Hunting instead. · "one way to express yourself as a teenage girl was to like go to Titanic 50 times"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ Titanic · career · Catch Me is the springboard where Leo learned to give a more mature performance, after the Titanic generation. · "I feel like it's the movie where he learns how to give a more mature performance."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:09:04 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · career · Avatar could only be made because Titanic gave Cameron the clout. · "I'd never have gotten to make it if he hadn't made Titanic."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:56:19 · unknown (0.35)] Dead Calm ↔ Titanic · people · Billy Zane's madman on the water is framed as preparation for Titanic. · "Sort of sort of preparing for his role in Titanic."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:45:25 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Titanic · verdict · Most culturally defining standalone movie with no sequel: Titanic or Pulp. · "I think it's Titanic or this."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · verdict · Titanic made Cameron so successful that Hollywood let him do anything. · "needed to have this extraordinary amount of success over these decades to conceive an execute of something so crazy as Avatar."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:58 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · industry · Asks if this thoughtful character piece broke out in a year of Titanic and Men in Black. · "in a year where it was like Titanic, Men in Black, all of a sudden, here's this like, thoughtful character piece."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Titanic · industry · Release slipped from 1997 to 1998 because Titanic was coming for everybody; better Oscar chances. · "It was supposed to be 97 and then the Titanic literally was this big boat coming for everybody"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ⇒ Titanic (the host's read) · industry · Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed. · "It became a playbook for it."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:17:04 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic ↔ Avatar · industry · Titanic held the box-office record until Avatar broke it twelve years later. · "Titanic had the record domestically and worldwide at the box office until Avatar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:42:36 · Sarah Marshall (0.50)] Titanic ↔ Paths of Glory · industry · The Titanic legend of Cameron refusing studio cuts is told as a parallel to Douglas and Kubrick fighting over the ending. · "This reminds me of a story I love from the production of Titanic"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Hanging Up ↔ Titanic · industry · The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars. · "a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:22:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Ice Storm ↔ Titanic · industry · Fox had The Ice Storm and Titanic and The Full Monty in the same fall. · "by Titanic and Falmonte, because Fox had those 2 films that fall."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (the host's read) · shared-technology · The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set. · "James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.45)] Titanic ↔ White Squall · shared-technology · Ridley Scott made 1492 and White Squall in a Gibraltar tank, but it had fallen into disrepair, which is why Cameron's tank mattered. · "Scott had made both 1492 and White Squall, I think, in a tank in Gibraltar, but that tank was in disrepair."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:15:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Bill Paxton ↔ Titanic · career · Paxton's run of key supporting roles culminates with the Twister lead and then Titanic. · "And then that all culminates in Titanic."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:23 · unknown (0.40)] Leonardo DiCaprio ↔ Titanic · career · After Titanic Leo made it his mission to work with Scorsese. · "he made it his mission after Titanic to get Scorsese movies."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:47:37 · unknown (0.40)] James Cameron ↔ Titanic · development timing · Cameron considered Apes before Titanic and lost interest when Titanic succeeded. · "But it was one of those things where, like, Cameron was thinking about doing it before Titanic than when he thought Titanic was going to bomb."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Titanic ↔ Avatar · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Titanic ↔ As Good as It Gets · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:31:17 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic · fun · Cameron's Titanic shoot was so rough he was reportedly dosed with PCP and kept directing. · "He was at one point drugged with PCP and just was like, I ain't stopping directing."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:32:04 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic · fun · On a pre-release Howard Stern interview Cameron said he had no financial stake after giving up profit participation. · "He said, I have no stake in this film financially."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:32:45 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic · fun · Cameron's 'king of the world' Oscar line made a room of adults groan. · "everyone in the room went, ugh."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (23)

[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · programming · Disney's next big release after Avatar 2 is Ant-Man in late February, giving it about two months of runway. · "No, it's Ant-man in like late February, maybe."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:42:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ Lincoln · theme · Both movies are built around one hugely charismatic person wriggling in and out of trouble. · "The movie is built around this one deeply charismatic person and their ability to wriggle in and out of trouble."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Napoleon · programming · Apple may release Napoleon on Christmas Day because the landscape is soft. · "Apple is seriously considering releasing Ridley Scott's Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix on Christmas Day because they're looking at the landscape and they're like, it's soft out here."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:44:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · lineage · Cameron's pitches for sequels sounded off beforehand and then worked, as with T2. · "Before Terminator 2 was like, you want more Terminator?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:59 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Babylon ↔ Avatar: The Way of Water · craft · Chris thinks it cheap that Babylon's montage of cinema moments includes Avatar, which Sean defends as part of cinema's evolution. · "It feels cheap that he would put that movie in the like montage of the greatest film moments ever"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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'
[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] 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] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies

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 Titanic (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 Titanic (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.

[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Titanic · contrast · Titanic's pitch was a famous ship; Avatar's was Looney Tunes by comparison. · "the pitch for Avatar is Looney Tunes, like compared to like him being like, I know it's going to cost a fortune for me to build a boat and sink it, but it's the Titanic."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Titanic · contrast · The era's teenage-girl default was Titanic 50 times; Amanda was drawn to Good Will Hunting instead. · "one way to express yourself as a teenage girl was to like go to Titanic 50 times"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ Titanic · career · Catch Me is the springboard where Leo learned to give a more mature performance, after the Titanic generation. · "I feel like it's the movie where he learns how to give a more mature performance."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:09:04 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · career · Avatar could only be made because Titanic gave Cameron the clout. · "I'd never have gotten to make it if he hadn't made Titanic."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:56:19 · unknown (0.35)] Dead Calm ↔ Titanic · people · Billy Zane's madman on the water is framed as preparation for Titanic. · "Sort of sort of preparing for his role in Titanic."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:45:25 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Titanic · verdict · Most culturally defining standalone movie with no sequel: Titanic or Pulp. · "I think it's Titanic or this."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · verdict · Titanic made Cameron so successful that Hollywood let him do anything. · "needed to have this extraordinary amount of success over these decades to conceive an execute of something so crazy as Avatar."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:58 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · industry · Asks if this thoughtful character piece broke out in a year of Titanic and Men in Black. · "in a year where it was like Titanic, Men in Black, all of a sudden, here's this like, thoughtful character piece."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Titanic · industry · Release slipped from 1997 to 1998 because Titanic was coming for everybody; better Oscar chances. · "It was supposed to be 97 and then the Titanic literally was this big boat coming for everybody"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ⇒ Titanic (the host's read) · industry · Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed. · "It became a playbook for it."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:17:04 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic ↔ Avatar · industry · Titanic held the box-office record until Avatar broke it twelve years later. · "Titanic had the record domestically and worldwide at the box office until Avatar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:42:36 · Sarah Marshall (0.50)] Titanic ↔ Paths of Glory · industry · The Titanic legend of Cameron refusing studio cuts is told as a parallel to Douglas and Kubrick fighting over the ending. · "This reminds me of a story I love from the production of Titanic"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Hanging Up ↔ Titanic · industry · The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars. · "a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:22:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Ice Storm ↔ Titanic · industry · Fox had The Ice Storm and Titanic and The Full Monty in the same fall. · "by Titanic and Falmonte, because Fox had those 2 films that fall."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (the host's read) · shared-technology · The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set. · "James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.45)] Titanic ↔ White Squall · shared-technology · Ridley Scott made 1492 and White Squall in a Gibraltar tank, but it had fallen into disrepair, which is why Cameron's tank mattered. · "Scott had made both 1492 and White Squall, I think, in a tank in Gibraltar, but that tank was in disrepair."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:15:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Bill Paxton ↔ Titanic · career · Paxton's run of key supporting roles culminates with the Twister lead and then Titanic. · "And then that all culminates in Titanic."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:23 · unknown (0.40)] Leonardo DiCaprio ↔ Titanic · career · After Titanic Leo made it his mission to work with Scorsese. · "he made it his mission after Titanic to get Scorsese movies."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:47:37 · unknown (0.40)] James Cameron ↔ Titanic · development timing · Cameron considered Apes before Titanic and lost interest when Titanic succeeded. · "But it was one of those things where, like, Cameron was thinking about doing it before Titanic than when he thought Titanic was going to bomb."
[pairs] Titanic ↔ Avatar · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Titanic ↔ As Good as It Gets · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:31:17 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic · fun · Cameron's Titanic shoot was so rough he was reportedly dosed with PCP and kept directing. · "He was at one point drugged with PCP and just was like, I ain't stopping directing."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:32:04 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic · fun · On a pre-release Howard Stern interview Cameron said he had no financial stake after giving up profit participation. · "He said, I have no stake in this film financially."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:32:45 · unknown (0.40)] Titanic · fun · Cameron's 'king of the world' Oscar line made a room of adults groan. · "everyone in the room went, ugh."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · programming · Disney's next big release after Avatar 2 is Ant-Man in late February, giving it about two months of runway. · "No, it's Ant-man in like late February, maybe."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:42:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ Lincoln · theme · Both movies are built around one hugely charismatic person wriggling in and out of trouble. · "The movie is built around this one deeply charismatic person and their ability to wriggle in and out of trouble."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Napoleon · programming · Apple may release Napoleon on Christmas Day because the landscape is soft. · "Apple is seriously considering releasing Ridley Scott's Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix on Christmas Day because they're looking at the landscape and they're like, it's soft out here."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:44:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · lineage · Cameron's pitches for sequels sounded off beforehand and then worked, as with T2. · "Before Terminator 2 was like, you want more Terminator?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:59 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Babylon ↔ Avatar: The Way of Water · craft · Chris thinks it cheap that Babylon's montage of cinema moments includes Avatar, which Sean defends as part of cinema's evolution. · "It feels cheap that he would put that movie in the like montage of the greatest film moments ever"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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'
[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] 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] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies
[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 Titanic (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Titanic (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.