What the corpus says about 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:11 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so) · theme · Dr. Chandra is Indian in the book; the film made him American, per Balaban. · "Bob Balaban said they changed his nationalities from Indian to American because they thought it would be confusing to have another nationality who've got the Russians and the Americans up there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Metropolis · theme · The ending that tells you directly what to take from it is compared to Metropolis. · "It's very metropolis where it's like, this sci-fi movie is going to end with us directly telling you what the takeaway is"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · craft · The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end. · "Yeah, is the music."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · contrast · 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas. · "it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:19:36 · unknown (0.35)] Outland ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · MGM went to Hyams because he had just made Outland, which is set on Io, a place that plays a role in 2010. · "Outland is the Sean Connery Space Western that's set on IO, which plays a role in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:49 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Balaban from Close Encounters plus Scheider from Jaws makes 2010 a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg. · "I mean, you have, you have Balaban and you have Schider off of Jaws."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:09:46 · unknown (0.30)] Amadeus ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · industry · 2010 lost costume design, makeup, sound and art direction to Amadeus, and visual effects to Temple of Doom. · "End sound and art direction to all to Amadeus."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:09:52 · unknown (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · industry · 2010 lost visual effects to Temple of Doom. · "And then it lost visual effects to Temple of Doom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:11:36 · unknown (0.30)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · industry · On opening weekend 2010 was number two behind Beverly Hills Cop. · "Beverly Hills got number one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:08:55 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Don't Worry Darling · explainer joke · A joke that 2010 is about explainer writers trying to work out what happened in the previous film, like clickbait for Don't Worry Darling's ending. · "What I didn't realize is this movie's pretty much about the clickbait writers trying to figure out how to explain the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:36 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so) · changes from the book · Hyams demanded changes to play up US-Soviet politics, which the novel does not treat as a source of tension. · "Two, there's changes I want to make to play up the politics of the movie because in the novel, the U.S. Soviet thing is not like a source of tension."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.35)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · tip of the hat · Casting Balaban reads as a nod to Close Encounters; the speaker finds 2010 more in its shadow than 2001's. · "And the Balaban casting feels like a real tip of the hat to that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · slow sci-fi after Star Wars · Films like 2010, Close Encounters, The Black Hole and Star Trek TMP went back to slow, process-based hard sci-fi after Star Wars made space fast. · "and that this wave of movies like 2010"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:59:49 · unknown (0.30)] For All Mankind ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · communication-delay realism · The speaker points to For All Mankind's depiction of long Mars-mission message delays as more realistic than 2010's instant comms. · "they can't have a conversation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:53 · unknown (0.35)] Steven Spielberg ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · theme · 2010 is likened to a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg. · "Like this is very much kind of doing a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:22:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Hyams ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Hyams directed 2010 and was another director who almost made Starman. · "Peter Heim's another person who almost directed Starman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:10:52 · unknown (0.35)] Peter Hyams ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Hyams wrote, produced, shot, and directed 2010, an unusual degree of control. · "Also known as 2010 is a 1984 science fiction film, written, produced, shot, and directed by Peter Himes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:46:29 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] Arthur C. Clarke ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · making-of book · Clarke wrote The Odyssey File about making 2010, including email correspondence with director Peter Hyams. · "wrote a really fun book called a 2010 Odyssey File, about the making of 2010"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · said 5 times in 4 episodes
[pairs] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:08:55 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · The hosts say this is basically a movie about screen-rant explainer writers trying to work out the ending of the first film. · "What I didn't realize is this movie's pretty much about the clickbait writers trying to figure out how to explain the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:44:51 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · Europa is the breakout star of the movie, and the hosts have a running bit about who loves it most. · "I've always loved how Europa looks like a skating rink that never got cleaned."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · Dave Bowman's ghost brushes his mother's hair in a nursing home, shot with the invisible-man technique. · "Yes. He, um, sort of goes to see like his mother in a nursing home and like, brushes her hair, the old, uh, disembodied brush on his strings."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:05:08 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · The film's most memed line is HAL's message about Europa. · "All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landing there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:07:28 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · A Time magazine cover prop in the film shows Kubrick as a Soviet dictator, a gag in the frame that the speaker rewound to catch. · "I went back and rewound it to clock and I was like, that's a nice little subtle thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:10:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · The sequel was a modest hit: it opened at number two behind Beverly Hills Cop on 1100 screens, grossed about $40M and got five Oscar nominations. · "On December 7th, 1984, it opened in theaters. on 1100 screens."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · craft · Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker). · "It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 2:12:44 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Jack Kirby (the host's read) · lineage · Kirby's Marvel series began by adapting the movie in its first three issues, then went its own way. · "Like, the 1st 3 issues are the movie... and he went bananas with it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones. · "it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
[speaker] 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

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 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) 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 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:11 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so) · theme · Dr. Chandra is Indian in the book; the film made him American, per Balaban. · "Bob Balaban said they changed his nationalities from Indian to American because they thought it would be confusing to have another nationality who've got the Russians and the Americans up there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Metropolis · theme · The ending that tells you directly what to take from it is compared to Metropolis. · "It's very metropolis where it's like, this sci-fi movie is going to end with us directly telling you what the takeaway is"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · craft · The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end. · "Yeah, is the music."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · contrast · 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas. · "it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:19:36 · unknown (0.35)] Outland ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · MGM went to Hyams because he had just made Outland, which is set on Io, a place that plays a role in 2010. · "Outland is the Sean Connery Space Western that's set on IO, which plays a role in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:49 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Balaban from Close Encounters plus Scheider from Jaws makes 2010 a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg. · "I mean, you have, you have Balaban and you have Schider off of Jaws."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:09:46 · unknown (0.30)] Amadeus ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · industry · 2010 lost costume design, makeup, sound and art direction to Amadeus, and visual effects to Temple of Doom. · "End sound and art direction to all to Amadeus."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:09:52 · unknown (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · industry · 2010 lost visual effects to Temple of Doom. · "And then it lost visual effects to Temple of Doom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:11:36 · unknown (0.30)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · industry · On opening weekend 2010 was number two behind Beverly Hills Cop. · "Beverly Hills got number one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:08:55 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Don't Worry Darling · explainer joke · A joke that 2010 is about explainer writers trying to work out what happened in the previous film, like clickbait for Don't Worry Darling's ending. · "What I didn't realize is this movie's pretty much about the clickbait writers trying to figure out how to explain the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:36 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so) · changes from the book · Hyams demanded changes to play up US-Soviet politics, which the novel does not treat as a source of tension. · "Two, there's changes I want to make to play up the politics of the movie because in the novel, the U.S. Soviet thing is not like a source of tension."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.35)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · tip of the hat · Casting Balaban reads as a nod to Close Encounters; the speaker finds 2010 more in its shadow than 2001's. · "And the Balaban casting feels like a real tip of the hat to that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · slow sci-fi after Star Wars · Films like 2010, Close Encounters, The Black Hole and Star Trek TMP went back to slow, process-based hard sci-fi after Star Wars made space fast. · "and that this wave of movies like 2010"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:59:49 · unknown (0.30)] For All Mankind ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · communication-delay realism · The speaker points to For All Mankind's depiction of long Mars-mission message delays as more realistic than 2010's instant comms. · "they can't have a conversation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:53 · unknown (0.35)] Steven Spielberg ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · theme · 2010 is likened to a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg. · "Like this is very much kind of doing a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:22:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Hyams ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Hyams directed 2010 and was another director who almost made Starman. · "Peter Heim's another person who almost directed Starman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:10:52 · unknown (0.35)] Peter Hyams ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Hyams wrote, produced, shot, and directed 2010, an unusual degree of control. · "Also known as 2010 is a 1984 science fiction film, written, produced, shot, and directed by Peter Himes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:46:29 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] Arthur C. Clarke ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · making-of book · Clarke wrote The Odyssey File about making 2010, including email correspondence with director Peter Hyams. · "wrote a really fun book called a 2010 Odyssey File, about the making of 2010"
[pairs] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · said 5 times in 4 episodes
[pairs] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:08:55 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · The hosts say this is basically a movie about screen-rant explainer writers trying to work out the ending of the first film. · "What I didn't realize is this movie's pretty much about the clickbait writers trying to figure out how to explain the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:44:51 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · Europa is the breakout star of the movie, and the hosts have a running bit about who loves it most. · "I've always loved how Europa looks like a skating rink that never got cleaned."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · Dave Bowman's ghost brushes his mother's hair in a nursing home, shot with the invisible-man technique. · "Yes. He, um, sort of goes to see like his mother in a nursing home and like, brushes her hair, the old, uh, disembodied brush on his strings."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:05:08 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · The film's most memed line is HAL's message about Europa. · "All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landing there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:07:28 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · A Time magazine cover prop in the film shows Kubrick as a Soviet dictator, a gag in the frame that the speaker rewound to catch. · "I went back and rewound it to clock and I was like, that's a nice little subtle thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 1:10:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact · fun · The sequel was a modest hit: it opened at number two behind Beverly Hills Cop on 1100 screens, grossed about $40M and got five Oscar nominations. · "On December 7th, 1984, it opened in theaters. on 1100 screens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Elvis ↔ Amadeus · craft · Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker). · "It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 2:12:44 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Jack Kirby (the host's read) · lineage · Kirby's Marvel series began by adapting the movie in its first three issues, then went its own way. · "Like, the 1st 3 issues are the movie... and he went bananas with it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones. · "it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[speaker] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
[speaker] 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
[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 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) 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.