What the corpus says about The Martian (2015)

What was said about it (7)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
2. [Blank Check · Starman · 2:26:03 · Katey Rich (0.35)] The Martian ↔ Starman · craft · The Martian uses Bowie's Starman and disco in its soundtrack. · "Isn't it in a Martian, though?"
3. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:15:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Martian ↔ Citizen Kane · contrast · The Martian is meant to be a balm, not an object of heavy analysis, unlike a Citizen Kane. · "the Martian is a movie that's supposed to make people feel good, and it's supposed to be a bomb for you"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Martian ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · industry · The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film. · "I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian"
5. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Martian ↔ Matt Damon · career · The Martian is Damon's local-maximum: a post-apex Apex Mountain, the I-still-got-it peak. · "So Matt Damon, the Martians, a great one."
6. [Blank Check · Starman · 2:27:35 · Katey Rich (0.35)] Ridley Scott ↔ The Martian · people · Scott directed The Martian, a comedy winner at the Golden Globes. · "directed by Richie Scott, who's a nice man."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:47:42 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Matt Damon ↔ The Martian · creep vs sweetheart · Damon's best work is the creeps like Ripley, and Ryan prefers that to his America's sweetheart phase in The Martian. · "Matt Damon's best performances are always the one where he plays the creeps, like Ripley"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (29)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
2. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Errol Morris ↔ Citizen Kane · programming · The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane. · "he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects"
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
4. [Blank Check · Starman · 1:20:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An American Werewolf in London ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The transformation sequence is indebted to American Werewolf's practical, show-it-all body effects. · "Yes, which is very like American werewolf in London, where the body is stretching out."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
6. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:50:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Citizen Kane ↔ Casablanca · programming · Younger viewers resist classics because they feel they must watch five canonical films first; a recent episode showed they refuse Citizen Kane even on streaming. · "we just went through a whole episode where people refuse to watch Citizen Kane on streaming."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
8. [Blank Check · Starman · 1:27:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The hay-bale love scene in an empty train car is called a likely conscious homage to It Happened One Night. · "So it's a, maybe it's an homage."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
10. [The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
12. [Blank Check · Starman · 2:08:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The 1986 show is set 15 years later, about his son, with a recast Starman. · "is set 15 years in the future because it's about his son."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
16. [Blank Check · Starman · 2:13:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ Sean Levy (the host's read) · lineage · Levy announced a 2016 remake with Michael Douglas on board. · "I learned from Wikipedia that in 2016, Sean Levy was planning to direct and produce a remake of Starman."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · craft · Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself. · "Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character."
19. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
20. [Blank Check · Starman · 2:11:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ John from Cincinnati (the host's read) · theme · A mysterious odd visitor who solves everyone's problems and parrots dialogue; John from Cincinnati owes a lot to Starman. · "He comes and visits, and he's mysterious, and he's weird, and he solves everybody's problem."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
22. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
23. [Blank Check · Starman · 1:19:49 · David Sims (0.50)] Starman ↔ Annette · craft · The baby in the transformation sequence recalls the unsettling baby in Annette. · "There were some real baby Annette vibes in that transformation sequence."
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
25. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
26. [Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Two for the Road ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · craft · Carpenter reportedly wanted to make something like Two for the Road. · "I want to make like 2 for the road."
27. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
28. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
29. [Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · craft · Carpenter wanted a road movie of two people in a car getting to know each other, in the mold of It Happened One Night. · "I want to make it happens one night."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Katey Rich · latest sketch, Blank Check · Starman · Loves Jeff Bridges and 80s hunks, Karen Allen's performance, Oscar history and the quiet humanity of Carpenter's side characters. Cannot stand Oscar tribute clips she says she hated. A sucker for her sons' obsessions (Coco, Sing, Rocketman). · stances: Karen Allen carries the movie and is the real lead; Carpenter gives every road character quiet humanity; Starman works because Bridges is both child and adult; The Starman TV show concept is insane
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
4. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
2. [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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Martian (2015) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Martian (2015) 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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:26:03 · Katey Rich (0.35)] The Martian ↔ Starman · craft · The Martian uses Bowie's Starman and disco in its soundtrack. · "Isn't it in a Martian, though?"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:15:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Martian ↔ Citizen Kane · contrast · The Martian is meant to be a balm, not an object of heavy analysis, unlike a Citizen Kane. · "the Martian is a movie that's supposed to make people feel good, and it's supposed to be a bomb for you"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Martian ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · industry · The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film. · "I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Martian ↔ Matt Damon · career · The Martian is Damon's local-maximum: a post-apex Apex Mountain, the I-still-got-it peak. · "So Matt Damon, the Martians, a great one."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:27:35 · Katey Rich (0.35)] Ridley Scott ↔ The Martian · people · Scott directed The Martian, a comedy winner at the Golden Globes. · "directed by Richie Scott, who's a nice man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:47:42 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Matt Damon ↔ The Martian · creep vs sweetheart · Damon's best work is the creeps like Ripley, and Ryan prefers that to his America's sweetheart phase in The Martian. · "Matt Damon's best performances are always the one where he plays the creeps, like Ripley"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Errol Morris ↔ Citizen Kane · programming · The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane. · "he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:20:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An American Werewolf in London ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The transformation sequence is indebted to American Werewolf's practical, show-it-all body effects. · "Yes, which is very like American werewolf in London, where the body is stretching out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:50:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Citizen Kane ↔ Casablanca · programming · Younger viewers resist classics because they feel they must watch five canonical films first; a recent episode showed they refuse Citizen Kane even on streaming. · "we just went through a whole episode where people refuse to watch Citizen Kane on streaming."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:27:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The hay-bale love scene in an empty train car is called a likely conscious homage to It Happened One Night. · "So it's a, maybe it's an homage."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:08:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The 1986 show is set 15 years later, about his son, with a recast Starman. · "is set 15 years in the future because it's about his son."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:13:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ Sean Levy (the host's read) · lineage · Levy announced a 2016 remake with Michael Douglas on board. · "I learned from Wikipedia that in 2016, Sean Levy was planning to direct and produce a remake of Starman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · craft · Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself. · "Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:11:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ John from Cincinnati (the host's read) · theme · A mysterious odd visitor who solves everyone's problems and parrots dialogue; John from Cincinnati owes a lot to Starman. · "He comes and visits, and he's mysterious, and he's weird, and he solves everybody's problem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:19:49 · David Sims (0.50)] Starman ↔ Annette · craft · The baby in the transformation sequence recalls the unsettling baby in Annette. · "There were some real baby Annette vibes in that transformation sequence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Two for the Road ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · craft · Carpenter reportedly wanted to make something like Two for the Road. · "I want to make like 2 for the road."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · craft · Carpenter wanted a road movie of two people in a car getting to know each other, in the mold of It Happened One Night. · "I want to make it happens one night."
[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] Katey Rich · latest sketch, Blank Check · Starman · Loves Jeff Bridges and 80s hunks, Karen Allen's performance, Oscar history and the quiet humanity of Carpenter's side characters. Cannot stand Oscar tribute clips she says she hated. A sucker for her sons' obsessions (Coco, Sing, Rocketman). · stances: Karen Allen carries the movie and is the real lead; Carpenter gives every road character quiet humanity; Starman works because Bridges is both child and adult; The Starman TV show concept is insane
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Martian (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Martian (2015) 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.