What the corpus says about Presumed Innocent (1990)
The 47 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 (9)
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:57:57 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Harrison Ford rarely does sex scenes; Presumed Innocent is the only time he really does. · "Just presumed innocent."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Player ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Bill finds Greta Scacchi much more compelling in Presumed Innocent than in The Player. · "The player, I don't think she's that good in the player."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:04:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Simmons notes Harrison Ford sex scenes (Presumed Innocent, Witness, Frantic) are stressed-out sex. · "it's a lot of like, I'm really stressed out sex."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Player ↔ Presumed Innocent · people · Bill's memory of falling for Greta Scacchi in Presumed Innocent frames why he finds her Player character underwritten; Scacchi refused nudity after Presumed Innocent. · "Skocky's like, I fucking went to town on Harrison Ford and presumed innocent."
- [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:10:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Die Hard 2 · people · Bonnie Bedelia is in both of Amanda's picks. · "that's 2 Bonnie Badelia movies for Amanda"
- [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:51:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Presumed Innocent · programming · Pick 8 (round 3), category blockbuster: Wanted Harrison Ford in a legal thriller. · "In Blockbuster."
- [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:52:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Scott Turow ⇒ Presumed Innocent (the host's read) · lineage · Airport-novel adaptations starring movie stars; Amanda plans to read all of Turow this summer. · "that type of, like, airport novel with respect to Scotchro"
- [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:51:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Harrison Ford · people · Amanda wanted Harrison Ford in a legal thriller. · "I would love to have Harrison Ford."
- [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:52:00 · unknown (0.40)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Chase Infinity · people · The Apple remake launched Chase Infinity, a future PTA star in One Battle After Another. · "did launch Chase Infinity future PTA star"
Films put beside it more than once (1)
- [pairs] Presumed Innocent ↔ The Player · said 2 times in 1 episode
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)
- [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
- [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
- [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in movies."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)
- [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] 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
The shows' running bits (2)
- [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] 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 Presumed Innocent (1990) 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 Presumed Innocent (1990) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:57:57 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Harrison Ford rarely does sex scenes; Presumed Innocent is the only time he really does. · "Just presumed innocent." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Player ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Bill finds Greta Scacchi much more compelling in Presumed Innocent than in The Player. · "The player, I don't think she's that good in the player." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:04:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Simmons notes Harrison Ford sex scenes (Presumed Innocent, Witness, Frantic) are stressed-out sex. · "it's a lot of like, I'm really stressed out sex." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Player ↔ Presumed Innocent · people · Bill's memory of falling for Greta Scacchi in Presumed Innocent frames why he finds her Player character underwritten; Scacchi refused nudity after Presumed Innocent. · "Skocky's like, I fucking went to town on Harrison Ford and presumed innocent." [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:10:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Die Hard 2 · people · Bonnie Bedelia is in both of Amanda's picks. · "that's 2 Bonnie Badelia movies for Amanda" [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:51:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Presumed Innocent · programming · Pick 8 (round 3), category blockbuster: Wanted Harrison Ford in a legal thriller. · "In Blockbuster." [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:52:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Scott Turow ⇒ Presumed Innocent (the host's read) · lineage · Airport-novel adaptations starring movie stars; Amanda plans to read all of Turow this summer. · "that type of, like, airport novel with respect to Scotchro" [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:51:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Harrison Ford · people · Amanda wanted Harrison Ford in a legal thriller. · "I would love to have Harrison Ford." [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:52:00 · unknown (0.40)] Presumed Innocent ↔ Chase Infinity · people · The Apple remake launched Chase Infinity, a future PTA star in One Battle After Another. · "did launch Chase Infinity future PTA star" [pairs] Presumed Innocent ↔ The Player · said 2 times in 1 episode [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers" [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990" [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years." [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain." [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai" [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit." [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life." [Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent" [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit." [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies" [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie." [The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in movies." [The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood." [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm." [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah." [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] 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] 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 Presumed Innocent (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Presumed Innocent (1990) 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.