What the corpus says about Reservoir Dogs (1992)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Big Combo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic). · "Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene"
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Django ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene. · "Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene"
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Le Cercle Rouge · lineage · Speaker's favorite Melville tough-guy movie is the one to watch if you love Reservoir Dogs. · "my favorite is Le Circle a Rouge."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:48:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Army of Shadows · lineage · A second voice adds Army of Shadows to the Melville recommendation. · "Army of Shadows. Army of Shadows."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:49:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The color-name aliases were first seen in Pelham; called a great homage. · "It's just a great homage, great Walter Mathow in taking Pelham one, 2, 3."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:49:12 · unknown (0.35)] City on Fire ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · City on Fire contains huge parts of Reservoir Dogs, which raises the homage-versus-theft question. · "This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read) · lineage · Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino. · "The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:12:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Vic Vega and Vincent Vega are brothers; Tarantino wanted a prequel before Madsen and Travolta aged out. · "Vic Vega and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fictions were brothers."
19. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:18:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ New Hollywood · lineage · Reservoir Dogs was Sean's nearest experience of the 60s and 70s New Hollywood. · "this was as close as I was going to get to that in my in my lifetime."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:57:10 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Jackie Brown · theme · The language debate: Jackie Brown drew Spike Lee's criticism and Sam Jackson's defense. · "Sam Jackson came to his defense."
21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:58:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Jackie Brown · theme · Tarantino's adoration of black culture and the Pam Grier tracking shot. · "Jackie Brown is just a 2.5 minute tracking shot of Pam Greer."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:30:34 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · craft · Tarantino's tone is 50 percent naturalism and 50 percent movieness; rear-projection driving shots are an homage to old movies. · "it's an homage to force movies with rear projection."
24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:34:25 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Goodfellas · craft · The close, over-the-shoulder, handheld opening camera feels Scorsese-ish; Goodfellas' tracking shot comes up as a flex. · "It is very Scorsese."
25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there. · "That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there."
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:20:04 · unknown (0.30)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Heat · craft · A line delivery is called borderline Pacino in Heat. · "I think you're kind of borderline doing pachino and heat."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · said 7 times in 3 episodes
2. [pairs] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Jackie Brown · said 2 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:06:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Finished at about $1.2M; grossed only about $3M domestically but was a huge hit on home video and in the UK. · "it only made like $3000000 at the box office, but it was a huge home video release."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Original plan: a $30,000 black-and-white 16mm shoot with friends, Lawrence Bender playing the cop chasing Mr. Pink. · "He originally planned a shooter with friends on a budget of $30,000 and 16 millimeter of black and white"
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Ebert's 2.5-star pan is the show's running joke (Bill: 'God damn it, Roger Ebert'). · "God damn it, Roger Ebert."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:31:50 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Opening diner scene: Mr. Orange snitches on Mr. Pink about the tip, subtle foreshadowing of the rat. · "When Joe demands to know which crook didn't contribute to the tip, Mr. Orange snitches on Mr. Pink?"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:32:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Beer-drinking at breakfast: a recurring Tarantino move where morning scenes behave like night (the Wolf at dawn). · "people will be behaving like it's the night."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:33:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Nitpick: a crew in matching suits meeting at a diner an hour before a robbery, under pseudonyms, is terrible opsec. · "Good Opsec."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
3. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
6. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:57:02 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Jackie Brown · lineage · The white Honda Civic Butch drives is the same car Jackie Brown drives. · "The 1980 Honda Civic, the white car butch drove when he knocked Marcellus down. Same car, Jackie Brown drove."
8. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
10. [The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked. · "that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:33:35 · David Sims (0.35)] The Killer ⇒ Jackie Brown (the host's read) · lineage · Jackie Brown has a monologue about The Killer, showing Woo's aesthetic was known to Western audiences. · "Jackie Brown has a whole monologue about the killer."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
13. [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."
14. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:53 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's three-count device recurs, e.g., Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds. · "There's another 3 count that I really enjoy from, you know, Fastbender and Inglorious Bastards."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [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
3. [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 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 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 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 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 · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Big Combo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic). · "Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Django ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene. · "Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Le Cercle Rouge · lineage · Speaker's favorite Melville tough-guy movie is the one to watch if you love Reservoir Dogs. · "my favorite is Le Circle a Rouge."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:48:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Army of Shadows · lineage · A second voice adds Army of Shadows to the Melville recommendation. · "Army of Shadows. Army of Shadows."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:49:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The color-name aliases were first seen in Pelham; called a great homage. · "It's just a great homage, great Walter Mathow in taking Pelham one, 2, 3."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:49:12 · unknown (0.35)] City on Fire ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · City on Fire contains huge parts of Reservoir Dogs, which raises the homage-versus-theft question. · "This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read) · lineage · Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino. · "The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:12:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Vic Vega and Vincent Vega are brothers; Tarantino wanted a prequel before Madsen and Travolta aged out. · "Vic Vega and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fictions were brothers."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:18:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ New Hollywood · lineage · Reservoir Dogs was Sean's nearest experience of the 60s and 70s New Hollywood. · "this was as close as I was going to get to that in my in my lifetime."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:57:10 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Jackie Brown · theme · The language debate: Jackie Brown drew Spike Lee's criticism and Sam Jackson's defense. · "Sam Jackson came to his defense."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:58:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Jackie Brown · theme · Tarantino's adoration of black culture and the Pam Grier tracking shot. · "Jackie Brown is just a 2.5 minute tracking shot of Pam Greer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:30:34 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · craft · Tarantino's tone is 50 percent naturalism and 50 percent movieness; rear-projection driving shots are an homage to old movies. · "it's an homage to force movies with rear projection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:34:25 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Goodfellas · craft · The close, over-the-shoulder, handheld opening camera feels Scorsese-ish; Goodfellas' tracking shot comes up as a flex. · "It is very Scorsese."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there. · "That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:20:04 · unknown (0.30)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Heat · craft · A line delivery is called borderline Pacino in Heat. · "I think you're kind of borderline doing pachino and heat."
[pairs] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · said 7 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Jackie Brown · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:06:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Finished at about $1.2M; grossed only about $3M domestically but was a huge hit on home video and in the UK. · "it only made like $3000000 at the box office, but it was a huge home video release."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Original plan: a $30,000 black-and-white 16mm shoot with friends, Lawrence Bender playing the cop chasing Mr. Pink. · "He originally planned a shooter with friends on a budget of $30,000 and 16 millimeter of black and white"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Ebert's 2.5-star pan is the show's running joke (Bill: 'God damn it, Roger Ebert'). · "God damn it, Roger Ebert."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:31:50 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Opening diner scene: Mr. Orange snitches on Mr. Pink about the tip, subtle foreshadowing of the rat. · "When Joe demands to know which crook didn't contribute to the tip, Mr. Orange snitches on Mr. Pink?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:32:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Beer-drinking at breakfast: a recurring Tarantino move where morning scenes behave like night (the Wolf at dawn). · "people will be behaving like it's the night."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:33:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs · fun · Nitpick: a crew in matching suits meeting at a diner an hour before a robbery, under pseudonyms, is terrible opsec. · "Good Opsec."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:57:02 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Jackie Brown · lineage · The white Honda Civic Butch drives is the same car Jackie Brown drives. · "The 1980 Honda Civic, the white car butch drove when he knocked Marcellus down. Same car, Jackie Brown drove."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked. · "that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:33:35 · David Sims (0.35)] The Killer ⇒ Jackie Brown (the host's read) · lineage · Jackie Brown has a monologue about The Killer, showing Woo's aesthetic was known to Western audiences. · "Jackie Brown has a whole monologue about the killer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:53 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's three-count device recurs, e.g., Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds. · "There's another 3 count that I really enjoy from, you know, Fastbender and Inglorious Bastards."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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 Reservoir Dogs (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Reservoir Dogs (1992) 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.