What the corpus says about The Fabelmans (2022)

The 43 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 (13)

[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:05:03 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ West Side Story · contrast · Adam says late Spielberg makes two movies at once; West Side Story had nothing inside the tour de force, while The Fabelmans has a petty, thorny movie inside. · "I like the other movie that's inside the Fablemans, which is like petty and thorny."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:01:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ The Eternal Daughter · verdict · Amanda ranks The Eternal Daughter at five and The Fabelmans at three, noting a taste for directors making movies about themselves. · "But I like all of the director projects of let me just make a movie about myself."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:50:40 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Empire of the Sun ↔ The Fabelmans · psychology key · Griffin reads Empire through The Fabelmans: Spielberg's core trauma was being pulled into the adult world, like Jim in the camp. · "I mean, here's here's my big post-fableman's take on this movie."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:16:01 · James Urbaniak (0.80)] The Fabelmans ↔ Back to the Future · period look · The prom set full of extras looked like Back to the Future. · "And it looked like back to the future."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:20:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Beware of the Gonzo ↔ The Fabelmans · joke analog · Griffin jokes that Beware of the Gonzo is the Fabelmans of its time. · "the Fabelmans of its time."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:40:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Tony Kushner ↔ The Fabelmans · people · Amanda notes Spielberg wrote The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner, making it a deep but active collaboration. · "he wrote it with Tony Kushner."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] The Fabelmans ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Fabelmans ↔ Nope · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:03:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] The Fabelmans · fun · Amanda asks if she would trade having her son be as successful as Spielberg for the movie he'd make about her; Sean says to take the Jurassic Park money. · "But could you be sitting on Jurassic Park money?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:08:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Messiah of Evil ↔ American Graffiti · lineage · Messiah of Evil is described as hugely influential on 80s horror that followed. · "clearly hugely influential on the 80s films that were going to come after it."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Eadweard Muybridge ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history. · "related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:26:31 · David Sims (0.40)] Back to the Future ↔ Teen Wolf · programming · Michael J. Fox held the top two spots at the box office in 1985. · "He's number one and 2 at the box office."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Nope ↔ Hoyte van Hoytema · craft · Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world. · "Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:45:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Old School ↔ Back to the Future · theme · The house used as the frat house in Pasadena also appeared in Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Teen Wolf. · "It's been used for 3 Michael J. Fox movies."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Gowan · craft · Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Corey Hart · craft · Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[speaker] James Urbaniak · latest sketch, Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · Loves old-timey stuff, the history and styles of acting, Robert Altman, Tony Randall and the Simpsons-quoting camaraderie of fellow nerds. He admires Keaton as a non-indicating, anti-sentimental, serene and modern performer, favoring cool restraint over Chaplin's warmth. He dislikes hammy over-indication and is a sucker for the specific, throwaway behavioral bit. · stances: Keaton is modern, clean, streamlined and the ultimate non-indicator; Keaton is cool where Chaplin is warm and practical where Chaplin is showy; Silent acting streams coexisted: naturalistic and semaphore; Seeing a Spielberg shoot revealed that great directors create an environment that allows things to happen

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Fabelmans (2022) 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 Fabelmans (2022) 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 · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:05:03 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ West Side Story · contrast · Adam says late Spielberg makes two movies at once; West Side Story had nothing inside the tour de force, while The Fabelmans has a petty, thorny movie inside. · "I like the other movie that's inside the Fablemans, which is like petty and thorny."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:01:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ The Eternal Daughter · verdict · Amanda ranks The Eternal Daughter at five and The Fabelmans at three, noting a taste for directors making movies about themselves. · "But I like all of the director projects of let me just make a movie about myself."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:50:40 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Empire of the Sun ↔ The Fabelmans · psychology key · Griffin reads Empire through The Fabelmans: Spielberg's core trauma was being pulled into the adult world, like Jim in the camp. · "I mean, here's here's my big post-fableman's take on this movie."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:16:01 · James Urbaniak (0.80)] The Fabelmans ↔ Back to the Future · period look · The prom set full of extras looked like Back to the Future. · "And it looked like back to the future."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:20:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Beware of the Gonzo ↔ The Fabelmans · joke analog · Griffin jokes that Beware of the Gonzo is the Fabelmans of its time. · "the Fabelmans of its time."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:40:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Tony Kushner ↔ The Fabelmans · people · Amanda notes Spielberg wrote The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner, making it a deep but active collaboration. · "he wrote it with Tony Kushner."
[pairs] The Fabelmans ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Fabelmans ↔ Nope · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:03:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] The Fabelmans · fun · Amanda asks if she would trade having her son be as successful as Spielberg for the movie he'd make about her; Sean says to take the Jurassic Park money. · "But could you be sitting on Jurassic Park money?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:08:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Messiah of Evil ↔ American Graffiti · lineage · Messiah of Evil is described as hugely influential on 80s horror that followed. · "clearly hugely influential on the 80s films that were going to come after it."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Eadweard Muybridge ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history. · "related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:26:31 · David Sims (0.40)] Back to the Future ↔ Teen Wolf · programming · Michael J. Fox held the top two spots at the box office in 1985. · "He's number one and 2 at the box office."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Nope ↔ Hoyte van Hoytema · craft · Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world. · "Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:45:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Old School ↔ Back to the Future · theme · The house used as the frat house in Pasadena also appeared in Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Teen Wolf. · "It's been used for 3 Michael J. Fox movies."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Gowan · craft · Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Corey Hart · craft · Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[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
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[speaker] James Urbaniak · latest sketch, Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · Loves old-timey stuff, the history and styles of acting, Robert Altman, Tony Randall and the Simpsons-quoting camaraderie of fellow nerds. He admires Keaton as a non-indicating, anti-sentimental, serene and modern performer, favoring cool restraint over Chaplin's warmth. He dislikes hammy over-indication and is a sucker for the specific, throwaway behavioral bit. · stances: Keaton is modern, clean, streamlined and the ultimate non-indicator; Keaton is cool where Chaplin is warm and practical where Chaplin is showy; Silent acting streams coexisted: naturalistic and semaphore; Seeing a Spielberg shoot revealed that great directors create an environment that allows things to happen
[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 Fabelmans (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Fabelmans (2022) 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.