What the corpus says about Seven (1995)

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

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Seven ⇒ 8mm (the host's read) · lineage · Calls 8mm Schumacher ripping off Se7en. · "8 millimeter is Schumacher ripping off seven."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:15:39 · Mike Mitchell (0.50)] Seven ⇒ later crime thrillers and crime TV (unnamed) (the host's read) · lineage · As an adult the speaker is less shocked by Se7en because everyone since took a page out of its book. · "I'm not as shocked by 7 because everyone took a page out of its book, of course."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:35:45 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Seven ↔ Eight Millimeter · lineage · New Line tried to repurpose Walker's 8MM script as a Se7en follow-up with Morgan Freeman as Somerset; it was made later as a stand-alone movie. · "But they initially wanted to try and repurpose that and have Morgan Freeman be in that movie as Somerset."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:36:46 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Solace ↔ Seven · lineage · New Line bought Solace and asked for a rewrite into a Se7en sequel; all three leads refused. · "can we rewrite this to make it into a 7 sequel"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:38:58 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30)] Klute ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · The speaker watched Klute because Fincher and DP Darius Khondji cited it as an inspiration for Se7en's dark look and flashlight-led framing. · "I watched Clute over the weekend because I know that both Fincher and Darius Conji, the DP, had cited that as an inspiration"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:25:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Seven ↔ Sherlock Holmes · theme · Se7en works as a Sherlock Holmes story in which the Watson figure, Mills, is a fool who hits the ceiling of his intelligence. · "here's this is a Sherlock Holmes movie in which Watson is a fucking idiot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:58:21 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Seven ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · theme · Both keep the murders off screen and are not about exploiting violence. · "And silence of the lambs is pretty similar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:59:03 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Seven ↔ The Shining · theme · Se7en, Zodiac, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs form a separate breed, nicknamed Oscar horror. · "It's almost like Oscar horror, I guess, would be the category."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:12:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ The Conjuring 2 · theme · Both give Chris the chest-tightening dread he wants, though Seven is a thriller. · "I can remember that experience they are describing of seeing that movie and kind of like my arms tightening against my chest"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:30:17 · unknown (0.30)] The Batman ↔ Seven · theme · The Riddler is a bad serial killer next to John Doe; Batman a worse detective than Mills and Somerset. · "the Riddler is a bad serial killer in the Batman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:18:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Seven ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both have a patient first hour of procedural foreplay where you pick up new details on each rewatch. · "isn't isn't that why we all like zodiac for the, like a lot of that 1st hour is the same thing where it's all foreplay"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Burn After Reading · craft · Pitt's comic-idiot characters in Burn After Reading and Killing Them Softly echo Mills, though more mature. · "those characters are just supposed to be kind of funny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:50:30 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Seven ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · craft · Both belong to the era of thrillers where the killer is found by cracking a word code or a weird clue. · "There's also that vibe of a lot of some other thrillers from this time period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:58:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ Zodiac · craft · Zodiac similarly does not show most of its murders. · "It's very similar to zodiac in that way, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 1:08:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Seven ↔ Fight Club · craft · Fincher's cigarette burn shot in Fight Club is compared to the half-second Gwyneth shot in Se7en. · "I always think of Gwyneth as like a cigarette burn a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:29:59 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Seven · craft · Despite its star, the film keeps a Se7en-like visual style. · "Because the movie still does have vaguely 7-S aesthetics."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:44:06 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Seven · craft · The opening glimpse of the bar murder is shot like the dead-body reveals in Seven. · "But this is shot like anytime they show up and see the new dead body in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:42:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Seven · contrast · Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information. · "Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:51 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ The Usual Suspects · contrast · Both were hugely influential 1995 genre movies that the Oscars largely ignored; Usual Suspects got a screenplay win while Se7en got only editing. · "Usual suspects had space to get nominated for best supporting actor, and it got nominated for best original screenplay."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:07:00 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ↔ Dead Man Walking · contrast · Those movies felt like Oscar movies while bare-knuckle genre movies made by artists did not get recognized. · "They're bare knuckle genre movies that are done by artists and those weren't really getting recognized as much back then, I don't think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 1:21:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ Copycat · contrast · Copycat, a similar thriller one month later, is fine but forgettable; Se7en persists because of the people involved. · "There was a movie that came out one month after this movie called Copycat with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Seven ↔ Zodiac · said 6 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ Fight Club · said 5 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ The Game · said 5 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ The Killer · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ The Usual Suspects · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ Alien 3 · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:36:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · Fincher was sent the unsanitized script with the head in the box instead of the softened draft, and insisted on it. · "They had sent him the unsanitized version and they meant to send him the no head version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:37:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · Fincher's argument for the head in the box: the kids-in-a-schoolyard test. · "imagine a couple kids in a schoolyard 20 years from now being like, have you ever seen this fucked up movie that ends with a woman's head in a box?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:59:32 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Se7en · fun · Rewatch fact: the sloth victim's license says he was born in 1931. · "you see that the sloth victim was born in 1931, did you notice this?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:09:53 · unknown (0.30)] Se7en · fun · Somerset goes to sleep with a metronome and loses it at the end. · "And I go to sleep with a fucking metronome."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:16:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · The gluttony actor was 380 pounds and was padded with prosthetics toward 700. · "but he said he was 380 on set and they added £300 visually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:16:53 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · The gluttony victim was covered in real cockroaches. · "They covered him in real cockroaches."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[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 Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:04 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Falling Down · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Falling Down fascist among Douglas's friction. · "he stole the fascist from falling down."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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
[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] 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] Mike Mitchell · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · Saw Se7en on VHS at about 13 and loved the dark side; thinks Fight Club and The Social Network are more hopeless. Likes Pitt's performance the most in Se7en. Likes the look and the Gravity Kills song. · stances: Fight Club is more hopeless than Se7en; Se7en is less shocking now because everyone borrowed from it; The look is beautiful

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 Seven (1995) 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 Seven (1995) 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 · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Seven ⇒ 8mm (the host's read) · lineage · Calls 8mm Schumacher ripping off Se7en. · "8 millimeter is Schumacher ripping off seven."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:15:39 · Mike Mitchell (0.50)] Seven ⇒ later crime thrillers and crime TV (unnamed) (the host's read) · lineage · As an adult the speaker is less shocked by Se7en because everyone since took a page out of its book. · "I'm not as shocked by 7 because everyone took a page out of its book, of course."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:35:45 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Seven ↔ Eight Millimeter · lineage · New Line tried to repurpose Walker's 8MM script as a Se7en follow-up with Morgan Freeman as Somerset; it was made later as a stand-alone movie. · "But they initially wanted to try and repurpose that and have Morgan Freeman be in that movie as Somerset."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:36:46 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Solace ↔ Seven · lineage · New Line bought Solace and asked for a rewrite into a Se7en sequel; all three leads refused. · "can we rewrite this to make it into a 7 sequel"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 2:38:58 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30)] Klute ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · The speaker watched Klute because Fincher and DP Darius Khondji cited it as an inspiration for Se7en's dark look and flashlight-led framing. · "I watched Clute over the weekend because I know that both Fincher and Darius Conji, the DP, had cited that as an inspiration"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:25:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Seven ↔ Sherlock Holmes · theme · Se7en works as a Sherlock Holmes story in which the Watson figure, Mills, is a fool who hits the ceiling of his intelligence. · "here's this is a Sherlock Holmes movie in which Watson is a fucking idiot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:58:21 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Seven ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · theme · Both keep the murders off screen and are not about exploiting violence. · "And silence of the lambs is pretty similar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:59:03 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Seven ↔ The Shining · theme · Se7en, Zodiac, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs form a separate breed, nicknamed Oscar horror. · "It's almost like Oscar horror, I guess, would be the category."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:12:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ The Conjuring 2 · theme · Both give Chris the chest-tightening dread he wants, though Seven is a thriller. · "I can remember that experience they are describing of seeing that movie and kind of like my arms tightening against my chest"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:30:17 · unknown (0.30)] The Batman ↔ Seven · theme · The Riddler is a bad serial killer next to John Doe; Batman a worse detective than Mills and Somerset. · "the Riddler is a bad serial killer in the Batman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:18:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Seven ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both have a patient first hour of procedural foreplay where you pick up new details on each rewatch. · "isn't isn't that why we all like zodiac for the, like a lot of that 1st hour is the same thing where it's all foreplay"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Burn After Reading · craft · Pitt's comic-idiot characters in Burn After Reading and Killing Them Softly echo Mills, though more mature. · "those characters are just supposed to be kind of funny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:50:30 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Seven ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · craft · Both belong to the era of thrillers where the killer is found by cracking a word code or a weird clue. · "There's also that vibe of a lot of some other thrillers from this time period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:58:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ Zodiac · craft · Zodiac similarly does not show most of its murders. · "It's very similar to zodiac in that way, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 1:08:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Seven ↔ Fight Club · craft · Fincher's cigarette burn shot in Fight Club is compared to the half-second Gwyneth shot in Se7en. · "I always think of Gwyneth as like a cigarette burn a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:29:59 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Seven · craft · Despite its star, the film keeps a Se7en-like visual style. · "Because the movie still does have vaguely 7-S aesthetics."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:44:06 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Seven · craft · The opening glimpse of the bar murder is shot like the dead-body reveals in Seven. · "But this is shot like anytime they show up and see the new dead body in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:42:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Seven · contrast · Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information. · "Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:51 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ The Usual Suspects · contrast · Both were hugely influential 1995 genre movies that the Oscars largely ignored; Usual Suspects got a screenplay win while Se7en got only editing. · "Usual suspects had space to get nominated for best supporting actor, and it got nominated for best original screenplay."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:07:00 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ↔ Dead Man Walking · contrast · Those movies felt like Oscar movies while bare-knuckle genre movies made by artists did not get recognized. · "They're bare knuckle genre movies that are done by artists and those weren't really getting recognized as much back then, I don't think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 1:21:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ Copycat · contrast · Copycat, a similar thriller one month later, is fine but forgettable; Se7en persists because of the people involved. · "There was a movie that came out one month after this movie called Copycat with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter."
[pairs] Seven ↔ Zodiac · said 6 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ Fight Club · said 5 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ The Game · said 5 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ The Killer · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ The Usual Suspects · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Seven ↔ Alien 3 · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:36:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · Fincher was sent the unsanitized script with the head in the box instead of the softened draft, and insisted on it. · "They had sent him the unsanitized version and they meant to send him the no head version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:37:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · Fincher's argument for the head in the box: the kids-in-a-schoolyard test. · "imagine a couple kids in a schoolyard 20 years from now being like, have you ever seen this fucked up movie that ends with a woman's head in a box?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:59:32 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Se7en · fun · Rewatch fact: the sloth victim's license says he was born in 1931. · "you see that the sloth victim was born in 1931, did you notice this?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:09:53 · unknown (0.30)] Se7en · fun · Somerset goes to sleep with a metronome and loses it at the end. · "And I go to sleep with a fucking metronome."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:16:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · The gluttony actor was 380 pounds and was padded with prosthetics toward 700. · "but he said he was 380 on set and they added £300 visually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 1:16:53 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] Se7en · fun · The gluttony victim was covered in real cockroaches. · "They covered him in real cockroaches."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[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 Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:04 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Falling Down · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Falling Down fascist among Douglas's friction. · "he stole the fascist from falling down."
[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
[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] 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] Mike Mitchell · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · Saw Se7en on VHS at about 13 and loved the dark side; thinks Fight Club and The Social Network are more hopeless. Likes Pitt's performance the most in Se7en. Likes the look and the Gravity Kills song. · stances: Fight Club is more hopeless than Se7en; Se7en is less shocking now because everyone borrowed from it; The look is beautiful
[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 Seven (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Seven (1995) 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.