What the corpus says about Good Will Hunting (1997)

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What was said about it (9)

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Good Will Hunting · theme · Peter Brand is like the wizard of math everyone is waiting to have his big moment. · "I thought a lot about Goodwill hunting, watching this movie the 2nd time, you know, like the wizard who just kind of needs to tap into everything and all the math"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:15:32 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Good Will Hunting · contrast · Hates movies that end on a car driving away; Good Will Hunting is the lazy example, but Vinny's car ending works. · "I don't love a movie that ends with a shot of anybody doing anything in a car."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Titanic · contrast · The era's teenage-girl default was Titanic 50 times; Amanda was drawn to Good Will Hunting instead. · "one way to express yourself as a teenage girl was to like go to Titanic 50 times"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:48:09 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Good Will Hunting · verdict · A host would have given the Oscar to Damon; another recalls Nicholson more. · "I love Matt Damon, but I remember Jack Nicholson's performance a lot more."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] F1 ↔ Good Will Hunting · verdict · Williams to Damon on the bench ranks first on the old-guy-schooling-young-guy list. · "The best old guy schooling young guy scene ever to me is Robin Williams to Matt Damon on the bench."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:15:01 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] What About Bob? ↔ Good Will Hunting · therapist movies · Bill's therapist Mount Rushmore includes both, along with Analyze This and Ordinary People. · "Movies that had to include a therapist used in some profound way in the actual plot."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Matt Damon · programming · Good Will Hunting plus its Damon/Affleck/Williams Oscar campaign started Amanda's interest in the stories around movies. · "I think the 1st time I was aware of all of that was Goodwill Hunting"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:20:25 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Sylvester Stallone ↔ Good Will Hunting · what-if · Asked whether Damon and Affleck's Good Will Hunting is the same make-your-own-movie story; the difference is they'd been in movies already. · "Would Good Wolf Hunting be in the same mode of a movie where the guys just went, fuck it, we're going to make our own movie and explodes?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:30:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Matt Damon ↔ Good Will Hunting · Boston accent · Damon is the best Boston accent in the cast, going back to Good Will Hunting. · "Goodwill hunting, the part is the best."

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting · fun · Amanda videotaped the Oprah episode where Damon and Affleck talked about the Minnie Driver breakup. · "I videotaped the Oprah episode that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were on"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (35)

[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Easy Money · programming · Pesci-related double feature with the Rodney Dangerfield movie Easy Money. · "The other one I was thinking was that movie he made with Rodney Dangerfield."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Paper · programming · The Paper is another good Marisa Tomei double feature. · "Yeah, the paper is a good one."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ A Time to Kill · programming · Part of Courtroom Month; they also talked about jury selection in A Time to Kill. · "We talked on a time to go about how much we like jury selection."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Hoosiers · lineage · Courtroom movies are sports movies, and this one becomes Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes. · "it becomes basically Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Preston Sturges · lineage · Screwball in conception but not in execution. · "it's almost like Preston Sturgis, where it's just like, it's kind of screwball and its conception."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:08:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Three's Company ⇒ My Cousin Vinny (the host's read) · lineage · Built on the misunderstanding-sitcom gags of that era; Friends was the last to dive into it. · "it's still the legacy of that 3s company era of misunderstandings that could be entire episode."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:25:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ I'm No Angel · lineage · Early legal comedy: Mae West cross-examines her own maid. · "I think at some point she cross-examines her own maid"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] 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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito

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

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 Good Will Hunting (1997) 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 Good Will Hunting (1997) 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 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Good Will Hunting · theme · Peter Brand is like the wizard of math everyone is waiting to have his big moment. · "I thought a lot about Goodwill hunting, watching this movie the 2nd time, you know, like the wizard who just kind of needs to tap into everything and all the math"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:15:32 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Good Will Hunting · contrast · Hates movies that end on a car driving away; Good Will Hunting is the lazy example, but Vinny's car ending works. · "I don't love a movie that ends with a shot of anybody doing anything in a car."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Titanic · contrast · The era's teenage-girl default was Titanic 50 times; Amanda was drawn to Good Will Hunting instead. · "one way to express yourself as a teenage girl was to like go to Titanic 50 times"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:48:09 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Good Will Hunting · verdict · A host would have given the Oscar to Damon; another recalls Nicholson more. · "I love Matt Damon, but I remember Jack Nicholson's performance a lot more."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] F1 ↔ Good Will Hunting · verdict · Williams to Damon on the bench ranks first on the old-guy-schooling-young-guy list. · "The best old guy schooling young guy scene ever to me is Robin Williams to Matt Damon on the bench."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:15:01 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] What About Bob? ↔ Good Will Hunting · therapist movies · Bill's therapist Mount Rushmore includes both, along with Analyze This and Ordinary People. · "Movies that had to include a therapist used in some profound way in the actual plot."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Matt Damon · programming · Good Will Hunting plus its Damon/Affleck/Williams Oscar campaign started Amanda's interest in the stories around movies. · "I think the 1st time I was aware of all of that was Goodwill Hunting"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:20:25 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Sylvester Stallone ↔ Good Will Hunting · what-if · Asked whether Damon and Affleck's Good Will Hunting is the same make-your-own-movie story; the difference is they'd been in movies already. · "Would Good Wolf Hunting be in the same mode of a movie where the guys just went, fuck it, we're going to make our own movie and explodes?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:30:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Matt Damon ↔ Good Will Hunting · Boston accent · Damon is the best Boston accent in the cast, going back to Good Will Hunting. · "Goodwill hunting, the part is the best."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting · fun · Amanda videotaped the Oprah episode where Damon and Affleck talked about the Minnie Driver breakup. · "I videotaped the Oprah episode that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were on"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Easy Money · programming · Pesci-related double feature with the Rodney Dangerfield movie Easy Money. · "The other one I was thinking was that movie he made with Rodney Dangerfield."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Paper · programming · The Paper is another good Marisa Tomei double feature. · "Yeah, the paper is a good one."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ A Time to Kill · programming · Part of Courtroom Month; they also talked about jury selection in A Time to Kill. · "We talked on a time to go about how much we like jury selection."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Hoosiers · lineage · Courtroom movies are sports movies, and this one becomes Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes. · "it becomes basically Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Preston Sturges · lineage · Screwball in conception but not in execution. · "it's almost like Preston Sturgis, where it's just like, it's kind of screwball and its conception."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:08:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Three's Company ⇒ My Cousin Vinny (the host's read) · lineage · Built on the misunderstanding-sitcom gags of that era; Friends was the last to dive into it. · "it's still the legacy of that 3s company era of misunderstandings that could be entire episode."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:25:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ I'm No Angel · lineage · Early legal comedy: Mae West cross-examines her own maid. · "I think at some point she cross-examines her own maid"
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] 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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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 Good Will Hunting (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Good Will Hunting (1997) 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.