What the corpus says about Taken (2008)

The 49 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 (23)

[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:07:29 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ The Equalizer (the host's read) · lineage · Taken's box office started a subgenre of an older star beating up younger bad guys, and The Equalizer is the first example. · "There's a whole subgenre of movies after taking exploded at the box office where everybody's like, oh, shoot, we just have to get an old person and let them fight young people"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:07:45 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ John Wick (the host's read) · lineage · John Wick may belong to the subgenre Taken started, though Wick is a more elaborate 5 o'clocker. · "Probably even John Wick, maybe."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:18:47 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ Kidnap (the host's read) · lineage · Kidnap is another of the movies stemming from Taken. · "Kidnap is another one of the stemmed off of taken movies, so it's funny that you mentioned it."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:42:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 3 · lineage · Taken 3 is conceded as horrific. · "let's concede that taken 3 was horrific"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:43:16 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 2 · lineage · The first film works because there is no main villain and Neeson figures it out as we watch; Taken 2 gives him a known enemy. · "I like Liam Neeson figuring it out. I don't like him being pitted in a spot where we know exactly what he has to do."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Grey ↔ Taken · theme · Neeson's later action films each fit the five-words-or-less 5 o'clocker test: The Grey, Non-Stop, The Commuter. · "Liam Neeson wilderness wolves."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:45:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken ↔ Training Day · theme · Bad guys playing cards at the hideout is a staple, as in Training Day, which was even more intense. · "this happened in training day as well, and training day was even more intense"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:52:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Taken · theme · Toddlers are like cars without brakes, as in Furious 7 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. · "in fact, in Furious seven. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in that car are jumping across buildings because there's no breaks in it."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:06:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Taken ↔ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom · theme · Both stage the illicit auction downstairs while the party continues upstairs. · "They do the same thing in the Fallen Kingdom, the New Jurassic World movie. There's like a dinosaur auction."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:18:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Taken ↔ Kidnap · contrast · Halle Berry's frantic-parent chase is more realistic than Neeson taking out 35 Albanians. · "I think that's a more realistic look for me than taking out 35 Albanians."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:11:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ First Blood · people · Both worked because the actor had not done this kind of role before, so it felt like a genuine surprise. · "I think with Liam Neeson, it's the same thing. Where it's just like, he's, this was a guy who was in like Woody Allen movies."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:06:57 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ↔ Braven · industry · Braven is a solid modern 5 o'clocker, and streaming services may make many more Taken-style movies. · "I feel like the 5 o'clocker is back."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:07:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ To All the Boys I've Loved Before · industry · Netflix revives mid-budget genres theaters stopped making, such as rom-coms, and could do the same for Taken-style action. · "what if we get a string of taken style movies on Netflix?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] John Wick ↔ Taken · same type · John Wick is called an elaborate 5 o'clocker with more moving pieces than Taken. · "Uh, is an elaborate 5 o'clock or. There's actually some moving pieces in that, and you can't totally shut your brain off."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:31:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · surprising detail · Taken's line about forgetting the weight of a gun is the kind of never-seen-before detail, like Beverly Hills Cop's gum wrapper trick. · "Remember in Beverly Hills cop when they break in the house and he uses the gum wrapper to like disarm the center on the window."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:58:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Alive ↔ Taken · overacting · Simmons's overacting category is nearly named after a guy in Alive, prompted by the sex club manager's performance in Taken. · "there's an overacting guy in that, that was like the quintessential. I almost want to name the category after him."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:04:53 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ John Wick · worldbuilding · Both drop the viewer into a hidden criminal world with only hints, and it works because they do not over-explain. · "they just dropped you into this world, and they give you little hints of other parts of it, so you know, or you assume that these things exist, but they don't ever go into explaining anything."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:26:38 · John Hodgman (0.50)] Pierre Morel ↔ Taken · career · After Berg dropped out, the Dune script went to Pierre Morel, the Taken director. · "and the script was taken to Pierre Morel, who is the guy who made taken."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] Taken ↔ Liam Neeson · career · Taken is offered as another late-career 'I still got it' peak, with John Wick for Keanu Reeves. · "Liam Neeson and Taken would be a good one for you."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:37:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Luc Besson ↔ Taken · people · U2 as the band that two teenagers would lie for is blamed on the writers, Besson and someone else, who had no feel for kids. · "It was written by Luke Bassan and somebody else, who clearly didn't have a feel for what little kids like."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:57:06 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Steve Buscemi ↔ Taken · people · Both hosts independently put Buscemi as the manager of the sex trafficking auction. · "I think Steve could have been the guy on charge of the in charge of the auction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 2:03:46 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Pierre Morel ↔ Taken · people · Morel made the first Taken, From Paris with Love, and Peppermint. · "Pierre Morell, who made the 1st taken and then like from Paris with Love and Peppermint."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Taken ↔ John Wick · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Taken ↔ Kidnap · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:03:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Taken · fun · Simmons's dad, a school superintendent near Boston, called action movies a 5 o'clocker: the 5 o'clock showing he caught on the way home to turn his brain off. Taken is called the quintessential 5 o'clocker. · "I would say taken is the quintessential 5 o'clocker."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:13:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken · fun · Simmons remembers the trailer, which was nearly the whole phone speech, airing between the second and third quarter of a Texans-Pats game. He asked: what is this, where can I see this. · "you're like what? What is this? Where can I see this?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:14:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken · fun · The perfect 5 o'clocker can be described in five words or less: Liam Neeson, daughter gets taken. Neeson's later films do the same: wilderness wolves, airplane, train conspiracy. · "I love action movies where you can describe the plot in 5 words or less."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:26:17 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Taken · fun · Hiding under the bed has a success rate of zero in movies. Simmons's only winning case: his youngest grabbed him by the ankle from under a low IKEA bed during hide and seek. · "it just seems like going under the bed has a success rate of zero."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:28:38 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken · fun · Rewatchable scene list: Kimmy gets taken, the phone call, the apartment of bad guys, the underpaid bad guy, dinner at Jean-Claude's, the ending. Serrano's pick flipped over time from the phone call to dinner. · "It is Brian shows up to Jean-Claude's house for dinner, is not only my favorite scene in this movie, but is one of the greatest cable scenes of all time."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:30:02 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken · fun · At dinner Neeson shoots Jean-Claude's wife in the arm because Jean-Claude forgot the weight of a gun (it is empty), then says relax, it's a flesh wound. · "Relax, it's a flesh wound."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (13)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:31 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ⇒ Polar (the host's read) · lineage · Polar is a John Wick ripoff. · "Polar is a John Wick ripoff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 1:04:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ John Wick · theme · The Killer is the more realistic version of John Wick. · "It's like the more realistic version of John Wick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ John Wick · theme · John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism. · "I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ John Wick · craft · Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth. · "John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:59:20 · David Ehrlich (0.40)] Chad Stahelski ↔ John Wick · craft · The Stahelski and Leitch school of action wants you to see the whole stunt, the whole fight. · "I like that because, right, again, they want you to see the whole stunt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[speaker] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Taken (2008) 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 Taken (2008) 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 · 'Taken' · 0:07:29 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ The Equalizer (the host's read) · lineage · Taken's box office started a subgenre of an older star beating up younger bad guys, and The Equalizer is the first example. · "There's a whole subgenre of movies after taking exploded at the box office where everybody's like, oh, shoot, we just have to get an old person and let them fight young people"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:07:45 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ John Wick (the host's read) · lineage · John Wick may belong to the subgenre Taken started, though Wick is a more elaborate 5 o'clocker. · "Probably even John Wick, maybe."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:18:47 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ⇒ Kidnap (the host's read) · lineage · Kidnap is another of the movies stemming from Taken. · "Kidnap is another one of the stemmed off of taken movies, so it's funny that you mentioned it."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:42:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 3 · lineage · Taken 3 is conceded as horrific. · "let's concede that taken 3 was horrific"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:43:16 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ Taken 2 · lineage · The first film works because there is no main villain and Neeson figures it out as we watch; Taken 2 gives him a known enemy. · "I like Liam Neeson figuring it out. I don't like him being pitted in a spot where we know exactly what he has to do."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Grey ↔ Taken · theme · Neeson's later action films each fit the five-words-or-less 5 o'clocker test: The Grey, Non-Stop, The Commuter. · "Liam Neeson wilderness wolves."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:45:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken ↔ Training Day · theme · Bad guys playing cards at the hideout is a staple, as in Training Day, which was even more intense. · "this happened in training day as well, and training day was even more intense"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:52:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Taken · theme · Toddlers are like cars without brakes, as in Furious 7 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. · "in fact, in Furious seven. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in that car are jumping across buildings because there's no breaks in it."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:06:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Taken ↔ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom · theme · Both stage the illicit auction downstairs while the party continues upstairs. · "They do the same thing in the Fallen Kingdom, the New Jurassic World movie. There's like a dinosaur auction."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:18:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Taken ↔ Kidnap · contrast · Halle Berry's frantic-parent chase is more realistic than Neeson taking out 35 Albanians. · "I think that's a more realistic look for me than taking out 35 Albanians."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:11:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ First Blood · people · Both worked because the actor had not done this kind of role before, so it felt like a genuine surprise. · "I think with Liam Neeson, it's the same thing. Where it's just like, he's, this was a guy who was in like Woody Allen movies."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:06:57 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Taken ↔ Braven · industry · Braven is a solid modern 5 o'clocker, and streaming services may make many more Taken-style movies. · "I feel like the 5 o'clocker is back."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:07:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ To All the Boys I've Loved Before · industry · Netflix revives mid-budget genres theaters stopped making, such as rom-coms, and could do the same for Taken-style action. · "what if we get a string of taken style movies on Netflix?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] John Wick ↔ Taken · same type · John Wick is called an elaborate 5 o'clocker with more moving pieces than Taken. · "Uh, is an elaborate 5 o'clock or. There's actually some moving pieces in that, and you can't totally shut your brain off."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:31:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · surprising detail · Taken's line about forgetting the weight of a gun is the kind of never-seen-before detail, like Beverly Hills Cop's gum wrapper trick. · "Remember in Beverly Hills cop when they break in the house and he uses the gum wrapper to like disarm the center on the window."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:58:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Alive ↔ Taken · overacting · Simmons's overacting category is nearly named after a guy in Alive, prompted by the sex club manager's performance in Taken. · "there's an overacting guy in that, that was like the quintessential. I almost want to name the category after him."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 1:04:53 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken ↔ John Wick · worldbuilding · Both drop the viewer into a hidden criminal world with only hints, and it works because they do not over-explain. · "they just dropped you into this world, and they give you little hints of other parts of it, so you know, or you assume that these things exist, but they don't ever go into explaining anything."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:26:38 · John Hodgman (0.50)] Pierre Morel ↔ Taken · career · After Berg dropped out, the Dune script went to Pierre Morel, the Taken director. · "and the script was taken to Pierre Morel, who is the guy who made taken."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] Taken ↔ Liam Neeson · career · Taken is offered as another late-career 'I still got it' peak, with John Wick for Keanu Reeves. · "Liam Neeson and Taken would be a good one for you."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:37:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Luc Besson ↔ Taken · people · U2 as the band that two teenagers would lie for is blamed on the writers, Besson and someone else, who had no feel for kids. · "It was written by Luke Bassan and somebody else, who clearly didn't have a feel for what little kids like."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:57:06 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Steve Buscemi ↔ Taken · people · Both hosts independently put Buscemi as the manager of the sex trafficking auction. · "I think Steve could have been the guy on charge of the in charge of the auction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 2:03:46 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Pierre Morel ↔ Taken · people · Morel made the first Taken, From Paris with Love, and Peppermint. · "Pierre Morell, who made the 1st taken and then like from Paris with Love and Peppermint."
[pairs] Taken ↔ John Wick · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Taken ↔ Kidnap · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:03:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Taken · fun · Simmons's dad, a school superintendent near Boston, called action movies a 5 o'clocker: the 5 o'clock showing he caught on the way home to turn his brain off. Taken is called the quintessential 5 o'clocker. · "I would say taken is the quintessential 5 o'clocker."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:13:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Taken · fun · Simmons remembers the trailer, which was nearly the whole phone speech, airing between the second and third quarter of a Texans-Pats game. He asked: what is this, where can I see this. · "you're like what? What is this? Where can I see this?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:14:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Taken · fun · The perfect 5 o'clocker can be described in five words or less: Liam Neeson, daughter gets taken. Neeson's later films do the same: wilderness wolves, airplane, train conspiracy. · "I love action movies where you can describe the plot in 5 words or less."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:26:17 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Taken · fun · Hiding under the bed has a success rate of zero in movies. Simmons's only winning case: his youngest grabbed him by the ankle from under a low IKEA bed during hide and seek. · "it just seems like going under the bed has a success rate of zero."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:28:38 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken · fun · Rewatchable scene list: Kimmy gets taken, the phone call, the apartment of bad guys, the underpaid bad guy, dinner at Jean-Claude's, the ending. Serrano's pick flipped over time from the phone call to dinner. · "It is Brian shows up to Jean-Claude's house for dinner, is not only my favorite scene in this movie, but is one of the greatest cable scenes of all time."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:30:02 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Taken · fun · At dinner Neeson shoots Jean-Claude's wife in the arm because Jean-Claude forgot the weight of a gun (it is empty), then says relax, it's a flesh wound. · "Relax, it's a flesh wound."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:31 · unknown (0.40)] John Wick ⇒ Polar (the host's read) · lineage · Polar is a John Wick ripoff. · "Polar is a John Wick ripoff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 1:04:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ John Wick · theme · The Killer is the more realistic version of John Wick. · "It's like the more realistic version of John Wick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ John Wick · theme · John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism. · "I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ John Wick · craft · Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth. · "John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:59:20 · David Ehrlich (0.40)] Chad Stahelski ↔ John Wick · craft · The Stahelski and Leitch school of action wants you to see the whole stunt, the whole fight. · "I like that because, right, again, they want you to see the whole stunt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."
[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] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[speaker] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly
[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 Taken (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Taken (2008) 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.