What the corpus says about Training Day (2001)

The 46 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 (9)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:16:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Internal Affairs · contrast · Training Day knows it is a different prism on dirty cops, while Internal Affairs treats a dirty cop as fun to watch. · "Yeah, training day is in a completely different prism and it knows that this movie is kind of like, ah, it's fun to watch Richard Gere be a dirty cop."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:57:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Gladiator II · people · A colleague called Gladiator II a prequel to Training Day. · "Adam called this a prequel to training day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 1:08:00 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Seven ↔ Training Day · industry · The diner where Somerset meets Tracy is the same Quality Coffee Shop used in Training Day. · "It is the quality coffee shop in downtown LA."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:32:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Training Day · craft · Peck's power-move needling about the wife echoes Alonzo's needling of Jake in Training Day. · "You know how, like, in training day, like, when Alonso asked, what's Ethan?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:04:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ethan Hawke ↔ Training Day · career · Hawke's real apex is Training Day, which gave him any career opportunity he wanted. · "he does training day and all of a sudden he can make any career opportunity he wants."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:57:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Denzel Washington ↔ Training Day · career · Macrinus is a rare outlandish, fun-having role for Denzel, with Alonzo in Training Day the nearest earlier cousin. · "You could say like Alonzo a little bit in training day is this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:10:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Denzel Washington ↔ Training Day · what-if · Denzel as Peck in 1990 would be a different movie, essentially Training Day. · "it's called training day."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Training Day ↔ Internal Affairs · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · programming · Gladiator II's CGI baboons made it feel like being dumped into Wicked. · "I actually felt like we got dumped into Wicked or something, you know?"
[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 · '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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[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 · '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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[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 · '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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:47:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Conclave · theme · Both films feel resonant with the election cycle without mapping neatly. · "the same way that conclave, which is like so heavily leaning into like, hey, isn't this just like this election cycle?"
[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"
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:09:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ Anora · theme · Anora's idea that there is no dream undercuts Macrinus's rise from nothing to the top. · "one of the key ideas of Anora is like, There is no dream."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
[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?"
[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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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

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 Training Day (2001) 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 Training Day (2001) 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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:16:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Internal Affairs · contrast · Training Day knows it is a different prism on dirty cops, while Internal Affairs treats a dirty cop as fun to watch. · "Yeah, training day is in a completely different prism and it knows that this movie is kind of like, ah, it's fun to watch Richard Gere be a dirty cop."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:57:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Gladiator II · people · A colleague called Gladiator II a prequel to Training Day. · "Adam called this a prequel to training day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 1:08:00 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Seven ↔ Training Day · industry · The diner where Somerset meets Tracy is the same Quality Coffee Shop used in Training Day. · "It is the quality coffee shop in downtown LA."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:32:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Training Day · craft · Peck's power-move needling about the wife echoes Alonzo's needling of Jake in Training Day. · "You know how, like, in training day, like, when Alonso asked, what's Ethan?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:04:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ethan Hawke ↔ Training Day · career · Hawke's real apex is Training Day, which gave him any career opportunity he wanted. · "he does training day and all of a sudden he can make any career opportunity he wants."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:57:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Denzel Washington ↔ Training Day · career · Macrinus is a rare outlandish, fun-having role for Denzel, with Alonzo in Training Day the nearest earlier cousin. · "You could say like Alonzo a little bit in training day is this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:10:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Denzel Washington ↔ Training Day · what-if · Denzel as Peck in 1990 would be a different movie, essentially Training Day. · "it's called training day."
[pairs] Training Day ↔ Internal Affairs · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · programming · Gladiator II's CGI baboons made it feel like being dumped into Wicked. · "I actually felt like we got dumped into Wicked or something, you know?"
[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 · '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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[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 · '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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[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 · '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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:47:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Conclave · theme · Both films feel resonant with the election cycle without mapping neatly. · "the same way that conclave, which is like so heavily leaning into like, hey, isn't this just like this election cycle?"
[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"
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:09:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ Anora · theme · Anora's idea that there is no dream undercuts Macrinus's rise from nothing to the top. · "one of the key ideas of Anora is like, There is no dream."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
[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?"
[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."
[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] 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
[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 Training Day (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Training Day (2001) 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.