What the corpus says about Furious 7 (2015)

The 38 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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:17:53 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ⇒ The Fate of the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · Fate and F9 lean on Furious 7's ending in vain with passing references to Brian. · "And they try and lean on it a little bit in the fate of the furious."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:15:53 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Fast and Furious 6 ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Letty-Gina fight in 6 and Letty-Ronda Rousey fight in 7 named as the two best fights. · "she's given us the 2 best fights."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Amanda defends Fast Five over Furious 7 by the Rio safe-drag set piece. · "Like they took the safe out of the wall and then they just dragged it through the city and then they switched it to another safe."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Fast Five · contrast · Shea argues Furious 7 beats Fast Five on emotion; Amanda says Fast Five opens up all the possibility. · "But like fast 5 is that it opens up all the possibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · verdict · Amanda's personal order puts Fast Five first, and she ranks Furious 7 third. · "I obviously am putting Fast 5 at number one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:20 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ↔ The Fast and the Furious · verdict · Shea ranks Furious 7 over Fast Five; both below the original. · "I'm too mad that Amanda put Furious 7 and 3rd."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:52 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Furious 7 ↔ Wiz Khalifa · craft · A Wiz Khalifa song carries the Paul Walker send-off ending, enough to make the speaker cry in the theater. · "I can't, I'm crying to a whiz Khalifa song in the movie theater, like, what? That's how special this movie is."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:37 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ↔ Paul Walker · people · Shea calls Furious 7 the perfect send-off for Paul Walker and says theaters wept. · "It's the perfect sendoff for Paul Walker."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Furious 7 ↔ Fast Five · said 3 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (23)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[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 · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:54:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Fate of the Furious · craft · The London flat where Thor and Jane land looks like the penthouse where the Fast & Furious gang drinks Budweisers at the end of Fate. · "It sort of looks like the flat where they Fast and Furious gang gathers at the end of fate."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:08:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Roger Corman film ⇒ The Fast and the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · The first film borrowed its title from a 1960s Corman exploitation movie. · "it borrowed its title from a somewhat well-known Roger Corman exploitation movie from the 1960s"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:45:16 · unknown (0.40)] Steven Seagal ↔ The Fast and the Furious · theme · Seagal and Vin Diesel never lose fights, which fits the ego-stroke category. · "Vin Diesel is a good one, though."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:34:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Hobbs & Shaw ↔ Fast Five · theme · Sean expects the franchise to become expansion titles because Statham and Diesel do not want to make movies together. · "clearly Jason Statham and Vin Diesel don't necessarily want to make a lot of movies together"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:06:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Fast Five · craft · Both are ensemble movies where everyone shines, setups pay off, and every moment is fun. · "here's a big ensemble cast. everyone shines, everything that's set up is paid off, elegantly, and every moment is fun."
[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"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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

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 Furious 7 (2015) 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 Furious 7 (2015) 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 · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:17:53 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ⇒ The Fate of the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · Fate and F9 lean on Furious 7's ending in vain with passing references to Brian. · "And they try and lean on it a little bit in the fate of the furious."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:15:53 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Fast and Furious 6 ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Letty-Gina fight in 6 and Letty-Ronda Rousey fight in 7 named as the two best fights. · "she's given us the 2 best fights."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Amanda defends Fast Five over Furious 7 by the Rio safe-drag set piece. · "Like they took the safe out of the wall and then they just dragged it through the city and then they switched it to another safe."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Furious 7 ↔ Fast Five · contrast · Shea argues Furious 7 beats Fast Five on emotion; Amanda says Fast Five opens up all the possibility. · "But like fast 5 is that it opens up all the possibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · verdict · Amanda's personal order puts Fast Five first, and she ranks Furious 7 third. · "I obviously am putting Fast 5 at number one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:20 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ↔ The Fast and the Furious · verdict · Shea ranks Furious 7 over Fast Five; both below the original. · "I'm too mad that Amanda put Furious 7 and 3rd."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:52 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Furious 7 ↔ Wiz Khalifa · craft · A Wiz Khalifa song carries the Paul Walker send-off ending, enough to make the speaker cry in the theater. · "I can't, I'm crying to a whiz Khalifa song in the movie theater, like, what? That's how special this movie is."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:31:37 · Shea Serrano (0.85)] Furious 7 ↔ Paul Walker · people · Shea calls Furious 7 the perfect send-off for Paul Walker and says theaters wept. · "It's the perfect sendoff for Paul Walker."
[pairs] Furious 7 ↔ Fast Five · said 3 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[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 · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:54:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Fate of the Furious · craft · The London flat where Thor and Jane land looks like the penthouse where the Fast & Furious gang drinks Budweisers at the end of Fate. · "It sort of looks like the flat where they Fast and Furious gang gathers at the end of fate."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:08:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Roger Corman film ⇒ The Fast and the Furious (the host's read) · lineage · The first film borrowed its title from a 1960s Corman exploitation movie. · "it borrowed its title from a somewhat well-known Roger Corman exploitation movie from the 1960s"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:45:16 · unknown (0.40)] Steven Seagal ↔ The Fast and the Furious · theme · Seagal and Vin Diesel never lose fights, which fits the ego-stroke category. · "Vin Diesel is a good one, though."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:34:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Hobbs & Shaw ↔ Fast Five · theme · Sean expects the franchise to become expansion titles because Statham and Diesel do not want to make movies together. · "clearly Jason Statham and Vin Diesel don't necessarily want to make a lot of movies together"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:06:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Fast Five · craft · Both are ensemble movies where everyone shines, setups pay off, and every moment is fun. · "here's a big ensemble cast. everyone shines, everything that's set up is paid off, elegantly, and every moment is fun."
[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"
[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] 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
[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 Furious 7 (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Furious 7 (2015) 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.