What the corpus says about Platoon (1986)

The 41 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 (13)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Platoon ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real. · "Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same."
  2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:16:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Running on Empty ↔ Platoon · contrast · It was not a reckoning with combat horrors like Platoon. · "Nor was it a reckoning with the horrors of combat, like Platoon."
  3. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:39:54 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Heaven & Earth ↔ Platoon · contrast · Hayslip handed out flyers outside Platoon asking about the Vietnamese dead. · "Flyers that posed a tough question to the Americans heading in and out of platoon."
  4. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:34:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ Platoon · career · Wall Street, a year after Platoon, indicated Oliver Stone's later movies would become Wall Street. · "It's a it's a little bit of an indication of where things are going to go prematurely in his career."
  5. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:52:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Platoon · people · Keith David appears in both: Kirby in Dead Presidents is played by Platoon's Keith David. · "Kirby, a Korean war vet played by platoons Keith David"
  6. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:26:08 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Platoon · verdict · Born did not reach Platoon's cultural heights but was still a hit and won Stone a second directing Oscar. · "Even though it didn't reach the cultural heights of platoon, it was a hit in its own right"
  7. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:41:13 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Heaven & Earth ↔ Platoon · industry · Heaven & Earth got more than three times Platoon's budget because of Stone's clout. · "More than 3 times what he had for Platoon."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:51:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Platoon · same year · Oscar year 1986 pairs Platoon with Ferris, and Platoon's nominees are listed alongside the 1986 supporting actor race. · "Lucas, Ferris Bueller, Platoon. Iconic one year."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:26:59 · David Sims (0.60)] Platoon ↔ Casualties of War · same cycle · Platoon begins a late-80s cycle of Vietnam films that show the war as foolish and bleak. · "Like there's that this whole realm of late 80s movies about Vietnam"
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:31:06 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Berenger ↔ Platoon · career · Berenger's apex mountain is Platoon. · "Probably platoon, right?"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:51:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Charlie Sheen ↔ Platoon · career · Sheen goes from a bit part in Ferris to A-list in Platoon, then Wall Street. · "He's the guy who is in a bit part in Ferris Bueller to all of a sudden he's an A-list star in Platoon"
  12. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:03:48 · Jamelle Bouie (0.50)] Willem Dafoe ↔ Platoon · people · Scorsese saw Dafoe's sensitive, spiritual-yet-scary Platoon role and thought of Jesus. · "My understanding is that Scorsese had seen him in Platoon, where he plays a very sensitive..."
  13. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:23:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forest Whitaker ↔ Platoon · re-emergence year · 1986 was Whitaker's re-emergence, working with Scorsese and Oliver Stone after pulling out of auditions to study acting. · "He gets a couple parts early on and he's like, I don't know enough about acting and basically pulls himself out of auditioning and is like, I need to study more seriously."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Platoon ↔ Heaven & Earth · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

  1. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
  2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
  3. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans. · "It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
  6. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
  8. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:46:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ⇒ Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump) (the host's read) · craft · Dan's angry wheelchair stretch evokes Kovic. · "Behavior that no doubt reminded many of COVID and born in the 4th of July."
  9. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul. · "But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
  11. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
  13. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters. · "The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
  15. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:16 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ 90s cinema · craft · The Hughes brothers ran the older Vietnam films through a hyperviolent, referential 90s lens. · "they were jamming those older movies through the hyperviolent, ultra referential lens of 90s cinema."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  1. [speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
  4. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
  5. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
  6. [speaker] Jamelle Bouie · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Raised churchgoing in the South, studied religious history, and loves how the film captures the strangeness of the ancient Near East and the humanizing of Judas and Pilate. Dislikes fundamentalist readings; a sucker for Scorsese, Duke Ellington and weird snacks. · stances: Film is faithful to modern biblical studies and the real alienness of first-century Judea; Fundamentalist outrage is ironic because the film is flattering to Jesus' radicalism; Pilate as bureaucrat is the best revelation

The shows' running bits (3)

  1. [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)
  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)
  3. [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 Platoon (1986) 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 Platoon (1986) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Platoon ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real. · "Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:16:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Running on Empty ↔ Platoon · contrast · It was not a reckoning with combat horrors like Platoon. · "Nor was it a reckoning with the horrors of combat, like Platoon."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:39:54 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Heaven & Earth ↔ Platoon · contrast · Hayslip handed out flyers outside Platoon asking about the Vietnamese dead. · "Flyers that posed a tough question to the Americans heading in and out of platoon."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:34:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ Platoon · career · Wall Street, a year after Platoon, indicated Oliver Stone's later movies would become Wall Street. · "It's a it's a little bit of an indication of where things are going to go prematurely in his career."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:52:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Platoon · people · Keith David appears in both: Kirby in Dead Presidents is played by Platoon's Keith David. · "Kirby, a Korean war vet played by platoons Keith David"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:26:08 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Platoon · verdict · Born did not reach Platoon's cultural heights but was still a hit and won Stone a second directing Oscar. · "Even though it didn't reach the cultural heights of platoon, it was a hit in its own right"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:41:13 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Heaven & Earth ↔ Platoon · industry · Heaven & Earth got more than three times Platoon's budget because of Stone's clout. · "More than 3 times what he had for Platoon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:51:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Platoon · same year · Oscar year 1986 pairs Platoon with Ferris, and Platoon's nominees are listed alongside the 1986 supporting actor race. · "Lucas, Ferris Bueller, Platoon. Iconic one year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:26:59 · David Sims (0.60)] Platoon ↔ Casualties of War · same cycle · Platoon begins a late-80s cycle of Vietnam films that show the war as foolish and bleak. · "Like there's that this whole realm of late 80s movies about Vietnam"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:31:06 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Berenger ↔ Platoon · career · Berenger's apex mountain is Platoon. · "Probably platoon, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:51:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Charlie Sheen ↔ Platoon · career · Sheen goes from a bit part in Ferris to A-list in Platoon, then Wall Street. · "He's the guy who is in a bit part in Ferris Bueller to all of a sudden he's an A-list star in Platoon"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:03:48 · Jamelle Bouie (0.50)] Willem Dafoe ↔ Platoon · people · Scorsese saw Dafoe's sensitive, spiritual-yet-scary Platoon role and thought of Jesus. · "My understanding is that Scorsese had seen him in Platoon, where he plays a very sensitive..."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:23:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forest Whitaker ↔ Platoon · re-emergence year · 1986 was Whitaker's re-emergence, working with Scorsese and Oliver Stone after pulling out of auditions to study acting. · "He gets a couple parts early on and he's like, I don't know enough about acting and basically pulls himself out of auditioning and is like, I need to study more seriously."
[pairs] Platoon ↔ Heaven & Earth · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans. · "It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:46:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ⇒ Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump) (the host's read) · craft · Dan's angry wheelchair stretch evokes Kovic. · "Behavior that no doubt reminded many of COVID and born in the 4th of July."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul. · "But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters. · "The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:16 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ 90s cinema · craft · The Hughes brothers ran the older Vietnam films through a hyperviolent, referential 90s lens. · "they were jamming those older movies through the hyperviolent, ultra referential lens of 90s cinema."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[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] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jamelle Bouie · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Raised churchgoing in the South, studied religious history, and loves how the film captures the strangeness of the ancient Near East and the humanizing of Judas and Pilate. Dislikes fundamentalist readings; a sucker for Scorsese, Duke Ellington and weird snacks. · stances: Film is faithful to modern biblical studies and the real alienness of first-century Judea; Fundamentalist outrage is ironic because the film is flattering to Jesus' radicalism; Pilate as bureaucrat is the best revelation
[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 Platoon (1986); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Platoon (1986) 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.