What the corpus says about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

What was said about it (21)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
3. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
9. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:00:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Sense and Sensibility · contrast · Sean bets Spider-Verse is better than Sense and Sensibility in a swap-viewing challenge. · "I am putting my money down right now that says Spider-Verse better than Sense and Sensibility."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:06:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · contrast · It is faithful to the character but has nothing to do with the Toby Maguire, Andrew Garfield or Homecoming films, by design. · "This movie has nothing to do really with any of those movies, and that's by design."
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Aquaman lacks the self-awareness without self-consciousness that Spider-Verse has. · "it doesn't have any of the self-awareness or the, you know, it's not it's self-awareness, but not self-consciousness of Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse."
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:20:54 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Marvel's character swaps · contrast · Marvel's diverse swaps (Hulk, Thor) eventually revert to the white male original, unlike this film's reinvention. · "but eventually everything returns to the white male character that it was before."
13. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:22:34 · Micah Peters (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Black Panther · contrast · Not the same cultural phenomenon as Black Panther, but strong on representation without feeling forced. · "it's not the same cultural phenomenon that Black Panther was."
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:00 · Micah Peters (0.60)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Coming off Aquaman, the speaker doesn't want to overpraise Spider-Verse because the bar feels lowered. · "coming off of Aquaman, I'm kind of like, whoa, yeah, you know, the bar's lowering"
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:27:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Aquaman made the speaker dread a sequel; Spider-Verse made him curious about where the story goes. · "unlike Aquaman, which as soon as the movie ended, I was like, I can't believe I have to go do this again 2 years from now"
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:20:48 · Micah Peters (0.50)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man reboots (Garfield, Maguire, Holland) · industry · The Peter Porker joke only works because so many actors and reboots have played Spider-Man. · "If Andrew Garfield, Toby McGuire, and, you know, Tom Holland all play the character."
17. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Incredibles 2 · industry · Best animated feature nearly always goes to Pixar, and this year's Pixar film is also about superheroes. · "And interestingly, that Pixar movie is about superheroes."
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:03 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Black Panther · industry · Spider-Verse winning would matter as much as movies like Black Panther invading the Oscars. · "it's just as important as movies like Black Panther invading the Oscars."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40)] Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · set the template for · A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made. · "But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie."
20. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Biggie's Hypnotize · craft · The film keeps the edgier lyrics of Hypnotize intact, making it the first superhero movie to feature it. · "This is certainly the 1st superhero movie to feature Biggie's hypnotized"
21. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:41:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Amy Pascal ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · career · Pascal's second Spider-Man film is Spider-Verse, which the speaker thinks will win the Oscar. · "Her 2nd Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man, it's in the Spider-Verse, which I think is now going to win an Oscar."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · said 3 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Sense and Sensibility · said 2 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Black Panther · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

1. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:00:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · The Spider-Verse versus Sense and Sensibility swap: each host agrees to watch a film the other loves. · "Okay, Sense and Sensibility."
2. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · Won best animated feature, a pick the speaker feels strongly about. · "a pick that I made and feel very strongly about, which one best animated feature"
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · Sean: when first made aware of the film he thought it a bad idea; it turned out great. · "I was like, well, this is a bad idea."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:10:33 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · Micah on Miles's opening: dapping up people in Brooklyn, speaking Spanish, phone-interview voice. · "dapping up people, and then speaking to people in Spanish, and then, you know, like putting on his, you know, phone interview voice"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (12)

1. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:56 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Aquaman ↔ Aquaman 2 and The Trench spinoff (planned) · programming · Miles says Aquaman mostly planted seeds for a sequel and a Trench spinoff. · "Aquaman, you know, was only really playing the seeds for Aquaman 2"
2. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Deadpool ↔ Aquaman · craft · Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action. · "I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
11. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
12. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:32:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Kendrick Lamar ↔ Black Panther · theme · Kendrick Lamar skipping the Oscars read as a referendum that the Academy did not acknowledge Black Panther enough. · "you didn't really acknowledge Black Panther in the way that you should have at this award show"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
2. [speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
3. [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

The shows' running bits (2)

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] 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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 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 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 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 · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:00:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Sense and Sensibility · contrast · Sean bets Spider-Verse is better than Sense and Sensibility in a swap-viewing challenge. · "I am putting my money down right now that says Spider-Verse better than Sense and Sensibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:06:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · contrast · It is faithful to the character but has nothing to do with the Toby Maguire, Andrew Garfield or Homecoming films, by design. · "This movie has nothing to do really with any of those movies, and that's by design."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · contrast · Aquaman lacks the self-awareness without self-consciousness that Spider-Verse has. · "it doesn't have any of the self-awareness or the, you know, it's not it's self-awareness, but not self-consciousness of Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:20:54 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Marvel's character swaps · contrast · Marvel's diverse swaps (Hulk, Thor) eventually revert to the white male original, unlike this film's reinvention. · "but eventually everything returns to the white male character that it was before."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:22:34 · Micah Peters (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Black Panther · contrast · Not the same cultural phenomenon as Black Panther, but strong on representation without feeling forced. · "it's not the same cultural phenomenon that Black Panther was."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:00 · Micah Peters (0.60)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Coming off Aquaman, the speaker doesn't want to overpraise Spider-Verse because the bar feels lowered. · "coming off of Aquaman, I'm kind of like, whoa, yeah, you know, the bar's lowering"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:27:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · verdict · Aquaman made the speaker dread a sequel; Spider-Verse made him curious about where the story goes. · "unlike Aquaman, which as soon as the movie ended, I was like, I can't believe I have to go do this again 2 years from now"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:20:48 · Micah Peters (0.50)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man reboots (Garfield, Maguire, Holland) · industry · The Peter Porker joke only works because so many actors and reboots have played Spider-Man. · "If Andrew Garfield, Toby McGuire, and, you know, Tom Holland all play the character."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Incredibles 2 · industry · Best animated feature nearly always goes to Pixar, and this year's Pixar film is also about superheroes. · "And interestingly, that Pixar movie is about superheroes."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:03 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Black Panther · industry · Spider-Verse winning would matter as much as movies like Black Panther invading the Oscars. · "it's just as important as movies like Black Panther invading the Oscars."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40)] Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · set the template for · A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made. · "But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Biggie's Hypnotize · craft · The film keeps the edgier lyrics of Hypnotize intact, making it the first superhero movie to feature it. · "This is certainly the 1st superhero movie to feature Biggie's hypnotized"
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:41:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Amy Pascal ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · career · Pascal's second Spider-Man film is Spider-Verse, which the speaker thinks will win the Oscar. · "Her 2nd Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man, it's in the Spider-Verse, which I think is now going to win an Oscar."
[pairs] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Aquaman · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Sense and Sensibility · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Black Panther · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:00:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · The Spider-Verse versus Sense and Sensibility swap: each host agrees to watch a film the other loves. · "Okay, Sense and Sensibility."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · Won best animated feature, a pick the speaker feels strongly about. · "a pick that I made and feel very strongly about, which one best animated feature"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · Sean: when first made aware of the film he thought it a bad idea; it turned out great. · "I was like, well, this is a bad idea."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:10:33 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · fun · Micah on Miles's opening: dapping up people in Brooklyn, speaking Spanish, phone-interview voice. · "dapping up people, and then speaking to people in Spanish, and then, you know, like putting on his, you know, phone interview voice"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:56 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Aquaman ↔ Aquaman 2 and The Trench spinoff (planned) · programming · Miles says Aquaman mostly planted seeds for a sequel and a Trench spinoff. · "Aquaman, you know, was only really playing the seeds for Aquaman 2"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Deadpool ↔ Aquaman · craft · Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action. · "I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:32:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Kendrick Lamar ↔ Black Panther · theme · Kendrick Lamar skipping the Oscars read as a referendum that the Academy did not acknowledge Black Panther enough. · "you didn't really acknowledge Black Panther in the way that you should have at this award show"
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
[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
[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 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 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.