What the corpus says about Wall Street (1987)

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 (11)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
  2. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 2:46:56 · David Sims (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a long-awaited legacy sequel to an Oscar-winning 80s drama. · "a much minded sequel, long-awaited, a legacy sequel of sorts, to a Oscar winning 80s drama."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:36 · unknown (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street is followed by Money Never Sleeps. · "but then, of course, money never slept"
  5. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:55 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · contrast · Brian says Margin Call is the best film about business and the two are the best movies on the subject. · "Wall Street and Margin Call of the 2 best movies about this"
  6. [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."
  7. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:35:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ Wall Street · what-if · Planes, Trains and Automobiles should have won best actor for Candy that year, over Michael Douglas in Wall Street. · "Yeah, the movie that should have won best actor this year."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:10:59 · Van Lathan (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Wall Street · zeitgeist · Wall Street captured the 80s aspirational billionaire that the Edge still lives in. · "Wall Street really captures it with the Gordon Gecko character."
  9. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ Oliver Stone · people · Wall Street is Oliver Stone's movie; Stone is not among the speaker's favorites in the Stone episode. · "it's not my favorite as we've when we did our stone episode, it's not really high for me personally."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:12:07 · unknown (0.40)] Wall Street ↔ Eddie Murphy · what-if · Eddie could not have been a supporting character like Bud Fox in Wall Street; he had to be the giant star. · "Eddie hit a point where he couldn't have been like Bud Fox in Wall Street."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:12:15 · unknown (0.40)] Sidney Poitier ↔ Wall Street · what-if · If Eddie plays Gordon Gekko, the speaker thinks he would defer to Poitier-type roles. · "But if he makes Sidney Poitier, Gordon Gecko."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Wall Street ↔ Margin Call · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
  3. [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."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Cliffhanger · programming · Cliffhanger is the pick to pair with The Edge, being outdoors. · "I was thinking cliffhanger."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
  6. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Ghost and the Darkness · programming · Ghost and the Darkness, from around the same time, is another animal-stalking pairing. · "You could also talk me to Ghost in the Darkness because this came right around this time or they're chasing the killer lions."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
  9. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · The audience sides with the nuisance (Candy / Simon) against the clear jerk, the same dynamic Kinnear sustains against Nicholson. · "even though Steve Barnes clearly a dick are like, yeah, but fucking John Candy, this guy is a nuisance."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Edge ↔ Trespass · programming · Trespass is suggested as a double-bill pick. · "you remember that movie Trespass?"
  11. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:25:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Art Linson ↔ The Edge · lineage · Linson, a 90s producer, wrote a book whose big section is the making of The Edge. · "And the big part of the book is about him putting together the edge."
  13. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:03:10 · Van Lathan (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Cast Away · theme · Man-against-nature survival movies hook the viewer because you imagine what you would do. · "there's very few movies where you're not locked in."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:41:32 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Halloween H2O · theme · The rule of three, that the Black guy dies when three are left, was subverted by LL Cool J in H2O and Deep Blue Sea. · "LL Cool J survived twice."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Lost · theme · Bill is always in for survival stories: Lost, Castaway, Yellowjackets, this movie. · "I'm just in."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:23 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Yellowjackets · theme · Yellowjackets is now a whole show about trying to survive. · "and then we have yellow jackets, which now is a whole show about people trying to survive"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  1. [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'
  2. [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
  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] 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
  5. [speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
  6. [speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

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 Wall Street (1987) 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 Wall Street (1987) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 2:46:56 · David Sims (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a long-awaited legacy sequel to an Oscar-winning 80s drama. · "a much minded sequel, long-awaited, a legacy sequel of sorts, to a Oscar winning 80s drama."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:36 · unknown (0.40)] Wall Street ⇒ Money Never Sleeps (the host's read) · lineage · Wall Street is followed by Money Never Sleeps. · "but then, of course, money never slept"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:55 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · contrast · Brian says Margin Call is the best film about business and the two are the best movies on the subject. · "Wall Street and Margin Call of the 2 best movies about this"
[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."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:35:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ Wall Street · what-if · Planes, Trains and Automobiles should have won best actor for Candy that year, over Michael Douglas in Wall Street. · "Yeah, the movie that should have won best actor this year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:10:59 · Van Lathan (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Wall Street · zeitgeist · Wall Street captured the 80s aspirational billionaire that the Edge still lives in. · "Wall Street really captures it with the Gordon Gecko character."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ Oliver Stone · people · Wall Street is Oliver Stone's movie; Stone is not among the speaker's favorites in the Stone episode. · "it's not my favorite as we've when we did our stone episode, it's not really high for me personally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:12:07 · unknown (0.40)] Wall Street ↔ Eddie Murphy · what-if · Eddie could not have been a supporting character like Bud Fox in Wall Street; he had to be the giant star. · "Eddie hit a point where he couldn't have been like Bud Fox in Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:12:15 · unknown (0.40)] Sidney Poitier ↔ Wall Street · what-if · If Eddie plays Gordon Gekko, the speaker thinks he would defer to Poitier-type roles. · "But if he makes Sidney Poitier, Gordon Gecko."
[pairs] Wall Street ↔ Margin Call · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Cliffhanger · programming · Cliffhanger is the pick to pair with The Edge, being outdoors. · "I was thinking cliffhanger."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Ghost and the Darkness · programming · Ghost and the Darkness, from around the same time, is another animal-stalking pairing. · "You could also talk me to Ghost in the Darkness because this came right around this time or they're chasing the killer lions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · The audience sides with the nuisance (Candy / Simon) against the clear jerk, the same dynamic Kinnear sustains against Nicholson. · "even though Steve Barnes clearly a dick are like, yeah, but fucking John Candy, this guy is a nuisance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Edge ↔ Trespass · programming · Trespass is suggested as a double-bill pick. · "you remember that movie Trespass?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:25:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Art Linson ↔ The Edge · lineage · Linson, a 90s producer, wrote a book whose big section is the making of The Edge. · "And the big part of the book is about him putting together the edge."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:03:10 · Van Lathan (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Cast Away · theme · Man-against-nature survival movies hook the viewer because you imagine what you would do. · "there's very few movies where you're not locked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:41:32 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Halloween H2O · theme · The rule of three, that the Black guy dies when three are left, was subverted by LL Cool J in H2O and Deep Blue Sea. · "LL Cool J survived twice."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Lost · theme · Bill is always in for survival stories: Lost, Castaway, Yellowjackets, this movie. · "I'm just in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:23 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Yellowjackets · theme · Yellowjackets is now a whole show about trying to survive. · "and then we have yellow jackets, which now is a whole show about people trying to survive"
[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] 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] 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] 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] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 Wall Street (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Wall Street (1987) 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.